What if your characters suddenly... 2

[Somefreakoverthere]

She knew she really should of been asleep a while back, but she had no school the next day and her sister was having a sleepover somewhere. NR never did really pay attention, and when she did it was easy to forget some stuff. Other things hung around in her mind for ages.

Then, something...disturbing happened. The room temperature dropped, and there was a noise too strange to describe. She turned around. And went pale.

Fibre Optic stared back, shivering slightly. She was floating, and the glow hanging around her body was lighting the room fine. Oh, and she looked like she was about the yell at somebody to tell her where she was.

NR slid out her seat and went downstairs, still in slight shock. Having logged onto Blackstar, she posted her reply to the thread Zerrer had started.

"Hi guys.
Fibre has decided to come bug me. If I start screaming and banging my head against the wall, you may have some idea why. Refer to me as NR, calling me Sfot could mess her mind up and I'd rather not have another mentally unstable character hanging around."

Content with her post, she promptly turned around and poked Fibre's arm.

"So...Your real." Understatment of the year.

"So are you, but I don't go around poking people who I don't even know the name of." Fibre replied quickly to the rather dumb comment.

"I'm NR. Your Fibre Optic, your thirteen, your a ghost, you eat batteries for energy and normal food because you like it. Your Sfot's creation. Your favourite animals are snakes. You like the colour grey because it reminds you electricity. I know basicly who you are, and I'm fairly sure your gonna call m-"

"You're a stalker. You know that?"

[Zerrer]

While waiting for Kay to arrive, David got another call.

David: What?
Alex: Another one. Somefreakoverthere has one called Fibre. Oh yeah, you're supposed to refer Sfot as NR.
David: Ask her where to find them.
Alex: See ya. *Click*

[Chronos]

Ensichrys held his neck back from J.J.'s trembling body. The area had a distinct fragrance of lovely pine-like cologne. "You have such a pleasant smell," Ensichrys said, very surprised at this as he'd grown used to the dankness of the Cave.

J.J. looked at him blankly. "Well, thank you very much, I suppose. Your feathers are looking gorgeous today. Wait, why and how are you here?!"

Ensichrys looked around. To the left... to the right... "I don't... know," he said softly. "Are you really Chronos, my lord and creator?"

J.J. looked quizzically at him before realization dawned on him. "Ohhhh, yes I suppose I technically am your creator, but not the God of Time to which you are referring. This is an alternate reality to yours, my friend. I didn't know such things could actually become real in a different universe, but apparently they can."

Ensichrys scratched his beak lightly. "Well, how do you know I wasn't created first and that you were somehow influenced by my existence in another realm?"

J.J. stood erect at exactly six feet in height. "Hmmm, I never thought about that. There goes that damnable 'Strong Anthropic Principle' again. I disgust myself with how self-centered we are as humans. Be lucky, Ensichrys, that you are not one of us."

"I don't mean to be rude," interrupted Ensichrys, "but you were just unconscious a moment ago. You're completely fine now?"

Were it not for J.J.'s deep comprehension of alternate universes and realms, he would be freaking out even more, but this was simply proof of existence beyond his own. J.J. appreciated the scientific value of this.

"Yes, I suppose I am. Would you care for some root beer?"

Ensichrys' head tufts stood up. "Hmmm, do tell, what is this 'root beer?'"

[Swix]

"You know" Blue suddenly started up, making Swix jump again "I don't know where you get off, calling this place the 'Real World'. I mean, Blackstars real enough to me and everyone else there"

"Weeelll" Swix said, a little unsure of what to say to the mutant "we don't really have a name for this dimension, or at least not one that I know of. It's probably a string of random numbers or in Latin if it does exist, but that's really the only thing we can call it. What are you watching in there anyway?"

"The Anime channel" Blue answered, turning up the volume slightly so Swix could hear explosions "I didn't think robots could be so awesome"

"You're not watching Transformers are you?" Swix asked, as she really hated the particular series they kept showing "and for the love of whatever deities might exist, keep the volume down"

"No, it says it's called 'Gundam Wing'" Blue answered, then turned her black haired so her yellow eyes rested on Swix "You don't believe in gods?"

"No" Swix answered "I don't believe in blind belief, all it does is get people into trouble. My beliefs are... complicated"

"Try me"

[KC11]

Kay rushed out of the house and ran to where David stood. KC followed. In her mouth, she was chewing a whole ham.

"Thank god you guys came." said Kay. KC said a muffled "hewo".

KC swallowed her ham, then said, in a much clearer voice "So, are you guys portal makers? Because if you are, then I guess you will be sending me back, right? I mean, I'm surprised you guys are starving to death! There's barely any food here!"

[3kul]

"I suppose I should consider myself lucky..." Luke mused as he parked his car, walking back towards his house with a bag crammed full of fast food in one hand and a bag practically bursting with air fresheners in the other. "Most of my characters would probably kill me if they came to life, or at the very least, they'd be impossible for me to control." He entered his house, trying to reassure himself with this thought. "Yeah, this guy's probably the safest to have around, and the easiest to hide since he's so simple to manipulate." He opened the door to his room, knocking on his wardrobe door to let the fictional intruder know that he'd returned.

"But still... I guess I can't help but feel disappointed."

The lanky and uncoordinated Genkaku tumbled out from Luke's wardrobe, tangled up in a mess of what had been previously neatly hung clothes. He'd passed out from heat exhaustion, but the sudden sharp pain of his head hitting a nearby desk rendered him conscious once more. "Ah! Fellow disciple of Paranesia! You have returned!" He exclaimed, attempting to remove the various articles of clothing from himself. Luke snatched the assortment of jackets, t-shirts and pants from Genkaku, leaving them in a small pile in the corner of his room. He'd wash them later.

"Here." Luke said in a somewhat irritated voice, throwing the bag of fast food at Genkaku. "Take; eat; this was my money, but then I had to spend it on you." He was more than just a little annoyed that he had to spend so much on feeding somebody who probably didn't need to eat real food, but as he didn't know how to conjur up fictional food he had little choice. "These foodmakers... McDonalds... Do they worship Paranesia too?" "Doesn't everybody?" Luke replied sarcastically, though Genkaku did not pick up on that sort of thing. "Oh good. Just had to check, that's all." He said, tearing into the bag and wolfing the greasy food down.

"Now, what to do about you..." Luke mused, deciding that he should really be checking out a way to get rid of Genkaku. "Don't forget Entrails!" Genkaku managed to call out between mouthfuls. "... How could I possibly forget her..." Luke murmured angrily. Why the hell had he made a character that carried a dead animal around? His room positively reeked now, and even though he'd set up more than a dozen air fresheners he had a feeling that there wasn't enough pine freshness in the world to cover up that smell. The current hot weather really didn't help to make this any better either, and Luke's room had nothing in the way of air conditioning.

Checking out Blackstar (the most obvious place, in Luke's opinion), he browsed about to find threads to see if anybody had experienced something similar to this. He wasn't about to post a thread that would make him seem totally crazy if nobody else had, though it seemed that fortune had chosen to smile upon him - several people were having the exact same problem.

He made his post short and sweet, for Paranesia's ever faithful disciple was now going through his stuff again.

"Shaon's going to love this - seems that Genkaku's decided to pay me a visit.

Any advice on how to get rid of him would be great. He's really annoying to deal with in person and Entrails is seriously stinking up my room. As soon as he's back where he belongs I'm giving him a live fox to replace the dead one."

"I could bring these tigers to life you know," Genkaku said in a knowledgable tone as he held up the large decorative blanket that covered Luke's bed. "Or you know, make it look like they've come to life. Illusions get kind of confusing to explai-" "Do not." Was Luke's stern reply. Genkaku seemed desperate to show off his skills to the 'fellow worshipper of Paranesia' that lived here (an identity that Luke had quickly adopted to gain Genkaku's trust), but Luke would not have it - he knew Genkaku far too well to allow him to try something like that.

[Zerrer]

"Erm.... No." David said. "We can't make portals."
Zerrer's wings burst from his back, showing them that they just flew.
"I thought we'd group up as many people as possible so then when we run across someone who CAN make portals, then we could send them back-"

The phone rang.
David: Who is it?
Alex: 3kul, who has the character of Genkaku.
David: PM him asking where we should meet him. If he lives in Europe like Swix and blue, then we might as well go there.
Alex: I'm on it. *Click*

[Angel]

((Referring to self as ..... something? buggerit, i'll use my real name.. ))

Rosie turns the key in its lock and pushes the door open with care as the dog tries, quite innocently, to maul her to death. After dumping an over stuffed file and bag onto the table she feeds the over-enthusiastic dog and sits down to pull the laptop open.

It pings faintly through the headphones, currently lying on the floor, and firefox loads itself to where she left off the day before. A faint thump sounds on the floor above and she frowns, looking for the dog. The collie is happily finishing of her lunch with the most disturbing sloping and crunching sounds. She pushes the laptop onto the arm of the sofa and gets up to investigate. Neither of her parents should be home yet, she's only just got back from college...

She climbs the stairs in silence, stepping over the one that creaks habitually. She peers into the upstairs living room with caution and sees something... out of her world. He sister sits on the sofa, looking slightly flustered and on the thick rug in front of the TV sit two winged and beautiful creatures. He jaw literally hangs and she steps forwards without thinking. Unfortunately for all four of them, she trips on the elongated-sheep draft excluder and tumbles to the carpet, catching herself on the back of the sofa.

A flurry of activity follows in the next few seconds and she finds herself pinned to the floor with a freezing cold blade pressed to her throat. She stares up in amazement into two brilliantly blue eyes. They stare at her steadily, even as the man's cloak like wings settle.

"Is this one of these thieves you mentioned, Miss Sarah? Shall we throw it outside?" The voice is musical and rich, Rosie glances up at the source. standing probably 5'7", 5'9", Angel looms over Rosie's shorter, elder sister.

"what? NO! Zed, put the knife DOWN, she's my sister, she's ALLOWED." She gently prises the belt-knife from Zed's unresisting finders. Both of the creatures look quite confused and embarrassed.

"Our apologies, Miss Sarah... We are on edge since..."

~~Half an hour prior~~
Rosie's older sister sits in her room, browsing through course prospectuses for her post graduate year. she's about to fold and leave it until after dinner when there is a silent 'pop' and a bit of the room turns inside out. Unfortunately that means it also turns outside in. Two large bundles of feathers are dumped unceremoniously on the carpet and slowly resolve themselves into Zed and Angel. The two scramble up and Zed immediately rushes to his Sire in unwarranted concern.

After a moment, the hither to silent, Sarah's heart slows enough for her to get a word out sideways.
"Who're... ok, WHAT're you?!"
Angel and Zed turn simultaneously and react in moments, drawing steel as is first impulse and bringing them to bear, on their creators sister no less! Much to their surprise they find themselves once more, in a heap on the floor. Sarah having used her much practised Ikkido on their proverbial feathered behinds.

After much talk and negotiation, Angel and Zed calm the rather shocked human down enough to allow her to think and convince her that they are not her to steal her laptop and end of year essay. During this exchange, however she notices some heavy similarities between Angel and her sister, and begins to speculate.

~~current~~

"Ah, yes, well... you attacked me. With knives. You deserved it." Rosie, still in her own, unfeathered heap on the floor groans, looking quickly from angel to Zed and back again, Recognising them rather faster than her no-longer RPing sister.

[Somefreakoverthere]

NR groaned. Fibre was listening to music, and had turned out to be pretty good at imitating Daft Punk. But the tech side of her had killed the computer's color scheme which had so far inverted, spun, flashed and settled on changing to Fibre's mood. Why NR had it up so she could do that, she couldn't remember.

Leaning over to check Blackstar, she was somewhat relived to find somebody else was affected with having their character bug them.

[Zerrer]

*RING*

David picked up Alex's cellphone.
Zerrer: So, nice weather you have here...
* * *
Alex: NR is in England.
David: Really.
Alex: Yeah. She also said she can't leave all of a sudden.
David: Okay, here's what we're going to do...

[Swix]

After quite a bit of debate and information giving of her own beliefs to the draconic mutant now sitting in her living room, Swix was actually pleasantly surprised. Far from closing herself off to everything but the Flock and Father Macs teachings, Blue was quite open to hearing about the humans self-confessed bizarre belief system and didn't put it down.

Both human and mutant yawned at the same time, although Blues yawn was considerably more intimidating than Swix's, what with the pointy fangs glinting in the lamplight.

The mongrel of a dog who was Sassy did little except for roll over on the cushion she was currently on, deciding that sleep was more important than the odd uninvited guest. Swix walked back over to the computer to check on Blackstar again, finding that yet more members were replying with the same problem. Although she had to laugh at 3kuls post, not that she'd ever tell him that she did though.

Was this some sort of mass hysteria or hypnosis, perhaps?

'No' she thought, realising that logic may be eluding her due to the time, her tiredness and the sheer unreality of what had just happened 'I don't think that's possible, not like this anyway'

Swix typed her last reply.

[Chronos]

J.J. and Ensichrys were sharing a root beer between them, whilst looking for clues as to what was happening. Ensichrys needed to get back to the cave and J.J. needed to make sure he got there. There was no absolute necessity, it was just that J.J. was a better friend than to leave Ensichrys high and dry.

Not to mention the ex-knight's sense of duty would surely drive him to harm J.J. physically if need be.

J.J. decided to post his occurrence as well.

"Y halo thar, everyone! I also have experienced and equally strange event. I am sitting down and sharing a root beer with none other than Ensichrys! Isn't that just lovely? However, it's pretty important that he returns to Blackstar. He's an important man, you see. So... and ideas?
~~~

ensichrys here hi everyone its great to meet you all
~~~

You'll have to forgive his typing skills. Talons, you know."

[Zerrer]

David and Alex were busy going through plans of getting everyone together.

David: The only way we can do this is with Kazumaru's teleporting.
Alex: J.J. and Ensichrys just posted.
David: J.J.?
Alex: His username is Chronos.
David: Great, another one.
Alex: I know, I'll PM him to ask where he is...
*Click*

David looked at Kay. "Any ideas?"

[3kul]

[Chronos]

J.J. had just finished his root beer when he realized he had a pm in his inbox. "Now," he said, "I wonder who could be pming me." Ensichrys leaned forward, causing J.J. to cough a feather out of his mouth. "Perhaps," said the feathered one, "they've learned of a way to send me back."

J.J. read the pm asking his location.

His reply was as follows:

I live in Derry. It is a horrid little place located in the heart of Southwestern PA's Laurel Highlands. Are we going somewhere? Shall I pack a few sandwiches?

J.J. then noticed 3kul's distraught post and felt bad, though couldn't help but be slightly disappointed with the way 3kul talked about his own creation. Then again, he'd never met Genkaku. Perhaps he really was that bad. J.J. took back his thought of disappointment and instead focused on making those sandwiches.

"Ensichrys, lend me a talon cutting the meat, would you?"