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 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:34 pm
Jordan slung his bag into a corner of the room and headed straight for the coffee machine. His research was going nowhere; he'd thought he had a lead on the object he was looking for, but nothing he could find was panning out. Dead end after dead end, and he was starting to get a headache from too many hours spent without food or coffee and too much frustration. The coffee part was easily solvable, at least.
He leaned on the counter and waited for the machine to work its magic.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 5:57 am
There was a sucking noise, almost like a pop, and a heap of black cloth appeared out of nowhere and dropped straight into a puddle on the carpet.
For a moment, this seemed like all the weirdness the room had to offer, until the cloth stirred. It started to move.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:07 am
Jordan jumped, summoning Ferros reflexively and knocking his mug off the counter in the process. The coffee machine narrowly escaped a similar fate. He stared at the heap of cloth. While he generally expected weird s**t to happen on a regular basis, it generally didn't happen in their room.
The fabric moved. Cautiously, Jordan took a step closer and used the spike atop Ferros's head to flip the fabric aside.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:23 am
 A limbless, scarred minipet blinked up at him, before dropping its ears and huddling backwards. It made a startled squeaking noise.
The scars were, however, familiar.
As was the single diamond stud in its left ear, and the pink leather collar (belt?) strapped around its middle. Two items hung from it, a slick, fully metal skull with one eerie eye that glowed pink. The other eye had been replaced by a blue jewel. The second item was round, and silver, and looked like a dog tag, except the phases of the moon were etched into its surface. The ring they hung on also looked familiar.
It shivered, in fright or anger it was hard to tell, and growled- before looking at Jordan with surprise. Its ears tilted forward again. "Squeak-eek?" it asked.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:27 am
It was just a minipet.
... It was a minipet with a familiar scar pattern, and an earring, and a pink collar with a moon charm and a charm that looked suspiciously like the skull on B0nez's hilt. Jordan stared a moment longer while his mind wrapped around that. Then he desummoned and crouched down. "Uh. ... Harrison? Is that you?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:57 am
"Rrr," it growled, but seemed slightly confused by its own answer.
It wriggled forward again, tipping up, only just able to reach Jordan's knee. Its eyes were grey-blue.
It made a huffing, purring noise, looking at him expectantly
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:03 am
"You're a minipet," Jordan said. He picked the Harrison-mini up, caught somewhere between amusement and dismay. "Again." Then something occurred to him. "Wait, Rep went out with you. Where is he? No, right, you can't talk. Do you know where Rep is?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:16 am
"Rrr," Harrison said, resigned. This was worse than the cat. He shuffled his hidden and uncomfortably long tongue around in his mouth, which tasted like salt and dust. No arms. No legs. Just what the hell was he supposed to be?
"Rrr," he answered again, when Jordan asked if Rep had gone with him.
"Rrp," he repeated. His ears went back. He shook his...head, which was his whole body, and just made it look like he was wiggling. He didn't know. Rep'd be here soon, though, he was pretty sure- although it'd be bad news if Rep ported back to the lighthouse and thought Harrison was stuck somewhere out in the jungle.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:29 am
"You don't know where he is?" Jordan asked, just to confirm. "Is he also a mini?" He tucked Harrison safely into the crook of his arm, absently rubbing behind his ear. "I know you guys were checking out another artifact, so you would've gone out through the portals. But you got dropped back here. Hm. So if you were together, Rep will probably get dropped here too - so it'd make sense to wait a little and see if he does. If he's not here soon, we can go check the portal to see if he came back the way you went in. Good with you?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:10 am
As if on cue, there was a pop disgruntled cascade of clucks as a creature which to all intents and purposes looked like a very bizarrely coloured rooster dropped into the room. He hit the floor and fluffed up all of his feathers indignantly. He was much too ******** small. This was unacceptable.
With a hop, skip and a flap of his stubby wings he perched atop the zebra chair and clucked at Jordan as if it was his fault somehow he was poultry. He didn't see Harrison anywhere, at least until he realised Jordan didn't have many fur accessories and that that thing he was currently petting was probably their other half.
This was inconvenient.
Perched up here there was also a rather irritating desire to crow.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:21 am
Harrison purred. The somewhat severe expression aside, he was pretty similar to a tribble.
With the second pop, Harrison relaxed. "Rrrrp."
He shifted uncomfortably again. Was there something...stuck back there? He felt around what felt like never-ending rows of teeth clumsily, before coiling the long tongue around the offending object.
Harrison opened his mouth.
His jaw extended and extended, taking up almost the whole of his body, and a pink, veiny tongue coated in slobber slithered out to deposit a very slimy pendant in Jordan's hand.
It snapped back like a tape measure.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:01 am
That was clearly Rep. Rep was a chicken. Jordan fought the urge to burst out laughing or make a totally inappropriate joke. "There you are," he said instead. "I guess we're going to have to wait for this to wear off, huh."
Then Harrison flopped out a tongue that was twice as long as his whole body and deposited a rather slobbery pendant in Jordan's hand. "Dude," Jordan said. "I'm not sure if I should be impressed or grossed out." He held the pendant up to get a look at it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:17 am
Rep stared as whatever Harrison was because several hundred times more terrifying. The instincts in his half crazed minipet mind said that he was dealing with a terrifying predator that was probably threatening one of his..group? It was surprisingly difficult to disentangle himself from instincts, and he found himself puffing up threateningly at the fluffball that was Harrison before he snapped himself out of it.
"This is ******** weird." he said grimly, though all it sounded like was a drawn out warning cluck.
Hopping down from his perch he wandered over to Jordan in an attempt to get himself picked up aswell, but halfway there his mind meandered and he ended up distractedly pecking at his shoes instead. This minipet body wasn't so great at this whole focus thing.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:03 pm
Harrison growled noncommittally.
"Real ******** weird," he agreed, before fishing around again and this time depositing his bandaid tin to join the pendant.
He squeaked, "Guess I forgot about this part of the island defense. Figures. More fighting, we could have handled. Hey, Jordan, did you see- s**t. He can't understand. You saw, didn't you? B0nez and Tracey. I told you they were changing."
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:11 pm
Jordan put the pendant and tin on the counter, then bent down to scoop Rep up in the other arm. "Hey, hey. I like those boots. Oh, hell, my mug," he said, making a face as he realized he'd knocked it down.
He padded over to the bed and set Rep and Harrison down on it, then went to the desk and picked up a pad of paper and a pencil, bringing them back. "I don't know if either of you can manage to handle a pencil, but if you want anything, it might be a faster way for you to tell me."
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