h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*Just north of the Entrance Hall is a grand Banquet Room, laden with sweets of all kinds and plenty of potent drink, along a long table down the center of the room. That table is lined with benches, and several small, candlelit tables also hide in dark corners of the room.*

*After some length of time, Kudos storms into the hall, flops onto a bench, and stares at the ceiling moodily.*

*Nightwing enters and looks around*

So....seen anyone in peril lately? There's a STUMPED member that's supposedly in danger, or something....

[Kudos] *still staring at the ceiling* Well, what have we here! Someone asking the jester for something that isn't a riddle? Heh heh heh. So who's in this house that shouldn't be, who's in this house that you wouldn't expect, and who's hidden that you think's in plain sight?

Nightwing-In theory, the answer to all of those questions could be "Me," but I doubt that you're good enough at riddles to say that if I was in that sort of danger.

Anyway, thanks for the cryptic hint. I'm sure that I'll remember it at the crucial point.

*Departs in some direction, going with the way that the guide page said that rooms could be created*

*In a smooth blur, NYC enters the banquet hall, finds a seat in a dimly-lit table, embeds his cutlass into said table with satisfying THOK and proceeds to, tactfully, pour himself some hard substances*

*catching a whiff of NYC's drink, Kudos uprights himself and wanders over to that table, only quietly jingling, and somewhat out of sorts.*

[Kudos] Yo, stranger. Mind sharin' the bottle? It's been rough here lately...

*eyes the weapon implanted in the table*

[Kudos] That's a nice piece of weaponry ya got there, too.

[NYC] Hey, Kudos. Of course I'll share my bottle with you! It's a party, no?

*NYC reaches over and handles the bottle near Kudos' glass, but stops*

[NYC] But first...

*pause for effect*

...entertain me.

*wide grin, remarkable even behind mask*

[Kudos] N... N... NYC...

*Kudos's head flops onto the table, and he starts... sobbing?*

[Kudos] ...stupid...*sob*...bet...!

*NYC peers at Kudos thoughtfully*

[NYC] What bet?

*Kudos starts to speak, but NYC cuts him off*

[NYC] What bet, and you have to answer in rhyme.

*Oh, the grin is ear to ear; saving face only by the fact that it's shrouded in a mask*

[Kudos] *looks sorrowfully at NYC*

It was only a bet
That now I regret
Somehow he's evil now
Completely turned 'round
Until he's caught
Free I am not...

*turns back to the table and sobs, unable to rhyme*

[NYC] *I* am *not entertained!* ...no drink for you.

*NYC winks, but with the eyepatch it's completely lost on the very morose Kudos*

[NYC] Whaaat? I'm a supervillain! Old habits are hard to break. Oh, and there's another bottle right next to this one.

*Kudos reaches for it, but NYC yanks it*

[NYC] That's mine, too.

*pause for effect*

[NYC] Just kidding! here. And don't say I never gave you nothing.

*with one more sad sniff, Kudos pours some of the drink, then gulps it down and gives NYC a faint smile*

[Kudos] Sorry 'bout that... actually, you've still been the nicest out of everyone so far, I think. But I still can't believe I'm stuck like this.... stupid robot... I knew I messed up something in there....

(Strolls in and plants the Soul Edge point first into the ground (as his costume is nightmare from soul calibur II (the one where he's not wearing a shirt))

What hard stuff does that happen to be? I'm a big fan of certain types...

[Someone resembling Tetsuo Shima, who could be any one of Yar's evil clones, fades into view.]

Tetsuo at the height of his controllable power, or when he starts to go nuts ie some really digusting scenes toward the end of the film?

Prior to losing his arm. He's got the spiky (or at least disheveled) hair, the black pants, the white shirt, and the makeshift red cape. And the evil, too, of course.

Oh, and you might want to read the manga, too. It's better, longer, and more comprehensible.

I have. That's why I appreciate Joker.

Heh, yeah ... he vaguely reminds me of Barret from FF7 in the manga. Anyway ...

*Kudos merely takes a sip of his drink and nods evenly at Tetsuo and Nightmare. Unfortunately, this leads to more jangling of his jester bells, which provokes him to frown darkly and take a much, much larger sip of the drink.*