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What made these two think they could carry a table? [open!]

Now that the City was once again open for exploration Alex and Tavros agreed to make thier way down to fetch from the city a table on which they could play card games and store video games.

Unfortunately, the desk-sized table was too big to fit into Tavros's captchalogue. Even more unfortunately, neither of the pair were particularly physically skilled. As a result, they were moving very slowly down the city streets, trying to awkwardly balance the long table between them, and failing miserably... repeatedly, even with the help of Alex's shadow tendrils. He just wasn't able to concentrate on enough of them to really make them very useful.

"Tavros, g-g-grab that l-le- argh!" He show one of his tendrils out to catch the side that was slipping, only to have another one of them dissipate. He stops, so that the pair could both rest and bask in their failure.

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"Okay, you three, I'll -- OW!"

The Overlord squinched one eye shut, eyed the new guy, then looked again. The hell is that? Looked like someone had let Alex's rat tap-dance on a character map!

Zetta considered this a moment, then decided he was the badass freakin' Overlord, so it didn't matter. "I'll direct. Alex! Get on the one side in the front! Percent-ampersand-half-semicolon-question-mark, other side in the front. Guy in the chair! You get behind, lift it, then let their walking roll you!"

"My name is Shiki, not Percent-amper-whatever."

Taking his place at the front, Shiki once again turns to the blond teen.

"So what is your name?"

Although Shiki has met quite a few creatures which would never be mistaken for human, he was still more comfortable interacting with those who could.

"Shiki? Not... Eri?" Zetta said, squinting in careful appraisal as if his question were a dramatic reveal rather than a total non-sequiter. "Nah," he said after a moment. "I guess you're alive.

"Lift more better!" he snapped at them all.

Alex flinched, expecting to hear a slap, that being Loretta's general reaction to such poor grammar- unless it was done on purpose and in Zetta's case, it probably wasn't. Of course, Loretta still being in the pods meant that the slap never came. He frowned a bit, but directed his attention to Shiki, "A-Alex." He nodded over to Zetta and smiled nervously at Tavros, telling both him and Shiki, "A-and th-that's Zetta. Y-yes, he's n-normally l-like this, b-but with l-less... b-being c-c-c-" he stopped and took a breath before trying again, "c-confused, a-about th-things l-like n-names."

He turned to Zetta now, doing a terrible job at attempting to lift his half of the table, "A-are y-you okay Z-Zetta?"

Tavros follows orders, which fortunately involved doing almost exactly what he was doing before Zetta showed up and ~~started bossing them around~~ bravely took charge of the situation.

At Alex's words, he frowns a little. He never introduced himself, and neither did Shiki until just now, so it's not like he expected Zetta to know their names. Maybe it's different on Talking Book Planet, but he decides to be polite.

"Hi, Shiki and Zetta. Uh, I'm Tavros."

"OVERLORD Zetta," the book stressed, "the most badass freakin' Overlord in the cosmos! And of course I'm fine, Alex! I'm an Overlord! I don't know how to not be fine!"

The psychic influence over animals/mindless constructs might be a surprise, but otherwise there's nothing too amazing about Tavros' status screen. Pretty average across the board, good intelligence, low will.

He shrinks back as he's corrected.

"Overlord Zetta," he quickly responds, "uh, sorry."

"Eri?" Shiki makes a quizzical look in The Overlord's direction.

Turning back to Tavros, "Nice to meet you."

Bracing himself, Shiki lifts his part of the table more easily than one would expect of someone with his stature.

"S-s-sorry, O-Overlord Z-Zetta..." He shied away, even though he knew Zetta wouldn't actually do anything.

When Shiki easily lifts his part of the table, he completely takes it out of Alex's hands. It wasn't all that heavy in the first place, and Alex had barely been able to lift it. When Shiki manages it without a problem, Alex steps back and stares at the newcomer.

"Hey! That's not teamwork!" Zetta grumbled. "How are they gonna learn if you're hauling all the weight?"

Tavros looks a bit dubious at this, but he holds onto his end of the table. He feels really dumb letting himself getting dragged along behind this new guy, though.

Okay, suddenly lifting the table was probably not the best idea. Gritting his teeth, Shiki shifts his stance in order to maintain his balance as the world around him starts to spin. Luckily he is able to recover before his anemia decided to have him collapse with the table following him to the ground.

".... Whew. Okay, where does this table need to go?"

Alex managed to reach out to help steady Shiki. "A-are y-you o-okay? I-it needs ta g-go ta o-our room," he looked over to Tavros, "b-but i-if y-you're n-not okay, th-then we c-can manage on o-our own." He looked really considered, even though he had only just met him.

Wow. They all suck. What the hell?

Then again, they were at least trying. Zetta didn't say anything critical, just watched. If they started to tip or whatever, he'd be right on hand to... shout out directions.

Tavros nods in agreement at Alex's words. "Yeah, uh, it's going sort of a long way. So, it's okay if you don't want to, carry it that far."

He holds up his end of the table. He's still a little self-conscious, but at least he's helping. Also he doesn't want to get yelled at some more by the Overlord.

"No, it's fine. My anemia just acted up briefly. I should not have a major attack anytime soon so let me help. Besides, it looks like the two of you are having trouble by yourselves."

Shiki shrugs off his nausea as the effects of his small attack wore off. Really, living off of half of someone else's life force can be such a pain at times.

"Alright, I will need directions on where to go if I am to be in front."

"W-well, o-our r-room's r-right b-by the media l-library, s-so l-lets g-get c-closer ta there." He looked behind him and began to slowly back up with the table.

"Hey Alex. Step to your right."

Zetta actually offered some useful help?! Indeed, there was some random detritus that was just begging for Alex to pitch backwards over, the way he was walking.

Alex looked at Zetta increadiously, "O-okay..." and then obeyed.

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Hey! wait for us! XD

someone fill me in on this status stuff I never played the game :c

Zetta can see status screens like a player would see. Not much of a fourth wall.

Ooh, awesome.

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