Night Not Only Falls, It Bounces Too

[mach-n-roll.livejournal.com]

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.))

Comments

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"You know, normally I'd mock for that, but that's just too much."

Sympathy? Clearly, Sonic must be hearing things.

"...I wonder if those incidents stop if we beat up that Melvin guy. Usually works back at home."

[mach-n-roll.livejournal.com]

The Werehog grins with a hint of nastiness in her direction.

"Yanno, shakin' him down doesn't sound like a bad ide--" *PHUFF!* Back to Sonic again. "Angh, man... what am I saying? Look, we can bug him but we can't beat him up! If we do then who'll fix it? Besides, he's just trying to help--" *PHUFF!* "Doesn't mean we can't give him the multiverse's worst wedgie afterwards for dragging his feet, though!"

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"Well, at home, people like that are usually beaten by the miko and things turn out fine. You sure it won't work that way here? He did seem to have that ally of his that saved the world a few times..."

[mach-n-roll.livejournal.com]

*PHUFFH!* "Yeah, I'm sure. This isn't Gensokyo, Tenshi! And he's not a really powerful Youkai or whatever! He's just a programmer!" Sonic, you know not what you speak!

*PHUFFH!* "Wait, what ally of his? What're you talking about?"

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but he can be a powerful programmer, with that elf dragon whatever person he has around."

What's a programmer again?

[mach-n-roll.livejournal.com]

Someone who writes programs. Like the games Kazumi told ya about? They sit on their butts for eight hours a day and make those--" *PHUFFH!* "Nnh. This is a different kind of program, but the same concept. Elf... dragon... wait--" *PHUFFH!* "ARE YOU SERIOUS? You're talking about his character in that stupid Demigorgon-Deva game! They aren't real! At least, I'm pretty sure they're not..."

In this place it IS hard to tell. They could be stumbling thru the routing gate even as we spoke, for all he knew.

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"...Not real!? But I thought...

...lets not fight him, then. Delusional people can't be too much fun."