And here we are.

The first of an exciting three part trip into 'another land' has some laugh aloud funny lines. It's also got Becky Joy, Todd Blackpaws, and Konall Bearsmasher, who Becky accidentally calls 'Kadlin' at one point.

Kad.. I mean Konall is responsible for some great lines in this one!

It features a nice, solid mix of humor and mood, and has a surprise or two in it as well.

(Live RP VI notes)

(Welcome to the first (fairly short) of a three part 'side quest' roleplay for AIL! Originally intended for a Typical Tavern mission, it ended up debuting a few new characters that will hopefully be in AIL in the near future. There was a similar tactic used in the Dash/ Lapine/ Vixen roleplay, as well.

(I'm posting the three parts one after another, now that they're finally done. This might take a while. I'm also preserving the use of second person ["you"] by the Gamemaster to see if it gives it a more Dungeons and Dragons feel. It's always an editing chore, trying to decide what to keep and what to cut, not to mention being careful not to cut anything by mistake. This first part is note worthy since before we got to it, we did a stat sheet for Fluffy Hamster, and finished off Becky Joy's stat sheet. Not included here.

(Enjoy!)

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<Becky and Konall are walking down the street, moving toward the next fight. The town around them is still under seize, and several buildings are aflame.>

<Becky whines.>

Becky: "But I didn't find Wolf!"

<Suddenly, Becky sees a small furball running along the building tops. It's a fluffy hamster. No, it's THE Fluffy Hamster.>

Becky: "Hi, Fluffy! ... He don't hear us, Kadlin!"

Konall: "HEY HAMSTER! Come over here."

<Suddenly, Todd Blackpaws comes up to Becky.>

Todd: "There you are babe!"

<Becky just giggles and waves at the heartbreak "he-man" fox.>

Becky: "What's up, Todd? I found Konall!"

<You hear a chuckle from somewhere nearby. If you've ever run into the Jester King of the Beasts, you'd recognize his laugh. A massive pipe bursts up through the ground and engulfs all of you.>

Becky: "Why I feel like I breakin' copyright law?!"

<You travel through blackness for some time, and come out in a strange land.>

<Everything is less clear, it seems to be made of large, 2-dimensional blocks. Except for a small cage holding a familiar former clannie.>

Todd: "Why do I feel like finding a Princess?"

<Some of the blocks are half an inch in size (1.2 centimeters.>

<And there is odd music playing.>

Becky: "Here I am, you found me, Todd!"

<Suddenly the lock in TheGimp's cage jumps open. The door swings open and out crawls TheGimp fully dressed in his black leather and latex suit.>

<TheGimp drops his pants, and wildly starts waving his hands in the air.>

TheGimp: "Wooooo!!!", "Woooooooo!!!!!"

<TheGimp runs towards the horizon, shouting and waving. That is the last you saw of him, today anyways.>

<The foliage has large red berry/apple looking things on it. Inexplicable blocks hang in the air.>

(If Gimp is here, that might make this a subsection of Hay Daze; that's where he was last left.)

<You see a blob moving slowly toward you.>

<It's big and blue.>

Becky: "Is that Raw Hide?!"

Todd: "This reminds me of that dimensional trip that dude made me take."

<Looks like it's made out of jello.>

Konall: "Yeah, I'm sure it was completely mandatory. Hippie."

Todd: "Who's a hippie? I'm a bard!"

Konall: "Oh, bard class. That's totally and completely different from a hippie. My mistake."

(In case you didn't notice, heavy sarcasm.)

Becky: "Konall, why you sarcasm'ing? Is it cause you're 'fraid?"

<Todd Growls> "Listen fatso..."

<Spaz is bumping every single block and picking up the shiny things that fall out.>

<Becky runs off.>

Becky: "Save some for me!"

<Becky runs randomly through the grass and manages to pick up a few crystal things.>

<Todd listens to the theme for a while- then unslings his guitar and starts to accompany it.>

<A hippie shaman woman sees a group of people show up nearby, maybe 200 feet away.>

<Konall looks at her.>

<Todd tries to add words- but shakes his head after one attempt> "Nah.. too corny."

Becky: "Todd, words are lalala!"

Konall: "Hey, she's not pixilated. Who are you."

<You see her; a hippy with really long hair that is probably blond but you can't tell because it is so dirty. She is wearing animal skins only around her private areas and is looking like you like you are crazy.>

<A small, ADD demon flies over to the hippie, circles around her several times, sniffs her, and backs away.>

Todd: "Now THAT's a hippy man!"

Becky: "You iz need bath?!"

Strange hippie: "Cute little thing!" <She walks over to the ADD demon.>

<Todd's nose wrinkles and his eyes water- no backing away for a fox.>

Strange hippie: "What is bath?"

Becky: "It's where you get clean and you play with bath toys and and and.."

<Becky runs around in a circle excited.>

Konall: "It's a horrible experience, but it's sometimes a necessary evil."

Strange hippie: "What's clean?"

<The amorphous blob edges closer to the hippie.>

<After looking at her for several minutes, you decide her hair is actually blond.>

Todd <Holds nose> "Th' oppzit uf you.. i tink."

<The stranger pokes the amorphous blob.>

<The hippie's finger goes through it, and gets burned a bit by the acid and digestive juices inside. It opens its mouth and tries to swallow the hippie.>

<Becky blasts an ice ray at it!>

Hippie: "OUCH!" <Hippie pulls hand out.>

Todd: "Get back from there, miss!" <Todd forgets the stench as he readies to play.>

<Konall runs over to it and smashes it with his warhammer. It splits into two smaller enemies.>

<Okay, first, the ice ray hits it and freezes it, then Konall hits it.>

<The two sub-blobs are moving slowly, but making their way toward the hippie.>

<The hippie backs away from the blobs.>

(Spaz boosts everyone's monster slaying ability.)

<Yes- Todd first breaks into Beastly Bello to help the guys- and himself do better.>

Note: Beastly Bellow: (level 0) boosts stats of all familiars, summoned creatures, and animal-like monsters in area.

(Yeah. Level 1 spell, lose 1 energy. Level 0 spell, no energy loss. Only AT's have level 1 spells.)

<Todd, Spaz, and any other familiars get a +3 to their main stat.>

<The hippie blasts one of the blobs with wind magic, blowing it into a block. A mushroom pops out.>

<Konall throws a pair of hatchets and obliterates the blob the hippie blew away.>

<The last blob comes toward Becky.>

Becky: "Hi! Stay away!"

<The blob seems not to be listening.>

Becky: "Kay, you must be warm. I help!"

<Becky throws some ice magic at it!>

<Spaz pokes the blob. It gets slightly bigger and seems to be moving a bit quicker.>

<The blob starts to grow icicles inside it, which puncture through it and cause it to die.>

Todd: "Becky!" <Rams into a Death Metal solo aimed at the blob.>

<The mushroom person looks at you and blinks a few times.>

Becky: "Maybe it just wants jelly bean?"

<The blob is dead.>

<The mushroom girl that popped out of one of the blocks screams, "BADGERS!" and starts running away.>

Becky: "How come Clown King sent us here?"

Konall: "Because he's insane?"

<Becky giggles.>

Becky: "No wait, that's... bad right?"

<The mushroom girl runs into the distance.>

Todd: "Bad for us if he chose to send us here I think."

Konall: "Maybe he just wanted to trap us here forever."

Becky: "Oh, maybe he wants us to win!"

<Todd smirks>

Todd: "And that's good how?"

<Becky looks down at her feet, shyly.>

Becky: "Uh.. I like to win, I guess.. nevermind, it's silly."

Todd: "Didn't mean you sweets- was talking to the walking larder over there."

Spaz: "She moves fast. I wonder where the BADGERS are? Which do you like better, alpacas or llamas?"

Konall: "Hey, it's muscle."

Becky: "I bet we better get hurrying, what if there's a timer?!"

<Konall gets a irked and smashes a block.>

(Awakensun? She ran off in the other direction.)

Becky: "I read about it in a transdimensional theories and hypothetical principles class!"

Konall: "Oh. What'd you learn?"

Becky: "Ahh, lots of things.. like .. oh what'd they say? 'Foreign beings can only exist in any given zone of an 'eight bit' period for a set amount of time before the world rejects their bodies and they suffer dimensional affliction, and possibly death. This theory is scientifically unproven, however.' It mean you get hurt, OW OW OW if you don't hurry! But only maybe."

<Becky holds her tummy in mock pain to illustrate the point.>

<Becky looks down, worried she'd said something stupid.>

Konall: "Hmm... Well, let's see about getting out of here. There must be a town nearby."

Todd: "All right. I vote we follow the mushroom chick."

Konall: "I agree. Spaz, try to track her."

Becky: "What bout the wind hippie?"

Todd: "She'll be easy to track anytime we want." <Wrinkles his nose again> "I can track her right now- if I wanted."

Konall: "Kadlin always said that if two people are fated to be together, through love or friendship, then fate won't give up easily. No idea what it means."

Becky: "I think it means.. we gotta find mushroom girl then wind hippie?" I iz right or wrong?"

Konall: "Sure."

<Becky creates a tiny snowball and plays with it as the group walks off.>

Becky: "Ahh, them holes in the ground scare me!"

Todd: "Holes shouldn't scare you- what's in them should."

<You walk for a ways, coming to a cave. Mushroom tracks lead into it.>

<Todd moves as close to the entrance as he dare- and sniffs.>

<Stale air blows out of it. And you smell... guano?>

Becky: "Oh, pottery class, yay!"

Todd: "Dunno... These aren't our kind of bats, babe."

<Konall walks in. It's dark, and you can't see.>

Becky: "How come I can't see?!"

Todd: "Cause we're blind as a bat in here. Correction. The bats can see perfectly fine."

<Becky giggles.>

<Something squeaky is surrounding you.>

Becky: "I think if Kadlin was here, she'd turn us all into bats!"

<Spaz conjures a candle-sized flame.>

<You are inside a massive cavern, walking along a narrow rock ledge. Keeses, which are basically bats, are flying around.>

<One wrong step and you'll fall off into a bottomless pit.>

Todd: "Neat trick little dude."

Becky: "Not sure if like.."

<The keeses are swooping in to attack. They don't like you.>

<Todd tail frizzes a second, but gets his cool back together.>

Becky: "Kay, guard the Becky, got an idea!"

<Becky starts preparing a winter storm, holding her ice yeti overhead.>

<Konall gets in front of her and blocks several Keeses with his shield. His spiked shield.>

<Todd smirks.> "Hold your ears!" <Begins a Random Rhapsody of Racket.>

<The Keeses have very good hearing. They're in mild pain, and most of them fly away.>

<Todd looks at the rest, tail swishing> "Ready for the second verse?"

<The three remaining Keeses are circling around for another hit. Spaz stabs one.>

(The lights go out.)

<Becky raises her hands up, and a small ice storm appears, attacking any of the enemies!>

<Becky aims for the squeaking in the dark and manages to hit one of them, but misses the other. It swoops in and slams into the spikes on Konall's shield.>

<Spaz lights up the cave again. No enemies remain.>

Becky: "We winned!"

(Do we have to stand still and dance while music plays?)

(Hmm - no.)

(Shoot.)

(That's Final Fantasy. This is Mario. Sorry.)

(Just kidding, this is a totally original idea, only meant to pay homage to the great 8 bit era. Please don't sue.)

That was a hell of an opening, and we've got more ahead!