6679/Topsy Turvey Times

Topsy Turvey Times
Date of Scene:	27 February 2019
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Doctor Strange, Amethyst, Wonder Woman, Raven

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Doctor Strange has posed:
    Do you know what it's like to have everything you know be flip turned upside down. To have the world suddenly put you on 'inverted' controls? Have a sense of veritgo that doesn't fade away no matter how hard your ear drums pound blood through them giving you an odd half rotating sensation of dizzyness?! That's the world of the square as at 6:03 suddenly, the entire area became an insane mirror of itself.

    Left was right, up was down, red was green, and everything you know is wrong. The adverts are not only backwards but upside down. The sky scrapers seem to hang from the road in the air while cubicles look through the windows to the interior of the buildings. The change was instantaneous and so jaring, people go into wrecks with the insides of their cars crashing into the windows of the insides of the ground-scrapers.

    Imagine finding Waldo merged with MC Escher with a mirror funhouse glitterbomb went off in the Squre.

Amethyst has posed:
Wandering through the Square as part of her regular walks exploring the city, Amaya was not expecting to have the world invert on her. Crouching low to the sidewalk she squints, trying to perceive if it's some illusion or not. Looking around as chaos starts to erupt, she uses the momentary panic to drop the illusion around her of street clothes and quickly lunges to pull-or rather push a disoriented man out of the way of a car.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana is present in Times Square on a bit of a shopping trip. Shopping trip? Yes! She's here to buy gifts for some visitors coming to Manhattan from Europe to experience NYC and immerse themselves in the tourist life. They're friends, and colleagues from Diana's days in the museum and art history days.

When things go upside down and sideways? Diana is inside a kitchy little store, talking with an employee about a product and generally just having a nice little bit of 'normalcy' in her life, and it all goes, wonky mad!

Now her blue eyes are looking up, and down? She, like everyone else around her, are trying to sort out what is going on here... its a lot to process!

Raven has posed:
    Raven rather rarely makes her way out of the tower. It's not because she doesn't enjoy leaving. In fact, night trips to places like the better parts of Gotham or New York- specifically the club scenes in both cities- are honestly one of her favorite activities. However, she is always hesitant to leave the Tower, because every time- without fail- there's some weird shenanigan going on. Either it's an Apocalypse Toad regurgitating a demon, or a small child is conjuring tornadoes made entirely of whipped cream that is highly acidic, or the world is inside out.

    Oh, look. The world is inside out. Raven steps out of an alleyway, having come to Times Square for a bit of shopping and perhaps a meal, when whe notes that, similar to every other time she leaves the tower, Everything Is Wrong. There is a small sigh, and her hood goes back up.

    "Shit."

Doctor Strange has posed:
    The situation is dire, cars halt and speed up. Some people leave the area with little more than a hiccup as they're on the edge of the spell, those unfortunate to enter the field with forward momentum end up flying up to the ground and trying to vomit when nothing they tell their body to do works right. Yet the vomit doesn't come and instead a different feeling washes over the terrified masses.

    Screams, whimpers, laughter, and all sorts of trauma and elation ring out into the interriors of the sky scrapers, and the upside down alleyways. The shop Diana was in, is now outside, with the ceiling on the floor, and everyone hanging from the roof, but they're also looking down to the sky, and should they look to the end of the spell, the city is still rightside up just beyond the large square of influence of inversion.

    Amethyst saves a man's life, or prevents a man's death, it's so hard to tell in this wonky world, as the car barrels past hanging onto the road defying gravity as if it had the stickest tires ever. All the cars do. "T-thannk youuuu." The man says, to the purple haired woman who saved his life, "Soooo muuuuch." He fights to get the words out.

Amethyst has posed:
All of this feels impossibly wrong to Amethyst. A Lord of Order, she grits her teeth and thinks through each movement. Nodding slowly to the man she looks around for others in need. Careful, she starts to move and reaches out to help a woman from her wrecked car. "Reach down to me." She asks, waiting for her to reach up. Still looking around, she peers around Time Square for allies.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana doesn't feel sick from the changes, like so many others in the store-space around here were and are. No she just seems to be a bit confused and needing a moment to adjust to the changes to reality around her... she's a fast learner though, quick to adapt to situations on the fly and it doesn't take her too long to catch onto the basics of how to manipulate and traverse this drastic change to her perceived world.

She makes her way 'outside' and she scans the chaos that is ensuing, she can see an edge to the spell and takes some comfort in that at least. She reaches for her Justice League comm device and raises it up.

"We are having a magical issue in Times Square, Manhattan. We need any and all magically alligned assistance we can get." She says to everyone in the JLA.

Raven has posed:
    Raven is no stranger to esoteric nonsense-dimensions that don't follow the laws of logic or, if they do, follow the exact opposite of those laws. She wades into the radius of the strange inversion of the world, and begins stretching out the feelers of her soul-self. Her empathic attention is being focused on anyone and everyone that is present within it- Raven herself slowly rising into the air amongst the people.

    She is searching, now- searching for people who are too confused or sick to flee, for those who are too exhausted or bewildered to keep driving, and so on. It will take some time, and while it is happening, Raven is moving closer to the center of this tiny un-universe. She is trying to find the helpless- to search out those at the most risk, so that she can get them to safety- but she must find them first.

Doctor Strange has posed:
    Not many are inheriently at risk, but most everyone isn't feeling great. People are looking down into the skies and feeling completely minute in this world of heroes and villains. Mages and warlocks. The side very few people ever even hear about.

    There are people above Raven, and even around and a few people above the witch that she can feel with her soul self, some are panicing, some are trying to force themselves to throw up, hoping the sensation of vertigo will pass. Others are so engrossedin their work that they didn't even notice other than to flip their monitor over to make it work right again.

    Amythest is reaching down for the cyan hair'd woman with a groan coming from the woman's lips as her sense of fear has been inverted as well, and it's all going to hell in a handbasket, though as A Lord of Order, Amythest would feel the senses of those she touches being tugged in a particualr direction. There, below the coke-a-cola add, at the bottom of the smallest sky scrapper is where lengths and whisps of magic are flowing to, this is all for a reason.

Amethyst has posed:
Hearing the coms device, Amethyst blinks and tries to use it. "Amethyst here. I can sense-target..." She looks at the building and debates how to phrase it. "The shortest tower building with the soda ad. Coke-a-cole?" She pauses and watches Rachel...below her in the sky? "There's another, flying." She reports and waves to Rachel. "Heeeeey! Over there!" She points to the structure she's sensing.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana had seen the range limit on the spell which immediately made her think that there must be something in the center of this things reach, so she was trying to navigate her way toward it. She did notice Rachel, but she didn't know Rachel that well... She was one of the Titans... she was relieved to see her.

"Amethyst?' Diana says over the comms and then starts to scan for her, she sees her within moments now as well then looks to where she's indicating. "I see it..." Diana says back in a serious tone. "Lets be careful..."

She starts toward where the wisps of magic are going. "Amethyst, do you have any experience with anything like this?" She asks on comms as they're not yet quite close enough to each other for face to face chatting.

Doctor Strange has posed:
    There, at the bottom of the sky scraper, doing a handstand is a woman wearing a tight black hooded jacket that has points that go down to her calves and curls up around her front and zipped up over her long black heels. She wears black gloves and her brilliant fire red hair flows in the unchanged wind.

    Scream of save me, save us, get me out of here and what is going on echo through the square, with several being silenced and quashed by the ever helpful Raven, using her soulself to rescue near countless people from being trapped inside the inverse field.

Amethyst has posed:
"Between worlds. I've never seen a dimension deform like this with out serious chaos magic involved." Which reminds Amethyst. Closing her eyes a moment she extends her senses to check for any of her foes-the Lords of Chaos. After a moment she starts to head to the building herself. "Be careful Wonder Woman. I'm on my way as well." She tells her over the comms and starts to jog toward the building by jogging away from it.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana does look back to Raven floating in the air, she catches on to what precisely she's doing and reminds herself to thank her as soon this is all over.

"I am almost there." Diana says to Amethyst then as she approaches the figure in the hood, doing a handstand? "You there." Diana tests the waters on this approach. "Stop this at once." And she walks toward the handstanding/grandstanding wizardess (?) and aims to try to pull her down from the inverted position that she's currently in!

Raven has posed:
    Raven has been spending her time reaching out. Teleportation from Raven doesn't necessarily feel great- people are likely to be disoriented, sick, or altogether feeling gratuitously ill when they emerge. However, that is controlled- it's understood, and it fades. What is unknown is what the nature of this magical anomaly is. Raven has lighted onto its cause, her eyes flicking to the woman doing the handstand... But not its nature. That eludes her.

    Therefore, she has spent a great deal of effort sending out the whole of herself to transport everyone she can to outside of the realm of this phenomenon. When finished, at least with those too distracted or distraught to get themselves to safety, Raven begins flying towards the other sorceress. She'll arrive shortly after Diana, taking a moment to catch her breath and, if only for a second, rest from the act of teleporting so many people.

Doctor Strange has posed:
    The girl has her hands up, nearly touching the carpetted ceiling. She's actually the only one right side up in this whole area, she's the one still oriented to the real world. Not this abomination of reality. Her eyes are closed shut and then she sowly opens her eyes at the sound of - "OMG! Wonder Woman!" The girl says, and as soon as she says that, the world seems to pull into itself like it's being pinched in the middle from all directions until it snaps back and everything is back the right way. Inversion field stopped.

    "Oh- Oh." She says with a mousey voice, now standing at the top of the tallest sky scraper in the area, looking down to the normal Time Square below. "Oh dear." Her mousy voice says, "My master will be super mad I didn't get enough fearnergy for him." The girl says with a bubbly giggle, "Oh well." Then she turns around and starts to skip away across the rooftop. Like nothing happened.

Amethyst has posed:
The world flips back around and Amethyst flails for a moment but not before she can make a mad lunge after the girl skipping away. Up is up again so Amethyst goes down hard in her attempt to catch the weird caster. Huffing as the air is knocked from her chest she looks for the mousy redhead. "No good Wonder Woman. We're upright!"

Wonder Woman has posed:
As things shift back to normal, Diana again doesn't seem to struggle with the transition, but instead she looks around to make sure everything around her immediate area is as good as can be considering the situation. She notes Raven's arrival, but just as she does this she sees the girl start to skip away with cheer in her voice and a lack of care clearly present.

Amethyst makes to grab her but struggles with the transition, so Diana's hand snaps up beneath her jacket and she pulls out the coiled-up form of her lasso from where it was kept. With a sudden flash of golden light the lasso comes to life and Diana WHIRLS it out toward the skipping girl's legs, fully intending to ensnare her and bring her right back... likely on her face, if it works.

Raven has posed:
    The shift catches Raven slightly off-guard, but she is still too used to realms shifting and twisting below her very feet to do any more than stumble slightly in her approach. As soon as she has her bearings back, she rises off of the ground, flying with renewed vigor towards the happy sorceress. When she arrives at Diana's side she lands once again, having properly caught up.

    Regardless of whether or not the other woman is restrained, Raven is going to start pulling emotions out of her- to nullify, and numb, everything but the idea of fear. It is a useful emotion to induce- as Raven knows- due to the fact that interrogation begins and ends with terror. "Do not leave. We have -questions.-"

Doctor Strange has posed:
    The red head stops and looks down at Amethyst and frown with a coo sound from her lips. "Goodness, you should really tie your laces. That helped me from fall-WHOA!" She yelps as Diana's lasso easily snares her and the girl is yanked down to the ground and dragged to the wonderous woman. "Maaaan, this is so hard to clean already, I hope you didn't ruin it." The girl says as she looks down to the jacket she wears and frowns up at Diana. "I like you." She blurts out but starts to frown but it wanes into a blank look as her mood is sucked up by Raven. Slowly the girl starts to try to get back up to her feet. "I need you to let me go soon. I have a lot of work to do." The girl says with the glowing lasso at her ankles.