WE LIKE TO PARTY

[grimgrinningghosts]

[There once were some worlds that worked so hard, there was just no time to play. But that will all changed when a weird bus pulls up one day.

Your character is going to be in the middle of whatever, at their home, on a mission, dying, whatever...when they’re approached by the giant Moron Mountain Party Bus. Approached is a strong word when it seems determined to reach your character at all costs, crashing through walls or blending in, whatever necessary.

Once the bus approaches and your character has taken notice of it, the doors open. You have three options here.

1. You can board the bus willingly, upon which the bus will close it’s doors drive/fly/dive towards it’s next pickup.
2. Be hypnotically entranced beyond your free will and dance on to the bus, thanks to the actually-hypnotic tones of ”We Like To Party” which the bus will play should you choose not to willingly board.
3. Have your character get pulled onto the bus by a giant cartoon hand that emerges from the top of it, grabbing and tossing your character on.

Once they’re on, you’ll realize the interior of the party bus is fairly luxurious. There’s a pole, a couple of drinks stashed next to one of the couches, and a disco ball. A few TV monitors hang around too, broadcasting some basketball game (but there’s a remote right there). There’s clearly someone wanting to keep you comfortable, but...who?

It’ll be of less comfort when you realize the bus doesn’t have a driver or a steering wheel, and as soon as you stepped on, all of your powers and weapons were rendered useless. It’s ominous, but hey, there’s drinks.



(ooc: Welcome to Foolish Mortals’ Non-Disney Round! You won’t arrive at Moron Mountain until the host intro log, so your bios and the locations haven’t come into play yet. If you or your character would want anything aboard the massive party bus within reason, feel free to assume it’s there, as it’s obviously pretty luxurious. The bus pick-ups happen in the following order, ICly:

1. Morty Smith
2. Boss Baby
3. Otis
4. Wabuu
5. Ginger
6. Fizzy
7. Willy Wonka
8. Coraline Jones
9. Gandhi
10. Cleo
11. The Little Girl
12. Audrey
13. Penny Poledina
14. Beth Tezuka
15. Beetle
16. Kubo
17. Spongebob Squarepants
18. Aquaman
19. Bender
20. Samurai Jack
21. Dinobot
22. Zhu Li Moon
23. Sarah Lynn
24. Bojack Horseman
25. Centipeedle
26. Dan Backslide ]

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[shoshtupid]

[Well, he wasn't expecting a bunch of toddlers amd a cow to be his companions when he boarded this bus.

The first thing Wabuu does is start going through the booze.]

[notthebattleship]

[This was another of Varrick's inventions.

The vehicle doesn't resemble any Satomobile available to the public - so it was a prototype. Plenty of businesses stole technology from successful ventures - someone wanted to build a bigger, better Satomobile capable of seating many people. It looked ridiculous - something Varrick would work on the side.

Any moment, he'll pop out of nowhere and scream about his greatest invention.

Zhu Li sighs internally. She'll have to talk to the construction department regarding the damages, but she is not the type to stand around waiting for her boss to show up. Time to inspect the interior of the bus.

The moment her two feet are inside, however, the doors shut and the bus zooms out of the building, crashing through a wall. She grips the handrail to steady herself and jumps up to the aisle.

A petite woman wearing dressed in a purple dress with a dark purple jacket for the office stands at the front. Despite her heeled shoes, the bumps and wild turns of the bus route aren't throwing her onto her face while she stares at the scene before her.

No driver. 21 people. Most are human, but the rest? Spirits? Costumes? What??]

[loneleye]

[It takes a while for Kubo to actually get his bearings, given he was just pulled out of the middle of the water by a giant hand and thrown onto- into?... whatever this is. He's not really sure but whatever it is, it'd been cruising along underwater for a while and that might have been vaguely alarming had he not become adjusted to strange things over the last few days. Maybe he's still hallucinating.

But it felt real enough as he had stumbled over to a seat near the front and collapsed there, coughing up water for several minutes before blearily taking a look around at the other passengers as the panic faded. There's just some straight-up animals, from what he can see, and is that a baby--

He. He must have missed something. He's somewhat surprised to find how composed he sounds when he twists in his seat to talk to whoever's near him. Like this might as well just fuckin happen.]

So, uhh... where are we... going...?

[funonthebun]

Huh? A bus? It ain't my birthday!

[Bender stares at the bus for a few seconds, looking around the living room of Planet Express HQ which now has yet another new entrance that needs to be patched up. No sign of Fry... or Amy. Both two people who would definitely order themselves a party bus. He contemplates the bus for a few seconds, before shrugging.]

It does look pretty inviting...

...

What the hell! I got nothin' better to do.

[As he strolls onto the bus, whistling, he notices quite a large group of people. He's not gonna count, but he guesses there is probably about exactly eighteen people already here.]

Hey, what's with all the meatbags?!

[Of course, he's immediately distracted by the stash of alcohol beside one of the couches. And the stripper pole. He snags a beer.]

Aw yeah, don't mind if I do!

Lucky Passenger 13, what could go wrong?

[in4apounding]

[It takes Penny a moment or two to realize what's happened, and not just because her training never covered a cartoonishly large bus literally crashing the most secure arena on Remnant and pulling her aboard. Turns out getting hit with a giant pulse of magnetism? Not that great for mental processing or reactions. She'd had just enough time to register that her swords had been deflected before something had grabbed her, yanking her physically backwards and off her feet.]

[Maybe it was a good thing, really. She didn't want to think about what might have happened otherwise, with her swords suddenly spinning out of control at those speeds.]

[Her swords which are now gone? That's. Extremely ungood, and puts her at a near panic.]

[So, if you were brought aboard before she was-]

Excuse me, I'm sorry. Did they take your weapons too? Do you know where they put them? ...This isn't part of the tournament, is it? No one ever mentioned anything like this.

[Or if you're taken later, she's managed to calm down a little-]

Sal-u-tations! You're not hurt, are you? Did you know anything about this beforehand?

[thegreateggscape]

[Being plucked by a giant mechanical hand was one thing, being thrown onto the bus was another, and with those inside the bus...Ginger can't believe the day she's having.

So much so that, for the first few moments of being on the bus, she's vacantly staring into the bright neon glow of the space in front of her. She wanted to leave the farm, but not like this, not with everyone left behind.

With that thought, she snaps into consciousness. All the while the bus was moving, they were getting further and further away from the farm. There was no time to be sitting idly, and with the company there is thus far, no point in attempting to be stealthy.

Determined, Ginger tries to look for the driver's seat, hoping there would be some way to gain control to turn it back around. When that comes up empty, she starts to look for a way out of the bus itself, not letting herself be shaken by that rather ominous development.]

[captain_cronch]

[Centipeedle was never trained in the combative Art of Dancing so when she’s compelled to dance towards this vehicle she doesn’t really think anything of it just because...hypnotic beats and all. But when boarding the bus, this small cyclopean insect alien creature with wild white hair makes a startled noise.

There’s so many different people...she wasn’t even sure she could even call some of these folks people. It already puts her on the defensive, getting her to settle on all fours like a four-legged centipede.

This is not good protocol for taking a crew! She tries to signal to whomever is driving through hoarse garbled hissing and coking noises.

But if she can’t get the pilot’s attention, she’ll have to stress eat and concoct a plan off this craft...by eating and chowing down on a drink whole. Not even gonna open it.]

[essentiallyinvisible]

[She steps quite happily onto the bus, before looking around and realizing that this is definitely not her school bus.]

Wait, wait, wait! [She spins around to see the door close behind her and the bus take off.] This is kidnapping! Stop and desist, and my mother will probably press only minor charges!

[Later, after she hasn't been obeyed:] So, are any of you also attending Werth Academy, or living in some region close to it? We should try and establish some commonality that would lead to us all being abducted together.

[dumbshits]

[What do you do when you’re 31 years old, have lost all conceivable control of your life, are 9 months sober, and a weird party bus pulls up in front of your house?

You fucking party? Duh. That’s why Sarah Lynn is busting on to the bus with a drinking helmet with two bottles of Smirnoff already equipped.]

HELL YEAH, BITCHES! LET’S PARTY!

[...catch her by the stripper pole for the vast majority of the bus ride.]

[handhook]

[The doors of the Atlantean throne room are appropriately large and grand. Certainly big enough for a bus to fit through, had they been open. However, they weren't, so when the party bus comes rolling in, it's directly through them, both doors flying from their hinges and slamming against the floor with a similarly large and grand thud.

And, when you're the king of Atlantis, you can't let something like that stand. With no hesitation, Aquaman rises from his throne, storming straight to the party bus's doors and stomping inside.]

What is the meaning of—

[But before he can even finish his indignant question, a lot of things happen. The doors creak shut behind him again. The wheels start to turn. His hook hand is stolen and replaced with something much less useful, somewhere in the confusion. Aquaman whirls around, eyes flying wide as the throne room begins to disappear from sight through the glass doors, and he hauls back to swing his fist through them with all his might—

Except, instead, his hand bounces off with little more than a rattle. It's pathetically weak, and actually, it feels like that punch hurt his hand more than it did the doors. It's only when he turns away from them again, ready to demand an explanation again, that he notices the absence of a driver.

Finally, he steps slowly into the aisle, casting his eyes around the bus's other occupants. A shocking number of them appear to be animals, but that doesn't stop him from turning his demands on them, half-shouting at the assembled group.]

I demand an explanation for this!

[Maybe it's irrational to start yelling at them, but the fact is, he's starting to panic. He's just too proud to let that panic show, so he falls back on the easiest feeling to obfuscate with: anger.

...Later, once he's had no choice but to calm down, he can be found sitting in whatever seat was the farthest from the other occupants at the time of his boarding, examining the strange new hand-replacement he's been given. It looks like it should be more useful than a simple hook, given that it's a three-pronged claw that opens and closes with every flex of his arm, but... Its grip is weak. Almost as if it was designed on purpose to drop things. Funny, that.]

[mortyfied]

[Morty had the pleasure of being thrown onto the bus by a giant cartoon hand before he could even think twice about getting on by himself. He was thrown on and the only passenger on at first and frankly, it gave him a lot of anxiety. Why was he just-- haphazardly tossed onto a bus with a stripper pole by himself? Was this Rick's doing? It sure seemed like it, given all the booze but.. it wouldn't make sense if it had been him, this time.

Besides, if it was Rick it'd be something a lot trashier and less comfortable.

Either way as more passengers get on the more.. confused Morty gets. He's met with a baby, a cow, a raccoon... a chicken... wh... why..... and the different people getting on afterwards don't make him feel any more reassured. They're all weird.

After it feels like the bus was done with picking up people, the teen dressed in a white dress shirt and slacks decides to move over to the drinks in the back and he picks up a wine glass and a spoon, clinking it against the glass to try and get people's attention.]

U-uh..

[The boy starts, sounding not very confident in himself.]

S-sorry for um.. sorry to interrupt but does anyone have a-any idea what's going on?

[seriously what the fuck is happening]

[codeofhero]

[Dinobot stands above a burning valley, smoke and screams of panic rising to his sensors. He's tired, but not so tired yet that he doesn't ready his sword.]

My choices are my own. And yet, how ironic, for I now find I have no choice at all! I am a warrior... let the battle be-

[...? What is that? Music? Out here?

For all the things to see out in this area, a bus pulling up beside Dinobot was not one of them. The shock takes long enough to register for a large, cartoon hand to reach out and grab him. He barely has enough time to attempt a frantic stabbing before he's tossed bodily into the vehicle.

Sufficed to say, he isn't very happy about this.]

What in the pit-?! [He scrambles to his feet and immediately tries to force the door open. He'd use his sword, which he had just moments ago. But fists will do just fine for pounding on it.]

How dare you attempt to trap me! I will not be kept here forever!

[standsforrevenge]

GUYS! Check it out! I'm gonna be ABSTINENT!

[Gandhi runs down the halls of meat locker with Marie Curie by the hand, excited to tell his friends about their big, life-changing decision, when suddenly a fucking bus crashes through the wall?]

Whoa, dude, I almost died!

[Marie Curie, on the other hand, turns and runs in the other direction, like any normal person who almost got hit by a bus. In the distance, Gandhi swears he hears Principal Scudworth yell "Everybodyy, FREEZE!", but the pounding music from the bus is just too much for the ADD-addled teen to ignore.]

It's a PARTY BUS! Heck yeah!

[And with no concern for himself or anyone else, Gandhi rushes to board and is surrounded by farm animals and literal children??]

Aw, yeah, let's rock this joint!

[secretbabyformula]

[Why yes that is definitely a baby in a very expensive looking suit on the bus.

He's sitting in the way back, holding what appears to be shot glass with just plain old fucking milk in it. It was the only cup in here that was small enough for him since he lost his old sippy cup.]

[fiftyyearspast]

[He was just about head to his motorcycle, but when the Vengabus pulled up and ran over his ride, Jack thought 'you know what, this might as well happen.'

The samurai doesn't really have anything to do after defeating Scaramouche, and maybe a brief trip to nowhere to clear his head wouldn't be so bad.

Boy was he so fucking wrong.

This bus was louder than that club he walked right into the first thing upon arrival in the future. The passengers were rowdy, but seemed to fit right in from what he's seen. Just your everyday, Future-That-Is-Aku's denizens. Well, there's drinks here so might as well get comfortable?]

Um. Excuse me. Where exactly is this bus headed to?

[dothebackslide]

[Dan Backslide casually hops onto the bus with a cigar in his mouth, a cigarette in his hand, and snazzy glasses on his face. He glances around at the occupants, immediately annoyed with the unusual faces. They had to start the party without him, huh?

He strolls up to a pole and twirls his entire body around it with practiced ease. After a minute of twirling and outstretched legs and so on, he hangs off it for a prolonged second. Then he casually sits down, smoldered his cigar, and moves to the cigarette. As if nothing unusual is going on.]

[oh_worm]

[ At some point in the middle of this nonsense, the bus goes to... Mars? Mars. And hypnotically dancing on is... oh it's Jade Harley from popular partially-animated webcomic Homestuck! I didn't know she counted for this game, how neat! Jo's gonna be jealous.

Wait, no, her arms are too wiggly, and she doesn't have the right ears. This is someone else, oops. But once she has danced on, she stands at the front of the bus and looks around. ]

Wait, what the dink?

[udderly]

[There's a cow here. It looks nervous, somehow, but otherwise Perfectly Like A Cow. It even moos sometimes!

. . . Except it definitely sounds like, uh. A person imitating a cow mooing and not like. An actual cow mooing.

Wait, what? Did that cow just drink alcohol? DOES IT HAVE WEIRD MITTEN HANDS???]

[toogoodtobetrue]

[The bus is really unusual, and Coraline at first wants nothing to do with it, but...yeah, turns out she's a curious girl. That got her in big trouble once, and now it's going to get her in trouble again. She approaches the bus slowly, not wanting to enter. The choice is taken away from her when a hand grabs her and drags her inside. Inside...

Inside there's a bunch of animals, a weird man, a baby, and...a normal-looking teenager over there]

What's going on here?!

[When you come to talk to her, she's sitting on the couch and asks a question. If you boarded willingly, she looks at you with some judgment and asks:]

Why did you play along with this?

[Why'd anyone get on a strange bus without any protest. If you got hypnotized or dragged inside by a hand, she's far more sympathetic]

Can you believe this is happening?

[Like what's up with this bus and why did it target them? What's going on?]

[manecharacter]

[Thus far, Bojack's impromptu trip to Michigan has been quiet. He hasn't seen more than one or two people along the way, hell, if he wasn't at this gas station he would have gone days without social contact.

Probably because nobody wants to go to Michigan. Nobody except the Venga Boys, apparently.

The peace and serenity of the quiet gas station is suddenly filled with the one hit wonders of the 90's. It's strangely relatable, but it doesn't explain why he's compelled to dance right onto the bus like he dropped some pills and staggered into a music video. He's expecting a seniors tour when he shimmies his way aboard, so imagine the complete and utter mix of disdain and confusion when he boards the bus to find...he doesn't have a word for it. The luxury of the bus makes him suspicious, are they trying to lure him back to Hollywoo?]

Yeah, no. This is not happening.

[He turns to leave, but quickly finds that's not happening. He turns to the person closest to him.]

What are you doing here?

[treefetish]

[it was easy enough to ignore the bus at first-- after all, she had her tree to focus on tending; who would look twice at some silly bus when you have that!

and then the giant hand came and lifted her up by her collar and popped her into the bus anyway. because that's something that happens all the time.

right now Audrey is moving around the bus, apparently trying to find the emergency exit and failing miserably. she's becoming increasingly frantic, which you may mistake for being over something very important, instead of. well.]

I need to get off this thing! It needs me! [its a sapling]

[carbonairhead]

[ A bus blaring hypnotic music is kind of par for the course in Ponyland. Fizzy honestly goes to check it out, curious, but then the music blares and...

Well, next thing she knows, she's in the contraption, looking around. ]

Well, gosh! This sure is strange! How'd I get on here? Was I just dancing? Wow, how weird!

[ She's confused but doesn't look too worried yet, instead looking around the place for anyone she recognizes which is...a big no one, as more and more people get pulled on.

If you'd like to talk to the unicorn with gemstone eyes and technicolor hair, she'll be trotting around, and probably, actually coming up to you, with a smile and a carefree tone. ]

Hi there! Do you know where we're going?

[candymancan]

[So.

So.

Wonka's just minding his own business, taking some kids on a very dangerous tour of a chocolate factory that may or may not have a cat-and-mouse infestation. Just finished having a young girl rolled away after turning blue and expanding like a balloon. Perfectly normal.

And then a fucking bus crashes through the wall and runs over Grandpa Joe.

So that's... that's new.

But right now, Wonka is a little distracted by that song the bus is playing, and before he knows it he's dancing along to the beat, in front of the watchful eyes of the remaining children and parents.

Who cares that most of this bus is full of animals? Who cares that someone probably just died? It's fine. It's fine.

Later, once more people get on the bus, he starts to realize something may possibly be kind of maybe wrong here. Maybe.]

Uh, excuse me? Does anyone actually know where this bus is going? Or why we're on it? Or who is responsible for crashing into my factory?

[sunshinesdown]

[Spongebob had just gotten out of Glove World with Patrick and it was a great time but Spongebob was ready to get back to his pineapple home. He was perhaps too eager for the bus because he books it to the first bus he sees.]

Hey Patrick! The bus is-

[Aaaand the doors shuts on him. There is also a water helmet that appears on his head.]

- here.

[He seems worried for a moment before taking a seat.]

Well he can catch the next one.

[He doesn't seem too worried at first, even looking over to nearby people for small talk.]

Hey I don't think I've seen you around Bikini Bottom before! Did you just move in?

[After about a half hour, however...]

Uh, hey, I think I'm on the wrong bus! I need to get back to Bikini Bottom!

[themightybeetle]

[going from hovering over his dying wife's body to being grabbed by a cartoon hand- mood whiplash, anyone? Don't mind Beetle (or do) as he attempts the doors for a few minutes before finally turning around and kind of pressing his hands together in a worried gesture.

Both sets of hands.]

Oooh, this is not good.

[He doesn't so much calm down as...seem to. Forget most of his worry over time, though there's still a bit of a lingering sense of uneasiness about him. Given time, though?

He finds the lightswitch and seems entranced with what happens when it's flipped. Multiple times.]