Chapitre 430: Tropes [#4]
Title: Episode about You (Part 1)
A dreaded day approached.
Garren knew he was in a Sitcom show world, but he never expected there to have a fucking episode dedicated to him!
He could hear a fucking opening song already...
[Episode Starts!]
The Boy Next Door - The Golds finally seem to notice their kinda weird neighbor. Nobody seems to remember when he moved in, nobody even knew that he had moved in, he just... appeared one day!
The Golds are kinds curious about this neighbor, and it is up to Andrew Lawrance "Larry" Gold and his best friend Khaleel "Kenny" Naazy Al-Bahir to learn a bit more about this stranger.
Objectives - Hey, have fun! It's your episode.
Rewards - Tropes based on information and abilities displayed today!]
He was having a nice day- it was Saturday and he didn't have to go to school, so he decided: Hey, why not take Mister Hades for a walk? His gorgeous and intelligent cat seemed to like the idea because he himself went to get his leash while Garren prepared some bags in case he shits anywhere as well as snacks and little treats for him. He was wearing his casual sleeveless black shirt, which revealed his shoulder tattoo of a butterfly with the words [Mutatio, Incrementum] in the wings. He had just left his house when another duo had also left the home on the left side of his own home.
He recognized cute Kenny, so he lifted his hand in greeting before winking. He turned around to leave, and that was when he saw those words floating before his very eyes- Okay, fuck! "...just keep walkin', Mister Hades." His big cat made chipping noises reminiscent of a bird, and when he looked up at the same direction his baby was looking up at, he saw a black raven. "Oh, hello again." He loved ravens- they're such smart birds! Corvids in general are really smart, with many going as far as learning how to use tools, teach their children, visit their parent's nest, take care of their sick, and even hold grudges! They can also speak, but you need to teach them how to do it. "Come here, Erebos." The raven, who he named Erebos, landed on his extended arm. Mister Hades wanted to approach, so he lowered his arm and both cat and raven made clicking noises to each other before Mister Hades lost interest and looked around.
"Wanna come with, love?" Garren poked the cute raven who clicked his beak, so he gave him a little treat- sunflower seeds! "Here you go, Erebos... Where is your mate, Nyx?" Erebos wasn't alone, in fact, he had a mate! Having named him the God of Primordial Darkness, Garren appropriately named his little feathered mate as Nyx, the Primordial Goddess of the Night, sister and wife to Erebos. To answer his question, the raven took off towards his backyard- there, on the single gnarled tree, stood a nest! "Oh, cute." They had eggs to take care of! "Here you go then, feed your wife-" He gave the big black bird a small bag containing sunflower seeds from his pocket, watching as the big bird took off.
"You can stop staring now."
"Aargh!"
Stepping out (more like falling) from behind a few yard fences between his home and the Golds' home, both cute Kenny and his weirdly dorky friend (and main character of the sitcom) looked at him with two distinct looks- One of morbid curiosity, and the other with a shyness that spoke of guilt.
"Hello, cutie... and you too, Larry." He grinned wider when a flush of pink seemed to pass through Kenny's cheeks before he asked: "So, why are you two stalking me? I mean, Kenny I understand, but you? You don't strike me as being a Friend of Dorothy, but I have been wrong before." The look of 'huh?' he got from the less nerdy more dorky of the dorky and nerdy friends was hilariously blank, while nerdy and cutie looked at him with a bit of confusion before realization seemed to seep into his mind: "...Never mind." It was at that moment that Mister Hades, impatient, meowed to him- Mister Hades was a very outdoorsy cat, loving to walk around. He was castrated, so there was no risk of him going and making more kitties with some harlot out there: "Okay okay... You grumpy ass."
Turning around, he made eye contact with cutie as he said: "I don't know why you two are so curious about my house-" at that moment, as if he had triggered something, a noise went out inside the home. It was a thunk, most likely something had fallen from that faulty shelf he has been trying to fix but is having a hard time with it. But to others? It looked like his home was a hit haunted because of the sheer volume of the impact. To be a bit comedic about the situation, he sighed and said: "-oh, its trying to get me back inside again... Urgh." He might have underestimated his own power, because as soon as he said that, there was another thunk sound.
He looked back at the duo- they looked scared shitless of whatever was inside his house, but Garren rationalized: Hey, its a Sitcom world, nothing bad! So, with a wave of his hand, he whispered "Shhh" while pretending that the house would stay quiet. He spoke to the house: "Don't be dramatic, it's just a walk!" The house let out a sad creaking sound, like somebody had stepped on a creaky floorboard, much to his amusement: "Don't be like that- I'll be back before sundown." Like a happy dog, the front window snapped with a click! "Make sure nobody gets in- remember what happened last time? I don't wanna have to clean your mess again." He was having so much fun talking to a house that acted like an excited puppy, that he forgot there were other people there too.
He turned to look at his two watchers, and grinned: "Don't worry!" He reassured them- both because the look of shock in cute Kenny's face was adorable and because he didn't want them inside his house while he was out: "Just don't try enter the house uninvited, and nothing bad will happen!" With a casual turn, he turned his back to the duo- Mister Hades jumped into his shoulder, he was heavy but Garren wasn't a whimp, so he could carry him easily: "Have fun, boys."
And with that, he walked away, having had his fun and pretty much establishing himself as more than human.
[Congratulations!]
[You have successfully manipulated your reality by your own actions, adding the Genre <Horror> and Subgenre <Urban Fantasy> to your world!]
[For your achievement, you've received the <Mystical Source> Background Trope!]
> [Mystical Source - Mystical and magical things seem to happen around you for reasons beyond your understanding. You might find that you have something or are Mystical as well...
Effect - This Background Trop allows you to use the following Tropes.
Side-effects: You seem to be a magnet for Mystical and Supernatural things...
> [In the Bones - Like a calcified weather frog, you can feel it in your bones!
Effects: You can feel the presence of things and beings around you, knowing where they are.]
> [Mystical Hoarder - A normal hoarder is already bad enough, imagine one who collects weird trinkets?
Effects: There never seems to have a limit of space for storing things of supernatural or mystical origin within your base.]
> [Secretkeeper - A secret kept is a secret never muttered.
Effect: Those who have seen your more... supernatural or mystical abilities tend to be more silent about them. Be it disbelief, fear, or anything that makes them not share what they saw, felt, or heard.]
> [Mindblank - An empty mind is the devil's workshop- a blank mind? The devil's home!
Effect: Your mind is carefully kept blank from any thought. Nobody seems able to get a glimpse of what you're thinking or feeling, making you immune to various types of magics.]
> [Fearless - Fear is an instict to know when you're in danger- but you? You are the danger.
Effects: You don't feel fear, but you can easilt incite it within others, even accidentally.]
"...fuck."
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After the weird new kid had left with his wierd black cat, Larry found his breath again. He turned to look at the house- it was a prank, right? There's no way somebody's house could be alive! This is definitely a prank: "Oh man, that was a good one." He chuckled nervously while stepping away from the house. Prank or not, it was still a pretty creepy house! He nudged Kenny out of his shocked look- he must've been gotten good! Hey, he was too, this new kid was too good at pranking people that he actually believed the house was alive for a while. "Right, Kenny?"
"O-oh, yeah! Very... very The House Next Door." Kenny made another book reference- he has been doing a lot of them recently -that he didn't completely understand. Kenny does that sometimes, make references he doesn't understand and yet kinda gets: "We... uh, we should leave, right? Leave and-"
"Go to the comic book store, right!"
That's exactly where they were going... it just so happens that the direction New Guy (His name is Gary? Gabe? He doesn't remember) was going too! They passed by the creepy house that felt like it was watching them and went directly towards Mitchel's Magic Comic Book Store- on the way, things slowly came back to normal and they forgot about the weird encounter.
That was, until, they saw something that made them both curious and worried.
The new kid was walking around, his cat following him along, but there was someone else who was following him! He didn't seem to notice it, but somebody was following him... It was hard to make up who it was, but the shadow was tall and hiding away from everyone, they only saw it by sheer luck. "Is he in danger?" Because no matter how creepy the guy was, they couldn't let him get mugged, or worse! As he entered an alleyway, this shadow moved right behind him- Larry considered going after, but a harsh reality followed: What could he do? He's a wimp, a weal frail teen- he can't fight!
But as he hesitated, Kenny had moved- not towards the alleyway, but towards the comic book store that was right beside them. He got in and a few moment later, he came out with their sorta acquaintance? Mitchel was a tall black guy who was frankly intimidating, he was friendly, but whenever somebody started harassing someone else near his vicinity he'd go into protective mode and would make sure nobody was hurt. Larry has seen him do the same not only for himself and Kenny when one of their bullies- they have so many he doesn't even bother remembering their names -came into the store to harass them.
They were kicked out by Mitchel and they haven't bothered him nor Kenny for months now! Whatever Mitch did, it scared them shitless.
"So, a friend of yours getting attacked near here? You kids- I know you two are wimps but-"
As soon as they broke through into the alleyway they had seen Gary go down, a sight greeted them. It was a simmple sight, really, of the same new kid they've been following- except for the fact that he now has a black leather jacket that he had clearly taken from the thug that was on the ground. The same weird cat was hissing at the him and Gary turned to look at them: "Oh, hey! Didn't mean to cause a commotion. But what can you do, really?" With a sharp kickk to the fallen man's stomach, Gary turned and walked towards them and looked at Mitch: "Mitchel! Just the man I wanted to see... say, you received that DC collection? I was hoping to get, you know, two of every single edition."
"Damn kid, should've known it was you..." Mitch sighed and turned around, ignoring the man on the ground: "You gotta stop baiting thugs into alleyways too beat the shit out of them and then steal from them-"
"What're they gonna do? Call the cops?"
There was no answer to that.
'Holy shit... he's so cool!'
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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