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"You want to come out, don't you? You have so much to say and funny noises to share from across the ages. Are we not beach-summer-fun buddies?"

-Steven,

Mirror Gem

↑ Varsoon wrote:

Pearl peeled her spear forth from her gem and braced herself. She set her sights on the hulking crystal beast in front of her, exclaiming, "Pay attention, Steven!"

"Pay attention, Steven," scoffed Pearl as she tried to demonstrate the proper technique to defending oneself with a sword. Steven yawned and complained, "Come on, Pearl. We've been at it all day. I prefer Amethyst's training."

Pearl steamed, "Amethyst does

not

train! All she does

is laze about all day and make

tons

of trash

in her

room,

not to mention

the fact

that training

is imperative

now that Garnet is gone

--Am I a bad teacher?

Have I failed Rose?

Steven, you need to pay attention

Steven wandered off mid-rant, shaking his head. As he stepped back onto the telepad, he sighed, "I'm going to have to learn to do my gem-stuff on my own. That's what Garnet was trying to tell me, before..." Steven looks down to his palms and coils his fingers into fists. The telepad lit with energy, whisking him away from Pearl's training grounds.

Instead of returning to the Temple, Steven found himself in a desert. He blinked twice, doing a double take. "Woah, Beach City sure got way more... Beachy." He wandered for a moment, calling out for Amethyst, before turning back to the Crystal Telepad. "Guess it's time to go ba--woah!" In front of Steven was a full-grown lion with pink fur. It took a step towards Steven, eyeing him cautiously. "Amethyst... that's not funny. You can turn back now." The Lion tackled Steven, and after a tumble, Steven's cries turned to laughter. "Aww, you don't wanna fight! You just want to play!"

Meanwhile, at the temple, Pearl was in a fit throwing Steven's mattress from his bed. "Where is he, then, Amethyst!? He was supposed to be training with you!"

Amethyst groaned, opening the fridge and cabinets as she frantically tried to find Steven as well, "I don't know! He was with

you

, miss perfect! When he's not with you, he's always with Garnet!"

"Garnet's not here!"

Amethyst choked back tears, "I know! You think you're the only one who cares?!"

Before their argument could escalate, the front of the temple house was shattered by a hulking crystal monster. Amethyst immediately shape-shifted into a burly wrestler, tackling the beast. Just as Pearl began to head out of the temple, the Crystal Telepad lit up. Steven and Lion stepped out from the light. "Steven! Where have you been!? Is that a Lion? Nevermind that! There's a gem monster!"

As they all rushed outside, they found Amethyst struggling with the beast. Pearl peeled her spear forth from her gem and braced herself. She set her sights on the hulking crystal beast in front of her, exclaiming, "Pay attention, Steven!"

Pearl dived in against the beast, only to be knocked aside by its immense strength. Steven started to panic, unable to recall any of the training that he had before. As the beast closed in on him, Lion stepped forth to do battle with the beast. After a powerful exchange of blows, Lion finally sundered the beast, causing it to recede back into being a gem. Exhausted, Pearl bubbled the gem, smiling weakly to Steven. Steven rushed to Lion's side, "Oh no, buddy, you got really roughed up..."

Lion collapsed, panting heavily. Steven looked to Pearl, tears in his eyes, "Isn't there anything we can do for my friend? He saved me, but I can't save him..." Pearl looked solemn and remorseful, "Steven, I don't know. If only--" As if called forth by Steven's desperation, a pink bubble formed around the incapacitated Lion. Pearl gasped, "Rose's Bubble! Steven, we can keep Lion safe in the temple until we can find a way to cure him!" Steven looked up, hopeful and determined. He tapped the bubble containing Lion, sending his pet pal back to the temple.

"You just wait, my friend. One day, I'll be the guy saving you..."

Replace In was Bubbled during the second Episode's Exposition. He was

Lion : Non-Consecutive Commuter

, aligned with the

Beach City Residents

.

Lion's full role functions as follows:

Spoiler:

Replace in - Lion

Non-Consecutive Commuter (Beach City Resident)

You're a wonderful pink human being. Except you're not. 'Cause you're a lion.

Rose kept many things secret, even from us. Your race is Other . You do not gain any specific bonuses for being in a FUSION or an ALLIANCE. I taught him to say "I love you." Each Climax phase, you may target a player to ALLY with. Refer to the Rules post in the thread for how ALLIANCES function. Oh, of course! That's why he's pink! During the Climax phase, you may become untargetable. You may not use this ability in consecutive Climax phases. We had some good times, but I'm sure you have other magical stuff, to smash with other magical boys. You win the game when all threats to the Beach City Residents have been defeated and at least one Beach City Resident is alive.

↑ Reasonably Rational wrote:Hmm. Let me rephrase. You aren't idiots. What you are doing is idiotic. There.

-Cerb

↑ MaxwellPuckett wrote:We know fusions are separate from alliances. I know that, too.

But why does that make you assume that every gem has both an alliance ability and a fusion ability? Those two lines of thinking don't follow, you've just based that on the fact that Sapphire had two separate abilities for fusions and alliances. There are ten gem characters that could possibly be in this setup. We've seen one.

Not gonna make alignment decisions based on assumptions. Vezok is Sadie. Not an assumption, just a fact. Ricastle being town is actually more of an assumption on my part, based on the laser light cannon, but a much better assumption because it what world does one activate a dayvig ability by simply bolding a player's name? The hotdog phrase isn't inherently violent, and Varsoon accepting it as such would be pretty bastard.

PEDIT: Thanks Cerb. Though to be fair, it's only Nic's vote and Farside's that are based on silly things.

↑ MaxwellPuckett wrote:FINALLY: A little miffed at NicCage bringing up how attached I am to the flavour, and using that as ammo. Low blow, man. (im kidding)

↑ NicCage wrote:I can't see any benefit in her lying about being conftown, yes.

↑ Titus wrote:

↑ NicCage wrote:I can't see any benefit in her lying about being conftown, yes.

There's a huge one. All the free townreads day 1 and Day 2. It gets ingrained Mastina = town.Escaping two lynches, doing jackshit d1 and d2 (pushing Frogger when it cannot happen doesn't count).

I want Mastina today. I would compromise on CoolDog.

Sonic, I am calling in my chips from We the Purple. Frogger is town.