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[livinuptothename]

All this shit is pretty above my pay grade, so it's not like I'm speaking from experience here or anything, but it seems like we got a crazy ass mix of folks around here.  I don't think I've ever seen so many aliens in m life and I come from a world where those guys are all over the freakin' place.

Though I gotta say, it's freakin' weird to be around a bunch of people who've never heard of Kryptonians before. [Just.  Throwing that word out there.  Vaguely hopeful.]

Anyway.  It's late, I'm bored.  We've got a shit load of aliens and sword and sorcery types up in here.  Tell me somethin' good about your world.  Or tell me something shitty, we can swap horror stories.

[It's late at night, which means it's time for punks in masks asking bullshit questions on the network to keep themselves from broody navel gazing.  Not sleeping is kind of a thing for him, but this not brutalizing strangers who really deserve it thing is kinda new and borderline unpleasant.  Feel free to spot a brightly colored spot skulking around rooftops.]

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[foolish_seal]

Horror stories? Yeah, I could do a horror story.

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[livinuptothename]

Those always seem like the easiest ones to come up with.

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[falsehoods]

[It's a shadowed image and there's the sound of wind blowing.]

Was your world so horrible?

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[livinuptothename]

[ Yeah, that doesn't scream Stranger Danger in the slightest.]

Not so much the whole world, but Gotham might be up for debate.

[urnotafraid]

Grew up in a city ran by crime because the government thought it would be cool to remove the tax barriers, but I wouldn't call it much of a horror story.

[livinuptothename]

Not sure what a tax-barrier is, always figured crime-run cities were just. Every city.

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[payback]

They've got people from all different worlds and times fighting here... of course there's weirdoes.

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[livinuptothename]

I dunno if elves and shit are weirdoes. I mean, there's some aliens that are out there, but as long as they're on our side, right?

[whatsupcroc]

Once, in the mid 90's... they thought about canceling the X-Games before they ever got to national television.

( Spoiler: that was last year. )

[livinuptothename]

I don't even know what an Ex-Game is, man. I'm still back in the 80's.

[feyted]

Who are these Kryptonians you mention?

[livinuptothename]

Alien race. I'm kinda fuzzy on the details, but pretty sure their planet blew up and their survivors all somehow wound up on Earth.

Guess you never heard of Superman?

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[healplz]

You would do well to watch your language in this venue, Alfred. These broadcasts are accessible by all.

[ look he just can't resist ok, that was too many 'ass' and 'freakin's all in a row. ]

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[livinuptothename]

Aw, come on, that was practically pre-school stuff!

[Also it's weird to be called the name of the person who would usually scold him for his language.]

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[demonbloodblade]

[Meliantha pauses.]

For a time, I traveled with a group of adventurers. We were in the mountain pass town of Tilverton on the night of the full moon, when we heard singing. Not very good singing, but singing nonetheless. We learned that for the past twenty years or so, on nights of the full moon, the singing would occur, one kind of operatic piece or another.

The next day, we went up into the mountains to find out what was going on.

It turns out that Nagrama of the Black Lake, a feared lich - a wizard who uses terrible magics to turn himself into an undead creature - had been battling enemies and, rather than lose, teleported himself to one of his hiding places. Unfortunately, that hiding place had been destroyed in an avalanche and Nagrama teleported into a boulder, from the waist down. Being undead, this was not fatal, just... inconvenient.

It also was inconvenient that he - in fact no one - had ever explored the question 'if my legs are trapped in a boulder, what is a reasonable way to get out of it'. He feared all sorts of possible problems, including the loss of the parts of his body stuck in the rock, and fretted about it. For almost ten years. Liches do not sleep, or eat, or rest at all. He just was there worrying... and then he went mad.

He believed that he was an opera singer, and that the full moon was his spotlight, so on nights of the full moon he would perform various pieces for the audience - the trees and animals and even down into the towns below.

We ended his suffering, relieved his madness, and ended his existence, and in the end he was glad of it - his last words to us were that he was pleased to no longer feel unnaturally sustained and without pleasure.

It came to me, a few years ago, that a few months after we destroyed him, the singing returned to Tilverton, but much better. I do not know that story, but I hope that he escaped damnation by accepting his end, and he is now serving his repentence with song.

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[livinuptothename]

Damn... I don't have anything to top that.

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[sithiche]

My world is a horror story.


[ Fourth walling? No, never. ]

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[livinuptothename]

Oh yeah? Is your nextdoor neighbor Frankenstein or something?

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[musclebeast]

D --> My world was e%tremely e%quisite and positively breathtaking with it's endless seas and majestic hoofbeasts roaming across it's wide, rolling plains

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[livinuptothename]

[Okay, that's going to take him a few minutes to translate.]

Sounds like a real gas. What's a hoofbeast?

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[hostage]

My world's just... normal. But you kinda knew that, huh.

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[livinuptothename]

Who even knows what normal is, man. But yeah, I get ya.

...You holdin' up okay?

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[celestial_wizard]

I think there are more good things in my world than bad, so I'll tell you the good.

On my world, Magnolia is home to several magic guilds in which there are lots and lots of wizards with different types of magics. My guild, Fairy Tail, is one of the most rambunctious, crazy guilds in Fiore. But it also has the most dedicated and loving people I've ever met.

Everyone there believes in living life to the fullest - and it seems sometimes they look for any excuse to have a party. [ Hee. ]

Ah, and I couldn't mention the good things without mentioning my spirits - they're some of my dearest friends too.

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[livinuptothename]

[Her good mood is kind of infectious and Jason grins.]

Sounds like a real blast. What are spirits?

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[asskickersunite]

There are volcanoes that spew out liquid chrome, Heavy Metal can do awesome shit, and there are hot chicks everywhere, too.

The horror part? Freaky BDSM demons, unless you're into that sort of thing.

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[livinuptothename]

I'll have to get back to you on that one, dude.

Your planet is seriously called Heavy Metal?

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[standup_for_justice]

My home city's really pretty. The central streets are arranged to make the world's largest protective circle, too.

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[livinuptothename]

Gotta say, I'm kinda jealous. My city's not either of those.

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[gamora]

So what? Most of the people here haven't heard of the Kree.

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[livinuptothename]

Yeah, but it feels kinda weird, doesn't it?

[kneecaptain]

You don't want my horror stories, kid.

[ And there is your grumpy brooding sentence of the day. ]

But I like the Dodgers. You got baseball, where you're from?

[livinuptothename]

Hey, I don't sleep anyway, I could use a good scare.

Yeah, of course. We got two teams in Gotham, probably because one of 'em's shit.

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[bratworth]

These 'Kryptonians' are a different species of aliens, are they?

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[livinuptothename]

Yup. Probably the most human lookin' kind of alien you'll ever meet.

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[heired]

I have found myself unfamiliar with many of the non-human species represented in this place.

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[livinuptothename]

Yeah, I remember you talking about those big things you guys ride back home. This place must be a headtrip for ya.

[grayatonement]

One man in my world destroyed New York City, killing .07% of the world's population. Would have, if not for the painter. Mendez's warning of the future, his visions.. they stopped it from happening in my timeline. There was another who wasn't so lucky.

[livinuptothename]

Hate that different timeline bullshit. Nothin' good ever comes of it.

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[minded]

Does that really surprise you? The Kryptonian thing.

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[livinuptothename]

Not exactly. I mean, it's a different dimension, so it kinda figures it wouldn't have it's own Super-people. Or maybe it would, but I dunno. Evil.

Which would suck.