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witchesreign2011-08-27 01:27 pm
hotpinkwhirlwind) wrote in witchesreign2011-08-27 01:27 pm
(seventh act) multiple choice again that's always fun right
[There was something strange about Fisherman's Horizon.
[A week after moving into the inn, Sharpay had awoken to find a rat staring at her from her bedside table. It had run away when she'd screamed at it; Sharpay would take monsters over pests any day. It had taken every ounce of self control she had to calmly tell the concierge that this had to be a gross violation of a million health and safety codes, and he'd apologized profusely and promised that this wouldn't happen again.
[Of course it happened again. A few days later there was a pigeon in her room, poking through one of her suitcases. This time she'd screamed at the concierge.
[In the last week, the animals had only increased in number, turning up even when the inn had moved her to a different room. She couldn't take her business elsewhere because this was the only hotel in this town, and she hadn't been allowed back into her room in the Garden dorms, but she'd certainly made her displeasure known to the hotel staff. She'd even told the animals themselves, who always backed off for a few hours but turned up again later, sometimes even following her to class.
[Boi seeming to befriend some of them wasn't entirely surprising, but what was really weird was when they started trying to help: A rat turned up with her coffee, that first pigeon put together a decent attempt at an outfit, a horde of ants had brought her her whiteboard marker in class... Sharpay had carefully weighed all the diseases they had to be carrying against not having to do as much for herself, and laziness had won out; she now carried disinfectant.
[What was even stranger was when the monsters started getting in on it too. She could have sworn they looked genuinely disappointed when, assuming they were going to attack, she fought them. Wondering if that little girl she'd talked to in the training center once had had a point, she'd tried telling them to back off, and they had skulked sadly back to the training center.
[Maybe these animals and monsters could understand her.]
SCENE 1: JUST PAST THE DOORS TO THE TRAINING CENTER
[Yes, that is a T-Rexaur just inside the training center. Yes, it's hanging its head. Yes, that is Sharpay, standing before it with her hands on her hips.]
Don't give me that! You can't even fit through the door.
[If you listen carefully to the T-Rexaur's growl, you might be able to make out a questioning tone.]
No, I'm not going to help you bust out of here!
SCENE 2: MWF DRAMA CLASS
[You know how the course catalogue says there's a play at the end of the quarter? It's crunch time; the play's coming up soon and Sharpay likes to put more of the grade on the play than on the exam!First tag to this scene gets to pick the show. We're doing Cats!
[And it doesn't even matter that folks in the class have disappeared, because Sharpay is shoving some of the stage hands into missing onstage roles. So who's moving props and scenery now?
[Rats, pigeons, hordes of insects working together, a stray dog, and a single Grat. Yeah, have fun with that, class. Sharpay, for her part, started out pretty weirded out when the critters started following her to class, but has now gotten more or less used to it, though she does use disinfectant every time one of them passes her something.]
SCENE 3: HORIZON BRIDGE, SUNSET
[Sharpay's menagerie of pests and strays stand at a distance as she sits to one side of the bridge with Boi in her lap, watching the sunset with an unusually pensive look on her face. It reminds her of the sunset at home: The recent weirdness around Garden has her suddenly homesick.]
[A week after moving into the inn, Sharpay had awoken to find a rat staring at her from her bedside table. It had run away when she'd screamed at it; Sharpay would take monsters over pests any day. It had taken every ounce of self control she had to calmly tell the concierge that this had to be a gross violation of a million health and safety codes, and he'd apologized profusely and promised that this wouldn't happen again.
[Of course it happened again. A few days later there was a pigeon in her room, poking through one of her suitcases. This time she'd screamed at the concierge.
[In the last week, the animals had only increased in number, turning up even when the inn had moved her to a different room. She couldn't take her business elsewhere because this was the only hotel in this town, and she hadn't been allowed back into her room in the Garden dorms, but she'd certainly made her displeasure known to the hotel staff. She'd even told the animals themselves, who always backed off for a few hours but turned up again later, sometimes even following her to class.
[Boi seeming to befriend some of them wasn't entirely surprising, but what was really weird was when they started trying to help: A rat turned up with her coffee, that first pigeon put together a decent attempt at an outfit, a horde of ants had brought her her whiteboard marker in class... Sharpay had carefully weighed all the diseases they had to be carrying against not having to do as much for herself, and laziness had won out; she now carried disinfectant.
[What was even stranger was when the monsters started getting in on it too. She could have sworn they looked genuinely disappointed when, assuming they were going to attack, she fought them. Wondering if that little girl she'd talked to in the training center once had had a point, she'd tried telling them to back off, and they had skulked sadly back to the training center.
[Maybe these animals and monsters could understand her.]
SCENE 1: JUST PAST THE DOORS TO THE TRAINING CENTER
[Yes, that is a T-Rexaur just inside the training center. Yes, it's hanging its head. Yes, that is Sharpay, standing before it with her hands on her hips.]
Don't give me that! You can't even fit through the door.
[If you listen carefully to the T-Rexaur's growl, you might be able to make out a questioning tone.]
No, I'm not going to help you bust out of here!
SCENE 2: MWF DRAMA CLASS
[You know how the course catalogue says there's a play at the end of the quarter? It's crunch time; the play's coming up soon and Sharpay likes to put more of the grade on the play than on the exam!
[And it doesn't even matter that folks in the class have disappeared, because Sharpay is shoving some of the stage hands into missing onstage roles. So who's moving props and scenery now?
[Rats, pigeons, hordes of insects working together, a stray dog, and a single Grat. Yeah, have fun with that, class. Sharpay, for her part, started out pretty weirded out when the critters started following her to class, but has now gotten more or less used to it, though she does use disinfectant every time one of them passes her something.]
SCENE 3: HORIZON BRIDGE, SUNSET
[Sharpay's menagerie of pests and strays stand at a distance as she sits to one side of the bridge with Boi in her lap, watching the sunset with an unusually pensive look on her face. It reminds her of the sunset at home: The recent weirdness around Garden has her suddenly homesick.]
Scene 1
Except... wait. Is she... talking to the T-Rexaur? God, now he knows how everyone else feels when he talks to kittens and cats and everything feline. To the average Joe, it just looks weird.]
... Hey. Having a heart to heart with the dinosaur?
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No, no, he's fine; he's my friend! [About to move to attack, the T-Rexaur settles again. Sharpay turns to Tom with a slightly embarrassed smile.]
Not exactly a heart to heart, more like a lecture.
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Apparently there's a musical about them? Which is why Danny is standing in the middle of the stage, dressed up in a full body cat costume with whiskers painted on his face while reciting his lines (rather poorly, might I add).]
He's broken every human law, he breaks the laws of grav...it...
Uhhhhh...
[Danny trails off because he's suddenly spotted a mass of animals and insects collaborating on perfecting the stage set standing just behind him.
This. This is definitely one of the weirder things he's seen recently.]
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Ahhh. And I'm guessing he doesn't like the smell of werecat?
[He's not going to mention how he hasn't been able to transform lately, nope. It's awkward enough that he had the ability in the first place.]
EXCELLENT CHOICE
[Sharpay, out in the audience, follows Danny's gaze, but doesn't mention her weird brand of stage crew at all. What she doesn't see is one of the rats lifting a paw in greeting to Danny.]
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Nothing personal, she says, it's more like she hasn't seen you around me before. She wants to protect me-- [Sharpay directs this next part to the T-Rexaur.] I'm a trained SeeD! I teach drama! I will be fine!
I googled 'flamboyant musicals'
Uhhhh...
[When the rat lifts a paw up, Danny finds himself bewildered and slowly lifts one of his own arms up to wave back at it slowly, slightly. Only after that does he turn around to face Sharpay off-stage.]
There's--a lot of animals backstage! Um...are we allowed to have animals backstage? Or--or at all?
best search terms ever
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Sorry, are you having problems? I don't think T-Rexaurs are used to reasoning.
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DOWN! [Sharpay had never thought she'd be talking to monsters the way she trained her dog. The T-Rexaur does calm down, though, keeping an eye on Aya.
[Sharpay turns to Aya with a sigh.] I'm not used to reasoning with T-Rexaurs.
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Drawing closer, he goes inside the training center to stand next to her. He says nothing for now, just... watching the curious scene unfold in front of him.]
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[Sharpay rolls her eyes and turns to Cid.] Sorry about that.
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You know how to speak to these... monsters now?
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[She's moments away from reaching for her gun, her hand is hovering over the holster on her hip.]
It's not going to go rampaging, is it?
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[RRRRRRRRRRR.]
She's not. She just wanted to protect me. [Sharpay gives the mother of all eyerolls. Look, she might be 5'3", but she doesn't need protection by a giant dinosaur.]
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I also found "BASH'd" that way. It's a gay rap opera. I almost chose it for this thread instead.
...really?
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Still, Shar's translation is kind of hilarious. Tom can't help laughing, even for just a little bit.] Wellll... look on the bright side. You've got excellent protection against big, nasty paperwork.
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Do give it my apologies for what I'm about to do next, would you?
[And suddenly, the creature lifts into the air, shifts back several feet, and is then deposited safely back on the ground.]
Telekinesis. A fair exchange, if I may say so myself.
HAHA yeah that'd be hilarious but Sharpay doesn't like rap
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... Yeah, that does seem useful. [Indeed, Sharpay is a little envious.]
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[He glances at Sharpay.]
Useful as it may be, I do not intend to use it overmuch.
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So um... seems like you're not the only one with awesome new powers. [Only Tom would call this "awesome."] I hear it's been happening all around campus.
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Did you get anything? [Come on, Tom, distract her from the NON-AWESOMENESS of this.]
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For your sake, I hope the new abilities aren't permanent then.