Experiment Log 217-P5-012

[Pi-sama]

Rainy Day RP

green= Selma
blue= Tali
purple = Susan
brown= Parmida
orange= Manelin
Olive= Edmund
light blue= Vincent
red= Niki


Susan just arrived at the school today and she saw a tall boy at the end of the hall, counting. She crawled over to him and sat at his feet, watching him and waiting for him to finish counting.

Taliesin wasn't quite surprised when Selma wandered in. Though he was surprised when he saw the white robe she was wearing, one that showed the curves she was starting to get. For a moment, he stumbled over his counting and felt his face heat up. Almost shyly he waved at the girl.

He was even more surprised when a toddler came up to him. Blinking he waved at the young girl. He had thought he knew all of the children in the tower, but he'd never seen this toddler before. Strange.

Susan saw Tali's wave and decided to speak to him.
" heo I'm Susaa a u" she said with a cute smile.

Taliesin simply melted at the toddler. He continued counting quietly as he held his arms out to the toddler, silently asking if he could pick her up.

Susan stretches her small arms out so that Tali can pick her up, and she asks him.
"wat u mae?" she looked at him, curious.

Selma smiled and waved back at Tali, before noticing the approaching toddler. She looked at the girl curiously and giggled a little behind her hand when the girl spoke with the appoximate pronnounciations of a toddler.

Susan hears a laugh behind her and she turns her head to see another tall person, this one a girl with red hair.
" Heo i Susaa " she said, waving her little hand.

Taliesin frowned for a moment, resting the girl against his waist. For a moment he counts silently. "I'm Tali, we're playing hide and seek. Want to help me look?" '50 one-thousand.. 51 one thousand..' Tali froze for a moment before remember what number he was on. It was hard to count and talk at the same time.

Susaa? Selma tried to work through the toddler-speak and decided the child probably was trying to say her name was Susan? She'd go with it. If she was wrong, then oh well, the toddler would probably just correct her.

"Hello there Susan. Nice to meet you." She noticed how Tali was having difficulty counting with Susan distracting him. She whispered to him. "Want me to take her from you until you're done counting?"

Susan listened to Tali and said "ies i elp u to uk"
Susan turned her head to Selma and smiled cutely, saying, "Ice to mit u,"

Tali shot Selma a grateful look and tried to hand Susan over. He continued to count under his breath. Hopefully, everyone would be hidden by the time he finished counting.

Selma reached for the toddler and placed her on her hip. "Yes you can help us look, but we have to let Tali finish counting first ok?"

Susan nods to Selma and she caught a hair tuft in her little hands and said
" uteeeeee airrrr , i ike u air" she says while she plays carefully with her hair.

Selma smiled, but then winced slightly as the toddler's fingers caught a snag unintentionally. "Thank you. I like your hair too." She brushed the girl's dark bangs out of her face

Susan giggles and hugs Selma.
"u ae ice, I ike u," she said as she put her head on Selma's shoulder and closed her little eyes. Soon after, she is soundly asleep.

Selma shifted the toddler's position slightly, trying to make both of them comfortable as she figured by Susan's sleepy expression that she might be there for a while. Soon enough the girl's eyes were closed and she was sleeping soundly.

"I guess I get to keep her for a while," she said, whispering to Tali as she moved to sit down with the girl on a nearby bench.

Parmida sighed as she followed Manelin into the basement. She wandered around as she looked for a hiding place. Not there. Not there. Not there. Not there. She marked places off mentally as she continued to look. Tali's voice wasn't as clear now. She wondered what number he was on for a moment, then turned her attention back to finding a place to hide. Ooo, hey, what was that? She backtracked some and stared at the place. Yes... It could work... She eyed the cloth-covered table before her. The cloth reached the ground. Very nice. Most likely very old to be treated so. She reached down and pulled the dust-covered cloth up. She very nearly sneezed as she went under and carefully put the cloth back in place after her.

Manelin grinned as he lit the last candle and finished placing it. Now, where to hide... He had been watching everyone else as they hid and wondered why no one used the wardrobe. It seemed like a good place to hide. He wandered over to it and looked at the doors. Now... Where'd that chair that Niki used to get on top go. He needed it to open the doors. Ah! There it was! He scooted it over towards the doors with loud scraping noises then climbed on top. He reached for the handles and tugged. Now that was odd... Why were they only coming out a little then stopping? Was someone already in there? Drat it!

He got back down and shoved the chair back into place. NOW where was he to hide? Hmm... Did Parmida have room under the table for him too? He wandered over and lifted the cloth only to be greeted with a shrieked "THIS IS MY HIDING SPOT! GET YOUR OWN!" He dropped the cloth as if it had turned blue and staggered back. Maybe not. He briefly wondered about hiding with Niki, then thought about Parmida's response. Maybe not. He had to get his own spot. He sighed, then wandered around some more. Maybe he could hide in plain sight? ... Not likely. How come everyone else had the good spots?

He lit the candles! The candles... Didn't he place one...? He quickly went over to it. Yes. There were curtains next to it. He blinked, took off his shoes, hid them at one end, and placed himself behind the other end. Ooo, hey, bonus shelf. He tested how much it could hold, then hoped up on it. It creaked some but held him. Now his feet didn't show! He wondered if he should get his shoes. Naw. Tali had to be close to finish counting. He wouldn't have time to get back to his hiding spot!

Parmida grumbled. How dare Manelin try to take her spot! Perhaps if she hadn't of screamed, she wouldn't have to change spots. Tali would surely traced her voice here! She grumbled all the way out from under the table and started looking some more. Oh, why not. She stalked over, opened the wardrobe doors, stepped inside, closed the door, and hid behind the white robes hanging in there. There were even shoes in there, so hopefully her's wouldn't stand out!

Some hard and pointy was poking into Edmunds back in the trunk. It seemed to be several centimeters tall, but not very thick at all.

"One hundered one thousand." Taliesin opened the door and yelled down the stairs, forgetting about Susan. "Ready or not, here we come!!"

He turned towards Selma. "Will you please help me find them?" Tali asked politely. "I could use the company.." The almost-teen gestured to the doorway.

"Sure thing Tali. It'll be fun," Selma said quietly, before reajusting the sleeping toddler on her hip as she got back to her feet. She moved towards the doorway and used her free hand to hold onto the railing as she decended the stairs into the basement.

Taliesin smiled to himself as Selma preceeded before him. His stomach still flip-flopped as he stepped into the flickering light of the basement. It was dim and for a moment 001 clung the stair railing. Almost stubbornly he loosened his hand and took one step down. The roiling in his stomach quieted somewhat with that successful step and Tali managed to follow Selma with the appearance of confidence.

He paused at the bottom and glanced around. Having never been down here before he couldn't tell what had been moved and what had originally been like that.

"What do you think? Where should we start?"

Selma made her way to the bottom of the staircase without incident and without seeing Tali's little moment of unconfidence. She searched the candle-lit room for a moment with her eyes. The semi-darkness had a certain beauty to it and she smiled before turning to Tali. She surprised herself by semi-consiously admiring how the candles lit his profile. Shaking her head to clear it of the thoughts, she responded to him.

"Maybe we should start by looking in the boxes and such that are big enough to hold someone?" She grinned, "You were always better at this game than I was anyways."

Tali grinned a little at Selma, nodding at his suggestion. "Sounds smart." He nodded at Selma's attestation that he was better at the game." Well, that's only because Niki couldn't keep quiet. It helps to have more than one person looking."

Glancing around again he spotted a large table, hung with a thick stained white cloth. Tappping Selma on the arm he gestured towards it and whispered. "You take one side and I take the other?"

Selma shrugged and nodded, heading towards the table, Susan still on one hip. She tried to keep her footsteps as soft as possible as she approached. Once there, she waited for Tali's cue to lift the cloth and see if there was someone inside.

Tali reached the table just as Selma got to the other side. Raising his hand he counted to three on his fingers then lifted the cloth suddenly, ducking down to check under the table.

Nothing but a large dark space stared back at him, and Tali dropped the cloth quickly. With a sigh of dissapointment he stared around the basement some more. There were trunks and boxes and a wardrobe and curtains and, Tali shuddered thinking about it, under the stairs. "Where next.." he muttered softly.

Selma lifted the other side the same time as Tali and was dissapointed as well to find nothing by empty space. She let go of the cloth and looked around the room, trying to decide where the others might have hidden, as well as listening for any noises that might give them away. She nudged Tali and pointed at the trunks, as if to say. "Want to check those?"

Parmida tensed as she heard Tali come down the stairs. Was that a second set of footsteps? Who was with him? They weren't also looking, were they? No fair then if they were! She twitched then stilled herself. It wouldn't do if Tali heard her here; she had nowhere else to hide, and Tali was looking...

Manelin tried hard not to fidget on the shelf. It had already creaked everytime he moved on it before Tali came down, he'd be found if he moved again. So he stayed put and hoped Tali wasn't right on the other side of the curtains...

Tali nodded silently, heading to the first trunk large enough to hold someone. He nodded at Selma grabbing one end of the lid.

Selma mouthed, "One, two, three..." before throwing up the lid of the trunk and looking inside. Searching the trunk, it seemed to be full of metal of some kind, and there was no room for someone to be hiding in there. Giving an "oh well" look to Tali, she moved on to the next trunk.

Edmund shifted in the last trunk, biting his lip as he felt something digging into his back. It was 'sposed to be all soft things in here! No fair!

Then the little boy heard footsteps, and the creaking of one of the other lids. Burrowing deeper into the robes, he curled up tighter, trying not to make any noise.

Vincent wandered around the complex, yawning. Such a rainy day, he couldn't go out, but the lighting was wonderful and he could hear thunder in the distance. A storm was coming.
He stopped at the entrance to the basement; what was it doing open? He listened a moment then quietly closed the door, turning the key. I wouldn't do to have any of the toddlers to crawl in there. He had a sudden flutter in his stomach when the thought that perhaps someone was already down there but he didn't hear anything... perhaps he'd check later. He yawned again, he was certainly hungry and he needed to practice. Where was everyone? He could definately do with a fight to ease his boredom. That night, was that practice? Tali seemed to have the upper hand until...
He caught the sent of pie and headed that way. It smelled like rasberry and he always loved rasberry pie.

Niki almost sat up and glared at Tali when he made the comment that she couldn't keep quiet. Well, she'd just keep very quiet this time and show him that she could! Though she wondered who he was talking to, having only barely heard Selma's voice and couldn't make out who it was. Though she could hear various noises as the two searchers looked for the hiders.

Taliesin followed Selma to the last trunk. "Ready?" he whispered to the girl. Gently he stuck his fingers on the edges of the trunck. "One, two, three!" With a heave he flipped the trunk open.

Showing an amazing amount of restraint for a fidgety toddler, Edmund stayed absolutely still.

Selma peered into the, trunk, but stayed fairly upright so that she didn't drop Susan. She was using both hands to hold her now.

"Ugh, she's getting heavy," Selma said, shifting the toddler's weight to try and make her more comfortable to carry. Her eyes passed over the white cloth in the trunk.

"Think there's anyone in there, under all that?" she aked Tali

"Only one way to find out." Taliesin plunged his hand into the robes searching round until he met something soft and solid and warm. A wicked grin danced on his face as he adjusted his hand and started tickling the body. "Found you!" he crowed with victory.

Selma giggled as Tali started tickling the toddler inside the trunk. "There you are Edmund," she said smiling down at him. "You want some help out of there?"

Edmund hardly dared to breath as he felt the hands on the robes, and then...the toddler let out a squeal - somewhere between suprise and disappointment - as Tali tickled him. He squirmed around a bit, and then poked his head out of the white robes, pouting. At the same time, his fist curled around whatever it was that had been poking him in the back, trying to pull it 'round so he could get a look at it. At Selma's question, he continued to pout. "No." With that, he stood up, still tugging at the thing.

"Whats that you've got there Edmund?" Selma asked, curious as to what he was trying to pull out of the trunk. She leaned down closer for a better look.

The boy blinked as he managed to wrest the thing free of the robes, and then held it up. After a moment, he pouted. Oh. It was a book. Edmund was certainly hoping for something more...interesting. The little boy could just barely make out letters. He certainly couldn't read. Even so, it might have pictures!

Climbing out without help - grasping tightly to the book he had found - Edmund flipped open the pages, trying to see if there was anything written or drawn inside.

Tali seemed less interested in what the boy had found than in finding the rest of the group. Glancing at a marked candle, he was surprised to find that nearly half of the allotted time was up. He must have counted for a while longer than he thought. For a moment he winced, regretting Susan distracting him. A glance at the sleeping toddler wiped those thoughts from his mind.

"I'm going to look for the rest of them. You going to help us Edmund?"

To the toddler's extreme disappointment, there were only words. Lotsa scribbled words, and nothing he could particularly understand. He was about to simply hand it over to Selma, to see if she could make sense of it, when something told Edmund that it was important. He had t'keep it secret, and safe.

Knowing this, the boy hugged the diary to his chest, turning to Tali and shrugging. "'Kay."

Taliesin gestured towards the next hiding stop on their way around the room, a couple of old tapestries and draperies hung against the wall. "How about over there next?"

Manelin quivered slightly from his hiding spot. Luckly, he didn't move enough to move the shelf, and remained quiet. He hoped they weren't about to search his hiding spot.

Parmida shivered and snuggled into the robes surrounding her. She wasn't about to be next, was she?

slowly Susan goes waking up in the arms of Selma, with her small hands she is rubbed the tired eyes and when she opens them She go blurredly to another toddler and with sleepy voice she says, "Heoo, I Suaa," yawning as she speaks.

Selma smiled and set Susan on the ground. She took the toddler's hand and began following Tali and Edmund on their search. "You coming?" she asked the beary-eyed girl.

Susan nods her little head and follow Selma, she look at Edmun with curiosity but she dont talk , she try too help Talin looking around attentively, but as she no see the way she trips and she falls