Landfills and Volcano's Don't Mix (Titanite, Plum, Varis)
Mar 20, 2017 1:06:58 GMT
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Post by CleanFreak on Mar 20, 2017 1:06:58 GMT
Titanite had been moving faster and faster, once he had developed a cure all solution to the problem:
What to do with all the garbage
Namely, throw it all into the volcano. The volcano next to the Forge that is. That being the only volcano he's encountered to date.
Visiting the Forge had led him to see the Volcano outside of it, and allowed him a quick and easy solution to dumping all of the garbage he'd collected in, and on the way to, the forge in one fell swoop. He literally just swept it off the ledge, and into the insanely hot molten rock pool just... sitting... there. Asking for it.
Then he saw Lapis bubble a piece of litter. Which led him to bubbling up all the piles of garbage he subsequently collected. And of course... he sent them to the Volcano opening. The bubbles popped, and all the collected litter fell right into the waiting bubbling volcano mouth. Being consumed by the hot rock, and destroyed, which was what he needed. A way to actually get rid of all the junk he cleaned up.
This worked pretty well for him, since he didn't really stop, all he did was clean up garbage, messes, littler, debris, and hoomin discards.
So that wasn't a problem. At least, it wasn't a problem until he found Beach City's landfill.
You see, landfill are the hoomin solution for the exact same problem Titanite was having.
What to do with all the garbage
Except, they didn't use volcanos. No... they just found a nice empty area far away from their settlements... dug it out, and started throwing mountains of garbage, literally, into the pit. Until it piled up too high, or smelled too terrible. Then, they just found another plot of land, dug it up, and started throwing garbage into THAT.
This was a terrible solution. And to Titanite, this didn't equal a solution. It looked like a cleaning problem. So when he followed one mess to the next, and ended up seeing a pair of hoomins throwing garbage into the back of some robot (because cars don't make sense to him...) he decided to follow it, and investigate. And this is what led him to the Landfill.
The most horrible hoomin mess he'd seen yet. When he first caught sight of it, because Titanite's have a diminished sense of smell, since that might derail them from their cleaning, he didn't really smell it until he had actually SEEN it. Anyway, when he actually SAW the wide expanse of mountains of garbage... he just kind of froze... his whole body became perfectly still, except for his fingertips and eyes. His fingertips were squirming, and his right eye was twitching something fierce.
He was like that for... probably 3 hours? Just because he was so overwhelmed by the huge amount of garbage hoomins collected. It was just more than his little Titanite brain could handle. And then, he snapped out of it, almost furious. Or at the very least, massively resolute.
He started screaming, as he attempted to generate the largest bubble he'd ever made in his short life, to collect the
ENTIRE LANDFILL AT ONCE
into
ONE GIANT BUBBLE.
His body was trembling at first, then shaking wildly, as he set his jaw in determination, and his fingers turned white from the strain. It was the hardest thing he'd ever done, definitely the biggest mess he'd ever cleaned, but he managed to bubble it all, and send it wooshing up into the sky, before he collapsed where he stood, falling onto the grass on the hill overlooking the dump, before his body went ~poof~ and his Titanite gem settled in the grass.
So of course, he was't aware than when his bubble flew over the volcano, and vanished, and the ENTIRE LANDFILLS WORTH OF TRASH fell INTO the volcano... that the volcano wouldn't be happy about this in the least.
In fact, it couldn't handle it. Once the huge pile started to sink into the open mouth of the volcano, it started to overflow, and the metal debris inside the landfill started to cause it to bubble more and more furiously, streaks of objects heated too quickly exploding into the air with hot plumes of black smoke trailing them.
And that was just the beginning. The garbage fed the volcano so that it started to explode outright, sending huge streams of hot magma, lava and garbage up out of it's funnel opening, and down it's sides, exploding gloriously while Titanite lingered in Gem form on the grass.
By the time he reconstituted, he stood up, shakily, and heard the third or fourth BOOM, as the volcano shot it's payload, and froze... slooowly turning his head to see the Volcano in the distance, making an even more terrible and deadly mess.
This was not good... this was NOT good....
He RAN... like he'd never run before, to try to stop whatever horrible thing he'd just started.
If his supervisor ever found out about this, he'd be poofed for sure!
What to do with all the garbage
Namely, throw it all into the volcano. The volcano next to the Forge that is. That being the only volcano he's encountered to date.
Visiting the Forge had led him to see the Volcano outside of it, and allowed him a quick and easy solution to dumping all of the garbage he'd collected in, and on the way to, the forge in one fell swoop. He literally just swept it off the ledge, and into the insanely hot molten rock pool just... sitting... there. Asking for it.
Then he saw Lapis bubble a piece of litter. Which led him to bubbling up all the piles of garbage he subsequently collected. And of course... he sent them to the Volcano opening. The bubbles popped, and all the collected litter fell right into the waiting bubbling volcano mouth. Being consumed by the hot rock, and destroyed, which was what he needed. A way to actually get rid of all the junk he cleaned up.
This worked pretty well for him, since he didn't really stop, all he did was clean up garbage, messes, littler, debris, and hoomin discards.
So that wasn't a problem. At least, it wasn't a problem until he found Beach City's landfill.
You see, landfill are the hoomin solution for the exact same problem Titanite was having.
What to do with all the garbage
Except, they didn't use volcanos. No... they just found a nice empty area far away from their settlements... dug it out, and started throwing mountains of garbage, literally, into the pit. Until it piled up too high, or smelled too terrible. Then, they just found another plot of land, dug it up, and started throwing garbage into THAT.
This was a terrible solution. And to Titanite, this didn't equal a solution. It looked like a cleaning problem. So when he followed one mess to the next, and ended up seeing a pair of hoomins throwing garbage into the back of some robot (because cars don't make sense to him...) he decided to follow it, and investigate. And this is what led him to the Landfill.
The most horrible hoomin mess he'd seen yet. When he first caught sight of it, because Titanite's have a diminished sense of smell, since that might derail them from their cleaning, he didn't really smell it until he had actually SEEN it. Anyway, when he actually SAW the wide expanse of mountains of garbage... he just kind of froze... his whole body became perfectly still, except for his fingertips and eyes. His fingertips were squirming, and his right eye was twitching something fierce.
He was like that for... probably 3 hours? Just because he was so overwhelmed by the huge amount of garbage hoomins collected. It was just more than his little Titanite brain could handle. And then, he snapped out of it, almost furious. Or at the very least, massively resolute.
He started screaming, as he attempted to generate the largest bubble he'd ever made in his short life, to collect the
ENTIRE LANDFILL AT ONCE
into
ONE GIANT BUBBLE.
His body was trembling at first, then shaking wildly, as he set his jaw in determination, and his fingers turned white from the strain. It was the hardest thing he'd ever done, definitely the biggest mess he'd ever cleaned, but he managed to bubble it all, and send it wooshing up into the sky, before he collapsed where he stood, falling onto the grass on the hill overlooking the dump, before his body went ~poof~ and his Titanite gem settled in the grass.
So of course, he was't aware than when his bubble flew over the volcano, and vanished, and the ENTIRE LANDFILLS WORTH OF TRASH fell INTO the volcano... that the volcano wouldn't be happy about this in the least.
In fact, it couldn't handle it. Once the huge pile started to sink into the open mouth of the volcano, it started to overflow, and the metal debris inside the landfill started to cause it to bubble more and more furiously, streaks of objects heated too quickly exploding into the air with hot plumes of black smoke trailing them.
And that was just the beginning. The garbage fed the volcano so that it started to explode outright, sending huge streams of hot magma, lava and garbage up out of it's funnel opening, and down it's sides, exploding gloriously while Titanite lingered in Gem form on the grass.
By the time he reconstituted, he stood up, shakily, and heard the third or fourth BOOM, as the volcano shot it's payload, and froze... slooowly turning his head to see the Volcano in the distance, making an even more terrible and deadly mess.
This was not good... this was NOT good....
He RAN... like he'd never run before, to try to stop whatever horrible thing he'd just started.
If his supervisor ever found out about this, he'd be poofed for sure!