PARTY TIME!

[deloreandriver]

Characters: Marty and EVERYONE ELSE. Start your own threads, mingle, make CR!
Setting: Floor 38, the big lounge floor just under the dorms, BEST STORM VIEW
Format: Your choice
Summary: STORM WATCHING PARTY! So the power is out and there's tons of thunderstorms. But don't let that get you down, WATCH THE THUNDERSTORMS! Also pancakes and coffee.
Warnings: STORM WATCHING ! Lots of thunder

Marty had enough of the darkness in the tower and the creeping monsters, so when he looked at the mass of pancakes the automatic pancake maker had made, he loaded them up along with the coffee maker, coffee, the syrup, and toted them all the way up to Floor 38.

There was no way he was going to let those massive stacks of pancakes go to waste, and this was the closest floor to the dorms that actually had some place to hang out, so he set the pancakes up as a sort of continental breakfast, and sat watching the storm.

What he hadn't expected was the people to start trickling in.

Comments

[savedbyasong]

Shion had been outside on one of the floating islands for the best part of an hour until he was too cold and had to go back inside. His hair was plastered to his head and his clothes were sodden but he hadn't wanted to leave, storm were amazing, they made him feel alive. Which was what he needed after everything that had happened.

He was making his way up to the dorms when he got distracted on the lounge, the windows here made it so that you could still see the storm, from inside. He went over to one and pressed his face up against it watching the lightning.

[deloreandriver]

"Hey." Marty wandered over to stand next to Shion, giving him a smile. "Pretty awesome, isn't it?'

So what if the televisions down on Floor 14 didn't work? A thunderstorm was just as good, maybe better, because you could get into it because it was real.

[savedbyasong]

Shion smiled at the boy who spoke to him, "It's... incredible..." He had always loved storms, ever since he was a small child. In fact it was in a storm that he had first met Nezumi...

Remembering that meeting was painful, not like it would have been a week or two ago but still. He searched for something to say, "I'm Shion, what's your name?"

[deloreandriver]

Pulling a hand out of his pocket, he offered it to Shion. "Marty. Marty McFly. I work with the Doc down in the workshop most days." His smile was easy and friendly, and he wasn't that much older than Shion in truth.

"Say uh... those are some pretty amazing scars. How'd you get them?"

[savedbyasong]

Shion took it with a smile, he hadn't heard of the Doc or of anyone down in the workshop but he had missed a lot. "Shion, It is nice to meet you Marty McFly."

He still was slightly confused by people with two or more names, but tended to find if he just repeated the full name people would tell him what to call them.

"Oh," he blinked, it wasn't a subject that came up a lot surprisingly, though Shion didn't mind explaining. "A wasp... not a normal wasp obviously. There are in... Where I come from a mutated strain of wasps, they are parasitic in nature and destroy the body from the inside before they emerge. One laid it's larvae inside me but I survived."

[deloreandriver]

"Just Marty's fine." The story was- wow, that was something he had never seen, but it something kinda like out of his dad's old science fiction books. "A... wasp did that to you?" It was weird, but Marty was getting used to weird. "You mean kinda like a botfly from South America?

[savedbyasong]

Shion had no idea where South America was, since any names that countries had had once had long since been forgotten or erased from the history of number 6. But he did know what a botfly was, though "Like that yes, I assume they inject their larvae into the host in a similar fashion, however before the wasp emerges it sucks all the moisture from it's host killing them."

He paused, "Of course in that way they really aren't true parasites as it is generally accepted that though parasites are harmful they do play a part in balancing ecosystems, traditional parasites do not directly kill their host though some may cause diseases that can kill the host as a result.

Mostly though parasites, at least not when in the singular play an important part in the relationship between species, whereas these wasps... usually by the time you realise you have been infected it is too late, so far there have only been a handful of deaths but we worried... since once Spring came and the wasps became active again, they could theoretically wipe out the entire city"

He shut his mouth, it was probably the most amount of words he had said all month, to a complete stranger, who probably now thought he was crazy...

[deloreandriver]

Listening to Shions' explaination, Marty stood there, rubbing his head a little bit.
"That's... that's pretty heavy. I mean we got some wasps that can kill if you're allergic but- nothing like that."

[savedbyasong]

Shion shrugged, "Neither did we until recently... at least no deaths had been reported but it is likely that they were kept secret, still are being kept secret... or were... before..." He shrugged and stared out of the window again as the sky flashed brightly.

[deloreandriver]

Sensing that the subject was an upsetting one, Marty changed the subject, wrapping his arms around his chest and studying the lightning outside. "Wonder if it's the storms causing the blackout."

[savedbyasong]

"I'd guess so, it's a big storm I guess it must have messed with their systems." Last time there had been a storm they had had no power as well...

[deloreandriver]

"This has happened before?" That was interesting, Marty was going to make a note of that and remember to tell Doc. "When?"

[savedbyasong]

Shion nodded, "Back in winter, end of February I think. There was a huge storm and no power... there were two days where the sun didn't rise at all..." He had mostly tried to not think about that because it hurt his head.