1st Quarter Alert [Action/Video]

[gonna_shoot_it]

[When Calhoun awakes, she finds herself facedown on a table in what must be Tapper's. The wood is slightly sticky under her cheek and smells of root beer, although when she moves a hand around stiffly, there's no mug anywhere to go with it. Which is strange.

What's also strange is that she's in Tapper's when she's supposed to be leaving Sugar Rush. That was the last thing that happened, right? Wreck-It had finally gotten his butt moving and they were going back to where they belonged before...

Stiffly, Calhoun sits up and looks around. And her eyes narrow. This isn't Tapper's. Wherever this is, it isn't the familiar watering hole filled with other arcade citizens. There isn't a single familiar face anywhere. And her gun is nowhere to be found.

For that matter, her armor isn't anywhere to be found. This is a plain white dress. What in the seven levels is this dress.

Calhoun is not amused. With a low growl, she gets to her feet - hits her head on the low-hanging light over the table - and takes another glaring look around the bar. Definitely not in Sugar Rush anymore. This isn't saccharine pink enough. There is, however, a thick journal with her name on it. She knows better than to leave a key item like that behind. After flipping through it quickly and deciding it's infinitely TL;DR, she takes the impatient route and just pokes at the transmission options a few times before she finds the video function.]

Anybody care to share what the flying fairydust is going on around here? Short version. I don't have the time to go through this whole cheat guide here.

[Aaand end transmission.

Alright. Now. First things first. She has to find her scanner, then her gun, then her armor. Then she can figure out what happened.

And somebody is going to get smacked for this.

Calhoun can be spotted slowly making her way through the main part of the village, looking almost like a lioness on the hunt at first as she tries to sniff out any kind of threat. Once she's made her stops into all the stores and found what she's looking for, she'll be a little more at ease, but no less irritated-looking. She's still got this place to scope out and figure out.]

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[eightlazylegs]

[And while she is making her way through the doors, she may come across a shelf with a winged octopus sitting on it. He's got a purple cashmere hat covering the top of him and several of his tentacles are wrapped in reinforced leather.

He's attempting to open a packet of fish.]

[action]

[gonna_shoot_it]

[Of all things to weird her out, it's not the fact that there's an octopus, or even a winged octopus with reinforced tentacles. It's the hat.

And so she's giving a blank stare at that hat.]

...Huh.

[Action]

[eightlazylegs]

[Hermes looks up at her. It's hard to read expression on an octopus, besides the dulled color of his skin, but he seems to be returning the stare in kind. The fish packet is extended to her.] Open.

[Action]

[gonna_shoot_it]

[Calhoun looks down at the fish packet. And then back up at the octopus. And she frowns.]

Why?

[She doesn't take orders well, Mr. Octopus.]

[Action]

[eightlazylegs]

[This stumps him a moment. Usually people are so surprised they just automatically do as he says.]

Because.

[Action]

[gonna_shoot_it]

"Because" isn't a good answer. I'm not here to play mommy and hand out favors.

[Yup. Arguing with a cephalopod. A day in the life.]

[Action]

[eightlazylegs]

[Hermes makes a noise of irritation.] Fine. How can make open packet?

[Action]

[gonna_shoot_it]

Grab the top of it with one leg, hold onto the rest with another, and tear the top off. [He can manage that much, right? Any other method might be tricky with octopus legs.]