Muse Academy RPG*, Part 4
*Role-playing game.
Continued from Part 3.
Date: June 9, 2008
Categories: Muse Academy, RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs
Sunday, 5 May 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
*Role-playing game.
Continued from Part 3.
Date: June 9, 2008
Categories: Muse Academy, RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs
((First post?))
Eta waved to Kokonilly and Adeia as they joined the group. She mulled over the class choices for some time – everything looked so interesting! Finally, she came up with a schedule that looked like this:
*Breakfast
*Sport: Parkour (8:00 AM)
*Random Factoids (Teacher-Bo; class-104; time- 9:30AM)
*Hieroglyphs (11:00 AM)
*Lunch (12:00 PM)
*Mythology (Teachers-Mr.Opal and sometimes Urania; class-12; time-12:30 PM)
*Middle Eastern/Arabic History (1:00)
*English: Horror in Literature (2:00)
*World Domination (Teacher-?; Class-3; time-3:00)
*Movie Making (3:30)
*Magyk (Teacher -Wizard Suliman; Class-7; time-5:00)
*Dinner
*Wednesdays – Pie Kwan Do (8:00 AM)
*Tuesdays – Flyte and Alchemy ((they are one class, right?)) (- ? – time – 10:00 ((AM or PM?)).)
“Sweet, looks like we’ll be in a lot of classes together,” Eta commented, peeping at Baylee’s schedule.
*goes to class* *eats PB&J sandwhich (late breakfast)*
drawing of humans, which has always been a weak point with me, and I hope to strengthen it, astronomy, country building, assuming its a class about developing constitutions, governmental systems and all that other loveliness, modern dance and ballet, acting theatre of absurd, short stories and novellas as an English class, fencing, and histories (art history, Middle Eastern/ Arabian history, Greek/ ancient civilization history, and recent European history) (I heart history), map making, pre-calc, math forum (just for discussing problems), piano, pie history, poetry, religious education (if it studies religions from a purely historical viewpoint, not a theological one), poetry, physics, world domination, mythology, Greek, Russian, and alchemy.
((In addition to that, I’d like to take Paker strategy! I’ll piece together my schedule tomorrow as I have to go now…))
((3 – There is no strategy to Paker. We told you: It’s Calvinball with cards.))
Copied and pasted:
Latin- Teacher- Dr. Cornelius, Class-11, time- 7:30 AM
Chemistry- Teacher-Miss Sparks, Class-118, time-8:00 AM
Random Factoids- Teacher-Bo, class-104, time- 9:30AM
Geometry- Teacher- Mr. Jacobs, class-23, time- 11:00 AM
Mythology- teachers-Mr.Opal and sometimes Urania, class-12, time-12:30 PM
PPP Countries- Teacher-Shadowkat, Class-27, time-1:00 PM
French-Teacher- Mr. DuSable, Class- 43, time-2:00 PM
World Domination- Teacher-? Class-3, time-3:00 PM
Spanish- Teacher-Senorita Catherine, Class-42, time-4:00 PM
“I see we are in a lot of classes together Kokonilly and Eta! I’m very glad,”
((1- AM, daily classes end at 6:30 pm. Unless your in HPB defenses, they show you how to locate and defend yourself against one in the dark, and what an HPB looks like in the dark. *shudders* I remember I took that class once. I would never want to be with a HPB at midnight)) Baylee gathered her stuff, and walked out of the hall, into the afternoon sunshine. She walked to the garden gates, picked up the watering can and carefully pushed the door open. The roses were bright red, the irises were a deep purple, but the geraniums were almost dying. They were in the shade of a Oriental Pear tree and didn’t get much light. Baylee grabbed a shovel and replaced it next to some Petunias near the walkway. She gave it some plant food and water. “I’ll check back on you later,” the rhododendron bushes needed trimming. She would tell the gardener soon. Ivy was climbing up the walls. And different mosses clung to stone pots with pansies. Over grown hydrangeas grew around the fountain in the middle of the garden. Sunflowers 10 feet high in the sunniest part with coneflowers and daisies.
((Kokonilly, Adiea, I think that you shouldn’t be able to have powers when you’re not in the basement. Just saying.))
My classes (in order)
Pre-Calculus (sorry, not Algebra)
Chemistry
German
Pie-throwing (It’s my weak point)
Archery
World History
Advanced Orchestra
Creative Writing
World Domination
Physics
After-School:
Cello Lessons (weekly)
Letterboxing/Geocaching club (mostly letterboxing-who’s with me???)
I’m glad to see I’m in two classes with Kokonilly. Hooray!
Hey! I want to join Letterboxing/geocaching!
((I agree. The dimensional warping is over.))
((Okay. Fine. No more mind-reading.))
((and no more super powers. Magyk is okay, but superpowers are just, well, the adventures should be exciting, so instead of figthing some evil thing and losing a leg but in the final blow you manage to chop off his head, you can just freeze him, what fun is that?))
fill me in on the storyline, please.
((11-We’re just choosing classes!))
Pre-calculus (or algebra II, I’m not sure, which I am better suited for)
Greek
Pie history
Fencing
Art history
World history
Ballet
Theatre of the absurd (Beckett…)
Short stories and novellas
World Domination and Country Building (let’s morph ’em)
Alchemy
After school:
astronomy
piano
Russian
And, if anyone is interested in doing it with me, a sort of forum thing…for discussing interesting aspects of various subjects
(( 6,7,8,9, and 10 – I have I plan that will get rid of them and wrap that arc of the story up ))
“Time for the power switch back… Let’s go to the library…” I say to Kokonilly
*5 minutes later*
Kokonilly goes into a slight trance and attempts to change back the powers, but she is unable to….
Then I am pulled into the chance as well… And the Phoenix Force is there…
They say to us, “You have both wielded the power well, but you have no use for it now, but there are people who do… We shall take it to them.â€
Kokonilly and I both understood… we relinquished (( Spelled right first time! )) all the power we had. And then we were back in the library.
Lets see…all right, I have a decent schedule this year.
Not in order-
Geometry
Chemistry
Advanced French
Classic literature
Government/Economics
Archery/Karate (alternating days)
Band
Magyk
After School-
Clarinet lessons
12- I would love to do a forum thing. It sounds really interesting.
Quick question- do we need teachers for any classes? I’d be happy to teach classic lit or band.
I am re-working my scedual to a moderatly understandabel form
astronomy- 2:00 AM ((hey, the sars need to be out!))
goes back to sleep untill …
breakfast at 7:00
country building alternating with world domination-7:45
fencing; and gymnastics alternatly-8:30
mideval history alternatly with ancient civ. history -9:15
alternating kinds of art((as I can’t deecide which I wnat))10:00
map making- 11:00
orchestra and jazz band- 11:45
Geometry (or algebra 1)-12:30
lunch- whenever
both pie classes-1-30,
reading -2:15
mythology, – 3:00
sciencees;- 3:45
random factoids- 3:30
macyk, flyte, and alchemy alternatly or all at once -4:00
archery, 4:15
latin, hyroglyphics, italian and aything else I can think of – 5:00
tea /snack/study hall/free time – untill 6:30
dinner-6:30
saving the world and misselanious off campus activities-
untill lights out at 10:00 or in dorms at 9:30 or whenever I get back
(( this time table is off. I want to scedual my classes to I ave them at the same time as other people. now that we all know what we’re taking, can’t we just show up wherever whenever something interesting happens))
((Earthgirl, classes start at 8:30-9:00. Breakfast is anytime after 6:00 and before classes. But that doesn’t really matter anyway, your right.))
So this is the List? I will pick soon…
– Art (All forms. If you wish to take a class we do not offer, we will accommodate to your request)
– Astronomy
– Clown Class
– Country Building
– Dance (All forms)
– Drama
– English (Please see English department for details)
– Fencing
– Gymnastics
– History (We have a range of classes depending on the time period you wish to study)
– HPB Defenses
– Language arts
– Map Making
– Math (All types)
– Meditation
– Military Strategy
– Movie Making
– Movie Reviewing
– Musial Theater
– Music (Band, Orchestra, Jazz, or single instrument)
– Music Composing
– Pie Making
– Pie Throwing
– Poetry
– Reading
– Religious Education
– Science (All types)
– Script Writing
– Shakespearian Drama
– Singing
– Sport (Please inquire at start of term)
– World Leader
– Writing
– Mythology
– World Domination
– Random Factoids
– Spanish
– German
– Chinese (all forms)
– French
– Hebrew
– Flemmish
– Magyk
– Flyte
– Alchemy
– Pidda
– Pie Kwan Do
so if this is all the main classes, are there any enrichment classes?
((oh, and Bookworm, did you copy “Magyk” and “Flyte” from SH?
– Astronomy
– Clown Class
– Country Building
– Dance (All forms)
– Drama
– English (Please see English department for details)
– Fencing
– Gymnastics
– History (We have a range of classes depending on the time period you wish to study)
– HPB Defenses
– Language arts
– Map Making
– Math (All types)
– Meditation
– Military Strategy
– Movie Making
– Movie Reviewing
– Musial Theater
– Music (Band, Orchestra, Jazz, or single instrument)
– Music Composing
– Pie Making
– Pie Throwing
– Poetry
– Reading
– Religious Education
– Science (All types)
– Script Writing
– Shakespearian Drama
– Singing
– Sport (Please inquire at start of term)
– World Leader
– Writing
– Mythology
– World Domination
– Random Factoids
– Spanish
– German
– Chinese (all forms)
– French
– Hebrew
– Flemmish
– Magyk
– Flyte
– Alchemy
– Pidda
– Pie Kwan Do
– Pie Club (extra)
– The Origin and Culture of HPBs
((HPBs at midnight…*cringes* I’m revising/simplifying my schedule here for future reference. Is this a day with classes or are we off since we just got back from an adventure?))
Breakfast
8:00 AM Sport: Parkour or Pie Kwan Do (Alternating)
8:30 AM Religious Education
9:30 AM Random Factoids
10:00 AM Flyte/Alchemy
11:00 AM Hieroglyphs
12:00 PM Lunch
12:30 PM Mythology
1:00 PM Czech History
1:30 PM Pie Making or Throwing (Alternating)
2:00 PM English: Gothic Novels
3:00 PM World Domination
4:00 PM Script Writing
5:00 PM Magyk
6:00 PM Movie Making or Reviewing (Alternating)
6:30 PM Dinner
After-School Studies:
Intermediate French
HPB Defenses
Meditation
((Holy Bo that’s a full schedule! Am I in too many classes? I’ll probably only actually be RPing about the ones that other people are in, though.))
One more time- do we need a teacher for Classic Literature? I could teach a few classes…
Revised Schedule (With times)
Breakfast- 7:00
Advanced French-8:30 AM
Geometry-9:35 AM
Government/Economics- 10:30 AM
Archery/Karate- 11:30 AM
Lunch- 1:00 PM
Chemistry-2:15 PM
Classic Literature- 3:20 PM
Forum Thing-4:40 PM
Dinner-6:00 PM
Magyk-7:30 PM
Clarinet Lessons- 8:35 PM
Can I teach something? Or at least help teach something?
((19- I actually made the list, and yes, I did.))
Of course you can teach something.
Yippee! Hm… what do I know best… I’ll teach Swimming. Or Random Factoids!
I can teach algebra or geometry. Don’t ask me to teach algebra II.
*select action*
*craft* => materials= Wood, explosive flower, minimal metal, cherry pie
*select combine*
w00t i just made an rpp (rocket propelled pie)
+===== ———————–\___/ <=Pie!
{} <=Handle!
Tell me if u want 2 take a pie warfare class!
thats just one of the many things i do!
Take it 2 the battlefield!
Pummel someone in the face w/ a pie!
Become a war hero!
I can teach Algebra II!
I can teach English. Or Literature. Or Mythology. Or…
27 – Are pie throwing and pie warfare the same class?
I can teach something if you need me to.
Whoa! Slow down there, everyone. There’s a reason we had to close the Chocolate v. Vanilla pie wars. It was too violent and realistic. This pie warfare class is shaping up to be that way as well. Even pastry violence isn’t acceptable.
Is there a speech/debate/forensics class? And Latin? And Ble? Does MA have an organ? Sorry for all the questions/the double post.
Are you making teacher characters, or are the classes student-taught?
List of classes: (I am being called to dinner and have no time to make a schedule with times)
Fencing
History of England/Wales/Scotland
Mapmaking
Algebra II
Musical Theatre
Pie making
Biology
Chemistry
Computer stuff (unspecificness <3)
Mythology
Random Factoids
Traditional Mandarin Chinese
Spanish
Magyk
Flyte/Alchemy
Origin and Culture of HPBs
That is a ridiculous amount of classes. (by the way, ridiculous is my word of the week.)
Hey! I could teach Latin!
I could teach a class or two. (Algerbra?!!)
34- Everyone can make 1 teacher and 2 students (was that it, or did you change it?)
I’ll teach Magyk, Flyte and Alchemy if you don’t mind (just one teacher) or just Magyk and Flyte. Or is Flyte/Alchemy one class?
37 – Could Adeia also be a teacher?
I’ll teach HPB defenses. I’m good at that, and I know how to operate a Blaster.
I don’t want to make a whole new character bcuz I am lazy. eria can be my student and earthgirl can be my teachercharater. she is open to teaching:
archery
fencing
enviromentalisim
hiroblyphics of many cultures
Hey! Archery and Fencing! could I be your assistant? I’m actually a fencer and an archer so…maybe I could help on occasion? No, I’m not going to beg for Environmentalism, it’s to much to ask.
Schedule:
Hmmm… I’ll have to get back to you on that, my schedule interfears with that
(( It is a cheesey joke , I know))
(( Sorry I haven’t been on, I’ve been cleaning my room. Back to Cleaning now…. ))
My teacher will be called Nilly. She teaches either Random Factoids, Algebra II, or Latin.
My student is Kokonilly. She takes
Latin, Chemistry, Random Factoids, Geometry, Mythology, French, World Domination, Spanish, History of the Universe, Computer Class, Fencing, Archery, Hieroglyphics, Magyk, Flyte, Alchemy… and some other stuff.
The official first meeting of the letterboxing club will be tomorrow. I have to clean my room and bathroom today.
44 – Okay! I’ll go!
My teacher is Wizard McLenn ((hehe)) she teaches Magyk, Flyte, and Alchemy.
My student is Baylee please see post 400 in part 3, and I’m also taking Archery, Fencing, Science, and Pidda.
((oh. and sorry for the double post, but instead of two students can I have be two teachers? Because I really want to teach Music, and just so you know, band, orchestra, ect. are all different classes from music, music composing, singing, and lyricism, are all part of the music class.))
((46 – Wizard McLenn? *why do you keep making me say things dripping with sarcasm?*
And I concur with post 47.))
((48- I woulda done Lennison, but I didn’t think that’d work
*sigh* I’m bored with school. We need another adventure, like we used to have. I miss the Sizan and the dinosaurs and the interdimensional portals. I guess I’ll just take a walk and decide which classes to take.
((50- I have never HAD an acctual school day! I came in wn=hen everyone was getting back from that last adventure! all i’ve had is running from a knucker, finding my dorm, breackfast and scedualing!! ONE school day PLEASE at LEAST!!! I WILL BEG))
((49 – ))
((50 – ARE YOU KIDDING? I need some time to relax…))
I pie Kokonilly when he’s off guard!
((PLEASE, no random pieing. Please. This is a SCHOOL, for heaven’s sake. Anyway, it’s not gym class. Wait — HE? HE?!?!?! ))
*i catch the shrapnel from muselover’s pie* what just happened? *turn to /Baylee* “why did that kid just throw a pie at kokonilly ((i have read most of this thread, so I know, but eria doelsnt, being a neophyte and all))
I cathc shrapnell from pie and wonder whart this is all about, looks away and tries to protect my BOOKS
“Mmph,” I mumbled. “No random pieing. This is a SCHOOL!” I wiped some goo out of my eyes. “I’ve had enough excitement for the day. Please, PLEASE, let me just relax and hang out.”
Kokonilly, you’re a girl? Anyway, this is an RPG, right? I get to do whatever I want. Also I have a pieproof uniform which won’t let anyone relaliate! Ha ha!
OOPS I mean retaliate.
(oops :embarassed:))
(oops :embarrassed :))
(oops :embarrassed: ))
((Posts 60-62 – WHAT??? ))
((58 – Yes, but please use common sense. For the sake of every (questionably) sane person in the vicinity.))
((it didnt show up and I got mpatiend and I hit the submit button too many times and I dont know how to make a smiley that blushes :scowl: )) ((or one the scowlls probably))
((64 – A blushing smiley is : oops : See? ))
((thank you! ))
((66 – No problem.))
((so what do we do now that we have our sceduals?))
eria: I finish my breakfast and wonder where to go now. I have my scedual, but I dont know where any of the classes are, or what to do in them.
______
earthgirl or proffessor earth (they are the same person, although entirly different from eria and the TRPV)
i walk into the cafeteria seeing a chaos of sceduals books and students. with a glance a can see which the most confused table is. I make a beeline towards the table with kokonilly, Baleyy and a few newer students, all lightly splattered with pie. “muselover, what have I told you about random pie flinging. Save it for piewar class!”
Eta flinched instinctively at the unmistakable sound of a pie whooshing towards someone’s face. Fortunately, it wasn’t hers. I guess pies would be normal here…this is Muse Academy, after all she mused, thinking of Kokopelli. “Which house are you from?” she asked Muselover ((do you have a different RPG name?)), trying not to look mischievous.
((I don’t have a particular class in mind, but if there’s anything that still needs a teacher I can do it.))
I go off to a first period Mythology class, then realize that, despite all the running around in the basement, I still don’t know my way around MA at all. “Excuse me….do you know where Mythology is? Just got here yesterday….”
“Yeah, down this hall, take the second door on your right, then up the stairs two flights, then across the hall, the sixth door on your left, up those stairs, down the next ones, then it’s three doors down that hall.”
“….”
“Just kidding. That door, right there across the hall.”
“Thanks.” *hurries off*
((Do we have homework?))
After I cleaned the pie goop off of my face, I started down the hallway. “Excuse me, do you know where Latin is?” “Excuse me…” “Pardon me, but…”
At last, I found my classroom (which turned out to be the room right next door to where I was standing), walked in, and sat down.
alright…I’m plunging in.
My Teacher character will…oh just have to be myself.
My student character will be a mirror image of the…wait a…oh never mind.
((Brain Points? Where do you get those?))
((I hope we don’t have homework…I didn’t do it!))
((Maybe I will make it Lennison, I do like George better than Paul. A lot more, okay, I’ll make my other teacher Lennison))
Wizard McLenn ((whatever)) quickly walked across the hall and into her classroom. “Hello everyone! I guess todays the first day, so um….” she trailed off and looked at her book, “We’ll be talking about the basic incantations,” ((I have to go now ))
NILLY:
“Welcome, class. We have a new student here. Class, welcome Kokonilly.
Now, onto the conjugation in the genitive case…”
KOKONILLY:
This is nice, I thought. The genitive case is exactly what I didn’t understand in my online course. This is going to be a fun year.
69- What are the different houses? Also, I guess if I want random pie flinging, I should go to WOrld of Piecraft.
((Sorry about my absence, it was such a nice day yesterday!))
The school day will be not unlike my old school days, as I’m only taking three classes that I wouldn’t see at my old school. Pre-Calculus is not very interesting. I can barely stay awake and I already know most of the other material. During class, I rummage around inside of the desk cubby to see what I could find there. I find an eraser, three pencils, and a love note. The pencils will be useful, but I don’t need any of the other stuff. I replace the eraser and love note and try to take notes in my homemade cat-shaped notebook.
((The desks at MA officially have cubbies. There’s a flat space on top of the desk to write on, connected to a chair. Underneath the flat space is a storage area about four inches high and as big the flat area. People tend to forget they put they’re stuff there and leave it behind. Of course, desks are not used in science or drama or archery or etc., so those classes wouldn’t have cubbies.))
“Hello? Anyone else here?” The Mythology classroom seemed to be empty. No teacher, either. “Wrong time?”
((If someone wants this to become mysterious and our new adventure, feel free. I am being booted off the computer.))
((I see magic and mythology are going on at once, yikes! I did have mythology down as my after-lunch class, though, so I guess I’ll go with that one for now.))
Eta hurriedly packed up her messenger bag and consulted her schedule. Mythology, she read. How exciting! Wait, 12:30? GAH, I’m late!!! As usual, Eta was already five minutes behind. It took her eight more minutes to track down a campus map, locate the correct room on the map, and run there. Pausing to catch her breath, she tentatively opened the door a crack and creeped into the classroom. She breathed a sigh of relief, however, when she saw that she and Turquoise were the only ones there ((did you have a different RP name? As in real life, I’m terrible at keeping up with names here)). “Whew! I thought I was late. Are we the only ones in mythology?”
((76 – Sorry, I missed your post at first! The four houses for Muse Academy are Baker, Spector, Coontz, and Lasley. If you go, you should find the house placement quiz. :)))
((Whoa, that HTML didn’t work out the way I planned….I think I forgot to end it or something. Ok, no more posts from me tonight!))
((archery/fencing can happen after lunch))
eria:
I re-check (and revise) my scedual and make my way to my first class, mythology and walk in.
I see Eta and wave and another girl. “hi! do you know who our teacher is? what are we studying first? By the way, I’m Eria! do you like the Illiad? I think it is sooo much better than the Odessey”
((79 – Sorry. I just assigned a random class to be my first period. And yes, I’m just Turquoise.))
((I’m taking fencing! See you guys there.))
“Yeah, I think it’s just us, and no, the teacher’s not here yet, and I don’t know what we’re studying first. I’m Turquoise, by the way. Nice to meet you, eh….”
“Eta,” “Eria,” they said helpfully.
*mental notes* “Thanks. Hi!”
((81 – yes it worked!))
Alright, I’m in Coontz house.
After boring pre-calculus, it is time for chemistry. I am really looking foward to chemistry this year, because I really enjoyed it in middle school.
I enter the classroom and sit at a table with Kokonilly. She seems to be excited about chemistry as well.
-73 smarts. I personally tricked my sister, so….
they’re not like wung points, you can earn them through plain good ideas.
((83 – No problem, I think rather than go with a schedule I’m just going to wander into whichever classes happen to be going at the time.))
Eta waved to Eria and Turquoise as they entered, taking note of Turqoise’s name as they met. “Nice to meet you! Apparently our teacher is…” she pulled the crumpled schedule from her pack and scanned the list, “Mr. Opal and sometimes Urania. Hmmm. I actually liked the Odyssey better than the Iliad for the story, but I didn’t end up liking Odysseus as much as anyone in the Iliad.”
“I have a gigantic mythology book that I just read an abridged Odyssey in. But I haven’t read the Iliad. Or I have read it, but didn’t remember the title.” *pulls book out of backpack* *scans Iliad*
“I like the Odyssey better. By the way, what houses are you guys in?”
((OK – I declare my room DONE!!!! I don’t seem to have missed to much…))
Schedule:
Breakfast
Book Club
Algebra (advanced) (double period)
Lunch
Library (assistant to librarian) (double period)
Chem.
Free time
Dinner
By the way I am in Cootz
After Algebra I hurried to lunch and from lunch I hurried to the library. Today was the day the librarian, Mrs.___________ ((Give me time on her name…)) said she would show me something she found when she was cleaning…. When I arrived she ushered me into the locked vault where the rare books are kept. She handed me a sealed envelope with the seal of MA on it… It was addressed on the front with a single line, To the class of 2008 . Oh my Gosh I thought … I asked to be left alone, and I was. I opened the envelope which was made of that thick creamy paper that old documents are on. Two smaller envelopes fell out. One said Open me first, the other said Open me last…
I opened the first one. It read as the following: August 1st, 1808
Adeia,
I know you shall be the first to lay eyes on these words since the time I have written them. There is trouble approaching and approaching fast to MA. You and your friends have endured much in the recent past, but your task is the hardest one of all of the ones you have endured and succeeded in together. The fate of MA is in the hands of your class… Open the next letter together…
May the power of the Nine be with you,
I couldn’t read the signature but that didn’t matter… did it? I figured the rest of my friends were at lunch still and they were… I gathered them in the library and we opened the next letter…
“I’m in Baker,” Eta replied. “Which are you?”
((Should Eta be in the library now?))
I finish up mythology for which the teacher never showed up, and we just disscussed various syles of myth, I head to lunch. I see Adeia rushing into the cafeteris with a bunch of old looking papers in her hand…?
90 – Yes.
((I’ll wait to post the next letter till more people come to the library…))
((oh adeia? where are you? werent you coming to the cafeteria with the ancient papers that spell adventure?))
((90-Coontz.))
“What’s going on in the library?” I asked Eta as I followed her out of the classroom.
“I’m not sure…I think Adeia has something.” she answered.
We entered the library a few minutes later.
“So, what’s going on?” I asked again.
((I know I’m kinda late but how can I join? Can someone enter me in or something? I really want to join in, but I didn’t notice that it was here until it was underway.))
((I have the same plea as TGYPWYA.))
As does Rawr- she read the entire 3rd thread, found out she’s in Coontz, has been lurking for a while and knows that the answer to this question is most likely yes, but still wants to check.
I meandered aimlessly throughout the school when class ended. I bumped into Adeia. “No questions, come with me” she said hurriedly, and dragged me to the cafeteria.
95 – 97 You have come at an excellent time… just create a character and join in at the library.
Hi everyone.
I looked up from my biography on Alfred Wegener- There seemed to be a small gathering in the rare books section. I tip toed over, discreet at first, but then recognized some people from my house. “Hi, I’m Rawr. Is this a bad time?”
((99- Cool! I’m in Baker.))
I, Indi Bonsworth, walked nervously into the library, hoping no one would notice the two backpacks slung on each of my shoulders; the aqua one filled with free time stuff, the lime green one filled with class stuff. I sat down at a table near the rare books section, took a pencil box out of the aqua one, and started building eraser monsters. I hear a lot of whispering coming from th section I was near, and I poke my head around to see what was all the commotion about. “Indi, get over here!”
Can I join? Where’s this sorting quiz thing i’m supposed to take?
((Wait- am I allowed to make up a name instead of using my blog name?))
((click on ‘house placement quiz’ up in comment 80, by Eccentric the Afterthought))
I sighed and entered the library. My name is Rhett Toro, and I’m an idiot. I’m trying too hard to follow in the footsteps of my three older brothers, Malachi, Igñia, and Cayden. But no matter how many classes I take, no matter what I do, I’ll never measure up to them. And of course, now I have to deal with all the classes I signed up for. I brought my meandering mind back to reality and searched the aisles for books on WWII Military Strategy. I was so intent on my search that I didn’t notice a group of people talking to each other until I ran into them.
((Hold on- I have the same question as Zinc, I just followed after 103))
((104 – Yes. I (and probably others) just use blognames because it’s easier and avoids confusion.))
((But if you have a really long name, such as TGYPWYA, you may want to use something like Bob.))
((Oh wow, a lot has happened since I was gone hasn’t it?))
Baylee trotted off to her class in the courtyard. Late, again. She hurried off to Advanced Fencing. “Great, now I have to be the first demo…” her teacher had unusual punishments. Everybody was suiting up. She chose her green suit. But today instead of the regular wooden swords or wimpy floppy ones, there stood a rack of REAL swords, but they had blunt tips and edges. She quickly tried choosing between a rare Spatha and another rare Gladius. She chose the Spatha. Her teacher came over to the group. Today we are just pairing up and having a nice clean fight. No blood should be drawn. To win you will have to either a) knock the sword from your opponents hand, or b) have them surrender, I don’t care how,” Baylee smiled. She loved fencing. “I’m doing the partners so your going to have a fair fight,” he started going around the circle, assigning partners, “Jenny and Annie, Nick and Bethany, Matt and Flarus, Kyis and Len, Sammy and Shayadin,” on and on. Finally there was no one left except her and this kid who didn’t really look like he shoulda been there (If you catch my drift), and Aubry. My teacher finally got to us, “And Freddie and Aubry,” he sounded like he finished and totally ignored me, I cleared my throat a little. “Oh! Baylee, sorry, um, I seem to not have anybody else for you to practice with I am very sorry! Would you like me to get one of the kids from another class practicing right now? I think Miss Jordan won’t mind…” he looked very sorry. “I’ll just practice on the dummy, but thank you anyway.” she grumbled. She hurried over to the corner of the courtyard where a dummy stood. Her father had told her to let the enemy attack first, but she couldn’t do that now, now could she? She lashed out savagely at the poor ripped up dummy and it’s head fell off. She jumped right and rolled to stab it in the back but a powerful hand stopped her in mid-roll and she laid sprawled across the gravel walkway. “Mr.O’Mara, I’m fine, I really am.”
After dumping her stuff in the Lasley house area, Polly headed to the library. After all, that’s how she always judged a new place. “Hmm. . . they’ve got a pretty good collection here,” she said as she browsed the shelves. A bunch of kids were crowded in the back, looking at some old papers. Since Polly is naturally curious, she walked up to them.
“Hello, I’m Polly, new to Muse Academy. Whatcha doing?”
I looked around the vault- the little gathering just kept growing, didn’t it? So many interesting looking people! Like Indi, with her two backpacks. I would have loved to answer Polly’s question, but I didn’t really know myself. What was written on that old, yellowed paper that held everyone’s attention?
((112 to answer your qestion I have no idea… Suggestions anyone?))
As everyone seemed to be gathered in the rare books section I began with my story and read the first letter to them… Then I read the second letter. It read the following:
((I got nothing…))
((Maybe we could go on a quest for a sacred ancient pie recipe?))
(( Yeah but in the first letter it says trouble is approaching…))
((109- That’s why I am using a different name))
Everyone seemed to be looking at a bunch of old papers. I thought I had seen them somewhere before, but I … no, I hadn’t.
“Hey, I’m Rhett, what’s up?”
((It could be a pie recipe with awesome power, and some sort of villain wants to use it for some evil purpose, but first they have to find it. That’s were we come in…maybe?I don’t know… I kinda like it, but it’s up to you :).))
((Ahck! Sorry for the double post, but my smiley failed… :cry:))
((it could be a map to the pie recipe, and we’d have to find it before the villain))
((Yeah! And all sorts of crazy stuff could happen! *stares off into space with big dreamy eyes*))
((I wish MARFwarrior would come here. She would like it.))
“Hi Rhett, I’m Kokonilly. Pleased to meet you.”
((the ultimate smart pie….. ok, I feel like writing first person right now,and this only describes my character, not me, well maybe a tiny little, you figure out what’s true or not.))
Mr.O’Mara, the school guidance councilor. I mean, who in this school would need a guidance councilor? Me. But not anymore. “I am really fine!” With all that sad poetry (I don’t how that happened) and the way I would stare into space during class, and the reason I wouldn’t write home. The reason I didn’t have a home. The school I had been to before sent him to make sure I was fine, and I WAS fine. It’s not like I wasn’t. At my old school I had plenty of friends too. I might have been suspended a few times (don’t ask) but there was no reason I needed a guidance councilor here. And don’t Psychiatrists know to leave people alone when it’s getting better? The scar is healing but than they come along and re open it, adding salt with it.
(( 117 – It is not up to me… I was only doing what I normally doing… starting an adventure. ))
((Um, I think we should lay off on an adventure for a little, just get to know the campus, have fun on the grounds. In fact, we could just have a tiny adventure on the grounds too, because we JUST got back from one… but I’m not the one deciding, I’ll definitely go if there is one,))
((True. Adventures… we just had a month-long one. Which was technically a day.))
((If you don’t want an adventure how about this: we take the papers outside for better light, and they blow away so we have to chase after them. Done.))
((Good idea.))
((Sure but how about when we do feel the the need for an adventure we find them again…))
((Works for me.))
“I can’t see it.” I squinted. “I really need to get my glasses fixed.”
“You don’t wear glasses,” someone said. “You wear contacts.”
“Whatever. I still can’t see it.” I groaned. “Why don’t we get them outside? The lighting here is terrible.” I gestured to the dimly lit lamps.
When we got outside, we started reading it. “To Adeia and her friends: You have received this letter in the face of danger. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is…”
Then, suddenly, the wind picked up and blew the scraps of paper away. Everybody started chasing it, except me. I knew that, when the time was right, we would find it again.
After all, this was Muse Academy. Everything happened for a reason.
((Perfect))
I stood by Kokonilly knowing that those papers would turn up again we needed them…
My stomach grumbled, after all, I had rushed my lunch… I turned to Kokonilly ” Want to go get some pizza? Race ya!” and we ran side by side and dug into delisious pizza… followed soon by everyone else, tired after their chase.
((Thanks. If that was a novel, a perfect time to end a chapter would be where I left off ))
I was jolted back to reality when my stomach complained from lack of lunch. Adeia turned to me and said “Want to go get some pizza? Race ya!â€
It was a tie as we ran into the cafeteria, exhausted and grinning. We ordered pizza and I was about to take a bite (Adeia already had a mouthful of pizza) when everyone else caught up. I grinned. “So, you guys got some exercise, huh?” They grinned tiredly and sat down with us. Most of them already had lunch, but some dug into the pizza as if… well, as if they were just stuck in a pit for a whole day with no food running for their life.
“Pizza? What kind of pizza?”
“Whatever you want. I like cheese, but you could have mushroom…” Mushrooms appeared on my slice. “…pepperoni…” Pepperoni appeared. “…anchovies…” Anchovies popped up. “…or just cheese,” I finished, taking a bite into my cheese pizza.
I ran off to the cafeteri cause I didn’t wanna talk to him right now. I saw Adeia, and Kokonilly there and smelled something delicious, pizza. I took 1 slice of cheese, 1 slice of Hawaiian, and 1 slice of veggie. I was starving already even though I already ate. I grabbed a bread stick with garlic sauce and went to sit down. Nice, warm pizza.
Baylee popped out of nowhere and gave me a terrible fright. ((Gosh, I sound like I’m from 1904 England.)) Feigning indifference, I said “So, Baylee, how has your day been?”
“Oh, pretty good. I fought a dummy that was very skilled at fencing, and I almost lost my arm!” She grinned, “I really think we need some new ones, the minute my blade touched it, it’s head fell off.”
“It did? Didyou see any intestines?” I said with a giggle with a half-finished hawaiian pizza in my hand. I took another bite. “Hey, that wasn’t pizza! It was paper!” I unrolled the scroll I had found in my pizza. It was a map of Muse Academy, much the Maruader’s Map, only part of it was finished. The parts that were finished were the places that students had discovered, and only part of those places had been finished. I scratched my head, saying “What’s this for? How confuzzling.”
“What’s what for?” I asked. I leaned over her shoulder. “Oh. That’s peculiar.”
((Whoops, didn’t check this thread for awhile…))
Eta had been one of the first to head for the library, but she ended up in the back of the group because she couldn’t resist loitering along the way to drool over the shelves and shelves of new and exciting books. Her attention drifted back to the group when she noticed new faces. “Um, hi…” She managed, suppressing an instinctive desire to retreat. This is Muse Academy, she reminded herself. Things are different here! Unfortunately, her introvert brain still froze up around too many people and she couldn’t think of anything else to say. She was saved when the group moved outside and back to the cafeteria. When she finally arrived, she picked up a slice of cheese/black olive pizza, waved to Baylee, whom she hadn’t seen for awhile, and found a seat next to the newcomer. “Hi! I’m Eta.” She blinked at the paper that suddenly appeared. “Parchment pizza? Weird…hey, is that Baker house?” She peered curiously at it. “But there are blank spaces around campus….?”
(( Not maps again that’s what started the last adventure!!!!!!!!! ))
I had pepperoni, anochvi and spinich pizza in my hand and it was dripping with garlic sauce just the way I like it.
“We should have a board where all of our schedules are located… Heres mine…
Schedule:
Breakfast
Book Club
Algebra (advanced) (double period)
Lunch
Library (assistant to librarian) (double period)
Chem.
Free time
Dinner
((maybe we could just finish the map, and still be on campus, we can still get to classes, but whenever there’s free time, we can sneak out and finish it…))
“Oh, there was lot of straw EVERYWHERE! I guess it substituted for intestines…” she took another bite of her veggie pizza and snatched a Popsicle stick. Once she finished it she read aloud the lame joke on the back, “Who does a dog-quarter back throw to? A Labrador Receiver,” and “What’s in the middle of no where? The letter H,” “Hey, you guys up for a trip to the Pidda field? I’ve got about 30 minutes until World Domination, and free play is now until 4:00. I just got a new Waver and I’m dying to try it out.”
“Okay! Works for me!”
“Me too!”
“What’s Pidda?”
Everyone stared at me… “What? I honestly don’t know what Pidda is!”
I join everyone at their table. “Hello everyone! What are we talking about?”
“Pidda, apparently,” said Adeia. ” I have no idea what it is, though.”
“Eh heh… Me neither…So what is it?” I asked.
((Oops. Sedniria is my wung companion, and I forgot to change back the name when she got off. So the above post was by me.))
“Oh, it’s a sport, that uses pies. You use Wavers (disk boards), pies, two stacks of small, donut like rings, and 2 small silver and gold flags. The object is to get the rings trusted to 8 different defenders on the other team, and put them in a stack on your teams platform. If you get all the rings, you must catch your flag (gold or silver) and place on the other teams platform. The pies are used to hit someone, that person is frozen until the person is tagged by a teammate. If all the people on one team are frozen the other team gets one free ring. When a defender’s ring is taken, that defender can join the offense. If a person with a ring is frozen, they must drop the ring where they are. Either team can take it, but the person that threw the pie cannot pick it up. I’ll go into details later.”
“Well, I’m up for some Pidda, why don’t we go down to the field?” I said as I scarfed down one last slice of pizza.
“Yes, let’s! Can we take the pizza?” *is hopeful*
“I’m in!”
“I guess you can, there’s no rules against it, just don’t let it get on the field. Oh, and Pidda is played on land, water, or sky. So, don’t be surprised with what you see in the arena.”
“Sounds interesting,” I grabbed a piece of pizza for the road (to the Pidda field).
“Oookay….Hey, is Pidda like MA’s Quidditch? But different? Are there house teams? I’m coming by the way. Sounds fun!”
((I’m not that much of a chatterbox in real life. My character is strange.))
“I’ll try, too- you’ll have to teach me though. I’ve never played before, but it sounds exciting!”
((123- Sorry- I meant that I didn’t want to start something that no one liked Do you forgive me?))
((I hope the blushing smiley works- *is getting annoyed with self for messing up all the smilies* I think I figured it out…))
153-“Yeah, kind of. You can play for fun, or try out for your house’s team.”
“I think that just went right over my head,” Eta admitted at the end of Baylee’s explanation. “But count me in!” She slung her messenger bag over her shoulder again, ready to set off for the field.
“For fun, definitely. Oh, here’s the field! Great view.”
((154 – Of Course! ))
((Yay! Thank you! ))
“Yeah, it’s right on the edge of the ocean.”
“We’re really high up…” I say as I look out over the edge. “Oog, I feel sick… I’m staying on the other side of the field…”
“I think I’ll join you,” Eta remarked as she peeked over the edge and backed away quickly, feeling herself getting dizzy just thinking about the edge. “The water looks inviting, but I”m not inclined to take that much of a plunge just yet!” Maybe parkour training would cure her fear of heights, but Eta hadn’t started that yet.
“It’s so hot…” I mumble, looking up at the scorching sun. “A dip in the ocean would be nice- despite the fact the water’s probably freezing. Is there a good chance of getting wet playing pidda?” I ask hopefully.
“Um, yes, if you get close enough to the water without going in, if you go in the water your waver will automatically put a glass pod around the top tall enough for you to stand up. And it lets you dive under without bobbing up if you want it to.”
“Sounds lovely, but I’m still not getting close to the edge!” I call from the other side of the field.
((I feel out of this… What’s happened since I left? ))
“Oh, you ‘fraidy cats.” I dipped my toe into the water and hastily drew it out. “I… I… I…”
“What is it?”
“I… saw a jellyfish…”
“Eek!” *runs away*
((166 – When did you leave?))
((166- I woul answer, but I’ve never been very good at this. Woe is me. ))
((167- Ooh, the plot thickens!))
“Jellyfish? See my point now? Wait- jellyfish?”
((I left at Post 18!))
I leaned oner the water. “Well, would ya look at that! It’s a big one too! I didn’t know there were jellyfish around here!”
((166- Basically, Adeia found two old letters foretelling trouble, but before we could read the second letter, it blew away, then we went to eat some pizza, and now we’re at the pidda fields- I think that’s everything.))
“Oh… Well, I guess I’ll wade a little then before we start.” Pretty soon after that, I saw Turquoise running up to higher ground. Looking over, I caught some snippets of the conversation.”A jellyfish? Really? Do you think it’s poisonous?”I inquired. I had wandered a little ways away to investigate a sparky object I saw in the shallows (turned out to be a necklace someone must have dropped) , but I came splishing over. “Hmm- What an interesting color for a jellyfish.”
((172- I also found an unfinished map in my pizza!))
((173- Oh yeah! I forgot about that!)) “Hey Indi, does your map say anything about a jellyfish field?”
“Sparkly?” *runs back* “Oohh…sparkly! It shall defend me against the jellyfish! Mwahahahaha! Me and sparkly shall take over the world! Bwahahamaawmwanahahahha!” *slaps self* “Sorry.”
“I dunno, I’ll look.” I say to RAWR. “Hm. I need to locate where we are first.” ((Poor me. I don’t know what a jellyfish field is.))
((I might have made it up, but it sounded real… If it is, I think it’s where there’s a whole bunch of jellies))
“Noes! My sparkle,” I tuck my sparkly out of sight, my eyes darting side to side suspiciously. Just to be safe, I duck behind a near by rock, only the tip of my head and my eyes (still darting) visible. I chuckle darkly at my brilliance.
“Jellyfish… I… hate jellyfish…”
“So do I. Ew.”
“Bad… experience… when… I… was… five…” I mumbled, backing away. “Get… them… away…”
((Not in real life.))
“Were you stung?”
I shudder at the thought. “Yes… emergency room… coma… 8 months… jellyfish bad…”
“Wow… and ow…”
“Yeah… bad… jellyfish bad…”
((I just love making my characters suffer, don’t I? ))
“Sea Jellies? Typical, I always show up at the worst possible time!”
“Maybe you ought to go to the other side of the field with me and Turquoise.” I say gently.
“Good idea.” I scamper over to the other side, quivering.
Eta’s strange interest in slimy sea creatures temporarily overrode her fear of heights. Curiosity piqued, she inched forward to peer cautiously into the water at the jellyfish. She blinked, tilted her head to the side, and just stared for awhile, fascinated. As she watched, other shapes began to surface…more jellyfish and…”AI!” She snapped out of her trancelike observation abruptly as a large, toothy fish snapped up one of the jellyfish and dragged it back down to be messily devoured. Heart pounding, she scampered back to the other side of the field. “Whew….I guess I’ll never get used to the ocean,” she sighed.
“That’s just not right- large toothy fish belong in deeper waters! What’s going on here?” I followed after Eta. I didn’t want to stick around to see what else was lurking in the shallows.
((*opens door**tip toes down hall way* I’m sorry for the double post, but I may be gone for a while- someone can speak for my character while I’m gone or use it for some menial task that no one wants to do. I might also be back late tomorrow, it all depends on how long my mom stays mad. *tip toes up hall way**closes door*))
((190- Well that just stinks.)) “WHAT?!” I frown when Eta tells us the news. “A large toothy fish in the shallows?” Eta nods. “How deep are these shallows?”
“Large toothy fish?” I call out. “I want to see!” I ran over and took a peek.
“Well, she’s obviously not afraid of anything but jellyfish,” RAWR muttered.
“You’re right. It IS large. And toothy,” I said, ignoring RAWR’s comment.
“Are we sure the shallows are shallow? They may actually be quite deep…”
“My point exactly.”
Suddenly, I stumbled and fell in.
((It got boring. *ominous music*))
“Kokonilly!” Balee jumped in after Kokonilly. “I guess those swimming lessons did come in handy after all,” the fish was swimming towards Kokonilly when Baylee whacked it in the head with a fist. She cut it open and threw it as far as she could so the carnivorous fishes would go and follow it. As they were swimming back she became stuck.
“Oh no! Kokonilly!”, I stuck my prosthetic arm ((Read the Last Adventure!)) into the water, hoping she could grab it!
((Oh. My. Gosh. I have been gone for toooooo long! I re-read, so i’m not lost or anything but still… WOW! ))I hurridly finish my lunch when everyone else stampedes in, eats pizza and stampedes bace out. I follow them the the pidda ((did I say that right? would anyone mind explaining the rules and what the heck are wavers?)) field and down to the ocean just in time to see koko fall in!!! I rip my dragonproof cloak, whigh I hope is also large-and-toothy-fish proof, and zip it into a bodysuit ((my aunt, or whoevery made/gave this to me was and eccentric, no offense Eta)) and dive in after her! I founder around for about a foot then the barly underwater ledge I was standing on stops and I stumble off and almowt sink, untill I get my bearings and start treading water. “youguys were right! there ARE no shallows! so does MA have any easlilly accessable subs?” ((I know this may sound a bit bod for a ‘phyte, but the almost drowning of people I know will do that to me. ))
((we all did it at once!))
((Report to BA, please, Beat!))
I reached out for Bookworm’s outreached mechanical arm. Then, Baylee took hold of me as Eria dove in.
((OKay dokay!))
BAM! A mushroom cloud was where the school used to be. ((Just kidding! ))
((That would completely SUCK.))
((I know! That’s why I did it. MuserHumor, or MuserHorror))
((*Darkness* *A Low Voice is Heard* Muser Horror… *Silence* *Long Howl* *Piercing Scream* . . . ))
((Actually, Zinc, I ran back to the sparkly object))
“Oh no! Kokonilly! And…um….Eria! And…Bookworm! Are you okay?
Wow. You go down for a nice, confusing game of Pidda, and your friends fall into the water. Only at MA.”
((190 – Eep, mad moms are scary. Hope to see you again soon!
Muser horror, yay! An horror RP would be fun, or is that already going on with the bunny apocalypse? I haven’t lurked there in awhile.))
“Erm, it’s a couple…fathoms…maybe…?” Eta ventured. “I really don’t know anything about nautical measurements.” She peered into the waves again, this time from farther away. “What do you think it is, anyway? Barracuda? Piranha? Ummm….Kokonilly!!!” Baylee, Eria, and Bookworm were all in the water before she had time to react further. Eta watched helplessly; she was a mediocre swimmer at best, certainly not lifeguard material. Digging through her bag, she found a turkey sandwich she’d packed for later, which she promptly lobbed out to sea to distract the fish. Then, conveniently, she remembered the rope she always carried, “just in case.” She pulled it out of her bag. “It’s not a sub, but will this help?”
“I can swim! I can swim!” I yelled by the time Eta threw a rope in.
((I’m back! I was able to sneak on for a bit yesterday while she wasn’t looking, but not long enough to come here… But now she’s at work! Bwahaha!))
I stood, petrified. Behind Kokonilly was something big, something scary… Something with many, many pointy teeth!
(Conveniently, a totally oblivious fellow student walked by with a large stereo blasting dramatic music perfect for a time like this.)
I had been staring vaugely out into space as I some times do when the music back to earth – sort of – I was still on the waver floating in mid air… I examend the situation which was a sea moster about to attack. I then saw a button marked steel tip … I pressed it and started heading for the monster at top speed inteending to ram in to the monster … then my board died right in front of the monster… “HELP!” I shouted. I was falling and my board some how activated my glass covering for water, but there was a crack in it! “HELP!” I screamed even louder but no one heard me through the glass… Or did they?
It appeared I had been pulled into the water. I swam frantically…
I watch helplessly as Adeia sank into the water in front of the sea monster. This is NOT what I was expecting to find at the pidda field. I look around for anything useful. . . anything at all. Finding nothing else I start throwing rocks at the monster hoping to distract it. ((If anybody wants to use my person for anything, feel free cause I’m going to be at camp for the next two weeks.))
A tentacle lashed out of the water, sweeping up me and several other people. I beat the monster ferociously with my fists-
“Let us go! LET US GOOOO!!!!!”
The monster roared, and gallons of water rushed into fill it’s cave of a mouth. We screamed as those in it’s grasp were swung around in the air, and those in the water were pulled towards the beast’s gapping jaws.
Before I knew what was going on, I was in the water, wrapped in a thick tentacle, being pulled away from shore. And it seemed that I wasn’t the only one who had this problem. I gave up fighting and turned to see what exactly was attacking me. I couldn’t tell though, because whatener it was, I could only see a wall of sharp teeth opening up to let me through.
“Oh crap.”
Before I knew it, many were dragged into the water and the rest were staring at me. “What?” I asked. “Is there a big scary monster behind me? You guys are ridiculous.” I turned. And froze.
I turned around and said,”Leafygreen? Are you still- LEAFYGREEN!” Leafygreen had been pulled into the water. Then I felt something slimy grabbing my leg.
I joined Polly in throwing rocks at the sea monster. Why was no one coming? We were far from the castle, true, but what about the random student? What about the people in the village?
Come on, think! What have I learned so far at MA? Mythology and computers. And avoid the basement of DOOM. Computers..no. Mythology…sea monsters….Perseus and Andromeda! Except we have no flying horse.
“Wavers!” I screamed. “Get on the wavers!” All of us who weren’t being sucked in grabbed a waver. “Get someone and pull them up! Quickly!” We swooped toward the monster and our friends.
((Adeia, this wasn’t meant at all to be copying you. Sorry.
And someone else can write the rescue))
“Waver? Whaaaa?” I ask.
Baylee grabbed her new Waver and as she dove into the water with it a pod formed overhead. The edges morphed into sharp water fins. She sliced off one tentacle so Zinc was free, but two others replaced it. “It’s like a Hydra!”
“A Tentacalean Hydra? Quick, somebody, get some matches!” In the meantime, I started to sing. Music worked on Cerberus, so I decided to try it on this!
When Baylee sliced off the tentacle that held me, I swam a short way before it grabbed my waist and my mouth and nose. I was suffocating! I glanced at Leafygreen. She was looking in horror at my predicament, while thrashing at the tentacle that held her. I heard someone start to sing. Then I heard snores! The… thing had fallen asleep, but still had a tight grasp on all of us.
((Oh, forget my name being Indi. I’m Zinc now. Whatever.))
“Does anyone have matches?” I whispered…
*fumbles with pocket* “Nope, sorry. Why?”
“If it’s like a Hydra, we need to cut and burn its tentacules!”
Using my last ounce of strength, I slipped the tentacle of my face and I gasped for air. ((If any of you don’t know, on bunny apocalyopse, I was geneticly modified to breathe underwater, like an amphibian. Read on BA for details.)) But I fainted in exhaustion,and started sinking.
“I totally knew that. Do we have an iron rod of some sort? That’s what Heracles and whatshisfacewithhim did, they like branded it. Is there any Pidda equipment we could use?”
“I have matches!” I yelled. I dug into my neverending pockets. “Here ya go.”
Help was on the way! I hoped that someone would grab Zinc and Adeia before it was to late- I didn’t see anything I could really do to help them from my position. I twisted my head searching for something I could do. All sudden, a cut tentacle whizzed passed my head, and strugling against the hydra’s hold, I managed to grab on. It was long and thin, like a rope. I looked around, and saw Rhett being drawn dangerously close to the hydra’s mouth. Wrapping one end around my wrist, I hurled the other as far as I could.
“Rhett! Catch!”
The tentacle landed just a few inches from his flailing arm.
I caught the matches, and lit one. I then chopped off a tentacule, and lit it. It burnt off, leaving a small stub. I then did it again on another tentacule…
“Bookworm, you’re too slow!” I freed my hands, dug out another pack and a Swiss army knife, and cut off two, then burned them. I was making great progress until the tentacle wrapped around me got my left hand. I couldn’t light another match!
I whacked at the tentacle around Kokonilly’s arm, but nothing much happened. “Kokonilly! Can I use your knife and matches?”
I continued steadily…
“Give me a match!” Baylee yelled. She had an idea. She would light the ends of a Waver in water mode. With the sharp edges she could chop off the tentacles quickly and burn the at the same time. Somebody tossed her a match as she lifted into the air. There was a flare and she zipped across 6 tentacles and stumps were left. Bookworm was slowly making progress. He was almost done chopping them all off…
I opened my eyes. Water was everywhere. It should be, because I was underwater. But I wasn’t where the sqiud/hydra was. I was in some sort of underwater cave. But it wasn’t a cave, it was a room. There was a door on the other side of the room, and I quickly crossed over the seaweed carpet, and reached for the handle.
((Wow, I’m off for two days or so and there’s a sea monster. :)))
Eta didn’t need to worry about swimming in now that now that she was ensnared by a tentacle. She didn’t have a lighter, but she grabbed a waver as it floated by. If it’s like the hydra, what other mythological qualities does it have? She wondered. The tentacles were almost gone, but the eyes…there seemed to be a weird glow around them, something that set off her instinct that danger was near…”Don’t look at its eyes!” She yelled as they opened and a jellyfish directly in front of the huge, glowing yellow orbs turned to stone and sank. “It’s got Medusa’s gaze!” Before she had time to think about what she was doing, she closed her eyes and stabbed forward viciously with her waver, plunging it into one of the monster’s eyes.
The door was stuck. “Ergh, open you STUPID door!” I said, wrenching at its handle. The handle fell off. “Oops.”
Coming up next- crowbar time!
I tossed matches to everybody and handed my knife to Turquoise, all the while kicking, biting, and hitting the monster… Anything to get out…
I strained to grab the tentacle that RAWR threw. “Almost… There…” As I reached, I heard Eta yell, “Don’t look at it’s eyes! It’s got Medusa’s gaze!” “What?” I asked as I turned and found myself locked in its gaze.
I saw an oblivious kid passing by. “OY! You there! With the stereo! HELP US!!! GO GET HELP!!!!” I shrieked. The kid, frightened, scampered away. I sighed. “Great.”
“Don’t look at its eyes! It’s got Medusa’s gaze!”
Hearing this, I squeezed my eyes shut as tight as I possibly could.
I shut my eyes, still groping for tentacules. I couldn’t find any more. However, I had cut off the one on me. I swam out of the pool, away from the severely injured monster…
I heard Eta shout to us “Don’t look at its eyes! It’s got Medusa’s gaze!” Upon hearing that, I whipped out my mirrored sunglasses. I couldn’t see anything, so I looked exactly where the monster’s eyes (I think) were, and I felt the tentacle around me freeze.
I kept my eyes shut as I plunged into the water, cut free. I tried to swim forward, but the tentacle rope was still wrapped around my wrist, and I was pulled downward with the weight of petrified Rhett. Now turned to stone, he was to heavy for me to pull- the surface just kept getting farther and farther away.
((I hope there is a cure for Medusa’s gaze!))
*is taking a lone walk down the beach* *randomly starts singing* “♫ I’m looking over…a four leaf clover…that I overlooked before…One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain, third is… *sees monster* …um…the…roses…that…grow…in…the…lane… *turns around* *walks in the other direction*
“IBCF! HELP US!!!” I scream, fighting to be free of the stone grip; the monster is sinking rapidly.
“Rhett!” Baylee yelled as he turned to stone. She groaned, “Now we need to find the Golden Fleece. How are we ever going to get that? Oh, wait, we just need a mandrake root…”
I groaned and fumbled for my chisel and slowly chipped away at my bonds.
246- “Hm, do you really need help? Or do you think you can handle this by yourselves? You see, I often tend to make things less dramatic then they could be. But if you really do need help, I can save you all right now.”
“Yes, PLEASE! Rhett is petrified, so is the monster but the gaze is still petrifiable, and most of us are trapped in the tentacles!!!!” I roared. “Yes, we COULD USE SOME HELP HERE!!!”
Baylee hacked away at some stone tentacles. It broke, but she made slow progress.
250- “Okay, then.” *pulls out mirror* “HEY, MONSTER!” *monster looks up* *sees mirror* *shrieks and quickly looks away, momentarily forgetting the MArs in its grasp*
“Ha! Almost got petrified by it’s own gaze. Run, guys!”
252- “Umm, it already is petrified. And they are all stuck…”
“We can’t run!” I shrieked. “WE’RE STUCK!!!! HELP!!! THE DRATTED THING IS SINKING!!!!”
Having swam to the shore, I threw in some rope to the others…
Uh, oh. Looks like someone’s been petrified. We’d better do something before he sinks. *sprints off* *soon comes back with fishing net*
I saw a rope land in the water above me- I reached and reached, but we were just down to deep. I strained, kicking and stroking as hard as I could…
I slowly cracked the stone tentacle, and I wriggle about until it crumbled away. Then, I dove down and grabbed RAWR and the rope… I didn’t get an award for swimming at my old school for nothing…
((243- Whoopsies! Didn’t see your post. Sorry)).
*throws fishing net into the water*
I would have breathed a sigh of relief when Kokonily grabbed my arm, except I was almost out of air. With our combined strength, we managed to reach the surface and drag Rhett the short distance to the fishing net.
When RAWR and Rhett were out, I frowned. “How are we going to un-petrify him?”
“Like Baylee said, we need a mandrake root. Or the Golden Fleece. The hard part is finding them. Does mandrake root exist here? If not, we’ll have to travel dimensions to the HP world. That would be fun! I don’t know very much about the Golden Fleece… But before we do anything, shouldn’t we find Adeia and Eta?”
((Is anyone else still trapped by the monster?))
((Oops! I mean Zinc. Adeia and Zinc.))
“Well, that was a stupid rescue.” *gets cart* *hauls petrified Rhett onto cart* *saunters back to MA*
I launched into a small lecture. “The Golden Fleece is, well, a golden fleece mentioned numerous times in Greek mythology, and can heal anything. It has healing powers. We could travel back in time, or to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books to get it, but I think they would get mad at us if we took it from the latter AND the former. Best just to use the mandrake,” I concluded.
I swim to shore with whoever I first dove in after ((I’vr been gone so long I forgot who it was)) I grab a waver from the reack. I’ve never used one before, but it loked like I would have to learn fast. but first things first. I was sure I looked utterly ridiculouse in my purple cloak-turned-jumpsuit so I unzipped it. I was scouing my brian for the book I had read in 4th grade about Pidda, I stood cautiously on the marked foot spots, and leaned forward. the waver WHOOSHED forwards, toward the sea monster. I heard Eta’s cry about the eyes, and squeezed mine shut. I lost my balance and would have fallen off if the capsule hadnt come up around me. as it was, I hit my head. HARD. for a couple of secconds, I forgot what I was zooming towards, but I remembered, violently, when I flew into the only unstoned part of the monster: it’s belly button. the monster made a horrible squelching noise and then started spreading outwards. ((does that work for undoing Medusa’s gaze? or do you want something more dramatic? Eria dosnt really do dramatic. she is a bookworm and a bit of a clutz))
((wow. if it was right in front of me, then eria is a REALLY BAD flyer. ))
Baylee ran to the greenhouse and grabbed the nearest pot that looked like a kind of mandrake. She grabbed some earmuffs and ran quickly back to where her waver was waiting and flew towards the water. “Take the earmuffs!” she yelled as she dropped them so everyone could reach some. As she was trying to pull it out, the monster let out a terrible noise, and it started spreading outwards. She finally got the root out and slowly, color returned to Rhett.
((ok, so lets just say that eria ran into the monster while he was still stone and almost broke the waver. )) unsteakilly, I backed the waver away from the monster, and grabbed the pair of earmuffs that hit me on the head, I looked up in confusion, then heard Baylee shouting to “take the earmuffs” so I snapped them onto my head. Rhett began to come to life again and I was dangerousluy close to it, even without tenticals. I tried to speed the waver away backwards, but I fell of, not realising my glass capsuel had contracted. wiith a shriek, I fell onto Rett, just as it finished comeing alive. “HELP!!!!” I screamed from it’s head, where I was perched precariously
((Wow. We can’t last two weeks without an adventure. Sad. I guess I have some catching up to do.))
As I emerge from World History, I examine all the things that I’ve found in the MA desks that day. I have 15 erasers, 23 pencils, a notebook, numerous love notes, and a blank piece of printer paper. Not bad for a day’s work. I always need more pencils, and I could use the printer paper for an oragami project. I stash all my treasure in my backpack and head to lunch.
There’s pizza for lunch today. I grab a slice of Hawaiian and some salad and head over to my usual table. I’m surprised to find none of my friends there. They never usually eat very fast and they always wait for me. Something important must have come up. And anything important is always an exciting adventure.
The library is the best choice for me to go first. Our last adventure was there and there are many places to hide extraordinary things between the books. I ask the librarian if any of my friends were recently there. She replies that she had found two letters for Adeia in the rare books section and had given them to her. Everyone else had then come in and then hurriedly rushed out because of dim lighting.
Wow, I think. This is strange. Strange, indeed. I thank the librarian and decide to quickly check out the next book in the series I’m reading ((It’s a twenty-year-old series, so the library will have it.)). I wander over to the fantasy section and slide the book off the shelf. An envelope topples out as well. I wonder what could be in it. Maybe fifty dollars. Maybe another love note. Maybe the companion to Adeia’s letters! After the initial moment of excitement, I decide not to open it until I find everyone. I check out the book ((Dragons of Summer Flame if anyone wants to know.)), walk outside, and see if anyone else knew where my friends went.
Many people in the cafeteria that I interrogated said that they all came outside from the library, and then two pieces of paper they were holding blew away. Some of them chased after the paper for a while, then they all went down to the Pidda field. After hearing this information for the fifth time, I run to the field and discover my friends battling against a Hydra. I quietly hide behind a row of spectator seats and watch, as I’m too scared to do anything. I decide to help if the situation turns more dire than it already is.
((That was very long, and that’s how I get to be in the Pidda field. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.))
“Yes! Good idea! Let’s travel dimensions to HP land!” I became extremely hyper, due to my obsession with the HP series.
“We could see all the people- real! In the flesh! I guess we don’t need the mandrake root anymore, though…” I look down sadly. I take out the necklace I found and start swinging it in circles- I’ve all ways liked the whooshing sound things make when you do that.
“Well, we beat off that thing! Anyone else ready to head back to the dorms?” I start walking back, gazing around. Suddenly, I see a shape. “Hey, there’s something back here!” After a moment, I realize it’s Kyra. “Kyra! What are you doing behind these seats?”
*cough cough* “Ugh, what happened? Did you guys kill that thing? And did it get anyone else? And… Okay you know what? Why don’t you guys tell me what I missed, and I’ll never look into a weird sea creature’s eyes again.”
“So, anybody still up for Pidda?” Baylee asked hopefully. She knew no one would come because, lets face it, everyone was so tired they could sleep for days. “Maybe some other time than?” She said cheerfully like the attack right before that never happened.
“So, anybody still up for Pidda?” She paused, seeing our bedraggled faces. “Maybe some other time then?” I glared at her until she recoiled.
Suddenly, I remembered something very important- “Could I borrow someones waver real quick, please?” *someone lends waver* “Thank you!” I zoomed off and dove down into the water. Down, down, down really really deep. Looks like I made it just in time- Adeia’s capsule was nearly full of water. Some how I was able to keep her bubble from rolling off mine, and soon we reached the surface. “Adeia, did you see Zinc down there?”
*Ahem…* “Uuhh, I was watching you guys. You obviously had the situation under control…”
((Let’s not play Pidda. Ever. It could become like Parker, confusing and unable to decipher who’s won or lost.))
((266 – Doesn’t matter to me; I just added the Medusa thing to give Eta something to do.))
Eta sensed a lot of dramatic things happening around her, but she was afraid to open her eyes since she didn’t know if striking the monster’s eye would actually have any effect on its power. Squinting cautiously when the commotion seemed to subside, Eta found that the waver was as petrified as the rest of the monster. She let go of it and clawed her way to the top of the monster’s head to stay above water. “Awesome, we got it…it’s….um, um, it’s sinking, yikes…” Now that her adrenaline rush was exhausted, Eta was as awkward as ever. Losing her footing, she plunged into the water and thrashed and gasped the rest of the way to the shore. “I don’t know about you, but I think I’ve had more than enough water for one day,” she replied apologetically to Baylee as she stumbled back to the group.
((I’m lost – What’s happened? I’ve been at my grandparents without a computer!))
((280 – We ate lunch and went to play Pidda, but then we got attacked by a sea monster in the water at the end of the Pidda field. We just defeated it and returned to land.))
((uh… should I just rescue eria myself then? she cant use a waver-someonne could get greviously injured. I would appreciate it if someome who knows hw to drive those things would rescue eria and not forget about her? please?))
((anyone there? oh well, I will go check muse scouts in hope of more people being there))
((278- It’s not that confusing… and in Paker, the rule is, if you know what your doing, your not playing right, so, technically, your not really supposed to know…))
Baylee could hear someone yell help from somewhere out in the water, so she grabbed a Waver, and looked. There was Eria. Standing on the sea monsters head the was barely above the water. Baylee urged her Waver up, and set out towards the not-so-shallow shallows and tried to tie Eria’s Waver onto hers so she could just ride on that. She fumbled a bit with the rope, and the monster was still sinking. Soon, she got it tied and took off. As they were just flying over dry land, the rope started snapping. “Hang on, we’re coming in for a rough landing!” Baylee told Eria. She grabbed the other Waver and tried to steer one handedly. Her hand started to get sweaty. And then it happened. Her hand slipped and the wavers went crazy. They hit the ground, hard.
“Eria! Baylee!” Eta whirled around at the sound of crashing wavers. Gasping as the two hit the ground, she instinctively ran towards them, though really she had no idea what she could do to help.
I watch the scene with interest. Eria, Baylee, and Eta are the only ones doing anything, while everyone else is milling about.
“What happened?” I turned too late. “Baylee? Eria? Eta?” I walked over there. “Huh? Whaaaaaa?”
“Are you okay?”
Eta was at the site of the crash, but she was still “milling about” as much as the others since she had no idea what to do next. “What now?” She asked Kokonilly and Bookworm anxiously.
Baylee got up. Her head was throbbing with pain, and her wrist was tingling. They took a pretty bad bashing. Or, at least, she did. She looked over to where Eria seemed to have landed.
“You might want to sit down, Baylee-” I noted as she got to her feet and swayed. I pulled out my emergency mini flashlight and began checking to see her eyes were lined up (has experience with concussions). Everything seemed alright, head wise. For now. As long as she didn’t start vomiting and yelling at everyone.
“What’s wrong with her” I asked nervously.
“She just hit her head. I don’t think it’s a concussion, though. Has anyone checked on Eria?”
“Concussions…blood..ugh”, I said as I fainted adding to the trouble.
“I’ll check on Eria,” I volunteered. I wandered over to her. “Follow my finger as it moves… good. Do you feel okay? Nauseous? Dizzy?”
“I hope everyone’s okay!”
I found a handily placed first aid kit and revived Random Kokopelli_97. “Are you okay?”
“Hey, Turquoise, can I use that? Eria might need some first aid,” said Kokonilly.
“Here, catch!” I threw the kit over. “Oh, and here’re your matches and knife. These I didn’t throw, seeing as how knives are dangerous.
((Good Choice, I think!))
“Thanks, Turquoise!” I shoved my matches and knife waaay down deep into my pocket, but not too deep so I couldn’t pull it out again.
((Where is Eria, anyway? I need to ask her if she wants to be injured.))
((hi! I just got back from Cape Cod! I thik I will just be devestated that I lost the pile of books I was carying and mabey sprained my ankle. I also have a huge bruis on my head))
“uuhhng”I moaned in reply to the first aid being admistered by kokonillly. I try to sit up, but everything spins. “head, ankle-OW-my books!” I manage to gasp before falling back again.
((Hello! Oh, and you’re injured because you were underwater for an extended period of time and was dragged up by Baylee, so you may want to change your story. ))
((ok! so, my books are still soggy, and I inhaled water instead of gettingg a sprained ankle…or mabey I got the sprianed ankle from the crash landing and have both… thank you for saving eria Baylee and Eta and Koko!))
“Do you feel anything? Nauseous? Dizzy? Watch my finger as it moves… wait. You appear to have a concussion. Wait as I bandage it up.”
((I actually don’t know how to treat a concussion. Correct me if I’m wrong.))
((A concussion is a bruise on the brain, caused when you hit your head really hard, so I think they just give you some meds… I don’t really remember. I was out like a light, accept to babble, scream, and vomit.))
As I retrieved a first aid kit, Eria said, “Koko, I feel a bit nauseous.”
I turned around just to see Eria throw up all over her shoes. “Ewww.”
Zyviva walked in pushing her mop cart.
“Students,” she muttered, “always making messes. Especially those mysterious circular stains on the wall that come in strange flavors like banana cream and key lime.”
With some more mutters, Zyviva cleaned off the vomit and sprayed the air with a lovely grassy scent.
“Why, hello Zyviva! Can you board up that fireplace in the library, please?” She gave me an odd look. “Don’t ask.”
“Listen, kokoquoiselee or whatever your name is,” Zyviva said, “I haven’t survived in a place this strange by not asking questions. If I board up that fireplace all the books are going to be unusable icicles come winter. So give me a <snip> good reason to board the thing up.”
Kokonilly sighed as she saw the set look of the janitor’s jaw.
“Why is everyone throwing up?”,I said as I looked at the floor,and what do you know…I threw up.
“Zyviva is not happy with this trend,” the brunette muttered to herself as she cleaned up the new mess. Louder, she added “I’d like to know the same.”
I tried once more. “But — but — we almost died going through there! It’s terrible! A secret basement, then a T-rex, then Saturday…” I trailed off, seeing the look on her face.
((RK97, (is it ok if I call you that?) I was just wondering if you just started posting on this thread, than we can fill you in, if not. than sorry))
Baylee stared at Eria. Than she freaked out. “A concussion? A CONCUSSION?” She screamed. Her aunt had died of a concussion. Or was it a concussion? She was pretty sure it was a concussion. She started to see blotches of black. She felt her head. “Ugh, Kokonilly.” She got up slowly and wobbled toward the stands and lied down on a bench. Sleep, precious sleep…
((Oi! What happened to Leafygreen?! *sigh* I’ll fix it.))
“Zinc, what are you doing with that crowbar?” said a confused voice behind me. I look up from my struggles with the crowbar and see Leafygreen staring at me. “I’m -oof- trying to get this door open. Care to help?” I say dryly. “Okay, okay, you don’t have to be mean.” she says. “Have an extra crowbar?” Suddenly, the door exploded. ((If anyone wants to come down in scuba gear and help us, be my guest. The cave has air in it.))
“ACK!! Baylee!” I screamed in horror. Baylee was one of my best friends! Then, I started giving orders. “You. Get the nurse. You. Get medicine. You… I dunno. JUST TRY AND SAVE BAYLEE!” Tears started welling in the corners of my eyes as I had a flashback of a family member who had dies after a concussion.
“It’s okay, Kokonilly- it might not be serious. We have to get her a cat scan, and I think that shows how bad the bruise is. Baylee will be fine.” After consoling Kokonilly, I ran off to get the nurse.
*sniff* “Okay, RAWR…” I sat by Baylee, waiting for help to get here.
“Beep it!” I said. “What was that?” I peered into the doorway. It was a broom closet, only it didn’t have any brooms in it. There was only a mirror.
“I’ll…get the nurse….” Eta volunteered, backing away slowly from the vomiting and fainting. She ran as fast as she could, but by the time she actually found the medical wing, explained the problem, and procured a nurse, at least twenty minutes had passed. “Okay, there she is!” Eta announced when she returned, shoving the befuddled nurse in front of her in case the spontaneous round of vomiting was still in progress.
((Whoops, I didn’t see the end of 315! Replace “nurse” with “doctor” when you read my post.))
((Ewwwww……))
I ran and hid from all the people barfing.
((I have issues with people barfing, because when I was really little, my mom’s friend was pregnant, and she barfed right in front of me. So ew.))
“I’m going to do a head count, to make sure everyone’s here!” I counted. “Wait… I seem to be missing two people…”
“A mirror?” Leafygreen said. “Why was the door locked? It’s just a mirror.” “But what kind of mirror?” I pondered. “Maybe we should touch it.” she said. “No Leafy, I don’t think-” She touched it, and her hand melted into the glass.
I finally finished moping up after those students. There are parts of my job that I love, others…. not so much.
“Alright, Doctor– since you’re here at last do something to stop this vomiting trend. Really, this is getting a little ridiculous.”
I whirled on the students.
“If you would like to continue to have supplies when and where you need them, as well as help finding your two missing friends, someone is going to give me a coherent and breif explanation. Now.â€
((um…. I thought we were still on the beach and I had a cuncussion. what’s all this about rooms and doors? are they the start of an adventure? *drool* I havnt been on one yet!))
eria proptly throws up again much to the irritation of Zyvia. I try to stand up and expain, not realizing that I am babb0ling and making no sense “Pizza-map-Pidda- giant sea monster-dmedusa’s glare-mirror-stone-I’m bad at wavers- Baylee rescued me-crashed- puking-” I sat down dizzily, thinking I had given a decent amd comprehensive erxplanation. everyone looked at me like I was nuts, but Eta said ((or kokonilly, whoever wants to)) “well, she did cover all of the main points it a pretty good order”
((ohhhh! i get it! leafy and Zink are missing! yeeeah-reeeeal smart eria))
“Is everyone still breathing? I found the nurse-. Oh good, the doctor’s here!” I finally showed up, after being lead on a wild and time consuming goose chase through a large portion of the school. I sat down on the ground, exhausted.
After patiently listening to Eria’s ramblings, I said “Well, she did cover all of the main points in a pretty good order.” Then, I noticed
“Oh, RAWR! You’re back! With a nurse! And a doctor’s here too! Yayness!”
Leafygreen gasped. “LEAFY!” I cried. She tried desparately to pull her hand out, but to no avail. I stupidly reached in to pull her hand out, and I got stuck as well! It felt like glue, but softer. I looked aaround wildly. Where was everyone?
I flipped open my cellphone. “Where’s Zinc and Leafy?” The color drained from my face as I saw their coordinates. “We’ve got another adventure on our hands, guys… follow me. Doctor, nurse, stay here. Zyviva, come with us.” I sprinted off.
(follows Kokonilly)
We slowly started sinking into the mirror. Leafygreen looked at me wildly and said, “Now I know why it was locked!” “What a learning experience.” I said sarcasticly.
I jumped up and followed after Kokonilly, not liking the look on her face. Something bad had happened.
Leafygreen’s whole arm was in the mirror. I was up past my elbow. “WE’RE GONNA BE EATEN BY A MIRROR!” she bawled.
“She” is “we” TYVM!
I ran to the door Zinc and Leafygreen were trapped. “It’s locked!” RAWR yelled. I took out my handy-dandy lightsaber, cut a large hole in the door, and just arrived to see Zinc’s whole arm in the mirror. “About time,” she grumbled.
“WAIT,” I said urgently. “How do you know it’s not some kind of portal?”
“We don’t KNOW and we don’t CARE,” she said, furious. “JUST SAVE US FROM THIS DRATTED MIRROR!!!!”
“Okay, okay, okay” I took out a rope, tied around their legs (Leafygreen’s head was in there) and PULLED. “Well?!?!?! HELP!” I yelled at Random_Kokopelli97 and RAWR.
((But the door’s open…?))
That door wasn’t open before, I thought as I went inside and found Leafygreen and Zinc being pulled into a mirror. I immediately reached out to help them, but I tripped and fell headfirst into the mirror.
((Is the door open? Ah well, never mind.))
“TGYPWYA!” I yelled. I dove in after him.
The inside of the mirror was strange. It had a line of… portals!!! So the mirror was a portal! Half of Leafygreen was in there, and TGYPWYA’s head was in there! I stuck my head back out ((Let’s say I could get out because I went in willingly and never tried to get back out)) and yelled, “EVERYONE CALM DOWN!” They shut up, maybe from the shock of just seeing my head floating in midair. “The mirror is a portal. We can go to where everyone else is, 10 minutes back in time so this never happened.”
“Oh good,” I said, relaxing my hold on the rope.
“I imagined it to be a more dire circumstance that that.” I said. “But why was the door locked?” “The door was locked?” said RAWR. “Yup.” I answered. “Could you let go of our legs? It hurts.” Then I stuck my head in to talk to Leafygreen. I explained the situtaion. “But why did it try and eat us?” she asked when I was through. “Yet another question to add to my ever-growing list!” I said. Then I pulled my whole body through the mirror, and looked around. The floor seemed to be made of marble, with glimmering gemstones adorning the walls. The ceiling was adorned with old paintings. “This is the Hall of Portals!” I exclaimed. “I’ve read about this!”
“Maybe it wasn’t the mirror that was the reason it was locked,” I said nervously as I stepped out of the mirror and into a hidden pit. “That was probably it,” RAWR called down.
I looked closely at the paintings. They seemed to be telling some kind of story.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING???” I screeched. “STANDING AROUND AND EXAMINING ART???? THERE’S A REASON THAT DOOR WAS LOCKED, YOU KNOW!!!”
I nervously walked closer to the mirror, there was a sort of drag to it.
Go on, two voices cooed gently inside in my head. All of a sudden I felt like I HAD to go in that mirror , as if in a trance i seemed to glide towards the mirror. As soon i stepped inside the mirror I saw places, pyramids, dinosaurs, and even Zinc the sorceress and Leafygreen looking at the paintings, in a wirl of confusion I landed in a room … A room with thousands of mirrors…
((343- I’m inside the mirror.))
((345 – Yes, I know. The funny bit is that I would have said that even if I didn’t know that.))
There was an eery silence as I scanned the room. The ceiling and the floor were white, everything else was… well… mirror. I could see myself from all directions.
I cautiously touched the closest mirror. Nothing happened. “Hello darling child”, I jumped as I heard the voice speak.
“WHO ARE YOU! ” I screamed wildly. ” Do not be afraid child”, the voice cooed,” I am a friend”. ” If your a friend then show yourself”, I stammered ,not knowing why the voice scared me.
” Look in the mirror,Child”. I looked in the mirror and saw myself.
I heard some scratching behind me. “Uh, guys… help?” I squeaked.
“What”, I laughed crazily, trying to fight the the growing sense of doom, “Am in some weird pyschology thing?” ” No Dear, No Dear…” , the voice echoed. ” Sure whatever”, I laughed nervously.
” Greetings ,Random Kokopelli_97 , it’s been too long since I last visited you”, said a familiar voice…my voice.
“What is it? What’s behind you?”
Baylee lay there, staring at the ceiling. She felt her head, it was bandaged, her wrist was bandaged too. She realized she was in the nurses office on the bed. Memories of falling came back to her. She realized what had happened, and quickly sat up. Just doing that drained all the energy from her. “Where is everybody?” she asked to the first person she saw, which was the nurse. “Oh, some young lady told us to stay on the field while they ran off. Something about an adventure I think.” At the word “adventure” Baylee felt a surge of energy. She grabbed the crutches resting on the wall and quickly hopped away. “Wait! You still need to rest!” the nurse yelled after her. But she was already gone, hopping speedly down the hallway outside. She followed the tracks of Kokonilly in the dusty trail and ended up in a hallway again. At the end of it, there was a door with, a giant hole in it? She stepped inside, with pain throbbing in her leg, and saw some random body parts sticking out of a mirror. “Uh, guys?” She looked around. As she saw somebody leaping into the mirror, she felt tired. She got through the mirror and instantly sat down to rest a little.
This hall of portals is a strange place, I thought as I looked around. I pulled myself back through the mirror and promptly fell into the pit. I looked around. “Hello, Kokonilly! Hello… uh… thing… Uh-oh.”
“97_ Kokopelli Random, my evil twin , Yes it has been awhile since you have tried to mess with my noggin”,I said through gritted teeth. Completely ignoring me she said,” You know it was quite funny the way those idiot doctors tried to get me out of your head”. ” How did you get back in this dimension, they banished you?! “, I growled.
She smiled,” For one thing were not in your dimension at all”, she gestured towards the mirrors, “And I was banished simply for sharing your brain.” ” You mean dominating my brain,” I snapped. “Perhaps”, she shrugged”But it was necessary for my plan.”
“What plan?”
my last post (353) will make sense in my next post
This isn’t apart of the story i’m just explaining things.
My evil twin was always in my head, until brain doctors found her and banished her. As long as she was in my head there was a chance she could take over my body. That wouldn’t be good, seeing as she’s evil. The Mirror world is where she was banished. Since she’s my twin she looks like me so no one could tell the differnce. Anywho……..
~End of explanation~
” Since you obviously can’t wait to here my brilliant plan…” she drawled. ” So your going to tell me your plan?”, I asked hopefully.”No”, She said.
“Oh”, I said a bit down heartedly. ” Well, I guess I could tell you a bit. Phase 1 lure you to the mirror, phase 2 steal your life,”she said as casualy as if she were ordering pizza.
” What ? Steal my… Before I knew it I was in HER head.
“Uh, guys…help?” I turned around hearing Kokonilly’s plea.
“What is that? It doesn’t look very friendly…” I said, looking the thing up and down. It roared. I scooted away. *scoots*
I get dragged to the infirmarry while everyoneelse get to have fun in mirror land. I get put in a bed next to Baylee. “do you have any books? or any idea what happened to leafy and zink?” I have obviousluy stopped babbling and feel normal again. I sigh and sit up. there is a keyring on the bedsidetabble that the nurse must have left. I pick it up and instantly, I feel a key. but this key isnt there!!! an invisible key! just for the love of poking around, I try to insert it into the wall next to my bed, idly thinking, ‘I sure wish I had some good books to read’ to my suprie, the key goes in and turns!! I pull out on it, and a 2′ by3′ door opens. “look at this!!!!” I poke my head in and see a library, that looks as big as MA. then I look up and down, and see it has about 10 MA sized levels, all packed with books and ancient artifacts. “UI think it gives you whatever you want!! ((like that room in Harry Poter, only portable!! ha ha J K Rowling!!)) “come look Baaylee!”
((ha ha ! we will just have to have an adventure of our own!! if you arent too injured that is…))
((I see the light, and it hurts my eyes!)) I was trying to decipher the painting’s puzzle when I heard a snigger. “Aw, lookit little Zinc and her picture book!†Random Kokopelli 97 stood behind me, with a malicious look on her face. “RK97!â€I gasped. “What’s gotten into you?!†growled Leafygreen, and she stepped into the hall. “Two against one? Tsk, tsk. That’s not fair!†she scolded. “I don’t give a care!†Leafy yelled. “We’ll have to even things up.†she said. She drew out a knife, and advanced toward me. Leafy threw out a flame, making the knife white- hot. RK97 shrieked with pain, and dropped the knife. I summoned the knife, stopped it midway, and directed it to Leafy. “I still have my fist!†RK97 shouted. It collided with my face. Pain, then dark.
“You don’t hurt my friends and get away with it, buster!” I leaped on to the imposter’s back, and they staggered under my weight.
“Get off of me, you fool!”
“Never!”
((Sorry I’ve been busy again – whats happening?))
(( Never mind I got an idea now ))
I was stirring. I was dry. Why did that seem strange? I tried to remeber. Monster… Wavers… Pidda… Water… Sinking… Crack…
But then where was I? I tried to get up but I couldn’t… I opened my eyes…
There was darkness and a voice. A voice I knew… I think… Who is it? “Close your eyes my preicous…” The voice said. The way the voice said it made me want to trust it. But my mind said “NO you can’t trust it you know you can’t trust him!” “But I don’t know who it is!” “Yes, you do … just think… think…”
((I’m going to be gone for the rest of today, Monday, and maybe Tuesday. If something important happens, like we go to another dimension, could someone drag my character along please?))
((Wait- I guess I can’t be on 97KR’s back the whole time I’m gone!))
I was holding on as tight as I could, but it wasn’t tight enough. I went flying through the air, smacking into a mirror so hard it cracked. The mirror made a screaming sound and dissipated, and I dropped to the ground, head spinning.
((There. That’s better. Now something can be done about RK97 evil twin.))
((Third person))
RK97 had shaken off RAWR, and ran toward Zinc. She kicked her into a mirror.
((Woah.))
I continue to hide behind the bleachers of the Pidda field as everyone leaves either with a concussion ((I don’t know how to spell, sorry)), randomly disappearing ((Adeia? I don’t know where you are)), or diving underwater and not surfacing. I am alone now.
“Hmmmm, this is interesting…” I say to myself. “I have to butt in in the middle of an adventure again… pity. And I never got to show everyone the mysterious envelope. Oh, well.”
I walk over to the water and dip my toe in. It’s very cold and dark, with lots of fish randomly swimming around.
“Ick. I hate water,” I mumble. No adventuring for me, I guess.
I walk sullenly out of the stadium.
((I have to go now, but I was thinking that I found the other two letters or something. I don’t know. I’ll be back in a week, maybe sooner. Please include my character if there are any more major plot developments.))
((What the heck is happening? *mumbles* Leave for a couple of days and EVERYTHING happens…))
It was dark and I could see her thoughts floating around in her head (it was kinda’ creepy). “Stop!”, I screamed at her . No one could hear me. ” Oh, so these are your friends? I suppose I will have to make they’re “Tragic accidents” even more painful”,her vioice echoed. ” They’ll figure it, trust me”,I said more bravely than I felt. ” Of course they will”, she said ,uninterested.
((367-we all went inside and Baylee and I got sent to the infirmary with minor cuncussions. everyone else went to find Zinc and Leafy who were getting sucked into a mirror that turned our to be a portal to other portals to other universes andsuch. everyone found them and are now in the mirror. RK97 got taken over by her evil twin and is now wreaking havoc. someone got slamed aginst the mirror to MA and it broke. RRAWR is going on vacation. I discovered an invisible key that opens a room however you need it, like the one in harry potter, but it can open it anywhere. I opened a ginormus library and called baylee in. seeing as she hasnt been on, she hasnt followed. *chaos resumes* there I thik I covered it all…)) I step into the huge library and ab drawn to two envelopes very simmilar to the ones Mogget’s little sister has ((did I menton that this labrary has exact copies of everything ever written and/or published? therefore it is *sideways 8*))I pick them up, but hear the nurse coming back. I stuff them into my bathrobe pocket and grab a sherlock holmes novel from a convinient shelf. I squeeze through the door and lock it shut. I leap into bed as the nurse enters the room.
(97KR)
97KR smiled” I think they figured it out, but can they stop me?” All I need to do is find a way out of this dimension she thought. (RK97) I frowned, would she find a way out? Would she take advantage of MOSTLY HARMLESS? 97KR had to be stopped…
((um… does she know about MOSTLY HARMLESS? can she (97KR) read your (RK97) thoughts>? or does she ignore them?))
((367- And I’m in the pit with you and “something else”. I think.))
((wait- a PIT? where did THAT come from?))
(371-97KR can read my thoughts and I can read hers)
I searched my brain… Who was this voice? I had no idea… Yet my subconscious did… Maybe if I resisted it would show more of its personality…
“NO!” I yelled at the voice.
The voice seemed cool still, saying “But sleep will be good for you… close your eyes precious….”
“But I like seeing where I am before I sleep. Could you turn on the light?” I asked try to get the voice to show itself.
“The power went out” It replied
“Surely you have a flashlight?” I asked try again.
“Let me look…” There was a rustling and then a soft Thwump against the side of my head… I quickly fell back into oblivion…
((I’m going to copy Harry Potter.)) I woke up. I was lying on a cold, white surface. There was mist everywhere. I got up. I was dazed, but other than that, I felt perfectly fine. I called for help, but I could not speak. A voice drifted over. One of those voices you hear in instruction manuals. “Welcome to ((mind if I use this word?)) Hell.” Cake. I died. But I didn’t die. “You aren’t dead.” the voice yawned. “Go back to sleep.” This is boring beyond relief! I can’t even talk, much less sing! How do I get back?
((please ignore post 351))
Baylee followed Eria into the library. “Woah” was all she could say. She grabbed “Abhorsen” off the shelf and looked at it. It was pretty dusty. Eria quickly said “The nurse is coming!” and they darted out, Baylee still had “Abhorsen” in her hand.
97KR smiled, hurting people made her feel warm and fuzzy inside, in contrast to that annoying twin of mine she reminded herself. RK97 had to delt with, but how? Wait- she had an idea a wonderfully twisted and evil idea, but a brilliantlly simple plan…
I got up and looked around. Nothing but mist, floor, and myself. “I said, GO BACK TO SLEEP!” the voice roared. Then I had a brilliant idea. I tried to summon a mirror. I tensed, and summoned. Nothing happened. My power didn’t work! I concentrated so hard that I knocked myself out. ((Um, help? I don’t wanna be stuck here forever!))
((Should’nt we get a GAPA?))
379-(sorry… can’t…in… twin…head…)
“Abhorsen? That’s a good book!” I say to Baylee.
((369- Who broke the mirror to MA?… Was it me? *is ashamed* If so, oops! Sorry everyone…))
I felt concious returning bach to me I took it slowly this time like when I wake up after a good night’s sleep; just resting there maybe streaching after a minute or two just slowly regaining motion and memories of the previous day… It was working! I felt my power returning… I moved slowly as I heard someone yell “GO BACK TO SLEEP!” It was the same voice that had tried to make me sleep only angry! Who was it though? Who?
“Ah yes, I love reading the trilogy over and over again, I just couldn’t resist myself!” Baylee shoved it under her covers as the nurse came inside.
(( OH. MY. GOD. I have not had Internet access in a while. My dorm is stupid. Anyway, what the heck is happening?!?!?!?!))
(( Really I have a very little idea kokonilly just read from your last post ))
((387 – I have limited time, and I really don’t want to read all of that, plus I get confused from the different stories and points of view and the (())s…))
((386- Wait, dorm…? Are you at a camp? Because I am too (see my last post)!))
I wander around on a quaint grassy knoll for a while. I wish I have my knitting or a book to read. I have to make do with lying on my back and watching the clouds. I see a cat transform into a mouse, which transforms into a ring.
My cloud musings are interrupted by two pieces of paper blowing in the wind towards me. Could they possibly be…? The letters?
((Bum bum bum…))
I focused hard on the figure in the bed next to me. Our captor havig disappeared, I wasn’t afraid of being caught. I recgonized the outline of Zinc ((or Leafygreen, whichever it is supposed to be…)) asleep. I stared at her ( ) hoping it would wake her up like it does other people…
((continue Zinc))
As the nurse left Baylee asked Eria if she could open the library again. Eria picked up something and slid it into the wall, a door came up. They opened it and stepped inside. Baylee found a comfy chair, wincing as she sat in it. She opened the book. Right when the whole thing was opened, colors sprang from the pages and words filled the air. Baylee stared with wide eyes, and soon, she didn’t see any sign of the library, except the open book, open, floating in mid-air.
((390- Bed? There’s nothing here except me, the floor, and mist.)) I acheived concieness. But I did’nt open my eyes, or move. I had acheived the hopelessness and numbness that everyone eventually gets in Hell. Then I felt someone staring at me. Remaining unalert, I dismissed it as my imaginition and went back to sleep. ((You people in the real world! Incorperate Leafy!))
((389 – Yeah. I’m at NERD camp.))
((Nerd camp? Sounds fun!))
((394 – It IS. ))
I woke up again, turned over, and went right back to sleep.
(i will be gone for a while so you can do whatever with 97_KR but dont get me out of her head yet please)
97KR looked at the shot with blue liquid inside of it, she couldn’t help being wary . She, by no means afraid of needles…but this would send RK97 away, this would make her more powerful. More power.
The easier to get rid of those who stood in her way…
You cannot sleep forever. Everyone wakes up eventually, even in Hell. I found that out. I woke up. I felt a zombie. Dead, but not dead. Existing without a purpose. I rubbed my eyes, and yawned. I stopped in mid-yawn. “I can talk?!” I said incredously. I heard a thumping noise next to me. There was Adeia, thumping on her bed to attract my attention. She pointed at her mouth, signaling that she can’t talk. “How did you get here?” I asked. She shrugged. “Maybe I can summon!” I said happily. But before I could summon, the ground split open. “WHY ARE YOU HAPPY?!” the voice yelled.
((Oops. Floor instead of bed.))
((Okay… I think I understand what’s happening! Yay! *happy dance* So, Zinc and Adeia are in the same place, some weird dimension that seems like death (Spooky! A portal to the after life!). Baylee and Eria are in the health ward. Everyone else is either in the hall of portals fighting 97KR and the new monster or on solid, relatively normal ground. Am I right? I hope so… I was quite confused for a while.))
“Mmmff…” I looked around, feeling less disoriented. As I struggled to my feet, I looked around for the most immediate danger. That was 97KR and her blue needle. Where had she gotten that from? It couldn’t be good. I strode over, that angry determined look you see in the movies in my eyes. To absorbed in what ever demented thoughts she was thinking to see me, I was able to stride unnoticed. I knocked the shot out of 97RK’s hand, and crushed it under my shoe, at the same time delivering a punch to her face. “Sorry, RK97,” I apologized while shaking my fist. The blow was enough to knock the evil twin unconscious. “Who’s next?” I was mad. Now where was that monster…
((Adeia, please continue. If you’re here.))
‘ Comunication is the key to our servival but I cannot talk. I need to talk with Zinc or we won’t be able to make a plan to escape… ‘
‘Open your mind listen to my thoughts’ I thought out to Zinc ‘ Hear me, please… just listen’
(( continue Zinc))
((Kokonilly: … … … NERD CAMP!!!! I was there, too!!!!! AAAAAHHH! SEP, right? In Eugene??? Or did you go to a different nerd camp…
400: Don’t forget me!!! Ahh! I’m randomly waiting in a field catching pieces of paper and waiting for everyone to come back. ))
I catch the papers as they fly by my head, almost missing one. I store them in my pocket with the envelope for later.
“Hi, MLS! What do the papers say?”
((403 – No, CTD. Oh, and what the heck am I doing and where am I???))
((403- I didn’t forget you! You’re on relatively normal ground!
405- You’re in the Hall of Portals, with a mysterious monster behind you, right?))
The monster advanced. “Kokonilly, look out!”
“What? Where?” I turned around as the monster swiped at me.
Yipes!” I jumped back. It breathed fire at me; I ducked. It seemed it couldn’t hurt me as we did a little dance; it tries to hurt me; I somehow get out of the way. RAWR stood there, amazed at my reflexes.
((Dang it, Adeia, your thought- talk reminds me of quarry speech in Princess Academy!)) I shuddered at the voice’s anger, and relaxed. I heard faint wisps of voice. Open… listen… mind… please.. thoughts…
((Yikes, I have missed a lot! I’m going to leave Eta on “relatively normal ground” for now because I’m about to be gone for another week and I won’t have internet access. If you need Eta for anything while I’m gone, feel free to use her.))
Eta, starting to feel sick herself after all that vomiting, wandered off to join MLS in the field catching papers. She was so focused on the papers that she didn’t notice when the others left.
((405- Darn.
409- I did notice everyone’s gone. I don’t like water, and that’s why I didn’t go in.
So now I have Bookworm and Eta with me, right? OK. Let’s not do anything exciting. Maybe we’ll take a hike or something.
And just so you know, I’ve already caught the letters. Whee.))
I wave to Bookworm and Eta. They want to know what I’m doing, and I tell them.
((We need a new thread.))
So you do.