catchall rupert

[skyagain]

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week 0, monday

[skyagain]

[ nothing says bonding with strangers like finding yourself in a clearly haunted hallway while one blond with a giant sword looks about to open a door #12. i truly let rng do whatever in these threads.

he pauses and hesitates, but since they are both in this hallway, cloud will make an enormous effort and open the conversation; ]

... Are you checking these out, too?

[ wow. much effort. such charisma. ]

[agleam]

[he gives him a wave despite the initial awkwardness, then nods. there's maybe a half second nervous glance at the sword, but he doesn't comment on it.]

Yeah. I wasn't really expecting this many new areas to open up... It was always just a few at a time back at the school. How about you?

[skyagain]

[ this is hilariously the first time someone mentions schools to him, and he looks baffled for a second before moving on.

murder school?? which is for murder?? ]

... We had a lot open every week, but the entire thing changed. It was connecting us to different worlds every time. A lot different from...

[ gestures in horror movie hallway ]

[agleam]

Wow... Imagine if there was an entirely different world between each of these doors.

[that will absolutely not happen.]

[skyagain]

Doubt it, but... There's only one way to find out.

[ he looks at the door. they have to ... open it. ]

Most likely there's some kind of trap in there. [ this does not seem to deter him from wanting to open them ]

[agleam]

A trap? You think?

[he makes a face, but he doesn't look like he doesn't believe it, because he trusts this hotel negative amounts.]

[skyagain]

Probably not deadly yet, but... That's how these places go normally.

[ rupert is a stranger still even if cloud got his deets off the guest book, so; ]

You still want to check it out?

[agleam]

Do they? Maybe sometimes they open into completely normal rooms.

[he's manifesting

but he nods.]

Yeah. Probably better to know.

[skyagain]

Let's hope it's one of those times, then.

[ opens it!!!

they are now at olive garden ]

[agleam]

[glances at the pasta. glances at the snake.]

...Oh, no. I heard about this.

[skyagain]

[ cloud is trying to move his sword so he is sitting less uncomfortably. he could stand to look at the snake too damn.

anyway he stares at Rupert in total ??? ]

You have?

[agleam]

Yeah! Tsuru said there was an evil snake baby and they had to give it pasta for its birthday or else it was going to kill all of them.

[ok]

[skyagain]

[ ...ok ... ]

This doesn't exactly look like a baby.

[ but there is pasta. and a snake. ]

... Should we be feeding it?

[ IT HAS EARS ]

[agleam]

It seems like it's already eating, though? Maybe we...

[he's interrupted as the snake tells them both to eat, and he just kind of flinches.]

—Oh no. It talks.

[skyagain]

Of course it talks.

[ why wouldn't it. cloud looks at the food and then at rupert, and then the snake ]

I don't think we can take it out. [ cloud would try, but he does not fancy trying to protect rupert from a giant snake that is currently sitting in front of them like they are on the world's worst pasta date ] Think it'll let us go if we... eat?

[agleam]

Maybe...?

[a beat.]

Alternatively, I am not completely sure listening to the evil snake that's no longer a baby is a good idea.

[skyagain]

[ pandora... hisses. ]

Maybe not. [ looks at their plate of infinite olive garden pasta. ] Pasta or snake, kid, your call.

[agleam]

[he does at least seem to think this over for a little while longer...]

Yeah, no, listening to the evil snake definitely feels like the wrong call here, so - no pasta? Are we good with no pasta?

[immediately makes the wrong call]

[skyagain]

Then you might wanna get behind me.

[ WOOPS TOO LATE PANDORA HAS EARS AND IS RIGHT THERE so it is just going straight for bities on rupert. nom nom ]

[agleam]

I—

[whatever he's about to say is getting lost as he gets bitten by the snake and immediately sent back out into the hall with some regrets.]

[skyagain]

[ cloud takes out his sword!!! ready to avenge rupert who was obliterated before his eyes!!!

anyway, pandora bites him and he is unceremoniously thrown out on top of rupert. the good news is. the sword was in his hands and not on his back so rupert may not die from the impact.

he groans ]

... Think that was the wrong choice.

[agleam]

[this is fine

he makes a noise of surprise as cloud lands on top of him, and after a few seconds, wheezed out:]

Yeah, I'm getting that idea too.

[skyagain]

[ hmmm. oops. he rolls off, though. god. his arm fucking hurts. snakes suck. ]

... You good?

[ he gives rupert a once over. what if this is deadly poison. problematic. ]

[agleam]

I probably will be. Eventually.

[maybe.]

Did it bite you, too...?

[skyagain]

[ he grimaces, looking at his arm ]

... Yeah. That thing was fast. [ hrm. ] I don't know how venomous it was or not.