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 Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:37 pm
She was back again in the guise of the small werewolf. Abbi wasn't with her, which made Stormy a little nervous--but it was just scouting after all. Most of these students weren't particularly violent either, and the more feelers she put out, the better her mission ought to go. Hopefully.
She was more fascinated with her tail than she ought to be, though, and it was constantly wiggling with nerves as she walked. The halls of the school were more empty than usual. Stormy had seen posters of some sort of undead field trip? Hmm . . . Well, at least she wouldn't have to worry about accidentally vomiting from the smell.
It wasn't particularly hard to look like a little lost newbie at least. She kept turning her head this way and that, staring at lockers that oozed, twitched, and even stared back in some cases. "O-Oh gosh . . ." No, wait, do that again, gotta sound like a boy. "Oh gosh," she repeated in a lower voice, ears tilted back.
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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:31 am
Xaejil was on her way out of the library. Having explored enough of the grounds in her first weeks here, the beholder now preferred staying indoors when she had the option. The library, for the moment, held enough unknown knowledge for her to voraciously burn through books in her continuing research into the 'white coats' (and as there was little there, just research other species in general in an effort to stamp them all beneath her heels). She was currently holding one book up in front of her face while another seemed to hover behind her head, a purple beam issuing from the back of her head. It was a little known fact that beholders were in fact two minds contained in one form and so she was able to very easily multi-task. Her constant vigilance made it easy not to bump into the strange furred ghoul fretting in the hallway but.. something about her continual verbal distress made Jil pause. "Is there a problem?" She hissed with more venom than was probably necessary through her sharp teeth.
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 6:51 pm
The squeak she made could have made a dog jump--just like she did.
"N-No!" she yelped, fur sticking out with surprise. Stormy quickly collected herself and cleared her throat, asserting a more boyish--
< < Boil, > > Thane corrected boredly.
--boil-ish voice. It sounded more like a tenor who kept cracking due to puberty, which would do. "I mean, well, uh, sorta? I'm new," the werewolf mumbled, completely weirded out and fascinated at the same time at the stranger. Eyes. Oh dear God, please don't tell her one could do x-ray. Please please please. "A-And I don't really know where everything is . . ."
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Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:53 am
Jil wasn't exactly a giving soul but with an opportunity to take a clueless new student and seem important to them, she'd gladly pay the role. She found the furred-thing's voice odd. From the muttering she had thought it to be a ghoul but now she was unsure. Lucky for the hunter, Jil couldn't tell most limbed beings apart and the furry ones were even worse. They all looked the same to her many eyes. "Well.." the book in her hands was snapped shut, the one behind her also closing and dropping from the air where she reached back and deftly caught it without looking. "What exactly are you looking for?" The beholder dropped a bit of the venom from her voice.
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:36 pm
Stormy spent a few seconds staring some more at the demonstration of what life could be like if she too had eyes at the back of her head. She could almost hear the Mean Girls quote: her hair was probably full of secrets. And also more eyes oh God.
< < Remember your alias. > >
"Uh." Then she stood up straighter (which didn't really help, as the golem barely hit five feet) and tried again. "Lots of things! Name's Padfoot Moonmoon," she introduced with an awkward smile, wondering if this was the sort of Halloween-styled silliness Otto was talking about or it was overdoing it. "Me and my brother got here like a week ago, but I'm still getting used to things. I was, um, I was just leaving class to take another look around campus?"
It was delivered hesitantly because Stormy kept getting distracted by this eye or that and was trying very hard not to show that her skin was crawling; this came in the form of one very tucked tail between her legs.
"Amityville's been my goal since I was a pup, you see! And I hear all this exciting stuff's been going on, so I'm trying to, uh . . . sniff things out, if you catch my drift?" Yes good, puns could help.
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:59 am
Jil felt the ghoul had been very unfortunately named. Or perhaps her family were just especially strange, what with the numerous canine related puns. It was enough to make the ghoul gag. "What sort of exciting stuff?" Jil seemed interested in whatever that was because nothing, as far as she could tell, had been happening around her. Of course she didn't seek it out and had been very absorbed in books lately. The beholder took on a bit of a conspiratorial air and stepped closer to the furred one. "You know they keep things from us... Even the government is involved." She spoke low. Perhaps this new person, even a limbed one (as she was), could be brought in on the ultimate truth.
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:09 pm
Stormy was glad she didn't have to explain what she thought was enticing, because that would have probably sounded mundane to an actual Halloweener. Instead, her eyes grew wide (perhaps as round as a full moon one could say) at the mention of secrets. Government secrets even! This could probably just be conspiracy theories at work (Jack had had a few back in the day), but even an odd lead was better than nothing. Rumors always came from something after all.
"Really?" the werewolf asked, ears perking. He leaned forward curiously and joined in the low voice movement. "What sort of things are they keeping? Bad things?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:03 am
"Disappearances." Jil said cooly. "Deaths and abductions. All covered up by the ooooh so effective government." Would this ghoul be interested in fighting the corruption? Learning the truth? Could she become a minion? "What do you think about that?" She leaned in accusingly.
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:49 am
If possible, the werewolf's eyes grew bigger. "F-For real?" he asked, making a soft whining noise. "Oh gosh..." He shifted uneasily, tail swishing with quiet anxiety. "Is it the government? Or, um..." He checked to make sure they were alone before whispering, "Does it have to do with our new neighbors?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:18 pm
"Everyone." Jil said definitely. Suddenly there was the sound of many eyes opening, though with her body covered to the neck, there weren't any visible eyes besides the ones on her face and clothing. This was the beholder's version of looking around. "Come on." Taking Padfoot by the elbow she briskly walked down a hallway, turned the corner and opened what looked to be a closet. Both petite ghouls fit in fine, though they were surrounded by odd things in jars, cleaning supplies, and what looked to be an ashtray where students snuck in to smoke. "Trust no one. Nothing is sacred. No one is safe." Her pink eyes stared intently through white lashes. For someone who seemed so cute she had a disconcerting intensity. "You shouldn't even be trusting ME." Jil accused. "There are beings, outside of Halloween, who are taking our citizens. The bogeymen do nothing. All they do is cover it up." Jil looked positively infuriated by this, her cheeks gaining a (horribly cute) reddish hue as her mood spiked. "As for the... horsemen." She whispered their name as if one were lurking on a shelf listening in. "They haven't come into my searches besides that I know they are fighting this outside force."
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:07 pm
He might have squeaked just a little at being pulled along. Oh God okay play it cool, Stormy. It was easy to look like a nervous newbie thankfully, though the confined space and leery girl (ghoul, sorry) exacerbated it. "Trust no-one, got it," Padfoot mumbled, wondering if this was really the person to be following. But then she spoke of hunters and horsemen, so it was time to listen. "T-Take?" he asked, his voice cracking. "Oh no...So, so who are they? Why're they taking them? D'you think the horsemen know more?" His hands fiddled with way other anxiously. "All I heard was they're kinda extreme..."
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:50 pm
"We originally thought they were some rogue faction of reapers.." Jil said conspiratorially, "but after recent events," namely the mass dream world they'd all been through, "I think they are something else. And I don't know why." Unfortunately for Jil she had no friends to speak of and so no one who was informed had taken the time to fill her in about Deus or weaponization. "The horsemen most likely know more." She scoffed a bit, as if their information would be unreliable merely because they weren't her. "But I have yet to formally meet or speak to one. But if it comes to striking those white coats," she punched a fist into her hand. "I may need to find a way to encounter them."
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:30 pm
Reapers? That made sense...She had only encountered one before, but they were eerily human. "What else is there?" Padfoot asked, feigning confusion. "If they're not from here, where else could they come from?" This one seemed a fiery (read: intimidating) sort who didn't need to be led so much as guided, occasionally prompted. But the opportunity was presenting itself, and it was time to leap on it. "A-Actually, I've been wanting to meet one too!" he added with a bob of his head, gently nudging a few brooms with his tail on accident; these appendages were really weird to control. "I heard rumors...I heard they accept students to their group or something. Sounds super secretive and cover up-y." It was what she had gathered from Gale's conversations with Mei at any rate.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 6:06 am
"Hmmm.." Jil hadn't put much effort into the horsemen but she was beginning to think she should have before now. The past behind her though, she could only move forward with these efforts. "For one with fur.. you are perhaps not as much of a fool as the rest." Was that a compliment? "Your hideous looks aside, perhaps we could ally to pursue this truth. The first step would be to meet a horsemen. Are you with me?" She stared gravely at Padfoot.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:40 pm
Score. It was so hard not to just jump for joy--thankfully the confines of the closet stopped any idea like that in its tracks. Is hideous a compliment here?< < I would not know. Fur is disgusting on any mammal. > >"You bet!" the werewolf yipped, amber eyes bright with excitement. "Super ready for adventure! The truth is out there and stuff! Lead the way, Miss...uh..."
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