<TempDMing> ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOi1XAokmc ) The sound of pattering feet can be heard at a unsuspecting crossroad somewhere in the Overcity, As several tiny creatures clutching their prizes run into the crossroad and slam into eachother. They begin panicing even as those chasing them draw closer.
* You are now known as Jesterbelle
* Jesterbelle https://i.gyazo.com/b3c9be6eb5e985c69a461cecff505add.jpg Sprints into the crossroad at full speed, Twirling and slamming her cane onto one of the goblins heads with a loud *Crack* "That bra does NOT belong to you. Stupid useless goblins!"
<Tangent> Olivia is furious, screeching at the top of her lungs as she tries to tear her way out of a net. Unfortunately for her- for the first time her talons are letting her down and she's tangled up to the point where she can't even move her wings as she's carried off by one of the goblins. She is NOT having a good week.
<Tangent> "Oh god oh god oh god..." Cassie repeats under her breath, running frantically without paying much attention to where she's going. First everything else, and now this? She's still not sure what this "Overcity" is, but...something's just taken...kidnapped Olivia. She has to help her! She keeps running, dress flapping around her ankles as she sprints.
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam looked to the right as he ran and slid to a stop. He back up, right so he was at the mouth of a fairly narrow alley. "There you are, ya little bastard!" He shouted, then broke into a sprint, moving as fast as he could towards the little prankster creatures.
<DrEvilKitteh> *backed up
<trapdoors> Multiple ringings of metal hitting flatly against the floor resonate throughout the streets, as a young girl wielding a sword that looks a tad overkill for someone of her stature runs after a pesky little creature, never once pardoning her french vernaculum as she continuously chased down the goblin that held her purification artifact, slamming her sword against the ground in failed attempts
<trapdoors> to cut their efforts short. Literally.
<Tangent> Cassie hears yelling and footseps nearby but doesn't stop. "H-help!" She calls out, but keeps chasing, trying to keep track of the goblin with the net on a stick
* Jesterbelle Blinks and suddenly looks up "I sense...Comedic Mishap fast approaching! Oh my~"
<Jar_Mimic> Little feet make rapid, frantic movements in the presence of such loud voices and large actions.  The little creatures atop them dart from street to shadow.
<Jar_Mimic> Another little creature follows, but makes no progress in her pursuit.
<trapdoors> Completely oblivious towards anything and focusing solely on her pursuit, Nessie lifts her sword and shifts its position so it lands vertically, and tries to sprint a little faster while yelling a warcry at the tiny goblin.
<Tangent> Damnit, it's getting away! "Olivia!" Cassie pants. Desperately, she raises her bell and rings it once, hoping her magic can do something. There's a jarring, brief note that echoes through the streets...but the goblins don't stop, and the one holding Olivia just keeps running even as one or two of them shriek and cover their ears in pain,
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam heard the distorted echo of a girl calling out for help, which made him slow momentarily. He tried to figure out what direction the voice had most likely come from, but...he wasn't able to tell. He swore under his breath and continued sprinting; maybe chasing the goblin would lead him to her. Assuming it wasn't a trap, of coures.
<DrEvilKitteh> *course
<Jar_Mimic> "I'm not fast enough!  It's impossible to keep up!" shouts the little bunny doll.
<DrEvilKitteh> (their ears in pain,- ?)
<Tangent> *pain before scampering away.
<Tangent> Cassie still isn't all that used to running in costume- even if she has a feeling she'll be doing a lot of it- but that thing has Olivia! She almost stops as she hears someone yelling loudly, but...she can't just let it get away!
<Jar_Mimic> "That's it.  I can't.  Nata!  They got away!" the little bunny continued shouting.
<trapdoors> Nessie tried her hardest to land the hit on the goblin, creating a small crater on the ground it landed. "I did it!" She yelled, but as soo as the dust settled she saw a shadow run ahead of her, carrying the same pendant she was chasing after to retrieve. She returned to shouting in french as she resumed her chase once more.
<Jar_Mimic> "Marzipan, be careful!" a distant voice callse out, "There are more!  Big ones!"
<Jar_Mimic> "I'm aware of that!  My ears are big enough to hear!"
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<DrEvilKitteh> Sam went up high, hoping to circle around and cut the goblins off. He spied them down below after several seconds; they had stopped momentarily in the middle of an intersection of paths, and had flipped a manhole cover up. They started to scramble down into it, but Sam wouldn't let that happen. With a  muted rush, he jumped off a ledge and descended towards them. He fell rapidly, but not fast
<DrEvilKitteh> enough--they'd all vanished down the hole. He saw a flash of movement out of the corner of his eye and pulled hard on the gravity brakes, skidding and stumbling as he landed, but he wasn't fast enough. He collided right into another person, and they both went sprawling from the impact.
<Jar_Mimic> "Oof.  Wow.  That looks like it hurts.  A lot," comments the little bunny, happening upon the sight.
<Tangent> Cassie rounds the corner, still frantic to catch up to the goblin horde...and literally runs into the duo. By which I mean she trips over them, and goes sprawling with a thump in a dazed heap.
<Tangent> (Disregard this line, actually.)
* Jesterbelle Has a camera out and is recording the disaster in HD
<Tangent> *and someone slams into her. She goes sprawling, stunned, feeling like she's just been run over.
<trapdoors> Nessie did not focus on anyone that might've been crossing her path, so when someone did, she let go of her blade instantly, it stabbing upstraight into the floor and she just crashes into someone with the force of her chase behind her. She rolls with this new person a few feet until she just landed on her back, confused, disoriented and having no idea what happened
<DrEvilKitteh> It took a moment for Sam's head to stop spinning, but when it did, someone else--or rather, two someones--crashed into him as he was just getting up onto his knees. He went sprawling for the second time that day, and felt bodies lying atop and below him. No.../no/...
* Jesterbelle Chirps from the pile of confusion "Heyyy~ Getting a little chummy there buddy"
<DrEvilKitteh> He blinked and looked around as best he could with his semi-concussion. "...You've gotta be freaking kidding me..." He grumbled.
<Jar_Mimic> At this moment, panting and moving at a slow walk, Natasha arrives on the scene.  "Ah, I'm intruding on something naughty.
<Jar_Mimic> "
<Tangent> Cassie groans, head spinning...or is that the world? Right now everything's blurry and there's a lump rising on the back of her head where it hit the concrete and she can't breathe. "Ow...My head..." She groans.
<Jar_Mimic> "No, no," she continued, "These are them.  I can't believe my eye."
<trapdoors> As soon she felt the pressure of many bodies on top of her, she panicked and went into immideate emergency message relay system mode. "IMSORRYIMSORRYIMSORRYIMSORRYIMSORRY" she says, embarassed, red, and going on full repeat for a few minutes, her trademark french accent further accentuating her embarassement.
<DrEvilKitteh> "Nessie?!" Sam exclaimed, recognizing that French accent and behavior. He did his best to extract himself from the tangle of limbs and bodies, but for the most part, only succeeded in getting even more trapped. And, what with the, ah, placement of his body and limbs relative to the others... "Bloody hell, this is like a cliched harem anime scene or something..."
<Jesterbelle> "I think its rather amusing, But I suppose I should let you go, There are children who need a caramel candyapple to cheer up and stop assauling my ears with appologies." She springs up out of the tangle, Drastically lessening the diffiiculty of the others getting loose
<Jar_Mimic> "Oh, good, those two are okay.  Troops!  Please go check to see if the last one is injured!"  To which, a small platoon of stuffed animals marched from around the corner and went up to the tangle, letting loose a chorus of "Are you okay?"
<Tangent> Cassie hears an unfamiliar voice babbling and feels someone moving...but right now with her growing headache, she really doesn't care. "I...What..." She mumbles, vest and garments tangled. And...now a teddy bear is asking her if she's okay.
<trapdoors> "F-Frère Sam????" She halted, at the midst of her emergency message relaying, recognizing his voice from pretty much anywhere. She squirmed and tried to push everyone off of her, which should be a successful thing taking in account her abnormal strength. "I-I crashed into someone very hard, I don't know who it was however!"
* Jesterbelle Reaches a hand down to help Nessie up, Probably oddly familiar "That would be me I believe. No hard feelings though."
<DrEvilKitteh> "I'm guessing that Carnivale chick," He said, vividly remembering the feeling of Jesterbelle's body on various places of his own, hands included. "She wasn't the one I ran into, I don't think." With Nessie now up, he was able to gently move the other girl, a stranger, off himself so he could rise into a sitting position.
* Jesterbelle Flashes a grin to Sam, Though it doesn't feel as genuine as some of the others hes probably recieved "So, A bunch of teddybears, A clown, A french girl, An Owl Afficiando and some Goblins run into a intersection... Quite the setup, But whats the punchline?"
<DrEvilKitteh> "Obviously, the part where I punch a goblin in the face," Sam muttered. He checked over the stranger to see if she was alright.
<Jar_Mimic> The little animals crowded around the still reeling little girl, some propping her up by her shoulders and back, others pulling her up by her hands.
<Tangent> Cassie feels herself being moved. Still dazed, she looks up at...a half dressed surfer dude? She blinks, trying to shake off the sudden wooziness. "I...Um. Sorry." She mumbles automatically as she starts piecing together what happened. "I..." She blinks and her head snaps up as she looks around frantically. "Wait, Olivia!" She's gone. Nowhere in sight.
<Tangent> (gah, derp, fixing description)
<trapdoors> Nessie did not waste any time to try and get the stranger back up safely.  "I am so sorry, I crashed into you two!" She means this both at her and Jesterbelle, whose voice she recognized, but the way she talked made her look like it was meant towards the stranger alone. As soon as she was back up she turned towards Jesterbelle and bowed lightly. "I am so so sorry! I hope you're okay Madame...?"
<trapdoors> She let her sentence drift off in silence, letting the questioning tone of her voice be a lead to what she wanted
* Jesterbelle Does an exxagerated curtsey you might see in a play "Jesterbelle, Unless its changed recently. Thought we met before. Ah well, People tend to look alike rather often."
<Tangent> *In a duster
* Jesterbelle Pulls a large caramel covered candyapple from her tophat, It looks about as clean as any other carnival food "I feel bad that you are so sorry, Please have a free treat on me!" She holds it out to Nessie
<Jar_Mimic> Marzipan hopps up into Natasha's arms.  "I lost the goblins right before I got here," the bunny comments, "I think these guys were chasing them, too."
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<Tangent> Cassie stumbles to her feet, eyes wide as she takes on what...basically looks like a pile-up in a costume shop with people in strange outfits all around her. Though she's not really one to talk about that right now. She looks back to Sam "I...Sorry, but I need to go. Did you...did you see an owl just now? Carried by...by a goblin?" She says, the words not sounding natural .She's still not used to matter of factly talking about this so
<DrEvilKitteh> (about this so-?)
<Tangent> *this sort of thing.
<DrEvilKitteh> "I saw them go down into the sewers," Sam said. "I think. They moved the manhole cover over there and fled down." He flicked his hand, causing said manhole cover to pop up and spin through the air like a coin, landing with a crash several meters away.
<DrEvilKitteh> "Not sure if I saw any of them with an owl, though."
<Jesterbelle> "Yeah, They went down there. I put banana peels on some of the rungs. It was hilarious."
<Jar_Mimic> "I suppose that answers that," Nat says aloud, patting her weapon on the head.
<trapdoors> As soon as she was to extend her hand, she sees the candyapple, waiting a few hesitating seconds later taking it and smiling sweetly. "A-Ah, thank you! Jesterbelle is a very nice name, Madame!" With this she almost completely forgot about being prime influence in a huge clash of many bodies, she did not forget the goblins however. "M-My pendant! The goblin still has it!" She run/skipped to
<trapdoors> her sword and pulled it out and put it over her shoulder while holding the candy apple with the other. "Did the goblins take anything from you Madame Jesterbelle?"
* Jesterbelle Nods "Some clothes I was drying, Rather rude of them. And I suppose a roll of tickets, But I don't care as much about that."
<Tangent> "I...Crap.." Cassie swallows, taking a deep breath. "I guess...I'm going after her. Damnit, Olivia..." She looks at Sam. "Um. Hi again. That owl...She's my..." Friend? "Partner. Can...Um, can you help me? I...If they hurt her..."
* Jesterbelle Struts over and pats Cassie "There there, Unless I miss my mark we all have a vested interest in descending down to retrieve our assorted possessions, Friends, And underwear. We'll all help. Probably."
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam cracked his neck, then walked up to the hole in the road and and just...dropped down it, duster flapping out behind him as he fell.
<trapdoors> "I-I can't eat this right now! Madame Jesterbelle, can you please save it for later??" She asked as she handed out the candied apple, suddendly regaining the hurry she had to retrieve her possession. "Come mademoiselle, we must not lose time! We'll get your friend back!"
<Jar_Mimic> "Ah, wait!" cries the girl reaching toward the open cover, "That's dangerous!  You're putting yourself in harm's way!"
<Tangent> "I...Thanks..." Cassie looks back around after staring at Sam's disappearing act, offering the other girl a grateful smile. "Yeah, you're right. Let's do this-" A pause as another of the girls chips in.  "I...I'm going."
<DrEvilKitteh> There was a a /whump-boom/ that sounded suspiciously like an explosion. "For them, maybe!" Sam called back up the hole.
* Jesterbelle Vanishes the Candy Apple, Walks over to the manhole and does a perfect 10 point olympic dive down into it.
* Jesterbelle Lands on her feet on the inside, On a goblin who seemed to be unconcious already. He won't be waking up.
<Tangent> Cassie walks up to the manhole, glancing to the others, then...slightly awkwardly starts looking for a ladder or a way down or something...
<Jar_Mimic> "Wah.  Other magical girls are so rre so reckless."  Says the girl.  "Wel, we're not gonna get my bow back any other way, are we?" says the bunny.
<Tangent> Cassie swallows, then stops dithering, squeezes her eyes shut for a moment and jumps forward. She drops down the hole.
<Jar_Mimic> "I suppose I have no choice.  Troops!  Please be careful on your way down!"
<Tangent> "Ahh!" A yell forces itself from her lips...one abruptly cut off when she lands with a thump. She's breathing rapidly but...that wasn't as bad as she'd thought. The ground here's pretty soft, actually...Something squelches underfoot.
<trapdoors> Nessie looked at the person who waged a warning towards the group and uses her free hand to gesture for her to come. "You lost something too, oui? We have to go get it all together! Rapidement!" After this, she shouts down the hole. "Coming down too, careful!" And then jumps uncerimoniously inside.
<DrEvilKitteh> There's a crack, and a goblin goes flying past Cassie's ears. Sam laughs maniacally, then runs around a corner after another of the little creatures.
<Jar_Mimic> Unceremoniously,Nat hops underground.
<Tangent> Cassie looks up, gulps, and ducks aside just as one and then two other magical girls come shooting down. "Wait up, I'm coming too!" She yells after Sam, not sounding too enthusiastic, but running after him.
* Jesterbelle Waves to Nessie as she lands, then points down the tunnel at a goblin sprinting towards them. Between one step and the next a banana peel appears and he slips, Slides, And plunges into the water full of things best unmentioned "I feel like were going to split up, Get lost, and then...nevermind."
<trapdoors> Upon landing, Nessie immediately starts coughing and hacking. "Mon Dieu, it smells so awful in here, I'm going to be sick...I hate doing this, but it seems like a solution right now.." Out of emergency, Nessie halted her breathing completely and moved onward, motioning to both magical people behind her to follow
<DrEvilKitteh> Shortly after Cassie rounded the corner, she found herself sliding down a slippery slope, almost like a waterslide. It terminated after a few meters, leaving her to fall down almost thirty feet to the sewer floor below.
<Jar_Mimic> "Hehehe.  Split.  Banana.  I get it."
<DrEvilKitteh> *fifty
<Jar_Mimic> "Ah!  Who fell?  Are you alright?"
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam looked up at the sound of someone else falling after him, and motioned a hand. Gravity lessened, allowing her to land much softer than normal.
<Tangent> Cassie teeters for balance for one second, hands flapping as she tries to keep her balance...then goes sliding down. "Ahhhhhhhhh craaaaaaaaapppppppp!" And then she starts to fall. "AAAAAAAAA!"
<Tangent> "I'm dead I'm dead I'm..." She's not dead. She's on the ground. She stares in the gloom, trying to figure out how she's not dead...and sees Sam. "I...Um..." She swallows, looking sheepish. "...Thanks."
* Jesterbelle Walks over to where everyones falling "Why are we having fun in a sewer?" And, After making sure anyone else still up here noticed where the group was going, Walked off and fell towads Sam, Intent on landing on him if he doesn't help her
<DrEvilKitteh> "Uh huh. Sure thing." Sam looked back up the way both of them had fallen. Just in time to see a very voluptuous Jesterbelle falling towards his face. He instinctively started slowing her, but he was about ten feet too late, and she landed atop him. The force drove him onto his butt, with optional Jesterbelle spread across his legs in a suggestive position.
<Jesterbelle> "Sorry dear, Gotta drive the ratings up somehow." She gets up without making it too much more awkward, She does have a heart afterall!
<DrEvilKitteh> "Riiight." Sam rose back up and looked to check if any /more/ women would literally be falling out of the sky onto him. "Well, I saw one scamper down here with my wallet. Dunno where it went, though." He pulled out his phone and turned on the flashlight, sweeping it around to look for the goblin or any signs of where it'd gone.
<Tangent> Cassie's watching this, wide-eyed. "Um..You alright?" She asks Sam, looking back to Jesterbelle and gaze darting up in case any of the others are paratroopers. "Um...Right. Do we...wait, or..." She glances up again.
<Tangent> "Hey! Guys! Look out, there's a drop!" She yells.
<trapdoors> Upon hearing this and turning the corner carefully to see the slope , Nessie does not approve of this at all. She focuses for a bit, starting to hum, and gives out her hand to the other magical girl, motioning for her to grab onto her.
* Jesterbelle Frowns at the tiny phone "No no, This spotlight will not do for our performance. LIGHTS!" She raises her hands and small globes of lights suddenly dot the tunnel, Providing decent lighting
<Tangent> Cassie gives the flamboyant girl a bit of an odd look at "performance" , but doesn't comment. She doesn't know anyone here but...any port in a storm, right?
<Jar_Mimic> Nat, hearing another one fall, elected to be careful.  With a slight groan, she opened the eye that lay hidden in her forehead, and scanned the drop for the best way down.tway down.looked about for the safest way do
<DrEvilKitteh> "...Okay then." Sam switched off the light and pocketed the phone. He closed his eyes and knelt to the ground, hand placed flat against it. He tried to sense if there were any goblins nearby with his gravity sense, but because of the confusing layout, he couldn't tell. "Dammit."
<Jar_Mimic> And proceeded to slip and slide down anyway.
<DrEvilKitteh> Halfway down, the next falling person would find themselve slowing drastically, landing fairly gently on the ground below.
<trapdoors> Nessie sighs. Well, she tried to motion for her to grab on to her, but it seemed to be futile. Nessie focused a little more and her eyes seemed to have gained feline aspect, and she leaps to avoid the entirety of the slope.
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam also helped Nessie with her descent, though not to the extent of the others; he knew she could handle a rougher landing.
<Jar_Mimic> "Ah!  Oh, oh boy.  Okay.  Right.  Thank you, whoever did that."
<trapdoors> Despite the large leap, her landing was still very smooth and quiet, much like a feline. She could feel that Sam was having a say in this, but felt grateful towards it anyway, landing a little bit ahead of the other girl. She walked ahead, looking over her shoulder to see if the other girl also came along at decent pace
* Jesterbelle Hums to herself, It sounds like a typical circus song "For the record, Only we can see the light. Feel free to ambush anything that doesn't notice us."
<Jesterbelle> (Third Eye would reveal the lights are a combination of Illusion and another magic to make it seem lit up to them, Rather than actually lighting the tunnel up)
<Tangent> Cassie follows the others, bell in hand. "Well...I'll do my best..." She mutters, looking down at her 'weapon'. She's not sure what she can do with it, especially since these goblins seem more annoyed than anything.
<Jar_Mimic> "Argh, this filth is on my dress!  Marzipan, do you REALLY need your bow back?"
<Jar_Mimic> "Yes, I d-  Hey, is that Carnival Night Zone?"
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam stood up and started off, cobalt runes gently glowing. He kept occasionally using gravity sense to attempt to detect any goblins nearby, but didn't have any luck thus far.
<Tangent> Cassie feels...what she really hopes is mud squelching underfoot and her dress dragging on the ground. This outfit...really isn't meant for a sewer plunge. She swallows, holding her nose with her free hand and taking shallow breaths.
<trapdoors> Nessie walked a bit forward, her sword still slung over her shoulder, being held by one hand alone, almost effortlessly. She laid a hand on Cassie's shoulder lightly, to reassure her they're all going to be fine. If she was talking, she'd show herself nervous too, but someone has to do that kind of work. Hearing the comment the magical girl behind her made, she looked up ahead and saw some
<trapdoors> strange things floating around Jesterbelle. They seemed to be letting them walk just fine, so she kept quiet about it.
<Tangent> Cassie starts slightly at Nessie's hand, glancing around then blinks in understand and nods.
<Jar_Mimic> Starting to hum her own circus song, Nat pulls a mirror from within the pleats of her dress.  "Tell me, mirror, tell me do, tell me right and tell me true.  Where the heck are these guys?"
<Tangent> "Um...so...what'd they steal? From you, I mean?" Cassie asks Nessie quietly as the party picks their way down the sewers. She's given up on covering her mouth and is just trying to breathe as little as possible.
<Jar_Mimic> "Tch," scoffs the bunny, "No response.  As usual."
<trapdoors> Nessie takes a deep, sort of costly breath to talk to her, coughing a little before being able to speak. "Will never get used to not breathing...They*cough* stole my purification artifact. It's very pretty and keeps me safe a lot, so I was very angry when they took it from me!..." Her expression changes very slightly, a certain streak of fury being nearly noticeable. "Also, my name is Nessie.
<trapdoors> What is yours?" She said, trying to muster a comfortable and gentle tone in this most disgusting and uncomfortable place.
<Jesterbelle> "Were this place more firiendly, I could make it a little more homely. As is that would attract attention we would rather not attract. Luckily they probably didnt go much further."
<Tangent> "Yeah...I...I really hope Olivia's okay...And Cassie. My name's...Cassie. Um, I'd say it's nice to meet you, but...yeah." She gestures vaguely at the sewer around them. "So...um...you're a magical girl too, huh?" Cassie asks, wincing inside at how awkward that sounds.
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam stopped at a wall up ahead, eyes shut tightly, one hand on the wall. A broad grin spread across his face, and he backed up from the wall. He lifted a hand, and roiling gravitic force gathered before his open palm. "Cover your ears," He adviced, moments before the wall exploded inward with a thunderous cacophony of noise.
<DrEvilKitteh> *advised
<Jar_Mimic> "Yipe!"
<Jar_Mimic> "Some warning, please!"
<Tangent> Cassie winces, almost doubling over as she covers her ears a moment too late and the noise echoes.
<DrEvilKitteh> "Sorry," Sam said, still with the predatory grin on his face. He strode through the dust cloud and over the rubble, and there was the sound of a few goblins screeching and scrambling to get away from the newly-made hole in their wall.
<trapdoors> Fortunately enough, her good hearing made for her to cover her ears decently, wincing only slightly at the explosion, eyes widened at the sheer force of it. "Ah...well, yes, it seems so. I'm at this for not very long, as far as I know this is the first time I actually venture out of my...well let's say comfort zone, oui?" She responded towards cassie a few moments after the explosion.
<Tangent> "I...Yeah, that makes two of us. I'm new too." Really, really new, she mentally amends. "I...I've got no idea what I'm doing." She confesses, looking uncertainly towards the hole and away from the other girl. "We...we should get going, right?"
* Jesterbelle Steps through the hole with a 'Tadaa!' "Let the show begin!, Lights, Music, ACTION!" Spotlights flare to life and circus music starts playing, Leaving the Goblins quite confused. Several of them seem to have started attacking eachother when the music started.
<Jar_Mimic> "Ah, this is my cue!  Troops, take prisoners, please!"  And with that, the little platoon of stuffed animals charged through the hole, quickly piling on what goblins they could.
<trapdoors> "Me too...But ah, then we don't need to worry so much, Cassie! We are working together, and together we can overcome many things and not have a doodoo performance, oui?" With this being said, Nessie readied her sword, resting it on her shoulder and walked torwards the hole ahead of her, her expression changing into one of focus and observing attently to search where her pendant might be.
<Tangent> "Yep!" Cassie grips her bell a little tighter, gaze lingering for a moment on Nessie's sword before she raises her own bell. At least she can deafen the goblins if nothing else. She rings it, the metal producing a single, long note that seems to disorient and upset the creatures.
<Tangent> &"...Yep. Right."
<Tangent> **
<DrEvilKitteh> After drop-kicking a goblin into the wall with a vicious thud-crack, Sam grabbed another one by the throat and lifted it into the air. The creature stabbed at him with a small, crude knife, but it bounced off of Sam's Outfit and the shallow wounds it made on his hand healed seconds later. "Come on, tell us where our stuff is," He growled, disarming the goblin with a flick of his fingers.
<DrEvilKitteh> "I might even decide not to break you over my knee in an excrutiatingly painful manner if you tell me."
<Jesterbelle> "You can bend me over your knee~" Despite the comment, It doesn't sound serious. Shes busy...Doing whatever shes doing to the goblins who are fighting eachother. Most of them are doing flashier moves than really practical and certainly not ones they would be doing normally. "The show must go on."
<Jar_Mimic> "Woah, woah!" Nat exclaimed, stepping over to the man, "I'm forced to object.  That isn't an ethical way to speak to a prisoner!"
<Tangent> Cassie feels out of place and useless, with everyone throwing magic around. There's some sort of commotion....and what's going on over there?
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<DrEvilKitteh> "Really? Hm. Well, you probably are flexible enough for it." Sam didn't sound serious, either. He looked back at the others. "It's a goblin." He said, the aforementioned goblin struggling in vain against his grasp. "They're like rats, except bigger and more malevolent."
<Jar_Mimic> "And they're much cuter than rats, but that's besides the point.  Please, sir goblin, we would like our things back.  I could compensate you for your cooperation."
<DrEvilKitteh> "You kidding?" Sam poked the goblin in the face, and it responded by clamping down on his finger. "They're disgusting little creatures. And rats make lovely pets if you treat them right."
<Tangent> "Um..." Cassie's made her way over, since the fighting's dying down. "What's going on?" She sees that Sam has a...prisoner?
<Jar_Mimic> "I think they're both adorable.  Here, if you want a show of good faith, bite me instead."  She presents her free wrist, which the creature swiftly chomps.
<Jar_Mimic> There is blood and pain, but she does not pull away.  "There.  Ngh.  Can't we talk now?"
* Jesterbelle Is currently swaying her hips side to side and watching several of the goblins fight eachother to the death, Ocasionally one will knock anothe one down and look over to her, And she'll hold out her hand and slowly turn it to a thumbs down. Theres plenty of confused goblins unsure of what the hells going on though.
<Tangent> Cassie winces at the occasional scream. "Um...These goblins...aren't actually sentient, right?"
<Jar_Mimic> Marzipan tosses a scrapper of a goblin to the ground.  "Who told you that?  'Course they are."
<DrEvilKitteh> "They're sentient. Just a bunch of little scumbags, is all. Pests at the least, evil little child abductors and eaters at the worst. Kinda varies based on the place of origin and the pack they belong to."
<Tangent> "I....Then, sorry but...can't we talk them into giving us our stuff back?" She winces at child eater, but her gaze moves to the goblins still killing each other.
* Jesterbelle Sighs and gestures vaguely at one of the confused looking goblins. He marches over to Tangent and salutes "You can try."
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam heaved a faux-dramatic sigh, then reached up and broke one of the goblin's fingers. It squealed, writhing in pain. "I can do a lot worse. I'm way bigger and stronger than you, so tell me. Where. Is. Our. Stuff." The creature yapped in its harsh tongue, then gestured wildly off to the side. "What, in the wall or floor somewhere?"
<Jar_Mimic> "Ahg!  Hm, troops!  How many prisoners?" the doll commander asked.  "The situation's still bad, but we've got one goblin down for every two units," Marzi replied.  "Good.  Keep them contained."
<DrEvilKitteh> It nodded, and Sam smiled. "Thanks. Now go screw yourself." He tossed the goblin out through the hole he'd blasted in the wall, and it plopped down into the sewage with an unpleasant-sounding splat-splash.
<Tangent> Cassie blinks, then nods. "Um...Hey. I'm Cassie, and...we...we just want our stuff back. We don't want to fight...Look, just give us our friends...I mean, things..." The sound of snapping bone gets her to look around. "...You...Are you torturing him?" Cassie asks disbelievingly. The reality hasn't quite sunken in when he tosses the goblin away.
<Jar_Mimic> "Ah, Marzi, go retrieve that one!  Hurry."
<Tangent> "I..." She shakes her head, looking back to Jester. "We...He told us what we need, you can stop now, right?"
<Jar_Mimic> The doll shows the back of her hand to her mistress, but takes off to recapture the little thing.
* Jesterbelle Shrugs, Takes a formal bow, The spotlights dim and the music stops and most of the goblins stop killing eachother for entertainment
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam walked over to the corner of the wall and knelt down to search for their hidden cache. He found a loose brick and pried it out, then stuck his hand down into it. There was a metallic /chunk/ sound, and he pulled his arm out to reveal a bear trap clamped onto his forearm.
<DrEvilKitteh> *into the hole
* Jesterbelle Giggles at the bear trap "Classic!"
<Tangent> "...Thanks." Cassie seems more unerved than grateful. And...if they eat children, then an owl...
<Tangent> She glares at the goblin Jester handed over. "You can understand me, right?"
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam literally slapped the bear trap to pieces, then stuck his hand back down into the hole, grabbed something, and withdrew it. "...Ah. This...isn't mine." He looked back at the others, looking to see who was the appropriate size.
* Jesterbelle Strikes a pose
<Jar_Mimic> Nat groans, opening her forehead eye once more.  Her gaze sweeps across the room, stopping upon meeting the most magical thing in the area.  At the cost of one freed goblin, two of her plushies help her retrieve a charm from behind a loose brick.
<DrEvilKitteh> "...Right." Of course, Jesterbelle would be the one to fit in it, seeing as how she was fairly well endowed compared to the other, younger girls. That and the design should've been a dead giveaway. He mutely held the undergarment out for her to take.
* Jesterbelle Grabs it and smiles "Such a gentleman."
<Tangent> "Did you see an owl?" Cassie demands from the goblin. "Damnit, if you hurt her..."  She barely knows Olivia, and the former magical girl's a jerk, but if these creatures hurt her... "Tell me where you took her!" There's a panicky note in her voice and she finds her hands around the creature's neck, almost without meaning to. "Where's Olivia!"
<DrEvilKitteh> "I try," Sam said blithely. He reached back in to grab something else, which happened to be...another fistfull of Jesterbelle's underwear. "O...kay, I feel like I should let you look through this stuff, now. My wallet's probably someplace else, anyway."
* Jesterbelle nods "probably, But you looked like you were having fun so I didn't want to say anything." She collects her things
<Tangent> The goblin shakes its head frantically, and Cassie lets it go. "...Damnit..." She chews her lip, looking uncertain and worried.
<Jar_Mimic> The three eyed girl hands the artifact to Nessie, who delivers a prompt, "Merci."
<DrEvilKitteh> "Not necessarily unpleasant, but it didn't feel right. Gentleman, after all, yes?" He stood back and looked about, trying to locate more hidden caches.
* Jesterbelle Waves a hand and big red arrows appear pointing at a few rocks for Sam, While Jesterbelle sorts out several imagination stimulating outfits and puts them in a bag
<Tangent> Cassie paces, gripping her bell tightly.
<DrEvilKitteh> Sam gave her an absentminded thumbs-up and started pulling out bricks. "Now, what have we got in here..."
<Jar_Mimic> "I will give one hundred dollars to the goblin who tells us where this -Olivia, right?- Olivia is!"
<Jar_Mimic> "But only to the first one who speaks up!"
<DrEvilKitteh> "They like trinkets, not colored paper..." Sam muttered as he rumaged around in the cache.
<Jar_Mimic> "Ah, sorry.  Well, now I feel stupid."
<Tangent> There's a long moment of silence...followed by the scurrying of tiny feet. Less than a minute later, a whole gaggle of goblins appear from nowhere...with Olivia strapped to a cooking stick and struggling furiously. Her beak's been tied shut. "Olivia!" Cassie yells, rushing over. The owl-girl's been tightly bound and it's a while before she can untie her. The golbins look at Natasha expectantly.
<DrEvilKitteh> "...Or maybe this pack likes bills," Sam mused. "Huh. Go figure."
<Jar_Mimic> "Ah!  Yes, right!"  Patting herself down, she retrieves several twenty dollar bills from various pleats in her dress.  "I only have the five, though.  That's all the ATM gives out."
<Jesterbelle> "Money can be exchanged for goods and services." She pauses and nudges a stone to the side, Pulling a huge roll of carnival tickets out "So can these to be fair."
<Jar_Mimic> After distributing the bills into the greedy hands of the tiny horde, Nat signals for her little soldiers to let go of their prisoners.
<Tangent> "Thanks..." Cassie blurts, busy freeing Olivia. The owl's eyes narrow, as she takes in the situation...then nods at Natasha as well.
<Jar_Mimic> "Oh, uh, hey, no problem.  My pleasure, really.  I always have more money than I can spend, thanks to Mr. Puchuu.  That magical girl cost of living, right?"
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<Tangent> Cassie winces at the mention of Puuchu, but nods. "Even so...thanks..."
<DrEvilKitteh> "Ah, there we go." Sam pulled out his wallet and pocketed it. "Much better."
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<Jar_Mimic_> "Well, I hope we can all meet again on happier terms.  Don't be afraid to say goodbye, little guys.