OOC: This post is for everyone. I've got to put a lot of work into a side project for the next 2 months, but I don't want the momentum of things to slow down. So this is an invitation to all of you to sort of split your characters into two simultaneous stories.
-Time in the Sideways flows differently than regular space. Two people can have 1 hour of conversation while one foot over someone barely has time to blink an eye. You can retain your memories from Sideways anytime something happens in the regular threads if you want to. I'll still post in the regular threads as I am able.
-In the Sideways, your characters determine their environment. They can see each other, but they each exist in whichever place they choose to exist. They can go independent, or they can join another character's space. If they join a space, the creator of the space they join is acting GM of that space.
-No death is permanent in the Sideways. You respawn immediately in the room your character in the threads is currently existing, with those items.
-Each time you post, you can pull from anywhere an item worth the length and content of your last post. You can save up these pulls to use at a later time. You could pull copies of your own items, someone else's items, or even imaginary items.
-You drop your items wherever you die or faint (drop to (0/X) in your cliche), but you can retrieve them in one pickup in the second (or later) post of your respawn.
-Everyone should try to create at least one NPC to battle together in whatever way you each choose to do battle. One person could be fighting the dragon with sword and shield, while another is arguing the finer points of a legal case in court with the same dragon. So that you don't have to wait for someone to go first, there is a dragon in the Sideways, and he's after each of you. Battle (in your own way) the Dragon (5/5) and have fun.

EDIT: The events that occur in the Sideways are canon for the characters' memories, and will play an important part in future story. This isn't just a filler, it's part of the story.


Wherever you are, a hand reaches out to grab you through a slit in space and time. The hand pulls you sideways through that slit and looking at you as a vertical line, suddenly the short person squeezes through your mind into a 3D leprechaun. He says, "Welcome to the Sideways, chaps! Enjoy!" And he disappears.

You find yourself in the last room or place you remember being in, but all the people are ghostlike and stationary. You are alone. You ultimately go to the first door you see, and through that door, you see the next place you think about. Describe what happens.
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Scord finds himself suddenly pulled from the inside of a museum in a giant tree into the Sideways version of that place. All of the people around him are now ghostly and he listens to the Leprechaun with interest. He says outloud, "Hey, Leprechaun, are you a Pskaenian?"

The Leprechaun's head pops through a slit in the Sideways, "No... but this is the place you think it is. This wouldn't be the first time that a place's imagineer ended up inside the place they imagined. And it isn't the last. Bye now!" and he disappears again.

Scord walks to the door he last went through, and instead of seeing the outside of the tree, he sees a long corridor of closed doors as far as the eye can see. He says, "Hello! Is anybody out there?"

Finding himself suddenly surrounded by a non-audience of clearly illusory pirates, the balloon buffoon was greatly confused. He tried touching pirates, but his hand went through them. He looked left. He looked right. This was more confusing than a badly-done performance of The Marriage of the Tinalíya and the Shén was. Not that that play made much sense without explanations of Fasiltumian history (or was it mythology?) ahead of time.

Putting his wand-thing back into the carpetbag, the clown cautiously made his way to the doors he'd been brought in through. Warily checking to make sure everyone was still an illusion, he slid the door open and snuck out. Nothing made sense here, either. This wasn't what had been out here.

It was a gloomy-looking forest, and the trees bore sad, even crying faces on their trunks. How did you entertain trees?? He turned around again and tried the door which was standing inexplicably here in the forest without a wall. On the other side was a long corridor full of doors to the left and the right. Someone was calling out.

Bozon headed towards the voice.

Has been in places like this before... Immediately sinks off into a Japanese bathhouse to relax in a hot spring.

~.~ ahhhhh

Who wants to fight when you can be lazy and sooth your sore bits.

Scord headed down the corridor and met Bozon.
"Well hello there! Are you alive?"

One of the doors to the side opened, and he could see Azraile soaking in a hot spring. "Wait, are you Azraile!?"

OOC: The events that occur in the Sideways are canon for the characters' memories, and will play an important part in future story. This isn't just a filler, it's part of the story.

The barbarian clown nodded his head vigorously, trying to answer that question affirmatively. "Bozon!"

His nose lit up, startling him.

Looking back at Bozon, "I don't remember you, but you are certainly interesting. I have the ability to read minds. Do you mind if I communicate with you directly through our minds?"