Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Investigations Class
"Ortie?" She blinked, deciding not to dwell on it. "Its... the first day's readings. Its yes, it'll be important. But! We can work on it. Go over the readings and pick out a few key points to focus on."
Now, she was extremely grateful for the sudden shade. But, she had no idea how to give Lucy a thanks without breaking her focus there. And she didn't want to interfere with whatever Lucy considered that important. I'll just have to remember it...
When Steven appeared, Ortrun took the time to try making an exact mirror of Steven's smile. She didn't have time to check a mirror unfortunately. "Yes, it is that. Well, not planning, we're doing that right now. The book's pretty good though. I got through some last night." 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
Where am I? What's going on?
Jenna
Well. That was anticlimactic. But with what a clusterfuck the morning as a whole had been, she wasn't sure she should even be surprised. She'd avoided getting involved with that nonsense, mostly because it was early and she was still half asleep.
Literally. Almost half of her was asleep.
Studying, huh? Dammit, she missed her old eyes. Reading was so much harder like this. Screw it, she'd entertain herself some other way.
A beetle took off from her shoulder and soon landed on a desk next to the wizard and the wolfboy. Might as well see what her late classmates were all about.
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Fangs and Darkness
Kyle didn't really know what could be going on, but decided to not comment on it. Unless it could affect him, he'll just try to roll with it. He picked up his backpack, picking up a notebook and the book, he quickly jotted the notes down.
"Thank you"
Putting the backpack down caused a louder thud than he intended, but he had to keep working.
"Sorry" He said to everyone else, but started working as fast as possible, trying to not disturb any further.
Making sure to be quieter, he started reading, making small doodles of, what looks like, a stadium brawl.
Gotta see what you know, after all.
Wake me up at your own risk.
Hector Finley Black Venzon
Hector considered the bug that had just landed on the desk next to him for a moment.
I'm so tempted to use magic on it. Show that bug girl what's up. But it might not be her. Never mind. No harm, no foul.
He pointed his staff at the bug, then muttered under his breath, "Fulmen, fulgur." A blast of lightning jumped from the tip of his staff to the bug, killing it by electrocution with only less than a millisecond's worth of lightning before getting back to studying. He didn't even feel that magically tired from that spell.
Edited by HarryDresden on Feb 9th 2020 at 6:30:07 PM
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Ryan Brady
Ryan finished stomping around and trying to figure out what they were supposed to do just in time for the teacher to basically tell them to hang tight and fucking study. Instead, Ryan got on the ground - ground? - and started doing some push ups - he'd anticipated a lot more than just book study in another dimension or something. But after a moment of doing push ups he got to his seat and grumbled a bit before going into the lesson.
He hated book learning, in part because he was so, so bad at it.
He did note the new classmate, and when he'd seen Hector talking a bit with him, Ryan had been ready to spring into action...but then it seemed that was unnecessary.
Then Ryan in the midst of trying to figure out about this book lesson heard the sound of electricity cracking and Hector killing a bug. He looked around and realized - they were in some kind of alternate world. There wouldn't be any bugs here except...
He cast a look back at Jenna, concerned, and then glanced back at Hector. Ryan clenched a fist. He was gonna wait this time before leaping into action. But this definitely put him on his heels ready to move.
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Where am I? What's going on?
Jenna
The wizard kid looked at her beetle, brought his staff closer, and...
"Owwww! Oi, ye gobshite, de' fook was that? Ya offed me beetle?! That fookin' 'urts, ye know!"
Jenna was caught too off guard to think of focusing her telepathy on Hector and not projected to the entire room. She got up and began to walk toward the offender in question.
"Felt like a bugzapper, that did! No need!"
Hector Finley Black Venzon
"Hey, you were creepily spying on me, you know? I don't take to people spying on me kindly. At all."
Edited by HarryDresden on Feb 10th 2020 at 4:19:24 AM
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Ryan Brady
Ryan heard the telepathic outburst loud and clear. It was confirmed to him then and there what had happened. That bug was a part of Jenna and Hector, perverted gross Saruman fucker that he was, just zapped her more or less for shits with a side order of giggles.
The fucker had by now violated his mind, and now went about killing part of Jenna more or less just to.
A more restrained person would have just made sure Hector heard how very much not good that was. Made sure to send a verbal message and tried to contact the teachers. Did something administrative.
Ryan was very much not that kind of guy.
He didn't even remember when he got up and rushed over to Hector, he just remembered standing there for a brief moment and when he heard Hector's justifications it just solidified his response. Which was predictably explosive.
Moving in to grab the back of Hector's head, he went ahead to try and smash Hector's face into the desk he was seated at. "You don't fucking hurt girls here, you fucking creep!!"
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Deranged X-Mas Figure
Classroom — Sue
Readings. Joy. But hey, whatever. She had her bestie to help her! And Stevie too. With both of them helping her out, it'd be a breeze! "If you say so. Still kinda sorta iffy on the whole reading thing, but..."
She barely said another word before everything exploded. Metaphorically speaking. Suddenly Hector zapped a bug, and then Jenna told him it was her bug, and then he said he didn't give a damn.
Sue had been wrapping her head around the whole 'writhing mass of tasty bugs is actually a living person' thing, but as far as she knew, she was a person. As such, killing one of her bugs meant killing her. Or at least a part of her. It would be like if someone lopped off her finger. Maybe worse.
Of course, it would be one thing if he didn't know. She certainly didn't until yesterday. Except he did know. Jenna had just told him to his face.
And he still didn't care.
Sue wasn't sure if it was because what she'd nearly done the other day was still weighing on her. Or perhaps between this and giving Ryan a mental whammy, he'd crossed two different lines on the same day.
Or maybe he just rubbed her the wrong way.
Either way, she couldn't let this stand. Seeing that someone else had already gotten the back of his head and was intent on slamming him into the pavement, she instead readied her staff and made her best attempt to whack him in the ass. "What he said!"
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Hector Finley Black Venzon
Hector simply put up a shield to block their impacts, then stood up and turned around to face Ryan. "Ordinary people, dey ahperate widdin a certain set of parameters, right? Rules. Limits. Den dere's guys like me, yeah? We cheat. That also means ya mess with us, ya get a hell of a payback. Ah lived half of mah life in de rawffaest pahrt of god-damned Chi-Raq of ahll places. Ah WORKED with the CPD, mind ya. Naht knockin' it or anythin', but ya don't live in a place like daht, work with people like daht and naht know dat things like chivalry are just silly liddle dings dat really put ya at risk of gettin' shot or worse in da hood. mAh way might naht be paticulahly nahce, bawwt it gets. Shit. Done. Rule of da jungle. Rule of da fawhkkin' jungle, guys." With that, he pointed his staff at the two. "Impetum! Impetum!" With that, he launched 2 powerful force attacks at Ryan and Sue equivalent to a pickup truck going at 100km/h. Each.
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Classroom - Cheryl
"Huh...? What's going on?"
The sounds of zapping electricity, shouting and fighting stirred Cheryl from her stupor, the radioactive girl's eyes fluttering open. That wizard guy was currently facing the full wrath of Ryan and Sue, and Jenna was shouting in her head. Whatever had happened, it had to have been really bad.
"Alright, who do I need to bliksem and why?" Cheryl stood up, slamming her palms onto her desk with a loud crash, glaring at the scene unfolding in front of them, staring daggers at them. Talk about hurting people, the scorched remains of a bug and Jenna being livid...the scene started to come together in Cheryl's head. Her hands curled up into fists.
"The hell's wrong with you?!"
With a running start, Cheryl channeled her radioactive power into speed as she dashed towards Hector. She shot out her arm, looking to grab him by his shirt and lift him above her head, her other hand primed to punch him up there.
Ryan Brady
Well, it seemed going for the fucker made him talk like a Scorcese rip off character, and so, Ryan didn't pretend to know much about what he was trying to say. Much less care about what he could understand. But what Ryan did know was when he got hit by something, he got sent sprawling and breaking through several desks and pieces of the classroom.
And then he got back up, looking scratched up slightly, bleeding from a scrape on his head, and utterly livid as a result of that hit. He still got back up without anything beyond cosmetic damage, and wiped off the blood from his head. Chucking off his letterman jacket and standing in his shirt, Ryan shouted, "You're fucking dead meat, sleazebag!!"
Reinforcing himself more overtly with radioactive force, Ryan started to move back in toward the fight. Cheryl by now had joined in, fighting against Hector and his fucking terrible accent.
Edited by NickTheSwing on Feb 9th 2020 at 2:13:36 AM
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An Ordinary Oddball
Inusuke
Inusuke shifted the seal in his mouth so he could speak for the first time that everyone had ever heard. "You hurt that girl. Killed part of her. You didn't say sorry. That is why people are so angry." His Rs were slightly garbled from his Japanese accent, but his words were still clear.
He cracked his knuckles and circled around, aiming to flank Hector and drive him towards the other two while also cutting off a potential escape route.
Edited by JumpingFruit on Feb 9th 2020 at 2:22:00 AM
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Hector Finley Black Venzon
Well. Time to show them what I can do.
Hector quickly packed his stuff, drawing his magical accoutrements into a magic compartment in his bag, then carried, ran to and opened the window, pointed his staff into the nearest flammable object he could see, then yelled, "Ignis!"
Then jumped out, ran to his car and sped off, never to be seen again.
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Ryan Brady
Ryan watched as Hector seemed to produce some sort of portal out of the hologram thing and then run out of the place. He ran over to the exit he'd made and shouted after Hector, "I'm not finished with you, ya creep!!" But then the exit closed up, and Ryan grit his teeth and spat on the floor. He looked around. Everyone was basically rattled by that incident.
Glad that that fucker and his stupid fucking accent are gone.
Whew...need to calm down.
Ryan powered down, and then wiped off his brow again, wincing at the blood there though it seemed to be mostly better now. He retrieved his jacket and took a seat again. If that fucker had ruined his favorite jacket, he'd need to run a lot...
Looking at Jenna, he decided to check up on her given what happened happened because Hector hurt her. "Hey." He asked Jenna, moving closer to her, "Hey uh, Jenna...are you okay? I mean, he blasted a...part of you with electricity outta nowhere and that was all pretty crazy..."
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Investigations Class – Lucy Livingston
Lucy was by no means a quick thinker, and so the entire skirmish and subsequent disappearance revolving around one of her classmates only managed to raise a truly slack-jawed expression on her face. It was only after it was over that she thought to close her mouth—and with sudden self-awareness she quickly swung her legs back onto the floor from where they had been resting on her desk, blushing a deep red and indirectly tugged her hood back up using the ink still instilled in the fabric.
“I... don't know what just happened...” she admitted, cautiously getting up out of her seat and glancing between Ryan and Jenna for a moment. After a look at the former, she focused on the bug girl and made sure to meet solidly where her eyes would be. “Are you okay? In... general I mean? I'm sorry I didn't do anything... not a great roommate so far, huh?”
Despite her phrasing of it a small smile was offered, and evidently she was trying to distract and make light of the situation a little. Though her ink rippled across her form a moment, she didn't let it overwhelm her intentions to help calm her.
“It's... bad, but I'm kinda happy he's gone...” she frowned, something hard crossing over her features as she briefly glanced over at where the wizard had left from. “He shouldn't have been doing that... and I'm worried that... that I'll be too slow to...”
Reel back.
“Anyway,” she shook her head, smiling gently again. “Just... if you need anything, tell me, okay? Even if you don't think I'll take you seriously. I will.”
After a small amount of hesitation, she nodded slightly to the others as well. “That goes to you too, okay?”
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Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Class - Again? Again. Might Need Practice
"Wait, you can...!" And Sue was gone. "talk this down and de-escalate." Which, now that Ortrun thought of it, how was she gonna do that? None of the examples she read covered this. And wow, did this situation spin out fast. The same flash mob as before and one more.
She was prepared. Ortrun had goggles and a hard hat on and was under the desk before the riot this time. That put her in the perfect position to get smacked by a desk leg when someone went flying.
Okay! Yeah, I deserved that for hiding during a crisis... She rubbed her face, conveniently hiding... well impacts made her eyes watery. She was not tearing up. Not in front of all the future heroes and monstrously strong guys around here.
Two highly radioactive sources... Sue riled up... Concussive force weapons. In the first period. Ortrun shook her head blinking and made herself stand up and steady when she smelled freakin fire. That she could do something about. Hopefully not offending the group, she moved past them after retrieving the fire extinguisher. And slunk back, just as carefully trying not to startle them or draw their attention.
Naturally, back at her desk, well, first it was turned over. And the books were on the ground. Again. Along with the tablet. Which was in pieces as a bonus. As much as she wanted to get straight to it, Ortrun took the time to get her stuff, including the now recyclables off the ground before sitting and faceplanting into her desk. She hadn't even really made sure the trouble had dispersed, she belatedly realized, but hey, she wasn't dead. At this point, she kept her nose in her book.
Edited by CenturyEye on Feb 9th 2020 at 8:32:32 AM
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
Surrounded by weirdoes
Fangs and darkness
Kyle just could look wide eyed at all the nonsense that happened, wondering just what the hell happened.
But as always, the only thing he could do was blink and shrug to the others.
"Bloody hell" He said out loud, with a nervous chuckle "But leaving that aside, I am Kyle Cress, kind of a werewolf, nice to meet y'all" Even if he tried to remain calm, his ears were twitching like crazy.
"Hope the year goes well and that we can get along" With that, he went back to work.
That was one right mess. He could only hope he didn't alienate everyone.
Wake me up at your own risk.
Deranged X-Mas Figure
Classroom — Sue
Well. That happened.
Of course, Sue wasn't sure what happened, other than something had. But whatever. Normally she would've gone after the bastard, but with the sheer nonsensical nature of what had taken place, she just couldn't bring herself to care.
More importantly, she needed to check up on the others. Ryan already had Jenna covered, and she figured she wasn't in the mood to talk to the other person that tried to kill her even if it was a big misunderstanding. So instead she hopped over to Ortie. She'd been busy whupping Hector's ass or at least attempting to, but she still noticed Ortie huddling under the desk for cover, even if she'd been too incensed to care.
"Hey, Ortie! You okay?"
Edited by kkhohoho on Feb 9th 2020 at 9:47:24 AM
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Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Investigation Class - Question
Really? Now? Ortrun partly turned her head in Sue's general direction. At great cost. The cool desk helped with the ache from that 'bump'. Sure, the bump was gone but her nerves act like they didn't freakin know that and... sigh.
"Its already done," She helped start the fight. There was collateral damage. Someone got hurt. At least it was just my head. "Don't worry about it now."
Ortrun turned back, less to face the desk than to find another cool spot. There were other solutions but it'd be expensive to rely on ibuprofen if this kind of thing happened often. And looking at her tablet wouldn't fix the thing. She could fix the thing, but it hadn't occurred to her to bring tools to class. ugh. stupid. stupid...
At least she'd read the chapter already. Ortrun could take five and answer questions without getting up, if only because she'd already said that she would do that. Right, I did say I'd help with that. Exhaling, she sat up almost in the good posture her parents taught her and shook her head. "Right let's... we were just starting weren't we? Um.. well," The teacher could turn around at any minute and Ortrun would have to say that she'd accomplished nothing! "I can sum up key points and if we have time, go over more of the details, in case you would get something different out of the reading."
Edited by CenturyEye on Feb 11th 2020 at 11:33:11 AM
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
An Ordinary Oddball
Inusuke
Inusuke was duly confused at Hector's actions, and at length he just snorted in contempt at what had transpired. When the teacher returned to restore order, he gladly followed the directions to read some passages in his textbook.
He tapped Ryan on the shoulder after a while. {YOU OKAY?} he signed.
Edited by JumpingFruit on Feb 14th 2020 at 8:07:39 AM
I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
Up on Melancholy hill.
Professor Holmes.
"Uh huh. Mhm." he nodded his head as he leaned against the corner of the room, glancing at his phone from the corner of his eye and hearing the commotion in the back suddenly turn very loud and then, very quiet. He rolled his eyes, wondering if perhaps they all died. Then the voices started up again and knew he wouldn't be that lucky.
"Understood. Since you don't exactly have, you know, a gods damned PA System in your hyper magical school, I'll be sure to tell them now. I'm sure the teachers will all follow suit." He snapped his phone shut and stuffed it into his blazer jacket, turning back to the class.
"Right then, apologies about that, you lot. Needed to take care of something very personal that actually does correlate to you lot."
He grabbed his pipe and gently stuffed more into it, before lighting it again.
"There's a curfew in effect. Students in their dorms by 7:30 PM before dark. No exceptions, no arguments. If you have a problem with it, see Headmaster Pendragon, I'm sure he'll set you straight."
He puffed his pipe a bit before walking back to his desk.
"Right then. I should have explained this to begin with. What I am about to do is take you lot into a HARD LIGHT HOLOGRAM SIMULATION of a Murder Mystery." he said, as he looked to Sue, pointedly. "You are in no real danger. The room around you is going to change but it's just a bunch of LIGHTS. There is nothing terrifying or scary about the situation as a whole."
He pointed.
"Each one of you are going to be assigned a role in this Simulation. One of you committed the murder. It's up to YOU to figure out who did it. Think of it like Clue but not dreadfully boring."
He paused.
"Any questions, or does anyone want a shot at my desk again?"
Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun?
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Investigations Class – Lucy Livingston
A curfew? Lucy thought, face flickering to an expression of alarm before it became one more carefully neutral. Why a curfew? That wasn't... mentioned before, right? I mean it's not a bad thing, but... I wonder if something happened...?
She elected to worry about it later, as regardless of the reason behind it the faculty evidently didn't seem concerned enough to warrant telling them. Which could still mean whatever was happening was bad, but they might at least have it under some semblance of control. Nonetheless her questioning look manifested again and lingered on Holmes for a little while, before she chose to drop it and instead move onto the thing they were actually here for.
“...I like Clue...” she muttered under her breath, but it was barely audible. So this was slightly different than she thought. She wasn't sure how to feel about it, but she put faith in Holmes' ability to set something interesting up. If this was a good way to teach the class, then so be it.
I'll have to fit him into my painting, somehow...
After a moment of contemplation over any possible questions of hers. She suddenly remembered the ink she had placed over the simulation room's projectors. With a sudden snap the substance immediately drew itself back to her, impacting her clothes and absorbing back into the fabric. It seemed to flinch away from hitting anything or anyone, however. It was so quick that it could've been completely missed through blinking.
Lucy decided to make no comment after all.
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Surrounded by weirdoes
Fangs and Darkness
Kyle simply nodded at the instructions. A murder mystery seemed something he could at least kind of help with. At least he wouldn't have to play such a game against the Great Detective. Maybe he could sniff something out.
He could get a good glance at the class in the meantime.
Bummer, we have to work instead of dressing one as a butler and call it a day He thought, with a slight smile.
Edited by Blueace on Feb 14th 2020 at 12:04:30 PM
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Steven-Classroom
Well that had ended quite quickly and without much fanfair, but then again this was a hero academy so such things were probably happening almost every day. Best to just put on a smile and pretend that he knew what was happening. Still the textbook sounded a lot more dry then trying to figure out a virtual murder mystery. Seeing Sue walk over to the scary science girl Steven drew in a breath and walked over with his best 'please don't be mean to me' smile. "Hey, are you guys planning to study together? Its not like he said we couldn't and textbooks have a bad habit of putting me to sleep."
Be better, because what is the harm in trying?