It's the first day of 2012, so let's start it off with the first chapter of this story that I started typing the other day! :D :D :D
A few things I'd like to say here. I definitely depict New Arcadia as a remote- extremely remote place somewhere in England. Let's just say it's on an island off the coast north of England. For that, I tend to think the voices of most of these characters are with an English/British accent. Except Gabriel. He just sounds American to me. Also, because the video game is rated M, I'm rating this story M (also for safety reasons, like violence and stuff). Also, there is definitely an OC pairing here, so just warning you guys now.
Other than that, enjoy the story! I'll get the rest of the chapters uploaded within the next few days. ^^ Or weeks... it's difficult to tell at the moment. ^^;
I do not own the characters from Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. They belong to their rightful owners.
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My, my, it has been a long time since we've delved ourselves in a world of chaos and adventure, hasn't it? No matter, we will just have to retrace our steps before the present timeline can continue.
Let's start at the beginning. New Arcadia, 1922. Desperation Street.
The meeting of our three heroes was very... unique. A giant robot had stomped on our heroine's house whilst she was raking leaves outside. It then proceeded to walk away, down Desperation Street, as our heroine Linda gawked in shock after it. Then came the other two heroes, Tycho Erasmus Brahe, wielding a machine gun in his right hand and a book in his left, and Johnathan Gabriel, both of the Startling Developments Detective Agency. They ran past her, following the giant robot that was now already in the distance. After a moment's silence, and a moment's thoughts, Linda decided that it wouldn't be a bad idea if she followed them. They might help her destroy the thing that destroyed her house.
In any case, she was able to track them down and join their team. Thus starting their adventures together.
The trio drifted from place to place, upgrading their weapons with the help of Tycho's young aspiring-scientist of a niece, Anne-Claire Forthwith, and attempting to track down the huge robot that caused the giant footprints on the grounds of Desperation Street and Hobo Alley. They ran into strange situations with James Filth, a garbage collector who was bitten by an actual trash can; Dr. Ernald P. Whimple, the urinologist; and then a lone mime in Pelican Bay who told the trio his story of when he used to be an evil mime.
Apparently, the mimes were resurrecting the "Silent One", also known to Tycho as the God "Yog Sethis", by using the book, the Necrowombicon. Of course, by the end of the Silent One's construction, the book was stolen and nowhere to be found. However, if the Silent One is left to its own accord, then the whole world would be destroyed. With this in mind, our heroes then set themselves to go fight this God before it destroyed the world... much like how the giant robot destroyed Linda's house-I mean, home.
After finding the items needed for Anne-Claire to upgrade god-killing weapons for them, they set back out to Pelican Bay to face the Silent One. After a long and grueling battle, Yog Sethis finally fell, and with its demise, the three heroes split up once again. Tycho and Gabriel continued their agency, and Linda returned to Desperation Street and to her wrecked home in order to try and figure out what to do about it.
However, their separation was not to be permanent.
The giant robot was not defeated, and it still roamed New Arcadia. Though its whereabouts were unknown, Tycho and Gabriel still attempted to locate it with ultimate failure. After an attack against a swarm of smaller versions of the giant robot, the two men decided to go seek Linda's help. They drove their truck full of oranges to Desperation Street. Although, their next meeting could have gone better. They ended up ramming the uncontrollable truck into her already destroyed hous-home. Nevertheless, Linda was still up for revenge against the robot, and Tycho was very relieved to hear so. He knew that they wouldn't be able to defeat the giant thing without her help as well.
Once more, the trio started their new adventure, full of determination and vigor.
Along the way, they continued gaining the scientific expertise and weapon upgrades from Anne-Claire Forthwith, also helping her collect certain items that she needed for an invention. They also met near the entrance to the Cloying Odor Sanitarium Dr. Jonathan Crazoir, who was the one who actually created the original prototype of the giant robot but was unable to continue his plans for it because he was kidnapped; Dr. Lord Chandler Wolfington, the head of operations in the Cloying Odor Sanitarium against whom Tycho had a vendetta; and their old friend, the ex-mime Dr. Coriander Stripe, who was having technical difficulties finding his wedding ring for his fiancée.
After much time elapsed, the trio were trying to gain an autograph from the esteemed Dr. Krangle for Anne-Claire when the foot of the giant robot randomly appeared, stomping Krangle into a bloody mess. Then the controller of the machine revealed himself to be Dr. Mordo von Mundo, who held a bitter vengeance against the whole scientific society and ended up killing everyone there except Tycho, Gabriel, Linda, and Dr. Raven Blood, who was calmly hidden at a corner of the room beside a tree plant. From Dr. Blood, they received evidence, which was a piece of paper with emblazened handwriting from the Necrowombicon, that this destruction was caused by the powers of dark magic once again, and the trio then set out to the World's Fair to fight the new God, who Tycho deemed as "Yog Kathak".
After finding a machine in the World's Fair that was able to fully upgrade their weapons, for Anne-Claire had taken this opportunity to abandon them and work on her little "project", Tycho Erasmus Brahe, Johnathen Gabriel, and Linda infiltrated Dans L'Orange and proceeded up to the rooftop to start their ultimate showdown against Dr. Mundo and his robot Yog Kathak. Unfortunately, they utterly failed when the robot continued to recover itself from their attacks, rendering their weapons useless.
However, their savior came in the form of a giant baby-girl robot machine.
Yes, our young heroine, Anne-Claire Forthwith, trampled into the fair in her devastatingly adorable machine and waved a cheery hello at our dumbstruck heroes. Tycho only mechanically held his hand up and waved it a couple of times at her, while Gabriel's eye twitched. Then minutes later, Anne-Claire was able to defeat the giant robotic God. It fell with a large clang and laid still as a cloud of debris covered it in dust. With that, our heroes descended L'Orange and surveyed the area, Gabriel picking up a huge rock and inspecting it before throwing it over his shoulder, Tycho looking around lazily as if in deep thought, or maybe even in a deep trance, and Linda looking around, as if she were in search for something. The end was over and they could take a break, relax, even maybe actually get some sleep.
But that was not to be the case. Oh no, it was not.
In the shadows, Dr. Blood slinked around, eyeing the book that held many dark spells within it. However, before he could think of making his move, Linda walked away from the robot where Tycho and Gabriel stood and found the book herself, the Necrowombicon, which was covered in dust and sitting nicely upon a pedestal. She picked it up and examined it, wondering if this was really the book that Tycho was talking about. Behind her, Dr. Blood only gritted his teeth in anger, for he wanted that book in his possession. Oh, how he detested when plans didn't go his way. But no matter. The other two, being Tycho and Gabriel, were unaware of her disappearence. They were also quite far from the area which he and Linda resided at the moment, which was indeed a considerable distance from them.
Considerable enough for him to form a new plan.
He smirked at himself. He would have that book if it took the last fiber of his being to obtain it.
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Tycho was looking around indeed in a trance. It seemed all too easy to be real. It had taken him, Gabe, and Linda maybe a whole half-and-hour to even barely weaken the God before it recovered to full health. Yet Anne-Claire appeared in that monstrous machine of hers and defeated it within mere minutes.
He was still trying to process the whole incident in his brain when he heard Gabe ask, "Hey, where did Linda go?" Swirving around, he also noticed that she was nowhere to be seen. He turned to Gabe, who was just wondering aloud, "Do you think she went home?"
Tycho thought for a moment before he replied, "She was just here a minute ago. I highly doubt that she could have just vanished without saying anything to us beforehand."
Gabe looked around in confusion before turning to Tycho once more. "Well, if she didn't leave, then where is she?" he asked.
Tycho was about to answer him when a loud clang echoed from a distance. Turning to the direction that the sound came from, he wondered, "What could that have been?" The two then ran away from the robot to where Linda and Dr. Blood would have been moments ago. In their place was only a lone hoe, left behind in an eery silence, looking pitifully lonely as it lay on the ground. Tycho picked it up and observed it before turning to face Gabriel. "Well, she couldn't have left without this," he stated, gesturing to the hoe in his hand.
Gabriel stared at the hoe before asking, "So... what does that mean?"
Tycho looked around the area before noticing the pedestal that the Necrowombicon laid upon before Linda had picked it up. He traced the top of the pedestal, noticing how there was dust along the edges, but no dust was found in the place where the book would have been. He then scowled.
"God damnit," he cursed as he turned to his companion. "Someone has been here. And it couldn't have been only Linda, else her weapon wouldn't have been left behind. No, there was someone else in this vacinity. Not only did he take the book-" he gestured to the pedestal "-but he also probably took Linda as well."
Gabriel stared at him with wide eyes and an open mouth. "Wait, so you mean..." He then closed his eyes shut and took in a deep breath. Once he exhaled it, he cursed, "Fuck. You mean we have to go on another fucking goose chase?"
Tycho replied, equally as frustrated as Gabe, "Look, if we let that book fall in the wrong hands, then the world is doomed. Plus, we can't just leave Linda to fend for herself. What kind of men would we be if we just left her with a diabolical madman?"
Gabriel didn't reply to that comment for a moment. He just stared at Tycho. "..." He turned around to gather his thoughts. Then he turned back to Tycho and replied, "Well... I guess that would be bad..."
Tycho then said, "Good man. Now let's go track down this villainous demon before he commits a heinous act that we will come to regret."