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[We open on our three heroes studying the Riffing Academy archives, Peorth fluttering her hand over one of the tablets that started the whole wish mess. It glows with a magical light, almost eerily pouring from every panel gap as if Peorth is literally holding the thing together.]
Peorth: Ugh, it’s just one surprise after another! Nothing short of divine assistance could have made this misbegotten device work!
Gio: That’s great, the Academy’s hardware is so screwed-up that a literal god is strugglin’ to hold it together.
Peorth: Not struggling, not quite, it’s more…a case of the systems of this device not playing very nicely with the Yggdrasil emulation. I can act as an intermediary, naturellement, akin to a virtual machine running a foreign operating system, but it’s proving quite temperamental – it seems there’s powerful magic in this machine already that can’t quite comprehend what it’s interfacing with, and I can only do so much as an interpreter.
Sherry: *quiet, to Gio* I told the Chairman he needed to spring for the Silver Crystal package.
Peorth: The more I know about how this system works, the more focused my approach to upgrading it can be. Besides, if I can strengthen our network connection between here and Heaven, it can only help all of us in the future. Job one will be to install a direct line, and after that…well, we shall see, won’t we?
Sherry: Yeah. I guess this is unfamiliar territory for all of us, isn’t it?
Gio: Eh, whatever. You learn to take this crud as it comes, y’know?
Sherry: Mm-hmm. So, last time on Ah! My Space Goddess…
( Fetch me my warrior muumuu )
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( Bacon Von Meatwich! )
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Gio: Welp. That seemed like kind of a weird detour. Least this one’s actually goin’ between story beats.
Sherry: Yeah, about that…
Gio: Huh?
Sherry: There’s some…weird vibes…I’m getting from this fic. It’s bugging me the more and more we read. It’s funky. Not in the good way. Maybe we should do some more research?
Gio: Yeah! That’d be good. Let’s hit up the archives now that *pointing at Peorth* you helped slap their servers back into place. C’mon, let’s go get to that vibe check, babe.
[Gio leads Sherry past Peorth and meets two figures, walking past them: it’s Keiichi and Belldandy, as in normal Keiichi and Belldandy, who look like it hasn’t been more than a couple months since the last chapter of the manga. The two couples stop for a moment.]
Gio: Yo Kei, yo Bell.
Belldandy: Oh, hello!
[Gio and Sherry nod understandingly towards one another. Then realization suddenly slams into them as the two suddenly snap to each other and scramble back to Peorth, screaming in panic. Keiichi’s muted reaction of just kind of gawking highlights this is somehow not the craziest reaction he’s ever received.]
Keiichi: Uh…what?
Belldandy: Something must be wrong! Look, there’s Peorth! Maybe she can help!
Keiichi: Wait, who’s here?!
[The two of them run off to join Peorth as Gio and Sherry paw at her and point at Kei and Bell, failing to stammer out words.]
Peorth: Ugh, it’s just one surprise after another! Nothing short of divine assistance could have made this misbegotten device work!
Gio: That’s great, the Academy’s hardware is so screwed-up that a literal god is strugglin’ to hold it together.
Peorth: Not struggling, not quite, it’s more…a case of the systems of this device not playing very nicely with the Yggdrasil emulation. I can act as an intermediary, naturellement, akin to a virtual machine running a foreign operating system, but it’s proving quite temperamental – it seems there’s powerful magic in this machine already that can’t quite comprehend what it’s interfacing with, and I can only do so much as an interpreter.
Sherry: *quiet, to Gio* I told the Chairman he needed to spring for the Silver Crystal package.
Peorth: The more I know about how this system works, the more focused my approach to upgrading it can be. Besides, if I can strengthen our network connection between here and Heaven, it can only help all of us in the future. Job one will be to install a direct line, and after that…well, we shall see, won’t we?
Sherry: Yeah. I guess this is unfamiliar territory for all of us, isn’t it?
Gio: Eh, whatever. You learn to take this crud as it comes, y’know?
Sherry: Mm-hmm. So, last time on Ah! My Space Goddess…
( Fetch me my warrior muumuu )
***
( Bacon Von Meatwich! )
***
Gio: Welp. That seemed like kind of a weird detour. Least this one’s actually goin’ between story beats.
Sherry: Yeah, about that…
Gio: Huh?
Sherry: There’s some…weird vibes…I’m getting from this fic. It’s bugging me the more and more we read. It’s funky. Not in the good way. Maybe we should do some more research?
Gio: Yeah! That’d be good. Let’s hit up the archives now that *pointing at Peorth* you helped slap their servers back into place. C’mon, let’s go get to that vibe check, babe.
[Gio leads Sherry past Peorth and meets two figures, walking past them: it’s Keiichi and Belldandy, as in normal Keiichi and Belldandy, who look like it hasn’t been more than a couple months since the last chapter of the manga. The two couples stop for a moment.]
Gio: Yo Kei, yo Bell.
Belldandy: Oh, hello!
[Gio and Sherry nod understandingly towards one another. Then realization suddenly slams into them as the two suddenly snap to each other and scramble back to Peorth, screaming in panic. Keiichi’s muted reaction of just kind of gawking highlights this is somehow not the craziest reaction he’s ever received.]
Keiichi: Uh…what?
Belldandy: Something must be wrong! Look, there’s Peorth! Maybe she can help!
Keiichi: Wait, who’s here?!
[The two of them run off to join Peorth as Gio and Sherry paw at her and point at Kei and Bell, failing to stammer out words.]