Jasmine 2013/01/05(Sat)15:27 No. 482733 ID: 389f2b
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The princess only needs one Advi--

"Of course you can! You can be Mister Meow's equal! Just 'cause I can't see you doesn't mean you shouldn't be any less than him. What do you want me to call you?"

>"Jasmine? Is that you, sweetie? Who are you talking to?"

It's Sammy! She's headed this way!

>>482733
((I'm terrible at names, so I always pick a real(ish) one that relates to the situation, or I could pick mal, but that would screw up a lot of things)) My can call me Mazarin; it is an honor to serve you.

Why, you're talking to your nice disembodied royal advisors and their silly Cat friend! You'd offer introductions, but you believe they and Sammy have met.

Jasmine 2013/01/05(Sat)15:45 No. 482745 ID: 389f2b
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FOOLISH CHILD. You do not need them. You only need me. Until you realize this, I will be gone-and when I am gone, the others are as well. Including this Marazin! Until then, I leave you alone with your own mind!

Jasmine 2013/01/05(Sat)15:46 No. 482747 ID: 389f2b
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"....eeeeeeEEE!" I screech loudly, the floor around me turning into sticky blood as Mister Meow leaves.

Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)15:48 No. 482748 ID: 389f2b
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The girl begins to scream, and I start hobbling faster. The little play area she set up is all knocked over, tea staining the floor underneath her.

"Jasmine! Jazzy, sweetie! It's okay, we'll clean it up!"

>>482747
...but we're still here?

>>482748
Oh. We're back with you now.

She thinks it's blood. Please tell her it's just tea. Hey, shouldn't you be in bed? How are you still standing?

Tell her the advisors are still here and Mr Meow is just a bit jealous.

Good news: You are not insane, merely possessed.
Bad news: The evil cat spirit thing can switch hosts.
Better news: We go along with him and we generally counter his evil.

Sam, tell her Mazarin says hi! Remember when I said that we were with Axel? We were with Jasmine just now. Apparently we talk to whoever has psychological damage!

>>482754
Probably. I'm not sure, because we haven't been able to hear about your experiences from you yet.

Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)16:03 No. 482765 ID: 389f2b
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Whoa, whoa whoa! What the hell? You were talking to her? Was Mal? Was that why she was freaking out? Why would she think the tea was blood?

I pull her up just as Axel comes running to the scene. I tell him to go get her cleaned up and in clean clothes-maybe it was time for her to go to sleep.

I've slept for a whole day now-I'm weak, but functioning.

Before Axel takes her away, I put my hand on her shoulder and tell her that Mazarin says hi. She seems to visibly calm down.

Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)16:05 No. 482767 ID: 389f2b
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Axel leads Jasmine away; I should clean this mess up.

Alright, I'm really confused here-you guys were talking to Jasmine, right? She has psychological damage, but...I mean, I don't REALLY have, you know, PSYCHOLOGICAL damage...Just..It's...Complicated..

What is it? Maybe we can help. The loss of a loved one was enough to get us to stick to Axel for a while, so maybe it's not damage so much as psychological pain.

Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)16:21 No. 482778 ID: 389f2b
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...I used to have a brain tumor.

It was the only bad thing that had ever happened to me. That I considered bad, in any means. I got it out years ago-it was pretty small.

...Did you hear the whispers/voices before it was removed?

Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)16:28 No. 482782 ID: 389f2b
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...Yes.

>>482782
Oh, stop enjoying it, you prick.

>>482782
... Then it's possible that jazz has the same/that yours is back. ((grocery run, will be back in 1.5-2 hours))

>>482782
Well you obviously know things that you shouldn't be able to.

This isn't natural. It's not just an altered brain state caused by a tumor resurfacing. You're not crazy or dying. Shit's just weird is all.

>>482782
see? no reason to worry at all! we have absolutly nothing to do with any illness or psychological problems... we just pop up somewhere, trying to help... well, except Mal...

But we were even able to talk to other people as well, so we aren't even bound to you, sam or the bunny girl!
Just Advisors, just as Mal said (but didn't seem to get himself)...

Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)16:38 No. 482795 ID: 389f2b
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How could I not? Remember when I said that I caused the pain of Samantha's white out, a week ago? Do you not think that just maybe...I am the tumor itself?

I was so eager to watch how long it would take the girl to find out it was back!

A little clarification, since you are all just as dull as her-in some cases, a brain tumor can take on...functions of its own. In my case, I became conscious. Sadly, I have no control over the nervous system-but I had enough reign to create an image of myself for her to see. It only makes me that much more powerful-seeing is believing!

As for why I and you could talk to the stupid child, I do not know. I can only assume that I am evolving.

>>482795
So you're a magic tumor.

Alright Mal(which I assume is a name you picked because you were called a "Malignant" tumor), here's my take on things. As something whose body essentially resides inside and subsists off of Sam's, if she dies, you die. You also don't want to get surgically removed. So, you're desperate. You want her to see you as useful and necessary. If that doesn't work, you'll settle for controlling her via threats and nonlethal injury.

Am I in the right ballpark here? You're acting out because you're scared she's gonna find a surgeon and have you essentially killed?

Now, I have a question that Sam probably wants answered too. Can you avoid taking over more of her headspace? Stop spreading, and go from malignant to benign? Change your name to Ben maybe? Heh.

No, no I get it. You're not the brain tumor she had before. It was successfully killed. You're a zombie brain tumor. Returned from the grave to haunt Sam's brain!

Okay. So you're a scary magic sentient tumor. Big whoop.

So why the big bad evil advisor act? You have the ability to chose to act the way you want- why are you choosing to be a jerk here? We could all get on just fine if you were willing to adjust your attitude, here.

So is Mal is some sort of cancer, this brain tumor, and has gained sentience. He should be smart enough to know that killing the host kills him, as well as the fact that cancer is inherently bad, and we pretty much know not to listen to you. But, I have a question; what happens if you do take over Sam's brain? Since you may be a zombie, would be a walking-zombie-tumor-cancer-bag, or just dead?

How about... not believing you?
Like... you excluded us from messing around with until now.

Here's a diagram to give you a rough idea of what's happening. I reside on the very back of her brain-at that particular point, I only have reign over her vision-I am currently growing into the language portion as well. Spread up, I'll hit the rather large area of movement! Spread down, coordination.

I have no intention of stopping my growth. I would very much like to use this body as a host.

Now, as for if I'm a zombie tumor...I honestly do not know. I assumed it was merely relapse-at an extremely fast pace-of missed tumor cells. I do, however, though I reluctantly admit so, that I have quite an odd...Blood lust. I do not believe it will turn me into one of those monsters out there-if that were so, you'd think my intelligence would seep away as I grew.

Not 'believing in me' is no longer an option. Sam did not 'believe in me' before her black out, so I made her. I forced her brain into painting me into a picture. I can quite literally force her to see what I want-and now, the child as well. Who knows if my growth will affect her as well? It will be interesting-and since you have mentioned before talking to Axel, it wouldn't hurt to try as well...

Just so it's clear, I'm currently balled up on the floor sobbing.

Whats the likelihood of finding a surgeon willing to preform a brain operation out here? NONE!

Zach Leigh 2013/01/05(Sat)17:35 No. 482839 ID: 389f2b
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(( sSHHH))

Uh-oh.

Wait idea what if we some how have an anti-cancer show down with Mal and slow or stop his growth? I mean, we seem kinda powerful, any way we could exert that kinda influence?

Well, there's always good old drugs and radiation. That shit works, even with the power turned off, and no doctors around. And if we have a supernatural disease, there may be a supernatural way to treat it.

And hell, if he is a zombie tumor, there's a pretty low tech way to remove dead flesh from a living body. Maggots.

[combat spread of tumor]

Actually yeah, as disgusting as it sounds, maggots is a good idea. We really don't want to give Sam radiation poisoning though, or any type of poison. if we aren't sure what the drugs do or how much to take how often, we should stay away

Zach Leigh 2013/01/05(Sat)17:54 No. 482852 ID: 389f2b
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Before you go off with questions like that...Have you ever considered that you are part of the tumor as well?

If I am destroyed, so are you?

It's very possible that many other tinier tumors are in her brain-such as all of you.

Where I am the alpha, and you are the weaker ones meant to follow me? What if, hmmm?

I propose that if you join my cause of taking her body, you'd each earn chances to directly control parts of her-whatever it may be. Stand-up comedy to the dead, swimming in a river, eating food and tasting it, or even a little action in bed with whomever you might come across. Doesn't that sound nice?

..Please don't..

Nah. Sorry dude. We're not tempted here. I told you before- we consider ourselves outsiders. Without a stake in this.

So if our death losing the ability to communicate with Sam, or interact with her world, is in her best interest, we'll go along with it.

We're not gonna help you hijack this poor girl's body. We're going to do everything we can to resist it. And hell, if we're tumors too, maybe we can fight you on your own terms. We'll take cranial territory and defend it against your advances. Let the cell to cell combat begin.

If this quest turns into running a war between competing cancer cells across a brainscape I will not be disappointed.

Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)18:06 No. 482865 ID: 389f2b
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"H-HOW ABOUT I JUST SHOOT MY FUCKING BRAINS OUT!" I didn't mean to scream out loud.

I can't take this. I can't take this. I can't take this. I'd rather fucking die than have all of these voices GROWING in my head! Why don't all of you fucking GET OUT?

Sorry Sam, but ...I don't think that's an option anymore.

Maggots will only work if the flesh is truly dead and she doesn't simply have a latent psychic ability awakened by the tumor.

And how are we supposed to get out? Oh well it's worth a try.

[Switch back to Axel]

[minitumors: attack the main tumor!]

...sorry Sam. I don't know that we can get out. We could just shut up, but that wouldn't stop jerkface there.

We'll do our best to help you cure yourself, though. I promise. Really, we don't got much of a sense of self preservation, here.

Eh, even though we may just be voices to you, I assure you, most of us can fulfill our needs. Well except maybe the sex one. But that's not important. We like Sam much more than you, and you'd turn on us anyways, so it's no use tryin. We aren't so easily corrupted... right guys?

Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)18:29 No. 482898 ID: 389f2b
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You are all fools. Your efforts are nothing more than the annoyance of a butterfly shoved a mountain.

And Sam? We're sorry. I'm sure we'll be out of your head eventually, probably as soon as Mal Hightails it outta here. We switched around while you were sleeping, so maybe that means piece of mind while you rest? But please, don't do anything rash. I at least, really like you. Maybe we could vote for a spokes person so you only have two people fighting in your head? And the rest of us could confer in private.

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)18:30 No. 482901 ID: 389f2b
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...Hm.

oh helllllll naw

(( hey yo santova's idea is a good idea
should i like
make a discussion board???? or s/t idek))

Sup Axel, it's the voices from back when you were really tired. Nice to meet you again. You may notice a dark black catlike thing. He is most likely evil and is the direct cause of Jazz's freakout and Sam's blood issue.

Examine surroundings.

Okay. Mal = bad. He's hurting Sam, and Jasmine. He'll probably try and hurt you. We don't like him, so if you can think of a way to kill him off, that'd be great! ^-^

Sup, hello Axel.

We're Sam's visiting headvoices, and over there is the Evil Mister Meowsers. He's probably going to try and talk you into something nasty, or just generally be a jerk. Ignore him if you can.

Sorry to intrude, but we're trying to give Sam a break, and well, we'd have not let the evil thing there into the kid's head again. So you're stuck with us for a while.

>>482898
If our efforts had no meaning, you wouldn't have tried to recruit us to your side. And there's nothing foolish about fighting for a worthy cause. Or even a hopeless one. After all, if you are doomed to lose, you cannot be judged on the outcome. Only by how you chose to conduct yourself.

And we chose to make a stand.

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)18:42 No. 482915 ID: 389f2b
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Wha-

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)18:43 No. 482917 ID: 389f2b
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?????
?????????????
???????????????????????

????????!!!!!!!!!!!!

What the FUCK?

Dodge!

You can get his side of the story if you want. When in doubt, don't believe either party in an argument.

You can also ask Sam about how much to trust him if our truthfulness is in question. You also outta give her a hug and keep an eye on here, make sure she doesn't do anything rash. She's not doin so hot

Yes, yes, big floating cat ghost, and clamoring voices. You'll get used to it.

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)18:58 No. 482930 ID: 389f2b
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I throw my body forwards into an awkward crouch to duck, as the voice tells me. Seconds pass by and nothing happens.

...I feel like someone forgot that I can't exactly throw things or physically hurt people?

Jesus Christ, it talked!

I am not an it. I am a self-aware brain tumor living inside your friends head, slowly taking over and gaining the power to be seen by alien brains as well. The other voices are much smaller tumors, but also self-aware.

>>482930
Actually, as a tumor, it's not like you have a gender. "It" would be an acceptable pronoun.

It forgot to mention it's a jerk, by the way. The rest of us, not so much.

Well, I don't think we're tumors, but if we are, we're good. Try and ignore big bad over there and go check up on Sam, see if she's okay

>>482932
If you are crazy, you're not the only one. Jazz and Sam both know him and us. Go check on Sam, she seemed pretty shaken up last we saw her.

Axel, where have all the good men gone?

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)19:14 No. 482941 ID: 389f2b
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I think you guys broke him.

You did most of it. You seriously need to stop being so straightforward.

You Ok man? Sam needs help, and you're the only one free right now.

Here Axel read this it'll help http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6

>>482946
(Not accusatory)

Welp. Guess it's quiet time, then.

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)19:30 No. 482954 ID: 389f2b
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I was only being straightforward, as you all had been BEGGING me to do earlier.

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)19:32 No. 482956 ID: 389f2b
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>"..Mister Meow, is that you?"

...Oh? Jasmine, you can see me right now?

>"Yeah...Uhm, I'm really sorry for acting out of order earlier...Forgive me?"

..Hehehehe...Of course, my dear.

>>482954
I said to stop being so direct with Sam, but you fixed it a bit with Jazz then you screwed up by terrifying her, so whatever.

Hey Jasmine, how are you doing now if you can hear me?

No need to apologize deary, because you know what? I think that might be Daddy, in a disguise. Did you see how he yelled and got upset? I would stay away from him if I were you

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)19:47 No. 482963 ID: 389f2b
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Do not lie with the child! I am nothing like the swine that her daddy was!

>"..D-daddy? Mister Meows wouldn't lie to me like that, would he..?"

Of course not.

But still, I wouldn't trust him, he's scary and mean, and he hurt Sam. That's why she's sick, and sleeping so much. Maybe you should go see her? You can ask her about Mr. Meows and see if she's getting better yet! I'm sure she'd love to see you

>>482963
He might be lying about some things, but probably not about that. So Jasmine, did your favorite dress get ruined or only stained? You know, when he got mad and scared you?

>>482963
Well that's true. You advocated simply killing her over abusing her.

It's a step up, but you're no saint.

Just a little while ago he was shouting about how he would "leave you alone with your own mind", yet here he is trying to boss you around again. Not a very trustworthy sort if you ask me.

I am sleep but don't get too far without me, I need to feel the same amount of heart wrenching despair and anxiety as everyone else

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)20:07 No. 482973 ID: 389f2b
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>"...You guys are seeming him too? At t-the same size?"

"..Y-yeah."

Well! Looks like the whole crew is here. I can't tell you why I'm appearing to everyone anymore than you can tell me, but I do know that I did not will it.

>"M-Mazarin, is that you talking too?"

>>482971
Yep it's me princess; can I still be your adviser? And if I'm right, everyone else can hear us too. Hello! This is very complicated.

Yup, looks like we're all one happy talking voices and floating ghost-tumor-cat family.

Wouldn't be so bad if Mal wasn't intent on kicking Sam out of her own brain. You sure you wouldn't just be up for a more laid back, cooperative existence? It ain't so bad, being a headvoice. This usurpation stuff just ain't necessary.

Axel 2013/01/05(Sat)20:28 No. 482982 ID: 389f2b
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[b]BE HER FUCKING ADVISER. I don't care! I don't! Tell them whatever you want, do whatever you want! You won't stop me. You can't!

Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)20:32 No. 482984 ID: 389f2b
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Mal leaves. I enter the room to the others. Jasmine is crying, and Axel looks like he might be close to.

"...I'm so sorry." I whisper to the others. Axel shakes his head in forgivness, but doesn't say anything.

Knowing that monster...And even the rest of you...Are practically living inside my brain makes me feel so sick. I don't know how I could possibly sleep anymore like this.

How I could keep on living. I'm...A danger. A monster.

Hey, don't think like that! These two would be dead or worse if not for you. You're not a danger- you help people.

You're a pretty cool person. And you're host to a group of pretty cool people! ...and one jerk. Not so bad, all in all.

And there's gotta be something we can do about this. A cure, or a treatment. There's lots of things we could try! Suicide is a last resort. We've got lots of things to try first. Your life isn't worth giving up so easy.

>>482984
((I spent 7 minutes writing a statement to him, with what I thought was a good zinger at the end. Then he just left. I'll save it for later and may try to use some of it next time we see him.))

Just know that I did my best to treat him as an equal, but he always lost his temper when he didn't get his way.

You keep on living the same as you did before Sam; one day at a time. Right now, we're not sure that you dieing would even end this. You also have someone to care for, and someone that (most likely) cares for you. Don't give up fighting until the war is lost for sure. We'll find some way to fix this, it's what we always do.

So Sam, you seem to have at least one tumor with supernatural abilities. Have you considered that you might also have some sort of powers?

And don't worry about being a danger to the rest of us. Mal seems mouthy enough to give the rest of us (well, the rest of them) plenty of warning if he starts getting powerful enough to physically cause trouble.

(( i was making an EXTREMELY DRAMATIC PANEL and then my drawing program stopped working and closed
lays down
dies ))

>DRAMATIC
I hope noone dies.

1/5 Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)21:10 No. 483003 ID: 389f2b
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But...I don't want to suicide because things are getting worse. That means someone has been put in fatal danger-I won't be killing myself to save others. I'll be killing myself because I failed to save someone that I dearly love.

2/5 Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)21:11 No. 483004 ID: 389f2b
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I can't live, nor be in the afterlife, looking back at that hindsight. It'll have been a cowards death.

I don't consider myself a coward. I am strong.

3/5 Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)21:13 No. 483005 ID: 389f2b
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There will be a bullet in my brain before I let these two die.

4/5 Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)21:15 No. 483008 ID: 389f2b
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Before I let Him destroy them. Before I ever let him touch their minds again.

5/5 Sam 2013/01/05(Sat)21:16 No. 483009 ID: 389f2b
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Which is why I am leaving, and taking him with me. Which means you're all coming along.

[CHAPTER END]

Oh Thank God! I was worried there for a minute!

haha! no worries yet, bud
no ones gonna die for awhile now
but wow thank you for sticking along with the story ;u; it's very flattering

It turned out pretty good, I'm glad I was able to see it. The end silhouette was really cool. My only question is; would it have been possible to do as be7 said and gotten Mal to stop growing in favor of becoming a normal adviser?

>>483016

As much as I would love an easy solution as that, it'd be extremely out of character for Mal to do. As he grows, he becomes more and more malicious and power hungry. He's been insulted and embarrassed, so to give up would mean admitting everyone was right, and that he is wrong and indeed very weak.

From this point on, any time that he talks to Sam will be to try and break her. He's desperate and scared and the other 'voices' will actually repel him-and for the record, they can do so-so it is in his most interest, though certainly not best, to keep fighting back for control of Samantha.

How it all plays out is up to the commands: Anything demoralizing her will weaken her will to fight, but positive feedback will weaken Mal instead.

No point in the plot reveals this, so I might as well say so myself, that Mal is actually the ~~~zombie tumor~~~ that others were deducing earlier. His reason past control and bloodlust is nonexistent; he can't go long without a burst of violence.

It's like taking a zombie and giving them a chance to have an able, fast, strong body, with a down payment of actual intelligence and though not perfect, sense of self preservation. He wants this body so that he can crush others and prove his strength; He is fuckin' BAD, and no one can tell him otherwise, else their body will be laying dismembered and palpated on the doorstep of the foolish.

>>483019
He took me trying to treat him as an equal as a bad thing correct? Does he think he is better than the other voices? (I never thought of him as weak or evil, simply as being very misguided. Apparently I was wrong)

>>483020

Yeah, that really pissed him off. He wouldn't have blown up at Jasmine if she didn't call you guys 'equal', actually.

But yeah. He's nothing but evil, not even a little ounce of of tumor cells holding good.

Wikified, for great justice.

http://tgchan.org/wiki/ZombieQuest

>>483019
Pity, really. His position is understandable- he's a new consciousness trapped within another. Being immature, or lashing out in anger or for control, is understandable, even the logical responce. But we rather poorly handled any diplomacy with him, and he completely ignored suggestions to try and be anything but the big bad usurper.

Could probably merit a dis thread too, at this point.

>>483023

I literally shed a single tear in the honor of being wikified.

But ahhh I feel like only the great quests that everyone knows about gets a dis thread ;u; I mean I could make one but I'd be too embarrassed to ever gaze upon the thread again goodness gracious