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 Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 10:25 pm
The birds twittered as they fluttered inside, hopping about the incense burner with tilted heads to and fro. Naturally, Piper ordered them to nudge it over to the edge so she could slide it out and take a look for herself, dismissing them afterwards so she could better concentrate. "Bren, you into some weird stuff," she mused with a soft scoff. Why hide incense in the vent anyway? Wasn't that supposed to be used, a-doy, out in the open? Well, wait, it didn't really smell like anything . . . So what the hell was he burning in there??
"Real weird stuff."
She turned to show Ignatius her find, shrugging. "Can't tell what he was burning in the vent, but that was there? I-D-K." she commented as she set it down next to the . . . clown cup.
(Brenley, was this why you didn't invite people over.)
"Let's check the other rooms, yeah." She sounded a little too eager to continue rifling through his stuff, even though Piper was starting to get the feeling this wasn't quite the whimsical adventure of breaking and entering she had originally concocted. Moving past the threshold the divider had been covering, she strode towards the closet to investigate, attempting to throw it open with the dramatic flair all things required when opening a closet (of course).
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 1:47 pm
Screech was very happy. Once he'd had his fill of the food Ignatius provided, he scampered past Piper and into Brenley's bedroom, hopping up onto the bed itself and curling his tail around his nose. His eyes remained open, always watching.
The closet was rather boring, all things considered. Inside, there was a single bar with about ten shirts and fifteen pairs of pants hanging from it, all in shades of blue, brown, and orange. A handful of scarves decorated with jingling bits of metal and belts with numerous pouches hung from the walls, but all they had in them were more rocks. A sewing machine sat in the back corner. It was very old, but it wasn't dusty and had probably been used recently.Seiana_ZI the day that they finally meet for real and ignatius brings up all the stuff he saw here will be fabulous
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 2:36 pm
Was that incense in the vent?
"Maybe he was trying to spread the incense smell or sommat?" Ignatius had to admit, the more and more things he was seeing here, the more he knew this was a mystery they had to get to the bottom of. Brenley wasn't anywhere to be found, his pet was hungry, there was mud tracked... There was definitely something off, though he didn't know where the vent incense fell in to the whole thing.
As Piper headed over to the closet, Ignatius decided to follow Dommy (because that was the uglysaurus' name now) into Brenley's bedroom. To most people that would be an intrusion.
Ignatius wasn't most people though.
"Yo, Piper, do you have some kind of seeing spell too?" Maybe that would help them with the harder-to-get-to places, like the vent. In the meantime, his eyes darted all over the bedroom, looking for anything that seemed off or disturbed ... before he got distracted and marched over to the wardrobe anyway.Ol-j-man : D Kick the collective asses of those finals! Smerdle Brenley's first uninvited bedroom guest
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 9:34 pm
"What?" Piper had not been busy riffling through the more shiny bits of Brenley's closet, no sir, not tempted at all to possibly ruin more friendships just because something seemed of value. No, no, don't. Remember how bad it got with Kettil? Don't burn all your bridges now. Sigh.
She turned her head when the question clicked, scowling. "I'm an elemental mage, I don't do that spell s**t," she told Ignatius as a matter of factly (read: with sass). "Racist."
Several fiery cardinals were then deployed into the room with the ghost to help shed a light on things, one of which attempted a peck in passing at him because rude.
"That's more Bren's deal. Maybe he's got somethin' that can help in the nerditorium?" Forgetting to close his closet, Piper made her way back into the lab and began searching through his little labeled bottles, hoping he'd been smart enough to have quite the catalog.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 12:37 pm
The wardrobe held more clothing, some of it a great deal fancier than the things that hung in the front closet. If Piper were in the room as well, she might have even recognized what Brenley wore to prom.
Sadly, the rest of the area held little of interest. There was a half finished note on the boil's desk, along with an essay titled Amityville Herbs: What Lurks in Our Backyard, but beyond that, there were no clues as to where he might have disappeared to in this room.
Back out in the glass cabinet, Piper would find more of what she had already seen, stones that changed eye colors when rubbed, vials of temporary hunger, even a necklace full of beads that generated a different dog's bark each time they were touched. Some of the spelled items came in a pair, with one of the two labeled 'bought' and the other 'made.' A small 'made' glass orb sat by itself, however, a piece of paper propping it in place. The paper said:scrying: stare at and think of what you're looking for Seiana_ZI my sinuses said i couldn't have any fun this weekend
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 1:41 pm
She didn't do spells? Then how did she summon those vines? Incantations? Summoning? He didn't know what they called it, reapers with their specific names for specific magicks...
"Oh, what should I call your stuff then?" called Ignatius, fishing through the closet and briefly admiring the formal outfit Brenley had in his wardrobe -- probably looked fairly -- no this wasn't the time for -- "People make assumptions about me too because I'm a ghost," stated Ignatius, with a laugh. "But really, I'm an elemental."
"Also, I like Nerditorium! I was gonna go with the Nerd Lab..."
Investigating like a proper sleuth, Ignatius plucked up the note on Brenley's desk and read through it. What was he going to say? Something about not worrying, he would bet. That was what they always wrote in the movies right before something bad happened.
"Nothing in here but an unfinished note to his mother and a fine suit!" He strolled right out of the bedroom and into the bathroom giant toliet and all.xSmerdle Hope you feel better now D:
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 5:31 pm
"I mean it's technically still a spell, but when you tell people you can cast spells, they're thinking stuff like witches and wizards and whatever," Piper explained with a sigh from the newly christened nerditorium. "I just say magic, I-D-K. Wow, B-Ren, you have some weird priorities . . ." Temporary hunger? Dog barks? What??
She was about to make a joke about the sorcerer and suits until she remembered that one time he did wear something nice at New Years, at which point she decided it was better just to keep her mouth shut.
Amongst the oddities, though . . . score! "Looks like he had a scrying thing? I'm gonna check it out, one sec." Piper plucked the orb up as well as the paper (just in case; she honestly didn't know how this stuff worked), focused on the orb, and began to think of Brenley.
(She would never admit how easy that was. It was just the New Years attire thing that triggered it, obvs.)
Smerdle oh yikes, I hope you feel better! ;;// Seiana_ZI aaand my last final is done WOOOO
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 7:55 am
Besides the giant toilet, shower stall and sink, there was little to the bathroom as well. Everything was relatively clean and very dry, too dry to have been used for anything for a couple of days. The mirrored cabinet over the sink seemed to have a minor spell cast on its magnet to keep it tightly shut, but it could be opened with a firm tug by anyone who was not a minipet. Inside, Ignatius would find average bathroom things, including a toothbrush, comb, bandages, and a razor that had probably never been used.
Under the sink were some cleaning supplies and several rolls of toilet paper.
Out in the nerditorium, the scrying orb remained a cloudy blue just long enough to seem broken, but then it flared white and green before settling into a clear image of grass. Grass, grass, grass. Bright green grass, slightly dead brown grass, healthy grass, stomped on grass. Grass.
Maybe it was broken after all.Ol-j-man yes i do and yayyyyy die finals die Seiana_ZI it is giant toilet paper... jk
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 8:20 am
Ah, magic. That was easy enough. Elementals said they had elemental magic, after all. "Magic. Got it. Elementals use some magic too. I was thinking you were gonna say incantations or something long and complicated."
Ignatius laughed, slowly quieting as he started glancing around the bathroom. Hmm... It seemed kinda dry in here. No steam at all and... Hm...
Ignatius closed his eyes, focusing on static electricity. The air around him became briefly electrified, much like a rug after someone rubbed their feet over it. Dry air got along well with static. Wet air, not so much. But nothing seemed to dulling his static in here. Dry. The room was dry. If the room had been used at all recently, he was positive his static would not be acting normal.
...Wait, had Piper said something? Scrying or something... Maybe she could find him that way. "Yeah, sure, good luck with the scrying thing!"
There wasn't all that much to the bathroom, but it did contain a few clues...
For one, there was no way this had been used in the last few days.
And for a guy that came off as clean as Brenley the Nerd did, that was a problem, and a confirmation of what they were beginning to suspect: there was no way he had been here recently.
After scouring the rest of the room, including glancing in the tub and prying open the cabinet, Ignatius strolled back into the Nerditorium where Piper was located. He made a beeline towards the vent and glanced up. That incense in the vent was still didn't seem to fit any of the other clues. Hm.
"He definitely hasn't been here for a few days, Piper," offered Ignatius, quietly, though he wasn't sure if she could hear him in the scry.Smerdle Brenley who is the giant you're hiding.....
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 8:28 pm
She snorted. "That'd be a pain, huh? Nah, that's more witch and wizard stuff." If they hadn't both busy she would have asked him more about being an elemental (especially since lightning used to be the element that gave her trouble), but for now her thoughts had to be all on Brenley.
And what it got her was . . . grass. Nice green grass, but just grass. Piper tried waiting, but literally all she got was a nice clear sky and lots of grass.
Scoffing, she placed the stone and paper back and turned to see Ignatius near the vent. "Well that was a bust," she grumbled. "Just a shot of a clear sky and some turf, nothing else . . . Wait, what." His conclusion had only just reached her.
She stared at him for a moment, confused. Then it went back to her default frustration.
"b*****d didn't even let me know!" was her first reaction because, clearly, this was very important to note. Then the mage's frown deepened. "Waitaminute. If he was going out, he would've done something about that . . . thing, right?" The minipet thankfully had stuck to Brenley's room instead of continuing to creep her out with its ugliness. "I mean, he's a responsible guy, he would've, like . . . not locked it out."
Things weren't adding up; the problem was, math wasn't Piper's strong suit.
Seiana_ZI maybe poor poor bren just has bm issues
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 9:18 pm
Clear sky and turf? Why would a nerd like Brenley be outside anyway?
Wouldn't being inside be more interesting? It seemed to be, with the Nerditorium he had himself set up here. There were beakers and potions and scrying materials and things he honestly didn't even know what they did. Maybe there was something that would make the scry more useful? Something that was a little less vaguely about things that nerds would never be interested in anyway and something more about where in Jack's name the nerd actually was?
Ignatius was moved out of his own babbling thoughts by Piper's sudden and totally expected frustration. Taking on the expression of a private investigator, Ignatius tapped his chin and nodded, looking very serious for all of a few moments, especially as she started to point out some things that he had already noticed as being rather ... well, bad.
That was when his quieter voice returned, and his expression went from private investigator stern to actually a bit concerned. It did seem a bit odd he would run off without telling anyone.
Or little Dommy.
Math may have not been Piper's strong suit, but it was Ignatius'. A bit. So long as he was allowed to pace about and think aloud. "So, let's think here," he said, partially to Piper but mostly to himself. "We discovered that Brenley left the uglysaurus outside of this area and left it to starve which doesn't really make much sense. There's some things dropped on the floor in the kitchen which doesn't really fit him either, and there's an unfinished note in his room almost like he got interrupted from finishing it... And there's dried mud near the window which was unlocked, which doesn't seem to make sense either... Why wouldn't he just use the door?
"And for that matter, why wouldn't he close the window once he got in or out if that was how he was going to get in and out?"
Ignatius was pacing around the room, clicking his tongue against the roof of his mouth.
"And he never told anyone he was leaving, on top of everything else. He just kind of ... left."
His expression fell from concerned to a frown.
"Piper, I don't think ... he intended to leave."
A pause.
"I think this is a nerdnapping."Smerdle Ignatius suggests laxative potions. (p.s. I hope you don't mind I went ahead I had an inspired moment... *cough*)
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 8:58 am
The room was bereft of additional clues, only the hidden incense, unfed minipet, and dirt seemed out of place, but even with those few clues, something seemed off.
Nothing happened in the time it took them to speak, but soon after, the orb flashed again—twice more with random patches of grass, then grass again, this time partially covered by a torn scrap of beige fabric. Golden embroidery spanned its surface and three small, decorative medallions dangled from its edge. It was a piece of one of Brenley's scarves. And it was outside.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 12:43 am
"Uglysaurus." She spent a few seconds cackling at the moniker and immediately adopted it for future reference.
Nerdnapping, though, wasn't quite so funny. Well, no, it totally was (bravo for the name, Ignatius, bravo), but it also totally wasn't at the same time. The orb she had used flashed back on like a haunted skellyvision and only added to his theory: no way would Bren just leave his scarf outside. Now Piper didn't know anything about the sorcerer's family, but she highly doubted even an overprotective parent would just scoop him out. Which led her to one final, extremely genius conclusion.
"The bad kind of nerdnapping," she intoned ominously, her frown deepening. "You don't think it was, like, just a really bad prank, right?" It still totally could be, she thought. Like some weird hazing ritual. But Brenley didn't strike her as someone who really made enemies easily either. (Although really, some kids didn't need a reason according to her old school.)
She didn't sound very convinced by her own reasoning either way and growled a sigh as Ignatius paced, bouncing a little in place. "Yeahokayno, this feels worse than a prank. Crap. Should we tell someone? Like who? No, wait, should we try looking for him around campus? Is he even here?" Piper wanted to hit the perpetrator, though, not muck around some more in the detective stuff. "Plus, I mean, someone's gotta . . . Ugh."
Making the "one second" motion at the boil, she turned and made for Brenley's room to try and get the minipet. Technically now it was fed and okay, but she felt weird just . . . leaving it there. Alone. Even though it was a totally weird minipet to have.
Seiana_ZI u shouldn't be making faces when on the toilet n e way bren
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 5:43 am
Scarf, outside? It seemed odd for someone like Brenley to just leave his clothes lying about--
-- Though maybe he was a secret exhibitionist, Ignatius supposed he wouldn't judge just for --
No that didn't make any sense. Piper was right, this was the bad kind of nerdnapping. There was no real justifying this in a better light--the clues all came together in a way that Ignatius, for all his cheerfulness and monikers and distraction, could not ignore. This wasn't a fun little detective game any more. This was serious. Though Ignatius could like serious too--he liked getting to the bottom of mysteries. The only novels he ever really kept attention long enough to read were the mysteries. Right now he felt like Sherlock Ghulmes...
Telling someone made the part of him that bucked authority growl a bit, but the rational part of Ignatius also knew better. As much as he was acting like one -- and he was totally acting like one right now -- he was not a Boogeyman. If anyone would know how to find Brenley it would be them, though Ignatius didn't exactly want to let go of the search either. Maybe they could find him before the Boogeymen. That would be badass.
A race against the boogeymen...
"We should try looking around a bit more," shouted Ignatius in the direction Piper walked off in, because Ignatius was not exactly the epitome of patient men. He was still pacing, his loops becoming a bit tighter as his thoughts raced a bit more. "But the Boogeymen, it might be good to report this to them too!" As much as he'd still rather not, this was serious... Ugh. Boogeymen.
"Oh, and maybe try bringing some food to Dommy, it seems to like that!"
Dommy being the uglysaurus of course.
Just for good measure, Ignatius paced over to the window and boosted himself up a tad, looking out of it for any nearby signs of that scarf Brenley dropped or anything else of Brenley's...Ol-j-man srsly brenley keep your face under control Smerdle the uglysaurus mocks in the distance
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 1:19 pm
Screech lifted his head and stared at Piper as she entered the room, but he didn't otherwise move. He was wearing a collar, however, a collar that might serve as a lead if she dared to get that close.
Outside, there wasn't much for Ignatius to see, at least until a breeze blew past, ruffling the grass just enough so that the light glinted off of something shiny not very far away. It might have been nothing, but it was probably worth checking out.Seiana_ZI iggy is the best boogeyman reach for the stars son Ol-j-man o.o constipato 2014 i don't know what i'm typing anymore xcuz me
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