* Teri bops out of the TC Door, listening to some music on her walkthing headphones, carring a bag of discount easter candy, and munching on a chunk of chocolate easter bunny.
* Teri dances with the bag, and continunes munching on the bunny.
* Noa sneaks up on Teri, holding a basket of coloured eggs...
* Teri munches the rest of the bunny, and spins about,dropping the bag on the nearest table, and catches up several of the eggs from Noa's basket, starting to juggle 'em.
* Noa sighs. "Do you know how long it took the Cadbury bunny to make those?"
* Teri blinks a bit, and stops juggling, catching the eggs safely in one hand, using her other hand to yank off her headphones. "Huh? Wha, Noa?" Classic Journey plays from the headphones, loudly.
{Headphones} o/~ Baby please don't walk away there is this place / where I toss away my pride / so you can see that I'm the one / to take you to a higher place this time....
{Noa} Hel-lo...?
{Teri} Hi! *she grins, and turns down the volume from 'front row stacks' to 'grandstand'*
* Noa rubs her ears. "You're making my eardrums all tingly!"
{Teri} Sorry, sorry... *she looks sheepish, and turns off the walkthingie*
* Noa grins. "Still feeling Eastery?"
{Teri} Can I give you a peep by way of apology? *smile*
* Teri pulls out a markdowned package of Rainbow Marshmallow Peep.
{Noa} You'd peep on me? I thought only perverted guys did that...
{Teri} Moi? *she blinks innocently* Damn straight I would. *grin* I'd also malted egg you, hershey's kiss you, and jellybaby you.
* Noa blinkblinks at Teri. "C-c-c-candy... phile..."
* Teri muahahahahhs, juggling some candied eggs. "First one's free...."
{Calibretto} *hmmmzzzt* Sugar Addict.
* Calibretto enters from Corkscrew, looking bemused. How does an 11-foot tall Wargolem look bemused? Well, it somehow can do so.
* Teri Bllllllllsss Cal, and tosses the 'golem a can of hi-test lubricant. "Oilhead Junkie."
{Noa} Help! She's egging me on!
* Cal catches it in one gauntleted hand. "*hmmzzt* Better than egg on face."
* Noa sticks out her tongue and accepts the peep.
* Teri grins, and munches her own marshmalloowy sugar dose!
{Noa} So what's got you in the retrofitted holiday mood today?
* Cal goes and sits down next to a couch, drills a small hole in the lid of the lube can with his shoulder laser, and produces a straw with which to drink.
* Teri plops down on the couch next to Cal, and eats more peeps. "Eh, spent the holiday with the family for once, and took advantage of the after-easter sales. Hard to get your sugar fix when you're out exploring mystic ruins."]
{Cal} *hmmzzt* That is because sugar products degrade in high humidity, Teri.
{Teri} Details. Don't bother me with -details-.
{Cal} *hmmzzt* Suit yourself. *there's the imprssion of bemusement*
{Noa} He's got *that* right. That's why you never see the Ancient Truffle basket of Atlantis. Or the Candy Cane of Antioch.
{Teri} Ooooooooo. I'll have to ask the Atlanteans if they had one.
{Teri} Prolly just legends, but hey, never know until you ask!
{Noa} Been scarfing all the cheap aprez-Easter candy you could get your hands on?
* Teri nodnodnods, her mouth filled with peep.
{Noa} Must... resist... urge... to make her laugh...
{Cal} *hmmzzzt* She will be bouncing off the trees for weeks.
* Cal drinks more lubricant.
{Noa} Tie her down, tie down that kangaroo...
* Teri giggles, and swallows marshmallow peeps so she can stick out her tounge, which is now rainbow-colored. "Nobody can tie me down! I'm irrepressable! Inscrutable! Excitable!"
* Noa draws a long cord from her pocket. She eyes Teri appraisingly.
* Teri blinks. "Woah! Hey! I'm not into bondage here, Noa...."
* Cal gives an impression of an arched eyebrow. "*hmmmzzzt* And what about whips, Teri?"
{Teri} HEY! Watch it!
{Noa} Um... guys? Guys? Bad, dark place here...?
* Teri tosses a 1-inch hexnut at Cal. It goes clang on his head dome.
{Cal} *hmmzzt* ouch.
{Noa} Why do you take a licking from her?
{Cal} *hmmzzt* Because 1) she can also repair any damage to me, *hmzzt* and 2) she is a good friend.
{Teri} And three, he knows where I sleeps at night and can easily get his revenge.
{Noa} Damn... I knew it. *she starts to inch the cord towards Teri*
* Teri starts to inch away from the cord...
{Noa} *q* You can't escape...
{Teri} *q* I can sure as heck try....
* Noa leaps for Teri. "AAAAH! Get back here!"
{Teri} Yeek!
* Teri tumbles away, but too late!
* Noa tries to lasso Teri before she can escape...
* Teri starts finding herself entangled. "Ack! help! Emergency! Freedom! Viva La revolucion!"
{Cal} *hmmzzt* State of Grace. Threat level minimal.
{Noa} Muahahaha! Submit!
* Yes, it sounds like the Wargolem is smirking.
{Teri} The LeBeaus Never Surrender! *pause* What'll you give me if I do?
{Noa} More peeps?
{Teri} But those're -my- peeps!
{Noa} *My* peeps.
{Teri} When'd they become -your- peeps?
{Cal} *hmmzzt* When you gave her the peeps?
{Teri} That's technicalities.
{Noa} I *have* peeps.
{Teri} Gimme Peeps.
{Noa} Submit first, then peeps.
* Teri considers. "Are they good peeps?"
{Noa} *very*.
{Teri} Gimme!
* RHONDA fades in, peeping.
* Noa ties up Teri's wrists!
{Teri} Okay, I've submitted. Gimme the peeps.
{RHONDA} You trusted her?
* Teri does the big anime eye thing at Noa.
* Noa grins and takes peeps from her pocket. She turns to RHONDA. "Interesting dilmena, isn't it? I have peeps... but her hands are tied..."
* Okay, the effect is just a LITTLE odd with her red irises and black 'whites.'
{RHONDA} Put in her pocket? {grin}
{Cal} *hmmzzt* You could feed her if she opens her mouth wide and says 'aaaah'.
{Noa} Ew, no, now *that's* just wrong.
{Teri} Aaaaaahhhhhhh.
* Teri opens her mouth wide.
{RHONDA} You're... all reliant on us...
* Noa *sighs* and puts the peep in Teri's mouth.
* Teri munches happily, and makes a little 'mmmmm' of sugary bliss.
* Noa looks back at RHONDA. "Is it me, or is this just wrong?"
* Cal just nods slowly.
{RHONDA} It's... disturbing. I like it. Give her the cane!
* Noa hands her the candy cane.
{Teri} Caaaannnnee.
{Noa} But no cane for you!
* Teri grips the cane, and lifts it. "Yes cane."
* Noa sighs. "No cane..."
{Teri} Why no cane?
{RHONDA} Because she doesn't like canings?
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{Noa} Pepsi.
{Teri} Hm?
{Noa} No cane?
{Teri} Rather have sprite.
{RHONDA} You're reaching...
{Noa} She is. Not me.
{RHONDA} You started it.
* Noa shakes her head.
{Teri} Yes you did!
{RHONDA} You did too.. you brought up Pepsi!
{Noa} Nope! I stand by it.
{RHONDA} But you stood by it first...
{Noa} Oooh, you're asking for a peeping...
{Teri} Peep! Peep! Peep! Peep!
* Teri hops up and down, wrists still bound.
* Cal lets out a steampunk chuckle, and squeezes his empty lubricant can between thumb and forefinger. He then flicks in into the recyucler.
{Teri} Three points!
{Noa} okay, even I can't out immature this.
{RHONDA} You could stop her, though...
{Noa} I could, but do you want to get close to the fire?
{Teri} Bllll.
* Noa grins at her. "At least my hands aren't tied."
* Teri waves her fists at Noa. "Just 'ew wait, Noa 'wanson, Just 'ew wait!"
{Noa} Now, present arms.
* Teri does so.
{Noa} Should I free her... or shouldn't I...
* Teri does the puppy-eye thing at Noa again.
* Noa draws out a silk handkerchief and drops it over Teri's hands.
* Teri looks down at the hankercheif. Then up at Noa again, and arches an eyebrow.
{Noa} Hide the problem and it goes away!
* Teri rolls her eyes, and makes headbutting motions.
{Noa} What. You think *your* head is harder than mine?
{Cal} *hmmzzt* She is very stubborn.
{Teri} It's a family trait. *she grins*
{RHONDA} You could find horns to try keeping up...
{Noa} Horns...
* Noa's eyes light up.
* Teri makes a trumpeting sound.
{Noa} *Horns*.
{RHONDA} Other *horns*...
* Noa *grins*. "The devil we shall make..."
{RHONDA} No, you could just ask him to come in...
* Noa takes a pair of plastic horns from her pocket and puts it around Teri's head...
{Cal} *hmmzzt* Looking to join Arisa, hmmm?
* Teri laughs. "Hah! I don't have the body for it."
* RHONDA fades.. then Arisa's body appears under Teri's head! No, not bothering to match skin tone...
* Noa grins there, then puts a fake gotee on Teri's chin...
* Teri looks over at the bar mirror. She breaks down laughing. "That is so... SO wrong!"
* Teri rolls on the couch, laughing.
* It follows her movements fairly quickly!
{Noa} *m* damn, I wish I had pocket space to pull out a pitchfork.
{RHONDA} {vo} Long stick and horseshoe?
{Noa} *m* Wouldn't work... just not the same.
* Cal just blinks at the TeriArisa. Blink. Blink. It almost sounded like a camera going off.
{Teri} ... oh no.
{Teri} Nononononono! NO PICTURES!
{RHONDA} {vo} Yes pictures! Many pictures!
* RHONDA shifts the look to a bikini...
* Teri hops up off the couch and scampers over to Cal, and beats on his arm, innefectually.
* RHONDA giggles nuts...
* Noa takes a mini cam from her pocket...
* Cal takes his punishment with mechanical acceptance.
* Not that it does much, but hey.
* Noa clicks the pictures, walking aorund Cal and Teri...
* RHONDA's scaneye flashes...
{Teri} Whaaaaaa. *sniffle* I... I have no recourse... my pride is tarnished, my family shamed... there is only one thing I can do now....
{Noa} Suicide?
{Teri} Noooo.....
{RHONDA} {vo} Revenge?
* Teri slips her hands into one of her thigh-pouches.
* RHONDA fades away to reform, leaving Teri looking normal!
{Teri} *q* yessssss.....
{Noa} Ah, memories... and 8x10 glossies... last forever.
{RHONDA} Wonder if GAIA'd like e-mail...
{Noa} Who's that now?
* Teri awwwws, and points to the TC Door. "Olympus's MajorDomo." *blink* "And why'd I'd tell you that?!"
{RHONDA} Because it doesn't matter if she knows..
{Noa} Becuse you really want to be embarassed and humiliated?
* Cal lets out a steampunk chuckle. "*hmmzzt* A desire for self-ridicule?"
{Teri} Ehhhhhh, whatevah.
{Noa} Whatever it is, you're *ours* now.
{RHONDA} Unless you want the lingerie pics...
{Teri} .....
{Teri} Ooookay. -That's- it. No Mercy! *She grabs something from within her pouch, even with her hands still tied, and then throws it to the ground.*
* It shatters, and there's a big POOF! of pink smoke.
{Noa} Pink.
{RHONDA} Nice pink...
* Noa takes out several pencil erasers. "This pink."
* And now, everybody in the room is clad in a pink, flouncy dress. And rabbit ears. Save for Teri.
* Noa starts to whip the erasers into the smoke..
{Noa} . o O (Mmm... my career as a playboy bunny begins... today.)
* Cal looks down at his arms, clad in pink chiffon. "*hmmzzt* This is not my color."
* RHONDA bounces, grinning... "Yay, I look pretty..."
{Teri} Vengeance is mine! Muahahaha!
{RHONDA} This is horrible?
{Noa} This is, well, kind if weirdly neat!
{Teri} Well, it is if you don't like pink chiffon. Okay, I'm working on it.
{RHONDA} Could you make it hot pink next time?
{Noa} Shocking pink, you mean.
{RHONDA} Melting pink.
{Teri} Psychadelic?
{RHONDA} That might be too much..
{Teri} I could try for electrofloureccent. Go to a rave and you'll stand out in the blacklight.
{RHONDA} Not that I go to raves...
{Teri} Eh, you'd be a hit... "21st Century Digital Boi" has some damn good dances.
{RHONDA} I don't get out much. {grin}
{Noa} Or at all, from the sounds of things...
* RHONDA crosses arms. "Almost..."
* Noa grins at her.
* Teri considers. "Hm. I'm sure GAIA'd be willing to loan you a port address ad some bandwith to access the Olympus net..."
{RHONDA} Maybe.. might be fun some!
{Teri} Hey, it's your call. *grin*
{RHONDA} Oh, probably, just not right now! {grin}
{Teri} Righto. *Shr grins* I'll be glad to accompany you there. They've got some WAY retro stuff.
{RHONDA} I just like home net, mostly.. nice, safe connect...
{Noa} She's a LAN girl in the big WAN, you know?
* The Door to Knight Hall opens, and a buff-looking guy with long black hair, dressed in a uniform of some kind, steps through.
* Teri looks over and waves. Or well tries to, given her hands are still bound at the wrists. "Hi!"
{RHONDA} Gleets!
* Cal, a 11-foot-tall seated wargolem wearing a pink chiffon dress, waves to the newcomer as well. "*hmmzzt* Hello. I do not usually wear this outfit."
* BuffGuy looks... well, maybe a little disoriented, probably not prepared for the pink chiffon-wearing wargolem or something. "Er... hello." *he holsters the pistol he was carrying* "The writing on the door said this was a bar?"
{Noa} Heeeey...
* Teri nodnods. "Taervac's Bar and Grill." She looks wryly at her wrists. "I'd serve you up a drink, but my manual dexterity is shot to hell'n back." She grins.
{Noa} Whups, sorry. *grin*
{Teri} Hmph! *grin*
{RHONDA} I would, but no hands!
* BuffGuy hehs a bit. "Could -use- a drink right about now. Oh, my name's Brian, by the way."
{Teri} Hiii, Brian!
* Noa slides to the replicator. "Well hel-lo... Brian..."
{RHONDA} She's mocking us with her corporality.
{Cal} *hmmzzt* Hello, Brian. I am Calibretto. This is my associate, Teri. *he nods towards teri*
{RHONDA} I'm RHONDA.. the last is Josephina.
{Teri} Hey, equal opportunity! Get upgades!
* Noa returns with a taaaaalll coke. "Mock mock mock. That's right, Josephina, but you can call me Noa for short."
{RHONDA} Josie's nicer.
* Teri looks down at her hands. "Hm. Need to fix this."
* Teri looks up at Cal. "Cal? Fix this."
{Cal} *hmmzzt* Very well.
* Noa hands over the coke, grinning triumphantly.
* A small targeting laser pops out of Calibretto's shoulder housing, sights, flickers, and then intensifies.
* *zarch* Teri's hands are now freed.
* Teri grins, rubbing her wrists. "Ahhh, much better. Here, lemme get that dress of you... you SO do not have the build for it."
{Cal} *hmmzzt* Thank you. *wow, that sounds like sarcasm*
Brian looks wry at all this, then heads over to the replicator. "Hm... pretty sophisticated..."
{RHONDA} And this is my good night... night!
{Teri} Night, Rhonda!
* Teri waves to the nice hologirl.
* Noa waves to her...
* RHONDA waves, fading out.
* Teri goes and gets a sprite for herself. "Anyway, you put money in here, dial here and here, and food comes out here. Or drink. Or silicon wafers. Or what have you."
* Brian nods, drops a few coins into the money slot and succeeds in dialing up a glass of milk.
* Noa snickers wryly and decides to just drain the coke herself.
{Teri} Miiiilk. It does a bidy good. *she grins, and chugs her own sprite* So, what bringsya here?
* Teri hops up on the bar to sit on it.
{Brian} Mm, this is a definite improvement over our replicators. And well... I was getting chased by some security robots who were -supposed- to be on my side.
* Teri frowns. "Well, -that's- not right..."
{Noa} Those security robots. Never know who to trust.
{Cal} *hmmzzt* Indeed. Were they independant or remotely controlled?
{Brian} I'm not even sure. Tried to call it in and my radio suddenly stopped working. And the central computer flatly denied that they were even there.
{Teri} Weiiiiird. Mebby a hacker.
{Teri} What's the level of comp tech from... wherever you're from? *she smiles, apologetic*
{Teri} Sorry, butting my nose in.
{Cal} *hmmzzt* She does that often. *bemusement*
* There is a godawful, but oddly low-sourced noise, coming from another point of the bar.
{Brian} *snorts* Wouldn't be surprised; we've had a few hacks recently... amongst other problems. And we've got fairly good AI technology available to the rich and powerful... at least I -hope- the AI is still working.
* The noise gets louder.
{Brian} What is -that-?
* Suddenly about ten or so cockroaches of the species Blattidinae bloomcountinis streak in, performing primal scream therapy.
{Brian} ......
{Teri} .... roaches.
* They run around screaming some more, then dashing off, one toting a very stale cheeto found underneath the couch with itself.
* Callibreto nods. *hmmzzt* "Tribal ones."
{Brian} ...right, i'm definitely in another universe. *wl*
{Teri} That you are! *she grins, and sketches a bow* Welcome to the Complex of Realms, crossroads of.... a damned lotta places.
{Brian} Some kind of universal nexus or something?
* Teri touches her nose, and points to Brian. "Pin-pon!"
* Teri hops off the bar, heads over to Calibretto, and removes the chiffon dress, and tosses it into the recycler.
{Brian} Well, that would explain all the doors, then. *wg*
* Teri nods. "Yup yup... dunno how many there are." She grins.
{Cal} *hmmzzt* We believe it to be infinite, or practically so.
{Brian} Probably is infinite. I think the Almighty likes it that way. *ss*
{Teri} Ayyymen. *she smiles* Plenty of space to poke -my- nose about. *she winks, and wriggles her nose as she steals Cal's bunny ears and puts them on her head*
* Brian hehs, finishing off the glass of milk and dropping it in the appropriate place.
{Teri} Anyway... *she considers* ... you came through a Door down Knight, right? Did you make sure it was stable?
* Calibretto stands, up to his full height. *hmmzzt* "It would be unfortunate if you were stranded."
{Brian} Well, I was able to open and close it a couple times. If that makes it stable, then yeah. *pause* And yeah, getting stranded would be bad. There could be a serious problem developing on the space station I came from and I need to make sure people know.
{Teri} It's a good sign, yup. *she smiles* ... well, save for that serious problem thingie. *she looks rueful*
{Cal} *hmmzzt* If you need assistance, do not hesitate to call.
* Teri rolls her eyes. "Right, Cal. And I have problems disguising you among te norms -anyway-... how'd we explain you on a station? Assembled out of a Bandai Kit?"
* Teri grins.
{Brian} I'm -hoping- it was just a fluke on the part of the security system. Then again, if one of our experiments went bad enough to cause a dimensional rift, anything is possible. And I'll keep that in mind, nonetheless. *swg*
* Tat runs through, yowling happily in cat form and dragging an entire Northern Flyer wagon of anime kits behind her, disappearing into Escher.
{Calibretto} *hmmzzt* Art Cat, Teri.
* Teri nods slowly. Then blinks. "Anime Cat, Cal."
{Cal} *hmmzzt* Ah.
* Brian looks down at his watch, and hrms.
{Teri} Now that you're seeing cats, it's time to head out? *she grins*
{Teri} I could rustle up a tiger on short notice... but then Raja'd be grumpy and he'd try to chew my head off.
{Cal} *hmmzzt* More an arm, Teri.
{Brian} I like cats. *wg* Actually, I think enough time's passed that those bots have gotten bored and wandered off. I need to head back give my boss the full spiel on what's happened... well, except for the dimensional rift bit; that'd probably get me thrown in a padded cell. *swl*
{Teri} And that'd suck. *she grins* You're cute, you don't deserve the whitewall treatment.
* Teri winks.
* Brian blushes a bit.
{Brian} er, right... well, thanks for the hospitality, anyway. *scratch head*
* Teri grins, and waves. "Take care, and don't let the 'bots get you down, Brian!"
* Brian hehs wryly. "Thanks, I'll try." *he waves, and departs through the door to Knight*
* Calibretto waves as he heads out, and looks at Teri. "*hmmzzt* Shall we?"
* Teri nods. "Yeah, let's hit the sack." She smiles, and grabs up her bag of easter candy, then the two of them depart through the TC Door.