crossmyheartandhope

Depends on how risky you feel

but if you don't want me to find your hiding spot, you can come up to AlcheMe.

hurricane: i got plenty of hiding spots
hurricane: give me half an hour tho
hurricane: i can go there

Take your time, I'll be here. With snacks! All the snacks.

[It's almost an hour before the next texts comes.]

hurricane: hey get ur door

[DOOR CLICKS but--doesn't open for a moment]

Close your eyes!

[Closes? His eyes??]

...uh. Okay?

[unsure if hurricane is over his kitchen trauma, and also alcheme is like, 90% reflective crystal. Also with a giant fucking wall mirror right in the center]

[DOOR OPENS and he's tugging him in]

I can't let you see the way to my secret base!

[Keeps his eyes closed.]

Oh, uh. Sure.

[He looks... pretty rough, tbh. He has changed clothes and bandaged the worst of the wounds, but he has not actually been home long enough to shower, and he is decidedly down a leg and working with a makeshift crutch.]

[BUDDY...........

u know what

JUST FUKKIN SHRINKS HIM AND SCOOPS HIM UP. TO C'S ROOM!!! Gonna sat him down and regrow him.

his room is still crystal but he's been back 2 days now and has promptly pulled shit out everywhere; such a white board with scribbles, outfits everwhere, furbies, horrible dolls, broken puppets, feathers, masks, rope that leads to ??? and just, whatever other mess he's had time to make.

He heads to his closet]

Okay, it's fine now.

[Opens his eyes again, and - blinks. At all the stuff.]

...secret base, huh?

Almost. [waves his hand. HOBBLE INTO THE CLOSET, FRIENDO]

[H... hobbles into? The closet??]

[in the closet!

except actual stepping through, it's a big ol' prop room. There are mannequins, super low quality costumes, stuff for making school play style set pieces, and so many prank items. Just, so many. Fake mustaches, wigs, rubber chickens, silly snakes, you name it, it's probably there.

C takes a seat on a few boxes]

Ta-daaa! Whaddya think?

Looks like you stepped your game up.

Where'd you even get all this stuff?

Most of it came with the upgrade! I figure if I'm gonna do a bunch of big Lives, I might as well have a room dedicated to it, y'know?

But speaking of thinking big! You still have big plans too, huh?

I mean... not so much. Not anymore.

Eeeeh? What happen?

Gimme details, subordinate! Spill your heart out!

I mean... how much've you heard?

You guys got wrecked by an angel while trying to get to Azzy's place--like SUPER wrecked, and had to abandon the other angel you were looking for, and Intensity had to throw down some blank check to get you back.

And you recently decided you were gonna keep looking for the angel anyway! Summoning someone, I believe? Sorry, I peeked at your plan.

Yeah, well. 'S not the plan anymore.

Intensity called me off.

[Please hold, though, while he digs into his super hero belt pouch for a sheaf of papers and hands them over to C.]

...here. I got the long version, if you want it. We were trying to break into P's place, not Azzy's. Were kinda hoping we'd find a clue on how to get to there.

[taking them to look over]

Intensity managed to talk you out of it? Wow, you guys must have REALLY taken a beating. Like, harder than I imagined.

So what now?

[It's these, minus the green parts. Hurricane's taken some care to be neat and pay attention to spelling.]

He kinda wiped the floor with us.

But I dunno what's next. Sounds like he's got better people on the job for finding a way in. So.

[dang nice. idly keeps reading as he speaks]

Oh, yeeeeaah, that's right. He asked me not to tell you the name of the big demon city for now! I'm gonna acknowledge that promise because I really don't wanna see you running off alone. But I'm sure the gears are already turning in Intensity's head for round two.

So all that said, good job!

[I mean. Legit. He can't blame them for holding out on info, though he does hunch in a little bit when C brings it up.]

On what? I messed everyone up, got someone kidnapped and tortured, and got a whole bunch of people killed.

While I'm not thrilled to know it was so bad you all had to go through Lilith to get back, all things considered you set off quite the chain reaction of events! At least SOMETHING interesting happened.

Torture and dying isn't really anything new here, and your angel buddy may be gone, but hardly forgotten. Plus, it was another angel that took you guys out, right? That means there's a high chance they're not planning on snuffing out your guy. So you'll get to see him again.

It's like an intermission! Neeheeehee, I wonder how big act two will be.

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