>Kanaya: Confront Gelatinous Menace

[chastesaw]

*Truth be told, you do not CONFRONT anything.

In fact, you are quite happily minding your own business when you are suddenly swept up in the advance of a relentless, amorphous foe.

After a brief moment of struggle and panic, your most base fight-or-flight reflexes dull with the discovery that not only can you breathe in this sticky crimson abductor - if it can indeed be called that - but that it actually doesn't taste half bad when you try to consume it. It's kind of cherry-flavored.

Of course it is slimy and sticky and your outfit is ruined and you are covered in gel and being dragged Gog knows where.

The only solution is to find your nearest fellow captive and complain vigorously.*

Well.

This is unexpected.

And extremely adhesive.

Comments

[chastesaw]

...really? You have my condolences.

I've barely been trapped in this gelatinous construct for a microsweep and I'm already well and thoroughly tired of it.

[cacophonicsoul]

[... he didn't think she was going to take him seriously. might as well keep it up, see how long he can get away with this.]

Yeah, it really sucks. I mean you sit there minding your own business and the next thing you know you're stuck in some stupid cherry-flavored blob. I'm getting kind of sick of cherry, you know?

... wait, what's a microsweep?

[chastesaw]

Hm. You'd think that whatever sent this to wreak gooey havoc would at least have the decency to vary the flavor.

And a microsweep is, in approximation, roughly the length of one of your earth minutes. Perhaps slightly longer. *And yet, she looks fully human. Go figure.*

Ugh, I don't think I'll ever get this out of my hair.

[cacophonicsoul]

[staaaares]

You're not from earth? ... You look pretty human to me.

[chastesaw]

Oh, that's only temporary. At least, I hope it is. I should regain my original form at some point here.

But no, I am a troll from the planet Alternia. Hello.

[cacophonicsoul]

[His first instinct is to laugh. She was an alien? Really? Pffft. But he doesn't which is actually pretty impressive on his part. Soul hasn't been here too long, but he's been here long enough to know that he really has no reason to doubt her.]

Seriously? So what do you usually look like?

[chastesaw]

Similar to this, I suppose, but with darker hair, grayer skin, yellower eyes and blacker lips.

Oh, and horns. I have horns.

[cacophonicsoul]

Horns? Huh, that sounds kind of cool.

But man, that's gotta suck. Bad enough that you're stuck here, but it's an entirely different planet.

[chastesaw]

I find them very aesthetically pleasing, yes.

It's not so bad. We haven't been on Alternia in weeks. I find the entire experience rather intriguing, to be honest.

[cacophonicsoul]

Bit of culture shock I would think, yeah?

[chastesaw]

Considerably. We had observed humans for a short period of time before this, but experiencing it for yourself is something else entirely.

[cacophonicsoul]

[And suddenly he knows why she took him seriously about the blob thing.]

Ok, so I might end up sounding like a jackass, but... d'you know what sarcasm is?

[chastesaw]

*And Kanaya makes a frowny face.* Human insincerity-based humor. I've been trying to understand it more thoroughly, but... well, it is difficult when conversing with a new partner. It seems that every human has their own method of sarcasm, and each must be adapted to in turn.

[cacophonicsoul]

[Yeeeep. That's what he thought.]

Right, well, that thing I said earlier? About this blob thing happening all the time? I was being sarcastic.

[chastesaw]

Oh, I see. Yes, I'd thought that was odd, because this does seem a very inconvenient thing to occur on a regular basis.

Then you've never had it happen before?

[cacophonicsoul]

Inconvenient would be an understatement, but no, this has never happened. First time for everything, right? Here's hoping it never happens again.

[chastesaw]

Yes. I can agree with that sentiment entirely. I really would like to avoid further incidents like this.

[cacophonicsoul]

You and me both.

Name's Soul, by the way.

[chastesaw]

I'm Kanaya. Kanaya Maryam.

I think it might be prudent to try and affect an escape from here before it digests us or something else equally unpleasant.

[cacophonicsoul]

Kanaya, huh? Nice to meet you.

Yeaaah, I don't really want to be lunch for a blob of living jello. Short of eating our way out, I'm not sure how to get out of there though. If this stupid town hadn't taken away all of my abilities, this wouldn't be much of a problem. Could've just sliced our way out.

[chastesaw]

Well, I'm not entirely certain how effective laceration would be. It seems that we can move through its bulk via motions similar to swimming, though.

[cacophonicsoul]

Yeah? Well, better than just sitting here, I guess.

[chastesaw]

I don't intend to be surrounded by cherry gelatin any longer than is strictly necessary myself.