People you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley

[18th Shard he/him]

Morzathoth, just because she sees things different doesn't mean it is invalid.

 

Winter, could you please describe where you feel moral guidance from? We'll start checking bindpoints tomorrow.

[Zathoth]

"I know, that was my point exactly... oh, I like your thinking! If we could find those bind points it would solve a lot of trouble."

[Voidus]

Sitting in a small alcove in Alley 31, Voidus watched the proceedings of the other alley unfold. Having determined that this was not a problem which could be solved with tacos he decided to leave the matter up to the other Denzens.

Pulling out a spike of an unknown silvery metal he began stabbing seemingly at random into the ground beneath him.

[Guest]

Kipper plopped into existence beside Voidus, swinging his legs over the edge of a nonexistent bench. He calmly handed a cup of steaming wassail to Voidus, and began sipping on his own.

They watched the events below in a companionable silence.

[Zathoth]

"... do you guys have a spike with some allomantic tin? I feel like I am at a disadvantage without it. And some bronze, bronze would be nice as well."

Edited September 17, 2015 by Morzathoth

[Redbird he/him]

Redbird pulled a spike from his multi-pocketed pants,"This atium spike is charged with both for convenience." After handing Morzathoth the spike he continued."If you experience any unexpected side effects, such as sudden magnetism or the urge to gallop across the plains, tell me, because then I may have to make some changes to the source.

[Zathoth]

Morzathoth stares at the spike before piercing himself with it. "Thank you, this should be useful."

 

"What happened to the Inquisitor that was going to kill me and the guy I was going to spike anyway?"

[Grey Knight]

A black, green-tinged vortex opens in a wall across from the DA scientists. A potato sails though, landing in the middle of the group. 

 

It starts ticking.

[Zathoth]

Morzathoth stares at the potato, considers the possibilities that it is either an extradimensional being, or a bomb, that somehow came through a portal, he decides that the best course of action is to take cover, even if it might offend the potato.

[Zathoth]

Morzathoth tapped his goldminds and healed his face. "Ok, thats it! I can forgive you for shooting a hole in my arm, but hurting my face is unforgivable!"

 

Morzathoth storms off into the lab.

Edited September 18, 2015 by Morzathoth

[ostrichofevil he/him]

Maleril realized everyone had forgotten about him, and left with a loud onomatopoeia.

[Fatebreaker he/him]

The Stranger sighed. Give an individual the ability to vanish and they think the world wonders how they do it. No one appreciated the fine art of Mysterious Vanishing. The just vanished and expected everyone to stare in awe. 

 

"Tsk, tsk young lady. You should show respect to the puppeteers who run this show."

 

He reached into his pocket and pulled an ornate pocket watch out. He stared at it for a moment, then grinned and whipped a glass spike from his pocket. He raised the spike aloft and said,

 

"That which would be, shall no more."

 

He rammed the spike through the watch and Everything stopped.

 

Everything disappeared 

 

"Excuse me? I'm totally not scared. I'm not a puppy."

 

The Stranger opened his eyes. The Test Subject jumped from the roof and Pushed herself towards Morzathoth. The Stranger snapped his fingers and a net shot out of the wall of the Alley they were standing in. Winter ran right into it and was inescapably tangled at once. There was a strange buzzing noise as an electric current ran through the net, paralyzing her completely. The Stranger stepped up and rammed a thin silver spike into her back.

 

"Ah but you are. You are no more than  a small puppy yapping at an Elephant. an elephant that can fly, breath fire, and is in fact a dragon in disguise. You should be aware that the dragon is patient and kind, but that if it wanted to it could eat you oh so very fast."

 

He pulled the thin glass spike from his pocket and held it to her eye level.

 

"Now tell me, do you know what this is?"

[ostrichofevil he/him]

Three guesses:

1. A Time Spike
2. A Reality Spike
3. A Spike of Pure Adonalsium

[Zathoth]

"Cool, reversing time, I want to do that too... anyway! Want to get to the spiking?"

[Voidus]

The Dark Alley Inc. would like to formally deny that it possesses the capability to rend reality as we know it a remold history to suit our whims.

And if you're not buying that we'll have to use our reality-rending spikes to make you buy it.

[18th Shard he/him]

Xanas looked at the potato and placed it in a temporal-spatial loop. "I was needing a new alarm clock."

 

He smiled at Winter, then held up a thin metal spike coiled in on itself like a doorstop. He flicked it and it vibrated, seemingly in two places at once. Then he rammed the still-bouncing spike into her Spiritual Aspect, directly between the wolf stapled on and her soul. "Then he flicked it again. The girl's form vibrated along the spike, splitting into two afterimages, one morphing into a wolf's ghostly form, the other her regular self, albeit a bit indistinct and ghostly. He inspected each individually, making notes on the new wolf.

[18th Shard he/him]

Xanas 2 watched his counterpart. Apparently, only one string's Xanas could exist physically at any time, and Xanas 2 was not it at the moment. It had been hard to splice his soul with himself; only with Fatebreaker's spike had he been able to spike out his own Essence and graft it on to a different timeline self, before his own timeline was dissolved. You could say Xanas 1 was the scientist, prodding at variables, experimenting. Xanas 2 was the observer, making notes, watching,  calculating. The Sproing Spike seemed to have finally separated Winter and the wolf temporarily, allowing one to be worked on without affecting the other. Xanas 2 imagined a Cognitive bead to be a taco, and ate it. It wasn't real, but it was the thought that counts.

[Grey Knight]

The potato exploded, seemingly ignoring the time loop, and engulfed the DA in a neon green flame. 

 

EDIT: Changed my response to fit the spatial time loop.

Edited September 19, 2015 by The Potato

[Voidus]

We go by lurkers or denziens usually but we're not too fussy about terminology, compounding Zinc tends to lead to the increasing realization that verbal language is simply a barrier to the expression of pure thoughts, theories and ideals. We prefer to express ourselves through science.

[Grey Knight]

(Ah. Shank you.)

[Voidus]

*Compounds gold to heal shank wound*

[Grey Knight]

(*Facepalm*)

[Zathoth]

The language of science is apparently very related to the language of spiking.

[ostrichofevil he/him]

Wait a minute.  Is Morzathoth actually a DA member?  He's not on the member list.

[Zathoth]

Good question, guess they never bothered to add me.