Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Yard Further Outside Dormitory
Matten giggled in return to Ever's caustic turn. In addition to echoing, the sound was far from cute. She dug into her bag before presenting a box of red bulbs and a grow light—and decidedly without touching or pulling them out of the bag. "I hedged my acquisitions. Don't go without photosynthesis-assisting lighting. You'll catch blight or something like that."
"And when you left, you didn't tell me that you pursued little old me," the last words said almost singsong. Matten spun around before settling back face to face with Ever Green. "I thought you were here for the plants, but that was a long time ago."
She clasped her face in her hands, shimmying, "And I came to seek your aid the first time, just like now. Except now, well, I know that you 'cool cats' are not sleeping." She stilled very quickly, "There may be no issue then, or does the state of the earth here cause you pain?"
edited 13th Mar '18 9:15:24 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Pool
The fused pair looked at the transformative chaos for a few seconds, taking in all the different forms and actually seeming kind of impressed before the danger occurred to them.
"Ah, shit."
Ooze started to come from Caleb's body but hung in a vague clump rather than forming anything.
Would it change me too?
No idea. We have to try something else.
Caleb's eyes darted round the room as bolts of purple shot up his body. Mikael seemed fine but he hadn't been paying attention to what his powers were. Liam was trying to pull people out but didn't seem to be having much luck. And dirty girl was... slapping someone with a filth tendril?
"We have to save them!"
Three potted cactus in a trench coat.
SA: Lawn
Ever took the gifts with a scowl. And turned on the grow light.
"Fine. If this grass wasn't suicidal, I would be upset with your wonton slaughter. As it is, I am merely disturbed by it." Ever's scowl worsened. "I don't buy for a second that you thought I was here about the plants, when I inquired about the room several times."
Ever just sat there for a second, trying not to ask. She wanted to ignore this question like matten ignored hers. In the end though, Ever broke. "What was this help you wanted?"
Argue everything you can argue. Doubt everything you believe. Ask every question you have. Argue, doubt and ask. Through this we learn.
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Yard Further Outside Dormitory
"Suicidal grass? How very interesting." Matten spread her arms and grinned widely, completely overlooking Ever Green's simmering anger, "But it does not matter. This is a landing site, not an attack. I intended to raise this little bit of earth from ruin. It did not work, so I've sent for an expert, you of course, the young lady with a Green Thumb who shares a room with Bozo's favorite."
edited 13th Mar '18 11:59:59 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Three potted cactus in a trench coat.
SA: Lawn
Ever was just about done with Matten. Did she really drag her out here just to plant some grass? This girl could not be for real.
"Fine. If you want something other that grass, you're out of luck." Ever indicated her pajamas. "My seeds are in the dorm. Where I was planning on going, before somebody dragged me back out here."
edited 13th Mar '18 12:21:45 PM by TopGof
Argue everything you can argue. Doubt everything you believe. Ask every question you have. Argue, doubt and ask. Through this we learn.
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Yard Further Outside Dormitory
Matten put a finger to her lip, gazing briefly at the sky as if in deep contemplation. "Oh, who would that be?"
"And, I wanted to do it..." Matten added, inviting herself along on the trek back. "I want it to have some mark of my own..." she said mostly to herself.
Switching tracks rather abruptly, Matten added, "I appreciate your help, and your choice in decor. Did I leave a mark, when I visited, or...?" Matten let the question hang, fishing for confirmation of what she suspected.
edited 13th Mar '18 12:39:08 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Three potted cactus in a trench coat.
SA: Yard
Ever sighed as she turned around. "You wanna grow plants? It's very simple. Take some seeds, bury them where they need to be, and let them grow. In my case I simply encourage them to grow." She pointed towards the dead grass. "You did the first part. Grass usually leaves some of it's seeds near where it's rooted down. When old grass dies, new grass pops up later as long as the soil is still good."
For Matten's last question, Ever copied Matten's finger to chin motion, seeming to try and think of something. "You said it yourself, nothing of concern happened in our room."
Argue everything you can argue. Doubt everything you believe. Ask every question you have. Argue, doubt and ask. Through this we learn.
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Yard Further Outside Dormitory
Matten opened her hand, counting off by fingers, "Automobiles assist with travel, cold with stubborn dates, lights with sight, balls with dodgeball, and paint with resisting rust. By your words, fungicide and fertilizer do what you do by that definition, but I think you're something more?"
Matten turned round, walking backwards, arms folded behind her, while facing Ever, "Oh, won't you forgive me? I was lost in your eyes and your elegant speech. I really didn't think my answering a prayer was anything out of the ordinary. Perhaps, let ill-impressions be overlooked and play nice at our joint experiment?"
edited 13th Mar '18 2:30:24 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Pool
Mike desperately began trying to swim for the surface but kept having to go under water to be able to breathe. Fear, guilt, and adrenaline were all coursing through the young jock’s brain when Rebecca suddenly began slapping him in the face. It was a nice effort but Mike was too busy swimming for his life at the moment to really register it or register Rebecca as enemy. Rather, he grabbed onto Rebecca, hoping he wouldn’t get drawn in the hole that was oh so sweetly calling to him. He made a grab at his friend Emani, trying to prevent her from swimming down there too.
Three potted cactus in a trench coat.
SA: Lawn
"Maybe, maybe not. Either way, don't compare me to fertilizer." Ever just continued her way to the dorm.
Ever slowed again, but not because she was dead why would you even think that? She just slowed to sigh, and say "Sure."
edited 13th Mar '18 5:00:06 PM by TopGof
Argue everything you can argue. Doubt everything you believe. Ask every question you have. Argue, doubt and ask. Through this we learn.
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Yard Further Outside Dormitory
"Oh, you're the best," Matten's chain encircled the girl briefly, the glow disappearing just before impact. "If you can't tell I'm hugging you..."
Matten broke into a merry skip, unmindful of where her chain was. "We're the merry planters, the wonderful growers of things. We're going so very green. Come on everybody, sing..."
edited 13th Mar '18 5:19:40 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Liam grunted as the large squid threw him away, bringing himself back up quickly, noting that it seemed his power softened the impact. He had to put this to a stop! Liam consciously knew it would likely be a mistake to draw too much power from Regalia, especially in the state he was in...but whatever monster was in that pool had bastardized what should've just been a good time out. It had taken and warped and twisted everyone that showed up with no idea of what may be there.
Eyes catching Mike trying to flee the transformative waters, Liam flared up his powers, creating a large flare of Regalia's power around him that could possibly function as a flare before commencing doing what he thought best.
It burned his arm and caused his scars to feel pain renewed, but he sent out Regalia's power in a wave that collected around Mike and others around him in the pool itself - in the form of a large sphere that would contain those within it and move them - and by chance the sphere would form such that Emani was inside it as well, a good amount of water included in the sphere.
He would then use that to try and throw those within the large sphere back on to the shore, specifically aiming far from the waters.
edited 13th Mar '18 6:15:32 PM by NickTheSwing
Surrounded by weirdoes
Sam stared at the note left by Matten for a second before shaking his head. With that, he kept watching the movie, but several lights interrupted him. The party must be crazy. But better to make sure they aren't blowing things up.
Making an ice telescope, he looked outside and saw chaos and several aquatic creatures flapping around. Given how Liam was shining to get them out. Bolting out of the door and making an ice board, before making big letters spelling "TROUBLE AT THE FORBIDDEN POOL" making them fall loudly against the floor. That should warn the others.
The board floated and got to the pool soon, making several tubes to put the people already out of the pool out of the way, before making hands to pull several kids out of the water. Sam looked at Liam sternly.
"Explain. NOW!"
edited 13th Mar '18 6:49:44 PM by Blueace
Wake me up at your own risk.
Three potted cactus in a trench coat.
SA: Just outside the Dorms
"I'm not going to sing with y- oof" Ever was interrupted as she reached for the door knob only to have the doors fly open and smash against her face, Sam flying out seemingly oblivious to his freshly minted victim. Ever glared at the ice letters that littered the ground.
"Today has just not been going my way." She opened the door before turning back to Matten. "Chase after him if you like. I wouldn't be much help without a little longer in the light."
Argue everything you can argue. Doubt everything you believe. Ask every question you have. Argue, doubt and ask. Through this we learn.
Breath of the Sun
Outdoor Pool
Seeing that Mike had a firm grasp on Rebecca's tentacle and Liam's energy projections, Mikael let go of the larger boy and swam himself to the edge and vaulted out of the pool.
Rolling on to the deck, he turned back to the pool and truly grasped the madness. He slammed a fist against the ground. "Verdammt nochmal!" Why wasn't he affected? No, no time to question himself. Rebecca and Liam couldn't stop this on their own.
Fortunately, the ice-boy showed up to help. Rising to his feet, he ran over to Sam, speaking quickly and still panting from the exertion of trying to pull Mike. "Pool's forbidden for a reason. Turns people into monsters. I wasn't affected by the waters for some reason, but the others - I'm going to get help. Please, try and save them, but be careful - I'm not sure if they can survive out of water. I heard Mike struggle to breath when I was trying to drag him out."
So saying, he picked up his coat and pulled it around his body before sprinting off back to the dorms.
Yard Outside Dorms
As he approached, he saw someone (two someones?) out and about. Good, one of his classmates...
Oh. Her.
He steeled himself as he ran towards her, raising a hand to get her attention. "Evergreen and Devil girl- no, Matten!" He addressed her with her proper name. "There's been an incident at the pool; Mike and several others he invited have been transformed into fish beasts. I know I was harsh to you, earlier, Matten, but if you truly care at all about anyone here - please, you must help!"
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?
Where am I? What's going on?
Pool
The sudden lightshow took Rebecca be surprise, and she feel backwards. Once her eyes adjusted to light, she saw Liam and Sam scooping the transformed fish people out of the water. This immediately struck her as a rather bad thing.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOTS?! DON’T TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WATER, THEY WON’T BE ABLE TO BREATHE!”
But what was the alternative? They obviously couldn’t leave them in the pool, as there was something drawing them to the depths. Wait, wasn’t there another pool... somewhere? One that was open to students? That might work.
“There’s another pool! We need to get them there, and fast!”
AKA Nixer
The Dorms
Lucy's eyes snapped open at the sound of something heavy impacting the floor, swiftly getting out of bed and slipping her shoes on, peeking out into the hall. She gasped quietly at the ice message presumably left by Sam.
TROUBLE AT THE FORBIDDEN POOL
"O-oh no..." she whispered, looking around frantically for some sort of fire alarm.
There!
Quickly rushing over to it, she pulled it down, wincing at the ringing noise it made. She wasn't sure if any heroes were already on their way, but hopefully this would alert someone into searching the dorms.
And by extension, seeing the message, granted if it didn't melt by then.
Rushing back to her room, she unzipped her bag, some of her ink pots floating into it as she flung it over her shoulder, opening the window and hesitantly sitting on the ledge.
She was reluctant before to do this, but she'd have to now.
Taking a deep breath, she slowly turned into ink, dripping down the wall and pouring out onto the grass below. Swiftly reforming back into her human state (and after a brief stagger) she began to run to where she hoped the pool was.
The direction of the screaming was probably her best bet.
Please be safe, please be safe, please be- she inwardly prayed, skidding to a halt as she saw the mutated teens mixed in with her classmates, going pale with horror.
Something urged her out of her daze, and she felt something snap internally, a burst of determination and anger boiling through her. Stalking over to where Sam and Liam were, the previously timid girl made for quite the intimidating sight.
"What the hell is going on?" she asked in a dangerously quiet tone, fists clenched and quivering slightly in rage.
edited 13th Mar '18 7:15:44 PM by Enirboreh
bork
Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
BANG BANG BANG.
Rosalinda tried to lead the target, but the target zipped past her, and whenever she pulled the trigger she missed by at least half a meter.
BANG BANG BANG
After blowing through all of her magazine, Rosalinda looked at the console. It confirmed that 4 out of 115 rounds hit the target. Sighing, she turned off all of the targets and prepared to go back to her dorm.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Yard Outside Dorms
Matten had been guffawing at Sam's exit, abruptly zipping up but still grinning when Ever turned to address her. "Well, that does seem like a great time, but it is kind of vague..."
Of course Mikael came running up to them only seconds later. "'Devil-girl?' I thought about a tag like that, but it kind of lessons the impact when random people you're crushing are spitting the title at you, and...wait what?!"
"Damn it! Hold still." The boy still dripped water, and Matten briefly probed probed the stuff via her own aura. "Dry off," she ordered the boy. "You may not be a deep one, yet but watch where you're tracking that water."
The water did have something clinging to it, but, truth be told, the source of this particular curse could be anything: water, location, swamp gas, water + location, but she if she observed and got stuck in the chaos, she'd never be able to take timely action.
Sighing Matten shuffled off around a corner briefly turning around to curtsy at Ever Green. "I must go. Excuse me. The class is my responsibility, but keep awake. I would be delighted to go gardening with you later this night."
That done she disappeared around the corner—and an instant later the sudden appearance and disappearance of a chain took Mikael as well.
Dr. Bozo's Office
"I could have burned whatever force dealt this curse," Matten said, leaning against the giant alcohol bottle. "But I don't know if the students are connected to it. I remember some curses connect their victims to the life force of the castor."
"In any case, Master Bozo," Matten gave a deep curtsy in front of thing, "Your darling protege requests your aid in our first joint research project. My class is suffering from the effects of the Outdoor Pool, and Mikael is either immune, a carrier, or slowly succumbing. I need research advice and experienced aid."
Acknowledging her unwitting fellow traveler for the first time, Matten gave him a glance, "So, what specifically is going on at the pool, and how is your own health? Say 'I'm fine' at the risk of vivisection..."
edited 13th Mar '18 7:38:55 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Three potted cactus in a trench coat.
SA: Still just outside the stupid dorm, where the stupid people have kept her all this stupid night, still in her stupid pajamas
Ever was greatly frustrated. There went her plausible deniability like a fart on the wind. She couldn't be seen as having done nothing. The plant girl started off towards the pool with a sigh.
"I swear, if Matten has me running about all night, I don't care if she is immortal I'll find a way to kill her anyways."
Argue everything you can argue. Doubt everything you believe. Ask every question you have. Argue, doubt and ask. Through this we learn.
Breath of the Sun
Bozo's Office
"Bwuh-" Mikael blinked at Matten's antics (and was that the fire alarm? who pulled-), then suddenly stumbled as he was yanked along by a chain. Finding himself in a different location, he whirled upon the possessed-girl, fist clenched almost tight enough to draw blood. "You - you demon bitch! People could be dying right now, and - wait, Bozo? The mystic?"
He turned towards the liquor bottle, and noticing Matten's curtsy, looked at her sheepishly before bowing his head slightly. "Ah, Dr. Bozo. I myself am indeed fine - " He glared at Matten as if daring her to do something. " - though I don't know why. The others... everyone in the pool was transformed into something from a horror story. Fish-people, sea monsters, what have you. A couple of our classmates are there to save them, but I don't know if they'll be able to... I saw, just for a moment, at the bottom of the pool - further down than it should have been - something... big. A monster from the deep. I think. I wasn't exactly focused on it."
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?
Bozo's Office
A deep, almost liquid voice echoed from the bottle. Almost as if a voice message was being played underwater. "WE ARE SORRY. MR.BOZO IS BUSY FIGHTING BOOZE GREMLINS IN THE FAR OFF CORNERS OF THE BOOZE DIMENSION AND IS UNAVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. ADDITIONALLY, IF YOU ATTEMPT TO DIVE IN AND PULL HIM OUT, THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE YOU WILL FALL INTO AN ORDINARY VAT OF BOOZE INSTEAD AND POSSIBLY DROWN TO DEATH. PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE AFTER THE BURP." Cue the BUUUUURP!
Dorms
Hei popped back into his dorm room, still riding the good mood that Lucy had left him in. Said good mood evaporated the moment he spotted the trail of Ice Sam had left outside the room. After depositing the painting on his bed, Hei ran to the window and spotted the icy message on the lawn We have a forbidden pool? Hei wondered, before registering the screams from below. Well that’s probably it. Guess I should check it out... He sighed, before diving back into the shadows.
Poolside
“Sam! I s-saw you..r...mess...age?” Hei’s question trailed off at the sight before him. For one, the pool in front of him was filled with sea monsters and mythical creatures...that were once students, if the tattered clothes were any indication. Snapping into “fight” mode, Hei quickly made a gesture with his arms, thankful that it was nighttime.
In an instant, every single shadow in the vicinity moved to do his bidding. Some formed shields to protect non-transformed students from the water, others formed tendrils that hauled still-transforming students out of the pool. Hei then made another gesture, and the shadows converged around the pool, forming a black box to prevent the large...creature in the pool from dragging anyone else in.
“Again, an explanation would be nice about now. Hei demanded, eyes darting around the area for threats. “Because I have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing.”
edited 13th Mar '18 9:15:13 PM by svenorzokarkoff
Where am I? What's going on?
Pool
“Oh, for the love of.. HEY MORON, STOP TAKING THEM OUT OF THE WATER! THEY’RE GOING TO SUFFOCATE! IF YOU WANT TO BE USEFUL, GET ONE OF YOUR PORTAL THINGS GOING BETWEEN HERE AND THE OTHER POOL! AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T TOUCH THE WATER!”
Rebecca coughed a bit. All this yelling was tough on her throat, but someone had to keep her classmates from accidentally killing the people they were trying to save.
Pool
Shit. Shitshitshit. Rebecca wasn’t entirely certain what was going on, but she was now very glad she hadn’t been swimming. But now she had to help fix... whatever this was.
How though? Polluting the water seemed like a bad idea simply because the transformed partygoers seemed to need it to live, and Rebecca didn’t really have any other tricks up her sleeve in this situation.
Wait, Mike! She might not be able to do much for the others, but maybe she could at least help him. With little warning, the filth encrusting Rebecca’s bikini-clad body formed into a long tendril stretching out into the pool. A tendril that proceeded to repeatedly slap Mike in the face.
If she gave Mike an enemy, maybe his powers would counteract whatever the water was doing to him.
edited 13th Mar '18 7:46:32 AM by PossiblyQuiteInsane