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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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And the two legs on Tavros' end of the table weren't balancing too well on his footrests, either. He fumbles, trying to rescue the listing table. It's a close call, not the first they've had today. As they stop to rest again, he laughs and folds his arms on the table.

"We must, uh, look like idiots with this thing." Sometimes you can't help but laugh. They were supposed to be part of the big adventurous Outsiders proving their worth to the adults, and here they were barely able to move some furniture.

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Alex laughs and lets his head drop onto the table with a thud. "Y-you'd think we c-could manage this b-better." He looked up smiling at Tavros, "H-how many geeks does it t-take ta move a t-table?"

"More than two, uh, I guess. We won't be, um, busting any stereotypes today."

He takes advantage of the break to look around curiously. Human architecture was similar to what he was used to, but the materials they chose were so... dead. All kinds of stone and cement.

Alex laughs, not really thinking anything odd of the city. It wasn't quite what he was used to- it lacked all the sky-scrapers- but it was still a forest of concrete and black-top. "Y-yeah. Oh! H-how many programmers does it t-take ta screw in a lightbulb?"

He tried lifting the table and walking backwards slowly again, though without the tendrils this time. He was too entertained by their !fail to summon them.

"Oh, uh... I give up. How many?"

Tavros rolls forward slowly, trying to match Alex' pace. At least he's finally got the balancing act down.

"The hell is this?"

Tavros: It's a large talking book being carried by a vapidly cheerful green-haired girl who just wandered up.

Alex: Oh god, it's Zetta.

"None!" He said with a smile, "Th-that's a hardware p-problem!"

Then Zetta announced his arrival, loudly, as usual. The distraction proved enough to halt their process again as Alex tripped over a stone, falling backwards onto the pavement. Fortunately, Alice was used to Alex's un-coordination and was able to hold on for the fall, though the arrival of Zetta sent her down Alex's sleeve once he stopped falling.

"O-oh god," he said softly, "Z-Zetta." Looked like 'his overlord' had decided to visit.

Tavros was still laughing a little at the awful joke when a badass freakin' overlord decides to grace them with his presence. His laughter's cut short as Alex falls, but the guy seems to be okay, so he glances uncertainly at the book and girl.

"Uhh... hi. This, um, wasn't your table, was it?"

He's addressing the girl. Because seriously, even if it has a face, the thing she's carrying is clearly a book.

Taking a walk to acquaint himself with the city, Shiki stumbles across the bizarre scene before him. While the entire scene seemed really odd, nothing really surprised Shiki anymore. Besides, none of them seemed like genuine threats (including the self-proclaimed "Most Badass Freakin' Overlord").

Shiki asks "Would you like some help with that?" as he offers his hand to the blond-haired kid on the pavement.

Zetta: Status screen crashes upon trying to look at Shiki's stats

"No, that's not my table," the book said. Yes, it is very definitely the book talking. "You guys are just sucking at moving it."

Zetta, paragon of diplomacy and tact.

He's going to be irritated when he checks Shiki's status screen. He just hasn't quite yet.

Alex stands without the help of the other teen, shying from the contact. He tries to make up for what he was sure would be precieved as an insult with a nervous, awkward smile. "Y-y-yes, Z-Zeta, w-we're s-sucking at m-moving it," he turned to Shiki, "b-b-b-but s-some h-help w-wouldn't h-hurt, if i-it's not t-too much t-trouble?"

Tavros glances at Alex, then Zetta. There's the stutter again, worse than ever, and he can feel his own anxiety rising as he tries to figure out what sort of threat the book poses. Is it some sort of spellbook, maybe? Or something more powerful locked in that form? Or maybe it's a mouthpiece for the girl.

Maybe asking isn't the wisest thing he could do.

"Yeah..." he finally ventures, "I guess we, uh, kind of suck at this."

But, he reassures himself, they're better at it than a book would be.

"No problem. I would be glad to be of some help."

Shiki prepares to grab one of the legs on Alex's side.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Tohno Shiki."

"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?"

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Fixin' this here....

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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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