Boxing up the Multiverse

So this happened.

It was May 9th, 2014.

[07:41] <@spiritflame> ohayo paisley pythia peinforte
[07:41] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> "The Beatings shall continue until morale improves."
[07:41] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Yes. Yes they shall.
[07:41] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Except we're going to be the ones doing the beating, and it will be OUR morale that improves.
[07:42] <@The Intern> Good morning, Miss Peinforte!
[07:43] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Morning, Intern.
[07:43] * @The Intern shows her some security footage from the night before.
[07:43] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Oh really.
[07:43] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> The old powers are stirring.
[07:44] <@The Intern> Do you know who that is?
[07:44] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Not directly.
[07:44] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> But I spent some time stuck in the World Tree, so I know the Legend.
[07:44] <@The Intern> Can we trust her?
[07:44] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> I think so.
[07:45] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> About that TARDIS...
[07:45] <@The Intern> Well... <_<
[07:45] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Is something wrong?
[07:46] <@The Intern> Not... not exactly.
[07:46] <The Corruptor> /em holds his finger up to his lips
[07:46] <The Corruptor> Shush now, Lady Intern.
[07:46] <The Corruptor> Explain after it's done.
[07:47] <The Corruptor> The Walls have Ears.
[07:47] * @The Intern nods and loads a comms device
[07:47] <@The Intern> ♦ Co-Ordinator, do we have the location of the nearest crack?
[07:48] <The Actuary> ♦ Yes. It's [BLEEP]
[07:48] <@The Intern> Right!
[07:48] <@The Intern> Sakura April~?

[07:48] <<a href="../macros/psychosaki.jpg" style="color: rgb(87, 111, 187); font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;" target="new">psYchO_saKi</a>> ♦ Already in position
[07:49] * psYchO_saKi [outside] has her Bird of Prey in space, hovering near a crack in the Universe




[07:49] * psYchO_saKi [outside] loads the Photon Torpedo bay with Xadium's TARDIS
[07:50] <<a href="../macros/psychosaki.jpg" style="color: rgb(87, 111, 187); font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;" target="new">psYchO_saKi</a>> ♦ Standing ready to fire.
[07:50] <The Actuary> ♦ It's up to you, Neminix. This was your plan.
[07:51] * @The Intern gulps.
[07:51] <@The Intern> ♦ R...right. FIRE!
[07:51] * psYchO_saKi [outside] starts a timer and presses Butan and SHOOTS Xadium's TARDIS into the crack, sending into the void
[07:52] * The Corruptor grins
[07:52] <The Corruptor> ♦ Now... the SECOND Stage.
[07:52] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> ...Second Stage what

[07:52] * @The Intern inputs a secondary code
[07:53] <The Corruptor> Something we were going to hold back as a special surprise, but since that Fate there rendered her little clue, we might as well do it now.
[07:54] *** the TARDIS EXPLODES on cue, its particles immediately spiderwebbing through all of time and space, suffusing all the cracks... but only a portion of its particles.
[07:55] *** Space-time is fortified, but the rest of the plasmic shell keeps going outwards, rupturing up one more dimensional level
[07:57] * All of the 1337 sub multiverses are surrounded by the rapidly expanding plasmic shell, which keeps going outward, then suddenly CONTORTS, twitching and spasming and turning in on itself, becoming a box. A giant, turning and twisting LaMarchand Box akin to the one Intern had used earlier to contain Corruptor's Dimension, only far, far more elbaorate.
[07:58] *** the Box ratchets shut and seals itself tight.
[07:58] *** All of the 1337 realities SHAKE like a bell that has been rung.
[08:01] *** All 1337 multiverses save for Prime are now locked in a box, pinched off (for now) from the rest of the Multiverse.
[08:01] <@The Intern> Operation complete.
[08:01] <@The Intern> We have isolated the probablilty branches.
[08:02] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> WHAT DID YOU DO?!
[08:02] <The Corruptor> Two things.
[08:02] <The Corruptor> We've locked everyone in.
[08:02] <The Corruptor> And two...
[08:02] <The Corruptor> Just as the HOTEL's outer shell acts as the environmental controls for this place.
[08:03] <The Corruptor> Xadium's TARDIS now acts as the Environmental Controls for the 1337 Multiverse.
[08:03] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> ...Are you... Are you s[BLEEP]tting me!?
[08:03] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Wait... but that means...
[08:04] <The Corruptor> That means we can now bring more resources to bear.
[08:04] <The Corruptor> Granted, the multiverse is huge.
[08:04] <The Corruptor> Unfathomably so.
[08:05] <The Corruptor> Still. On a wide scale, we now have control over the boundaries of the 1337 probability. They're locked in with us.
[08:06] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> It's not much control, they can still run amok. I see the cracks haven't closed
[08:06] <@The Intern> They haven't, but reality is more stable for the moment.
[08:07] <The Corruptor> And *nothing from outside the 1337 multiverses, past and present and alternate* can intrude on the party.
[08:08] <John Constantine> [outside] In other words we've just boxed ourselves in with the problem.
[08:08] * John Constantine has moved back to the lobby
[08:08] <The Corruptor> But we own the box.
[08:08] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> How long can this last?
[08:09] <The Corruptor> Xadium's TARDIS can't handle the strain indefinitely.
[08:10] <@The Intern> I'd say a month and a half at most before it degrades and releases us back out into the wider multiverse
[08:10] <John Constantine> So the timer is on.
[08:14] <The Corruptor> If we don't solve this by June 23rd, 2014 we will be right back at square one.
[08:15] <@The Intern> And the Universe probably won't be able to handle this kind of move again-- at least not in a timescale we can work with.
[08:17] <The Corruptor> So now that we have the box.
[08:17] *** The Corruptor [superuser@hotellihaus01.pandoricaarms.com.pi] has left #suburbansenshi2 (The beatings can begin.)
[08:17] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> What can we do with this "box"?
[08:18] <@The Intern> In theory... with enough math... we could manipulate the entire encompassed area.
[08:18] <@The Intern> But it would take more math than anyone could compute.
[08:19] <@The Intern> But we CAN limit the effects to a very small area, which would be a more manageable computation.
[08:19] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> You realise that's almost the power of a god.
[08:19] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> What if the enemy gets control of the box.
[08:20] <John Constantine> Not gonna happen.
[08:20] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> How can you be so sure?
[08:21] <John Constantine> Because the control matrix has been linked to something terrible.
[08:21] <John Constantine> That's all I'm going to say.
[08:21] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Something... terrible?
[08:22] <John Constantine> The worst thing.
[08:22] <John Constantine> The worst thing EVER.
[08:22] <John Constantine> And should the enemy find out what it is....
[08:22] <John Constantine> I think they'd just commit suicide at that moment
[08:23] <John Constantine> I really think they would.
[08:23] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> ...How bad could it bloody be!?
[08:23] * John Constantine chuckles
[08:23] <John Constantine> I wish I could tell you.
[08:24] <John Constantine> But in five minutes I'm going to have the information forcibly purged from my brain.
[08:24] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> ...
[08:24] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> WHAT WHY
[08:25] <John Constantine> So then I can't be compelled to reveal its location.
[08:25] <John Constantine> It's going to hurt like a b[BLEEP]ch.
[08:25] * John Constantine is away: No. Not the mind probe.
[08:26] <Yaijinden> Not the bees!
[08:26] <Yaijinden> Not the beeeeeeees
[08:26] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> ...
[08:26] * Yaijinden half-heartedly flails?
[08:27] * @The Intern smiles
[08:27] * John Constantine 's unholy screams can be heard from the basement, and Tomoe's laughter
[08:27] <Yaijinden> I am getting warned the -hell- up.
[08:28] <Yaijinden> I don't remember the last time this happened where the punishment involved wasn't being shot!
[08:28] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> I can't believe we just decided to box up the mutliverse like a chinese take-away.
[08:29] <Yaijinden> Oh man are there egg rolls?
[08:29] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> This has to be the most insane stunt we have ever pulled.
[08:29] <Yaijinden> Or fortune cookies! As a communist!
[08:30] *** spiritflame[flamelotus@akasaka.hikawajinja.jp] has joined #suburbansenshi2
[08:30] *** @SpeedRcrX sets mode +o @spiritflame
[08:30] <@spiritflame> ohayo @spiritflame
[08:30] <@spiritflame> [Kami's lookout] YOU INTERRUPTED MY CEREMONY ><
[08:30] * @spiritflame has moved back to the lobby
[08:30] <@spiritflame> Now I have to start over ><
[08:30] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Don't look at me, look at her. *points to Intern*
[08:30] <Yaijinden> Punish her with training too!
[08:30] * @spiritflame DEATH GLARES her
[08:31] <@The Intern> Eheheheeh~~ <_<
[08:31] <Yaijinden> That's how it works, right?
[08:31] *** @The Intern [neminixblipsonara@cia674.panopticon.gallfrey.kasterborous.sen] has left #suburbansenshi2 (/flee)
[08:31] <@spiritflame> You can't run from me~ ><
[08:31] *** @spiritflame [flamelotus@akasaka.hikawajinja.jp] has left #suburbansenshi2 (FLIES after her at supersonic speed)
[08:32] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> This will end well. This will end well. This will end well.
[08:32] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte just keeps muttering that to herself.

And then this, on May 11th:

[14:02] <Nelius Raoul> Hopefully all of this can end soon. I'm getting a bit.... what's the word...
[14:02] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Exhausted?
[14:02] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Weary?
[14:03] <Nelius Raoul> Nah... I think anxious would be close.
[14:04] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Mmm.
[14:04] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> you get inured to things after a time.
[14:04] <Nelius Raoul> Though my reasons are a bit different.
[14:05] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Oh?
[14:05] <Nelius Raoul> Namely I've been on the trail of some allies I made in another world.
[14:05] <Nelius Raoul> We got separated during a fight over there... only recently have I found they're all alive, but stuck.
[14:05] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> and of course everything is locked down right now.
[14:06] <Nelius Raoul> Yeah.
[14:07] <Nelius Raoul> Hopefully today this will end.
[14:07] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Ugh. I doubt it.
[14:07] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> I'll see if we can't find a way out for you.
[14:08] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> As much as I hate to undo Intern's genius device, I get the feeling this is going to drag.
[14:08] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> I'll talk to her. I have an idea.
[14:09] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> If we ppen one door that's a defendable exit and just leave rei.bot there
[14:09] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> I think we;ll be just as secure as if the box were utterly sealed and this traffic problem goes away.
[14:10] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> but anyway...
[14:10] <Nelius Raoul> A bit risky, though... suppose Rei.bot is needed elsewhere and there's nobody to stand in?
[14:10] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> rei.bot usually doesn't fight at ful power for fear of breaking the universe.
[14:11] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Her around here is actually more troublesome.
[14:11] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> At least there she can cut loose.
[14:11] <Nelius Raoul> Really?
[14:11] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> Yes.
[14:11] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> I doubt anything would be stupid enough to try and weasel past her.
[14:12] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> and if it was, it wouldn't last very long.
[14:12] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte texts all this to the two of them
[14:13] * @spiritflame [Kami's Lookout] flies to a certain point
[14:13] * @spiritflame has moved to: [ Dimensional Exit Point G ]
[14:13] * @The Intern has made a VERY small door there.
[14:13] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte checks her phone
[14:13] <Paisley Pythia Peinforte> all set.