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 Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:48 pm
. In The Past . Timeline - From the beginning until Now
Switch gets into a chemical accident at a Lab she worked in. She's okay, just shaken up. Court Order forces her to quit as they deemed her responsible (which was not true).
Switch moves to Durem in a one room apartment.
Comes across Balcombe Curiousities, Meets Marilyn Balcombe and her family, picks up an unusual mask...
Switch gets herself a job as a receptionist.
Finds a small home in Durem and moves in.
BAM the Mask turns into a Shaman kid...with a snake in his hair?! She names him Xbalanque but calls him Kay.
Kid in tow, she frequents the shop - her and Marilyn become friends.
Gets a raise at work and moves again to give Kay his own room - Rents previous house out to a lovely elderly couple.
A man with no past and no 'real' name finds an injured Switch and takes her to the hospital.
She names him Kale and has him live with her.
Halloween 2008 - Kale and Switch get drunk and sleep together. Switch is...a little more than panicked the next morning. Kale continues to sleep in his own room.
Marilyn, Faline and Erich disappear. Marilyn leaves a note for Switch.
Switch takes over Balcombe Curiousities, works as a receptionist part time.
She avoids the shop for a little bit, unsure of how to proceed with it.
New Years Party - Kay figures out that uncorking fake champagne makes Nahual panic and bite him repeatedly. Kay laughs.
January 16th, 2009: Kay grows into a Kid! Switch is happy he seems to have stopped putting things in his eye socket.
Switch returns to the shop full time. Some kids get created because of it.
Life continues on as normal. Kay makes friends. People threaten Switch.
Kale and Switch's relationship, while never talked about, gets deeper. Not physical though! Mentally.
An illness keeps Switch from the shop.
She returns nine months later, despite having gotten better seven months prior - she had returned to her receptionist job for those seven months.
Quit the receptionist job, takes on Balcombe Full time; becomes landlord to a few more small properties.
More kids happen. The shop and Switch get into a few spats. Life is normal
Now you are up to speed!
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:42 am
. Roleplay Log . Mess Makers Inc
Featuring: Evari and Xai
Link: Here
Synopsis: Xai goes back to the shop to complain to Switch that her Glove is no longer working. Evari meets Kay, and they wander off into the shop to play.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:47 am
. Journal . Um. What just happened...?
Written by: Switch
TL;DR: Switch laments over her situation at home and how her life has changed since Kay, recaps how she felt when Kale disappeared for a week without any warning, and how things went after he returned. Then realizes that she's more than okay with having no 'promise' with Kale in regards to their relationship; it's an unspoken one, and that is enough for her.
Entry:
Okay. So. I knew, somewhere in the back of my mind that it was a bad idea to let Kale stay with me for too long. I mean...I've spent so much time alone and I have quite a few...issues...and I just...shouldn't get close to anyone. It wouldn't be fair to them, right? I mean, I hate loud and sudden noises, I startle easily, I can't have children biologically. I'm no good in a family, I'm really, really not. I think. See, ever since Xbalanque was shoved into my life I've been getting better, but I'm far from the perfect Mother. But then...There was Kale, and he was so nice to me I thought 'Ah, what the hell, it won't be forever'.
Now, I don't want him to go. I've had so many opportunities to say 'Okay Kale, it's been fun, but get out now!'. Each time, I just...I just can't take it! I can't let him leave, the thought of him leaving makes my stomach turn. I don't know if I can function without him now, even though it's only been a year. Okay, maybe a year is a long time. It just...makes me seem like part of a Family again. Kale, Kay and myself. A cozy little Family unit. None of us are related, Kale and I are not an item. It's just...the shell shocked shop keep and the runaway experiment. There's no promise between us, we've never talked about dating...but I think Kale thinks the same way I am. I think he's attached to me now, as much as I am to him.
It's weird. Really, really weird.
But...I kinda like it.
Sure it challenges everything I've done to make my life small, clean and simple. I can't live life the way I did before Kale and Kay and even Tek anymore. It's scary, It's unnerving, and sometimes I wish I could just turn back time. But only sometimes, because then I look and I see Kay grinning at me, or Kale nodding quietly as I rant about my entire day to him...hell, I even look at Tek's grumpy little face and think 'Oh, but I'm a lucky woman!'. How could I turn back time and lose all of this?
That I can answer. One week ago today, Kale just...vanished. He just walked away. There was no note, no indication that he was leaving. His things were still where they were when I left for the morning. It was like...like he vanished into thin air! My world came crashing down around me and I found myself as scared and alone as I did after that chemical accident. I don't clearly remember doing anything, but I vaguely recall doing the important things, like feeding the boys and making sure they were happy. It was...horrible. Remove Kale from my life, and that is all I'm left with. Some empty husk barely taking care of two growing boys.
He came back about a week later.
I was...well I was in disbelief. He didn't think he'd been gone for that long! He only thought it was a few hours! It was a WEEK. A god damned week! I was so angry that he had left without a word, and I was so happy that he had come back...I was such a mess. Apparently he can't help this, and he has no memory of what he does or where he goes when he blacks out like that. It's weird, It's scary...but I trust him. If he says it can't be helped, it can't be helped. I was still very angry though. But he held me, and he promised me that if he had a similar urge to leave, he'd leave a note next time.
That's fine I guess, but I'd still prefer if he didn't leave.
Anyway, Kay went to bed and Tek soon followed, which left me alone with Kale. I asked him if we could share a room; I just couldn't deal with him potentially leaving again, I had to keep him with me. I felt silly asking since we were pretty much just room mates...but he agreed, and said we could share a room for as long as I wanted. He told me that he loved me and my heart just about melted! Then...we made love. For the first time (I don't count our real first time, because we were both too drunk to remember anything...but we have our suspicions).
It was exciting and it felt so good...but I woke up confused. I mean, I'm happy that Kale and I shared that experience, and I'm so happy that he loves me, but...we've never talked about 'us'. I've never had a...'relationship' without actually talking about it first. This is new to me...but I'm not really complaining. I know that Kale is mine as much as I am his. I don't think we need to talk about it at all.
But still...it would suck if I was wrong.
...I hope I'm not wrong.
I love him, I don't need a spoken promise between us. We're a Family even without one. Kale, Myself...and our boys.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:51 am
. Solo . Hey Everyone, Lookit Tek!
Featuring: Kale, Switch, Tek, Xbalanque
Cross Posted to: Tek's Journal
TL;DR: On Halloween, the Gear family discovers that Tek glitters under black light.
Entry:
Halloween. The one time of year where the barrier between the words was the thinnest. The time of year where you took preventative measures in order to protect yourself and your home against the evil spirits. Pumpkins, Candy, Costumes...all an important part of keeping yourself and your Family safe. The pumpkin carving was so far the toughest thing they had to do; Between Switch, Kale and Kay they managed to make a couple semi-decent looking Pumpkins (though it was joked that they should just sit Tek on the front porch instead), and put them outside to keep the house safe.
Next was the absolutely easiest part; Telling Kay the importance of checking his candy. Why was this the easiest, you ask? Good Question! It was the easiest due to the fact Kay insisted on not taking part in Trick-or-Treating this year. He wanted to hand out the candy! By his logic, he didn't need to check his candy because Kale bought it all, therefore it was safe. Well, that was one more Halloween tradition down.
The last one was definitely the most fun. Kay had found this intricate skeleton costume, one of those black jumpsuits with the skeleton on them sort of deals. He thought it went perfect with the half skull on his face, and insisted that the house be decorated to match. The front entryway was littered in fake cobwebs and dirt like a crypt entrance, and the front hallway was decorated in a similar fashion. With a bit of toying on Kale's part, the lights in the front hallway were in the process of changed into black lights. To illuminate Kay's costume, no doubt.
"Better make sure to brush your teeth Kay, now that there's gonna be a black light up, I can tell if you're not doing it right." Switch teased the Shaman child, rolling her eyes when Nahual, the snake that grew out of Xbalanque's skull, hissed at her.
"I always do it right, Na. Innit that right, Nahual?" Xbalanque grinned, patting the feathered snake's head. The snake hissed in content, nodding lightly before curling back up in Kay's hair. The dark-skinned Curio went back to his decorating, shaking his head. Brush his teeth wrong, hah!
"And...there we go!" Kale said proudly, climbing down off of the ladder and pushing it to the side. "That should just about do it. Flick the lights for me, Kay?" The Mayan boy nodded eagerly, instantly dropping what he was doing to run to the light switches, flicking them on and illuminating the room in a strange glow. Almost instantly the skull on the right side of his face started to glow, as did the white shirt Switch was wearing and the white socks Kale wore.
But something else started to glow, too. Little bits of lights showed up on the wall, looking like the faint reflection of light off of a disco ball.
"Hey...where's that coming from?" She couldn't think of anything they'd done to make the walls glow like that. Kale looked down at himself, noticing the flecks on him but not behind him on the wall; there was nothing in his shadow. Which meant...it wasn't the walls. He stepped past Switch and looked around; after spotting something on the ground he gave a single laugh, covering his mouth and turning his gaze back towards the blue haired woman.
"Hey, Switch? I...think you should see this..." He managed to get out, trying to contain his giggles while waving his woman over with his free hand. Curious, she wandered over to him, stepping around a chair...and spotting Tek laying on his stomach on the floor, right where she left him. The mish-mashed brat was laying perfectly still and oddly silent, like he was trying to draw the least bit of attention to himself.
Which was hard, considering he was glittering like a disco ball.
A few moments of baffled staring ended in roaring laughter, both Switch and Kale leaning against each other for support. "K-Kay...you...hehe...you gotta c-come see this...!" Switch laughed out, still leaning heavilly against Kale but waving her other son over.
If only they could hear the VERY colourful language being screamed in Tek's head.
Damn did he ever hate Halloween now.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:57 am
. Roleplay Logs . Arrival - Etching and Sketching
Featuring: Switch, Xbalanque, Bastion Remington
Link: Here
Synopsis: Kay is in the shop when Bastion gets his item...and tries to play with the Herald, Orion.
Arrival - Special People, Special Items
Featuring: Xbalanque, Ixxie Mizerlou
Link: Here
Synopsis: Kay talks to Ixxie and helps her pick out the two items she was destined for. Even helping to name them! Whats this, he gets money for his troubles? ...Sweet!
The Not-At-All-Swiss Family Mizerlou
Featuring: P^2, Ixxie, Julie, Cornelius, Switch, Xbalanque
Link: Here
Synopsis: As promised, Ixxie returns with the rest of her kids. Games happen.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:04 am
. Solo . (Meta Solo) Look what I can do!
Featuring: Switch, Xbalanque, Food
TL;DR: Kay discovers he can make food rot and come back to fresh. Much to Switch's disgust.
Entry:
"Na."
Well. There went nap time. Switch peeked open an eye and stared at the brown skinned boy that was kneeling in front of her on the couch, staring at her expectantly. It was one of her self-proclaimed days off from the shop, Kale had gone out for some errands, Kay was playing outside and after a three hour battle Tek had finally gone to bed for a nap. It was the perfect time for a nap, right? Wrong, apparently.
"Na. Na. Na. Na. Nananana~" The boy had apparently gone from trying to wake her up to singing some sort of superhero theme, and it was around this time Switch realized he wasn't going to give up.
"What, Kay? Na's trying to sleep." Like she had already told him before she laid down. She didn't lay down on the couch for fun. Well, when the kids were awake anyway.
"Fridge's broken, food's all gross." THIS caught Switch's attention and she sat up quickly, staring wide-eyed at her skull-faced boy.
"WHAT? But Kale bought that food this morning!" With a groan she stood up, wandering to the kitchen to open the fridge, instantly repulsed by the stench. Yeah, the food was certainly all gross; what was new this morning was now rotten and decomposed. It was too cold in the home for the food to go that bad that quickly!
"I was hungry so I tried to make a sandwich but the bread went bad, so I was gonna make eggs but THEY went bad...and before I knew it all the food was gross." The boy pouted, holding his grumbling stomach. "I don't think it wants me to eat." He lamented, clearly hungry. Switch could only stare between the boy and the rotting contents of the fridge, holding her nose. This had all happened when Kay touched the food? Maybe this little Shaman boy could do more than see and talk with dead people...
"Well I'm sure it's not your fault." She explained sympathetically, turning around to head to a different cupboard to get out a recycling bag - this mess had to be cleaned! When she turned around, she saw something odd. Kay was eating an apple. But...she'd seen the apples all rotten! "Uh...Kay?" She said slowly, pacing herself.
"I picked it up and it was better!" He seemed proud of himself, munching down on the apple and not understanding the absolutely lost look on his Guardian's face.
"Kay...touch all the food in the fridge." She instructed slowly, moving to stand beside him. Never one to pass up poking things, Kay started touching every rotten food in the fridge...and lo and behold, they came back, good as new! "...Awesome!!" The boy breathed out, abandoning his apple in favor of rotting and reviving every item in the fridge over and over again.
Switch, feeling sick to her stomach, wordlessly shuffled back to her couch and face planted onto it. Well...at least she wouldn't have to worry about expiry dates anymore.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:07 am
. Roleplay Logs . Metaplot 01 - Group Thread
Featuring: Robed Figure, Nutbars, Switch, Xbalanque, Evari, Faris, Ryan, Wynn, Deimos, Carina, Pilot and their Guardians
Link: Here
Synopsis: First Metaplot! A figure puts Switch under house arrest but brings Kay with her to the shop; the Other Guardians are lured there by the Nutbars and forced to go play Delivery men. The kids are left behind...
Meta Arrival - ...Party Time...?
Featuring: Xbalanque, Deet Horne
Link: Here
Synopsis: Xbalanque plays Delivery Boy to bring a gift to Deet.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:08 am
. Journal . Response to Meta
Written By:
TL;DR:
Entry:
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:23 am
. Roleplay Logs . Homecoming
Featuring: Trinity Ospice, Switch, Xbalanque, Gera
Link: Here
Synopsis: Gera seems VERY interested in this particular shop; Switch finds him alone and pulls him inside into the warmer shop. While Switch looks out for any signs of a lost Guardian, Kay 'plays with' (read: is thoroughly entertained by) Gera. Gera receives a fanboy AND a gift, and Trinity demands she uses Switch and her two boys in a photo shoot at a later date.
Grocery Shopping!
Featuring: Xbalanque, Deimos, Jiang
Link: Here
Synopsis: Switch lets Kay into the world to do some grocery shopping...but along the way, he runs into Jiang and Deimos! Poor Deimos was talked at nearly the entire trip, and Jiang is made ill by Kay's love of bloody food.
I'm Booooored...Oh hey, a TV!
Featuring: Xbalanque, Michael
Link: Here
Synopsis: Uh oh, Kay is bored! ...Oh, what's this? A Kid with a TV head to the rescue! ...Wait, the shop was nearly destroyed by a Dinosaur and a Giant Tetris block...?
Photoshoot! Then...Food...?
Featuring: Switch, Trinity, Xbalanque, Gera, Tek
Link: Here
Synopsis: As promised, Trinity returns to the shop with every intent on a photoshoot with most of the Gear Family. ((More to come ))
Seriously?!
Featuring: Switch, Vlad, Xbalanque, Victoria, Tek
Link: Here
Synopsis: Vlad pays a visit to Balcombe to figure out just what the heck is up with that Violin...and Victoria! Meanwhile, Victoria ignores Kay, which spurrs an attempt to get her attention at any cost.
Honey, I'm home.
Featuring: Switch, Kale, Xbalanque, Quint
Link: Here
Synopsis: Kale comes home after going missing for nearly two weeks. Whats more, he brings home a set of Shark Jaws! Switch has a mild panic attack (she'd been doing her best to keep Kale from the shop and vice versa), and...Quint arrives! Welcome to the Family, Quint!
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:10 am
. Journal . Wasted Efforts, Ugh.
Written By: Switch
TL;DR: Switch tried to keep Kale from the Shop and the Shop from Kale. It didn't work. They got Quinn. Switch jabbers on about it, and worries about Kay's wellbeing because, well...He doesn't understand personal boundaries, and Quinn seems to have a LOT of personal boundaries.
Entry:
Since I inherited the shop over two years ago, I've been doing my absolute best to keep Kale away from it, and it away from Kale. I've seen what new Guardians go through, and I certainly know what I've gone through with Kay alone, nevermind Tek. Though...Tek isn't from the shop, but he did kind of damage it once. I digress. Anyway, with seeing how many items come from that shop, every day I go in and dread getting another one out of it; so far it seems to leave me alone. But Kale...Kale both lives with me, and is a wonderful target because of me.
I mean, The shop knows I've been trying to keep him away. It must. I mean, It got angry at me once before, right? The shop made...something take my place and practically kidnap seven other people! I wouldn't and didn't put it past the shop to find a way to get at Kale without my knowing, to make me pay for doing or saying something wrong to it.
It's rather childish, for an old building.
Needless to say I was extremely angry and extremely upset when Kale came home from his mysterious wanderings with a pair of Shark Jaws in tow...even more so when said Jaws turned into a boy about Kay's age. I mean, I'm going to care for the boy (oh great, another thing with sharp teeth to look out for), and I'm not going to avoid him or dislike him or anything...just...I didn't want him to begin with, that's all!
Kay's pretty stoked about it though.
Maybe a little too stoked. Kay doesn't really recognize personal space, and Quinn...has a lot of personal space, it seems. I worry that Quinn will bite him one day and cause real damage...
I can't help but wonder what I did to the shop this time. What could I have done that was so bad it would do the exact thing I've been trying desperately to avoid?
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:11 am
. Journal . Awesome!
Written By: Xbalanque
TL;DR: Kay is OMG SO HAPPY to have a new Brother. But he thinks Quinn may have had a home before he joined this one. Also, Kay comes to the conclusion that both his brothers AND Nahual bite him...and wonders why.
Entry:
WOO I HAVE ANOTHER BROTHER!
Quinn looks older than me though. Am I still the older Brother? Hm. Better question, is TEK his older brother? Tek's a Baby! But...Tek was in the family first? Hum. I'll have to ask Na or Chit. Anyway, Having someone closer to me is pretty awesome...I even get to share a room! He seems vaguely familiar though...I think I might've met him once before!
When no one was looking I found Quinn's item. It felt...old. Like, not item old, but spirit old. Quinn got most of the spirit but, and Na doesn't know this, a little bit of it stays with their item. My mask is the same way (also, it's a pretty freakin' AWESOME mask!)! But they felt as old as my mask does. I think...I think Quinn might have had a Guardian before Chit.
Maybe I should ask him one day? Would he remember? Hmm.
Still.
BROTHER. I HAVE ONE.
He's SO COOL! Has these really neat eyes and ALL THOSE TEETH! I mean, it hurts when he bites me and I'm not sure why he bites me but I'm used to being bitten so it's okay.
Tek bites me a lot. I always have a bandage or something on my shoulder...got some pretty cool scars out of it, though!
Still.
BROTHER WITH AWESOME TEETH.
Huh.
Wait.
...Why do both my brothers, AND Nahual, bite me?
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:12 am
. Roleplay Logs . Arrival - Scale? Guitar Pick? Hum...
Featuring: Boston Roll, Xbalanque
Link: Here
Synopsis: Kay is bored and Switch agrees to let him run the shop for a bit. In his efforts to 'help', he gets buried in a pile of things...which was when Boston Roll wanders into the shop to avoid the rain. Kay and Roll make friends, Kay learns a few new phrases, and Nahual learns that Kay WILL actually stop him from biting people. Roll leaves with a Dragon-Scale-y Guitar Pick, a "gift" from Kay.
Arrival - Just Dance, Spin that record babe, da da doo doo-mmm
Featuring: Trinity, Gera, Switch, Xbalanque
Link: Here
Synopsis: Trinity and Gera are out looking for a new bed for Gera, as well as a new place to live. Gera spots the shop and asks to go over and visit them, and Trin agrees. After fawning over his friend's growth spurt, Kay asks him to help get something down from a high shelf, and asks Gera to give it to Trin when he can. Meanwhie, Switch and Trin talk it over...it seems Trin and Gera (plus the soon to be new addition) will be living at the shop!
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:13 am
. Solo . Feels like a Rut
Featuring: Xbalanque
TL;DR: Kay's inner thoughts get whiny about not growing as fast as his friends.
Entry:
Normally, Kay would be estatic to discover that the amazingly awesome Gera and his family would be living on the second floor of the shop. Well, deep down he was. But above that? He was mildly disappointed. Not in Gera or Trin or Switch or even that soon-to-be child that he got Gera to give to Trin...but in his situation. The last time he had seen Gera, the boy had been a toddler, a lot smaller than Kay was. But now? The boy was bigger, taller and generally...looked older!
How?
How did Gera grow so fast, when he seemed to be stagnant! While he didn't know how old he was, he was quite aware that it had been about a year since his last growth spurt, and it seemed like an eternity had gone by just before that! How could it be that his friends were growing like weeds around him; kids he knew were younger than he was? It wasn't only Gera; it was Deimos, too...and Michael and Victoria, though they were special cases. He'd recalled seeing Deimos as a toddler when the shop was taken over by that...whatever it was! Not only that, but Michael and Victoria were both about his age, but he could tell their lives were a lot newer than his.
That...just didn't seem fair at all, did it?
He went out, he learned things, he met new people, he did stuff...and yet he was in a rut, completely stuck. Kay was just itching to get bigger, he wanted out of this small body of his. He wanted to grow and learn everything all over again, like Gera was, or like Deimos did.
His head turned and he looked over at Quinn, who was fast asleep on his side of the bed. Quinn's spirit was older like his; did the Sharkboy feel the same? Kay briefly considered waking up Quinn to ask him, but before his hand could grab his newest brother's shoulder, he stopped.
Nah. Better not. He wasn't in the mood to get bitten.
Sighing, he rolled onto his side, his back to Quinn, and closed his eyes. There had to be something he could do to make himself grow up again...
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:24 am
Growth Prompt:
Kay has been around for a while - in fact, he is currently the oldest known Curio! He's been here, there and everywhere while meeting a lot of people and making a lot of friends. Despite his item, he seems to be a level headed (though hyper) and caring child. Up until now he'd had his fair share of scrapes and thanks to his Brothers and Nahual had spilt quite a bit of his own blood. Up until now he thought nothing of it. But, something happens and he is once more faced with blood. A lot of blood. Something in him changes, and it comes as a shock to him. What happened, and how does he react to it in the end?
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