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"Neo Webber. DoSAT. M-T's getting to the end of his allotted agent interaction battery, so to speak. Since you're just wrong place, wrong time, how's about I help you get where you need to go, and my boss get those two," he nodded at David and K, "locked back up in their RC for the DIA to come pick up?"

((edits: grammar needed fixing))

K glared at David, who merely shrugged.

"It still wasn't me!" K said. "I don't want to be arrested! I'm not lying!"

David sighed and shook his head.

((Once MT, Alberta, and Neo walk out of RC Hyperbola, I plan on stopping this thread and using my Interlude to pick up where we left off, but only if it's okay with y'all.))

((I literally have a bit at the beginning that says [Insert PPC things here], before Val drops in to bring David and K to court.))

((-kA))

"Le Cagou never has it. Mama brings it back from anime worlds. It's the best flavour ever!"

((Yeah, just replying to the ice cream thing! And that's a real ice cream flavour. Baskin Robbins is really good in Japan.))

This put a smile on Rose's face as she replied: "Well, I don't think that'll be a problem as long as we cooperate, and cooperating won't be a problem if you're tellin' the truth, right?"

((Let's wait for Scarlett here, I guess.))

"I'm not bringing anyone to the DIA," he said. "We can call them here. I'm not spending more time with you agents than I need to. I'm just here to follow the tracker to the source, and the source," he held up the coin, "is here."

"And one of these fools used... that to start the Poofening?" wondered Neo, taking the coin from Makes-Things. He examined it, comparing it to the green goo. "That caused this?"

Makes-Things nodded, turning the coin over. "Lots of energy cooped up in that tiny thing. Needed an instruction to create the anti-Sue matter pulse. Someone makes a wish, boom."

"Boom, all Sues and related characters go poof." Neo glanced at Boadicea, who looked genuinely confused about what was happening, and at David and K, who looked to be mixed amounts of shocked and guilty. "Don't think it's helmet-hair; they look more in need of a shower and a meal than anything else."

((Replying here since it appears to be the most recent in the thread. Also, M-T's been around since the days of the DIS and DIO, so he's probably trying to stay out of agent affairs as much as he can. Arresting agents is probably not something he wants to get involved in.))

And thanks for joining, because now there’s four of us in the finding-out-David-Null-did-it thread, which is probably the most important one. Well, as for overall story. ))

He doesn't really care that much about society rules. In English stuff, however, he's Lawful Neutral. "The English rules are rules!" That sorta stuff. But society rules? He ran out of shpxes when it comes to following society's rules. Heck, he wears fairly casual clothes always, breaking both PPC's lax dress code of "anything black" and the school's dress code for teachers. He's supposed to wear semi-formal stuff. He curses (except in front of young teens and children), he actively is displeased by some agents' doings, and he doesn't follow courtsey rules that often. But he is neither good nor bad.

As for anyone else, IDK. I haven't really thought about alignments.

-kA

Charlie - A straight-up D&D character, to boot! But yeah, chaotic good. They find joy in others' happiness, but rarely consider law and procedure in their actions, even in the mission field.

Jiwon - True neutral. He’s not actively evil by any means, but he can be fairly lazy and self-centered at times.

Ocotillo - Haven't published anything with her in it yet, unless you count her recruiting and the PPC Hunger Games. Anyway, lawful good, leaning slightly more lawful than good.

Dr. Glocktopus - Honestly, I don't know. Personal alignment didn't really matter for the scenes I wrote it in, so I never really thought about it.

"I think we should stay for this meeting," said Lori, her voice uncertain, "but if people are going to be blaming the PPC for something we didn't do..."

"I want ice cream!" chirped Liam.

"You just had a quince pie," Bill pointed out.

"Meetings are boring," complained Liam. "Ice cream is more fun!"

Nikki is the one I'm most sure about - Lawful Good. Corolla is also very definitely Chaotic Good, and Sergio is more of a Neutral Good though he has his Chaotic Neutral moments.

As for my second, pretty much abandoned (in favor of TWWA) spinoff, Keiko pretty much is Neutral Good like her father, while I never fleshed out Shiro and Saki enough to be able to answer this.

To complete the family with TWWA-centric characters, Ami is also very definitely Lawful Good like Nikki, which is also how I see Hajime (though so far she's been a PPC agent in name only as she's from an alternate timeline and I haven't written her in an actual miission)

Why was she being arrested? And how was she supposed to know which of the agents was telling the truth?

“We need to bring you three agents to DIA. Even the one who’s just dropping in. We need to figure out who’s telling the truth.”

((I'll answer David's thing in a bit. Running late for work.))

Rose gestured at the mostly empty café. "No one else out there really gives a fuvg about Suvians these days. If we're looking for someone with a motive to, ya know..." She snapped her fingers. "It's really just you and maybe the OFUs."

Alice pondered: "So, if you say it wasn't you..."

"I believe that," Rose continued. "Y'all'd be bragging about it all over the place. But others might be more skeptical."

As she spoke, a yellowish portal opened behind her, and two people exited it with weapons ready. Alice promptly put herself between them and the group, mumbling an apology about the false alarm.

Rose smirked. "Well, I say that's just about enough to start the emergency what-the-shpx's-going-on meeting. Have a seat, everyone."

What should have been a fairly normal morning taking John and Muriel to the park had ended with her looking away at exactly the wrong time and subsequently paying the price.

"There's got to be a way to get her back," John grumbled for the umpteenth time as he followed Christianne and Eledhwen down Rue Anya towards the Parc Tolkien door to HQ. "If you'd let me try, maybe --"

"No," snapped Christianne, dialling Bill and Lori again. "You heard the scientists. All the Sues and badfic rescues are gone. You're on thin ice as it is."

"You're lucky I recently got personality dialysis again, huh?" John crossed his arms. "But why'd it have to take Muriel? She wasn't a Sue, she just came from one."

"Whoever did this wasn't very careful, were they?" countered Christianne. The call went to voicemail. "Ugh! Bill's not picking up anymore!"

Up ahead, the pavement was crowded with people clamouring for information, interspersed with crackles of static from a radio. "New Cal DIA officers give me the creeps," muttered Christianne as they approached. Eledhwen patted her arm.

"Perhaps they will know something else we do not know?" she wondered.

"I doubt it," said Christianne, "but here goes, anyway." She shoved her way past a couple of people until she saw Corporal Perkins and Officer Maywell. "Oi! What's going on?"

((I'm rolling with it. Neo was the one who knocked now.))

((-kA))

((I just had David confess, toss MT the coin, and here comes Neo with "hey, an agent went Sue and turned into goo!"))

((-kA, chuckling at this (not angry)))

Tech was just less likely to lie to his face, or pop out of nowhere, or scream at him for things they'd done by themselves...

"Sue Trackers are engineered to track Glitter levels," he stated. "This one has been modified to track anti-Sue matter -- anti-Glitter, if you will. There was a pulse of anti-Sue matter stemming from these coordinates here earlier, and I've tracked it here. Though --" he frowned a bit at the tracker. "Another burst of anti-Sue matter in the Cafeteria? That must've been..."

"The agent that went flamethrower crazy," panted Neo as he drew up to a stop beside his boss. He handed Makes-Things the cup with the green goo in it; Makes-Things took a bit and let the tracker analyse it.

His own expression turned about as green as the goo. "That's --" he began, staring at Neo.

"That's right," said Neo. "Whoever did the Poofening just claimed another victim."

around. He gets mad when things aren't placed where he placed them." This was the truth; heck, David even gets mad when he missplaces things! "It'd be best if you came lat-"

"Good day," David Null interrupted, walking out of the cabinet. His hair was still wet from the shower, but he was fully clothed. "What did I... oh, hello M-T! Who's the-"

"That's Alberta," K replied.

"Oh! Hello! So not-very-plesant to see you all here," David continued.

"David!" K yelled.

"What?" David responded. "They might be here for something important."

"They accused us of killing the Sues, David," K said.

"You sound like that one llama's companion. You know, the one who yells at Carl?" David responded. "Carl! That-"

"This isn't a laughing matter!" K shouted. David flinched. "Lord have mercy."

"Look, listen," David said, clearly no longer joking around. "They're here for exactly what you think they're here for. The fact that they didn't interrupt me is all too telling." He pulled the coin from under Hamlet. "I hid this from the newbie because I didn't want to scare her, but you all are looking for who started this." He tossed the coin to Makes-Things. "Obviously, it must be making some sort of signal or have some sort of glitter that nothing else has to lead you here." He smiled. "It was me. And him." K flinched. "I made the wish. He brought the coin into HQ." David held his hands up at head level. "I'll come peacefully."

"David!" K said, panicked. "He's lying!"

"There you go again," David said, chuckling. "'Carl! That kills people!' You sound just like him, you know?"

"He's lying!" K shouted. "It wasn't me who brought the coin into HQ! It wasn't him who made the wish! It was Matt."

"I suppose it's up to you both to determine who's lying or not," David said. "I'm a known liar who never wanted to work for the PPC at first. K's a known truth teller that will rat out somebody if they break the rules. One of us is lying. One of us is telling the truth."

Knock knock knock

"Who goes there?" David asked.

((Idea finished. Is David thinking him confessing is a risky play that could save his hide? No. Does he honestly care at this point about what happens? Not really. I tried to add some comedy by referencing Carl the Llama, specifically the first (or second?) episode. Gore/violence That episode.))

((-kA))

"PPC Superweapon? Goodness, what do you guys take us for?"

Lori nudged him. "The De-Glitterifier looked a bit like a WMD before it broke, didn't it?" she whispered.

"It's not like we planned to roll that out and point and shoot at anyone who looked particularly Glittery," grumbled Bill.