In Which the Overlord Has the Least Subtle De-age Ever [Open]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Another day in the Overlord's Fortress.

Today, Zetta sat in his throne lazily, feet up on the most freaking sweet ottoman in creation, grinding out a few levels of the freaking sweet new game he'd picked up on XaXing (Nuclear Death Apocalypse Extravaganza: The Annihilation of All Mankind: Tactics) on his freaking 99" widescreen TV.

Yeah, he'd gone pretty wild at XaXing, to judge from the various tapestries and banner's now hanging on the walls, the statues positioned in key places around the fortress courtyard, the sapling planted in one corner that visibly distorted time around it, and various and sundry other luxury goods.

Oh yeah, and he apparently had a body. What's up with that?

[[OOC: So, uh, since Zetta's de-age is, as noted, as subtle as the Overlord himself, and we don't want an obvious reveal too soon, it would be appreciated if any characters who wander by not run off to tell lots of important people quite yet. ^.^ ]]

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[thewunderkind]

"I thought you were doing something less wholesome. Like exploding Prinnies. But anyway, yeah I had my share of playing them when I found a portable console during the second great war," she admitted (and this is actually canon) stepping closer to the TV, arms crossed.

He is playing a video game. PLAY. A. VIDEO. GAME.

"And you...play them too?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Yeah. What, you think being an Overlord is all smashing cosmos, perpetual fighting, laughing maniacally, and whatnot? Even we get to enjoy our goofing off."

Besides, anyone with an ottoman THAT sweet would take any opportunity to use it.

"Fact is, we have downtime and hobbies too."

[thewunderkind]

"I guess, but--" OH WHATEVER. She was going to address the elephant in the room before it got too ridiculous. So in her typical Lash fashion, she went at it in the most diplomatic, soft way as possible.

"SINCE WHEN DO YOU HAVE YOUR BODY BACK?!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"What?" Zetta gave Lash a look like she was crazy... which, while true, was probably not the proper response in this situation.

[thewunderkind]

"You know.." She moved her fingers in a slow motion. "Suddenly you have these. And a body. Did you get your book curse lifted?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Zetta blinked. Which looked even odder considering his eyes were just blank white voids.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

[thewunderkind]

"Your book form. Remember we were talking about getting you a body last week? A robot?" She still really wanted to do that robot. "And we fought in the sensoriums and I mentioned you have legs and hands and..."

Okay seriously what was going on.

"Is this some sort of Netherworld joke or you're trying to pull my leg?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Oh, I'd do more to your leg than pull it," Zetta said with casual lechery. Then right back down to business. "Yeah, I remember fighting in the sensorium. I seem to recall having a body THEN, too. Besides, you know you just like building robots. Are you sure you didn't imagine the whole thing for the sake of doing that?"

[thewunderkind]

She was about to scream something about the the legs and what he was talking about before confusion from the fact he didn't seem to remember anything just made her close her mouth again. She knew she couldn't have imagined it but why would he suddenly forget about it. Maybe if she could jolt her memory or...

"Do you have...a piece of paper and a pencil somewhere?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"...Sure?"

A minion stepped up to offer Lash a notepad and pencil. It was that Scientist-minion. Who arched her eyebrows suggestively, exactly as the Overlord had done moments ago when he'd casually hit on her.

My greatest artwork

[thewunderkind]

OH GREAT NOT THAT PERSON AGAIN. Swiftly trying to ignore the stares and winks from the woman, she took the pencil and paper and began to quickly sketch out Zetta's book form as much as her memory would allow her.

In the end the details weren't all there, but it was a pretty good facsimile she hoped.

"You looked like this."

...do I have userpic space left?!

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"That's weird," Zetta said. He meant her drawing, not the idea that he was a book.

On the other hand... he glanced over to the pile of banners, posters, hangings, and crayon drawings that he'd tossed into a pile for disposal. Most of them had an image remarkably like the one she'd just showed him on them.

Could the two be connected?

"Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? Why would I even be a book? I'm a demon."

pffthaha

[thewunderkind]

She looked back from her drawing to him, to the drawing, back at him. The drawing was now diamonds!

"You told me that the Ohm had messed up how your body was reacting and something about a book tomb and..." with so many people in the ship, keeping everyone's stories and histories was a job even a bit too hard for the wunderkind. "Don't you remember having a minion transcribing your stuff? Why would you do that if you have hands" she looked at creepy girl. "You remember him being a book, right?"

There was proof, in the pile that she wasn't crazy, at least. Or maybe just some sort of demon joke she was missing out on. She really starting to wonder if she was right or not.

"Is this for the time I made fun of you in that statue place?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Lash turns things into diamonds a lot.

The scientist nodded, grinning broadly. Zetta rolled his eyes. "You can't trust what she says. She wants in your pants like burning, she'd agree to anything you said. And if I were going to get back at you for making fun of me in that statue place, I'd have done it a long time ago. I'm not exactly big on delayed gratification, y'know."

[thewunderkind]

It's a gift.

"Why would she want my pants I don't have any-oh." She gave the winking scientist and glare that warned her not to get too close to anything attached to her legs.

Nothing of this made sense anymore. She knew she saw him as a book, there was no doubt about it. But Zetta didn't seem convinced and the only person who agreed with her wanted to make out. Maybe she could check out some of the ship's history records but even then who knew what Stacy could do. Relying on one's memories here could get tricky if she had no backup. It just left her without much choice but...

"You know what, just give me a controller and forget I said anything about book forms. Can she leave now?"

Ignore it for now and get herself distracted with videogames.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Zetta tossed her a controller as he nudged the eject button with his foot. Lash can be thrilled: the game he poses in is called EX:ForGE! "Build your own fighting robot!" is the tagline!

...Is she going to even remember her objections after like three minutes?

[thewunderkind]

Sorry, too busy exploiting the game's free rerolls for weapons displacement and changing the paint job to her giant fighting robot.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

It took Zetta all of thirty seconds to manage to design a robot that looked almost exactly like him.

It's a gift.

[thewunderkind]

Meanwhile Lash was working on some sort of four in one transforming vehicle.

This...might take some time.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"How are you even DOING that?" Zetta said, watching her in alarm.

[thewunderkind]

"I'm just using the movement nodes and articulation models that they carefully put into this simulation game and abusing then." She installed some sort of large grappling gun in the front. "Since I'm not using up all my points, I can invest in the higher grade materials which will boost the vehicle's resistance and..." there was a lot of jargon coming out of her mouth for the next few minutes.

However once she was done, the vehicle looked pretty impressive.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I can't even begin to tell you what's wrong with that," the Overlord grumbled.

[thewunderkind]

"Say that again when entire rows of robots will be completely obliterated by this death machine."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Don't MAKE me switch to 'Decade of Loathing: Tournament Edition'." He leaned one arm on his knee, chin propped on his hand as he waited.

[thewunderkind]

Oh you did so not open yourself to that one, Zetta. "What's this? Is The Great Overlord afraid of loosing at a video game against a simple human girl?"