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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:17 am

"Now can we run!?" Miriam asks, having let go of the shifting mass of two-headed oger at some point.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Will » Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:21 am

"Noooo, you've got to go through the machine from the beginning, or it doesn't work right!" answered the wrong person.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:54 am

"Yes, we can bloody well run now," Sam nods, aiming to bull past anyone or anything in her way as they hurry out.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Narrator » Fri Feb 14, 2025 3:43 am

Ignoring the protests of the Will left behind jammed in the conveyor belt, as well as the mysterious blowers and pumps at the end of the line that would have awaited them after all the smashing and crushing, Sam and Miriam dashed to the end of the corridor. A couple robotic arms, flashing with red lights on them, tried to grab at them, but Sam was able to smash them away fairly easily, getting more and more adept at using her new bulk with each passing step. They reached the doors at the end, which opened up into another hallway -- left leading them further inside the building, right leading outside.

They should decide quickly, because from the clattering of hoofbeats behind them, it sounded like the faun had finally gotten himself free and was hustling after them.

"Left!" the ogre head on Sam's side shouted.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:42 pm

"Right it is then." Miriam decides, wasting no time and rushing for the path leading them outside.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Feb 14, 2025 3:52 pm

"Aye, don't think this one's being helpful," she grumbles, glaring sidelong at the ogre as she follows Miria.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Fri Feb 14, 2025 4:23 pm

The ogre glared back. "Wyll know way around town! Stupid talkers no listen to Wyll, get lost."

The right door led them outside, where they could shut the door behind them. They'd probably have to motor a little bit so that they weren't standing, like, right outside the door in case the faun decided that was the best direction to look for them, but their options were aplenty here, back out in the rather pleasant open air.

This was some sort of side exit, with the central fancy building now directly behind them, back the way they came. Roads and alleys spoked off in a number of different directions through what was mostly an urban environment -- a bunch of different urban environments, maybe, but the general theme of the mishmash of structures here were a very downtown city center sort of vibe. A handful of Wills were poking around, sweeping the sidewalk or having a snack or stretching out on the grass. Still not nearly as busy as it 'should' be, with plenty of stores closed up or otherwise empty, but it's not like they were alone.

And no one else was trying to chase them down -- it's not like they had tripped some sort of broad, general alarm. What was it the girl had said? They had always been allowed to be here? It was just the party who had come with them on the bus that seemed concerned, at least for now.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Fri Feb 14, 2025 4:44 pm

"It's less your expertise and more your motivations I don't trust." Miriam informs the ogre. "But sure, why don't you tell us how we'd go about getting out of this place for now?"
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Fri Feb 14, 2025 4:57 pm

"You would know if you had just let them smash you," Wyll scoffed. "Then you know all Wyll knows, and you know exactly which doors and manholes and windows lead where. Wouldn't need to look for random holes in road or taped off areas."

She reached back with her limited control of their arm to scratch herself defiantly.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Feb 14, 2025 5:00 pm

"So you're not feeling charitable at the moment. Bloody hell."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Fri Feb 14, 2025 5:11 pm

Wyll belched a little in Sam's face in response.

"Wyll is no chair OR table. Wyll is ogre, strong and proud. You want get caught? Keep standing here, you will see."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Fri Feb 14, 2025 5:18 pm

"Well unfortunately the only knowledge I was in the bloody splash-zone for was making pastries for boring idiots. That way, I guess." Miriam decides in a random direction leading away from the central processing plant. "Maybe we can find a glass elevator or a plane or something."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Feb 14, 2025 5:22 pm

"Keep moving it is then," Sam says, heading the way Miriam indicated, keeping a side-eye to other streets and alleyways.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Fri Feb 14, 2025 5:46 pm

It's a pleasant little walk, even if there are too many little cafes and delis for a block. One day, they must ask what Will's obsession with food is. But there were bookstores and clothing boutiques and a blacksmith and some kind of futuristic electronics shop. The housing prices here must be insane. Some of the Wills waved at them, smiling from their shops or passing them on the street, inviting them in as they continued on.

Other streets did occasionally branch off and cross, bright and well-lit. While stoplights and pedestrian control ticked as normal, the near-complete lack of traffic meant that it was all very much unnecessary. The alleyways were darker and spookier, with smoke and mist drifting out of them, whether it made sense or not -- thematically appropriate, one supposed. Were they safe? Was there crime here? What does crime look like here?

Every now and again, the trio would see some yellow-and-black sticky tape blocking off....something. ON a couple occasions, it was a door to a blank shop, or a side-door in an alley. Othertimes, it was a manhole cover on the street. Or a container of some type, sealed shut -- a trough in a blacksmith's shop or a crate in a storage room.


Wyll, clearly bored a little, was humming off-key. She drooled a little bit at some of the smells coming from the shops, and occasionally grabbed enough control over their shared body to wipe her mouth dry and brush it off on their shirt. She would also occasionally have enough control over where they were going to drift their shared body towards one of the shops, requiring Sam to semi-regularly have to course correct.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Feb 14, 2025 6:17 pm

"Seems like a work in progress," she says, steering their body back toward Miriam for the umpteenth time.

"Then again, they did say they were still mapping it out."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Fri Feb 14, 2025 6:57 pm

"Lots of holes," Wyll agreed. "Need to move them to a better place. Not my job."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Sat Feb 15, 2025 8:03 am

"Okay, maybe we should just pick one of these empty houses and try to figure out how to peel you off of that slab of beef. Less likely to find us to try and shove us under the steamroller if we're off the proverbial map."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Sat Feb 15, 2025 7:06 pm

Miriam Bell wrote:"Okay, maybe we should just pick one of these empty houses and try to figure out how to peel you off of that slab of beef. Less likely to find us to try and shove us under the steamroller if we're off the proverbial map."


"Could just pop head like pimple," Wyll grinned. "Red hair no work well with complexion."

She reached up one arm to tug at Sam's hair.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:29 pm

"Watch yourself," Sam growls at the ogre, before steering their body toward an empty storefront.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Mon Feb 17, 2025 7:16 pm

"You hijack body, you no get say in what Wyll watches," the ogre growled back. "Needed second head like Wyll needed another pair of legs."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Mon Feb 17, 2025 11:59 pm

"So an... average amount? This metaphor tells me nothing." Miriam dismisses the ogre as they head into what she presumes is an empty store.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Narrator » Tue Feb 18, 2025 11:30 am

Rather than pick an actual empty storefront, Miriam had selected one of the doors with yellow-and-black sticky tape blocking it off. Perhaps she was overly distracted by Sam's hulking form, or by the various whimsy that was going on around them, but whatever the reason, that's the door she chose to go through...

There's a weird sensation as they pass through the doorway -- a tingling up and down the spine and a sense of disorientation as their footing vanishes in front of them. Rather than step through a doorway, the trio would find themselves climbing out of some sort of trough? A trough filled with murky grey mud which slid off of them as they clambored out, finding themselves on a star floor in a some kind of dark...shed? Hut? Certainly, not the smart empty shop they had hoped to climb through.

Miriam found herself wearing a simple, practical dress -- coarse-woven wool, dyed an earthy brown. The bodice was laced up the front, snugly fitting and showing off her assets, while a white chemise peaked out from underneath. Her skirt reached her ankles, patched in places from wear and tear, with a sturdy apron tied about her waist. A simple cloth headscarf wrapped around her head, completing her look -- a look, from the mirror she could see in front of her, wasn't quite right. She looked Miriam-adjacent, but the shape of the nose was wrong; the hair and eye color wasn't quite there and she had never had that hair style in her life.

Sam was still a hulking nine-foot tall musclewoman with two heads, which probably would draw attention. But she was in a fine woolen dress herself, this one dyed a deep green, with more embroidery around the neckline and cuffs than Miriam had. Her sleeves were fitted over her massive arms, with a slight puff at the shoulders. A dark blue overdress, with a braided belt, added to the look. She had a patterned kerchief covering her hair, while Wyll's raven locks were tied in a loose braid down their back. Wyll's appearance hadn't changed much at all. Sam, like Miriam, was slightly off, but closer to how she viewed her 'normal' self.

They were breathing again, which felt a little weird after having been in the clay for some time. But their bodies would still feel slightly off, and, if they concentrated, they could find themselves leaving fingerprints in their flesh -- they appeared to still be made of clay, just the more human-faking version that Will normally wore out and about?

The smell of roast meat and the bustle of town could be heard outside the shed. Peaking through the door to the outside, they could see some sort of medieval town square -- something right out of Robin Hood or Merlin or something, with peasants wandering around going about their business. It smelled good enough that Wyll was drooling on their shared dress, and their stomach was growling.

This must be one of the portals to other worlds the Wills were talking about. I mean, obviously.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:24 pm

"Seems this place really is a bit unstable," she says warily, looking around.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Tue Feb 18, 2025 5:28 pm

This was some kind of...utility shack? Some wooden barrels and crates, rope and twine, some clay pots. Hay and grain, some dried peat -- dung, perhaps -- a stack of firewood, an axe for cutting down said firewood. Maybe it wouldn't make Britian's 1,000 Most Interesting Shacks, though I suppose the fact that it was not in their own universe upped it's interest at least a little bit.

"'This place' seems stable enough," Wyll corrected. "Seems like quiet town. We can go through door, smash people in our way, and get to that roast goose. From there, improvise."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:04 pm

"What the bloody hell?" Miriam burst out after a moment of stunned silence. Then she spins around and starts grabbing things, first trying to smoosh them to test for clay-iness, then smashing them on the ground. Finally she spins around to look at where they climbed out from. Which in and of itself is confusing because it's like she barely noticed a shift from stepping through a doorway to clambering up out of some kind of trough.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:11 pm

"I'm not sure we're in the cauldron anymore. We're definitely not anywhere we intended to wind up."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Narrator » Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:16 pm

Miriam Bell wrote:"What the bloody hell?" Miriam burst out after a moment of stunned silence. Then she spins around and starts grabbing things, first trying to smoosh them to test for clay-iness, then smashing them on the ground. Finally she spins around to look at where they climbed out from. Which in and of itself is confusing because it's like she barely noticed a shift from stepping through a doorway to clambering up out of some kind of trough.


The boxes and crates did not smoosh, much like one would expect out of something made of actual wood. The pot she smashed had a liquid with a honey-esque aroma, and also broke like a normal pot. Nothing here appeared to be made out of clay, with the possible exception of themselves.

The trough was what looked like a normal watering trough, filled with greyish mud -- maybe not quite as clean or as consistent as the cauldron's clay.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:17 pm

Samantha McManus wrote:"I'm not sure we're in the cauldron anymore. We're definitely not anywhere we intended to wind up."


"Cauldron just one exit. Safest exit; easiest to get back in. That's why taped off; dangerous to go here when no know where here is."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:46 pm

"The cauldron's a giant hole in the sky, this was a door! I hate Will-logic so much sometimes..."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:48 pm

"Well, that's just where they put the cauldron. It could be anywhere. But it seemed like that room was important, so it was put in an important place. We like looking up and seeing that room.

Plus, you need to reach in to pull out the Wills you want. That much easier from above than from snaking through a city. There, you would have to wait. Much more convenient to just reach in and pluck."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:55 pm

"Oh, now you're talkative."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:00 pm

"I figure one of us must be brains of outfit," Wyll said, punctuating that with a belch in Sam's face.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Wed Feb 19, 2025 2:52 pm

"Classy. Okay fine, so we just... need to crawl back into... this?" she nudges the trough with her foot.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Wed Feb 19, 2025 3:48 pm

"Maybe? Without it being properly connected, it crapshoot whether return to where you started or not. But since we know about clayverse, we probably be OK. Probably."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Feb 19, 2025 5:13 pm

"Honestly, what's the alternative? Exploring what may be an entire bloody world we weren't planning on visiting?"
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Wed Feb 19, 2025 6:20 pm

"Which is something that has begun happening to me with alarming frequency. Any suggestions on how to help this process along? Click my heels and think of home? Hold my breath and hope for the best?"
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Wyll » Wed Feb 19, 2025 6:23 pm

"I don't go places I not supposed to, so hard to be sure. Try to just know where you will end up, and trust the clay to carry you on."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Miriam Bell » Wed Feb 19, 2025 6:28 pm

Miriam shoots the ogre A Look of exasperation and pointedly steps into the trough, letting herself slowly sink into what is hopefully just clay.

"I know nothing about travelling dimensions but this is the least dignified way of doing it."
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Feb 19, 2025 6:31 pm

"Seems to always involve some... fluids," she mutters as she queues up.
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Re: We're Here To Talk About Your Car's Extended Warranty...

Postby Narrator » Wed Feb 19, 2025 6:52 pm

"When you become an inter-dimensional spanning being with connections to the fundamental forces of the universe, you can decide how that looks," the Ogre insisted.

It's a very similar feeling to sinking into the cauldron, except with more resistance -- they would actually bump into the bottom of the trough, as if it were actually there. It takes a bit of conscious effort to let themselves sink through, trusting that there was a world beyond it; letting their forms melt away and dissolve into the clay itself...

...until they staggered out the door and back onto the street.
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