– Alcor appearing as himself, but only a few inches tall.
– Alcor appearing only a few inches tall but with normal sized wings.
– Alcor appearing as Lepus the rabbit or as the Answering Machine, effectively a double troll.
– If he appears as the Answering Machine, speaking only by repeating parts of recorded songs and/or messages.
– Speaking in a language that the summoner took a class on in school but isn’t fluent in.
– Appearing as the summoner’s sixth grade English teacher because I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING OFF ABOUT THAT GUY! I FREAKING KNEW IT!
– Pretending to be the most cliché villain ever. Swivel chair, obviously fake British accent, stroking either Lepus or a nightmare lamb in his lap, the whole shebang.
Tag: answering machine
Fic Prompt: so many kids summon Alcor for help with their homework that he just sends the answering machine instead
“For help with your math homework, please press 1.
For help with your English homework, please press 2.
For help with summoning the legions of the undead, please press 3.
For help with the hard sciences, please press 4…”
Would someone explain what the answering machine is? I’ve gathered that it’s music but nothing really beyond that?
Mod S can’t remember exactly how it started, but the basic idea is that some summons get not the Great, Grand, and Terrible Alcor the Dreambender but instead get his answering machine. It’s an answering machine BUT WITH BUTT WINGS, that plays the greatest hits of the early 2000s. As sung mostly by Mabel and Soos, with occasional cameos by Stan, Pacifica, and even Dipper.
Hold Please
Well here it is, the first of two prompts I took for the Gravity Falls TAU ficathon as well as my first contribution to the AU overall. Hope you guys like it!
My prompt was: the origin of the Answering Machine.
After weeks of preparation everything was in place. The
circle had been drawn, the symbols all triple checked, candles lit- unscented,
originally they had planned on just using cinnamon but one call from Dave’s
cousin had changed that (thank goodness one of them had a demonologist in the
family), and, of course, the sacrifice had been procured. That had been the
hardest part, but then again, none of them had ever really needed to find cow
blood before. Now all that remained was to carefully speak the chant.“Astrum splendidum, te invoco. Invoco tuum
potentiae. Dico nomen tuum: Alcor!”…
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…
“Did you say it right?” Allison asked
Hi! I’m the one that had the hc about the sentient answering machine (AM for short) and hat! I was surprised when you asked me what I think their names could be because I never really put thought into it. I looked some things up for what their names could be and decided to go with the star theme. The AM can be Delphini and the hat can be Coronae (or simply Hat like with Car). Most stars in the constellation Delphius have Delphini in the name and the same goes for Corona Borealis with Coronae.
Both are lovely names!
Robyn
terrifyingtyrannosaurusturtle:
This was an ask a while ago on the TAU page, sorry I can’t link to it.
Disco Girl~
First of the “I tried to fill a month’s worth of fic open season prompts” fics. I didn’t make it, but I got close enough to start posting them. 🙂
“C’moooon, Dipper!” Mabel pleaded, going for the big eyes. “Karaoke’s not about sounding good, it’s about sounding terrible together!”
“Mabel, that’s what you say every time you break out the karaoke machine,” Dipper groaned, giving the machine a distrustful poke. “I sound awful, and it’s no fun.”
“But you sound better than you used to! And you like this song!” she protested, still holding the microphone towards her brother. “If you really hate it though…”
Aaaand the sad, disappointed sister voice. Dipper groaned and held out his hand for the microphone. The things he did for his sister…
Still, she was grinning now, and it wasn’t like anyone else was going to hear them, right? Plus she was right, he did like this song…
Happily, Mabel started up the music, and he found himself smiling as he joined her on the opening lines.
“Friday night, and we’re gonna party ‘til dawn…”
Fic promt: years after Mabel’s death, Dipper discovers an actress (or maybe a radio show host) with the same voice as his sister. She’s not a reincarnation, just a random girl with a very similar voice. Maybe he makes an habit of listening to this girl’s show? After all, as much as he loves all Mizars, Mabel was very precious to him. And there are a number of times you can listen a recording in an answering machine before the file starts to corrupt.
Please go to the corner and think about what you have done
Once Mabel records an one hour track entirely consisting of Dipper’s snoring as he takes a nap in the kitchen. The audio is full of background giggling and whispering about ‘the oh terrifying Alcor the Snorer that’s sleeping over the table’. For further kicks, Mabel puts the audio track in the summoning machine, but only to sound after every thirteen repetitions of the entire disk of her ridiculous song covers. The Cult of Unending Hymns gets to listen to it once, they’re understandably confused
OK, what if eventually enough people just want to summon the answering machine they develop a specialized circle for it? Like they add on a specific symbol (like something related to music) and Alcor knows to just let it go to voice mail. In exchange he gets a like one of those bug bags of random candy stores sell around halloween.
stan is the one that convinces dipper he can make candy bank if he sets up what is essentially his own private pandora station for ‘premium users’
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