Fourth Wall Jiggy | [Voice/Action/Video/EVERYTHING] | From the 28th to the 29th!

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[Saturday]

[Well, this is weird. There sure are a heck of a lot of people in Luceti today... more than Kazooie's ever seen before. Trotting around the village as usual is getting more and more difficult without bumping into some dumb New Feather-kinda-guy.

... And is it just her or are they missing wings?

Eventually Kazooie gets uncomfortable enough with everything to turn to the journals.]

Someone know why all these weird wingless guys keep showing up...? At this rate there isn't gonna be any room left! I'm not inviting weirdos into my apartment!

[Still, a bird's gotta go out. And so Kazooie can be found around the village, side-eyeing any newcomers. Is there anybody who she recognizes, who will recognize her, or who will otherwise cause shenanigans?]


[Sunday]

[Okay, so things haven't gotten any less weird, but Kazooie does not care because today there is a Jiggy in Luceti. Holy crap. It is big and shining and golden and it is right there and she has missed her Jiggies so much.

The aforementioned golden puzzle piece will be rotating quietly in the plaza, waiting for any fun shenanigans to occur near or around it while Kazooie marvels over the video function.]

It's a real Jiggy! I haven't found one of those things since the end of Banjo-Tooie! Maybe the Malnosso-guys finally got off their dumb butts and got me one!

[Care to try to take it from her? Or do you just want to marvel?]

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[Hey Kazooie. While you're busy with the journal Baby Mario here is just going to stroll right on over to the Jiggy and marvel at it with huge eyes.]

Ooooh~! Shiny! [It doesn't take long for the baby to get all grabby hands and try to nap it ans shove it in his pocket. What, it's Mario he has hammerspace pockets. He figures it might be too valuable looking to not belong to someone. But he's a baby he gives no fecks.] Hehehe! Finders keepers!

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[Oh, Baby Mario, you troll.

Kazooie catches this little thief out of the corner of her eye. While initially she is kind of shocked - because Mario - she quickly regains her composure and rushes over, glaring at the pint-sized pickpocket.]

Hey! Don't you dare steal my Jiggy, you red-hatted runt!

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Finders keepers!!

[And now he's going to try and stuff it in his pocket faster and turn away from her.]

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[Talon Trot is totally faster than your pocket-stuffing ability, Baby Mario.]

Nuh-uh! Get back to your own platformer and plunge a toilet, Spaghetti-Head!

[She lunges exaggeratedly towards the Jiggy, attempting to snap it up in her beak.]

[nihilconcerto]

[Stray too far from the path, Kazooie, and you'll encounter something that in most video games is shorthand for Bad News. Black mist is coiling about the ground, spreading by the moment, and at its centre is the indistinct figure of a tall woman.]

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[Bad News it may be, but Kazooie is known for her Bad Judgment. She approaches the mist, head cocked curiously to the side.]

She who, uh, dealt it...

[The joke dies midway, though, because that looks like a certain someone.]

... Gruney...?

nngh so sorry this got buried

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[The woman turns when Kazooie speaks, but remains silent. The mist begins rolling towards Kazooie, and as it does, it will allow Kazooie an even clearer view of its source. Now, she'll be able to see the woman's dark clothes, her half mask covering what is clearly a beautiful face, and her long aqua hair.]

Totally fine :'>

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[... Yeah, no time for jokes. Kazooie just kind of gapes as the mist rolls in, enveloping her and sending a strange chill - cold, like the water in Freezeezy Peak, but not enough to hurt, just enough to make her want to pull her wings in - through her body.

... It's Gruney, but she's all messed-up.]

... What the heck happened to you...?

[nihilconcerto]

[If the woman has heard Kazooie's question, she gives no indication of it. Instead, when she finally speaks, her words are on an entirely different matter.]

Lay down your burden, child of the skies, and allow me to give you rest.

[Her voice is the same as Grune's--if Grune were ever to speak with a total absence of emotion. The similarities may be difficult to discern, but they most certainly exist.]

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... Child of the skies? What the heck...

[And yet... they're weirdly compelling words, even if spoken by Grune.]

... I dunno what you're doing, lady, but... you better stop before you get somebody hurt. Or I'll have to kick your butt...

[She's less enthusiastic than usual, though. Far less.]

[nihilconcerto]

[The woman doesn't react to the threat--not in the slightest.]

It is not my intent to harm you. I seek only to offer you an end to your struggles.

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Well, you're gonna have to do something better than that! 'Sides, I'm a hero. Those "struggles" you're talking about are just part of the job...!

[It feels like she's arguing with... the producer of her game or somebody important like that. Like it's hard to not listen to this strange not-Grune.]