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003; accidental video

[ There's nothing but a blur of blue at first, a muffled groan somewhere. ]

What in the actual fu--

[ A pause, a gasp, and then the sound of running feet. ]

Dirk!

[ THUD. A second later, the SFC that's on has tumbled out of the pocket it was in and lands on the ground, showing the current scene a little sideways.

Roxy's laying on top of Dirk, her arms wrapped awkwardly around him, and she has her face buried in his chest. They're wearing some interesting outfits (nice pants, Dirk), but that seems to be the last thing on their minds. ]

You're okay! I thought you weren't because fuck the Batterwitch but you are you're okay and I'm okay and nothing is going on and look! We're back and-- you know what I probably shouldn't be laying on top of you should I. Lemme just...

[ She caaaaaaaaaaassually slides off of him and picks up her SFC, shutting it again and turning it back off. ]

((ooc; ps dirk and roxy are back from their update 8U replies will probably come from both))

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Thanks for the free heart attack, assholes!

[Karkat looks distinctly relieved, though. Even if he's used to friends up and disappearing from this place, it's never pleasant.]

How long were you gone from your perspective? It's only been a few days here. And how did you reach god tier?

Also, Roxy, I'm sure Eridan will be monopolizing your attention as soon as he's able to.

Kitten!

[ Aaaaaaaw lookit you and your little face. ]

We've been gone for a few months, now. Spent the entire time in the game. Did you know that even in a completely void session, there are still quest beds on the moons? Who knew! Our friend did. So we went there and then the moons blew up and tada! God tiers.

[ And aw okay that makes her smile. ]

He didn't freak out too bad, did he?

Your friend?

[But there's more questions besides that. He settles, more serious and curious.]

I knew your session would be screwed up if you didn't prototype anything pre-entry, but what exactly is a void session? And what have you been doing those months? And more important than all that, why did the moons blow up?

But he did, yeah. He's had shit luck with his pale quadrant in the past, with moirails disappearing and not remembering things, or else learning new stuff that complicated the situation. Suffice it to say he was upset, and I did what I could, but he'll be happiest to see you now.

Void session is where fuckall can ever happen. Everything is dead. Like... everything. There's skeletons wandering around everywhere that are hard as dicks to kill, and basically we just kinda live the rest of our lives on our planets. Doing nothing except trying to stay alive.

[ it's so boring ]

Anyway, Derse's moon blew up because of the fucking Batterwitch being the giant sea bitch that she is. Dunno about Prospit's.

I'll be popping in to see Eridan soon. Poor babe.

[Karkat raises an eyebrow.]

You'd think skeletons would be easy to deal with. Just smash them apart and ding, grist. You don't even have inauspicious prototyping to blame like we or the other humans did.

And you mean to tell me the Empress followed you into your session too? I'd ask how that works, but I give up on understanding how she did anything after trollkind was wiped out.

I'll keep out of your way so you two can do whatever.

I think it's gotta do something with how they're in their most base form? Like, without any prototyping, there's no weaknesses to exploit or anything. Also the little shitheads barely gave us grist to work with, so trying to kill 'em was pretty much pointless, unless you were bored.

[ anger x( ]

But yeah. Bitch had me in prison for a while, too.

[Whoops, guess who overheard that.]

In prison?

[ ... ]

AR didn't say anything about it?

[ ... ]

That fucking bastard. No, he did not. He barely told me you were pestering me.

Oh.

[ AR why. I thought we had something special. :( ]

Well to be fair, by the time I got a hold of him I had broken out already. Even if he's still a li'l piece of shit. I just kept talkin' and talkin' and talkin' and most of it wasn't even directly to him but to his own responder which, in case you didn't know, is dumb as fuck.

I know, all right. He made it as a jab at me. Damn it, I knew he was undermining me, but I didn't think he would go this fucking far. Doesn't matter what you were talking about, My friend being imprisoned by the Condesce is something I'd like to know.

Um...

[ small jazz hands ]

Surprise? But one of the little carapace dudes brought me a PDA and I think it was Janey's dad's PDA--p.s. remind me to tell her that I think he might still be alive later--anyway I got the PDA and the Batterwitch gave me a folder of some bullshit she wanted me to do but fuck that and I also got a ring that made me all invisible 'n shit. Like I think it might've gotten me in touch with my voidy powers? I dunno.

Anyway I don't think I have the ring anymore and then--well. And then things happened that I'd rather not talk about.

[ yeah....... ]

[Oh. Are they almost talking about that?]

Either you dropped it in my land or you dropped it in the middle of Derse. No matter what, it's probably gone. Jane did the same thing with that lollipop.

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Maybe. Hell if I know. What did you do for grist, then, if not that? Even if building lost its point, you can't tell me you didn't need to alchemize anything over the months.

[But more importantly--]

--Prison? She put you there? What did she do, oust your session's royalty?

Oh, because we definitely would have gone back to that if we could have.

[Is it possible to sound more sarcastic? Probably, but it would take a lot of effort. Going God Tier was not exactly worth everything they went through, in his opinion.]

Several months. Got blown up in Derse's moon.

I was not seriously calling it your fault, idiot. I know full well we can't control when or if we leave or stay or when those events happen. I'm just glad you guys came back and remembered this place, alright?

[Gosh, Dirk, let a guy be grumpy about his relief if he wants!]

You look about as ridiculous as I thought you would, by the way. I'm already asking Roxy for details, but fill me in on your part too.

[At this point, he reserves the right to be grumpy himself. He has not had a good day. Or a good few months.]

Don't trash it 'til you've tried it. Anyway, she got the void session bit- we've been there for months, we're the only ones alive. Whatever was supposed to be there left plenty of graves and skeletons to fuck our shit up, but not to help with anything productive. Basically, we're stuck waiting until everyone else shows up. That's the basis of our session- nothing will happen on its own, until it's prompted by an outside force.

Can't. My dream self's dead, and Prospit and the Land of Pulse and Haze are gone besides. Even if I did, the Knight pajamas are still better than Prince gear, even with the dorky hood.

[And Karkat is Karkat. His attitude always has to be there somewhere.]

Here I wondered if you guys would have underlings to fight. I would say this is why you prototype first--screw it, it is--but this was probably preordained by timeline predestination necessitating that it go the way it did. What convoluted timeloops this may or may not sustain are unknown to me, but I doubt I'll ever understand all what actions led to others in that convoluted mobius strip of time-space.

Still, I'm almost glad the worst thing we had to deal with in our session was Jack terrorizing us at the end.

Lucky me that I'm not obligated to wear this shit.

[Dirk can't exactly disagree with that description of the Prince gear.]

Considering even our outside help didn't so much as mention the need for prototyping, in all of her ramblings about the game, I'd say that it was almost certainly intended to happen that way. Doesn't make the session any less shitty. At least you got to go through almost to the end before everything went to hell.

And I will thank you for having the taste not to wear it.

We basically did get to the end; that's just the part where things fucked up because he stopped us at the literal last second from entering the universe we made.

[Outside help, though? He ponders over that, and nearly asks, but something niggles at his memory--]

Wait, do you mean that chick you mentioned forever ago? Or is my memory somehow mixing things up?

So at least you had a chance.

[He nods.]

Yeah, her. She disappeared as soon as we got into the game, but she still gave us plenty of random information beforehand.

Depends on your definition of chance when the timeline had to go this way.

[And he... gave the human universe cancer. But he doesn't say that.]

In that case I'm going to guess the answer is "no" if I were to ask if you know how exactly she slots into this weird scenario.

Then let me rephrase. Your session itself held the possibility of success, even if the timeline didn't allow you it. It definitely had more meaning in it than ours.

Exactly. She was pretty damn vague on details when it came to herself.

Okay, fair argument, namely because it's true.

She sounds practically like a sprite herself if she hit that cryptically vague sweet spot between doling out info and never telling you all you want to know. I will pointedly not state any hopes on the issue of her since the last time I hoped about anyone in this mess, it bit me in the ass.