planeocracy | Night Not Only Falls, It Bounces Too

Night. Day. Night. Day. Twilight? Daybreak. Night. Day again.

Somewhere in between running raids on SkullBoneBloodTooth Island and checking out their new Half-demigod-half-celestial's jiggle physics, it seems I.T. has finally managed to chase the bugs to the diurnal cycle simulator; It's like a humongous infant is screwing around with a humongous light switch and having a hell of a good time with it. Day is suddenly night, and ten seconds of darkness later it's day again. It's annoying, and probably the cause of a few more crashes and stubbed toes and accidental gropes after bouncing into each other in the mutable gravity. But overall not the worst that could happen... well, for most people.

"Oh man here we go a-- *PHUFFH!* "AUGH! I'd figure it'd be easier by n--" *PHUFFH!* "But nope, still hurts" *PHUFFH!* "Arawr! Okay this isn't funny anym--" *PHUFFH!* "NNG!"

For Sonic, it's a little more of a problem. It had caught him in the courtyard, and he's now leaning on the edge of the (inactive and algae-brown) fountain. Every time the daylight drops off he goes Werehog with a flash of sickly green light. When it bounces back on, he changes back with another flash. And neither one looks particularly pleasant.

*PHUFFH!* "When I get my hands on them I'm gonna-- *PHUFFH!* "NNG! File a complaint or something..." *PHUFFH!* "As hard as I possibly CAN!"

Talk to him? Try to help? Play out schitzoid daylight problems of your own?

((Red text is Werehog!Sonic, blue is normal, in case context didn't make it clear.))

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[That... sounded bad. He'd ask for the details later, but for now, he had to get Sonic indoors. He grabbed Sonic by the hand- he couldn't dualize with him when he's constantly changing, but NiGHTS could get him indoors.]

"Whoa!" Sonic is drug by the floating nightmaren. "What? Where're we going? Oh wait! Sorry buddy, I wish it WAS that easy! It's--

*PHUFF!*

"--ARGH, nighttime indoors too!"

Uh, NiGHTS? That hand you're pulling along? Is now heavily clawed. And a few yards away from Sonic's body on a stretched-out arm. The rest of him takes a few quick steps to catch up with it.

[NiGHTS didn't notice the claws, but the fact that the stretchy hand slipped out made it all too noticeable.]

Well, they picked a fine time for the gates to close down...

[Don't worry, he'll think of something...]

"This is all part of the same problem!" *PHUFF!* "Ungh... The computers control everything here! The gates, all of our equipment, food storage, plumbing, weather--" *PHUFF!* "I just hope they get a handle on the problem before things gets any worse!"

"Why are we letting a computer control that. I think real people would do a much better job!"

"You and everyone else in here right now, NiGHTS." *PHUFFH!* "--nng," He leans on the fountain's rim. "Actually I'd be willing to bust up the servers myself at this point... but I get the feeling that'd make things ten times worse. Who knows how deeply it controls everything?"

"Oh, I'm sure everything would just fall apart around us then go into pitch blackness."

"Yeah, see, that's sort of what I'm worried 'll happen." *PHUFFH!* "It'd be a whole different type of plane-crash! And I think I like existing. It's a really cool concept, and I'm going to roll with it for a while longer."

"Suit yourself."

He was sarcastic of course, he didn't exactly find not-existing fun either.

"Maybe there is a place around here I can hide from the effects." *PHUFFH!*

He recoils, shakes his head, pressing a palm to his temple. Is his hand shaking?

"Dunno where, though. I haven't had my PDA on that much lately." Mostly because the last time it was on it started playing the pac-man theme at humongous volume and just WOULDN'T STOP. "You know of anyone who has a place safe from the effects around here?"

Night Not Only Falls, It Bounces Too

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