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=== Abducted by Doctor Curious === | === Abducted by Doctor Curious === | ||
At some point, while out in [[the Multiverse]] aboard [[Pessimist's Fog Ship|his Fog Ship]], Pessimist was kidnapped by [[Doctor Curious]], a [[mad scientist]] from the [[Jynx Dimension]] who wanted a friend and had set his heart on a [[Copper-Colored Cupid]] companion. Naturally, he quickly found Pessimist to be dreary company. Instead of giving up on his dream, however, he decided to find a dead Clockwork Cherub and rewire and revive him into his perfect companion, ''[[Frankenstein (book)|Frankenstein]]''-style. Using the Fog Ship, he travelled the dimensions to acquire one while keeping Pessimist prisoner in [[Doctor Curious's Castle|his Castle]]. Pessimist then bore witness to 53 failed attempts over a number of weeks before Curious was finally ready to give life to [[Doctor Curious's Monster|his Monster]], with Pessimist being reluctantly given the “honour” of throwing the master-switch, getting a nasty electric shock in the procss. Just before the experiment, two other Cupids, [[Tom-176]] and [[John-181]], chanced upon the Castle by coincidence. After Curious, pleased with the success of his Monster, tried to kill them so that he could use their parts to create a second one, the two Cupids managed to free themselves with the Monster's help; they also freed Pessimist and recovered his Fog Ship, allowing the two to be reunited and escape together. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]]'') | At some point, while out in [[the Multiverse]] aboard [[Pessimist's Fog Ship|his Fog Ship]], Pessimist was kidnapped by [[Doctor Curious]], a [[mad scientist]] from the [[Jynx Dimension]] who wanted a friend and had set his heart on a [[Copper-Colored Cupid]] companion. Naturally, he quickly found Pessimist to be dreary company. Instead of giving up on his dream, however, he decided to find a dead Clockwork Cherub and rewire and revive him into his perfect companion, ''[[Frankenstein (book)|Frankenstein]]''-style. Using the Fog Ship, he travelled the dimensions to acquire one while keeping Pessimist prisoner in [[Doctor Curious's Castle|his Castle]]. Pessimist then bore witness to 53 failed attempts over a number of weeks before Curious was finally ready to give life to [[Doctor Curious's Monster|his Monster]], with Pessimist being reluctantly given the “honour” of throwing the master-switch, getting a nasty electric shock in the procss. Just before the experiment, two other Cupids, [[Tom-176]] and [[John-181]], chanced upon the Castle by coincidence. After Curious, pleased with the success of his Monster, tried to kill them so that he could use their parts to create a second one, the two Cupids managed to free themselves with the Monster's help; they also freed Pessimist and recovered his Fog Ship, allowing the two to be reunited and escape together. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]]'') | ||
=== Quest for the Frost King's treasure === | |||
In December 2019, when [[Celebration-665]] organised the [[Festival of Giving]], [[Dandy-432]] attempted to form the [[Blue Feather]] into a caroling quartet. However, he could not find [[Larrikin-1029]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frost King's Treasure (novel)|The Frost King's Treasure]]'') who was spreading Christmas cheer in the [[Euclidean Plane]] in his own mischievous way, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Geometrons' Holiday (comic story)|Geometrons' Holiday]]'') and Pessimist proved less than enthused by the suggestion, immediately foisting his sheet music onto a guileless [[Pseudo-Pessimist]] before attempting to sneak out. Before Dandy could try and find [[Acquaintanceship-982]], he was side-tracked by receiving an invitation to [[the Frost King's Realm]] sent by [[Darius|a mysterious figure]], and ended up dragging Pessimist off to [[Manik]] in a [[Fog Ship]] in this quest to find “[[the Frost King (The Frost King's Realm)|the Frost King]]'s treasure”. | |||
Landing on a snowy ridge, the two Cupids deduced that the treasure must be located in the closest mountain and began climbing it despite Pessimist's remonstrations. Eventually, they found themselves on a ledge near the top of the mountain where they bumped into several other groups who'd received identical invitations — including the [[New Wellsian Empire|Five Surviving Wellsians]], then the [[Interdimensional Tavern]] waiters [[Tpxszum]] and [[Frederick]] (plus [[Alistair Neezley]]), then [[21-419]] with the [[Retconning Crocodile|Retconning Crocodiles]] in pursuit, and finally [[Madame Tarsa]]. A fight quickly broke out before they all began to chaotically race the remaining distance to the crater-like basin at the top of the mountain. There, they found that the invitations had been sent as a lure by [[Darius]], who wanted revenge on all of them for varyingly-arbitrary reasons. | |||
The insane dromedary had not actually planned out any coherent means of subduing all his enemies once he'd lured them, however, and they easily overpowered him. After Dandy found that the treasure actually existed, being buried under the great ice throne which Darius had taken for himself, there was a brief risk of another brawl, but Pessimist, to everyone's surprise, stepped up and delivered a moving speech in favour of peace and goodwill which convinced everyone to agree to a truce and to divide the plentiful treasure equally. The Cupids thus got to pick their own share of the bounty, with Dandy extracting from it “a finely-woven outfit clearly meant for royalty” but also a pair of golden ear-muffs which he gifted to Pessimist so that he could use them to “block out the sound of other people's voices”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frost King's Treasure (novel)|The Frost King's Treasure]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||