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 Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2025 9:15 am
Quote: The Reservoir (4) : The Destiny City Reservoir opened about two years ago and is an easy escape from the big city. It's a five minute drive outside of the Eastern side of town and features clear water and sandy beaches--although, the sand here is notorious for squeaking when you step on it. It's a hot spot for all fun summer activities, but it's been in the news for mysterious reports of some strange, aquatic monster. Some accounts say they've spotted a twenty foot long, snake like creature capable of rearing a long neck high above the water. It's hard to tell if the videos are doctored, but there are too many rumors to dismiss easily. Something strange might be lurking deep in the water. Or it's just a hoax to get people out to the Reservoir! But, sometimes, people feel like something is grabbing their ankle, even if they are just wading in the shallow end. In the deeper parts of the water, it gets a little more intense: something has been said to grab onto ankles and pull. People have been warned about dangerous pranks, but so far no one has been caught. In the shallow end, anyone unfortunate enough to be targeted may feel themselves being knocked off their feet and tugged into the water; anyone in deep water may feel a firm grip on their ankle, tugging them lower and lower. Somehow, anyone it targets is freed--either by wriggling and fighting, or because someone intervenes and pulls the would-be victim up. No one has drowned in the lake. Yet. It's impossible to see who, or what, is doing this, but it usually gives up after one failed attempt. Usually. While you may find yourself harassed by the supposed cryptid, or see something visibly odd in the distance, you cannot take any pictures of the creature. Who knows if you're even being attacked by the cryptid or just another youma?
Go out to the reservoir they said, Carmeltazite thought to herself, sulkily kicking a rock along the beach. Check out the rumors of a cryptid they said. Which, okay fine. Normally being assigned to checking out possible monster sightings would have been right up her alley. But this thing, judging by reports she'd scanned was just a big snake! There was nothing even remotely sexy about a big snake!
She might have been appeased had the stories veered more into naga territory, but nope! And sure, she'd read some really interesting porn fics involving snake like creatures, but, again! Those had all been more in line with nagas or like... were-snakes. Which were a thing in some circles. Given her own interests, she wasn't going to judge or shame. The point was, this was seemingly just a big animal. And while a giant, man eating snake hiding out in the reservoir could be cool from a horror movie perspective... it just wasn't Carmel's bag.
Kicking another rock into the water, she watched the surface ripple gently. Ugh, this was going to be so boring!
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 8:09 am
For ages she had heard of "things in the water" at the reservoir. Now that she had Special Magical Powers, Robinhood decided to check it out for herself and put the rumors to rest once and for all. She knew for a fact weird s**t went on down there all the time – hell, her own awakening as Robinhood was precipitated by giant ******** starfish and a talking space cat. So maybe there was something to this after all. Only one way to find out. Though at the moment it seemed like nothing was going on down at the reservoir. The Senshi splashed her boots in the water as it lapped on the beach, not caring if they got wet or not; they were magical boots, after all, and would be dry and unaffected by anything the next time she powered up. She'd discovered that on accident, and was pretty proud of that fact – she didn't need a magical cat to tell her everything, let alone another magical girl (though she wouldn't mind running into that Joyeuse Garde or whatever she was again, because she was HAWT). Something tickled in her mind just then, something that grated like nails on a chalkboard. Pausing her boot-splashing, Robinhood focused, trying to figure out what was going on. Was this the vibe of one of those Chaos people that Cuan Oilean had told her about? If so, it was ******** effective as a warning beacon to Senshi and others like them. Looking around, she spotted someone kicking rocks into the water not that far away. "Hey! You! Are you a Negaverse um…. Nega?" She didn't know what they were called, she just knew she was supposed to beat them up.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 8:31 am
Mentally kicking herself for not paying better attention, the Order aura was practically on top of her before she was jolted out of her own thoughts by the shout. Turning she tilted her head and watched the senshi before making a show of looking around to make sure that she was, indeed, the one being addressed.
Maybe she wouldn't be so bored after all.
Taking a moment to summon Bonk Daddy from subspace, she held the furby close, looking for all the world like she was merely snuggling him. Then, she shook her head and sighed.
"Your grammar ain't grammaring right. Correct term would be Lieutenant. I'll letcha have that one for free."
That was only polite, right? Frankly it was embarrassing to be addressed as a 'Negaverse Nega'. She was doing a Nice Thing when she didn't have to. Shifting her furby so that she could bounce him in her cupped hands, Carmeltazite considered the senshi. Cute, neat hood and a 'fit that actually seemed logical compared to the skirts and sparkles she'd been taught to expect.
"You'd be a lot cuter with some scales or horns," she declared out of the blue. Shifting her weight slightly, she grinned, expression mildly manic now. "You're either gonna fight or lecture. I hope it's the first because lectures are ******** boring and you don't strike me as the boring type. Don't disappoint me, babes!"
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 8:54 am
Now that Robinhood got a better look at the Lieutenant (she'd been right about the Negaverse thing, yay!), she raised an eyebrow. This girly was a cute little thing! Pink hair, super cute and colorful Ren Faire top, sensible pants and boots, even the cursed Furby was cute. (What the ******** was up with the Furby?) Wow, so far all the powered people she'd met were attractive. Must have been part of the design brief from the Space Cauldron. Or Metallica. Metalia. Whatever. "Y'know, for a Chaos Lieutenant, you're pretty ********' adorable," she grinned. "I hate to have to hurt you, but it's kinda in the job description – y'know, Senshi fight Negaverse and s**t." Extending her arm, her magical energy bow appeared, glowing green in her hand. "No lecture. I ********' hate lectures." She produced an arrow out of thin air and nocked it, then took aim and loosed it. "Sorry, cutie…" Quote: Sailor Scout Attack: Dig a Hole.Robinhood holds her arm out, and an ethereal bow appears in her hand. With her other hand, she produces an ethereal arrow, which she quickly nocks, draws and looses at the target’s feet. An opening immediately appears in the ground below the target, and they drop into a black pit about twice as deep as they are tall. The oubliette is big enough that they can move around and try to get themself out of it. This attack lasts about 15 seconds, has three uses, and affects a single target within ten feet.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:28 am
Eyes going wide at the sudden appearance of a magical bow and arrow, Carmeltazite squeaked and paused in her furby bouncing. Wow, no lecture as promised, but no interest in just like... not immediately jumping to violence.
She was in love. Or at least she'd consider being social media besties. But only if Little Green Sexy Hood didn't ******** kill her first.
Even as the arrow hit the ground and she could feel herself dropping, Carmeltazite took quick and careful aim, launching Bonk Daddy right for the senshi's stupid face. As she dropped, she could hear its beak clacking. If she survived this, she'd really have to look into how the hell he could do that with no batteries.
She hit the ground with her back and gasped for a few seconds. Okay. She wasn't dead. That was good. But she was looking up at the sky from the bottom of a big, magical pit. Oh yeah, this s**t was getting reported. Sitting up, she began complaining. Loudly.
"Oh sure, it's fine if she attacks me when I haven't done anything but look for a stupid big snake, but if I had done that to her, she'd be bitching about me bein' an evil ambusher. I asked for a fight, not attempted murder for ******** sake."
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:24 am
"I'm not tryin' to kill y– AAAAAAAAAAAA" Seeing the flying Furby too late to dodge, Robinhood got bonked square in the face by the thing, its beak clacking maniacally as it connected and fell to the sand. "AAAAAA ******** ME I HATE THOSE THINGS THEY ******** CREEP ME THE ******** OUT AAAAAAAAA" The Senshi flailed like she was being swarmed by cockroaches, dancing away awkwardly from the clacking Furby. "Ew ew ew gross gross gross. Why do you have a Furby anyway?" Still squirming, Robinhood approached the hole and leaned over to look in. She'd never actually looked into one of the holes she'd made with her magic before, and she let out a low whistle. "Wow, that s**t's deeper than I thought it would be. Are you okay down there? Like I know I'm supposed to be beating the crap out of you, but I kinda think you're neat," she shrugged. Was it wrong to think one of the Enemy was neat? Robinhood didn't care, really, not at this point, because the Lieutenant wasn't doing anything psycho (except flinging Furbies around) or trying to hurt anyone or steal their soul – starseed, she self-corrected. She was just trying to get to the bottom of the "sea monster" reports at the reservoir. Nothing wrong with that, right? "In case you haven't figured it out, I'm Robinhood. Yeah, I know. It's kinda fun though, if I'm being honest." She looked down at the Lieutenant and grinned. "I'd offer to help pull you out, but it's a little deep to reach you. Besides, I think it'll disappear in a little while…"
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:43 am
"I have a furby because that's what the cosmic roulette wheel gave me," Carmeltazite said, the smugness seeping through. "Don't be hatin' on Bonk Daddy. He's a good little abomination!"
Concentrating, she summoned the furby back to her and sat holding it for lack of any better ideas. A whisper of moving shadow got her to look up again and she saw the senshi. Sticking her tongue out, she rolled her eyes. She was neat! She was ******** awesome and it would have been better if this chick could have realized that without dumping her into a hole.
"Well, its hardly a fair fight if you're just going around dropping people into holes," she shot back. Then, she choked down laughter when the senshi introduced herself. Robinhood? Her name was ********' ROBINHOOD?!? Doing her best to keep her voice disdainful and not show off how flabbergasted she was, Carmeltazite responded with, "How in hell was I supposed to figure that out? The actual ******** does Robin goddamned Hood have to do with holes?"
Flinging herself back down, the lieutenant took some hope in the knowledge that her future as a hole dwelling freak would be shortlived. She'd just wait then and once she wasn't stuck, she was going to slap the smile off of Robinhood.
Then she'd try to figure out the snake.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 11:02 am
Bonk Daddy? Robinhood considered. Yeah, that was an appropriate name for the Furby…. The Senshi's grin widened as the Lieutenant stuck her tongue out at her. This girl was so ******** adorable! "I couldn't figure the hole s**t out either, til I did some research. I guess the Sheriff of Nottingham caught the OG Robin and threw him into a hole called an oubliette. Yeah, like in Labyrinth. And yeah, for the same reason: to forget about them. So he dropped Robin in the hole and told everyone Robin Hood was dead. Surprise, he wasn't! Little John rescued his a**." Robinhood's grin turned to a frown. "Wait a minute. I said I wasn't going to lecture." Stepping back from the edge, mostly so the Lieutenant couldn't chuck Bonk Daddy at her again, she waited for the hole to return to flat beach sand. "Should be any minute now," she called out after a pause, summoning her glowing bow and nocking a magical arrow to it. Then suddenly she felt something wrap around her ankle where she stood in the shallow of the waves. "What– HOLY ******** LET GO OF ME!" Just as quickly as it had grabbed her, it let go and disappeared back into the water. "DUDE NO s**t THE THING IS REAL IT GRABBED MY ANKLE AND TRIED TO DROWN ME" Robinhood fired her arrow into the water, where it simply made a hole that sucked the shallows into it. "******** class="quote"> eldritch stardust
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 11:22 am
"Oh my god," Carmeltazite groaned before covering her face with her hands. "You're such a nerd!"
Which was, she thought, a fair assessment. Robinhood was a gigantic ********' nerd, but she had to respect that she'd gone out looking for answers to the weird disconnect between name and magic. And, as far as lectures went, this one was fairly interesting. And a part of the stories that she'd sure as s**t never seen mentioned in movies or TV shows.
Peeking out from behind her fingers, she saw the senshi move away from the hole and heard her say that the magic would be done soon. Well good. Carefully rolling to her feet so as to avoid making any noise, the lieutenant waited, Bonk Daddy held close and ready for chuckin'.
And, at about the same point she was standing on a perfectly level patch of sand with no holes in sight, she heard Robinhood panicked yells and stared. Yep, the senshi was definitely in the water now, couldn't argue with that. However, she was prepared to argue long and loud over the choice to make a giant hole in a lake.
But, that would have to wait because she wasn't petty enough to want to witness Robinhood accidentally drowning herself by being sucked into a blue hole. Wading in, she scrambled to grab onto the senshi. And, judging by the dark greenish swell that was getting closer to the surface, she wasn't the only one. Moving fast, she hurled her furby at the swell and watched as he bounced off instead of sinking. WELP. Snake was here, time to go!
"Move your ******** legs and help me, you dipshit!"
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 11:40 am
"SHITSHITHIT," Robinhood cursed repeatedly, scrambling her way out of the hole she'd created in her panic, using the Lieutenant's grasp as leverage against the wet sand. "I'm moving my ******** legs, goddammit!" It was hard to try to climb or run one's way out of a wet hole, especially with the added pressure of a mysterious creature out there that wanted to pull her in and drown her. Using the punk bass player strength in her upper arms, she flexed and pulled herself out, thanking all the powers in the universe that her frenemy was pulling hard too. She tumbled face first into the sand, nearly knocking the Lieutenant over. "What the ******** did you mean by calling me a nerd? I'm no bigger a nerd than you are, Princess Bonk Daddy's Girl with your magic Furby!" Quickly Robinhood scrambled to her feet and grabbed the Lieutenant's hand. The swell in the water was getting closer and closer to shore; was that the tip of a tentacle that just poked itself out of the water? "It's coming! Let's get the ******** out of here!" Nerd comments forgotten for the moment, she ran.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 11:55 am
"The ******** did I ever call myself a princess?" Carmeltazite sounded highly offended. "And he's not magic! He's just..."
What, exactly, Bonk Daddy was was pushed aside in the face of the having her hand grabbed and being half dragged across the sand. Glancing behind, she saw the swell rapidly becoming something more solid. She might have thought it was a tentacle at first. But it kept rising up and she was able to make up an actual snout filled with needle teeth and baleful eyes. Feeling her soul trying to leave her body, she really wished that she knew how to teleport. Teleportation would have solved this problem handily. But oh boy, would she at least have an interesting report to file!
Scrambling, she veered away from the waterline, pulling Robinhood with her. The last place either of them needed to be with an angry lake dwelling snake on their tails was right by the ******** water.
"Shoulda waited to fire that arrow, nerd girl," she gasped. "You might've been able to pull that thing off our tails."
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 12:23 pm
Glancing over her shoulder as she was dragged away from the waterline, Robinhood caught a glimpse of what looked like a proper sea monster, except it was in a lake. Yup, there was a long snout, and glaring eyes, and a whole lot of teeth. All the hallmarks of a sea monster. To think she'd gotten that close to being monster chow…. And it was following them. "I got one more," she panted as she ran with the Lieutenant. "One more arrow." Robinhood released the Negaverse officer to continue running if she wished. Quickly she summoned her magical bow and arrow, and in a single smooth motion nocked, aimed, and loosed the arrow at the place she prayed the creature's body was making contact with the shore, backpedaling as she fired. And with a single, sudden "whuh" sound, the monster disappeared. "Holy ********," the Senshi breathed, "shot of a lifetime." She turned to the Lieutenant. "Did you see that shot? I don't ********' believe I made that!" Trotting up to her, she grinned hugely. "High ********' five, dude!"
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 12:54 pm
Even in the midst of fearing for her life, Carmeltazite couldn't help but make mental note of the 'one more arrow' thing. Whether she'd report on that tidbit was still up in the air. She supposed it would depend on whether or not Robinhood could keep them from being eaten. She ran a few more feet after being let go of and then turned to watch. Doubtless, her superiors would have said she should keep running, but... Well.
Not her style.
She caught herself holding her breath as the senshi fired and exhaled in one loud whoosh when she saw the arrow hit. Almost immediately, the monster was gone, sucked down into a temporary blue hole. What they would have done if it hadn't worked was a mystery and not one she wanted to ponder for too long.
Sinking to her knees on the sand, she let the senshi have her moment of victory and nodded when asked if she'd seen. Oh, she'd seen all right. And on the basis of that shot, she decided that she'd let Robinhood's number of arrows remain a secret. At least for now.
"Hey so I'm normally all about high fives and s**t," she began, holding up both hands in a warding motion. "But do you really think that's a good idea. Please don't make me keep more secrets from my bosses than I already will be."
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 1:24 pm
Robinhood's grinning, elated expression sobered then, and she lowered her hands. The Lieutenant was right; it really wasn't a good idea at all, putting her in a position where she had to omit things from her bosses. She hadn't had the hierarchy of the Negaverse explained to her, but logically, she figured that if there were Lieutenants, there were Captains, and probably Generals, and they could be very problematic to someone lower in rank than they were. Plus there was always the Big Boss, whom she had been told about…. This girl was the enemy. She couldn't forget that. "I'm sorry," she murmured, lowering her eyes. "I didn't mean to put you in any danger. I shoulda kept my big ********' mouth shut so you wouldn't have to keep secrets from your superior officers. I… should go now." Slowly she began to back away, then raised her head again, tilting it with a wry lopsided smile. "Hey, at least you got something on the thing in the reservoir, right? You can report that to your bosses, right?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 1:36 pm
And now she felt like she'd just kicked a puppy. Stifling a sigh, she just crossed her arms over her chest and narrowed her eyes as if she were thinking. And then Robinhood smiled and Carmeltazite couldn't help herself. Grinning, she made a shooing motion with her hands.
"Bet your a** I'm reporting that monstrosity. If nothing else, just to confirm there's something in there so people can be cautious. We don't all have magical holes we can drop monsters into, after all."
Rather than let things turn into ******** Sad Hour, she summoned Bonk Daddy and tossed him up into the air, catching him as his beak clacked.
"Now get out of here, you giant nerd. I'm sure there's puppies to rescue or bank robbers to beat up waiting for you to show up to save the day."
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