TEAM YZMA LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM YZMA

READY: START Team Yzma roster: Carmen Sandiego, Dave Strider, Elizabeth, Emil Vasterstrom, Juzo Sakakura, Lucy/Kaede, Penelo, Seto Kaiba, Shouto Todoroki, Souji Seta, Yato. The city's been under siege for what feels like hours. It's only on August 3rd that you learn it's been a matter of days. Monsters begin pulling Retrospec users through portals left and right, large gaping holes in reality that spit you out in any given location around the city. However, just as you think you're finally getting away, a large blue portal opens and you're snatched up. No amount of fighting and struggling will free you and soon the pressure is too great to ignore. Darkness fills your vision and the last thing you may remember is the sound of thunder... This is the Team Yzma Event Log. You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions & Participation Reporting. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links; the moderators will try to keep up with threads, but as we are currently running several teams with participation, we require you to keep us up to date! Please read each of the toplevels and instructions! The schedule for Team Yzma is as follows: 3RD: Objective 1 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 1 part two 10TH: Objective 1 closes (8PM EST), Objective 2 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 2 Part 2 17TH: Objective 2 closes (8PM EST), Objective 3 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 3 Part Two 24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST) Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work.

Comments

[recollecters]

[Congratulations, you guys made...

...blue. It's now a blue beaker. What happens next? It looks pretty harmless and there's no smoke or steam or anything wafting off of it.]

[parodeity]

Brew blue?

[ dave will reach out and take the beaker. WHY NOT. ]

[recollecters]

[I hope Carmen is good at catching things, because as soon as Dave sloshes the liquid, a puff of smoke explodes in his face and he shrinks down in size. Somehow, the shades also stay on.]

[doitrockapella]

[Are you kidding, she's a master of quick reflexes and quicker grabs.

...Though I suppose that begs the question of whether she's in danger, too, if she grabs the beaker and sloshes it herself.

IS SHE CATCHING DAVE OR IS SHE CATCHING THE BEAKER, IS THE REAL QUESTION]

[recollecters]

[Surprisingly, no, she's not in danger. So like. Lady's choice ig

[doitrockapella]

[Okay well no offense but cats land on their feet and that beaker looks like it might be glass so let's just grab the beaker and fuss over Dave in the aftermath.]

...Dave?

[parodeity]

[ DAVE CONCURS, landing fairly gracefully and then just.

...

well this is a thing that is happening? ]

Dude. [ >[ ] Well, we still got the thing. Uh, I am pretty sure I can still get us back across the thing even like this but what the heck.

[ he should be m ore worried maybe but honestly at this point he's too homestuck to do more than go "why - yeah whatever" ]

[doitrockapella]

...You can talk.

[What on earth.]

You're a cat...!

[...oh my god she has a plucky animal companion THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF HER LIFE

and really it looks as though she wants to dwell a little more on the utter implausibility of this but you know what, she's already been shoved into hammerspace today and now Dave is a cat and there will be time to object to all of this later, probably.]

Let's look around for an alternative, first. It looked like there was fur on the table over there, near those restraints. And maybe there's a way to reverse...whatever just happened, like this.

[parodeity]

[ dave the cat in shades...he doesn't nod but he does walk over to hop up onto the table. :|a ]

I've never felt so short in my entire life.

[doitrockapella]

Look on the bright side: so was Napoleon.

[She glances at the potion, though.]

Can you still store things away in negative space, even like that? It might be better to put this somewhere that it won't spill.

[parodeity]

None of my 'dex dropped, so yeah. Just...lemme tap it.

[ with his tiny cat paw. why is this his life...but then he has > ONE BREW BLUE in his inventory. that is probably safe in there. ]

[doitrockapella]

All right.

[That's one thing managed.]

Now, let's have a better look at this tarp...

[She says, moving to carefully peel it back, and unearthing, uh. THIS GUY???]

[parodeity]

Hey, now we just need like, a mummy and frankenstein and we can start a halloween band?

[ ...

HE WANTS TO STEAL IT............. ]

[doitrockapella]

...Be careful what you wish for. You never know when you might get it.

[She frowns, looking him over.]

His legs are in restraints. He was shackled here...

[parodeity]

...Definitely not a cheerful doctor. And apparently one tryin' to turn people into not people.

[ so that's cheery. ]

Thing we should get him out of the restraints?

[doitrockapella]

...Gruesome as it might be, we did end up needing the skeleton.

[There's an irony in the discussion of turning people into not people when it's coming from a guy turned into a cat. But seeing as how she's the only one with opposable thumbs right now, let's just...do that.]

Do you have room in your dex for him as well? Or do we need to find a different way of bringing him along?

[parodeity]

Nah, I have room for him. I have a pretty decent amount of card space, although I feel the bear trap is maybe a waste.

[ why do you still have it, then, kid? ]

[doitrockapella]

...You have a bear trap?

[Now that's one way of being pre-bear-ed for anything.]

All right. Then let's take him, too, and go rendezvous with the others.

[parodeity]

Got it from one of the glowy boxes at the con, same as Spook Dogg.

[ WHO...PROBABLY IS FLOATING AROUND CHEERFULLY IN HERE, BEING A GHOST, SMILING, AS HE DOES. ]

D'you have any better ideas on how to get back across? It'll be a little harder like this, even if it might be possible.

[ also dave steals the werewolf corpse ]

[doitrockapella]

[Let's just go have a peer at the chasm, shall we, as we try to figure this out.]

Cats are marvelous jumpers, but this one might be better left to human ingenuity, this time around.

[She chews at the edge of her lip, looking at the tarp.]

I'd say that with a frame and that tarp we could come up with some sort of rudimentary glider, but it'd need an updraft to stay afloat that I frankly don't think we have in here.

[parodeity]

Oh, uh, I can do the windy thing currently still, I think? Like, I still have...weather whatever the fuck.

[ THANKS, QR CODES. ]

For however long that nonsense lasts.

[doitrockapella]

...And you think you can use that to create an updraft? Enough of one to fill a sail, maybe?

[BECAUSE NOW SHE HAS AN IDEA. Let's go get that tarp and try to figure out how to make it into a sail of sorts.]

If I get a running start and leap, all we would need is an updraft enough to keep us afloat to the other side. I can supply the momentum. You would just need to keep us up.

[parodeity]

Yeah, I can do it.

[ he wouldn't do false bravado when their lives are on the line, so dave sounds calm ]

The windy part is easier than some of the others. I can do that and rain reliably without question.

[doitrockapella]

Let's give it a try, then.

[She says, as she extends her arms to presumably help put Dave on her shoulders.]

Alley-oop.

[parodeity]

[ ALLEY-OOP INDEED. dave's careful not to claw carmen as he hops up, in the same casually-cautious way he usually has interacted with others so far; for all he talks up a storm given half a chance, he doesn't really throw himself in other people's physical space until he really, really gets to know them, so. ]

Ready when you are, captain.