Reprise! Act 1!

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn jumped straight away.

About 25 feet away.

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma sighed. "Yeah, that's what I thought. What the heck IS this thing?"

Curiously, he took the wrapped bundle, and weilding it much like one would a golf club, and with a massive swing with the flat side, smacked the treasure chest-thingy at the nearest sturdy-looking tree.

[Carthrat]

There was a loud screaming sound as the treasure chest impacted with the tree.

The chest promptly grew legs and, upon landing, started to stagger around in a daze..

[Carthrat]

Carthrat didn't go anywhere, producing a handkerchief from somewhere and holding it over her nose.

From her vantage point, Relm could see a rapidly spread black cloud, however, she couldn't see who fired the arrow.

From his vantage point, Ginn saw black. Lots of black. He wasn't surrounded by it, but it looked to be expanding alarmingly quickly..

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma just stared, a small bead of sweat trickling down the back of his head. "Okay, that's not what I was expecting..."

[Carthrat]

The chest seemd to recover from it's daze, or at least whatever passed for it's daze.

It turned to face Ryoma, insofar as that it had no eyes and no discernable face, only the front part.

With a *poof*, it turned into.. a barbie doll, which started walking towards Ryoma, that freaky plastic smile on its face..

[Rezantis]

Relm decided to stay at her current vantage point, and thusly did not land.

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma reached out, pressing the small doll in the chest with the wrapped bundle, holding it at bay. "What the hell are you?"

[Carthrat]

The chest-turned-doll made an almost panicked, squeaking sound.. before transfoming into a what appeared to be a sort of remote-controlled car, and heading straight for Ryomas leg..

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma leapt up and over the tiny car, and, giving himself the room necessary to block it again, he did so.

"This is just sick. Change into something that can talk, okay?"

[Carthrat]

The thing blipped, and turned into.. a walkie-talkie, which then lay there, motionless.

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma paused, sweatdropping again. "Okayyyy... That's a start. Since you seem to be able to understand me...try again, but something that can allow you to talk to me."

[Carthrat]

The thing turned into... an analog telephone, which promptly started to ring.

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma frown, and gently knocked the reciever off with his bundle, and crouched beside it. "Good thing these are fairly loud. "Hello?"

[Carthrat]

This phone turned out to not be quite so loud. Ryoma could barely hear an indistinct mumbling..