| Opening Log

[shadowqueen]

Everyone's waking up at once, covered in bits of rubble, temporarily without abilities and with a lurking headache. The castle looms around them, irrepressibly gray, huge and silent. The only noises are the people, rustling as they extract themselves from their sarcophagi and look for exits along the arching walkways.

Better take a look around, and see if anyone else knows what's going on.

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[thekidsare0kay]

[All the racket attracted a skinny troll, who is standing by the coffin and reaches towards her to steady her as she stands, still freaking out.]

Hey, woah, calm the fuck down. You're okay.

[guiltapalooza]

[And now she's being touched and-- she squeaks. Definitely not human. Come on, she tells herself, man up, Willow. You can do this; you've done freakier.

She takes a deep breath.] I'm okay, [she repeats, and then fails at this keeping her cool thing entirely.] No, wait, I'm not okay! So I got kidnapped, freaky stone room, alright, whatever. But my magic isn't working. I can't-- it's not working!

[thekidsare0kay]

[He draws his hand away from her at her frightened squeak. At her words - magic? Seriously? - he frowned. His voices were silent, as always since his fight with Eridan, but it takes only a moment to double check]

Fuck. My powerth aren't working, either. What the fuck?

[guiltapalooza]

I don't know! This is... this is just crazy. [She exhales loudly, trying again to get a grip on her mounting panic and settle down. It partially works. At least she's over her instinctual it's a demon! reaction at seeing him.]

And unless you're a lot stronger than you look, I'm a little scared to go look around totally defenseless.

[thekidsare0kay]

[He scowls at her crack at his skinny frame] Look, I'm sure it'th jutht a curthe. We'll probably get brought back to the Thity and everything turned back to normal in a few dayth at motht. Jutht becauthe thith plathe lookth weird, doethn't mean it'th really dangerouth.

[guiltapalooza]

[She hadn't actually meant to poke fun, and droops at his scowl.]

Back to the where? What city? I was in California before I woke up here, and I hate to tell you, but I don't ever get kidnapped and wake up somewhere not life threatening. It's just not something that happens.

[thekidsare0kay]

I don't know... It'th jutht called The Thity. There'th thith ticking in your head, and you can't really leave. The Godth fuck around with uth every couple of dayth and cauthe weird thingth to happen all the time. You didn't come from there?

[guiltapalooza]

No, I came from... well, just outside the sinking crater of what used to be my town, so not really a city of any kind.

That sounds downright Hellmouth level wacky.

[thekidsare0kay]

...Well before I wath in the Thity I wath on a meteor in thpathe, and probably about to die. Did a meteor hit your town?

[guiltapalooza]

[Even for Willow, that's a big deal. Her eyes go wide.] Very much no. We were fighting the First Evil, the origin of all badness in the universe, and we did win but we kinda lost the town in the process.

I'm sorry about the-- the meteor thing, [she says, and even if it's a bit awkward there's also open sympathy on her face.]

[thekidsare0kay]

There'th an origin of all badnethh? What did he look like?

[At the sympathy, he shrugs uncomfortably.] I ethcaped, though my friendth are thtill there. Maybe we can get them out, too.

[guiltapalooza]

[Her voice goes soft. This is still a close subject for her.] He looks like dead people. Anyone who's died... it can take the form of, and speak to you in their voice, like they were alive again.

--I hope so. If you got out, it has to be possible, right?

[thekidsare0kay]

[His eyes widen with shock and a little horror, though he tries not to allow it to show too much. Could that have happened with his friends? So many of them had died.]

....right.

[guiltapalooza]

[Although he's trying not to show it, when it goes from full sentences to one word in the middle of a conversation, it's pretty noticeable.

Willow rushes to reassure him.] I don't mean to freak you out-- I said we won, remember? It's all sealed again, back where it belongs. And it was kind of only interested in personally tormenting me and my friends, to start with.

[thekidsare0kay]

[He's silent for a moment] It theemth like thomeone'th been wanting to torment uth, too. But it'th probably thomething completely different.

[guiltapalooza]

Who knows. We have enough trouble here already without borrowing stuff from home, [she sighs.]

Want to go poke around and see what we can find?

[thekidsare0kay]

Yeah, you've got a good point...

[He sets that aside for now, and brightens a little] Let'th poke around.

[guiltapalooza]

Powers or no, we are a force to be reckoned with, [she says determinedly, clambering out of the remnants of the sarcophagus she'd woken up in.]

I think I saw some stairs over there, so we can get down from these ledges.

[thekidsare0kay]

Thtairth. Thtairth are good. [He waits for her to climb out, then moves towards the stairs she had pointed out]

[guiltapalooza]

Way less humiliating than watching me try to climb down everything, [she agrees fervently. She catches up with him quickly, and then slows to a more sedate walking pace as they take the stairs down to the ground level, looking around carefully as they go.]

I'm Willow, by the way.

[thekidsare0kay]

It wouldn't be tho hard to get down with my powerth, but I guethh the mundane way ith okay, too.

[He glances at her and smiles] I'm Thollukth Captor.

[guiltapalooza]

I could do it in a cinch if mine were working, too, [she says glumly.] That really needs to speed up, like, now.

[... Gosh, has his lisp been that cute the entire time? Something about it over his own name made Willow susceptible. And he's all smiling and adorable. But teenage boys usually don't like being told they're adorable, so she keeps that to herself.] I'm happy to have the company.

[thekidsare0kay]

I hope they come back before we run into anything dangerouth. [He says it flippantly, but he does mean it. He cocks an eyebrow at her] Better than being alone in a thtrange plathe, I guethh.

[guiltapalooza]

No kidding. I can swing a mean lamp, but it's just not the same as throwing fireballs at them.

Much better, [she agrees wholeheartedly.] I get all anxious when I'm on my own. It's not fun.

[thekidsare0kay]

Hmm, well don't worry. I'll protect you. [He says it like he's fucking with her, but he does mean it. Not that he can do much, compared to other trolls, though he has sharp claws and teeth at least, compared to her softness]