week 2, friday

[vigilantics]

[ sometime after natsuo's body was found, stephanie will make her way varian's room. she is really hoping he is in here because if she came all this way for nothing that'll be very unfortunate. ]

Hey. Varian?

Comments

[vigilantics]

Beauty and the Beast come from the same story though, don't they? Dragon and Tiger don't really match there.

[alchemenace]

But they didn't always work together. Beauty did something without Beast's knowledge and got them both punished.

[vigilantics]

... this Other Side.

Do you think we could somehow get there?

[alchemenace]

I... Maybe. We'd need to figure out who sent them there at all, and what it means. I doubt it's anything as straightforward as just a place.

[vigilantics]

Maybe it's another dimension?

[alchemenace]

Well. If it's another dimension, I'm not sure how we'd go there. Though... Should we be thinking of this more narratively? They were characters, right? Where would you send away "characters" who were misbehaving?

[vigilantics]

I dunno... the dungeon?

[ they usually die horribly in stories ]

[alchemenace]

That is ... most likely not it for us. [ but good try ] Or at least I'd hope they didn't just throw them in the basement.

[vigilantics]

...

There is probably a dungeon here somewhere, now that I think about it...

[alchemenace]

Well, yeah, it's a castle.

[ dungeons are normal things? ]

[vigilantics]

What do you think might be found in a dungeon in a place like this?

[alchemenace]

Well... Probably not people. They'd need guards. [ ... ] If this were a normal castle, at least. The, the locks there must work in a similar fashion to the rest of the doors in this place.

[vigilantics]

I bet there's weird monsters down there too.

[alchemenace]

... So long as it's not a house.

[ a chicken house. ]

[vigilantics]

I hope that hag gets termites.

[alchemenace]

I should look in the library to see if I can't figure out what exactly it is that attacked us. So we have a name to curse.

[ deadpan. it joke ]

[vigilantics]

It'll probably end up being from the stupidest story in the whole place.

[alchemenace]

I don't know, the library's version of Rapunzel is up there.

[vigilantics]

Oh, you guys found that?

[alchemenace]

I did. I don't know about the Princess. [ he didn't see her top level :/ ] It had surprisingly little in common with the real thing.

[vigilantics]

... well, you know stories. They tend to be sensationalized.

[alchemenace]

You're telling me. The rumors about "the lost princess" back in Corona were not nearly that intense.

[vigilantics]

She was lost?

[ she does not know rapunzel's tragic backstory ]

[alchemenace]

[ varian's a shit who just kind of tells people about it w/o caring thank ]

Oh, yeah, she, she was kidnapped as a baby? But obviously she's fine now.

[ define fine. ]

[vigilantics]

[ uHHHHH ]

Oh so they... found her quickly then.