Walking home one night, you happen to come across a rather cozy looking holiday pop-up store. Sweet and wonderful smells waft out from its doors, and once you step inside, you find a rather jolly looking man in a snowman costume handing out free samples of what he would like to call “Frosty Frappes”.
It seems trustworthy enough, as there are multiple people already happily sipping away at their drinks at nearby tables and you decide that you’ll take one and go about your way.
It’s sweet and cinnamony with just a hint of something cold. Mint? Ginger? Well, whatever it is, your body feels cooler, and there’s an itch in the back of your throat. You clear your throat, and first it comes out normal… Then you find yourself humming, then whistling… And finally, you can’t stop, every word you say comes out in song. No matter how hard you try, your thoughts come out in song as if you were born to sing! An hour passes, and soon enough singing dies down and you can talk normally once again. For the next week or so though, you find yourself humming or singing softly to yourself while doing mundane tasks. Luckily for you, it also seems like you can hit the notes for now!
Toby decided to make his cold december evening nicer with a fancy new drink. A "Frosty" one, to be seasonal, and it was...well, an experience.
Still. He'd wanted to meet up with someone powered this evening, so even with the stronger than usual desire to whistle and hum, he found a nice secluded spot and powered up before hopping up to the rooftops humming a Christmas song ('up on the housetop') and heading out.
...His plans quickly changed however, when he realized he was heading straight for the unmistakable feeling of a Chaos person. No telling what might be going on there, so he steeled his resolve, and whisper-sang to himself, "Here we go, into the wild blue yonder..."
...And only spared a moment's consideration as to why he might sing such a thing.
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Bet you thought I forgot!
...Well, I did.
But I remembered, and made a start before I slept! WOo! o /
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 1:19 pm
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Crocoite would not usually enjoy something like a frappe, as it was a little too 'festive' for him. He was not really there for the holiday marketing, anyway, but rather because he had been out patrolling for a while and was feeling a little tired. He supposed there were worse things for him to drink, and at least this one wasn't disgustingly pepperminty or whatever else they threw into drinks to make them Christmas themed.
It was. Tolerable. That was as close to a mental compliment as he was going to get, and he finished the sample cup quickly enough. Weirdly, he took the time to find a trash bin to throw it out in, rather than crumpling it up and tossing it over his shoulder. Sure, he was fine with leaving bodies in his wake, but trash?
He saw no reason to pollute.
Humming to himself a song he was not sure he even knew, though was fittingly one of the most famous songs from How the Grinch Stole Christmas, he felt the aura of a White Moon soldier coming toward him. Stopping, leaning on his cane, he waited. Let them come to him, and taste his cane as soon as they arrived.
You're a mean one, mister Grinch.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:30 pm
Nix spotted a very confident, and dour looking negaverser...someone who just oozed malice.
"Hey, little Negaverser!" he called out...as a sort of chant, although he hadn't intended to say that exactly, and certainly not a sing-song chant... "Stoppa what you're doing!"
... His face betrayed a bit of confusion, but he pressed on, trying and failing to speak normally.
"I, Nix, shall end your terroring!"
Nobody said suddenly having to sing made one good at writing songs on the fly unconsciously.
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Really dropped the ball there, sorry about that! D:
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:33 am
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Crocoite stared at the senshi for a long moment, trying to decide if he was being made fun of or not. It was a strange approach, after all, coming into a fight now with fists blazing but with a song. Weirdly, Crocoite did not feel as annoyed as he knew he should have.
Definitely some sort of trick or game going on here.
"I find myself unimpressed," he said, hearing his voice come out in a rolling baritone of some sort of musical lead. He snapped his mouth shut, the song abruptly ending. No. That sentence would never be finished.
Not if it wanted to come out in song.
He waited and felt like he could speak again, growling and pointing an accusing finger at Nix.
"by one so poorly dressed."
DAMN it. He snapped his mouth shut again. Okay, this was not a sing along, and he decided to skip the fanciful introductions and take a running swing at Nix's head with his crocodile cane instead.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:18 pm
Nix considered, briefly, trying to talk with this guy about why they might be singing everything they said (clearly they both were doing it), but that possibility went right out real quick as a cane went swinging for his head.
He threw up an arm and took the hit on his glove, making him wince a bit--but being a super senshi helped quite a lot on that type of thing. "So rude, ya mean dude," he said, more cheerfully than he'd really meant to say, and punctuated his reply with a froggy kick back at the man's gut.
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this is me fast replying! (not really. x.x )
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:13 pm
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Crocoite growled as his hit was blocked, but even that came out with a musical tone to it. He was not enjoying this weird song they both got caught up in, and he was very sure it was the senshi's fault despite his look of surprise and mutual confusion.
So if he just bashed the senshi's face in, the stupid singing would stop, right?
It was a good enough option for Crocoite to roll with. He was thrown back by the kick to his gut, making him cough and get back to his feet slowly, but he was not deterred.
"I hope you're prepared for pain," he sang, in his rolling voice, which was tinged further by his anger, "for nothing will protect you from this cane."
At least he wasn't stuck singing something uplifting, and his threats still managed to find their way out. He charged again, but this time he ducked low, slamming the cane forward like a small battering ram instead of swinging it like a bat, feeling like he owed the senshi a hit to the stomach.
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Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 10:54 am
"It's not me," Nix sang back, momentarily not bothering to puzzle over the weird musical they had going on, "Who here shall wane~!"
In spite of the bravado, or possibly because of it, Nix didn't catch the feint in time, and instead caught a cane to the gut, causing him to stagger back with a grunt and a cough.
It was time to adjust the field a bit...
He looked up as he recovered from the hit and...stuck his tongue out at Crocoite...which was accompanied a split second later big a big, ethereal frog tongue launching straight at the negaverser like some kind of tasty fly about to get eaten!
It was a sticky tongue, and if he landed the hit, it'd be like a hard punch, followed immediately by Nix yanking himself forward into a sort of crazy tackle...and if he missed, well, he'd just be flying to the wall beyond.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 1:31 pm
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Crocoite was not afraid of frogs, as it turned out, but he was not about to get licked by anyone. Especially not when he was already really annoyed by having to sing. He leaped backwards to avoid the magical frog tongue, keeping his cane with him and slamming it into the ground to brace himself from the momentum of his own jump.
He really, really did not want to get magical spit on him, on top of everything else going wrong tonight.
Maybe, he was starting to think, this was not a good day and he should just go home and be done with it. He readied his cane just in case, if that tongue got stuck on the ground in front of him from his dodge and something else happened because of it.
Really, he was ready to just high tail it out of there, and come back to settle the score when he DIDN'T have to worry about rhyming couplets.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:20 pm
He missed! Not by much, though... all the same, his tongue thumped something just beyond Croc's new position, and the senshi went flying along the same path of his tongue. Hitting things while he did that wasn't something he'd practiced, so he didn't try, he just ended up behind the agent.
"To and fro I go, 'til I can lick you, bro! He sang out (again, in spite of best efforts).
He paused momentarily, though, to assess the situation...and eye that cane. He could take the hit, he was sure, but he didn't much fancy the idea of eating that.
"Maybe, though...I'll let you go~" The cheer of what he was saying was starting to bother even him, and he liked being cheery. "For this whole," he hummed out a short melody, "Leaves me feeling off my role." He crossed his arms to try to appear more threatening than he sounded.
Frog feet are never threatening, though.
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 2:44 pm
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Crocoite almost wanted to laugh as the senshi went hurtling through the air because of the tongue attack, though the Negaverse lieutenant was not much for laughing. He turned, not taking the swing he wanted to, too distracted, but he grinned maliciously at the senshi.
Let him do all the singing, while he loomed with his cane at the ready.
The crocodile had a much better chance at being intimidating, and his grin was all too suited for his name and the head that decorated his weapon. He walked forward a few steps.
"You were the one to attack me, frog face," he sang lowly, his voice a rumbling growl, "It would be unfair now to give up the chase. Allow me to return a blow in kind, for the one you missed and brought you behind. Though I tire of these endless refrains, I cannot help but want to bring you pain."
He swung his cane again, as hard as he could, for the Senshi's face.
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Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 6:50 pm
Much to Nix’s disappointment, the Negaverser didn’t back off—still, he brought up a gloved hand to block another swing. This time, though, he didn’t brace himself properly, and so got whacked in the face with his own hand at only a slightly reduced force. He grunted, and took another step back.
“As you wish~” he declared, still feeling like he was involuntarily in a really shitty musical somehow, and lurched back toward his foe and...made a lick motion, causing his large, ethereal tongue to reappear...in the form of a close in, but very large lick, intended to brush up against the man hard and uncomfortable...and, not to mention, poisonous.
With any luck, he’d just bowl this overconfident lieutenant right over.
{Poison tongue~}
Nix mimes the action of using his tongue, creating a large ethereal frog tongue. This tongue can either shoot a straight line 15 feet away striking with the force of a hard punch which can leave a bruise if the target player desires, or take the form of a large licking tongue which can make contact with something not more than 2 feet away. In both cases, Nix may choose to have the tongue be either sticky or poisonous. If it is sticky, the strength of his tongue is such that whatever he grabs, the smaller of the two objects (Nix and his target) will get pulled as his tongue retracts. If it is poisonous and hits an organic target they will suffer the effects of rapid poisoning (which can include dizziness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting) for thirty seconds.
