[R-ORP] Puff-and-Go-Seek! [Phase 3: Closing Ceremony] [Many]

[Sami-Fire]

They swarmed the sidewalks of the city, puuing and buuing and scuttling towards a certain place like a moving furry carpet.

The puffskis that had settled in Destiny City for a while began moving towards a hill on the outskirts of the city. The area around it was lightly forested, with plenty of bushes and other obstacles to hide in or around. Once there, they gathered, chattering among themselves in their puffskish language and seemingly waiting for something to happen.

Megrez had been at home when she saw the rivers of fluff scurrying past her house. She felt something drop into her stomach; as the one who brought all these puffs here, she felt she had the responsibility of seeing just what they were up to. She left home to investigate, powered up, and pursued the puffskis to their spot on the hill. On her way, she was greeted with numerous calls of "Mepuu!" from the puffskis. Some gathered around her, while others resumed talking with their buddies. Sitting on a stump at the top of the hill, she pulled out her senshi phone, and sent Sadachbia and Glitnir texts to come meet her. It's the hill with all the puffskis on it. You can't miss it.

Sadachbia arrived first, excitement in full flare. She literally squeed out loud when she saw the massive cluster of puffs on top of the hill. "There's so many of them! And they're so cute!" She picked one up and held it close to her face, and it bumped her nose in greeting. "Hello to you too!" She set it down and then carefully made her way to Megrez through the clusterpuff. "What do you think they're all doing here? Are they holding some kind of meeting? I wish I could tell what they were saying."

The puffski closest to Megrez bumped Sadachbia's ankle and asked, "Puu?" Megrez said to it, "This is Sadachbia. Say hi!" and it said, "Puu buu, Sadabuu!"

"So cute," Sadachbia said, clasping her hands together.

Glitnir arrived a bit later, with Cor Caroli in tow. He wasn't quite feeling up to snuff, particularly after the previous day's events, but he figured a walk to investigate the puffy things wouldn't hurt. They seemed harmless anyway, so perhaps the worst that could happen was he got weird alien puff dander on him and his dad sneezed a bit (Tribble dander?). He wanted Cor Caroli with him to keep him from brooding too long, or at least to monitor his condition for a bit. "Hey, sorry we're late. This is Cor Caroli."

Cor Caroli was in an even worse mood. After yesterday's spectacle, the unsettled feeling only got worse, and between a general feeling of gloom and an inability to find a place for himself, he was feeling frustrated and sour. Nonetheless, when he arrived at the place full of puffs, he felt some of the dark clouds inside him shift. They had been present at his awakening, so he didn't particularly mind seeing them again. He smiled wanly and waved at the two girls at the top of the hill.

Megrez was happy to see her friends (plus Glitnir's guest) had arrived to investigate as well, but she found herself wondering if others would come to look too. The stream of puffskis emigrating from the town was a fairly public happening; surely there would be at least one other curious person coming to take a look?

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Hey guys! This is the beginning of Puff-and-Go-Seek! In this phase, everyone can arrive, mingle, and get settled. Remember, even if you didn't sign up, you're free to drop your characters in during this opening phase (and maybe a round or two into the game, depending on timing and circumstances)! The dice game will most likely start some time on Tuesday, pending no further RL issues. The rules will be reposted at that time too. Come on in!

Sailor Hawk

Sailor Etamin

Sirene Naiads

Imara Mason

Shanyume

Mei, Aiden, Amelia

chi honda

Sailor Mira

PoddlyPood

Sailor Chara

frayedflower

Sailor Eurydike

Ruriska

Chibi Aludra

honeyed cuppycake

Rhona Lee

Stump_Fairy

Evren Porter

litian

Chibi Oort

 

[Sailor Hawk]

Sailor Etamin had just finished a skirmish with a real low level youma, when he saw the puffs. "What the?" He stared for a minute and then kind of followed them. He felt some kind of content and completly forgot to power down his scout self. As he followed them, he realized that they were going up a hill.

There were already people and puffs there, settled down like they were waiting for something.

"Um hi. " He didn't know what to say. Well almost. "I'm Sailor Etamin. What are these creatures?"  

[Stump_Fairy]

Evren was standing where ever she was with her index finger at her temple.... "Haaa... How did I get to the park?" She then put her other index finger on the other side of her head and put on a look of deep concentration. "I was going to the grocery store... nope can't really remember... guess I'll just enjoy the scenery... then."

Why was she even going to the grocery store again... she really spaced out today....  

[frayedflower]

Eurydike had tried to embrace the whole powered life thing, you know, for greater justice and purpose and all that. He went out and patrolled whenever he could, which beat sitting at home and staring at a wall. He had never slept much anyway. - maybe that was all true, but under the weird pink and white get-up, he was still a guy working two jobs and running around all night. So, when he'd realize slapping on the hero persona didn't exactly keep him from his cigarettes, the end result was he was smoking a little more than usual. Just a little.

He was puffing away at one, wishing his free hand was clutching a cup of coffee, when the puffs themselves streamed by in a torrent. The senshi clentched his cigarette tighter between his teeth, clicking his tongue. He was trying to embrace this whole powered life thing, like he'd said. - that meant costumed weirdos and magic and fighting and even talking cats that shot lasers sometimes.

Giant gatherings of these already weird puff guys he'd been hearing about? - did this ever stop getting ******** weird? "Just had to move to Destiny City, " he grumbled, somehow managing to keep a sour face even as he walked amidst a herd of the cutest little cuties.

It was kind of a no-brainer when he got to the hill and found, what, five powered energy signatures there? He scaled the hill easily and came to a stop, crossing his arms stubborn even as a puffski rubbed against his leg. He shot Etamin a look, brow raised, as he asked, "Seriously? - do you have a TV? They've been going on about these things for weeks." Or so he'd heard. Personally speaking, Eurydike didn't have a TV. But people at work gossiped, so he'd heard something through the grapevine - and even if he hadn't, he'd seen them here and there on his walks to and from work.

Eurydike glanced at the others there - two senshi he didn't know, one senshi and a knight he recognized. "You two were at the gym, " he reflected out loud. Hadn't really had much of a chance for introductions there. "So, what? People've been sayin' these things are harmless, right? - so anyone know what this is all about?"

Sami-Fire

If anything about the reportings of the puffs in DC media is incorrect, just lemme know and I'll tweak away!

Sailor Hawk

Sorry he's a little cranky sounding, he's a little sleep deprieved biggrin ;

 

[Sailor Hawk]

Etamin raised his eyebrows at the seemly irritated senshi, holding back a twinge of irratation himself - he was Order Senshi and attacking other Order members was out of the question. "My family only moved here about 4 weeks ago; I've only been a Scout maybe two and half weeks, and when I wasn't busy with school or Scout business, I had other very important things on my mind." That would be his search for his long lost twin sister, but this idiot didn't need to know Etamin's personal business.

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that's ok wink , but watch it, he just made Etamin cranky too. Etamin has a nasty side that he's trying to get rid of now that he's a Scout - but he still new wink

 

[Sami-Fire]

Sadachbia noticed another Egyptian-style senshi (Etamin) approaching and waved enthusiastically to him. "Hi there! I think Megrez can tell you about them the best." She carefully made her way through the puffs to him. "Nice fuku. What's your sphere?" she said with a smile. "I'm Sadachbia, Senshi of Construction. Who are you?" It made her a little excited to see that she wasn't the only senshi with Egyptian influences on her fuku. It was a bit curious, since Egypt didn't exist in the Silver Millennium to create those influences, but some things could be left a mystery.

A spacey-looking civilian woman (Evren) appeared, and Glitnir called out to her. "Hey, are you lost?" If this woman was looking to go to the grocery store, she was very, very lost. He came a little closer to her. "I can escort you back to the city, if you'd like." He figured the woman could use a little guidance; what if she had spaced out and a Negaverse agent came to attack her? Destiny City had a way of making people focus, he thought.

Cor Caroli lazily looked to Eurydike when he mentioned the gym. "Oh, yeah, we were. I think I remember seeing you, kinda." His tone was duller and less enthusiastic than usual. He had had a little sleep deprivation himself; loss of the nature he had experienced wasn't terribly conducive to peaceful rest. "Do you know what happened after that big-a** aura dropped in? We got out after that."

Megrez had been distracted by the leader puffski puu-buuing enthusiastically about something when she noticed that people had arrived. "Hi everybody!" she called out. "If you came here because of the puffballs, they're called puffskis! They lived on my planet long ago. One came back to see me, and then it went and brought all its friends here!" That would have to suit as a summary for now.

Sailor Hawk

frayedflower

Stump_Fairy

 

[Sailor Hawk]

Etamin nodded to Sadachbia and Megrez, calmer now. "I am Etamin, and my sphere is Hieroglyphics. It is interesting that you are somewhat similar to I in style. One of my first friends among the Scouts is as well - Sailor Osiris of Justice."  

[Stump_Fairy]

Sami-Fire

Evren looked up with a bright smile at the person who spoke to her. "Thank you very much for the offer but I can't really remember what I was going to do in the first place!" She said this with a much more cheerful voice than what one would normally expect.

"Everyone is dressed in such interesting outfits though... is there some sort of event going on?" Evren apparently was still oblivious to the super natural side of things that was happening in Destiny City... even though she had been caught up in a few so far.  

[litian]

Briar had been at home, downstairs by one of the windows that looked onto the street when he caught sight of the flashes of movement along the side walk.

It was something that had called for investigation of the Oort kind and so he had snagged the last of the cookies and slipped out from the laundry room window.

The cookie was long gone by the time he made it to the outskirts of the city as Oort, other people also there, although none of them were people he knew.

Save one - an orange-haired woman - who he had seen at the party with all the stupid masks at the start of the year.

She had been with her glowy friend - her very glowy friend and there had been a woman with creepy holes there too.

He walked forward slowly, reddish eyes glancing at those around before drifting to where a bunch of fluff things seemed to be settling on a hill.

For a few moments Oort stopped and stared at the fluff things making noises and then he looked back at those around, before making his way over to the orange-haired woman.

"You were at the party" he said, it not occurring to him that she would probably have no idea who he was given that he hadn't been in super-hero mode at the time. "With your glowy friend." The orange-haired woman was glowing too with blue feathers on her arms and an egg thingy on her forehead... Although not as much as her friend had been because her friend had been glowy all over.

He scrunched up his face and pointed over towards the hill with the fluff things "Do you know what those are? Are they like the monsters?" Adding "The ones that do the dust thing?"

Although they didn't look like the monsters he'd come across. Then again the monster at the concert hadn't looked like the other monsters that he'd come across either.

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Sami-Fire

Hi Megrez, Oort remembers you even if you are all glowy now wink

Sailor Hawk

for proximity

frayedflower

ditto

Stump_Fairy

ditto

 

[Sailor Hawk]

People were starting to gather. Bunches of Scouts too. He went up to Megrez. She had said that they had come from her homeworld. "So Sailor Megrez, they come from your Homeworld? Have you been to your Homeworld? I was told that our homeworlds were destroyed. That Etamin lies in ruins, as the others do. If that is true, how is it that you've gone to your homeworld and found ... these ... things?"  

[Sami-Fire]

"Osiris?" Sadachbia said. "Funny how that works out, huh? An Egyptian-style senshi actually gets an Egyptian god's name. I can't remember what he's the god of though." She paused, then added, "Sadachbia means 'Lucky Star of the Homes.' I guess it fits, since my sphere is construction."

Glitnir was faced with the problem of explaining what was going on to a clueless civilian. Thankfully, she had provided an alibi for herself. "Yes, there is an event going on! I think it's got to do with the puffy things. Maybe they wanted us to sit in on their meeting... whatever it is they're discussing. I wish they could tell us."

When the chibi senshi approached Megrez and mentioned a "party" and a "glowy friend," it took Megrez a moment to connect the dots. Right, the New Year's event. She hadn't remembered seeing this chibi senshi there, but if he had seen her, then he had seen her. "If it's the party I'm thinking of, yes, I was there. And my glowy friend's name is Penthesilea." She kept a pleasant countenance despite the gloomy subject, but thankfully the subject was changed. "They're called puffskis! They're not like youma, no, I don't think. They lived on my home planet long ago. They can teleport, which I think is how one came back to see me. And then it went back home to wherever they live now and brought all its friends."

When Etamin came to Megrez, he gave her an interesting question to answer. "Yes, I have! Homeworlds haven't been destroyed so much as ruined. They still exist, and you can go to them if you have your senshi phone. How you get there depends on your model of phone. There's an app if you have the touch-screen one and a button if you have the old one. And like I told him," she said, gesturing to the chibi, "I think these things can teleport somehow. That's how they must have gotten here."

Sailor Hawk

Sailor Etamin

Stump_Fairy

Evren Porter

litian

Chibi Oort

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Doing a mass quote just to poke people again! Also, I will most likely be starting the dice game either tomorrow or Sunday (tomorrow is more likely).

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Sirene Naiads

Imara Mason

Shanyume

Mei, Aiden, Amelia

chi honda

Sailor Mira

PoddlyPood

Sailor Chara

frayedflower

Sailor Eurydike

Ruriska

Chibi Aludra

honeyed cuppycake

Rhona Lee

 

[Sailor Hawk]

Etamin nodded to Sadbachbia. "That is pretty. Osiris, I believe was the God of the dead, the father of Horus, the Living Horus being the Pharoah. Osiris, I believe judges the hearts of man on a scale, the other side being a feather. I believe the name also fits." Etamin smiled.

Etamin turned back to Megrez. "We can return to our homeworlds? How interesting. I must attempt this! It may help in my quest to find her.." He trailed off as he stared into space, sadly.  

[chi honda]

Sailor Mira was just out doing her normal patrol. She had just finished baking some wonderful french pastries at home, and she figured while they cooled off it would be a good time to start her patrol. She could still smell the sweet scent of the pastries on her sailor outfit. It smelled so delicious to her, that just as she was turning the corner a bright smile came on her face.

It was just as the smile appeared, she noticed a group of people and puff balls right down the street - on a hill of all things. It almost looked like someone sort of event or something. Was there something going on that she didn't know about, then again this kinda event didn't look like it would be advertised.

"I wonder what it is...." she whispered as she changed her walk into a run. She headed straight towards the hill ahead Since no matter whatever was ahead, it looked like super fun!  

[frayedflower]

Eurydike listened, deadpan, to Etamin's explanation. He resisted the urge to roll his eyes, and a snort of vague amusement escaped him. "What, you want a metal or somethin' guy?" He didn't bother to mention that he'd only been a senshi for about the same amount of time. Odds were the Egyptian senshi didn't hear him anyway, and it was probably better off that way.

His attention shifted back to the senshi he'd seen back at the gym, and he grimaced. "After that... things kind of went to s**t. I think they got the senshi we were tryin' to help, " and he bit down a little harder on the end of his cigarette, light ash tumbling down with the gesture. "Her signature went out and she felt like the rest of the creeps, from what I could tell." Basically, a failure, a ********. He'd been about as much help as a hunk of wood, really - obviously he hadn't given up, but -

More people were also arriving. Some of them not involved in the whole costumed capers bullshit. Well, that just made things real ******** awkward, didn't it?

"Wait." He held up a hand when he heard the one senshi, the chick who'd said the puffy things came from her world - because sure, why not - and made sure to press on in a whisper, "You're tellin' me this stupid a** phone can take me to space? - you're tellin' me I can ********' breathe in space now too? - you gotta be shitting me, right?" Even when he said that, though, his eyes got this excited little glint to them.

Sami-Fire

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Sailor Hawk

specific mention

 

[litian]

A voice spoke from somewhere behind him before the orange-haired woman could answer his question, the source one of the gathered people who had been there when he got here.

He was asking something about homeworlds and said something about an Eta-something. That the Eta-something was in ruins.

And he called the glowy woman Sailor Megrez.

Sailor Megrez. He hadn't had a name back when she had helped him and the little kid back at the party.

But he was a senshi too - at least senshi was the name that Horatio had called it - although Oort personally preferred superhero because superheroes were cool and stuff.

Besides Horatio had also said that being a senshi was like being a superhero. At least he was pretty sure she had... Even if it was a while since he had seen the talking cat with the tail flag and candy cane-like goggles.

In fact he hadn't seen her since she gave him the pen thing and told him that he was a superhero.

The orange-haired woman was talking, both to himself and the other person who had come over and she called her friend a super long name - a Penthe-something.

She mentioned the fluff things too - puffskis - which kind of made sense for a name since they looked like fluff things.

Youma wasn't a term that Oort was familiar with and he was opening up his mouth to ask about them, when another voice cut in, this one a man with a cigarette but wearing a...

He stared - yes definitely a dress - a dress in pink and white. He would have perhaps have commented on it if not for the fact that the other was talking about phones and space.

"These are space phones?!" He pulled out the phone that Horatio had given him as he spoke, hand waving it slightly in Megrez's general direction.

He continued voice excited "We can go to space with them?!"

Why hadn't Horatio told him?

Because seriously space - super cool!

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Sami-Fire

Sailor Hawk

mention

frayedflower

space is super cool okay