[Meanwhile, back in the theater...] [Abby, an invisible Redcoat (InvisiCoat?), and a terrified Josie are on or near the stage, spotlighted at the behest of the only other person left in the theater, Method Man.] [Method Man has issued a challenge: they can only survive if they prove they do not deserve the wrath of the Dark Lord Stanislavsky, or the other Dark Lords Strasburg or Adler, for that matter. And that means... you gotta believe!] [The spotlight on Method Man intensifies, and he begins to sing in a rich, deep tenor voice. o/~ And I dig deep down to the bottom of my soul / to get down that ballet sway. / Yes I dig deep down to the bottom of my soul / and I grande-plie! o/~] [And suddenly, all three women find themselves looking as if they belong... AT THE BALLET!] [Session Start] * Abby has on a pink tutu, which is in no way more embarassing than the show she was just doing, and a golden baton with a silver ribbon off of it. She doesn't seem particularly concerned as she stands there looking at him. [Method Man is now wearing a ornate, vaguely Russian-looking man's ballet outfit. He gets up on one to, lifting his other leg up and out at a ninety degree angle, and begins to spin... and spin... and spin... before he launches himself forward, pinballing all around the theater towards Abby and Redcoat!] [Josie, for the record, is now in a white tutu. It sorta works.] * Abby tries to spin out of the way and raises her baton to try to snare him with the ribbon, but it doesn't quite catch and she gets knocked back. She mutters, "Knew I should have done more gymnastics in PE. You alright, Jeanette?" [Jeanette yelps as Abby is hit, and moves to stay behind her.] * TheRedcoat finds herself in a red ushanka with long curling red and gold plumes rising from the back, black tights and slippers, and an ornate red and gold long tutu with bell sleeves and a loose sleevless robelike layer, which ends at the knee. * TheRedcoat gets hit even though she's up in the lights and then falls down like a chump. * TheRedcoat then weakly draws out her pistol, which looks like a glorified hunting gun, and fires off a round of amazingly realistically flame-colored swirling ribbon-like projectiles [Evidently, asking an acrobatic Russian woman to believe that she's a ballerina isn't much of a challenge, because Method Man eats that right in the mush, staggering him. "Amazing! And on the first try!"] * Abby starts to move, but stops a moment before she tilts her head and murmurs, "Right... alright, do it." She nods to herself and shifts her pose to go up on pointe, and then spins around with her ribbon up, 8 fire kami coming into existance as she does and then spinning in sequence towards Method Man. "You will find your match met, Method Man. Our skills are of the highest caliber." [The attack washes over Method Man without effect. "Clever. Appropriate. But you have to *commit*! Don't just stand on your toes and fling dancing fire at me, *BELIEVE* that I can't possibly resist it!"] * TheRedcoat has quit IRC (Quit: Sharks are cool and comfortable!) * TheRedcoat has joined #Method [Method Man starts singing again... o/~ And I dig deep down to the bottom of my soul / to see how a Toon does mock. / Yes I dig deep down to the bottom of my soul / and asked What's Up Doc? o/~] [And suddenly, he looks like an animated version of himself from the MC Hammer cartoon. Not that either of you likely recognize that.] [He starts doing the hammer dance from side to side. "HAMMER MAN! HAMMER!" And two giant mallets appear over Abby and Redcoat, trying to smush them!] * TheRedcoat is now an animated version of herself, except with a purple hat and coat, and yellow hatband and sash. She sneers and lashes her sash out at MM. * TheRedcoat looks like that but doesn't do that! Instead she gets squishified by the giant hammer and floats out from underneath like a sheet of paper, or perhaps a leafy thing. * TheRedcoat extends a comically flattened arm and a cigarette, lights it, laughs at the GM's mischan, and puts in her mouth. She puffs in, inflating herself back to "normal" proportions, and *then* lashes her sash out at MM. * Abby almost looks... interesting a moment, as she gets more angular and brighter, eyes larger. and as she's flattened, she pops back up with a big 'X' bandage on her head and angular angry eyes. * TheRedcoat also lets out a long puff of smoke after she is reinflated, which would likely get her into trouble in NYC except it's a toon cigarette. [Method Man gets smacked across the face with the sash, the entire area puffing up bright red. "Beautiful! Magnificent!"] * Abby nods to herself and turns slightly to the side as her staff comes around, slowly, making a rhythmic jingling noise until it reaches the apex of its arc. The staff gleams in the light a moment before she turns her eyes to look directly at Method MAn, then starts to run forward, leaping at him as she says, "Abomination Sealing Attack!" The staff comes down right for his head to connect with a bright flash. [Method Man gets clobbered, and is sent reeling back, stars and little Abbys circling around his head. "Wonderful! I've never encountered *two* who believed so!"] * Abby turns her back slightly to him and says, "A day like today will make you believe anything." [Josie stares wide-eyed at Abby and Redcoat, she herself turned into a cross between Betty Boop and Jessica Rabbit, and slowly gets to her feet. Behind Abby.] [To be continued...]