voidtreckerexpress | Look, a book! [OPEN]

Who: Zetta, minions, Prinnies, and hapless others
What: Zetta around the train.
Where: The garden car and the game car.
When: Domino 19.
Warnings: Zetta?

The Garden Car

Visitors to the garden car, no matter when, always endure the same ritual: a greeting by a curious woman, armed with a sword and apparently of the opinion that wide belts were perfect substitutes for shirts. With a rather vapid smile, she simply said, "Welcome to the domain of the Overlord."

Inside the garden car, as always, milled a half-dozen people with the same vapid cheer as the girl outside. Some of them were even walking in place, living up to their role as NPCs. A couple of others had the engine of a beat-up old truck half out, while from beneath said engine a pair of legs kicked futilely. Slight technical problems, don't mind that. And in the center of it all, atop a small mound of stones, floated a book -- who was yelling at three patchwork, peg-legged penguin things.

"I told you to steal a proper throne, damn it!"

Fun and Games

"Hyaaaha ha ha ha ha!"

Possibly the weirdest sight to date: a floating book with a VR headset rather haphazardly strapped on, cackling maniacally as a minion listened to his orders and relayed inputs on a controller.

"Yes! Ram the hero into the tree again! Five hit points down every time! Stupid hero, how dare you try to save the day?! This is what you deserve!"

Yes, Zetta was taking great joy in stupidly suiciding the young adventurer out to save the day. After all, humiliating heroes was part of his duty as an Overlord!

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[ Elfnein hadn't gotten a chance to check out what Zetta had done to the Garden car since he got here, but now is better then later! She gives the npc at the entrance a smile and instantly sees the mound of stones that is being used as a "throne". ]

I came to check out how things are going.

Oh. Hey.

[That is, after all, a pretty warm welcome as far as Zetta goes.]

It's no Temple of Angra Mainyu... let alone an Overlord's castle. Actually, I wish the damn train would just give me a proper car. If I could stop claiming this one it'd save me a lot of grief.

I think the garden suits you, it's always full of life and growing!

[ She's not going to comment on how Zetta shouldn't claim things without looking. ]

[Hey, you want his truck and minions clogging up the halls? This is smart for everyone!]

...but that's the exact opposite of me. I'm all about destruction, and I haven't been growing for about thirty-two thousand years. Except more powerful and handsome!

Nita really didn't know what to think of Zetta's... passtime.

Certainly, she'd faced scarier villains.

She - cautiously - waved the NPC girl hello, but for the most part decided to ignore the bizarreness of the car.

Deliberately. She had brought one of the plant kits along, after all.

So with little more than a deliberate sigh, she set to work. She neglected to plug her ears, however.

"Yeah, sure. Thanks." Reigen quickly offers the girl at the entrance before walking into the garden, a plate of tuna with water chestnuts in hand. He owes one of those little penguin things a food bribe.

He is not expecting multiple of them, though. Are they all the same model of spirit container? Jeez!

"Ok...which one of you is Blue?"

"H-hey! Hold on. I'm fine with people using this place, but altering it?!"

Zetta had certain opinions on his ownership of the car which were... not widely shared. But apparently believing volume counted for a lot, the book didn't hesitate to bellow over at her.

"If that's not a really badass plant, I'm not interested!"

One of the Prinnies looked over its shoulder at the name, then turned entirely to wander over. "Hey dood! Long time no see! How's it going, dood?"

"Hey there, little buddy! I'm good, some stuff happened but I'm free now. And I made that food I promised!" He crouched down and handed the Prinny the plate of tuna. He had no idea what the actual food preferences of the little guys were, but penguins liked fish and there were too many water chestnuts here, so this was what he settled on.

"Mister Zetta?"

Romeo had come up to the games carriage to see if any of the games were free. He had been playing a bit in the Knight game, it was trickier than any of his puzzle games had been but it was still fun!

He hadn't known mister Zetta played games! But he frowned when he heard the words and got closer, smiling kindly at the minion. "You don't got to do what he says you know."

Nita sighed.

"We're on a speeding train going through some unknowable hostile force!"

She stood up where she was to get a better look at the book.

"If it does grow, wouldn't that be enough to make it badass?"

"Dood!" the Prinny exclaimed, taking the plate with obvious delight.

This caught the attention of a book, who spun around to glare at the scene.
"Hey! Are you feeding my minions?"

The minion gave Romeo a rather blank look. Why wouldn't he want to do what the Overlord said?

"You know, Romeo," Zetta said, sounding rather weary all of a sudden, "for such a nice and innocent kid you sure try to foment a hell of a lot of sedition."

"You guys manage to survive, and you're all weak as kittens." Compared to Zetta, anyway. "Besides, what's this 'unknowable hostile force' bit? It's the void between worlds. We strong Overlords hang out there all the time. It's a good, safe neutral ground."

Nita just crooked an eyebrow at him.

"Have you been able to sneak outside the Train while it's running? You don't know if all voids are the same."

Which was a point that bothered her, too, for what it was worth.

"Just because I'd rather not ditch the train doesn't mean it's all different. Besides, how many voids do you think actually exist between worlds? Because if the number is more than one, I've gotta wonder."

Her voice sounded familiar. Where had he heard it before?

"I've met more than one kind, myself."

A regular universe-crosser, this one.

"Wouldn't be surprised if we're all wrapped up in a third one."

"You're probably confusing it with the spaces between universes," Zetta said dismissively. "Trust the experienced demon with this sort of thing."

"So you don't know of a void called The Between, then?"

At least Nautilus' weirdness can be useful for one thing?

But for the most part Nita was going to try and focus back on her plant box as this... whatever-it-was, went on.

"I don't really pay attention to infinite universes' names for different things." Who knew what that one meant? "Believe it or not, they aren't always the same for each one."

She should have expected that answer, frankly.

"Ever heard of Kalliste, then? Place where people first Woke to and became bitty Overlords or whatever? Learned how to make worlds?"

Kalliste had been first, after all; though what this guy would think of a nine-million-years difference, she wasn't sure.

Zetta heaved a sigh.

"Look. I'm literally the most important being in existence. Have you ever heard of me?"

"Nnnope."

Nita shrugged.

"I'm just one wizard from an Earth with millions, though, so it does make sense you wouldn't have heard of me."

"Right. So let's not play the 'who knows what' game."

A moment's pause, and then, "Except I can see your status screen, so there's that."

Oho, now?

"Mind sharing what it says? For those of us who don't have internal heads-up displays all the time."

The voice of wizardry in the back of her head coughed, but did not otherwise speak up.

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Also the Garden Car! Please have a Prinnie poke her, or she can just be yelled at. XD She WILL react

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