Oh, and remind her that she'll be disqualified if she's seen without a mask. Offer your shorts or something, if we're running with the clothes-swap bit.

>Sweaterlessmouse
Pffffff.

>fighting us
So her stats are terrible, and even if the crowd favors her, we'll get to steal part of her buffs.

...sounds to me like we got a golden opportunity to finish Glam Alsion with a swing the ref or few. Especially if we goad Sweaterlessmouse enough that the audience sides with her, and buffs her (and us) up a bunch first, making her the ultimate weapon.

We totally have to try and win her over again while we're at it, though. She secretly likes the attention, and had fun the last time we used her to beat someone up.

>>716984
Hey come on, I'm a wrestler. I'm supposed to be scantily clad. What's your excuse for skipping on layers?

>>716986
Only if she's a luchador, which currently she hasn't declared as. (Although we could taunt her into maye making that mistake with something like "So the mouse wants to be a luchador, huh?")

>>716984
Sweatermouse, you did NOT actually buy nipples when designing your bod, right? There's nothing to be ashamed about. We're adults here. We're ALL Barbie dolls until we buy the add-ons.

Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)11:43 No. 716999 ID: dd338c
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"You caught that, right Sevener? You'll be disqualified if you're seen with no mask! You want to borrow my shorts or somethin' so you don't have to put your boot on your face if it comes to it?"
>"Does it look like I'm in the mood to hug nagas, fox?"
"Point."

Alison undoes some of her skirt, rips off half of it, and gives it to Sweaterlessmouse.

"Hey, Birthdaymouse! Almost looks like you want to be a Luchador, huh?"
"Until I learned it's apparently the art of clothing theft and mouse peeping!
>"Hey, I'm a wrestler! It's in the job description to be scantily clad! You call me a pervert, but who's the one not wearing any layers underneath the sweater?"
"Who would've thought you'd yank it off me?! says Sweaterless, who finally finishes tying Alison's skirt into a knot behind her.
"Considering how easy it was, I'd say you don't mind as much as you act. If I didn't know better, I'd say you were hiding something under your sweater!"
"Ohhhhhh I'll show you how much I mind and I'm not hiding anything! Match starts now! 60 seconds!"

Sevener immediately goes at Alison.

Skirtmouse doesn't do anything aggressive like tackle you right off the bat, but she does stay between you and Alison. Perhaps she is trying to stall for 60 seconds, knowing that while Sevener does outmatch Alison for wrestling ability, Alison is excessively difficult to pin for a single person.

You can immediately go off with Spin the Referee and make this whole thing backfire for Skirtmouse, but you do have a full minute, and you may be able to taunt or take other action to build up your SIG.

"Didn't know you were into hugging, too." Then hug the mouse. Nothing lewd or perverted, just a hug.

Eh, give Mouse some fun, let her think she's doing something while you delegate to Sevener.

The key here is to goad her, and more importantly the audience, so they want her to get you. The more buffed she gets, the more of her buff goes to you through the stolen swearer, and the more powerful weapon she'll be when you go to finish this with spin the ref.

>>716999
Poke her in the forehead. Poke poke. Just gonna stand there, huh, Tubetopmouse?

Then this makes an excellent taunt. >>717001 Oh! Are you offering me a hug before we fight too?

If you actually manage yo goad her into taking a swing, you need to just tank it to make her look ineffectual, or hold her at arm's length by the head.

1/2 Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)12:35 No. 717006 ID: dd338c
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"I didn't know you were into hugs, too!"
"Well, yeah, I mean - wait no I'm blocking you you blobsweatered face person!"
"Just gonna stand there, Tubetopmouse?" you say, poking her forehead.
"As long as Alison makes it out then good!"
"You sure you can even stop me? You're so tiny!"
"Being tiny has nothing to do with anything!"

....

"Poke."

2/2 Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)12:36 No. 717007 ID: dd338c
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"Ahhh!" she lunges at you. Although you don't manage to hold her head at arm's length, you do scoop her up and hug her while she thrashes.

"Ohmygosh this isn't wrestling me! Fight me!"

The crowd appears to approve of Sweatermouse's newfound hostility, and the madder you make her, the more stats she seems to get. In fact, her blows are almost starting to have an effect.

>>717007
"Okay, let's find out if you're still invulnerable!" RKO time, anyone?

Or just go over to Alison and use Sweatermouse as a bludgeon.

>>717007
You idiot, she's trying to get her sweatermask back to disqualify you, even if she pins you she'll be too busy to count you out. It's her ONLY WAY.

You're CHP's maxed out, go for a gut shot. Suplexes and RKO's will leave you vulnerable to masking.

You know, I realize, this system's kind of broken. The more cheap shots you make, the more hate you get, and the more powerful your cheap shots get, which means you'll do MORE cheap shots.

Take her bra-- AGAIN!

Ask the crowd if they want to see something cool. That should boost your SIG so you can Spin The Ref and finish off Alison.

Take the bra and keep hugging her. She'll have to decide whether to keep her hands on you or to cover herself.

>>717007
Oh my goodness, it looks like you're dancing with her.

...dance with her. Now. It's the ultimate in not taking her seriously. Then as soon as her rage and the stats build up enough, swing your dance partner / swing the ref right into Alison for a KO. (Or to disable her for a Sevener KO).

Be sure to bow to your partner at the end.

>>717014
Retracting my suggestion to vote for this.

>>717014
Hoedown! Swing your partner round and round, Give her a spin, give her a swing!

Should we try to sneak in a kiss during the dance or is that too far?

1/2 Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)14:22 No. 717027 ID: dd338c
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"Oh, I suppose it's not a hug you're after, after all! It's a dance?!"
"OH MY GOSH" says Skirtmouse, as you being to dance with her, while taking care that she can't easily undo your sweater. "I can't actually see my stats do I have none?! I'm gonna beat you up so bad!"

Her steadily increasing stats are almost making her into a formidable opponent. You let go of one of her hands to let her do a twirl, and yank on one of the loose ends of the skirt.

She snaps her free hand to cover up large landmasses of nothing at all.

"AHHHH!"

Her stats skyrocket. She could probably overpower you, in fact, but she's got no idea how to wrestle.

>Should we try to sneak in a kiss during the dance or is that too far?
Tempting, but you'll put this idea on the backburner for now. You can't use all your trump cards on a single fight after all.

"Hey, audience! Who'd like to see something cool?!"
"Wow!" says Glitcher. "I think we're going to see something incredibly uncool!"

The audience boos and hisses. But they know you're going to do something. And that anticipation, it brings out the stars. Something's going on with Sevener and Alison too, but you have a clear shot to Alison and that's all that matters.

2/2 Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)14:23 No. 717028 ID: dd338c
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Using all the power, strength and signature you've got, you twirl her right up to Alison, and then pick her up and swing her right into the snake.

As they topple over, you bow.

"Urrrrgh... forget it!" says Sweatermouse. "One, two, three! There, you guys win, you happy?"

BASK in the audience's hatred.
ONCE AGAIN, DISHONOR TRUMPS HONOR. and today, OUR DISHONOR trumps DISHONOR!

I won't be happy until I get my mask back. This one smells like flunky.

>>717028
"Only if it was good for you too."

And bask in all the hatred, of course.

Wait, if we wear our own mask, do we get a portion of our own boosts from clothing leech too?

>>717028
...does that really count?

>"One, two, three! There, you guys win, you happy?"
Not entirely. My mask is still halfway down the snake, somewhere.

Oh, hey, I'll trade you your sweater back if you can get it out of her and cleaned up. Although you're kind of too big a mouse to get to a snake's stomach the way they usually do, I think.

Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)15:04 No. 717041 ID: dd338c
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You outstretch your arms to catch the hate rays of the audience.

"Once again dishonor trumps honor, and this time, our dishonor trumps theirs! And I won't be happy till I get my mask back! My current mask smells like flunky.

>Wait, if we wear our own mask, do we get a portion of our own boosts from clothing leech too?
Likely not, but you only need to wear other's clothes, it does not need to be a mask. What you use for a mask will give seperate abilities, and you have yet to discover what your own gives.

"But if you return my mask, cleaned, I will return your sweater. Then again, you are a little big even for a snake!"
"Hrmph! You know what, it's intermission time!" Sweatermouse calls out. "I'm the ref! I can get a new sweater, so you can get a new mask!"

The cage goes up, and Sweatermouse stomps off stage.

"Well that about does it!" says Glitcher. "And like our ref said, it's intermission time! So everyone can go off to a surrounding shop and do whatever, cause we all deserve a little fun now."

Glitcher holds Rulekeeper's invisible hand or something and they walk off stage as well. You don't see Guitar Knight anywhere, either, so it's just you, Sevener and Alison on stage.

>"Huh. I guess I'm not going back to sleep." says Alison. "Well whatever, I'll hork your mask back up."

That's well and good, but now it seems like you've got a little time to kill.

>Well whatever, I'll hork your mask back up.
Thanks, appreciate it.

We'll have to see if there's a laundry around here, or if Shopkeep provides magic item cleanings.

>Sweaterlessmouse storms off without reclaiming her sweater
Hmm. If we're not trading it back, we could hang it on our wall as a trophy.

Or if we want to keep the stolen boost from her we could work it more permanently into our costume somewhere. (Although if she's not fighting, she probably won't have any stat boosts worth stealing).

Congratulate this Allison, I mean really that was a perfect cheap shot even if you were genuine with the hug. Not to mention going as far as even eating it! Perfect tactics!

Once you get your mask back keep sweatermouse's sweater as a backup and go have a drink with Alison and Guitarknight.

Now that people know about the mask thing watch out for it at all times. But also be prepared to steal there stupid hats and crowns and such for bonus stats.

Are there any areas we haven't been in? We may want to check some of those out.

Ok I just had a great idea Radmin. You should see if you can get the admins who have already lost to join your operator team.

That way they can follow you along as your minions to the later stages. Only 4 admins will be able to make it to the end but they said nothing about support staff.

So go round the losers up and get some operator shirts from shopkeeper. If they agree they can stay alive and you get to be there boss so win win.

But maybe don't make the offer to the stupid top hat guys.

Next time you see Mouse, tease her about being a great dancer. It was all you, of course, but she's great through that.

Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)17:01 No. 717069 ID: dd338c
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"How about dinner, Alison?" You say, once you escape the view of the audience and can chat in ways that don't make you look like a huge asshole. "That was a real cheap shot you made back there with the hug, genuine or not! Respectable. In a way."
>"Haha, what, are you asking me out on a date?"
"Hah! I didn't think about it that way, as I was imagining GK and Sevener would be there."
>"So a double date."
>"I'm leaving." says Sevener, waving you two off as she walks down a different hall.

You put the mask on. It really isn't dirty at all, as, thankfully, this Alison doesn't have internal details. You'll keep Sweatermouse's sweater as a backup, too, especially if you fight someone who likes punching you in the face.

>"You think GK would be up for that? I dunno if he liked how that turned out well enough to go out to dinner with either of us!"
"His loss!"
>"Ha. Yeah, that guy wanted to toss me out, too! Forget him."

>You should see if you can get the admins who have already lost to join your operator team. That way they can follow you along as your minions to the later stages. Only 4 admins will be able to make it to the end but they said nothing about support staff.
You'll have to remember that next time you beat a team. So far the only people you might want as your minions that you've beat are Sixer and King, and they're likely to say no.

Speaking of minions, an operator comes running to you with your cloak.
"Good timing, operator! What areas are there besides the communal area, the dressing rooms the ring?
>"There's the town area out of the stadium that has a lot of, uh, town things. Bars, casinos, hotels, kind of a lot actually. For in here, well, there's not a whole lot else except for the backstage area."
"Isn't that where we are?"
>"... I guess it's a back-back stage. It's just where staff goes."

You expect Sweatermouse is there if you care to make a visit, otherwise, if you've stirred up enough trouble, apparently you're setting up dinner with Alison.

Let's see if the town has anything to offer us.

Let Sweatermouse be. She's still gonna be fuming, so it's too soon to make any amends.

Let's check out the town!

Yeah, no use visiting Sweatermouse to apologize until after the town. We probably should do that at some point, though.

>>717069
Wait, the admins who have lost the official matches haven't really even lost yet. They can still have a chance to get the audience to love or hate them.

Taking on Admins on your team could be either really bad or really good, depending on their understanding of how winning works. If they become operator's of yours, you'll be taking even MORE of the spotlight away from them and they'll seem weaker, but it ALSO gives them the perfect opportunity to betray you and reenter the spotlight.

After your interruption of Sixer and King's match, that means any and ALL future ones will probably have interruptions of their own from the failed admins, because that's their best chance at the limelight.

Remember, as heels, you HAVE to lose one match or have your grand championship match at least properly represent the themes that the good guy doesn't always win, otherwise the audience will just get bored of you and your constant mary sue cheater wins. So like, you HAVE to wright your own wins (and losses) good. These first few matches you don't have to wright or think out too well because they're exposition. We're about to enter the best part, the rising action, which requires more complexity.

How many matches are we having exactly? What does the tourney board look like? Is it single elimination or a point system?

Go invite Sweatermouse along. She is a Alison fan right? You need to surround yourself with cute girls.

Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)18:21 No. 717095 ID: dd338c
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>How many matches are we having exactly?
You're really not sure, but you can't imagine that Glitcher and Rulekeeper wanted this to go on for that long, so you're unsure if you're going to have the time for great storylines with themes and the like.

If it looks like it's going to be like this for the long haul, though, you'll have to schedule an awesome way to lose a match.

>What does the tourney board look like? Is it single elimination or a point system?
From what you understand, it's going to be a point based system decided entirely off of audience subjectivity.

>She is a Alison fan right? You need to surround yourself with cute girls.
That sounds like a good idea, but somehow, you'd rather not have to stalk the cute girls to get them to surround you.

"Well, I think I'll let Sweatermouse be free from my presence, so I guess it's just us two to dinner!"
>"Oh yeah? What kinda place do you wanna go to?" Alison asks.
"Operator! I need ideas."
>"It's a big town, I only saw a few places just outside."

A) Fast Food
B) Romantic Candlelit Restaurant
C) Pizza Themed Arcade Zone
D) Just a regular sit down restaurant
E) Another place. For a place to house a million people on break, you're sure there's just about any place you can imagine.

E) Breakfast place. Because there's nothing wrong with breakfast at night. Or this perma-night. Whatever.
Granted, you can eat whatever you want whenever you want, but Breakfast at night is too solid for Glitcher to stalk you down and make fun of.

>That sounds like a good idea, but somehow, you'd rather not have to stalk the cute girls to get them to surround you.
I'm sure you're naturally attract bad girls and sweatermice who secretly like being teased as long as you keep doing your thing.

>where go
C!

She doesn't have that meat aversion the other Alison you know has, does she?

I want to bully Sweatermouse.

C. "Pizza-themed" sounds just stupid enough to be amazing.

Kind of hard to think of somewhere that a luchadore and a glam girl would both fit. So, I'll say:

A) Fast food, since you both seem pretty informal types, and you can take it out to a nice viewing spot while you eat. Maybe a rooftop where you can look down on all the plebs.

E) Soup Kitchen

Because nothing is cheaper.

Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)19:53 No. 717133 ID: dd338c
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>I want to bully Sweatermouse.
There's a time and a place! That place is in the RING. Actually, that's not true, it's in COMBAT.

Actually it really is just whenever you feel like it, but maybe you could use a break anyway. You'll go to the Pizza Themed Arcade.

You walk up the giant stairway out of the stadium. Despite the long way, there's so many walkways that there doesn't appear to be much congestion. There's various terminals that give you directions on where to go, as well, including to the arcade. Once you finally get outside, it looks like this is that giant city in the dream zone you've seen, except spruced up with activity instead of being some giant ghost town in the shade of blue.

And that damn Operator didn't describe it right. It's just an arcade place that serves pizza. Granted it's a big place, and it looks like there's quite a few people here as well. A lot of people are in line to get pizza, and the arcade is pretty packed as well. Apparently the arcade is free, and pizza is bought using tickets. Which makes you wonder how you pay at other places.

>"Hey! Hey, are you Radmin?" asks someone who looks like Chief if he was a street urchin. "And Alison?! Or are you just weird copies or something? Can I get an autograph?!"

It does look like you're getting a fair amount of attention, but most people refrain from the direct approach.

You're the genuine Radmin, all right. This Alison is also pretty genuine but she's probably not the Alison he's thinking of.

And he can get an autograph, but he'll need something good for you to write it on. You'll accept your own merchandise, photographs of yourself (you will allow other people to be in it as well), or the body parts of any willing ladies he might have on hand.

>>717133
We're all weird copies of someone, kid!

Autograph his face.

>>717133
You must somehow give the autograph while being vaguely rude about it.

"Radmin and Glamison, actually." Tell him it'll cost tickets to get an autograph.

Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)20:58 No. 717164 ID: dd338c
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"The real Radmin and Glamison. Sure, kid. It'll cost you some tickets."
>"Oh sure! Here's a pen, too!"

He hands you an unorganized fistful of tickets, activating your latent OCD levels.

"Now for something to sign on, I need either my own merchandise, a picture of me and I suppose I'd allow others to be in it as well, or the body parts of any willing ladies you have on hand!"
>"U-uhhh the gift shop is swamped right now and I don't have any ladies! Wait what if I found a shopkeep and I became a lady?"

You and Glamison share a glance.

"...somethin' tells me that's kinda weird, kid, but I like your gusto, so I'll settle with your face."

How will you sign his face?

>>717164
"RADMIN WAS HERE THIS KID IS A LOSER"

Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)21:03 No. 717169 ID: dd338c
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Paper Doll

Suggestion 2016/04/16(Sat)21:10 No. 717173 ID: 02422f
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Big old John Hancock, right over the eye.

Be polite, like "to my awesome fan, Tramp Chief, *Radmin," but draw a middle finger after it. That, or add "everybody else can f* off" at the end.

kanelel 2016/04/16(Sat)21:19 No. 717183 ID: 99a64d
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Something something over 9000 hours in Ms Paint.

Probably should have the signature be in the style of >>717173 but I am not a calligrapher, 'specially not with a mouse.

Suggestion 2016/04/16(Sat)21:40 No. 717204 ID: 02422f
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I couldn't resist doing this, too.

Suggestion 2016/04/16(Sat)21:56 No. 717211 ID: cfc544
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This guy has moxy. He sees what he wants and he goes for it. He deserves to be bestowed his title.

1/2 Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)22:18 No. 717216 ID: dd338c
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You keep it simple, and also leave enough room for Glamison to do the same. Someday when you gain admin powers, you can have so many words floating through him.

As soon as you two finish, he runs over to a reflective glass surface. He laughs.

>"You two did not disappoint!" he says. "Thank you so much! I died in stage 1 and thought 'was that it' but no, I met someone important! Thank you so much!"

2/2 Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)22:19 No. 717217 ID: dd338c
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You've got to step it up, cause you don't feel like an asshole at all right now. You and Glamison wait in line, and although there are some shocked looks and stares from many tables, no one comes running up to get your signature.

Which isn't surprising, since it's not like there's any point, but apparently that didn't stop Glitcher from making a gift shop. You two make your way to a secluded booth with a view and shoo off the previous people sitting there.

>"Holy shit this pizza is amazing." Alison says.
"Hey, it really is."
>"Is that what food is like this cycle? I'm jealous."
"Nope, even the 'best' felt like food in a dream compared to this stuff."
>"Goddamn, if people aren't getting this food, they are missing out."

The two of you munch away for a moment.

>"Man, everyone's really into this."
"What, the pizza?"
>"No, not - well that too, but - listen. Fiver. Feels like I'm breaking character and maybe I shouldn't, but can I real talk at you for a minute?"

>>717216
Waaait, that's not how mirrors work!

>>717217
Hey, take it easy with the pizza. You'll get fat if you keep eating like that!

I guess out of the ring we can break character a bit, sure. just, you know, keep it down.

Suggestion 2016/04/16(Sat)22:29 No. 717223 ID: f6442a
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Did someone say paper doll?

Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)22:31 No. 717225 ID: dd338c
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>Waaait, that's not how mirrors work!
This is the dream/ghost zone. Anything is possible.

"Lay it on me, just keep it down."
>"This is all pretty weird, isn't it? Like everyone here just died, right, then came back to be a participating audience of a bunch of admins being wrestling literally hours ago if I heard right. I mean I probably sounded like I'm rolling with it, but you know, the last thing I remembered... well, I died in stage 4 or so, right? But enough people absorbed me that things kept going. Eventually the powerhouses made it to stage 11. The Arbiter, someone called the Warlock, and some guy named Petal. They had a long talk with us, and they were going to fight the CAI or something. And that was it. I went to sleep, next thing I know, some spotty guy named the glitcher tells me that over 2000 cycles have passed since then."

You finish chewing while formulating a response, but she adds something.

>"And he's telling me I'm gonna wrestle the hell out of some administrators to help this cycle somehow. Is that weird to anyone else or am I just a weird great-grandma here?"

Well your hair is pretty retro.

>>717223
Brilliant.

>"And he's telling me I'm gonna wrestle the hell out of some administrators to help this cycle somehow. Is that weird to anyone else or am I just a weird great-grandma here?"
No, it's all pretty weird. But honestly, I think at this point people welcome weird stuff and jumping off the rails instead of normal everyone fighting to the death stuff.

Look at it this way. Normally, Glitcher is all boring, and scared and reluctant to use his powers. Normally, the admins don't even bother to make a Rulekeeper. But now, they've both decided they don't want to follow the rules, they want to do stuff, and they're cutting loose. This is people who never allowed themselves to have fun cutting loose. So yeah, it's weird. But I figure, if this is what they do when they start fooling around for the first time, imagine what happens when they get serious. Things are gonna change, this cycle.

>>717225
Tell her the CAI is unbeatable, they have a literal IWIN button. This cycle is special, though. Rulekeep is an entity who has never existed before, a god in the sim on par with Glitcher, and he convinced her to join forces with him... apparently they're going to leave this cycle somehow, to find a way to stop the unending tragedy? They've already gained a large amount of access to previous cycles, obviously. They'll probably come back right at the end with a solution for us.

Oh right and they're obviously dating.

Nope this cycle has been unique. Apparently we have had a few events that no records have mentioned before.

Your current incarnation managed to figure out a way to get Glitcher and Rulekeeper together somehow and now we are here to vote them super powers.

I think she did have to die for it to work though.

Of course it's weird. This is all weird. You're pretty sure Rulekeeper and Glitcher working together this way might not be something that's ever been the case before, and they're making things happen that haven't ever happened before. As far as you know, this is all new.

You don't know what's going to happen, but that's exactly the way things need to be. And you, for your part, intend to keep this ball rolling.

Because it's totally rad.

... Also because you have a huge ego and you'd be pretty happy fucking everything up so long as you knew you had a hand in it.

Also also, if she's a great-grandma then she looks VERY good for her age.

Radmin 2016/04/16(Sat)23:08 No. 717243 ID: dd338c
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"Well, your hair gives off a retro feel."
>"Ha. It started off smooth, you know. Completely straight cut, not a fray to be seen. Each stage and each safe zone though it got way out there, and it felt right."
"Well I'll have you know that for a 2000 generation old grandma, you look great. Now here's real back to you. It's all weird. But at this point, people welcome the weird. We'll hop off the rails even if it's just a cliff on either side. Seems like by stage 3 or 4, everyone starts catching wind that we've done this three thousand times. And that we're just fighting for our lives to run off a cliff at the end. And the CAI fight at the end? Rigged. there's no way to win it, at least not normally. Normally Glitcher is boring. Scared and reluctant to use his powers, because it's backfired in the past. Normally the administrators don't make a rulekeeper."
>"Rulekeeper's existed before too?"
"Not as she is now, but statistically speaking, you can bet there's been rulekeeper-like things in the past. Not like this one, probably. Anyways, Glitcher didn't need to set up all this. He can put whatever administrators he wants on the roster."
>"So why'd he do it?"
"Because he and Rulekeeper are fooling around. Probably behind closed doors too, cause they're dating, which is definitely new."
>"Haha, really? But do tell me more about this fooling around."
"This is it. This is what happens when they fool around, so you can imagine what happens if they get serious."
>"Hmmm... I don't think they're completely fooling around."
"Oh?"
>"When he told me everything he did, he did sound like he was screwing around, except for one thing. He told me... to give a good show. It didn't matter if I won or lost. But that this was for the audience. He didn't say it, but he made it sound like that was the absolute most important thing to have happen. This feels like one big safe zone. Maybe cause it's all I know, but it just feels like I should be able to look out here and see some big timer counting down when we all gotta move down and die by the bucketload. But hey, maybe we'll come back in a few cycles and slapped in some go-karts and told by some new force that we gotta race to the finish."
"Ha. Far as I can tell, this is the safe zone, and the timer's counting down to the end of the intermission where I'm gonna go back to twirling Sweatermouse! I think I heard someone say the intermission was gonna be about 8 hours, but it took a damn long time just to get here! Anyway, whatever those two have planned, I'm gonna keep the ball rolling, cause it's rad."
>"Man, I hope so. You should go be even radder and apologize to that mouse. She seemed more confused than I did."
"I plan on it before my next match!"

There's plenty to do in town, but not much of it is productive. Then again, that may not even matter.

Why don't you go take Glam Alison to meet Sweatermouse. Get your apology in and find out her story.

>>717243
We gotta go be rude to people. Keep boosting up your role, make up for being (almost) nice to that kid.

>>717243
If you WANT to do something productive well...
Want to do something crazy, Alison? Like make a sex tape and have the operator's hack into every monitor in the city and show it off? That's a thing some wrestlers do... I think. You're IN character as a pervert, even if you're not really, so it would be IN character. Should I say that it would be a... REproductive thing to do? Ehhh? Eh?

>You should go be even radder and apologize to that mouse. She seemed more confused than I did.
Yeah, she's in a weird spot. She died at some point, then got brought back in stage 8 which uses a bunch of ghosts for some reason. Then something happened to mess that up for her, so she ended up here. Double Resurrection confusion!

>Do anything productive
Go shopping for some stuff to use in pranks and tricks an cheating?

See if you come across anyone you know to plot and share information with?

...and yeah, gotta bury the hatchet with Newsweatermouse at some point.

>>717246
Some people like jerks. Doesn't mean Radmin was "Nice," he was still a jerk, the kid just happened to like it.

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>Make a sex tape and have the operator's hack into every monitor in the city and show it off?
To get the full impact on this, you would have to have some explanation within this tape in order to explain what sex even is to the greater portion of the audience.

To the point that it would just be a public service announcement on sex-ed, starring you and Alison.

And you're no educator.

"Alright. Gonna have time later to check out more of the town, buy some things, have this pizza, and be a big ol' jerk so they can have some playbacks for the next match. But you know what? I will apologize to Newsweatermouse before I go and forget or find something better to do! Wanna come with? I'm curious what her story is, since I have my doubts that Glitcher chose her at random."
>"Sure."

You head back and find the Ref's door and give it a knock.
>"Who is it?"
"Radmin!"
>"I'm only letting you in if it's to apologize!"

>>717259
Then let me in!

>>717259
What a coincidence!

Well open the door for the best apology ever then.

Plus I brought Alison so we can all hang out.

>>717261
This.

Radmin 2016/04/17(Sun)00:26 No. 717268 ID: dd338c
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"What a coincidence!"
"Oh gosh fine come in."
"Sweatermouse! I see you have not put on a new sweater for some reason."
"I don't want a new sweater, you idiot! I want that one. And that didn't sound like an apology, mister - oh hi Alison!"
>"Hey. Think I've seen you before. Eh, would've been on another cycle anyway, so nevermind!"

>didn't actually go get a sweater.
Tsk tsk, lying on stage!

Well we can't have you be Sweaterlessmouse forever. I apologize for commandeering your sweater, and so I return it. *(gently) toss it in her face*

This had better be off the record, but yeah sorry about not giving you a real fight. Not sorry about stealing your sweater though.

"Yeah, sorry about going that far playing the villain. Hope you had some fun anyway."

1/2 Radmin 2016/04/17(Sun)00:42 No. 717275 ID: dd338c
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"Lying on stage! But Sweaterlessmouse is a bit of a mouthful, so if this is purely off the record, then I apologize for not giving you a real fight, and I suppose somewhat for stealing your sweater!"
"Somewhat?"
"You're the ref. If you truly minded, you could have ordered me to return the sweater, couldn't you?"
"... whatever, close enough! I'll remind you that this place is mostly modelled after safe zone mechanics, except customized between that and freeroam for active wrestlers. And, you know what rule safe zones have? If you lose your clothes, you can summon them back."

Sweatermouse snaps her fingers.

2/2 Radmin 2016/04/17(Sun)00:43 No. 717276 ID: dd338c
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Your backup sweater disappears before you toss it back over.

"And I'm not a wrestler."
>"Damn mouse, you were acting the whole time, weren't you?!" Alison asks.
"Ha, I had my suspicions you secretly liked to be teased!"
"Oh my gosh it's true I couldn't even get a little mad for real! I've never had such a good time since meeting this cycle's Alison I mean your fight was really embarrasing but it was so fun!

Bam. Perfect read on Sweatermouse.

>>717276
Hahahahaha! Well, you sure had the audience fooled, they were genuinely outraged on your behalf. We can keep it a secret from them, it's more fun if we look like we're clashing on stage.

>since meeting this cycle's Alison
Aha! I thought you might have ran into her. I haven't seen her myself since starting stage 8. Then all this happened.

(Prompt to try and get her to share what happened with Alison, and to the ghosts afterwards).

Alright, I want the deets girl. Backstory you know?

1/4 Radmin 2016/04/17(Sun)01:49 No. 717285 ID: dd338c
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"Well you made me doubt myself, and you sure fooled the audience! And I hope that'll continue."
"Oh you better not suddenly be nice to me. I mean not on stage anyway!"
"I'll be the worst. And I thought you might've ran into our Alison! Care to fill me in on what happened in stage 8? And give me your backstory while you're at it."
"Sure! Come in, both of you, I'd like to hear about you Glam Alison and about regular - er, our Alison from you, Radmin."

You all sit down and have a chat. You learn a lot of things, but mostly that Sweatermouse is a huge Alison fangirl even beyond your expectations.

3/4 Glitcher 2016/04/17(Sun)01:52 No. 717288 ID: dd338c
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.... Look at that huge asshole, making amends and being an all around okay kind of guy.

4/4 Glitcher 2016/04/17(Sun)01:52 No. 717289 ID: dd338c
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Makes me almost neutral to him being an administrator.

"Well, that's a good pausing point. Everyone's in a good mood. It warms my metaphorical heart"
"Does that mean you'd like to leave this cycle in stasis and begin time travelling?"
"Mayyyybe. I wonder if we should tell these guys that we already declared 4 random admin losers to actually be the winners of the whole thing and made them go ahead and give you permanency. All so that we didn't have to wait for this to end?"
"I doubt it would harm anything as long as you also explain that we had those four administrators agree to relinquish their position to the four new winners. Which will be the actual winners. Really, all we did was place temporary administrators in while the slots were empty."
"Yeah okay."

Point is is that we went ahead and gave Rulekeeper permanency and access to every material thing this cycle. Still, I got pretty caught up in watching these guys make fools of themselves. I can't do it forever, because having a million people with autonomy in a stage that's meant to have 400 is setting off all kinds of red flags that alert a potentially higher power than what is contained in this cycle. But I can keep it up long enough to finish this event. On the other hand, it may be nice to stagger the good times with the times where we visit depressing, doomed cycles.

It all boils down to two options.

Choose next thread:
Put wrestling on hold; begin time travelling.
Continue wrestling, do time travelling later.

>>717289
Let's do some time travel.

I like time traveling now so we can come back to the silliness later after seeing sad stuff.

Time travel, says I.

Also, the matching teeth are charming, but I half wonder if the two of you are at risk of accidentally merging into a singular being. It wouldn't be good if you turned into a thing that glitches the system enough that it starts breaking. ...a Corruptor, if you will.
So practice safe cybersex, you two.

Well... I do love me some wrasslin', but variety is the spice of life, so let's go check out some doomed timelines.

Yeah, you guys will probably want to recover some later, moodwise, so time travel. Are you just going yourselves, or planning to bring anyone with you? Maybe you can't bring anyone else with you, but, though you're both the gods of this place and how it works and all, you're both kinda inexperienced at some things, I think. Like, socially. Maybe. I don't know, perhaps that won't be important.

Oh, and do you guys know what's up with Corrupter yet? Has he been watching the wrestling, too? ... if you pause him, he doesn't have some freaky thing to unpause himself, does he? Doing things he's not supposed to be able to do is kind of a thing of his.

>ask for backstory
>immediate pause.
Well maybe we'll hear the tail end when we get back.

>got 4 random admins to rubber stamp what you wanted
Pffffff. I guess this whole contest thing get a handle on personalities, so you could pick people who would be willing to comply without trying to push their own agendas or backstab you.

>what do
I guess it's time for time traveling. Do you have any locations in particular to start with? When looks interesting?

Unnatural Selection Thread 12 END Glitcher 2016/04/17(Sun)11:00 No. 717328 ID: dd338c
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>Oh, and do you guys know what's up with Corrupter yet?
That guy's still missing.

>Are you just going yourselves, or planning to bring anyone with you?
We'll probably start out ourselves, but if I'm right, we can teleport people across cycles as well.

>I guess this whole contest thing get a handle on personalities, so you could pick people who would be willing to comply without trying to push their own agendas or backstab you.
Well it was at first but now it's to let a million people live a little bit. Especially if I fuck something up bad on this time travelling mission and this cycle gets considered fully corrupt and gets purged or something.

If I can do it in mass then maybe I could shove everyone into a single cycle! Why not.

>Do you have any locations in particular to start with? When looks interesting?
Checking out the very first cycle may lead to something interesting, or maybe it's the most boring thing ever.

Also feels like some of those easter eggs might've been scattered across cycles somehow, but we'll find out if that's really the case soon enough.

There's also a small cluster of about 10 consecutive cycles where it seems like the structure is slightly different. Don't know what's up with that.

There's also a near fully corrupted cycle.

Probably just going to start with visiting random cycles and getting an idea what happened.

"Let's do some time travelling, Rulekeeper, and maybe fit in some time to find out where the corruptor went off to."
"Alright. Let's not spend too long at once, Glitcher. If there are red flags for what you're doing here, I would imagine there's a greater set of red flags for completely changing what cycle is activated."
"Well we'll watch out for signs of the CAI gods getting angry with our mortal meddling, then appease them with sports entertainment to act like this cycle is going anywhere. We've got a lot to cover."