The Tea Room (Renovated)

[The Ace]

She always does. I was hoping she'd snap out of it, but if she's found a panel of switches and levers........

Has anything stranger than usual happened today ?

[HoopyFrood]

*Comes in*

Which one?

I'm not-

Look, you're the one with the long term, I can't remember, just point it out!

*Points at a wall*

Awesome!

*Runs headlong at a wall, which splinters and smashes, revealing a small space behind it*

*Pushes broken plaster and wood off herself*

Ow, ow, oh -

Shut up, it's just a few splinters. And lookee! Here's the start of secret-behind-the-wall-bits. And there all you were, just sitting around wondering. "Oh, where's she gone, oh, woe..." Action, people! Jeez.

[The Ace]

Sticks his head into the room, "A little help ?"

The secret passage.

[No One]

Evenin' Hoops.

*Watches Ace move into the secret passage and ponders his next move*

[HoopyFrood]

*Sweeps plaster out of her hair, pulls herself out of the hole in the wall, and narrows her eyes at No*

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

*Wanders inside and looks at the hole in the wall, shaking his head* People really shouldn't leave things open like this, they could get trapped somewhere. *Runs outside and gets a wheelbarrow of quick-drying cement and some bricks and starts to brick the passage up* There. And now a resistance spell. I think I have just the one.

Um, where's my white bag?

[HoopyFrood]

*Kicks the layered bricks and drying cement, and it all comes crashing down again*

Whoops.

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Can't you see I'm trying to close this off? We don't need anyone trapped in there. Now leave it alone or I'll drown you in black coffee.


*Replaces the wall and searches his pockets, pulling out an instant resistance spell*

[No One]

Oh great, seems like SE has disappeared again...

And Karn, um, I believe Ace is in there.

*Sees the frightful eye-narrowing glare of Hoops and checks that he hasn't been turned into stone*

Y'know Hoops, you could really help the cause of destroying Jim while you're "here". Not that I'm implying your just in some kinda phase or mood or anything...I mean...oh crap.

[HoopyFrood]

*Shrugs* Apparently the whole wall just rotates or summat, anyway. Levers and stuff inside. But the hole was fun, so win-win. Alas, your oh-so-innocent paradoxical attempt to trap people ain't gonna work.

But just because I can...*kicks the wall down again*

Argh, my foot...!

MY foot. Quit bitchin'.

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

What? Ace was in there? Oh dear. And I made it completely immune to all technological attempts to break through-and it's highly resistant to all known forms of magic. That is, if that instant worked the way it should. One really should never use instant except in dire emergencies, but something happened to my white bag, apparently. I always keep it by my recliner in the northeast corner and it's gone now.

[HoopyFrood]

And there was a chance for us to all have a fun adventure. Some people are just spoil sports, really.

*Prods the entirely resistant, you're-never-getting-through-cos-it's-impossible, wall*

*Steps a couple of paces to one side*

*Smashes through the wall again*

*Looks a little dizzy and concussed* That one was a little harder. But oh, look. Looks like the passage runs alongside all of this wall here.

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Well, that one I can leave open. *Shakes his head and chucks the wheelbarrow out the window, not bothering on checking whether or not it was open and stomps off, muttering about not being told there were people in the passage*

[No One]

Well, it'd be handy if Siggy was here, but Ace did fight for us through Hallowe'en and I'm going in! Even if he did almost shoot me a few times...

I'll leave a note for the Sig.

*writes a note and pins it to the wall, then dashes into the secret passage...*

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Well, have fun.


I don't go on adventures much anymore. I get the feeling that I'm usually not wanted and that I'll mess things up. Because I usually do.