AWKWARD ZOMBIE

This time, Jade was the one to open the door. His smile went forced, more like a grimace when he noticed Galiena's expression.
"Oh, hey, Galiena...wondered when you'd be here." He opened the door up to let her through, showing the two Fortes and new guest. "...he's making breakfast, by the way."

"Excellent!" exclaimed Future Forté, "Now all we need to do is wait for Jade, Galiena and I to arrive, then we can begin eating!"

"But...we're already here?" Jade asked, looking confusedly at Forte. Come to think of it, the strange man did make quite a bit of food...
Great. More weird time travel stuff.

[Sax, do you think it's a bit weird if we write for our future-characters after they fight Mrow right now even though we don't really know what they're gonna be like? I mean I can reverse-engineer some things with jade just for how the fight goes, but if you have it all planned out just say so.

"Ch-... Goddammit!" Roil cursed as he spun around, almost tripping over the water casks in the process. "Where the hell did you come from??"

Pellendro smirked. "Honestly, Reaper. This man clearly desires his presence known. The sound from whatever propulsion system he employs found my ears from miles away, and his footsteps were no more hidden."

Roil steadied himself, acting as though he hadn't just made a fool of himself for the second time in an hour. "Well... yeah. I mean... obviously I heard him. I just didn't realize he was so close. Th-... the way the sound carries here is... deceptive."

Pellendro would've been rolling his eyes at this point. He instead took a step toward their visitor. "State your business, stranger."

There was a knock on the door. Future Forté answered, completely unaware of the odd stares he was getting, including one from himself. He opened the door to reveal none other than...

"Jade! Galiena! Me! How nice of you to join us!" Said Not-future-but-still-more-resent-than-previously-Past-Forté Forté, "Please do come in!"

"Uh..."
the Jade already in the room blinked, blearily looking at the new Forte, Galiena, and Jade. An "oh my" escaped his mouth, staring directly back at the Jade from the hallway, who had on a slightly cheeky, sheepish smile. He could have sworn he had heard him--the other himself...chuckle.

Forté, Forté and Forté gladly conversed amounts themselves, much to the confusion of everyone else. Being used to time travel tends to make one at ease whilst talking to oneself.
So at ease in fact, that he decided to bugger up the flow of time even more.

With a bright flash, yet another figure appeared in the now crowded apartment.

"Hello, my temporally displaced selves! It is I, CAPTAIN FORTÉ! and I am here from the distant future to perform one final trip through time!" exclaimed what would hopefully be the last Captain Forté, "I have come to congratulate Jade and Galiena for a job well done, and to see them off as they begin their journey to complete said task! I also come bearing SPACE SHORTBREAD!" he declared, brandishing a large tin of the delicious futuristic treat.

The past versions of Jade and Galiena had seen this before of course, but their past selves were mighty confused.

"Also, I have come to remind you all of something important!" continued Most Distant Future Forté, "To preserve the flow of time, Galiena must give a facebattle to each of us!"

"But I do not remember any facebattle," replied Second-to-Farthest Past Forté.

"Neither do I," said Second-to-Farthest Future Forté, "and I would have remembered two!"

"Ho ho!" laughed so-far-into-the-future-that-we-don't-even-care-anymore Forté, "Of course not! It never happened! I was just hoping to trick the feisty girl into doing it!"

"Obviously it didn't work, as none of my future selves can remember any facebattle, or multiples thereof!" responded the youngest Forté.

"Indeed!" bellowed Ridiculously-far-into-the-future Forté, "It's a little time-travel joke! Going back in time to make something that didn't happen happen is a logical absurdity! You of all people should know that, and now you do! Which means I do! Because I told myself! Quite a humorous circle of shenanigans we have here, isn't it chaps!"

"Of course I remember! I have experienced this very situation once before!"

"And I twice! We are just pulling our own legs!"

"No doubt I will hear this joke twice more and tell it once to my collective selves! I see from my own reactions that it remains just as funny each time! I will be sure to remember it exactly after hearing it that much!"

"And you did! I remembered it because I told it to myself three times, yet only said it once! If this isn't a responsible use of time travel, I don't know what is!"

"DOHOHOHOHOHO!"

This is getting fucking ridiculous.

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"What...the hell?!" Galiena snapped, glaring at Forte--or rather, the Fortes. "Someone explain what's going on before I yank one of your helmets off your head and bludgeon you with it!"

The Galiena that had just arrived with the second Jade let out an irritated sigh and rubbed her eyes, then waved her had dismissively. "Just...just go with them," she muttered sourly, "and get it over with. Easier than trying to make sense of these nitwits on your own."

The first Galiena scowled and bit her lip. "...ffffine," she exclaimed. "Can we go now, then? As in, not in five more minutes?"



[[Sax that gif is beautiful]]

[~God dammit sax that's brilliant]

Zephiur looked between the two as he observed. One of them was very clearly of a noble presence, and the other seemed to harbor a mysterious purpose, but he sure seemed angry. After the nobleman asked him his business, he nodded and replied, "I've veered off my course and was hoping to get a bearing for my direction." he said, taking note of the dry heat in the area and subconsciously decided this is where he would stay until nightfall when he could get back to Mekanos.

[~Sorry for short post, I'll get back into this RP I promise]

"Very well!" shouted the Forté that will soon take the others back and has just returned them, "If Jade wants to leave now, we will. You two can eat when you get back, as in right now! What say you, Jade? Are you ready for some time travel? I already know that you will say yes, but I think it's good to let you at least think that you have a choice!"

Some men are just more subtle than others.

"Eheh." Jade made an unconvincing smile, hunching over as he grinned uneasily. "Yeah, I guess. Let's go."
The future Jade waved at his current counterpart. "Hey, it's not as bad as you're expecting!" He called out.
Jade grimaced. Let's hope so.

"THEN IT IS SETTLED!" shouted the Forté that was supposed to go back so he could come back, "We will leave at once! You can all eat when you come back, that is to say, after we leave."

Forté grabbed the correct Jade and Galiena and entered the coordinates on his device.

Forté from the distant future began to reminisce as he said, "I remember doing the time-warp, drinking those moments when the blackness would hit me."

"And the void would be calling..." muttered the other two.

"Let's do the time-warp again!" shouted the Forté that was about to go back, and so he did with the past versions of Jade and Galiena in tow.

Allen Tanner walked out of the gates, they were still trying to clean the blood from the stone streets.
making his way southwest, he saw a large are, a place of no life, no hope.

He saw a few people chatting in the distance, He couldn't hide anywhere, and had no jurisdiction here. Hopefully they wouldn't attempt to avenge someone on my behalf. He crouches down and listens.

[Also, Yay, time loops closing]

Hel wandered around the church district, attempting to gather her thoughts on what to do next. Pursuing the man who until recently wore PANK was out of the question. She knew not where the odd king had vanished to. She was at a loss. Perhaps she should search for house of law. Perhaps a prisoner would know where to find this man who wore PANK. She found herself at a prison. The guards immediately took her to a cell, for reasons she could not fathom. She did not object. She did not want to cause more destruction, not so quickly after the last battle.

She spied a couple of men in a nearby cell, muttering to each other. She heard the tail end of the conversation "... you can come along, but if you're caught don't expect any help." She grabbed a piece of bread the guards had left for her and threw it at the cell to get their attention.

"Hey jailbirds, do you plan on leaving this prison?" she whispered, sounding rather raspy and metallic.

Martin heard the metallic voice and iimediatly responded. He wasn't sure what to say but needed to come up with a plausible lie. "No, we were planning on ambushing our rival prison gang." Martin patted himself on the back for coming up with something that didn't suck, at least not that hard. He really didn't want to get anyone else involved.