Character House Madness

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

"Guys, uh... I don't think the skull is working too well. What am I looking at right now?' Sue asked, baffled. One side of the room there was a person-- at least, she assumed it was a person. He was shaped liked normal person, but he wasn't the right color of a normal person: the closest desrciption that Sue could come up with was that man was as colorful as a peacock.
Then the thing in the other corner-- which she hadn't even noticed because her brain didn't register it as having the typical characteristics of a living thing-- suddenly let out an ear splitting roar, and Sue jumped. The giant automaton of wall plaster charged at the peacock man with all the force of a train.
The man gave a hearty laugh and charged forward himself, his sword hand outstreched.
'Oh my god, he's gonna get crushed,' Sue thought in horror.
Her horror immediately turned to confusion again as the peacock colored man suddenly moved. No-- moved wasn't the right word. The simple laws of physiology dictated that no two legged ground creature could move the way he was moving right now. He had placed his too feet together and seemed to glide along in an effortless, friction less curve that allowed him to make a C shaped turn around the charging creature-- immediately reminding Sue of a merry go round-- causing the massive construct to collide so hard with the wall that bits of plaster shot out like shrapnel.
The man in the bizzare outfit mearly shrugged in a cocky manner. "OH, YOU NEVER DO LEARN, WALLY, YOU NEVER DO. I WOULD JUST-... what are you people staring at?"
The man had seemed notice the people who had come into his room, and he suddenly looked quite annoyed: like a child who was told he had to stop playing. "Can't you knock? There's only so often I get time off of work around here to have any fun."

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

The man dusted himself offóproducing dust that hadn’t been there before--and didn’t turn around as the golem began to pry itself out of the wall it had just smashed into.
“Oh, what are you all still eyeing me for? I need a break too! Time DOES still go on, regardless of space. I’m not like that busy body Sampson who can expand his work day for as long as he wants.”
The group stared at him blankly, their weapons still raised and ready to strike if the flambouyant stranger tried anything. But the man simply paced back and forth in a rather agitated manner, not the least bit concerned of the group of weapon wielders or the monstrosity that had now successfully gotten back to its feet with a roar.
“And I try to stop him, honest to god I do,” the man continued, petting his puffy beard idly as everyone else turned their attention to the large roaring wall creature.
“The man plays with fireóI don’t think the he understands the consequences of abusing his post.  I say to him ëSampson, now  every time you do your little rewind routine, you lower the entropy of the universe a little bit. Now, the stuff’s getting made so fast that things don’t lose their sway if a little goes missing here n’ there, but if you try to get a million things done in the exact same moment in time, that decrease in entropy will start to create problems.’ And the boss, he just-ë
He put a hand to his mouth for a moment as dull surprise lit his face, and then removed it to shoHe didn’t flinch “Sorry, I tend to ramble on when I shouldn’t,” he chuckled. “Any way, I’m glad I ran into you lot. Saves me a bit of trouble: you’re my next assignment.”

[Nick22]

what do you mean; next assignment?' minna asked blankly.. ' this guys a few platelets short of a suit of armor' Ilsa said, staring at the strange man, who seems to get more theaterical with every sentence..

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

“Yes, my assignment,” he said with a merry grin. “I guess that’s the proper way of putting it when talking about the business of mortals, eh?”

[StarfallRaptor]

Drago placed a hand across Sue's body, stepping forward.  
"If you intend to do any of us harm, or in any way become a threat to us..."
He growled calmly...

[Nick22]

are you some kind of deity, or Demon? ilsa asked. ' a god of some kind' Minna said looking at him. ' must like the form of a jester, apparently.."

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

The man chuckled merrily, spinning his sheathed sword in his hand like a baton.
“Oh, absolutely not!” he laughed. “You think the gods actually do there own work? ALL of it? Really? Oh,no no no no no, that would be such a massive headache! Imagine if Bill Gates was responsible for personally seeing to every little tiny detail of management. Bill Gates making the computers, Bill Gates marketing the product, Bill gates managing the middlemen, Bill Gates AS the middlemen, Bill Gates sweeping the flooróDo you see what I’m getting at? I have news for you, kiddies. All encompassing power does not exclude laziness: why would the gods do every tiny task under their sphere of influence when they could just hire employees to do it instead?”
“But I’m not here to give you a mission statement. I’m here to do my job, and that’s to give you lot a warning.”
The golem started to charge, it’s footsteps blaring around the walls.
The man didn’t react. Instead he looked mellow.
“The brass knew you all would try to get out of here: only natural, entropy and all. But you seemóI dare sayóSERIOUS about escaping. Now, that can’t happen. It’d… spoil, a lot of hard thought investments in this little project, you see. My boss has a share in it, and a lot of other powerful blokes do as well. They want a project that runs nice and smooth. I guess, in a sense... you could call me a bouncer, then."
He smiled. The Golem behind him kept chargingóand had been doing so for what seemed like an eternity. Then they saw it: somehow, someway, the room stretched out like a rubber band as he ran so he never got any closer.
“Now, scurry on back to your rooms, stay fit and tidy around that little living area we layed out for you, and I won’t have to come back and correct you. You need anything? I can provide it for you behind any of the empty doors down there, within reason. Just knock on a door and name it. But do take this seriously: I’m a nice guy. But if you keep trying to escape, me and the others are going to have to get involved here more. And believe me kiddies: you don’t want that. It wouldn’t be fun for anyone.”
He paused.
“Okay, that’s a lie: it’d be fun for us.”
He threw his head back and gave a shrill cackle as he suddenly vanished right before them.
“And one more thing,” his voice continued on even after he disappeared. “Could you take care of Wally for me? Knew you would; thanks a bunch! Do mind: he’s a bit deaf.”
The rubber-band like stretching of the room ended, and the golem charged directly at them like an angry bull.

[StarfallRaptor]

Drago was the first to react, immediately stepping in front of the others, grabbing the creature by the head and holding it fast, his armor shifting and molding itself into a large claw where his left arm was.  Still holding the golem, he chuckled.
"Guys, now's your shot.  Take this thing down!"
He yelled...

[Nick22]

ilsa and minna cast spells at the golem, knocking it back a little bit. Both girls had fought magical creatures before in their world, and this was nothing new to him...

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

Sue watched and listened, and what she saw in the background perplexed her. She saw the room get larger. But that couldn't be, couldn't it?
'Now's not the time. The others can tell me what happened later.'
Instead she listened to the peacock man's ramblings with a sense of unease. He wasn't insane-- after working with people with brain injuries and conditions all her life, she knew a crazy person when she heard one. It was in his voice: behind that ridiculous fluctuation of flamboyant tone, there was a weight to what he said that couldn't be faked and didn't sound paranoid or hallucinated.

As she saw Ilsa, Drago, and the others fight, she decided it was now or never. Visually agnostic or not, she was still a yellow belly, and as a yellow belly she sported claws that could rend flesh from bones.
Giving a cool exhale, she carefully jogged to the backside of the Golem and began slashing at it's ankles, hoping to help knock it over.

[StarfallRaptor]

Juri smiled as Sue started attacking the ankles of the Golem, flipping into the air, kicking off the golem's back, and then landing behind it next to Sue.
"That was a clever move.  Mind if I...cut in with a little help?"
She said, throwing a swift series of slashes into the thing's legs, which, along with Sue's strikes, caused the Golem's legs to give from under it, allowing Drago to lift it with his transformed arm, throwing it upwards into the ceiling as Utena kicked off a wall to slam it further in with a strike from her staff.  The Golem remained in the ceiling, however, seeming to shift its' body to a quadrupedal form, face staring at the group...

[Nick22]

minna wacked at the golem with her staff, while ilsa sent darts  of razor sharp ice at the golem, and they stuck. ' but the golem didnt seem to be bothered much by thier attacks..

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

Tattered wallpaper hung from the golem's body like sheets of torn of skin. Underneath it was the dusty glint of old metal pipes, and the strange varigated orange and yellow swirls of construction wood. The only thing unidenifiable were the eyes: there was something inside the eye sockets on the twisted brick head, there was no doubt, but it didn't seem substantial. It was if as if two embers on their last breaths of life were stuck at the back of it's eye holes like the candle in a jack-o-lantern.

To Sue, the creature was just a big humanoid (now a quadruped) with blobby, unrefined features. She believed that any healthy mind would naturally be drawn to wonder about the pecularities of anything strange it encountered, and that drew energy that could be used on more constructive thought.
For example, the first thing that popped into her mind when she saw the creature suddenly take to four limbs was a young memory from when she was probably no more than six. She remembered how four footers would brag how strong they were: they were harder to knock down, harder to disorient, harder to tire, and generally could put more force into their legs than any two footer ever could. Four footer kids bragged how their parents were on the Great Valley council, and how there were far fewer two footers presiding. Her six year old self seethed with jealosuly for awhile when she heard that. She had went and asked her father: "Why can't I have four legs, like all the Threehorns, and the Longnecks, and the Spiketails?"
And her father-- the most charming man she had ever met, and wouldn't live to see the end of the year when she had asked him this-- and told her: "Hon, do you know why most sharpteeth are two footers?"
"Uh... Is it because... Uh..."
Her father tipped a wink at her, leaned in close and said to her: "They're two footers because all a flatooth would need to do to get away from them was walk in a circle. Four footers turn around about as quickly as the phases of the night circle. That's why you never see a Threehorn or a Longneck ever walking into a narrow passage way: if they hit a dead end, they have to walk backwards to get out!"

Sue's eyes shifted to the left. Even with visual agnosia, she could always recognize a hole when she saw one, and right then and there she saw a pretty big one in the wall from where the creature had tried to attack her earlier.
'Wait... it made a dent in the wall?' she wondered, blinking, and then pushed the thought to the side for a moment. She ran in front of the hole and began to wave her arms.
"Guys! Let's get him stuck!" And she felt confident in shouting this as loudly as she pleased. After all, the golem had a mouth and eyes, but no nose and, more importantly, no ears.

[StarfallRaptor]

Drago chuckled, rolling his shoulders as his arm reformed itself to it's original shape.
"Good plan, Sue.  That may just work."
He said as the others circled it...

[Nick22]

vilsa and minna started casting spells at the golem trying to plug him into the hole. the size of it made affecting it difficult.. ' we're starting to move it ' minna groaned..

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

The creature
('Wally? Really?' Sue thought)
clearly recoiled from the spells hitting its body, but it still didn't seem to take any damage. Sue looked at the thing as it charged. A thought had occured to her.
Wally. That wasn't a random, lunatic name thought up by the cuckoo man in the peacock get-up: this golem, if it hadn't been obvious enough, was made of wall. But it took until now for her to realize that it wasn't just made of any wall.
'That nut job,' Sue thought, thinking back to how he seemed to be able to stretch the room like a rubber band. 'He must have used magic to make it from the wall'.
Sue looked back to the hole that the golem made.
A thought seemed to cross her eyes. As it came, it left, and she shook her head as if to get rid of it. Instead she goaded the golem on, waving her arms and hoping it would charge right at her.

[Nick22]

minna and ilsa continued throwing magic at wally, for that was its name.. ' who the heck names golems? Ilsa said as she threw a ice blast at it..
- dont ask me, it could be worse, you could name your staffs or something like that. minna said.

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

The golem charged, and it was at that moment that Sue got a very bad case of 'headlights' syndrome. It was one thing to picture a creature the size of an elephant charging at you and another thing to see it. As a visual agnostic, she could recognize characteristics even if she couldn't recognize entire entities: for example, she could very easily see that this Wally chap could smear her across the floor like a bug on a windshield if it collided with her.
So she froze, hesitating slightly longer than she should. 'Move... Move!' she forced herself to think, and only made slight jerking movements. The golem was rapidly reaching the distance of no return, where she physically wouldn't be able to get out of the way in time.

[StarfallRaptor]

As "Wally" rushed Sue, Drago and Juri sprung into action.  Juri flipped over it, catching it on the blade of her sword and stalling it just long enough for Drago to enlarge his shoulder and slam into it hard, forcing it against the cracked wall...
"Are you alright, Sue?"
Drago asked, holding it pinned to the wall...

[Nick22]

minna and Ilsa sent a fresh flurry of fireballs into the golem. ' i think it is time to fall back' Ilsa said to the others..' get out of here and regroup..