Viking Bay- You are the first. (IC Roleplay- Full)

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Road out of Town (Sebastian, Tuff)

As Sebastian and Tuff headed North out of town after the Lambroghini truck, they notice something ominous in the distance. Lighting is flashing in the dark pendulous clouds giving them deep purple cast. It was almost too quick to follow; a black form streaking across the sky. Was that a person? It was moving almost too fast for the eye to see. It dipped low over the bay and then seem to head North toward Bale's Point.

Sebastian becomes so caught up in watching the form that only the sounds of his tires leaving the pavement lets him know that he's drifting off the road. Almost too late, he yanks it back onto the road, barely misses skidding and ends up in the ditch on the median, the back axle of the van sitting on pile of ice.

The Hammer (Victoria, Steven, Bobby, Mary)
As Bobby turns to leave he sees a line people from school come in, one is Steve Mason- the guy who went surfing on the day of the comet! Talk about either having kajones the size of cannon shot (or totally insane)! Behind him is that new girl, Victoria Winters or something like that. She's English. Behind her is the last person he wants to see and at the same time one of the first he wants to see. Finally, behind her is one of the jock girls, Mary something. She's got a piece of paper in her hand. As his eyes meet Alanis' there's a long awkward silence. Finally Bobby looks away, back toward the table where Shelby is sitting. He sees something in the other boy's eyes that makes him wonder if the rumors about him are true. The look he's giving Alanis is one of pure adoration. He sees Bobby looking, blushes deeply and then looks back down at his book.


Steve sees Bobby as he enters the coffee house which is becoming more and more packed. As he turns to the cute little waitress who looks up when he enters, suddenly the room goes silent.

As Victoria enters The Hammer- the place where she'd heard that Tuff McCoy- the guy who dropped the naked teacher off at the emergency care clinic- supposedly frequented, she is hit by several psychic voices at the same time. Most of it's mundane. One is emotionally charged and the other is sexual. Then the whole room goes silent.

Mary stands still as all traffic coming in and out of the coffee house comes to a complete stop. Her hands are nearly frozen to the job application she has in her hand because she left her gloves in the car. Damn she's never known it to be this cold in March.

[Sakuro]

Steven Mason
Location: The Hammer
HP: 1
Cnd: Healthy


As he entered Steven spotted someone he really only knew by reputation. Mr. Ass himself. Or at least that's the new nickname that was going around the he heard. His left arm extend, and hooked off to wrap around and draw Bob into the Hammer with him. It wasn't forceful or hostile, but certainly an overly friendly gesture from a near total stranger.

"Yo Bob, Bob-ert, Bobby, Bob-ah-reno ... have a drink with me. There a geese that need chasing, and I want to talk at you about it."

Steven talked through the sudden silence. But paused afterwards. Blinking he glanced around trying to figure out if someone had been de-pantsed for something. Crowds of teenagers didn't usually shut up so quickly, and definatly not all at once like that.

[Arkrite]

Bobby (Dust)
Location: The Hammer
Status: Normal
HP: 2

"Al-" Bobby opened his mouth as he turned back to the girls only to find an arm swooping in at his head.

In a motion fueled by paranoia and nerves of being on the football team's hit list he ducked, twisted and pushed the arm away from him retreating a few steps away, with a Spade-esc yelp of, "Woah! No touchy! Nooo touchy."

[Sakuro]

Steven Mason
Location: The Hammer
HP: 1
Cnd: Healthy


Steven's looping arms was moving at a lazy pace, and easy to avoid. When there was no one there to wrap it around, and his limb was shoved away, the youth held his palms up in a sign of peace. There was some amusement in Steven's sea-blue eyes, and his lips curled into an amicable smile. Honest and not mocking. Unperturbed by the response his too-friendly gesture had garnered Steven jerked one thumb towards the counter.

"Its cool. C'mon. Lets have a powwow. I'll buy you a white chocolate and macadamia nut cookie."

[Arkrite]

Bobby (Dust)
Location: The Hammer
Status: Normal
HP: 2

"Pow... about what?" Bobby asked, his eyes still giving the area quick sweep even once he was sure he wasn't about to get pounded six ways to sunday by a dozen burly jocks, "I mean... Lo-"

He sighs, taking a deep breath and trying to calm down, "Look, I'm sorry but if Alanis is in there I probably shouldn't be. Sure she's having a hard enough time without dangling myself in front of the rumor mongers."

"Did you need something?"

[Horsenhero]

Tuff McCoy
Location: A road to nowhere
Condition: hot pursuit!
HP 0

Tuff grabbed the "oh crap" handle as the van slewed sideways. Sebastian was doing his best to get it under control, but after some sliding and a rough bounce, they appeared to be stuck. Looking at his companion out of the corner of his eye, Tuff smiled a little and sighed; "Nice driving there Speed Racer. I guess this is where I put my talents to use." Climbing out of the van, Tuff leans down to look under the chassis at the axle. Under normal conditions, he should need a flashlight to examine the van, but his nightvision had gotten an upgrade along with everything else. As long as the axle wasn't broken, he should be able to lift the van back onto the roadway with relative ease.

[Sakuro]

Steven Mason
Location: The Hammer
HP: 1
Cnd: Healthy

... but if Alanis is in there I probably shouldn't be.

Steven was about to start walking towards the counter, and the cookies he came for, when Bob started talking about a girl named Alanis. He figured it was the girl he had that thing with that got so much attention last week. Steven almost rolled his eyes at the memory. But instead he tilted his head towards the door and began moving back the way he had come from.

"Then let's walk."

"Did you need something?"

The smile flashed back over Steven's pale pink lips. It seemed to come easy to him, that smile.

"Actually, I think you're the one who needs something. What with you're being on the jock's hitlist, cheer leader's wanting to beat you down, and some freak pulling a knife on you. Thought you could use someone watching your back. So, you you want to hang with me? I could use some company looking into the local weirdness ... starting with a guy named Bruce. Heard he's been acting odd, like that naked history teacher."

[Israfil]

Sebastian
Location: In the middle of somewhere
HP: 1
CND: crap

"Ooff." Sebastian manages to mutter when they come to the abrupt stop. Weirdly enough his heart wasn't beating that fast, given that he just lost control of the vehicle

"Nice driving there Speed Racer. I guess this is where I put my talents to use."

"Jason Bourne I am not." he replies as Tuff exits the van "Maybe you can beat out the dents this thing has in it as well."

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The road out of town: (Sebastian and Tuff)
The axle on the van isn't broken, and as Tuff reaches under the van to find the frame to lift, he's surprised when his hands first brush and then knock something away. Looking down, he's surprised to see a small black device about the size of a flash drive. There's an antenna on it, and a red light is blinking on and off in the low light.

The Hammer (Steve, Mary, Victoria, and Bobby)

Alanis swallows hard at the sight of Bobby, squares her shoulders as if to say something when he and Steve suddenly start dancing. Seeing the interaction she sighs and then sees Shelby in the corner. Then to everybody's surprise, she does something that totally upsets the school hierarchy. She smiles to herself and goes over and sits with the young man. "Hi Shelby," she says.

The other boy, seems totally flustered by her presence, but manages to get out, "High 'Lanis."

Slowly the conversation in the room starts to pick up.

[Aerlwyn]

Psi

Victoria scans the crowds surface thoughts trying to weed out the chaf and get to the heart of any details she can pick up. Taking a table far from others she sips her earl grey tea, watching the others teens, hoping to find the person she is looking for from the information she has cleamed.

Yes this table will do nicely she thinks to herself.

[optionqb]

Mary LaFleur

Location: The Hammer
CND: Normal

Mary stepped inside the coffee shop to shake off the bitter cold. As she wiped her feet on the door-mat, she was immediately aware of how quiet things were. What gives?, she thought as she felt her pockets for a pen or pencil. Oh great, I forgot to bring something to fill out my applications with. She saw two boys from her school in front of her. She recognized both...sort of. That Bobby kid was well-known...more like infamous. The other guy was Stuart or Stephan or Steve...or something.

"Hey guys. I'm sorry to bother you.", Mary said with noticeable shyness. "Would one of you have a pen I could borrow...I mean...just for a few minutes...to....you know...fill out an application. I promise I'll give it right back."

[Arkrite]

Bobby (Dust)
Location: The Hammer
Status: Normal
HP: 2

Years of being on the short end of the stick on almost everything had a tendancy to make one really suspicious of friendly people offering assistance with no thought of something in return.
It usually meant they were up to something and you were about to get burned.

"What naked teacher? And what do you want with Bruce?"

Sure the guy tried to stab him, but it was hard not to be a little protective when he used to be one of the few people watching your back.

He glanced over as Mary interrupted them. He knew her by sight, if not personally. Cute, athletic, didn't run in his circles, but didn't try to strip him and stuff him in a locker either.

"Uh, maybe," Bobby reached for his pockets, stopping as he patted the one with the knife.

Yeah, he wasn't reaching in there. He dug around and pulled out a battered old pen which had been stuffed into his inside pocket at the end of a class some time ago, "I don't know if it works or not... But Mrs. Darque keeps a whole bunch of them by the cash register, just ask Shadow for one if that doesn't work."

[Horsenhero]

Tuff McCoy
Location: On the road again
Condition: Paranoia...building.
HP 0

Tuff was completely dumbfounded by the little device. If the movies were to be believed, and they were his only source of reference here, this was some sort of tracking device. Who the hell would put a tracking device of Sebastian's van? Why the hell would anyone put a tracking device on Sebastians' van? His more reasonable side, assuming anything about this situation could be considered reasonable, argued that Sebastian's presence the night the History Teacher hit them with that...shock quiz...and the fact he had a van, made him the perfect target for the FBI, if they were investigating his possible connection. His paranoid side was bubbling with thoughts of men in black, Illuminati, secretive government organizations, evil corporations, lurking aliens and of course, the obligatory mad scientist. So involved was he with his thoughts he didn't even consider the ease with which he nudged the van back onto the road.

"Mother pus bucket!" He swore quietly as he stared at the little piece of electronics. "Sebastian! We got real trouble bubba!"

Climbing into the van, he held up the little black box with its blinking red light. "Real serious trouble."

[optionqb]

Mary LaFleur

HP:1
CND: Normal

"Oh, thank you." Mary smiled as she took the pen from Bobby. "Don't leave until I give it back!", she insisted.

Mary walked over to the counter, where Shadow had just finished servicing a customer. "Hi I was wondering if you were taking any job-applications?"

"Well, we're always *taking*..." Shadow responded as if she'd heard the question a thousand times, "...but we're really not looking for anyone at the moment. If we need someone, we may call you in for a quick interview, but again we make no promises."

"I'll take any opportunity I can get." Mary said as she picked up the paperwork. She turned out to the seating-area, looking for an open table. Off in the back, she noticed a series of empty tables. The "English chic", Victoria, was sitting at a secluded table away from everyone. Mary made her way back to the empty area. She wasn't sure if she got Victoria's attention, but she nodded and smiled anyway. She spread out her coat, scarf, and beanie on the table. Then taking Bobby's shabby-looking pen, she sat down and began to write.