W1 🛸 PLAYER CYOA: A CLOWNLESS CIRCUS 🚀 SIDON, LUCIEN, RODION, DION

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[inequals]

Oww, ow, ow.

[ Eww she feels groggy. This is actually a very familiar sensation to her, it hpapens when you get rewound from shit like say, getting shot multiple times, or melting into a pile of goo. ]

You even called him "friend".

...

So, porridge for us again?

[tombtaker]

I will never eat porridge again.

[ he also feels awful but maybe he always feels kind of awful. who's to say. ]

[inequals]

We were doing so well!

[ Were they. She rocks vaguely in her chair. ]

I got a nose itch. Help.

[tombtaker]

How am I supposed to help? Stop talking about it. Now I'm thinking about it too.

[inequals]

[ Wrinkles her nose in an attempt to scratch said itch. ]

Can't you use your tail or something?

[ Help girl, girl help. ]

My head hurts.

[tombtaker]

[ there's a little jingle as he tries to move his tail and finds it ALSO chained to the ground. cruel! racist! ]

[ he just silently screams. ]

[inequals]

[ Wow. She just vibes with this screaming because girl same except she's too chill to scream. These two auras cancel each other out, probably. ]

[tombtaker]

[he is perfectly silent for like. half-an-hour. but eventually: ]

... How did you fall into kites?

[inequals]

[ Rodion is probably just like, passively humming or making slight faces because her head still hurts during the whole downtime. ]

I was in class, all bored-like and staring out the window. I was watching some baby birds peeking their head out of their nest, and that's when it like. Hit me, you know? Or actually hit them. A basketball knocked the nest up a little bit and I watched them have to learn how to fly real fast.

[ Wow. ]

And then that's when I realised -- you can't stay in a nest forever. The only thing holding me back is me! So I got to work.

The kite is my grandma's, I just thought it was cool.

[tombtaker]

Huh.

That's actually beautiful.

[messy]

[Losing my mind at the timing of this conversation. Not the sad grandma backstory.

While they chat, they hear a door unlock behind them (if only they could turn around) before someone enters the room. Or, rather, four someones...?

Their dick of a friend enters the room, accompanied by a certain stranger they haven't met before. They are pushing two wheelchairs into the room as well, which are currently occupied by two familiarly unfamiliar faces.

The dick and the stranger make quick work of transferring them from the wheelchairs to the two empty chairs in the room. They will not respond if talked to. After strapping them in and securing their bonds, they leave the room and lock the door behind them.

Unfortunately for both Sidon and Dion, once they awaken, they will find themselves in the same situation as Rodion and Lucien. Strapped to the chairs with no way to free themselves. A terrible headache. And a feeling of wrongness, as if there is something stuck inside their heads that simply doesn't belong there. Even worse, they will find that the collars have been reactivated and they can't use their powers right now.

But, hey, might as well say hi to the neighbors?]

[tombtaker]

[ he cannot move, so he just blinks as these two JOKERS roll up in here. ]

Good evening. Enjoying the service here? They're bringing in canapes soon.

[agamid]

[ hey quick question did anyone give them a hose down or do they still smell like crap

he stares bleakly at lucien ]

What is this place?

[polliwog]

[ why do you always have to ask about shit ]

...I've seen you before?

[ he's groggy but like he's seen these guys on... tv. definitely not on the ship. he's also definitely trying to squint at not-link. ]

[inequals]

You, fish boy! You're the reason seafood prices went way up and only all the pawnbrokers could afford it for a while!

[ You!!!!!!! Fuck the weird bullet guy, shooting on sight is normal as far as she's concerned. BUT RAISING THE COST OF FOOD?

Also why did you assign her grandma story sad, her AU grandma is probably perfectly fine and maybe her only ally in this world that doesn't support her kite dreams? ]

[tombtaker]

Hardly anyone forgets a handsome face like mine, lad.

[ oh yes. the fish. ]

Fortunately I'm not a big seafood fan.

[agamid]

[ rude ]

How dare you! Sir Sidon is of the sea and it is his right to fish as he pleases.

[polliwog]

[ his bestie..... 🥺 ]

It's all right, Dion! Being infamous is nothing to compete over.

[ sushi is better than IRS crimes, maybe ]

[inequals]

[ Rodion's just got a big :T pouty kind of look while she's stuck here on this chair. ]

Shouldn't you know how to fish sustainably? It's like a whole thing, something of the commons or whatever.

Why are we all here, anyway? Didn't you go to the place for big-times, Blackgate?

[tombtaker]

They're going to experiment on us.

[agamid]

Perhaps.

They clearly want something from us that was worth breaking into Blackgate and the Asylum for.

[polliwog]

[ he's about to argue about ecoterrorism but they have bigger fish to fry (heh) ]

Going so far as to kidnap four people from high security prisons for experimenting seems excessive...

[ like, it's too much trouble? aren't the people at arkham biologically normal humans anyway. ]

[inequals]

[ She tilts her head a little with the limited movement she's got, feeling the awkwardness in the back of her head. She settles down at any rate, unenthused. ]

If we're here for some experimentation, babes, I think it's probably in the past tense.

[tombtaker]

[ yes he is a biologically normal human ]

Exactly what I mean, darling. Something's in there ...

[agamid]

I truly tire of being tampered with...

[ he hates this collar too ]