Text / Action some kinda mini log maybe???

[spinsandneedles]

WHO: Sonic!! And whoever feels like also being at the volcano for some crazy reason??
WHERE: Volcano Zone
WHAT: WE'RE GOING ROCK HUNTIN'
WHEN: Late September, early October, something like that
WARNINGS: NONE, will update as needed


NETWORK

What's up kids, it's ya boi Sonic! I'm heading out to the volcano to check things out, see if there's anything weird up there. Not inside, don't worry. If any of you sciency types want any rock samples or whatever, maybe for sciencing out how this all happened, let me know. I can haul back as much as you need.


or maybe volcanoes are more your speed

[He doesn't really wait around for anyone to go with him the first time he makes the trek to the volcano (he's gotta go FAST OK), but Sonic is definitely in the area long enough for people to maybe catch up with him if they feel so inclined. He'll also travel to and from the area multiple times over the course of a few days, willing to show down should anyone want to head that way with him. He's not completely rude.

He may spend a significant amount of time running around in the wilderness before stopping to stuff a bunch of rocks into a bag, or scooping ash or dirt into some kind of container. Maybe it isn't super exciting, but even Sonic can't be EXTREEEEME all the time. Sometimes a hedgehog's gotta just chill and do a little sight seeing!

He's nuts enough to go up as high as he can of course, but he can also be found near the base of the volcano checking out the damage there.]

Comments

[spinsandneedles]

[they went from useful conversation to BITCHMAN in less than 5 seconds, a new world record]

I can stand it 'cuz I'm real fast. I could have been there and back again three times over if I wasn't slowing down for your saggy old butt! Why dontcha build a car if you're so smart!

[reneggadetinkerer]

I would if I had even the most barest of essentials! Having to start from the ground up is aggravating to say the least!

I'd even take Orbot or Cubot right now! To say nothing of Metal.

[spinsandneedles]

Aw, bummer, huh.

Not so sure how Orbot or Cubot could get you to the volcano faster. Do they transform into roller skates?

...That'd be kind of hilarious, actually.

[reneggadetinkerer]

They wouldn't be able to but they'd at least be relatively decent company.

[Look, Orbot and Cubot might be bunglers, but they're his bunglers.]

[spinsandneedles]

That's probably the nicest thing I've ever heard you say about literally anyone. It was borderline complimentary!

[awww, does Eggyweggums wuv his wobot childwen??? Maybe stop sending them off to get their asses beat ya prick????]

[reneggadetinkerer]

Nonsense! If they annoy me, I can simply kick them into the volcano! That's all!

[spinsandneedles]

You say that, and yet you still have them in spite of how annoying they constantly are. I dunno man, seems sus.

[reneggadetinkerer]

There is nothing "sus" about it! They have their uses and as long as they continue to be useful I won't melt them down into slag and convert them into cupholders for my Eggmobile! As long as something has function I'll usually spare it unless I get bored of it!

Much like why I haven't destroyed you and your furry resistance!

[spinsandneedles]

Oh, please. You've tried to destroy me so many times, I've lost track! Unless all those failures on your part were just practice, you're talkin' out your giant, stupid nose!

Maybe if you skipped all the gloating and fancy details you'd stand a better chance? Just get the job done! Starline did a better job of almost blowing me up, you keep tripping at the finish line!

[reneggadetinkerer]

All these years and you still don't recognize the game for what it is.

I could ruin the world in an afternoon. I could rain fire down and burn everything you know and love into nuclear ash. I could poison the world, I could rip apart the very ground you live upon. If it becomes inconvenient for me, I can just move on. There are plenty of worlds to consume. I can be like a plague of locusts if I should choose it!

It's never been about the destruction, Hedgehog. The destruction is a means to an end. Your end. The moment I decide that the game has ceased being amusing is the moment I can choose to end it.

You and your little friends are a distraction. The unknown variable in all of my grand experiments. What's an Empire without a few dissenters and revolutionaries? I'm not in this to play solitaire.

And that is why Starline failed. He lacked vision. He was playing chess while the rest of us were playing charades!

No...you win because I haven't raised the difficulty level enough. But if we start at level ten?

Why...think of all the fun we're missing out on from levels one through nine?

[spinsandneedles]

[Sonic's first impulse is, naturally, to be a little shit and just brush all that off as Eggman stroking his ego and/or trying to get into Sonic's head, but actually this might be importantish? Maybe it is all just bullshit, but screw it, they have a long walk ahead of them. Might as well try to crack the Eggcode a bit.]

You really do make it sound like this is all just a game to you. The longer we go back and forth over the fate of the world, the more it definitely feels like one.

I dunno, man. You talk big, but then when you try to shoot big, it almost always explodes right in your face. If you 'raising the difficulty' means losing control over the situation completely, I'd say we've already hit level ten a couple times.

[reneggadetinkerer]

And to think, you could have won it all...but you spared the innocent "Mr. Tinker."

And so I persist. Like the sun rising every morning. All by your hand.

[spinsandneedles]

Psh, more like a cockroach.

[Oh hohoooo okay. Being the speedy little thing that he is, Sonic's been walking ahead of Eggman a little way. He won't be able to see the brief flash of irritation that crosses the hedgehog's face, but even then it's probably easy enough to assume that he's struck a nerve.]

Kicking people while they're down isn't my style, Eggman. I don't regret the choice I made, and I'm not responsible for the choices you make. That doesn't mean I won't shut your plans down at every turn, and you know that I will.

[reneggadetinkerer]

Yes, keep telling yourself that. Keep parading yourself about like the moral superior. You've done a great thing, after all! The ends justify the means!

I'm sure there's plenty who would agree with you. What were their names again? Starline's over-emotional failures? Surge and Kit?

Face it, rodent. You've hurt just as many people as I have just by virtue of letting me go every time we cross paths. The only difference between us is that you burden yourself with cleaning up the mess; languishing in the past while I, on the other hand, am always looking to the next idea.

[spinsandneedles]

Do you spend hours before bed staring at a mirror and rehearsing this stuff? Or are you just that good at improv?

[credit where it's due, the man has a way with words. Just maybe ignore how Sonic says that a bit snippier than usual.

Man Sonic wants to just kick Eggman in his weird Eggass and leave. It would be so easy, but Eggman would not doubt consider that a win and therefore become even more annoying. Sonic can barely tolerate this, he doesn't need Eggman thinking that he's got some sort of victory over him.

So he will stay, deflecting as per usual.]

Well then, maybe all this is a sign that karma's real. If both of us are so bad for the world, maybe the universe decided to stick us someplace where we can't run anyone else's lives.

[reneggadetinkerer]

Gehehe..heheheahahahaha...!

[Oh he knows he struck a nerve there.]

Now now, Sonic. Don't be so blue. It takes ironclad conviction to stand by your principles, even if they cause untold destruction.

Perhaps all those years of abusing the chaos emeralds have turned you into an agent of one, hm?

Now, you should stop your lamentable lollygagging. Don't we have rock samples to find?

[spinsandneedles]

[NO HE DIDN'T!!!! (he might have)

That annoying laugh tears it. Sonic visibly bristles and finally whips around, jabbing a finger in Eggman's direction.]

I'm gonna sample rocks off your face. You're not getting in my head, Eggman. I know this game.

[And he's done playing it! he whips back around and storms off. Eat shit!!!!]

[reneggadetinkerer]

Then you know you've already lost it.

You're alone. Cut off from all of your friends. Your support network. The two-tailed twit isn't here to offer logical insight. The pink one is nowhere to be found to reassure you of your course and supply you with unwavering faith.

And the Echidna? Please, I've tricked him so many times before.

All you have, rodent, is your speed. And all it's good for is helping you to run away.

Gehehehe...hehehahahaha...GAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[spinsandneedles]

Oh my God, you're still talking.

[Sonic's mostly tuned him out at this point. The eyerolling is intense.]

Run away? From you? I literally run face first into all of your robots on purpose, sometimes for fun.

[reneggadetinkerer]

Which explains your abysmal intelligence, yes.

[As he walks he kicks a rock in annoyance. He's gotten bored of gloating and goading Sonic, for now. Something's bothering him.]

That nonsense you were spouting before about karma. From what I understand the Agrii are looking for people to help them. Therefore my selection and subsequent abduction make no sense.

[In other words, he can't help but wonder if 'karma' has played a role.]

[spinsandneedles]

They probably don't know that you're a total sociopath.

[He wants to ignore Eggman, but frankly he's just glad for the subject change. Fine, he'll refrain from rushing ahead. For now.]

I wasn't being serious about the karma thing, by the way. You don't think that's what's goin' on, do you?

[reneggadetinkerer]

Of course not. Karma is superstitious bunk. About as accurate as the little fortunes your friend reads with bits of laminated paper.

No, I was positing that if the Agrii are lost and are in search of 'He Rows' then my capture is antithetical to their cause. I, more than anyone, know what I am capable of and I fully intend to use their lapse in judgement to my advantage.

[spinsandneedles]

Of course, I'd expect nothing less from you.

[He doesn't want to sound like a broken record, so he won't bother reminding Eggman that he intends to stop him at every turn. Eggman already knows this.]

I've heard that the Agrii seem pretty naive, they probably just didn't know any better. I don't know how they managed to find any of us, though. I'd thought it was maybe random chance that we ended up here until Knuckles and you showed up.

[reneggadetinkerer]

You're suggesting that by bringing in one, they've unconsciously opened the door for others?

...I wonder if that can be used both ways.

[spinsandneedles]

Both ways? What are you goin' on about?

[uuugh stop plotting for FIVE MINUTES]