Farewell to May/Hello to June

[warriorscribe]

Characters: Enoch, "Pandora", and anyone!
Setting: May 31 leading into June 1, Cafeteria for the former and dorm hallways for the latter.
Format: I'll take the best you have.
Summary: End of the month shenanigans!
Warnings: Um...someone may get drunk in the first prompt?

Cafeteria(F1): May 31, Dinner Hours

The first thing Enoch does when dinner begins to be served is grab all the wine he can with his food. He can be found later in the hour with a completely empty wine bottle in front of him, drinking the last glass it yielded. There are three more, unopened. Judging from the array of untouched glasses, he's intending to share.


Dormitory Floor 3: May 31 into June 1 (Will have a thread for the team protag/Pandora gathering, otherwise open)

The other bottles wound up shared with those that joined him in the cafeteria, so he didn't get to find out just how inebriated he could get on four bottles of wine. The contents of a single bottle and then some have sedated him; he went to bed almost immediately after dinner hours ended.

His deep sleep is cut short by the screeching of the chip by his bed. Enoch tumbles out of bed, grabbing his Arch and summoning his armor on instinct. When it registers that the chips are doing something, out into the halls he goes.

Just in time for the lights to go out. He keeps his Arch open, a distinctly-shaped blue light marking where he is as he peers curiously at the static on the nearest terminal monitor.

June 1, moment of glamour failure

Glamour systems shutting down in five, four, three, two, one, zero.

The Arch's beam flickers out. His armor vanishes. His eyes immediately travel to the Arch...and to the hand holding it.

The first sound he makes is a startled yelp as he drops the weapon, or the film construct making up its base. Slowly, though, he bends down to retrieve it, unfamiliar blue-filled hand closing around an unfamiliar object. His other hand, he slowly examines, opening and closing it. He then looks down at himself, at himself, at the glow of his soul coming from beneath the catsuit.

A little sigh, and then a breathless little laugh come from him, and he reaches up to run fingers through his hair - on feeling it, he pulls a strand of the film forward to look at it. And then laughs again, weaker.

"When I first realized they had only brought our souls here, I realized that, in fact, our hosts had shown us hospitality after all." Who is he speaking to? Who knows. "I thought it was truly generous of them, if they could only save our souls, to give us bodies that appeared and behaved as we expected."

The next laugh is barely a huff, and he inclines his head. "How right I was..."

Comments

PANDORA AND FRIENDS, ASSEMBLE (second prompt)

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch glances up from the monitor when he sees he has company. The wine is still on his breath, but he seems alert and focused.*

Dorm Hallways

[scentofmakai]

[Zett is also easily noticeable, electricity sparking continuously around him. He approaches slowly, and if Enoch can catch his expression it'll be revealed as exactly that of a child who knows they did something bad but does't know how to apologize.

Anyway, it's not time for that now.]

Anything on there?

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko was usually a bit of a deep sleeper..but when the chips in her dorm room began going off, she knew that something was happening. Quickly, she got ready and rushed out..only for the lights to go out. She couldn't see well in the dark, which was the reason she ended up in the third floor dorm room..but, slowly, her eyes managed to adjust, and the blue light of a very familiar weapon helped her see who was in front of her.]

Enoch, I don't think the terminals are working either, if the rest of the power is out. It seems that everything is spilling out of the box doing whatever it can to harm the Tower.

[warriorscribe]

Only this message at the bottom. I don't know what it means...

[scentofmakai]

[He peers closely.] I don't know much else, but divide by zero? Must've really screwed something up.

[warriorscribe]

I didn't think they would work, but...

*The message that appears as the static flickers on the screen is confusing him. Dividing by zero makes no sense, he realizes as he wills his mind into thinking on it. Is that what the chips did? Confused the tower?*

[tohko_amano]

[That 'but' probably means that there's something more to this. Thinking, Tohko walked over to where Enoch was, and would try to look over his shoulder to see what was puzzling him. If she managed to get a glimpse of the message, she would look a little puzzled..but not very.]

I'm not that good at math..but their is a joke that dividing by zero can break things or destroy the universe. I..hope that's not what this is pertaining to.

[warriorscribe]

*After a moment's thought, he shakes his head.* Dividing by zero simply doesn't make any sense...

[warriorscribe]

...I doubt a joke can have this sort of influence.

*But he thinks, perhaps, that whatever Dax wanted to use the chips for might show up on these terminals, if the chips were to affect them...*

[scentofmakai]

That's why it breaks a lot of computers when you try. So, someone really messed up what's going on with the terminals, I guess?

...And only now do I notice that typo up there..><;

[tohko_amano]

[At that, Tohko sighed.]

I didn't think the joke would be part of what's going on here..I was thinking that what we did probably caused this and broke either the whole power system, or a large portion of it.

[warriorscribe]

I see... *So his vague hunch hadn't been inaccurate...* ...So the terminals...or perhaps the tower itself is confused.

[scentofmakai]

I wouldn't know. It's a pretty generic error, and I'm not a big technology person anyway.

hahaha I was wondering.

[warriorscribe]

It's only the beginning. Surely the lights being out can't be everything he wanted us to accomplish...

Yeah..I don't usually mix the two up..^^;;

[tohko_amano]

Well..I did think that these chips might turn off everyone's powers in some way so that we could have a fair fight against Ruana, but I'm not sure if that's actually going to happen. But..if we're dividing by zero, I'm sure something major in the Tower is going to get destroyed.

[warriorscribe]

I know someone who might know more, but in this light... *He looks down the hallways. There may be other people milling about out here because of the screeching, but...it's too dark to find anyone in particular.*

[warriorscribe]

Hopefully something that gave them an advantage over us.

[scentofmakai]

Wait until the power comes on again? Or the light comes back.

[haha natural light...]

[tohko_amano]

I would think so..or something that they were trying to keep hidden.

[warriorscribe]

By that time we might lose this message...

[scentofmakai]

So write it down.

[You are a scribe, right?]

[warriorscribe]

...I wonder if we're meant to try to act in this darkness.

[tohko_amano]

I'm not sure, to be honest. I would guess that we're just supposed to wait and see what else happens before making a move..but to what that move would be, I don't know yet.

[Tohko sighed and scratched her head.]

But until then, can I stay near you? My eyes are adjusting, but I don't have a light, and your Arch gives off some.

[warriorscribe]

In this light? I doubt I could find my way back to my room, much less find my pen and paper in my trunk.

[scentofmakai]

I'm a pretty good nightlight!

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch nods, visible only in the vague silhouettes made between Arch and terminal screen.*

It feels...ominous.

[tohko_amano]

I won't deny that this is rather creepy..but you have your Arch, and I have my daggers and ring! I'm sure we'll be fine, no matter what happens! Even if poltergeists come out.

[..Tohko, Enoch has no idea what those would be..]

[warriorscribe]

All right, then, lead the way...

[scentofmakai]

[Zett makes sure that the sparks he gives off don't travel far from his body, but at the same time, there's a lot of them - it pretty much looks like a glowing Zett-shaped form is leading Enoch back to his room.]

[warriorscribe]

*He's been in the fantasy section! ....But hasn't encountered that word, no. It taught him "glamour" but that won't be useful for another couple of hours.*

What is a poltergeist?

[tohko_amano]

[Normally, Tohko would mention Germany in her explanation, but..since Enoch might not know about that either, she left it out. She didn't want him to be even more puzzled than he already was.]

The word means 'noisy ghost', but it's pretty much any ghost that smashes cups, moves things around, loudly taps on the walls, or bothers people. They've even been known to attack people by pulling on their hair or pinching them..and some have even thrown objects at people, and a famous poltergeist, the Bell Witch, even managed to poison and kill a man.

Normally I would say that those would just be fantastical in my universe..[Something that she only said to direct people from the fact that she was terrified of them.]..but here, it seems possible that they could show up.

[warriorscribe]

*Of course, luck has to be against them. Everything has turned off by the time they're back.

There's an exasperated little sigh from Enoch, and then nothing but the shifting of his feet against the ground as he takes in the deep silence.*

[scentofmakai]

...Well, it was worth a try?

[Yeah, you did good, Zett.]

[warriorscribe]

It does...but do they often show up in moments of utter darkness like this?

*Something had to draw her to that specifically, he thought. That and he was trying to distract himself from that uneasy feeling this whole thing gave him.*

[tohko_amano]

It is common for them to do so..and they have been known to blow out lights and other electrical appliances.

[warriorscribe]

That it was. I suppose it couldn't have lasted forever.

*But now what? he wants to ask, standing in the eerie darkness. It felt like a storm was coming.*

[warriorscribe]

Mm...That would need to be planned on their part, though. Such a thing hasn't happened here naturally.

*Which means that it's not poltergeists - this is from them, not the administrators.*

[tohko_amano]

Maybe..maybe not. Ghosts can be pretty spontaneous sometimes, just like people. But you're right, nothing like that has happened yet! Even if there are any wandering spirits here, they haven't done anything major.

[Thank god. Tohko was terrified of poltergeists, even if she didn't let it on.]

[scentofmakai]

[Zett fidgets a little. This being their first meeting since the doll incident... he wants to apologize but doesn't know for what, exactly.]

Anything else I can glow at?

[warriorscribe]

The only wandering spirits I can think of are the phantoms...

*And they don't really have substantial bodies to knock things over.*

[tohko_amano]

..I've heard about them on the network..but..there could be others that don't have have a body. Not that I think they'd be able to do much.

[warriorscribe]

I think you should find people who are lost, especially other children, and help them. If they have no one to look after them, bring them here.

[warriorscribe]

We would have already noticed them...

*He has to wonder why she's so fixated on ghosts, here.*

[scentofmakai]

Can do.

[And he's off to search without even properly saying goodbye.]

[tohko_amano]

[Because they got mentioned in the conversation and the topic hasn't shifted, simple as that.]

Maybe..or maybe not. They can be good at hiding themselves.

[warriorscribe]

But we know spirits have nothing to do with this.

[tohko_amano]

[At that, Tohko smiled and nodded.]

That's true! Which is a good thing too..we don't have any salt to counter them. But..since they don't have anything to do with this, I'm sure we'll be fine, no matter what else does pop out.