((Dear everyone, please stop only doing tons of awesome stuff when I can't post.))
"Yeah, what the hell happened while I was out?"
((Which guy is that?))
Suddenly, everyone in the cells is teleported to a larger, though still dark, hall. There are tables and chairs there, and braziers with green flame.
Their magic (And Richard's personae, any spirit-based/mental-based power, etc) is still suppressed.
((Can everyone see everyone?))
"A communications bracelet."
((Don't we have those in RotMG? More or less?))
Lucas' group encounters an entrance into the audience area overlooking the battleground.
((The one with Angerus and...the other guy?))
<Um... h-hello...? A-anybody...?> Selina sounds worried as she tries to figure out where she is.
<I'm here. Try making a sound. Here, I'll say something loud:>
"HI SELINA!"
"Selina's here?"
((That's RotMG!Selina, right?))
<Don't mind me. Actually, you might want to mind, I'm not getting any power from this. That's worrying. Also, no, I'm not doing anything permanent. >
<Is it you hurting the kitty?>
"Okay, it can be used as a power source... as long as you do something very small scale, you can progressively weaken the grille..."
"Good to know!"
Marie is caught doing unspeakable things to fluffy. She seems remarkably nonchalant about it.
"Bad Marie!"
"You! Little girl! Why did you jump into the rift?""I was following my friends...I wanted to help--"
"If your friends had jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?""...I suppose I would."
"..."
Selina looks at Marie then looks away. She had heard bad things about tentacles. She also looked rather pale.
Angel pats Selina on the back.
"It's okay, Selina..."
Selina looks pretty afraid, sitting against a wall and going into the fetal position. She looked deathily pale.
Angel follows and hugs her.
Fluffy shapeshifts to a lion.
"Huh."
"AHHHH!" Selina screams and ducks under a table. There was a lion!?!?
Angel scurries after so she can keep trying to console Selina.
"We're fictional characters in a forum RPG. In our thread, we can break the fourth wall, so I do know who your player is."
Matthew smacks her.
Lucas is then struck with the strangest sense that something slightly familiar is about to be encountered, but just... Keeps going.
"So... If this place is an arena... Where are the crowds? Or the Fighters, for that matter?"
"...Follow me." Will uses his power to determine which path leads towards the arena.
"Oh. So, we're the crowd, then. Whoopee. This'll probably be bad. It's only a matter of time till someone starts either quoting Gladiator, or they order someone to 'Release the Lions!' And then whoever's in the arena gets mauled."
He heads into the stands, confused, slightly.
"I'm not sure...not really getting that vibe. Definitely not the lions. Quotes...maybe."
"That's probably the metal monster I heard pounding on the wall earlier, though."
"...Issac... Medea... Ashley... *sigh* I presume you come from the Twilight Academy?"
*smack*
"Seriously, stop. You're ruining my suspension of disbelief."
"You see, this is exactly why players shouldn't just reference other forum RPGs they intend to make a crossover with, because it just become convoluted. To put it simply, you are all, relative to our frame of reference, fictional characters of a book series I dislike, specifically, Twilight Academy. I would go on to criticize your character design, but that just devalues you as a sentient entity."
"Oh, really? Well, why don't we hear a bit about your end, see if I can find something about you to criticize..."
"Why would I know where we are? It just looks like a boring old arena of some kind, and... Oh. Well, this is kind of awkward. We're both in the arena... and... Nobody else is... Huh."
Catherine finally realizes what the heck is going on, as in what she's doing down there.
<Uh, guys? We may have a problem here. I think I might be supposed to fight this guy. I don't WANT to, though...>
<Is it the big armored guy?>
"Oh great, it's going to be like explaining to Victoria the concept of pleasure... Issac, Ashley. We're all fictional characters used in a forum RPG. The one that I come from has no fourth wall, so that's why I'm aware of it."
"Oh, that's it."*smack*
*smack*
"...Who are you?""Another fan of the fourth wall willing to lay on the smack."
"Don't try this back at your normal thread. @Ragnarok prefers Twilight Academy's fourth wall to remain unbroken."
"Gee, I wonder why..."
Selina looked out from under her table in utter confusion. What the heck was the fourth wall!? And what were they talking about!?!?
Angel follows, patting Selina on the back.
Stella decides to cuddle Selina.
"It's okay."
Angel doesn't know who this person hugging Selina is, but she joins anyways.