closed-ish log

[drama8om8]

Who: Octavia and anyone who expressed an interest in getting attacked by a giant purple scorpion/would still like to do so!
What: GIANT PURPLE SCORPION ATTACK, EEK.
Where: Multiple places! Octavia will be wandering around the city with the scorpion stalking her, so feel free to specify pretty much any public area.
When: Anywhere between 4PM - Midnight (though midnight itself is reserved for Alan Hunter, so he can kill the sodding thing).



Octavia's day started normally enough. Lounging around the house in her pyjamas? Check. Dicking around on the internet? Check. Obsessive preening and primping in the mirror in the eternal quest to perfect her superstar pout?

Not-so-check. Imagine, if you will, the horror of an image-obsessed teenager ferreting around in her makeup bag for an hour only to find that she's all out of glittery blue eyeliner.

Stop that. It's okay. Honestly, it'll be okay. Stop screaming, please.

Thus she found herself deciding to actually bother to leave the house and go to the mall. Unfortunately for us all, Pokemon games don't exist in this RP. As a result, on her way to the bus stop, Octavia completely neglected to avoid suspicious shaking patches of long grass.



A wild SCORPION appeared!

OCTAVIA used FLAIL AROUND SCREAMING.
But nothing happened...
Wild SCORPION used STING!
It's super-effective!

OCTAVIA fled the battle...

You'd think that anyone's first instinct would be to run and get medical assistance after being stung by an incredibly aggressive dog-sized purple scorpion. Ordinarily, Octavia would agree. But for entirely unfathomable reasons that cannot possibly be related to freaky alien scorpion venom, all she wants to do is laugh. And find people to laugh with. God she loves people. People are awesome. Gonna go find lots of people.


((God I'm so sorry. Prose and actionspam are both okay. The original plot link thingy is here if you need a refresher. OH AND please specify an approximate time for your scorpion encounter if you tag so I know what's what! 8V))

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Midnight~

[wirsinddiejager]

[Alan's always been something of a night owl, so there's nothing odd about him being up and about at midnight. Of course, because he is a total loser, 'up and about' means he's sitting in his room drawing superheroes. Totally cool superheroes with no spandex, thank you very much, Octavia.

Conveniently for everyone involved, his window happens to be open, which means he faintly hears the sound of approaching hysterical laughter and dashes to open the door before Octavia can ring the doorbell or do something else stupid that would wake up Alan's mom.]

What are you doing at my house?

[drama8om8]

I'mAHAHAHAHAHA!!

[ To be fair, she's trying to muffle that laughter. She doesn't want to wake Alan's mom. Or half the street. Or everyone in the entire city.

She takes a few gulps of air and tries to talk again. ]

You hahaHAHAHAve to let me ihihihi. In! There's a. A hahaha.

[ Deep breaths. ]

I have a bug problemAHAHAHAAHAAAOHMYGODHAHAHA!

[ See, Alan, her problem is totally legit. Why wouldn't you let the hysterical loud crazy girl into your house in the middle of the night?? ]

[wirsinddiejager]

What?

[This is really weird. Really, really weird. And no, he is not making any kind of motion to let her in.]

Slow down a little, okay? Why the hell are you laughing like that? Why are you at my house in the middle of the night?

['Bug problem' does not sound like the kind of thing that makes you run over to a sort-of-friend's house while laughing hysterically. But who even knows with this chick.]

[drama8om8]

It's been folloHOHOHOHOwing me all night okaAHAHAHAy, it knows wh-whehehehe. It knows where I live so if I hide at your place it mihihahahaaha! It might fuck off. It stung me an--

[ Oh fuck was that a rustling noise.

Octavia breaks off and goes quiet for a moment, looking around fearfully. The laughter dwindles to teeny-tiny babby giggles. It's helping. ]

Did you hehehear that?

[wirsinddiejager]

[Oh shit, are the alien monsters after her? And something stung her? This could be bad. What if the thing chasing her comes into his house? What if his mom wakes up and sees it?

He's still considering the potential dangers of the situation when she goes quiet. He tenses, stepping outside a little to look around.]

I didn't hear anything. Kinda hard with you laughing like that.

10PMish near a bus stop

[betterlogoutand]

Ryou's shift had just ended. Normally, this was the most boring part of the night, the part where he stood in an empty bus stop for several long minutes waiting to go home and sleep. He had an extra bag of stuff on him today (cat treats, nothing suspicious at all really), but besides that it was basically the same as any other night.

Until he started hearing insane laughter coming towards him. What. He poked his head out of the shelter, trying to spot the source of the oh god it's that coin girl.

He ducked back in, trying to play it cool. He thought she was kind of weird before, now he could tell she was totally nuts. But as long as she didn't find out he was that guy from the network he could avoid any annoying conversations. Maybe she wasn't going to get on the bus? Hopefully she wouldn't try to get on the bus.

[drama8om8]

Person: spotted. Sorry, Ryou, but that pesky venom is going to mean that Octavia makes a beeline straight for you. Prepare yourself.

She's been laughing for hours by this point, so she's pretty tired out. She wanders over to the bus stop, leans on it thankfully, and just kind of. Stares at him. While laughing.

She's trying to stop cackling long enough to say something, but it probably just looks like she's being an insane creeper who will attack him at any moment. Oops.

[betterlogoutand]

... This was actually way worse than what he was expecting.

Jesus Christ, what was wrong with this girl?

After maybe two minutes of trying to ignore this, he realized trying to pretend she wasn't there was actually way more awkward than acknowledging her existence. Because it was really, really hard to ignore. He stared back as she continued cackling like a lunatic.

"...Um, are you okay?"

[drama8om8]

Octavia managed a shake of the head - a really jittery giggly one - and opened her mouth to speak.

"NahAHHAHAHhAHhnfjgnkahahohgodhmhmhhahAHAHAHArfgle."

Beautiful. After a few more seconds of helpless laughter, she pulled her phone from her pocket and tapped a few buttons before showing the display - an unsent text message - to her unfortunate gigglevictim.

no i gottop;laugh it hurtgs liek fuk lol 8C is its tillfollowign me?

Typing coherently is hard when you're wracked by the chuckles, okay.

[betterlogoutand]

His expression was a mix of disbelief, confusion and horror. This was actually a thing that was happening. At least there was no way it could get any worse, right??

He squinted at the poorly-typed text. It took him a minute to decipher it. "...What the hell, what's your problem? If it hurts then just stop laughing, idiot." Because that is totally good advice that will help, yep.

He scowled at her, folding his arms. Most important than that part...

"What do you mean, 'is it still following me'?"

around 11PM like two blocks from Brooke's workplace

[somesayinfire]

She'd only been at work a couple hours, but already Brooke's legs were kind of cramping up. Nothing weird had come through her neck of the woods yet, which was definitely a good sign, and she hadn't been compelled to go on the network yet, either. Still, hadn't she'd made a promise to keep an eye out for any strange behavior?

That's why she had her phone out, camera ready to record at a single touch, on her self-imposed break from staying inside and working with the same old humdrum bodies. Hopefully she wouldn't be out here very long—people didn't tend to hang around funeral homes at night, but even with her experience, Brooke still felt kind of creeped out.

In fact, she could swear she heard somebody laughing at her.

[drama8om8]

The somebody in question wasn't just laughing. It would be more accurate to call it 'ridiculous wheezy tired-as-all-fuck cacklescreaming while running as fast as the twiggiest legs in all creation can carry her.'

(That's a technical term. Look it up.)

The venom is still doing its work, and so Octavia feels compelled to screech to a halt as she hurtles past the lone figure. People are still fucking great. So great. And they should probably be warned about huge gross bugs. That's always a thing.

"HAhahahschasingmAHAHAHAHAHAGHow."

Best warning ever. A++ would warn again.

[somesayinfire]

Wait, doesn't she recognize... Tavia? Great. Tavia's out here more or less alone in the middle of the night, laughing her head off, saying something about being chased, and Brooke doesn't have any idea what to do in this situation. She lowers her phone, but keeps it in her hand.

Hold on. Being chased? "Calm down for a second, Tavia," she says, way more keeping-it-together-ly than she feels. She takes a look and doesn't immediately see any danger, but the teenager has most of her attention right now anyway. Brooke's pretty sure there's a dentist's office around here. "Did you get into the nitrous?" she asks as non-judgmentally as possible.

[drama8om8]

Between hoarse giggly gasps, Tavia manages to raise both middle fingers. The double deuce, just for Brooke. You're welcome. 'Calm down' her perfect superstar ass.

Talking is kind of a no-go - come on, she gets flustered and babbly when she's stressed even without the laughs - so Tavia resorts to acting out the day's events. She mimes putting on lipstick, looking distressed, walking on the spot and then looking shocked. Raising her hands, she puts them together and wriggles her fingers in an attempt to imitate a giant purple scorpion.

Yeah.

Finally, she raises her arm in an arc and brings it down to her leg, motioning to a little hole in her jeans showing where she got stung. There! Who could ever fail to interpret such a masterful display? Only idiots, is who.

Naturally, she's in hysterics throughout. Especially when miming the sting.

[somesayinfire]

Casually ignoring the double deuce (for all she knows, that's just how Tavia says hello), Brooke mutters under her breath something about sucking at charades.

She puzzles over the motions and quickly tries coming up with an answer. If she's still being chased, if she was ever being chased in the first place, they don't exactly have a lot of time to lose. Unfortunately, her first guess isn't one she wants to think about.

"You'd better not be telling me you got stung by a scorpion."

Because that would be way too close to that memory that she could never actually explain. Also, it would mean there's a scorpion on the loose.

CRASHES IN AT 4:30 IN A PARK

[gogoghostpowers]

Danny ran out of his house to the local park about two blocks away. As soon as he found a bench by the very edge of the park, he plopped down and sighed, exhausted and just a little nauseous. He had just finished his weekly shift as rollercoaster testee for his mom, and she must have really cooked up something awful, because he'd never felt quite as sick after a test ride as he did now.

He just needed a few minutes to settle down his stomach and his frazzled nerves.

[drama8om8]

Settling down? Hahahaha wow good luck with that.

Danny may be aware of a high-pitched noise coming from somewhere as he sits down. That noise is going to get louder and closer until --

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!"

-- Octavia comes running as fast as she possibly can towards the park. She hops the little iron fence that is totally running around the edges of it, dives towards some bushes and hides behind them.

She's in constant hysterics throughout. As she spots Danny, the laughing only intensifies.

"AAHAHAHAHhiHAHAHAHAAHGHDFGHF."

[gogoghostpowers]

He ignores the noise at first, thinking it's just caused by all the blood in his body leaving his head and starting to circulate through the rest of him again, but it just keeps getting louder for some reason, why is it--

Holy shit mackerel (this is a TVY7 rated character, let's keep it clean), what is that girl doing?

He yelps as she leaps over the fence and dives into a nearby bush, and then freezes like a deer in the headlights when she spots him. That laughter is creeping him out, especially because it sounds like it's directed at him.

[drama8om8]

Tavia is fully aware of how ubercreepy she must seem, so she resolves to keep it together and try to explain herself. Straightening up from her crouching position behind the bushes, she points frantically at a finger-sized rip in her pants leg.

"GotstuNAHAHAHAHAHAA! STung byEHEHEHEE!"

Wow, talking is not a thing that is happening. She settles for gesturing wildly at her pants, cackling insanely.

Which.

Isn't a thing that could be misinterpreted considering who she's talking to or anything.

[gogoghostpowers]

Danny is not so much misinterpreting as he is not interpreting at all.

"Wh--what?!" He cautiously stands up from the bench. "What are you--?"

Seriously, what is any of that supposed to mean? He's still freaked out by her sudden entrance, and now this too? Danny comes to the only possible conclusion: one of his classmates is Grade A certifiably crazy, and is trying to spread it to him.

FFT dat battle description | Any time idk 8PM?

[depolarized]

[Don't mind this guy, he appears to be busy with his phone app, an SLR slung around his neck and his bike parked against the curb so he can focus on whatever it is that's on his phone.]

Uhhhh I'm assuming they're near a park or something like you suggested initially? 8Ia

[drama8om8]

[ Jesus dick, what a day.

By this point Tavia has been cackling and stalked by the scorpion for four hours. Her throat is sore, her legs are weak, and she can't stop laughing. Despite the venom causing her to want to be around people, when she sees Phoneguy McInsular she doesn't do more than gigglesnort at him unattractively as she staggers past. She'd warn him about the whole giant bug thing if she had even the slightest inkling he was in the numbers club, but...

...(Un)fortunately, a warning isn't actually necessary. Before Tavia has got more than a couple of steps past the Guy She Doesn't Know, the giant scorpion scuttles out of some nearby bushes with its pincers raised. ]

AAAAAAGHAHAHAHA!

[ That was a screamlaugh. Those are a thing now. ]

Anywhere is fine by me! c: Since she's wandering, Riku can be on any street curb xD

[depolarized]

[Well the giggling hadn't registered but that godawful keen right next to him sure did. Riku looks up from the phone and nearly jumps off the bike.] What the fuck?!

[What is this shit? For a few moments, all he can do is stare at it, stunned beyond comprehension.]

[drama8om8]

[ With the kind of speed and agility you'd expect from only the most terrified of idiots, Tavia hops over a nearby fence in order to get some distance between her and the scorpion. Scorpions can't climb, right? They probably can't. She is safe as fuck. ]

WahHAHAHAAtch out! It'll stihihiHIHAHAHAhing you!

[ There. She's helping! And not beind selfish or cowardly in the slightest. ]

[depolarized]

[The scream seems to jolt Riku a bit at least, making him back away when the Scorpion comes closer.] What the hell is it?

[Phone utterly forgotten now he backs up against the fence and belatedly realizes he's a moron because now he's led the scorpion to the girl and cut off his best escape route, the motorcycle.]