I'll give him a PIZZA MY MIND ROFLMHOOMGLOLOLOLOL

[yesterdays_hero]

WHO: Captain Hammer, OPEN!
WHAT: Hammer's organized a little meet 'n greet over pizza, his treat. What a nice superhero!
WHEN: November 27, 2013 - 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Geraldi's Pizzeria - Genessia City
NOTES: Both prose and [action] tags are fine! There's also no pose order. GO NUTS. Don't forget to add your tag!


There's something very inviting about a pizza parlor. The combination of spices never fails to set a man's stomach to grumbling, and Captain Hammer is no exception. He's arrived twenty minutes early to put down an order for three extra large pies, figuring that would probably be enough to feed the ones who responded to his proposition. And if more arrive, they'll just order a few more pizzas.

He figured this was a good way for the people stuck in this weird little dump to know who they could befriend (each other) and who they could rely on to punch villains in the face (and that would be him).

The pizzas were set out on a long, high table ringed by barstools. There were plates, napkins, forks for the weak, a basket of breadsticks, a pitcher of root beer on one end, and a pitcher of real beer on the other. Hammer himself was perched on one of the barstools, enjoying a slice of pizza heaped with pepperoni and olives. One boot rested on the floor, the other was hooked on the lowermost rung of his barstool.

Comments

[descendsfromshadow]

Blake just finds herself staring for a moment. Trapped in an unfamiliar, unknown place, dragged in by some kind of alien force....

And this woman is worried about losing her job.

"But what about the rest of us? Could you help us get back home, or at least contact somebody and tell them what's going on here?"

Don't mind the other response

[trigram]

Sofia sighed through her nose. She felt an amount of regret for telling Blake about her world-crossing ability. She's so off her game right now that she didn't realize the girl might be homesick and ask for a ride home.

"I can't take you home through the methods I use. You will need something similar to a passport to be able to go to the Nexus" Sofia paused. "As for you getting pulled into an alien world, that's going to take a lot of explaining..."

What other response?

[descendsfromshadow]

Blake sighs as well. Somehow, she knew it couldn't have been that easy but for a moment, she had hoped. Still, she'll drop the subject. For now.

"So, does that mean you have some idea about what this... place is?"

I made two different replies, it's no biggie.

[trigram]

"Yes. It's just a world with a much higher magic limits than mine and a rather newly formed one. It's kind of sits in the middle of the Tree given how easy making Archways are compared to other worlds. Some require more drastic methods" Sofia shrugged.

Just playing along.

[descendsfromshadow]

Blake frowns a little bit. She doesn't really know what Sofia's talking about, but the basic concept seemed straightforward enough.

"Okay, but that doesn't explain why we're here. Or why this place wants us to give something up to make an Archway that leads to a bad copy of our homes."

[trigram]

"You're here because this world, or the Powers that control it if you believe in those, chose you. You possess something, a trait that they like and want to have in their new world. Once you enter this place, that trait you have would become part of this world even after you leave" Sofia didn't expect to be explaining this while on vacation. It only makes her miss work more. But Sofia pulls her translucent cellphone out and puts it on the table. It looks like a piece of glass until she touched it, and a fully colored hologram appeared in front of herself and Blake. Images of past case files showing pictures of people with blue markings on their skin.

"For example, I knew this ethnic group from one of my missions. We called them the Ylyans. They possessed a unique ability to convert water into a solid object that isn't ice. They could shape it to whatever way they want, and as dense as they could. They even used it as weapons strong enough to cut through bronze. We got reports of a lot of them suddenly missing from their native universe. Showing up in newly born worlds just like this one we're in. Even when we got them back home, new reports came in and showed native people from worlds the Ylyans were taken to, began showing similar abilities" Sofia slides the holographic images, showing a new group. "Now these people can do the same things the Ylyans could, just with oil, the others with their own blood, and then this group can do the opposite and turn solid objects into liquid..."