6451/Everything Is Awesome

Everything Is Awesome
Date of Scene:	04 June 2021
Location:	Legoland, Dreamlands
Synopsis:	Our heroes get the Brazier back, stopping Grodd and the Vizier...for now. They are truly Dream Warriors.
Cast of Characters:	Cliff Steele, Terry O'Neil, Colette O'Connail, Kate Bishop, Henry Devine, Joan Wright

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Cliff Steele has posed:
Our scene picks right up where the last one left off, with Grodd grabbing the Brazier and flying away on a speedboat. The Vizier of Ennui flies and floats through the air sending lighting bolts into the ground after him. There are hundreds of lego people in the background doing their own thing, though a signal is sent out to the Lego heroes of this world that Grodd is on the loose.

Time behaves quite curiously and oddly as Cliff is there one minute and then gone, along with Nick. It seems like time has passed and yet not and those here via dream (which would be everyone) would realize that a week and a half has passed in the waking world but this time has picked up quite literally the moment the previous dream ended.

Terry O'Neil has posed:
"That bricky Grodd just made off with-" the Cheshire cat pauses and looks around, and then frowns. "Huh. It looks like we're exactly back to where we were. Sans Robotman and Music Man. But Grodd has just pilfered our flaming objective."

He glances around, and then at himself. "Man. I seem to be a little... square. What a bummer, and I always thought I was one of the cool cats." The legofied Cheshrie Cat glances at himself this way and that, and then shrugs, "What do you say we go in hot pursuit of that Legorilla? I think I might actually have a little edge here..."

He waves his clasplike hands and summons forth a Chaos Wave, aimed at the bricks that make up the street, in the hopes of creating some sort of vehicle out of them that might aid them in pursuing Grodd!

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    Colette stands around staring at her hands, wiggling her fingers and watching. "This is pretty cool," she comments. "You ever see that Art of the Brick exhibition? It's kinda like that, only... you know. Animated. And us." She extends her arms, marvelling at the way the bricks rearrange themselves to each new position, in living stop-motion.

    Terry's words break through finally, and she stares at the cat. "What's a Grodd?" She asks. "The gorilla? Why not just let him have it, nobody really explained that part to me yet. Also, look. The boring guy is chasing the Gorilla. Might as well let them fight it out."

    "Where is Robot Guy anyway?" She asks, dragging her attention way from Lego limbs to scour the surroundings. "And Raven Guy. Did he manage to drag Robot Guy out of the dream world? If so then... well, wasn't that the point of all this anyway? C'mon, let's go find a lego bar. I want to find out if it's possible to pour a glass of lego."

Kate Bishop has posed:
There is a big ol' yawn from Kate.

Okay honestly this isn't fair, she has been burning the candle at both ends so hard in the waking world she actually is tired here in Dream.

Then it sort of sinks in that they are all... brickified.. lego'd.. there is probably a verb for this somewhere. "This... is even stranger than the whole being chased by Piano thing." she looks at her grippy odd hands and draws a bow and an arrow and fires it at a nearby object.

>Tunk< which is actually there in the air by it before fading as the arrow bounces off the object.

"Very odd..."

"We should maybe go after them all.... as far as I've been able to tell having it explained... that Brazier needs to be pulled out of the Dream lands and into the waking or we will just be trapped in this sequence.. along with tons of innocent dreamers and bad things could happen to all of us.... "

"Rough TLDR... may be wrong..."

Henry Devine has posed:
Ratchet's mind felt...fuzzy, here. The mutant boy couldn't quite parse what all he was seeing. Was this...was this the result of spending all day yesterday collected more buckets of discarded lego bricks? This felt...stranger than normal.

He looked down, popping up with a little squeak as he examined his limbs and everything. Specialized parts to match his rat physiology, but undoubtedly plastic in nature. Well no -wonder- his whole everything didn't feel right.

A horn blares softly a few times, his head swiveling to the source as his ears perk up...and a Lego brick version of Friend Bus rolls right up to him, opening the double doors with a melodic, chiming 'bing-bong~!' Naturally, Ratchet became -quite- excited, and hopped into, popping himself up onto the driver seat. Somebody within ear shot mentioned chasing something...and his eyes followed up towards the 'Grodd' individual. Well, when in dreams, do as dreams do! Might as well toss out the logic. The wheels on the bus screech as they rev up into full burnout, Ratchet looking out to the others...his feet didn't even each the pedals, but the bus seemed to operate regardless. "All aboard! Anyone who doesn't have a ride, anyhoo!"

Joan Wright has posed:
"OH MY GOD!" A female Lego figurine with the brown hair attachment and the body modeled to look like a blue long sleeved shirt, cargo pants, and a toolbelt flails about her little claspy hands. Her mouth is parted in a big O manner as she bounces around, legs swinging back and forth with each jump. "THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER!"

Joan starts bouncing around the street, the expression changing back to a smile as she sings to herself, "Everything is Awesooooommmmeee..."

Cliff Steele has posed:
The inhabitants all start singing the ear worm with her and a musical number ensues. This being deram logic it may seem like it happens for around a half an hour and definitely gets stuck in the head. There is definitely no sign of raven guy or robotman, but there are about TWICE as many white fires followed by manifesting dream people as any instance the group has seen before. For the magically inclined, its almost like the barrier between the dream world and the waking world is paper thin here.

Terry's chaos wave impacts the already intanct bus that Ratchet is driving by adding kewl things to it like booser rockets and snazzy colors.

Grodd rapidly turns around a corner as his boat rapidly becomes a car.

Terry O'Neil has posed:
"Colette, so help me Grodd, you are not shirking your responsibility- unless you want to be jammed back into this insanity at random intervals for the rest of your life we need to recover that Brazier, as our arrowy friend just observed!"

He glances at the improvements to the bus with approval. The rockets should come in handy. But then, there's the music.

"I believe that woman over there has just triggered a musical number. Her relentless excitement and doe-eyed optimism shall come in handy and will act as a counter-balance to Colette's cynicism. Get her on board!"

And with that said, the lego superhero jumps in and tosses a golden chip- which he had pocketed from the pirate ship's hold- into the receptacle. "Follow that Gorilla! And step on those boosters! We're on a Very Important Mission!"

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    "What reponsibility?" Colette demands of Terry. "You guys are super-heroes, I'm not, remember? I'm a teacher. It's not my job to save the world, only to teach it a bit. Besides, you can't tell me you're not a little bit curious about how Legos would pour. Hawk, back me up on this!"

    Colette's eyes go to Kate, who is somehow managing to make a bow constructed from Lego bricks work, and decides there's going to be no help there.

    Colette sighs and boards the bus, grumbling. "There is absolutely no need to counter-balance my cynicism. Cynicism is an important and valuable contribution, especially in the face of you asburdly enthusiastic super-hero types. It helps to keep you grounded. Perhaps better to call it rationality than cynicism. There is absolutely nothing rational about attempting to pursue a gorilla made from plastic bricks. Especially as he is already being chased by King Yawn or whatever that guy is called. Besides, how are you planning to get the brazier away from the gorilla? Did you bring bananas to trade?"

Kate Bishop has posed:
"I mean. You should be a superhero Colette." yeah Kate is absolutely no help here it seems.

Kate looks at her lego hand and then just goes with it, actually managing to do the hand to mout hand loud whistle thing towards Joan. "Hey.. singing lady... get on the bus!!" pointing at the modified bus with an arrow in hand, a bow in the other.

Which is about when Kate takes off running towards the bus, leaping onto it as well. "Just when you think things can't get wierder... though I did invite the Cat along on this mission because I figured... Kate.. Dreams.. Vorpal is like always basically a dream incarnate right.. so this will go great and maybe he can help break the cycle."

"I did not imagine it would be basically juggling on a unicycle..." pause "As for trade.. I figure we beat him up and take it."

Henry Devine has posed:
"You heard them, Friend Bus! STEP ON IT!!"

Blaring out a few excited notes from the Six Flag's theme, the bus rears back with all passengers on board, the boosters blossoming as the turbines winded up. Suddenly, flames jet from the exhausts, spewing out in pure white cones as the bus blows past traffic, weaving and darting comically through the Legotown-city-place.

"Doo-doo-doo FRIEND BUS~! Dah-dah-dah FRIEND BUUUUS~!!" Ratchet yowled out as his arms waved up in the air, just in time for the bus to take the corner following Grodd, tipping up and WALL RUNNING along the buildings lining the street! All to avoid taking the turn and flipping over. Ratchet looks over from the seat, grinning from ear to ear. "Anyone need snaaacks?"

Joan Wright has posed:
Oh yes. LEGO Joan is having a blast, bouncing around in stop motion style as she sings along with the crowd. But eventually all good things must come to an end. She pauses outside a pizza place, taking a disc of pizza in hand, portions of it disappearing as she somehow manages to devour it with each motion of the hand and head.

Oh my gosh! "Everything IS Awesome!"

Hearing the whistle, the head rotates, looking over to the whistlin' Kate.

Oh boy! A road tr- Sky trip?

Even better!

She hops on over

But, you know what would be better?

Another sing along! Oh yeah!

"Everything is Awesooooommmme---"

"Everything is cool when you're part of a teeeAAAACK!"

Hmm. Those lyrics don't seem to go there.

As for what caused that, well the timing was a little off as the bus starts taking off with her still in the process of boarding. The little smiley face flips upside down as she hangs on to the door frame with her little clamp hands.

"Everything's not awesommeeee... AHHH! FLAMES NO! AHHH! PULL ME IN! PLEASE! I SWEAR TO GOD TED IF YOU'RE DRIVING I'M GOING TO UP YOUR PREMIUMS!!!"

Cliff Steele has posed:
The bus sears after the car the gorilla is driving, who signals other member of his nefarious band and several lego henchmen (Gorillas in lego trench coats) open up with Tommy Guns at full bore on the ratbus. A block is knocked off by the strenght of their projectiles.

The chase turns left, then right then right again as there is some kind of chaos up ahead as Grodd speeds up to it.

There is no sign of the Vizier of Ennui.

Terry O'Neil has posed:
"Hawkette, help! She's going to melt her little plastic self!" Vorpal calls out when Joan hops and clings to the frame of the bus. And as they turn the corner there is this quaint little cafe - actually, it isn't an official cafe per se as much as it is an improvised pop-up stand created with whatever was at hand, in the truest and most literal sense of the word in this world, it is pure bricolage. Or even a brick-collage, as the stand is constructed from leftover pieces that one belonged to a car, a fence, and the Ghostbusters building. In any case, at this pop-up stand brick collage bricolage cafe, two very recognizable figures are sipping blocky capuccino. A blond elf, and a red-head elf-woman, each making goo-goo eyes at each other.

"I know exactly how to get a hold of that Brazier!"

The Cheshire cat hangs out of the window just as the bus wall-runs close to the pop-up cafe, and he grabs something that was resting on the stool next to Tauriel. Poking back into the bus, he shows it off proudly! "Look! I nabbed Lego Legolas' Lego Lass' Lego Lasso!"

And with that, the cat deftly goes out the opposite window to maneuver himself onto the side of the bus. Once the bus returns to the street proper, he will climb onto the roof and begin to loop that lariat like crazy, looking for an opening to grab Grodd's grabby greedy getaway! "Try not to get hit by bullets! They still hurt when you're made of legos!"

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    "I really shouldn't, Kate," Colette replies quietly. "It would be a terrible idea all round. I'm way too fucked up for that." A rare moment's honestly.

    Colette takes a seat to enjoy the ride, apparently unphased by the reckless careening of Lego bus through Lego traffic. "Beat up the gorilla. I take it back, you're not superheroes. What kind of superheroes see an endangered species and their immediate thought is 'let's beat it up'? Honestly guys, what would Gar think?"

    Colette seems to be enjoying the ride, despite her grumbling, and despite bits of the bus being shot away by gorilla henchmen. That's all part of the fun. The scenery is fascinating, to be honest. She notices Joan hanging from the doorframe, and watches her swaying from side to side with the shifts and changes of direction of the bus. "What kind of snacks?" she asks Ratchett. "Got any popcorn? This seems like a popcorn sort of experience."

    One of the hench-gorillas, driving a lego motorbike, draws up alongside the bus and starts raking it with fire. Colette lazily extends a hand in its direction and small black Lego brick flies out from her palm, accumulating more bricks in stop-motion growth as it burst through the window and explodes against the bikerilla, blasting him to component bricks as the black bricks expand in a cloud and then evaporate.

    "Terry," Colette says as if nothing had happened. "You seem to have picked up a stutter."

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate ohs. "Right. Fire Bad." she scrambles, putting the arrow she had in her hand in her quiver and then reaching out to grab ahold of Joan and pull the optmistic singing one fully into the bus now.

"Colette.... it is a villainous Gorilla.. not like a normal one. What Gorillas wear suits and use guns during robberies?" she shakes her head. "Relaly now.... though honestly it does seem like a popcorn moment..."

She heads back to look at how they are doing. "Also.. any other movie quality snacks would be good. When did we get a leg rat guy.. are you a rat guy.. honestly the blockiness makes it a bit harder to tell... sorry if I mis-specied you or gendered you..." polite, always be polite Hawkeye.

"See Colette... very heroic... if a little dark." about her blasting.

Henry Devine has posed:
Ratchet cackles outloud as the Friend Bus leaps off of the wall of buildings, plunging into the downtown traffic and Grodd's entourage respectively. The the cow-catcher flings vehicles to and fro, breaking them apart, scattering pieces and sewing destruction. "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!" Ratchet howls as he takes his fist and slams down on a red button at his console.

From the roof top of the bus, a wild-fire of missiles jet out, landing down all around Grodd, explosions blooming and booming out around the chase as the explosive retort to the bullets plinking off of the bus's frame is made known. Thankfully, from inside, a metal arm reaches over and grabs Joan, pullinhg her the rest of the way into the bus and into (relative) safety.

Joan Wright has posed:
Joan is back to the :o face of terror as her legs are kicking and gorillas are shooting at the bus she's still dangling out of. "BAD GORILLAS! BAD! Oh gosh even here I can't get away fro-"

She blinks as a brick is knocked off the bus. The bus she needs to be still together for her to get inside of. Giving the closest thing to a determined face three dots of paint can provide, :| she releases one of her claw hands, flapping around by the one hand. The loose hand spins in it's little socket. "BACK WHERE YOU WERE!" Joan shouts, lifting up the shoulder in a straight line , cupped hand gesturing to the gap made in the bus. As more bricks start coming off she keeps waving her cup hand. "BACK WHERE YOU ALL WERE! BACK! BACK! BACK!"

The bricks start flying back in place.

And then she's pulled back inside. "OH THANK YOU!" The LEGO Architect gives a great big smile. :) As a metal arm pulls her in further she lifts her arms up in an arching manner. "Double Thanks!"

Hopping up to her feet she goes back to gesturing to the flying bricks outside, trying to command them back.

Cliff Steele has posed:
The Missiles spin forth and cause Grodd's car to spin out of control and become a bunch of bricks as he flies forward as he uses telekines to reform the vehicle into a walker. The people outside are impressed, "Master master builder!" At Joan's actions.

The Lego Legolas Lariat is able to loop around the robot walker's arm with the brazier and there is now a tug of war between the bus and the robot though the non splattered hench gorillas are joining in...

That's when the chaos of the battle reaches the group. Lego super heroes and villains of all color and description are all fighting en masse in the center of the town, possibly a mirror of central park that tears up an awful lot of it only for some heroes to use their builder powers to put it back. It seems to be growing slowly in the heroes favor but the hairs on all the heroes backs stand up (well, ok, hair paint things maybe?) as they just somehow SENSE the Vizier of Ennui about to tip that balance in a very dark way.

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    Kate's claim that Colette's actions were heroic get a cynical shake of the head from Colette. Clearly she has to do a better job of not doing things that people might mistake for being heroic. The growing chaos and the fierce battle between heroes and villains give her just the opportunity she's looking for.

    Colette watches the battle unfold with a faint air of amusement. Alas popcorn does not appear.

    That's not to say that she does absolutely nothing. The battle taking place around her does not necessarily accomodate her desire to remain a spectator, and there are a couple more times where she fires black lego bricks from the palm of her hand to blast away some lego villain attempting to involve her more directly. At one point a pair of Grodd's lego henchrillas approach her with their lego Tommy guns, and rather than trying to blast them both she holds out both hands and a solid wall of lego bricks forms in front of her, lego bullets unable to penetrate it.

    This seems like a more secure way to watch the battle unfold, so Colette remains hidden behind the wall of blackness, peering around it to watch. After a few moments a thought occurs to her, and she starts pulling at the lego bricks. Finding she is indeed able to separate them, she pulls and clicks bricks into a slightly different configuration until a there's a small hole the size of a single brick in the middle of the wall which she can look through.

    That seems to satisfy her for a while and she settles back to watch the battle for a little while longer before another thought occurs to her. She lets the wall of blackness dissapate, then starts building a new one. With a look of concentration on her face, she works a little more slowly, growing the wall out less evenly, adding blocks of blackness upon blocks of blackness in methodical patterns. The wall reforms slowly, but this time as the wall in front of her mounts up layer by layer it has a strange dark projection from it. As the layers mount up, it slowly becomes apparent that this time she is constructing herself a wall with a canon sticking through it. "This is actually... pretty cool," she says to herself.

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate watches the missiles spin off and the car blowing up, then rebuilding itself as a walker now.

"Okay, I admit. That is not at all what I expected. At all." which is probably her centiment when they hit the central park equivilant and end up in the midst of an inttensely chaotic lego hero and villain battle.

"Crickey."

Kate leaps up and around ending up on top of the bus and firing off lego arrows. >Thunk> ... .. .. >Thunk> ... .. onto Gorilla henchmen. She is doing her best.

Honestly that may be the epitath on her tombstone. She tried her best.

"Okay. How the hell are you awesome people just... makign the bricks make things... I could use a bigger bow.. maybe a bow canon. I do not understand."

She is a bit too practical and not magical enough for this it seems... so far at least.

>Thunk>

Joan Wright has posed:
Joan looks over to the formed walker and shakes her head. She waves her hand at the walker in an effort to turn it back into a car, "BACK WHERE YOU WERE." She considers something. "... except for you." She indicates to the wheels. They pop off again.

Henry Devine has posed:
Ratchet pulls a lever off to the side, firing off multitude of rocket-propelled harpoons, hurtling toewards the walker! "Hold on, I'm gonna see if we can put an end to this little chase!" The hooks and clamps whistle out into the night sky, flying chaotically, winding all over the place as they beared down on the new brick-mecha!

The bus began to rumble a bit more enthusiastically than usual, sensing Ratchet's intent to tie this creation down and capture Grodd. "SEATBELTS EVERYONE!" Ratchet flicks on the sign in the bus's aisle: 'IMMINENT STOP/CRASH, RETURN TO SEAT'

Cliff Steele has posed:
The walter briefly turns into a car, while LeGrodd says, "Stop doing that!" He sends out a wide range telepathic assualt but that is stopped by Lego Jean Grey and Lego Martian Manhunter who counter, and Grodd counter counters. The back and forth is enough to cause the brazier to lose ground and start moving to the Rat Bus.

Katie finds that as she focuses her will, her bow becomes much MUCH larger with a large number of extra bricks and a telescopic site. Apparently, any dreamer is by definition a Master Builder, albiet not at the scope of Joan's power since they havent seen anyone else UNDO someone else's construct quite the same way.

Collettes Brick Cannon Fort...happens. Also she belatedly gets a bag of lego popcorn in her hand.

The heroes are working together much better than the villains, and Ratchet's clamps sieze the car preventing it from moving any further. At precisely that moment, all the lego heroes and villains begin speaking with vague and largely incorrect french accents as the color begins to drain from the center battle, Lego Vizier descending from on high with an antlered conical hat and long flowing tinfoil cape. "Look upon my wonder and despair..." the chaotic battle begins to grind to a halt as everyone sinks into well...despair.

Terry O'Neil has posed:
Vorpal, in the meantime, has been watching. While his team-mates, impromptu and otherwise, have been battling in the tug-of-war, he has been anticipating The Turn. And The Turn cometh!

"On hon hon! Qu'est-ce qu'il y a? We are parling some unforgeevable franch? No, zis cannot be! I have a changement du scene pour vous that will make you go 'oui oui' worse than a deuretic!"

He hasn't used his Rabbit Hole until now, because he was saving it for when he really needed it- an ace up his sleeve. Who could dual despair? Battle the blase? Fight the frump? There was only one thing that came to mind... Lego Minifigures Series 19, number 71025, of course! The Rabbit Hole opens, revealing a rainbowed, cloudy lego land. It almost looks like Cloud Cuckoo Lander (with apologies to Aristophanes), but it's a lot more... vintage. A gaggle of bricky ursine with stamped images on their stomachs pour into the battlefield. Lego Vorpal points, like a general about to give the charge command.

"Allons, enfants de la Careberia, STAREZ-VOUS!"

And boom goes the rainbow-

Kate Bishop has posed:
MockingHawk looks at her bigger bow with the extra bricks and then just blinks "Or .. well... okay then...." she notes bemused.

The call to get in and back in your seats are not ignored though. Crashing is a thing and while they all seem made of bricks she isn't about to volunteer to be the first to need put back together.

No Sir No Way.

"It is like the eighteies have thrown up into our dreams... so many retro references and cartoon reboots...."

She then does what she made a note not to. She ignores the crash warning and the whole get into her seat business. She instead races out along the front of the bus and goes to try to leap along over th clamps to try to get to the Brazier itself while others deal with the Vizier. ... too many ziers....

"Parkour!" she shouts.

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    Colette is content to much Lego popcorn from behind her Fortification of Darkness, but then the Vizier reappears on the scene, and everything starts getting a whole lot more dull. "Hien, it is ziz salopard agai... eh. Putain! Why are we all speakin' in zis terrible excuse for a French accent all of ze sudden?"

    Her eyes narrow at the Vizier of Ennui as his mystical malaise meanders through the battlefield, but on Colette it has a minimal effect. The first time she had felt it, back on the Zeitgeist Sea, it had distracted her for a while until she came to the conclusion that it was a whole of a lot less boring than most of the three billion years she has spent drifting alone in deep space. This time it washes over her leaving her uncolored but no more than slightly lackadaisical.

    "Hey, leche-cul!" she calls out, elevating her Lego/Darkness Magic canon to target the descending figure. "You are tres boring, oui? Get ze fuck out of here, branleur, and take zis awful accent wiz you!"

    **BOOM**

Joan Wright has posed:
As the sign drops, Joan hops, flailing about before finding a seat that's not blocked off by more bricks. Seated in an upright fashion, she glances out a bus window to watch as little bears show up. And well-

She stares.

Just not in the tummy beam kind of way.

But the impending crash is registered... "Attendez! Hein? Qu'est ce que je dis?! Je ne sais pas! QUELQU'UN RAPPELLE L'ANGLAIS !!!"

Cliff Steele has posed:
The Vizier has encountered this before, and takes out a small hole. "Je prends tes ours et t'élève un homme-ours-cochon!!!!" But he sounds rattled. He has faced this before but experienced dreamers still clearly makes him sweat, nevertheless there is a series of notes singing for imagination land as a large man bear pig comes onto the scene and begins mauling anyone and everything it can find, the carebare stare whacking a lot of villains and heroes who begin making jokes in an outrageous french accent which makes the whole ennui thing seem...gratitous.

The English turns back on about the time Joan yells at it, but it seems because of her will as a dreamer not a Master Master Builder. Either way, Kate is able to successfully grab the Brazier.

The Vizier does not look happy about this as the skies darken and thunder peals in the back ground. "Do you think this a joke?" Lego Joker throws a pie in his face that slowly dribbles down to the ground. The Vizier looks down at the pie and at Lego Joker. His eyes get all glowy. He is about to activate some SERIOUS power, this is the dreamlands, and he is a major playor in said dreams. Mere dreamers are no match for him. "Watch now, my awesome-" He begins to grow larger and larger and larger and is sent through several large sky scrapers by a fast moving cannon ball.

"Ow."

Terry O'Neil has posed:
Wonderland was born from dreams. Not, as the common story goes, from the summer dreams of one bored little girl- no, Wonderland already existed by then. She was merely a visitor, not a creator. The roots of Wonderland and Looking-Glass Land itself lie in the dream of a King dressed in Red, who is far older than anyone suspects. That, in and of itself, would give Vorpal a frightening level of power here. Indeed, glimmers of it have already been shown, with how easily he can twist things around... but he is not pure dream anymore. Not since the Cheshire cat had a son with a mortal woman, and therefore the Cheshire cat became half-dream, half-mortal. What he normally would be able to do with the flick of a wrist, the complete and unrestricted unleashing of the madness of Wonderland, is not something he knows how to do. It's all muffled and obscured by the nature of flesh. In the fullness of time, perhaps, his mortal self will catch up to what his immortal half knows. But in the meantime?

"OH, that's going to leave a mark!" Vorpal cries out, taking to the sky on a magic carpet he conjures out of his magical construct. Cupping his mouth with his little clip-like hands, he amplifies his voice to resound through the area using his powers of illusion: "Someone wasn't ready to take some balls to the face!"

Coarse humor is definitely one way to counteract ennui, after all.

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    "Fuck. Ass. Shit. Yeah take my big metal balls in your face, you fuckstick!" Colette calls out. "I can speak properly again. Thank fuck for that!"

    With the Vizier at least temporarily out of the picture, Colette starts to concentrate again, summoning more of those black bricks that seem to reflect no light at all. It's not just about the world being constructed from Lego bricks; this is all familiar. It's a reminder. Before she decided to become human, the dark and ancient magics that she is built from were much more under control. She has learned, once more, to shape them in crude ways. To throw exploding bolts of shadow, or summon shields of this dark and primal energy. In this lego context, where the substance of the universe can be manipulated and shaped by the simple process of snapping one brick onto another, she starts to feel more confident that she can, at least here, have more of that old fluidity again.

    The flow of black bricks continues from her palms, this time not forming into a defensive wall or a blast of energy, but maintaining a sinuous, tentacle-like form that lashes outwards from her palms, reaching out to twine around Kate and the Brazier, to try to pull them further from Grodd's grasp and back to the safety of the bus.

    Colette grins. The black bricks that make up her eyes seem to grow darker until they too resemble the light-sucking depth of blackness of her summoned bricks. Slowly the blackness starts to spread from her eye-sockets over her face...

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate honestly just about freaks out when she is snagged by the black bricks along with the brazier. I mean. It is a fair mistake to think that this might be some evil attack from the Vizier or some other dark force in dream land.

Thankfully though when she looks back to the source she realizes it is a tentacle rescue. "Woot!"

She turns her attention back to Grodd as she is yanked away with the prize and sticks her tongue out at him even as she clutches the Brazier wiht both arms now. "TBBBT"

To Safety.

Unaware of Colette's troubles.

Joan Wright has posed:
Joan's head rotates , looking to the direction of Terry and Colette's voices of general naughtiness. She puts on her shocked expression once more. :o Once the ride settles she gets up and moves over to the window, looking down to the destruction. "Ok." She nods, giving a devious grin. :) "Back you go... Back you go... Back you go..." If she keeps this up she's going to need to give it a res-

Oh right.

She's already sleeping.

OH WELL.

Being that Joan does not know Colette's nature, she has no idea if the black bricks are a bad thing or not.