[S] Avispa: Alchemize

[apiarycryptonaut]

You resume being AVISPA KUSBIR.

You are ridiculously happy with the loot that you've alchemized so far, and are in the process of alchemizing right this instant! But given that you just did something that you're incredibly proud of, you couldn't help yourself from telling, well, EVERYONE.

Previously, you had alchemized four of your STILETTOS into two DOUBLE STILETTOS, and then turned those into your new 4-POINT SHURIKEN. It was a great weapon! You also alchemized the REBELLION DRESS and the RUBIK'S SPIRAL CHALLENGE for your own entertainment. That was the first four! Now, you've finished two of your next four and, though you got distracted, have two more to go. Already finished is your new weapon, the CRYSTAL CROSS, and your new HUSKTOP SHADES. Now you can tell Durian you absolutely can't drop your husktop again; even if you still use the normal husktop.

But, really, now you're just distracted. Because you decided to use the code to alchemize a certain player's SEVERED HEAD. You had alchemized one, and then another, and then two more. With FOUR HEADS laying around, you knew what you had to do. Now, of course, you have three heads and one skull sitting behind you.

And that's where you are now. You've started up a video to tell someone that you got a new skull, but you can't decide on who... so you just decide to TELL EVERYONE.

Of course, you're still COVERED IN PURPLE BLOOD and there are THREE HEADS and ONE SKULL sitting behind you, and your NEW WEAPON is sitting beside you... But none of this dawns on you, you're just excited about the skull! Video, go!



--apiaryCryptonaut [AC] RIGHT NOW opened memo SKULL!!!!--

AC: Everyone everyone everyone everyone!!!!
AC: I did it, yes!
AC: I figured it out... 4nd got the skull, yes!
AC: It's right here, see?
AC: 4nd I c4n get... three more, so, four!
AC: Four skulls, yes, 4m4zing!
AC: You c4n do 4nything... using 4lchemizing, I think!
AC: If you h4ven't tried... to 4lchmize yet, you... should try it, yes!
AC: I m4de other things... too, yes, so everyone... should 4lchemize 4 lot!
AC: It's just so so... so so exciting, yes!!!!

Comments

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, yes I did... one 4t 4 time!
4nd oh yes, yes... yes yes everyone should... 4lchemize everything, 4bsolutely, yes!
There 4re so m4ny... possibilities 4nd options, 4bsolutely!
Will you sh4re wh4t... you 4lchemize too, m4ybe?

[callouslystalwart]

Well, it's not a skull... ~~CS

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, it isn't, m4ybe?
Wh4t is it, Perrix?
Or, um, m4ybe I... should 4lchemize it soon?
Is it 4 puzzle?

[callouslystalwart]

Yes! ~~CS
There's a trick to it, if you study it enough. ~~CS

[apiarycryptonaut]

Wh4t kind of trick????

You're going to alchemize it in just a moment, probably right after Perrix responds again.

[flowerwhisperer]

... ... ...

All this talk about skulls and crushing is making you REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE, as well as vaguely reminding you of CERTAIN EXPERIENCES, and for once you just decide to not say anything.

In fact you are going to stand up and walk away until you calm down more.

[ataraxicarcher]

You're getting messaged by this lunatic? This is ne-Welp. Looks like crazy alien girl just got into a fucking train-wreck with a vat of dye or something.

What the fuck?

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh no, not her again. Why did you include her? You hadn't even thought about it! Maybe... Just maybe, it won't be bad!

Wh4t is it, m4ybe.

[soundtricks]

You find yourself DEEPLY (though not really) CONFLICTED. On the one hand, Komesh's severed head means he's dead, somehow. On the other hand, it means YOU weren't the one to KILL HIM.

Furthermore, the fact that it's Avispa that has it gives you a little HOPE for the other girl's ability to actually survive. That is, presuming she retrieved the head herself.

hey Kusbir
where the hell'd you get that head♫

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, look, it's Zurahe! You can't wait to tell her all about the new skulls!

Oh, hello Zur4he, hello!
I got it from... Komesh, yes, I did!

[artful_transgressor]

AT: what
AT: the FUCK
AT: is wrong with you

You have not been paying much attention to basically anything outside of your own activities for some time. This was not an opportune moment to step back into things.

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, look, you've never spoken to this player before! You wonder which team they're on?

AC: Oh, hello hello hello... hello there, I think!
AC: I h4ven't seen you... before, I think, no.
AC: 4nd um, oh, w4it... why would something be... wrong with me, m4ybe?
AC: I me4n, um, Zur4he... s4id I w4s weird... but I don't think... th4t's 4 "wrong" thing?
AC: 4nd, then, um, th4t's...
AC: I missed something, m4ybe?

[artful_transgressor]

AT: yeah
AT: like maybe the fact that youre coVered in blood
AT: or the seVered heads
AT: whateVer lunatic spree you just went on you kinda missed the cleanup part
AT: unless you just meant for all that to be there in which case
AT: good job i guess you complete fucking psycho
AT: but yeah as far as there being something massiVely wrong with you
AT: the seVered heads make a great case
AT: like thats it
AT: theres my eVidence
AT: the prosecution fucking rests
AT: case closed

[apiarycryptonaut]

AC: Oh th4t, um, w4it... prosecution, um, huh, wh4t?
AC: No um, the he4ds... 4re very good, m4ybe!
AC: Without them I c4n't... get the skulls, no.
AC: 4nd th4t's why I... h4ve four of them!
AC: So I c4n h4ve... four more skulls, y4y... four new skulls, yes!
AC: I w4nted to tell... everyone, but, oh, um... is there re4lly th4t... much blood, m4ybe, yes?
AC: I didn't me4n to... drop one before, no.
AC: It just h4ppened, m4ybe.
AC: But I didn't drop... the second one, y4y!
AC: I think if I... h4d 4lchemized the bodies... too, it would've been... even more messy, m4ybe.
AC: 4nd th4t would've been... very very very very... b4d I think, 4bsolutely.

[artful_transgressor]

AT: damn
AT: psychotic and articulate
AT: weVe got a winner here folks
AT: okay lets take this one step at a time
AT: since you seem to be freefalling down the eleVator shaft of ignorance
AT: you
AT: are surrounded
AT: by bloody seVered heads
AT: youre soaked in blood
AT: youre broadcasting this image to eVerybody
AT: think REALLY HARD
AT: WHY WOULD THIS BE FUCKING DISTURBING
AT: heres a hint
AT: free of charge
AT: some of us are still attached to our heads
AT: figuratiVely and literally
AT: skulls and all
AT: why do you eVen need the skulls anyway
AT: are you making a throne

[apiarycryptonaut]

AC: But he w4sn't using... th4t he4d 4t 4ll.
AC: He w4s the one... who g4ve me his... he4d to use, um.
AC: Um um um um... 4lso do you h4ve... 4 n4me m4ybe, I... don't w4nt to c4ll... you "um", I think.
AC: 4nd oh, the skulls!
AC: I re4lly like skulls!
AC: 4nd um, some of... my skulls from before... broke, 4nd I don't... h4ve 4ny skulls like... these ones 4t 4ll!
AC: But now I do!

[artful_transgressor]

AT: he what now
AT: okay
AT: first things first
AT: theres something wrong with BOTH of you
AT: second things second
AT: how the fuck is he still aliVe if his head is right there
AT: like
AT: four times oVer?
AT: what the fuck eVen i just noticed its the same goddamn head
AT: last things last but most definitely not least
AT: NO ONE BUT YOU AND HIM FUCKING KNEW YOU DIDNT RIP HIS HEAD RIGHT THE FUCK OFF HIS GUSHING NECK STUMP
AT: so maybe PREFACING your post with that information might haVe been the yknow
AT: intelligent
AT: sane
AT: TOP FUCKING PRIORITY OF ANYONE WITH SENSE
AT: i loVe that i actually haVe to EXPLAIN THIS
AT: how can i literally be playing a game with our liVes in the balance with people this dense
AT: i almost forgot why aVoiding socializing with you people was a good idea
AT: eVery time i talk to someone its like the Voice of the uniVerse itself booming from on high
AT: telling me to just snap my own spine now
AT: so i can bend oVer far enough to kiss my own ass goodbye
AT: but you know what fuck it
AT: yeah thats great
AT: your skull collection has expanded im super fucking happy for you

AT: also normally id be way too fucking disillusioned with life at this point to just toss my name out there
AT: but anything to make you sound less like your train of thought is derailing eVery three seconds would be a fucking mercy at this point
AT: so its lyn
AT: no alterations or substitutions accepted

[apiarycryptonaut]

AC: Oh, I didn't think... 4bout th4t, m4ybe, I... thought everyone knew, m4ybe?
AC: He s4id he h4d... 4 de4d himself l4ying... ne4rby, m4ybe, I think?
AC: 4nd since the other... him w4s de4d, he... w4sn't using the he4d!
AC: It's e4sy to 4lchmize... 4ctu4lly, so I m4de... four of them, yes.
AC: So, um, th4t's, um.
AC: ... ... ... ...

AC: Oh! Lyn, y4y, yes!
AC: It's nice to meet... you, Lyn, it is!
AC: I'm 4visp4, hello, yes.
AC: You don't h4ve to... 4void 4nyone, I promise!

[defensivealchemist]

ye5
thi5 i5 what ive 6een 5aying!
you can do anything with alchemizing
the only limit i5 our5elve5
=:D
6y the way
it5 a lot ea5ier to keep 6lood contained if you do that 5ort of thing in a 6ath tu6
plu5 that give5 6onu5 ea5y acce55 to Po5t Procedure Clean Up
unle55 you meant to take up interior decorating

[apiarycryptonaut]

4lchemizing is 4 lot... of fun 4nd it's... re4lly useful, I think!
I'm going to 4lchemize... everything I c4n, yes!

4nd um, I don't... h4ve 4 b4th tub... 4nywhere ne4rby, m4ybe, no.
I c4n cle4n this... up e4sily, I think.

[defensivealchemist]

it i5 po55i6ly the mo5t u5eful thing
with the 5eemingly infinite 5upply of imp5
we can do anything
we can make anything

we11 it5 too late for the tu6
youve already got that me55 everywhere
the tu6 i5 only u5eful at the 6eginning of 5uch a proce55

[artful_transgressor]

AT: giVe me one good reason why eVeryone would haVe known that
AT: also how does he eVen have a dead him just lying around
AT: ...wait
AT: is he a Time player

AT: aVispa
AT: yeah okay
AT: and i wasnt strictly aVoiding people because all my fellow players seem to be screaming idiots and or lunatics
AT: not that it isnt a damn good reason
AT: but in my experience id neVer talk to anybody if stupidity and crazy were legitimate social obstacles
AT: anyway
AT: iVe been busy
AT: with a lot of shit

[apiarycryptonaut]

AC: Oh, yes, I think!
AC: I think he's the... Prince of Time, m4ybe!
AC: We h4ve 4 prince... in the g4me, wow!
AC: Well, multiple princes, yes.

AC: Wh4t h4ve you been... busy doing m4ybe, Lyn?
AC: 4lchemizing too, m4ybe, yes????
AC: I hope you were... 4lchemizing things, yes, m4ybe!
AC: 4nd not dying, yes.
AC: Th4t p4rt is very... very very very import4nt!
AC: You're not 4llowed to... die, ok4y, Lyn, yes!

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, yes, there 4re... 4 lot of imps.
Do you re4lly think... they could be infinite?
Th4t would be sc4ry!
But infinite grist, wow.
Th4t would be very... very very very useful!

Oh, ok4y, um, I... don't think I'll ever... re4lly need one, m4ybe?
The import4nt thing is... the skull, it is!

[artful_transgressor]

AT: ugh
AT: great
AT: my sprites been telling me all about this aspect
AT: and about how it inVolVes getting fucked oVer by the session eVen harder than most do
AT: so a guy with a cooler title than me is already racking up dead selVes from presumably another timeline or time loop
AT: fanfuckingtastic
AT: this bodes so well for my future

AT: iVe been making lots of shit yeah
AT: and killing all the imps i can find
AT: fuckers are goddamn elusiVe
AT: my asshole ancestor somehow managed to not just surViVe for way longer than should eVer haVe been eVen remotely possible
AT: but prototype himself just before i entered
AT: and he has the same psionic abilities as me
AT: so the motherfucking imps are goddamn inVisible half the time
AT: which makes grinding for grist a huge fucking pain in the waste chute let me tell you
AT: but i think iVe finally got all the gear worth making outta what iVe got on me at the moment
AT: but iVe also been dealing with the fucking fallout from my aspect
AT: which has also been a barrel of laughs

AT: also
AT: in case you haVent worked this out yet
AT: and i wouldnt be at all surprised if you hadnt
AT: despite the copious hints
AT: im a time player too
AT: rogue of time
AT: and time players tend to die a lot
AT: through time loops or Various other time shenanigans
AT: so my sprite tells me being the cheery helpful fuckass that he is
AT: by which i mean he is the exact opposite of any of those things
AT: except for the fuckass part he is one of those down to the bone
AT: forbidding me from dying is probably like forbidding a seadweller to drink water