town meeting, alien breaking hoa rules

[amberhearted]

Who: OPEN
When: January 25th, Saturday, 5:00PM and onward
Where: Elian Price’s house – specifically, the basement
What: The Numbers discuss how to go about addressing the alien in the farmhouse. Nothing could go wrong, certainly?

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[metalbent]

Blah blah blah argue argue argue. Sophie huffs, her arms crossed as she leans on the wall out of the way, her bare foot still tapping out a rhythm on the stone floor of the basement. It looks idle, but it's not actually - while she can feel anything that moves, it's just useful to keep mapping the things and people that aren't quite, and it's a tic she's picked up that Toph never quite had.

She goes still as stone all in an instant, stopping the incessant foot-tapping and straightening up, arms uncrossing. "Hey..." That's said quietly, not enough to really get the attention of anyone who didn't note her sudden reaction.

A frown, as she shifts stances, head tilted just slightly as she works out what she's "seeing". She's felt these before, and when she'd offered to count up the statues earlier, it hadn't been an idle offer. "Hey! Guys! Incoming!" And that's louder, with a certain hard edge to her voice.

Sophie turns towards the wall, backing up more towards the group. "Better figure out what you want to do about statues now, we've got - five, we've got five coming here right now."

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Lily looks around them, quite a bit startled at this revelation. She instinctively grips the medallion hanging around her neck, and gulps.

Okay, maybe this wasn't such a safe idea after all.

"I'm sorry, what?! How do they even know...?"

[metalbent]

"Dunno, why don't you ask them about it when they get here?" Helpful, Sophie. But hey, she did give an advance warning, so...she's actually being somewhat helpful here, and she's still fallen back into the stance she associates with earthbending, though she's never tried to use it against any of the statue things.

Mostly she's tried to never get near them when she's felt them coming her way. It's worked out for her so far. "But I'm not joking around: incoming."

[gogoghostpowers]

"I-I think she means statues!" Danny's leaning forward on the edge of his seat, glancing around the room anxiously to try and figure out where it is, exactly, that the threat is coming from.

[metalbent]

"Statues, yeah, what else? They're underground, coming towards us." And hey, apparently the damn things blow up or something??? At least it's an advance warning so they can move past the let us panic mightily part before the statues get here.

Maybe.

Probably?

[massivescale]

Proud had looked at Sophie puzzled. Barely troubled, but puzzled, and as she's a step ahead of the group getting into position he's on the defensive among them scanning over the group faster and more scrambling for now, wilder-eyed and more intent, he didn't do a thing, what on earth did the rest of them do - ?

[drama8om8]

"Holy fuckballs. Uh. I brought guns..." Tavia promptly empties her purse out onto the floor, revealing four guns. She does have the good grace to look embarrassed about it. "To donate to the. War effort. Thing. Go nuts if you don't have a weapon or whatever. I'm calling Alan."

She plucks her cellphone from the pile of guns and skitters off towards the edge of the room to do just that. Gotta call Shouty-Good-At-Killing-Things Boyfran.

[vanisland]

Miranda, having been silent up until now, finally says something.

"Well, the floor's probably a lost cause. I think I might have to get out of here, since if you have to save me that's just going to be one more thing you have to worry about."

[wirsinddiejager]

Since he's not much good with strategy anyway, Alan's been hanging out in a nearby cafe with Walter. Which is a good thing, since it means he can get here from there very quickly after getting Octavia's call.

If he could, he would actually burst in through the wall Koolaid Man style, but sadly he can't and has to use the door like normal people.

[waltharius]

And Walter is here as well, despite the distinct feeling that this is a horrible idea and that he should not be. But that's how these things always start, isn't it. And he couldn't let Alan run off on his own or leave Octavia and the others to fend for themselves.

At least there are guns. He scrambles for one of them, nearly dropping it right after he picks it up.

This is going to be rough.

[drama8om8]

Octavia's boys (yes, that is what you guys are, it's a terrible fate and I'm sorry) get hugs. And Alan gets a pointed nod of the head towards the gun pile.

"You grab one too. It's time for snakefight round two." She pulls her dice from her pocket. It's not the ideal time to give them a trial run, but whatever. No time to worry! The buzzing is getting loud. And there are one-liners to deliver.

"And th-HISS time, it's personal."

[wirsinddiejager]

Alan grabs a gun, glancing over at the commotion going on with Proud.

"We might be in a lot of trouble if we have to fight them in here. Not exactly an ideal location."

Plus he doesn't really know how to use a gun properly. If that would even be any good against giant stone snakes.

[metalbent]

"Hey, what's-your-face - weren't these things supposed to be for your protection?" Sophie sees you there, man. Well, she obviously can't clock the puzzled look or anything, but that he's looking around she can go off of, and if his heartrate goes up or doesn't...

"I can bend stuff. I'll try to keep the basement stable." If everyone is going to use guns or shoot things, she can at least make sure they don't get buried under rubble, um.

[hawaiianheir]

"You've got to be kidding me..." Mac is on his feet, scanning around, looking at people, looking for a weapon. Of all the times to leave his hammer at home... His synapses are firing as someone mentions having to get out of here. There are people here without powers to defend themselves.

"Alright, okay, no. We need to get people out of here first and foremost. Those of us with a way to defend people can stand up, but people who need to get out of here - now. Whoever can get people out of here need to. If you don't have a way to defend yourself - don't try and stay here."

He continues to scan the room, gritting his teeth in frustration. "Does anyone have a hammer handy?"

[metalbent]

"Oh, yeah, I keep one in my purse for emergencies!" Brightly cheerful, still from her defensive stance. Sophie doesn't even have a purse. She drops back to a normal voice after a second, though. "Uh, I'd offer to make you one out of rock, but I think you'd need, like, super-strength or something. Or would that be useful?"

[hawaiianheir]

Mac isn't sure if he'd be able to lift it - he feels like he has enough strength, but he hasn't really tested it. But now is hardly the time for testing.

"If you can do it, do it." He says through gritted teeth. "I should be able to lift it. And it's better than going in with nothing."

[metalbent]

"Gotcha." For a wonder, she's not sassing at this point - well, she would if something came to mind, but. You know what? It occurs to her metal is probably a better bet, and she can do that now. It's not easy and she's still working on it, so...just going to locate a source (sorry, what is probably some sort of metal table leg, you died for a good cause and if you survive she will totally replace you later) and hold it between her hands (...APPARENTLY SHE CAN RIP METAL LEGS OFF OF STUFF, because it folds like butter).

She's never tried to do something this specific before, but after a few seconds of work she has a metal hammer. ...Sort of. It is hammer-shaped, as made by someone who knows the shape of a hammer but who has never seen one themselves. She then tosses it at him BECAUSE THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. You're welcome, Mac.

[gogoghostpowers]

Danny blinks for a moment, but then stands up. He's terrified of what's going to happen here any second now, but at the very least, his powers can be useful in some capacity.

"I-I can do that! I can get people out of here safely if they need it!" He looks around the room. "Who needs out of here?"

[not_good_not_wicked]

"I DO!"

Marisa had the Mini-Hakkero in hand, but she wasn't crazy enough to actually USE it in this small of a space. "I'm worse than useless down here. If I do anything I'll probably bring the building down on our heads!"

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Dammit! Lily grips her hands into fists, frustration building.

"I can fight, but I can't fight monsters... Not yet," she mutters, frustration evident. "I... I do. I can't be of help to anyone here..."

Again.

[gogoghostpowers]

"Okay, got it!" The urgency in everyone's tones has made him a little shaky, but he keeps it down enough to offer his hands out to both of the girls. "Grab on and don't let go, okay?"

[massivescale]

"NOBODY!"

Proud hasn't been hearing anyone, or seeing anything, his tone climbs and so does the speed, the intentness, and the wild-eyed-ness of the scanning. "What did you do? Anyone?!"

He's fixing on very specific parties one by one as he guesses at them - flings a dagger with a look at Xander, pins Marisa, takes a scoot toward Sophie with a quick teeth-showing opening of his mouth as if to make a demand quickly shut up with a rapid shake of his head -

All the while, a buzzing is picking up around the basement. Very fast.

[metalbent]

Taking a scoot towards her with what intent, man? Sophie turns his way, looking wary, and...wow, that buzzing is not good at all. "Is "Anyone" another one of you guys, or do you think we actually wanted this to happen?" Snark is always a good fall-back.

[tenaciousc]

Michelle has been listening silently through most of the discussion in a building state of "holy freaking crap." She wanted to know what was going on? It's safe to say she got more than she bargained for.

She stands up just after Danny and quietly clears her throat before speaking up: "I can, too. Don't know how many people we can jam in there, but my car's outside."