Prompt: Hero/Cysero "This one's on me" something wacky happened to Falconreach. It wasn't Cysero's fault.
Hero stared at the ever changing patterns of static on the ground and tried to block out the annoying tune they kept hearing over and over. The sky couldn't seem to decide if if was morning or day or dusk or night, and kept rapidly switching between them. And weirdest of all, everyone kept saying the same thing whenever hero talked to them.
But no one seemed to notice something was wrong.
They'd gone around, asking people countless questions, acting as silly as they could in hopes of getting a reaction, even pants'd a few people, and no one had anything to say that might help, or even indicate there was something wrong in the first place. So they'd ended up just sitting on a barrel in front of the inn, watching the ground fizzle.
And then a whistle.
Hero looked up from their groundgazing and saw Cysero (presumably) staring out at the Guardian Tower, which was currently flickering.
"That's some pretty impressive glitching there. Hey," He said, turning back to Hero, "what did you do, surf along the coast or something?"
Hero shrugged. They were admittedly curious as to why Cysero didn't seem to be stuck saying the same thing over and over, but chalked that up to Cysero being Cysero.
"All I did was slay some monsters. Went for a dip in the bay, but that's about it. Falconreach was like this when I got back."
Cysero made a 'hmm'ing noise. "Well whatever it was, you turned this place into Glitch City. Don't think that's the right midi on loop, though."
"What?"
"Nevermind!" He cheerfully called back, heading up towards the Guardian Tower. "But come on, I know how to fix this. Follow me."
Hero blinked, and slid off their barrel to follow the mage.
They traveled up the spiraling pathway, walking at first and then jumping, at the insistence of Cysero, who claimed that the path had become infinite. Obviously it wasn't, since they managed to make it to the tower, though Hero did note that even ignoring the jumping, the walk up the path had taken far longer than it should have.
"Here we are!"
"The gryphon?"
Hero looked at the creature inquisitively. The gryphon didn't seem to be moving, like it was completely static, the wings outstretched and the tail hanging just so.
Cysero nodded. "Yep. The only way to leave the Glitch City is to fly out, and lucky you, you can! Don't worry about where you go, things'll be back to normal by the time you get back, promise."
"But…What happens until then? Will anyone remember this?"
"Uhhhhhh dunno. Tell you what, this one's on me. If anyone asks what happened, tell 'em I was working on something."
Hero nodded, and got on the gryphon. Time to fly.
NOTE: I wrote this while trying to figure out how to write another drabble.