bashfulshifter: (oh god no)
Patrick Dawn ([personal profile] bashfulshifter) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2014-02-06 02:37 pm

Shapeshifting Shenanigas

Characters: Patrick Dawn and YOU
Setting: February 6th - dorms, laboratory, kitchen, stairwell (see prompts). For the 7th through 15th, anywhere at any time! Just specify where and when, please!
Format: Starting action, can match!
Summary: Rick has his real powers back...again...but this time, he's running into some problems controlling them (re: having bits of his soul drained, kind of an issue). Rick is a shapeshifter, who can turn into creatures ranging from a domestic cat to a small dinosaur. I think you can see where this is going.
Warning: I don't think this will result in violence, but there is a random element to Rick's transformations and I completely understand if there are some negative reactions to suddenly having a tiger in your face. Will update this if such events occur. Edit: Last prompt on floor 100 definitely has monster-related violence.

Morning - First Floor Dorms - Open

[The past couple of weeks haven't been kind on the blonde man's psyche. Between fighting against his will in the Nyx battle, the power failure and subsequent draining of his soul to sustain it, then having his powers removed again following his most recent collar checkup, Rick has been rather stressed and, understandably, not feeling too social. Most of his time has been spent huddled in his room against the cold, trying to sort out all the worrying thoughts and visions from his trips through the plane, the mirror...it's all a bit much. Too much for him to comprehend. In some ways, he wonders if he should even be anxious about trying to understand it at all.]

[When he finally hears the familiar murmurs of his other forms on the morning of the sixth, however, that energy is enough to convince him that inaction is not helping. All of his friends are worried for him, he's pushed them away...and even if Reno's right and they can't restore their worlds, it would be selfish of him to make the lives of everyone else miserable in the meanwhile. He has to keep working.]

[This becomes a harder point to sell when, as the pajama-clad blushing shapeshifter steps out into the hall, he notes the distinct quiet in his mind. Rusty the cat--who should be, and probably is, quite insistent about patrolling his territory along the first floor--seems to be having some trouble making himself heard. Strange.]

[Unnerved, Rick decides to do some patrolling of his own instead. Perhaps taking a walk around the dorm hallways to clear his mind will help him focus so he can shift again...yes, that must be it. Should be simple enough.]


Afternoon - Floor 27 - Closed to [personal profile] fionnuisce

[Okay, this is much worse than he thought. Not the best. Don't panic.]

[Maybe Waver will know how to deal with this. It...it has to be the collar fluid, right? Since getting the new stuff made him loose his powers for a week, and he's had to go through the process twice, maybe there's been some complications? That sounds reasonable. Waver should know what to do about this.]

[Rick is, thankfully, still human when he manage to make his way to the labs where he hopes Waver will show up. He doesn't trust himself to have dextrous fingers to type with long enough to send him a message over the terminals, so this is the next best thing.]

[He'll just...sit here for a while. Nothing can go wrong while he's just sitting still. Yes?]


Late Afternoon - Floor 60 - Open

[Regardless of these difficulties, Rick has made a promise to help Reno do some cooking--a while ago, actually, but Enoch's letter reminded him that he's been neglecting his duties as of late. This is not acceptable!]

[Also not acceptable: a tyrannosaurus rex stuck in the walk-in refrigerator.]

[The Dinosaur's struggling has caused quite a mess, least of which to the heavy metal door that's locked him inside. Sure, there's plenty of stored meats for him to keep fed for a few...hours, maybe. But it is also cold and he is not happy. His roars of protest and the grating of claws against ice should indicate as much.]


Evening - Stairwell - Open

[Human Rick, shaken and scared, has been out for far too long and needs to get back before nightfall. But taking the elevator is not an option he feels comfortable utilizing with how unpredictable his powers have been...he has to walk.]

[It's a long forty stories.]


February 10th - Night - Floor 100 - closed to first poster!

[He hasn't made it to his room tonight. And while he's been able to avoid the monsters so far on the nights where getting to the dorms has been impossible, tonight he is not so lucky.]

[A Glowing One has caught the dog's scent as he cowers inside floor 100. The rustling leaves would have worked to hide his instinctive whimpering if they weren't fake, and if they actually made a noise, but the ghoul is not deceived. It will find him soon, and he knows it...]
notagiraffe: (baby kirin)

[personal profile] notagiraffe 2014-02-15 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Taiki wasn't sure he could change back either, he tried to call Sanshi and Gohran but neither of them came, perhaps they couldn't hear him, he was used to his powers going by now. Not so much by some of his powers working and some not.] Maybe... maybe someone can help...
notagiraffe: (baby kirin)

[personal profile] notagiraffe 2014-02-16 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Taiki watched him, the collars? The new fluid?] Maybe... when I first took it I lost my powers...

[A thought occurred] This... this sorry... this has happened before...
notagiraffe: (baby kirin)

[personal profile] notagiraffe 2014-02-18 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... [The kirin was surprised, though the tiger was cute. Taiki liked tigers, and he wished he was in human form so he could pet him. Though he didn't know if Rick would like that.

Wait... he had been explaining something]
Sorry... um... a long time ago... there was a mix up and they gave us the wrong collar fluid. The wrong colour I mean... and um... my powers were like this, I couldn't control them...

[It was a bad, sad memory because he had lost control of Gohran, Taiki didn't want anyone to be hurt again because of him]
notagiraffe: (lost child)

[personal profile] notagiraffe 2014-02-20 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Taiki stood as well, and a moment later there was a child in front of Rick again, a very naked child who looked around and grabbed his clothes, which were nearby from when he had first changed forms. He pulled them on.] Sorry... um... do you know who can help?

notagiraffe: (awkwardness)

[personal profile] notagiraffe 2014-02-21 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry... [Taiki sounds embarrassed now, in a way he hadn't before.] We can't change with our clothes... I'm dressed now...
notagiraffe: (thoughtful sad)

[personal profile] notagiraffe 2014-02-23 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Taiki blinked at him sadly and then followed him, wondering who they were going to find and hoping they could help. He trusted Rick though so he was sure they could]