Author and Ludens are working in several ways, like hitting parts with hammers, placing plots and filling them with money, interacting with glowing areas, and slapping it together piece by piece.
Author: what is the part of this we're making anyway?
Ludensprof: I don't know, they never told us.
Author: so this could be for nothing.
Ludensprof: yeah yeah
Blot: good luck guys
The Dante mech is wandering around while Dante gets used to it, Insanity is wreaking havoc in the background, and Cosmic is summoning even more Dante clones
Insanity: BURN IN HELLLLLLLLL
Ludensprof: OH WHAT THE FUCK.
Meanwhile...
Dante: Mikaela help me
Mikaela: uh I think you press the doohickey and pull the stick..
Ludensprof: bro wtf
Author: look, it's good shit and most of the stuff I summon is hard to eat without a mouth.
Ludensprof: change your pm
Author: nah my only other one is Niko... and TWM would murder me.
Ludensprof: fair
Ludensprof: damn it...
Blot: hey, you heard the insane guy last time.
Red: yeah yeah, just figure out how to fix this.
((OOC: yup, Author's manifestation of insanity is back. BF here is just Ludens))
He's carrying a portable shredder and some dead zombies
Ludensprof: *whistling*
Author: yo ludens
Ludensprof: ye
Author: I figured something out
He turns into the corrupted veeronica skin
Ludensprof: why corrupted?
VeeAuthor: It just fit in the moment, man
VeeAuthor: I didn't choose to enter forsaken and possess vee a while back, but benefits!
Ludensprof: I guess bro
Most normal discord interaction
Mikaela: I don't see how this is in any way a functional solution.
Author: eh, it'll be fine.
Mikaela gestures to the still asleep dante attached to her
Mikaela: couldn't you have used some sort of noclip?
Author: WHOA, kid! I can't just give out access to that kind of tool.
Mikaela: There had to be a better solution than this...
Author: well, I didn't want to wake him up.
Mikaela just sighs and walks away
((This is author essentially confronting himself))
The living room has divided into a chasm, leaving two authors to face off. Insanity crushes the neck of yet another Niko, and turns to the battle ahead.
Insanity: YOUR RESISTANCE IS POINTLESS! YOU CAN'T LEAVE YOUR PAST AND MAKE AMENDS! I'LL ALWAYS BE WITHIN YOU!
Author: watch me, bitch.
Ludensprof: damn, alternate author sending me after Niko, FUUCKK. Hello, Niko? I just want to talk!
((u/Downtown_Promise_207, do this later if you’re busy))
Author: hello, and welcome to a small PSA.
Ludensprof: We’d like to stress that most romantic exploits that have occured were NOT OUR DOING.
Author: Also, a good Niko ship can be written quite well.
Ludensprof: world machine’s gonna kill you for that…
Author: any questions? come over to the broadcasting area at this moment!
Mimic: what in the world
((This is what the side characters are up to rn, also X: MACHINE, Tails: Niko, Knuckles: Alula, and Calamus as eggman))
((OOC: The italic part is a short dream sequence. Yes, you can see it if your character can mind read, and Author gave permission off screen.))
Wake.
Hey, wake up.
Hello?
*shattering sfx*
Author: HEY WAKE UP YOUR BOYFRIEND NEEDS YOU
Mikaela: AAAAHHHH
*back in the house*
Author: ah, seems your awake.
((Y’know, this was better in my head))
Author: alright, for safety reasons, we're moving you two into the same room.
Mikaela: but, if this thing, *cough* is contagious, then what will happen?
Author: pretty sure... THAT, isn't contagious to others.
Dante: well! ...ok.
Author: yup that's a couple in the making
Ludensprof: maybe Kolossos will help us with being matchmakers like he "said."
Dante: We can hear you y'know.
Author: OH SHIT *erases their memory of that*
Dante: uh, I guess I'm fine with a roommate.
A portal opens, and another version of author steps through, carrying a decapitated head of Niko while flicking blood off a machete.
Professional Author: don't bother thanking me for that... *hurls the head aside* I didn't want to do it...
Author: Professional? Thought you were off supervising the multiverse.
Professional: look, I heard of this place, and it might need more guarding, so I'm here.
Ludensprof: oh god, we're gonna need someone qualified to work on this time shit.
((Downtown_Promise_207, I'm sorry but TWM is the most qualified person here for the fabric of time itself crashing, I'll lay off on pings for a while))
The party returns, looking rough and worn down.
Dante looks a bit stressed, and is supporting Mikaela, who's coughing up some flowers.
Author looks like he's seen enough, almost ready to put his own admin gun to his head.
Ludensprof: hey guys, looks like you're back.
Author: *cough* dude, tell me you can engineer disease cures.
Ludensprof: er, I can try.
Dante: thanks man, you're a real one.
Ludensprof: it's been 2 hours...
((Bake or Die | Play on Roblox))
Ludensprof: *whistling a tune*
Calvin: huh. this place is way bigger than mom's house.
Hobbes: yeah, I noticed.
Calvin: well EXCUSE ME for pointing out what I noticed!
Ludensprof: oh god...
Author: hey blue, welcome to the place I guess.
Ludensprof: god we were away while infinite took over
Snoopy: I don't even know anymore
Red: yup, we're all fucked
Green: indeed.
Blue: what the hell I just got here from the house