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Last night in The Sanctuary*:
Khelann_T`ekor remains very very still.* "Mister Grey."
`Midna> "I told you! I didn't know I could sneeze at all before all this and now--AHCHOO!" There's a garbage bag filled with random secondhand clothes!
Gabriel> "Huh?"
Khelann_T`ekor> "It ... would be easier if you came over here. I fear otherwise this tea will never be made."
Midna> "Buh..." She sniffles and rubs her nose.
Gabriel> "Oh." He pulls himself from the clutches of the couch and goes over to help her out with the tea.
Khelann_T`ekor very very very carefully spins the brush in the teacup. Oh, look. Tea. Lovely tea. Do take it before something crashes through the bar.*
Jeff_Levitt finds another kettle for the hot water. As it heats, he idly grabs a PMQ from the basket behind the bar. *Beep* "...Huh?"
Gabriel takes the tea? "Um." Tea. Yay.
Khelann_T`ekor nods.
Gabriel> "Thank you." He lifts the cup to take a sip and stops. "Someone leave a pair of sunglasses?" Because there's a pair sitting on the bar. Nice ones, too.
Pliskin> What's that beep? *He instinctively tensed. Beeps are ne-Brrrbrrr... oh for fuck's sakes. He presses two fingers behind his ears before sliding on his headset, sliding into a nondescript part of the room.
Khelann_T`ekor> *She then very very very carefully puts the woefully depleted packet of tea powder and the brush away somewhere and picks up her own cup. The tea, when drunk, tastes very ... herbal. Like a concentrated herbalist's shop, though not unpleasantly so.*
Midna blinks and watches him go. "Uh, no. They're not mine." She picks up her drink again.
Khelann_T`ekor> "A pair of what?"
Jeff_Levitt doesn't seem to notice Snake's agitation. He tries again, with another PMQ. *Beep!* "...Okay, that's weird."
Midna> "What?"
Khelann_T`ekor finally takes a deep breath and relaxes somewhat, now that things are a little calmer. Teasip.*
Jeff_Levitt> "Well, you know how these things tell you where you're from?"
Midna blinks. "They do?"
Gabriel sets the tea aside. He's listening to Jeff, seriously, he's interested in what Jeff's saying, but he picks up the sunglasses.
Khelann_T`ekor just drinks her tea, but she's eyeing the device closely.*
Jeff_Levitt> "It's saying I'm from *here*."
Midna> "You're not, are you?"
Midna is sort of out of the loop...
Jeff_Levitt shakes his head. "Nope. But I haven't been able to get home lately..."
Pliskin says this a bit louder then he intended. "Look... aside from it's educational value, you can probably use it to distract an enemy." Snicker.
Gabriel> "He's from Ohio." He puts on the sunglasses. Cool, no? No, actually pretty damned naff.
Jeff_Levitt> "Well, originally. I live in New York."
Jeff_Levitt pours himself some tea. "Those look good on you, Gabriel."
Thomas]> *suddenly POPS into the Sanctuary... about three feet off the ground* *There's actually a moment of confusion before gravity realize it should do it's job*
Thomas] flails his arms as he crashed onto the pile of secondhand clothes. "GAAAAAH!"
Midna pulls a confused face. "Ohio?"
Khelann_T`ekor startles.*
Pliskin blinks. "Er, right - got to be going Raiden." Click.
Midna startles also. Fortunately her drink is half-gone so it isn't spilled.
Gabriel frowns.
Pliskin> What the hell?
Thomas lays out on the pile a bit stunned.
Jeff_Levitt jumps. Again. "Are you all right, son?"
Midna leans over the couch to get a look. One ruptured trashbag, one pile of bad clothes, and one Thomas, all mixed together. "Huh. Looks like that stuff WAS good for something after all." Sip.
Thomas] blinks. "Ye-... I don't think Vikki intended for this to happen."
Gabriel leans on the bar, looking around, quiet.
Midna saunters to the bar and the PMQ's, and picks up one herself, fiddling...
Thomas]> ...I-I... guess that's uhm, another way of coming here from Budehuc. *He laughs nervously as he gets up*
Khelann_T`ekor picks one up at more or less the same time. A device that tells one where one is from could easily be altered to find out where anyone /else/ is from.*
Gabriel> "Budehuc?"
Thomas]> Oh that's the Castle I'm the master of... *for now ._.*
Gabriel shifts his weight, tilts his head. Studies the young man. "Really?"
Khelann_T`ekor looks up.*
Midna sighs. Hers indicates Hyrule. That's like saying that someone from New Jersy is from New York. Close, but at the same time SO WRONG.
Thomas]> Ye-yes, *He nods in confirmation*
Gabriel takes a step forward. "Where is it? There are many castles in the worlds..." He doesn't sound quite right.
Thomas]> Uhm... it's on the Ze-Zexan-Grasslands Broader, by a lake.
Jeff_Levitt looks up. "...Gabriel? You okay?"
Pliskin glances curiously.
Khelann_T`ekor> *clickscan. It tells her what she already knows, though terribly generically. The /dimensional co-ordinates/ are certainly of interest, though. Something to start from. If the Nexus can be considered a zero centre.... She and the PMQ and her tea are back on the sofa, now, and she digs out her datapad, curling up with it and poking rapidly at it. Screens and screens and screens.*
Midna> "Borderlands. That's always a difficult place for a country."
Thomas]> It's... the Castle is te-techincally co-owned by both lands.
Gabriel> "Zexan Grasslands?" He's never heard of it, but he could certainly find it. "Ah, the border." Another step. "Is it large?"
Jeff_Levitt grows increasingly nervous as he watches Gabriel.
Thomas] blinks. "Uhm... well, it's two stories above ground, about an acre there total, but it has three subterreans levels, and the Galleon that's..." He's thinking it over. "That's up against it that we used as well, additional wing." He pauses. "Ar... are you an architect or a hobbyist?"
Midna blinks, shifting her weight back from Gabriel's direction. Jeff isn't the only one getting uneasy.
Pliskin looks to Midna.
Gabriel raises his eyebrows. "Not really. Just curious. You're very young to have such things in your possession, even if on a temporary basis, don't you think?" Closer.
Khelann_T`ekor is apparently absorbed in her work.*
Midna meets Snakes eyes briefly, but she's obviously reading if he feels... whatever it is too.
Jeff_Levitt> "Gabriel?"
Gabriel stops. "What." Not a question, and not at all kindly.
Jeff_Levitt> "Um...are you feeling okay?"
Thomas]> Uhm... well.
Gabriel> "Peachy." ... "Just fine." He turns from Thomas, relaxing a bit. Smiles, lizardlike.
Thomas] suddenly looks nervous, reminded of what's going on at home.
Jeff_Levitt> "You don't...sound like yourself."
Gabriel spreads his arms, his hands. "No? Who would I sound like?" Now he's walking toward Jeff.
Khelann_T`ekor pauses, her gaze flicking up toward them for an instant, then returns to what she's doing. This is more important than human squabbles.*
Jeff_Levitt takes a step back. "I...I'm not sure. You just don't...are you sure you're okay? You just seem kind of...um...tense?"
Pliskin> So is everyone in this room.
Midna is starting to think there's more to it than that. She knows she's probably just jumping at shadows, but...
Jeff_Levitt has gotten to know Gabe very well, and he's *not acting like himself.*
Gabriel stops. He's in the middle of the room, and he turns slowly, taking everyone in. When he smiles, he shows teeth. "Relax. I'm not going to hurt anyone." Oh look, Khelann. He's staring at you now.
Pliskin subconsciously bristle.
Khelann_T`ekor feels that stare and looks up. Out of habit, she clears the screen on the datapad.* "Can I help you?"
Thomas]> Uhm, so - what ki-kind of tea is that I smell?
Gabriel> "What is that?" Indicating the datapad. It's /shiny/.
Khelann_T`ekor> "A simple datapad. Why d'you ask?"
Gabriel is over at the bar now. He leans over her. "What does it do?" Demanding.
Pliskin blinks, Datapad? Ota-no, he wants to see this thing.
Thomas] goes to the kitchen and snags that giant jar of Gummi Bears
Midna> "It does smell good, doesn't it. -she's- the one who has it." She doesn't realize the misplaced stress on the sentance until she says it.
Khelann_T`ekor> *Her eyes flick over him up and down, several times, as she backs away from him, her stare going very suspicious. Very Cardassian.* "Anything it's programmed to do. Your /friend/ is right, you are acting very strange." *Another oddly placed emphasis.*
Gabriel> "You don't even know me." The smile is gone, more of a snarl. She might start to feel something sliding over the hand holding the datapad.
Jeff_Levitt> "Gabriel, please. Just...take it easy."
Pliskin> It's a handy device -you- have... *blinks*
Thomas]> Uhm... anyone want Gummi Bears?
Khelann_T`ekor> "I don't need to. I'm observant--DON'T touch me!" *She ducks out of reach, datapad and all.*
Gabriel> *the feeling doesn't leave--it twines around her wrist, her forearm, not squeezing or causing pain but simply a presence, a gentle pressure.*
Pliskin> No one's touching you.
Khelann_T`ekor freezes.* "That mutant ability you mentioned..."
Jeff_Levitt> *quietly* "He's telekinetic."
Thomas] nibbles, why is everyone is much more confident then he is?
Thomas]> ...Tel-telekinetic? What does that mean? *He cocks his heaD*
Gabriel whispers. "I can and I will. What else do you have, hm?"
Khelann_T`ekor> "Tell me how you came by it..."
Jeff_Levitt> "Gabriel, stop it."
Pliskin lightly touchs Midna, whispering to her. "Something is up."
Jeff_Levitt is too preoccupied to answer Thomas's question.
Gabriel> *more of that strange touch, over both arms now, her neck, her back, more of a warning of what /can/ happen* "Stay out of this, Jeff."
Midna nods, touching him back, watching everything with narrowed eyes.
Jeff_Levitt steps forward. "No. Leave her alone. What's gotten into you?"
Gabriel> "Go. /Away./"
Midna> "Something IS wrong." She whispers. "I can feel something here. It... I want to know what it is, but I can't..."
Khelann_T`ekor /shudders/ as telekinetic fingers touch sensitive areas she'd rather not have touched.* "STOP THAT! RELEASE ME! Just because you humans have the run of this place doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with me!"
Thomas]> Pl...please - Please stop arguing!
Jeff_Levitt steps between Gabriel and Khelann. "I said *stop it.*"
Pliskin suddenly felt a need to wrap his arm around Midna's waist to pull her closer to him as he watched the spectacle.
Midna> ! *She was about to do something, but the arm around her waist gives her pause.*
Gabriel turns his attention to Jeff. Hisses. "Would that you could stop me."
Jeff_Levitt> "I will if I have to, Gabriel. Please don't make me."
Gabriel pulls his teke back, dissipates it.
Jeff_Levitt sighs with relief. "Gabriel, why are you doing this?" He keeps his voice quiet, even."
Thomas]> Ar-aren't you two -friends-? Friends sh-shouldn't... fi-fight. *there's an odd way his voice rings on that word*
Khelann_T`ekor shudders violently, nearly falling to the floor. In an instant, though, she's reached into a belt pouch, palming a small device.* "Because he's /human./ You're all the same, thinking you have the right to barge in wherever you please! You /disgust/ with your lights and your cold and your simpering /relationships!/"
Gabriel starts to pace, circle Jeff. "What do you mean? I'm just asking a few questions, inquiries..."
Jeff_Levitt> "He's right. Just...calm down and tell me what's going on, all right?"
Pliskin glances around. "Did someone throw in an Aggression LOL in here tonight?"
Jeff_Levitt turns, keeping Gabriel in front of him. His upper lip twitches as he resists the urge to bare his teeth. "You're not *asking* Gabriel. Youjust used your teke on that woman without her permission. You'd *never* do that."
Midna> "SOMETHING is in here. It's..." She half-snarls the words as she jabs a finger in Gabe's direction. "Something that has -him-."
Khelann_T`ekor> "Since when do humans /ask/ to do anything?!"
Midna> "Whatever it is, he obviously can't handle--" Snake can feel her tense.
Jeff_Levitt> "*Not helping.*"
Gabriel smiles. "I'm perfectly calm. And yes, I'm only asking. I never touched her." Just like he's not touching you, right Jeff?
Pliskin> Using -powers- on people just because they -...*he stops at the change in her body language*
Thomas] bites his lip, looking at everyone. "Ev-everyone, please!"
Midna> "If only I can figure out what it is." She says through her teeth.
Jeff_Levitt> "I think something's affecting your mind." Beat. "Um...where *did* you get those sunglasses, anyway?"
Midna perks. The sunglasses. "That's it."
Gabriel> "What sunglasses?" He reaches up. Grunts. "You're changing the subject."
Thomas]> ! Ah! Pl-please, give those over!
Khelann_T`ekor laughs.* "You're almost as good at twisting words as we are. But you haven't got the intelligence! P'atshu nuramshra ferengshano!"
Jeff_Levitt> "*Something* is making you act like this. You didn't have those before."
Midna> "No, he -isn't-" She extracts herself from Snake's arms, shoulders hunched slightly, looking somewhat like a bipedal vampire bat.
Pliskin> Huh? *his arm had to be somewhat pried*
Thomas] holds his hands out. "I... Please, gi-give me those and... we can stop this"
Midna> "Those glasses have magic in them. Powerful magic. That YOU can't control." She practically hisses. "Maybe it's better you have someone else who knows what they're doing, take a look at those..."
Jeff_Levitt> "*Nobody* is taking a look at those!"
Jeff_Levitt is beginning to sound frantic.
Gabriel> "Stop what? Get away from me. Don't come near me." This is your warning, people. Bearing his teeth and growling.
Khelann_T`ekor> "Why not? More superstition?"
Jeff_Levitt bares his teeth and growls back. He's rather better at it than Gabriel is.
Gabriel> *anyone who can sense it will feel a build of energy in the room. and yes, Jeff is much better at GRR than Gabe is*
Pliskin is stepping back from this.
Thomas]> Ev...EVERYONE PLEASE STOP!
Midna> "What's the matter? Don't like it when you're the one with something someone else wants?" She takes a step. Her hair seems... more animated than usual, somehow, swaying just a little more than it should.
Pliskin> Midna, Calm down.
Khelann_T`ekor points the object at Gabriel.* "Humans /always/ have what everyone else wants."
Gabriel> *Midna will feel a gentle warning push back.*
Jeff_Levitt turns on Midna, teeth bared. "Stay away from him," he snarls.
Midna> "I'm not going to calm down until I have what he's got!" She snaps back at the room.
Khelann_T`ekor> "Not if I get there first!"
Thomas] bites his lip. "...please... listen? would an-anyone, want to hear anything I uhm, say...?" He all but whimpered.
Midna> "You wouldn't know what to DO with it!" She hisses to Khelann.
Khelann_T`ekor> "If he has something that is worth anything to Cardassia then I will /take/ it! Superstition or not!"
Gabriel falls to a defensive position, his knees slightly bent, and grins. "Bring it, then. I'll have you all."
Pliskin instinctively moves to try to pull her away from them. "I don't care if they have their fancy -powers- or their -stupid- devices, don't start this."
Jeff_Levitt suddenly shifts, his features becoming more reptilian, he leans forward on digitigrade claws, snapping teeth that are suddenly *much* sharper.
Jeff_Levitt is now known as Jeff[raptor]
Thomas] Yelps in alarm as he stumbles back and crashes onto the couch.
Jeff[raptor] hisses angrily. "*My* mate. *MINE!*"
Khelann_T`ekor gasps in alarm, her hand whips toward Jeff. There's a flicker and she's gone.*
Thomas]> Those things are CURSED!
Midna scowls at Snake for a millisecond, but her expression changes VERY quickly when Jeff Dino's out.
Thomas]> Pl-please, *he's literally shaking with fear*
Khelann_T`ekor is now known as Khelann[arena]
Pliskin> Midna. Listen, you don't -those- things. *part of him is thinking "you got me, why you do anything less'*
Gabriel> "The arena..." Damnit, she had THE SHINY THING.
Jeff[raptor] hisses, snapping his teeth as a warning to anyone who tries to get close to Gabriel.
Thomas]> Please... *He stands up, still wobbling* those glasses, they're po-possessing you.
Khelann[arena]> *There's the sound of energy weaponry from the arena.*
Gabriel frowns, then starts off toward the arena.
Thomas] swallows, okay, he is going to be an idiot, he knows, but he's going to run after them.
Jeff[raptor] gets in front of him. "No. *Mine.*"
Midna> "But... it's dangerous. No one else can handle something like that but..."
Pliskin just holds her a wee bit possessively.
Gabriel "Get away from me!" He pushes Jeff, hard, and-- *pop*
Gabriel is now known as Gabe][arena
Thomas] runs into the arena.
Jeff[raptor] screams angrily and follows.
Arena-ward:
Khelann[arena] falls into the arena and a phaser blast cuts a nice long line into the bleachers. Yikes.
Khelann[arena]> *And here's ANOTHER cold, bright room. Damnit.*
Thomas] stops at the door. Okay Thomas, running in last time got you punched in the stomach. These guys have WEAPONS
Gabe][arena appears, nearly tripping over himself in the process.
Gabe][arena> "You..."
Thomas] swallows. Courage, wish he had their assertiveness. "Listen to me, those glasses are cursed, they want to you fight like this."
Khelann[arena]> "What are /you/ doing here?! Can't I even have a /room/ to myself?!"
Thomas]> The Bracelet, Khelann, do you remember that?
Jeff[raptor] appears in the doorway and doesn't bother with the stairs, jumping straight down with a scream of challenge.
Gabe][arena starts to cross the room, very quickly, toward Khelann. That power follows him, so much of it even those not normally sensitive can feel it in the air.
Thomas] instinctively scream Oh My God Leaping Lizard with Sharp Teeth!
Khelann[arena] fires wildly at Gabriel.*
Gabe][arena catches the phaser energy--/catches/ it--with a tendril of teke. Oh yeah, he's not himself right now. He'd never have this much focus with his powers. "Idiot."
Gabe][arena> "I'll make you /eat/ this."
Thomas][arena] realizes no one is listening. Oh goddess... help him. He took a desperate gambit, and ran right for Gaberiel to grab the sunglasses while he's dealing with Khelann. Why can't he tough?
Gabe][arena has too much energy around him now; Thomas tries to do anything and he's going to go flying. Sorry, kid.
Jeff[raptor] is, unfortunately, also heading towards Gabriel very quickly. He lowers his head, aiming to knock him down.
Khelann[arena] backs up, her eyes wide, the unnatural influence fighting her survival instinct.*
Thomas][arena] has not expected this! He goes flying, crashing into the bleachers with a sharp cry of pain.
Khelann[arena]> *She darts forward, banking on Gabriel being distracted by the dinosaur.*
Gabe][arena is distracted by Thomas, actually, and while she won't hit him specifically she'll knock him off balance. Enough for Jeff to... to what?
Thomas][arena] tries to get up, but the sharp stab of pain discourage it... as well as the fact he can't seem to move.
Jeff[raptor] connects with a solid blow to Gabriel's back. Hopefully the headbutt will be enough to knock him down. "*Mine!*" he repeats. One track mind, this one.
Gabe][arena is tackled, the wind is knocked out of him--and the glasses go flying. They skitter across the floor and stop near the far corner. That was one hard hit there, podna.
Jeff[raptor]> "Mine." :]
Thomas][arena] is chiding himself for being an idiot, between the utter pain. He tried to focus, why won't they listen? He tried to sit up - ends up screaming in pain.
Gabe][arena> *the phaser energy is also released, hitting the ceiling. concrete dust rains down upon them*
Khelann[arena]> "I don't want him, I only want what he ha--" She ducks, throwing herself to the floor as the phaser energy discharges. She rolls, scooping up the sunglasses.*
Khelann[arena]> "THIS!"
Gabe][arena mumbles from underneath Jeff. "Geh offme."
Jeff[raptor] does so. Sniff. Sniff. Lick.
Gabe][arena hurts everywhere. He's also full of energy, so much he feels as if hes' going to burst. "Got't get... yard." Yes, the yard. Okay.
Thomas][arena] is bleeding, and he's trying to figure out how he's hurting.
Khelann[arena] scrambles for her phaser, the weapon in one hand and the shades in the other, her aim twitching between everyone in the room.*
Gabe][arena is single minded right now, yard yard yard, "Jeff, don' let them follow me okay? I have to get rid of... this." Excuse him, he's going to go nova, ok.
Thomas][arena]> Co...co-someone... please?
Jeff[raptor] chirps and nods, following Gabe as far as the door and standing guard. :|
Khelann[arena]> "You'd better run."
Back to The Sanctuary:
Jeff[raptor]> *a velociraptor in jeans and a t-shirt peeks out of the arena. "No follow," it says, nodding to where Gabe just left.
Metody gapes at Jeff. "....wasn't going to." A pause. "....say. Are you warm blooded?"
Pliskin> What the hell happened in there?
Kyon was really hoping this place would give him more than a DAY off, damnit.
Kyon becomes aware that something's going down here. "What's going on?"
Pliskin> Some cursed thing showed and damn near everyone went in the arena.
Jeff[raptor] nods, then looks over his shoulder. "Wark?" He closes his eyes, then becomes human again. "*God* I hate that form. Hang on."
Gabe][yard> *there is a rumble, the walls rattle and if anyone's looking a few trees fall over outside*
Kyon> ...what?!
Kyon> Which one?! What did it do?!
Jeff[raptor] is now known as Jeff_Levitt
Pliskin> It made everyone jealous.
Kyon> Envy. Son of a...
Kyon> Is anybody still in the Arena?
Pliskin> I think so.
Kyon nods, and runs in.
Pliskin follows after Kyon, drawing his pistol in case.
Metody> "...he really seems to have bad luck with that stuff."
and finally, in The Yard:
Gabe][yard walks as far out as he can, and farther yet, past the treeline and the stone phalloi. Finally far enough from the Sanctuary, he falls to his knees and lets it all go.
Gabe][yard> Trees shift, crack, splinter. The water lapping against the shore pushes outward in heavy ripples. He digs his hands into the earth and it rumbles. Too goddamned much energy, more than he's stored up in years. It aches, burns, chills--he feels absolutely free and utterly destroyed.
Gabe][yard> And then it's gone.
Gabe][yard falls forward, rolls over onto his back, and stares into the sky, dizzy and face bloody.
Jeff_Levitt PINs back in, looking around anxiously. "Gabriel?"
Jeff_Levitt spots a few fallen trees and heads in that direction. Presumably he can find Gabe at the center of the mess.
Gabe][yard> There are what look to be rude crop circle-type indentations in the ground, the closer he gets, the circles getting tighter. There's a confused bird hopping around over to the left there.
Jeff_Levitt follows the circles, getting closer to the center. "Gabriel?" he calls again.
Gabe][yard is lying on his back in a very shallow crater, staring up into the sky, quiet. His face and shirt are bloody from a fantastic nosebleed.
Jeff_Levitt is by his side immediately. "Oh God. Are you okay? Talk to me. Please." Fret, fret, fret.
Gabe][yard looks at Jeff, eyes unfocused. "Okay?"
Jeff_Levitt breathes. "Don't try to move, okay? I'll get you to Ras and we'll get you fixed up in no time."
Jeff_Levitt and Gabriel disappear.
[end]
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*disclaimer: This log mainly follows Gabriel's involvement in last night's events. Kthx.
Khelann_T`ekor remains very very still.* "Mister Grey."
`Midna> "I told you! I didn't know I could sneeze at all before all this and now--AHCHOO!" There's a garbage bag filled with random secondhand clothes!
Gabriel> "Huh?"
Khelann_T`ekor> "It ... would be easier if you came over here. I fear otherwise this tea will never be made."
Midna> "Buh..." She sniffles and rubs her nose.
Gabriel> "Oh." He pulls himself from the clutches of the couch and goes over to help her out with the tea.
Khelann_T`ekor very very very carefully spins the brush in the teacup. Oh, look. Tea. Lovely tea. Do take it before something crashes through the bar.*
Jeff_Levitt finds another kettle for the hot water. As it heats, he idly grabs a PMQ from the basket behind the bar. *Beep* "...Huh?"
Gabriel takes the tea? "Um." Tea. Yay.
Khelann_T`ekor nods.
Gabriel> "Thank you." He lifts the cup to take a sip and stops. "Someone leave a pair of sunglasses?" Because there's a pair sitting on the bar. Nice ones, too.
Pliskin> What's that beep? *He instinctively tensed. Beeps are ne-Brrrbrrr... oh for fuck's sakes. He presses two fingers behind his ears before sliding on his headset, sliding into a nondescript part of the room.
Khelann_T`ekor> *She then very very very carefully puts the woefully depleted packet of tea powder and the brush away somewhere and picks up her own cup. The tea, when drunk, tastes very ... herbal. Like a concentrated herbalist's shop, though not unpleasantly so.*
Midna blinks and watches him go. "Uh, no. They're not mine." She picks up her drink again.
Khelann_T`ekor> "A pair of what?"
Jeff_Levitt doesn't seem to notice Snake's agitation. He tries again, with another PMQ. *Beep!* "...Okay, that's weird."
Midna> "What?"
Khelann_T`ekor finally takes a deep breath and relaxes somewhat, now that things are a little calmer. Teasip.*
Jeff_Levitt> "Well, you know how these things tell you where you're from?"
Midna blinks. "They do?"
Gabriel sets the tea aside. He's listening to Jeff, seriously, he's interested in what Jeff's saying, but he picks up the sunglasses.
Khelann_T`ekor just drinks her tea, but she's eyeing the device closely.*
Jeff_Levitt> "It's saying I'm from *here*."
Midna> "You're not, are you?"
Midna is sort of out of the loop...
Jeff_Levitt shakes his head. "Nope. But I haven't been able to get home lately..."
Pliskin says this a bit louder then he intended. "Look... aside from it's educational value, you can probably use it to distract an enemy." Snicker.
Gabriel> "He's from Ohio." He puts on the sunglasses. Cool, no? No, actually pretty damned naff.
Jeff_Levitt> "Well, originally. I live in New York."
Jeff_Levitt pours himself some tea. "Those look good on you, Gabriel."
Thomas]> *suddenly POPS into the Sanctuary... about three feet off the ground* *There's actually a moment of confusion before gravity realize it should do it's job*
Thomas] flails his arms as he crashed onto the pile of secondhand clothes. "GAAAAAH!"
Midna pulls a confused face. "Ohio?"
Khelann_T`ekor startles.*
Pliskin blinks. "Er, right - got to be going Raiden." Click.
Midna startles also. Fortunately her drink is half-gone so it isn't spilled.
Gabriel frowns.
Pliskin> What the hell?
Thomas lays out on the pile a bit stunned.
Jeff_Levitt jumps. Again. "Are you all right, son?"
Midna leans over the couch to get a look. One ruptured trashbag, one pile of bad clothes, and one Thomas, all mixed together. "Huh. Looks like that stuff WAS good for something after all." Sip.
Thomas] blinks. "Ye-... I don't think Vikki intended for this to happen."
Gabriel leans on the bar, looking around, quiet.
Midna saunters to the bar and the PMQ's, and picks up one herself, fiddling...
Thomas]> ...I-I... guess that's uhm, another way of coming here from Budehuc. *He laughs nervously as he gets up*
Khelann_T`ekor picks one up at more or less the same time. A device that tells one where one is from could easily be altered to find out where anyone /else/ is from.*
Gabriel> "Budehuc?"
Thomas]> Oh that's the Castle I'm the master of... *for now ._.*
Gabriel shifts his weight, tilts his head. Studies the young man. "Really?"
Khelann_T`ekor looks up.*
Midna sighs. Hers indicates Hyrule. That's like saying that someone from New Jersy is from New York. Close, but at the same time SO WRONG.
Thomas]> Ye-yes, *He nods in confirmation*
Gabriel takes a step forward. "Where is it? There are many castles in the worlds..." He doesn't sound quite right.
Thomas]> Uhm... it's on the Ze-Zexan-Grasslands Broader, by a lake.
Jeff_Levitt looks up. "...Gabriel? You okay?"
Pliskin glances curiously.
Khelann_T`ekor> *clickscan. It tells her what she already knows, though terribly generically. The /dimensional co-ordinates/ are certainly of interest, though. Something to start from. If the Nexus can be considered a zero centre.... She and the PMQ and her tea are back on the sofa, now, and she digs out her datapad, curling up with it and poking rapidly at it. Screens and screens and screens.*
Midna> "Borderlands. That's always a difficult place for a country."
Thomas]> It's... the Castle is te-techincally co-owned by both lands.
Gabriel> "Zexan Grasslands?" He's never heard of it, but he could certainly find it. "Ah, the border." Another step. "Is it large?"
Jeff_Levitt grows increasingly nervous as he watches Gabriel.
Thomas] blinks. "Uhm... well, it's two stories above ground, about an acre there total, but it has three subterreans levels, and the Galleon that's..." He's thinking it over. "That's up against it that we used as well, additional wing." He pauses. "Ar... are you an architect or a hobbyist?"
Midna blinks, shifting her weight back from Gabriel's direction. Jeff isn't the only one getting uneasy.
Pliskin looks to Midna.
Gabriel raises his eyebrows. "Not really. Just curious. You're very young to have such things in your possession, even if on a temporary basis, don't you think?" Closer.
Khelann_T`ekor is apparently absorbed in her work.*
Midna meets Snakes eyes briefly, but she's obviously reading if he feels... whatever it is too.
Jeff_Levitt> "Gabriel?"
Gabriel stops. "What." Not a question, and not at all kindly.
Jeff_Levitt> "Um...are you feeling okay?"
Thomas]> Uhm... well.
Gabriel> "Peachy." ... "Just fine." He turns from Thomas, relaxing a bit. Smiles, lizardlike.
Thomas] suddenly looks nervous, reminded of what's going on at home.
Jeff_Levitt> "You don't...sound like yourself."
Gabriel spreads his arms, his hands. "No? Who would I sound like?" Now he's walking toward Jeff.
Khelann_T`ekor pauses, her gaze flicking up toward them for an instant, then returns to what she's doing. This is more important than human squabbles.*
Jeff_Levitt takes a step back. "I...I'm not sure. You just don't...are you sure you're okay? You just seem kind of...um...tense?"
Pliskin> So is everyone in this room.
Midna is starting to think there's more to it than that. She knows she's probably just jumping at shadows, but...
Jeff_Levitt has gotten to know Gabe very well, and he's *not acting like himself.*
Gabriel stops. He's in the middle of the room, and he turns slowly, taking everyone in. When he smiles, he shows teeth. "Relax. I'm not going to hurt anyone." Oh look, Khelann. He's staring at you now.
Pliskin subconsciously bristle.
Khelann_T`ekor feels that stare and looks up. Out of habit, she clears the screen on the datapad.* "Can I help you?"
Thomas]> Uhm, so - what ki-kind of tea is that I smell?
Gabriel> "What is that?" Indicating the datapad. It's /shiny/.
Khelann_T`ekor> "A simple datapad. Why d'you ask?"
Gabriel is over at the bar now. He leans over her. "What does it do?" Demanding.
Pliskin blinks, Datapad? Ota-no, he wants to see this thing.
Thomas] goes to the kitchen and snags that giant jar of Gummi Bears
Midna> "It does smell good, doesn't it. -she's- the one who has it." She doesn't realize the misplaced stress on the sentance until she says it.
Khelann_T`ekor> *Her eyes flick over him up and down, several times, as she backs away from him, her stare going very suspicious. Very Cardassian.* "Anything it's programmed to do. Your /friend/ is right, you are acting very strange." *Another oddly placed emphasis.*
Gabriel> "You don't even know me." The smile is gone, more of a snarl. She might start to feel something sliding over the hand holding the datapad.
Jeff_Levitt> "Gabriel, please. Just...take it easy."
Pliskin> It's a handy device -you- have... *blinks*
Thomas]> Uhm... anyone want Gummi Bears?
Khelann_T`ekor> "I don't need to. I'm observant--DON'T touch me!" *She ducks out of reach, datapad and all.*
Gabriel> *the feeling doesn't leave--it twines around her wrist, her forearm, not squeezing or causing pain but simply a presence, a gentle pressure.*
Pliskin> No one's touching you.
Khelann_T`ekor freezes.* "That mutant ability you mentioned..."
Jeff_Levitt> *quietly* "He's telekinetic."
Thomas] nibbles, why is everyone is much more confident then he is?
Thomas]> ...Tel-telekinetic? What does that mean? *He cocks his heaD*
Gabriel whispers. "I can and I will. What else do you have, hm?"
Khelann_T`ekor> "Tell me how you came by it..."
Jeff_Levitt> "Gabriel, stop it."
Pliskin lightly touchs Midna, whispering to her. "Something is up."
Jeff_Levitt is too preoccupied to answer Thomas's question.
Gabriel> *more of that strange touch, over both arms now, her neck, her back, more of a warning of what /can/ happen* "Stay out of this, Jeff."
Midna nods, touching him back, watching everything with narrowed eyes.
Jeff_Levitt steps forward. "No. Leave her alone. What's gotten into you?"
Gabriel> "Go. /Away./"
Midna> "Something IS wrong." She whispers. "I can feel something here. It... I want to know what it is, but I can't..."
Khelann_T`ekor /shudders/ as telekinetic fingers touch sensitive areas she'd rather not have touched.* "STOP THAT! RELEASE ME! Just because you humans have the run of this place doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with me!"
Thomas]> Pl...please - Please stop arguing!
Jeff_Levitt steps between Gabriel and Khelann. "I said *stop it.*"
Pliskin suddenly felt a need to wrap his arm around Midna's waist to pull her closer to him as he watched the spectacle.
Midna> ! *She was about to do something, but the arm around her waist gives her pause.*
Gabriel turns his attention to Jeff. Hisses. "Would that you could stop me."
Jeff_Levitt> "I will if I have to, Gabriel. Please don't make me."
Gabriel pulls his teke back, dissipates it.
Jeff_Levitt sighs with relief. "Gabriel, why are you doing this?" He keeps his voice quiet, even."
Thomas]> Ar-aren't you two -friends-? Friends sh-shouldn't... fi-fight. *there's an odd way his voice rings on that word*
Khelann_T`ekor shudders violently, nearly falling to the floor. In an instant, though, she's reached into a belt pouch, palming a small device.* "Because he's /human./ You're all the same, thinking you have the right to barge in wherever you please! You /disgust/ with your lights and your cold and your simpering /relationships!/"
Gabriel starts to pace, circle Jeff. "What do you mean? I'm just asking a few questions, inquiries..."
Jeff_Levitt> "He's right. Just...calm down and tell me what's going on, all right?"
Pliskin glances around. "Did someone throw in an Aggression LOL in here tonight?"
Jeff_Levitt turns, keeping Gabriel in front of him. His upper lip twitches as he resists the urge to bare his teeth. "You're not *asking* Gabriel. Youjust used your teke on that woman without her permission. You'd *never* do that."
Midna> "SOMETHING is in here. It's..." She half-snarls the words as she jabs a finger in Gabe's direction. "Something that has -him-."
Khelann_T`ekor> "Since when do humans /ask/ to do anything?!"
Midna> "Whatever it is, he obviously can't handle--" Snake can feel her tense.
Jeff_Levitt> "*Not helping.*"
Gabriel smiles. "I'm perfectly calm. And yes, I'm only asking. I never touched her." Just like he's not touching you, right Jeff?
Pliskin> Using -powers- on people just because they -...*he stops at the change in her body language*
Thomas] bites his lip, looking at everyone. "Ev-everyone, please!"
Midna> "If only I can figure out what it is." She says through her teeth.
Jeff_Levitt> "I think something's affecting your mind." Beat. "Um...where *did* you get those sunglasses, anyway?"
Midna perks. The sunglasses. "That's it."
Gabriel> "What sunglasses?" He reaches up. Grunts. "You're changing the subject."
Thomas]> ! Ah! Pl-please, give those over!
Khelann_T`ekor laughs.* "You're almost as good at twisting words as we are. But you haven't got the intelligence! P'atshu nuramshra ferengshano!"
Jeff_Levitt> "*Something* is making you act like this. You didn't have those before."
Midna> "No, he -isn't-" She extracts herself from Snake's arms, shoulders hunched slightly, looking somewhat like a bipedal vampire bat.
Pliskin> Huh? *his arm had to be somewhat pried*
Thomas] holds his hands out. "I... Please, gi-give me those and... we can stop this"
Midna> "Those glasses have magic in them. Powerful magic. That YOU can't control." She practically hisses. "Maybe it's better you have someone else who knows what they're doing, take a look at those..."
Jeff_Levitt> "*Nobody* is taking a look at those!"
Jeff_Levitt is beginning to sound frantic.
Gabriel> "Stop what? Get away from me. Don't come near me." This is your warning, people. Bearing his teeth and growling.
Khelann_T`ekor> "Why not? More superstition?"
Jeff_Levitt bares his teeth and growls back. He's rather better at it than Gabriel is.
Gabriel> *anyone who can sense it will feel a build of energy in the room. and yes, Jeff is much better at GRR than Gabe is*
Pliskin is stepping back from this.
Thomas]> Ev...EVERYONE PLEASE STOP!
Midna> "What's the matter? Don't like it when you're the one with something someone else wants?" She takes a step. Her hair seems... more animated than usual, somehow, swaying just a little more than it should.
Pliskin> Midna, Calm down.
Khelann_T`ekor points the object at Gabriel.* "Humans /always/ have what everyone else wants."
Gabriel> *Midna will feel a gentle warning push back.*
Jeff_Levitt turns on Midna, teeth bared. "Stay away from him," he snarls.
Midna> "I'm not going to calm down until I have what he's got!" She snaps back at the room.
Khelann_T`ekor> "Not if I get there first!"
Thomas] bites his lip. "...please... listen? would an-anyone, want to hear anything I uhm, say...?" He all but whimpered.
Midna> "You wouldn't know what to DO with it!" She hisses to Khelann.
Khelann_T`ekor> "If he has something that is worth anything to Cardassia then I will /take/ it! Superstition or not!"
Gabriel falls to a defensive position, his knees slightly bent, and grins. "Bring it, then. I'll have you all."
Pliskin instinctively moves to try to pull her away from them. "I don't care if they have their fancy -powers- or their -stupid- devices, don't start this."
Jeff_Levitt suddenly shifts, his features becoming more reptilian, he leans forward on digitigrade claws, snapping teeth that are suddenly *much* sharper.
Jeff_Levitt is now known as Jeff[raptor]
Thomas] Yelps in alarm as he stumbles back and crashes onto the couch.
Jeff[raptor] hisses angrily. "*My* mate. *MINE!*"
Khelann_T`ekor gasps in alarm, her hand whips toward Jeff. There's a flicker and she's gone.*
Thomas]> Those things are CURSED!
Midna scowls at Snake for a millisecond, but her expression changes VERY quickly when Jeff Dino's out.
Thomas]> Pl-please, *he's literally shaking with fear*
Khelann_T`ekor is now known as Khelann[arena]
Pliskin> Midna. Listen, you don't -those- things. *part of him is thinking "you got me, why you do anything less'*
Gabriel> "The arena..." Damnit, she had THE SHINY THING.
Jeff[raptor] hisses, snapping his teeth as a warning to anyone who tries to get close to Gabriel.
Thomas]> Please... *He stands up, still wobbling* those glasses, they're po-possessing you.
Khelann[arena]> *There's the sound of energy weaponry from the arena.*
Gabriel frowns, then starts off toward the arena.
Thomas] swallows, okay, he is going to be an idiot, he knows, but he's going to run after them.
Jeff[raptor] gets in front of him. "No. *Mine.*"
Midna> "But... it's dangerous. No one else can handle something like that but..."
Pliskin just holds her a wee bit possessively.
Gabriel "Get away from me!" He pushes Jeff, hard, and-- *pop*
Gabriel is now known as Gabe][arena
Thomas] runs into the arena.
Jeff[raptor] screams angrily and follows.
Arena-ward:
Khelann[arena] falls into the arena and a phaser blast cuts a nice long line into the bleachers. Yikes.
Khelann[arena]> *And here's ANOTHER cold, bright room. Damnit.*
Thomas] stops at the door. Okay Thomas, running in last time got you punched in the stomach. These guys have WEAPONS
Gabe][arena appears, nearly tripping over himself in the process.
Gabe][arena> "You..."
Thomas] swallows. Courage, wish he had their assertiveness. "Listen to me, those glasses are cursed, they want to you fight like this."
Khelann[arena]> "What are /you/ doing here?! Can't I even have a /room/ to myself?!"
Thomas]> The Bracelet, Khelann, do you remember that?
Jeff[raptor] appears in the doorway and doesn't bother with the stairs, jumping straight down with a scream of challenge.
Gabe][arena starts to cross the room, very quickly, toward Khelann. That power follows him, so much of it even those not normally sensitive can feel it in the air.
Thomas] instinctively scream Oh My God Leaping Lizard with Sharp Teeth!
Khelann[arena] fires wildly at Gabriel.*
Gabe][arena catches the phaser energy--/catches/ it--with a tendril of teke. Oh yeah, he's not himself right now. He'd never have this much focus with his powers. "Idiot."
Gabe][arena> "I'll make you /eat/ this."
Thomas][arena] realizes no one is listening. Oh goddess... help him. He took a desperate gambit, and ran right for Gaberiel to grab the sunglasses while he's dealing with Khelann. Why can't he tough?
Gabe][arena has too much energy around him now; Thomas tries to do anything and he's going to go flying. Sorry, kid.
Jeff[raptor] is, unfortunately, also heading towards Gabriel very quickly. He lowers his head, aiming to knock him down.
Khelann[arena] backs up, her eyes wide, the unnatural influence fighting her survival instinct.*
Thomas][arena] has not expected this! He goes flying, crashing into the bleachers with a sharp cry of pain.
Khelann[arena]> *She darts forward, banking on Gabriel being distracted by the dinosaur.*
Gabe][arena is distracted by Thomas, actually, and while she won't hit him specifically she'll knock him off balance. Enough for Jeff to... to what?
Thomas][arena] tries to get up, but the sharp stab of pain discourage it... as well as the fact he can't seem to move.
Jeff[raptor] connects with a solid blow to Gabriel's back. Hopefully the headbutt will be enough to knock him down. "*Mine!*" he repeats. One track mind, this one.
Gabe][arena is tackled, the wind is knocked out of him--and the glasses go flying. They skitter across the floor and stop near the far corner. That was one hard hit there, podna.
Jeff[raptor]> "Mine." :]
Thomas][arena] is chiding himself for being an idiot, between the utter pain. He tried to focus, why won't they listen? He tried to sit up - ends up screaming in pain.
Gabe][arena> *the phaser energy is also released, hitting the ceiling. concrete dust rains down upon them*
Khelann[arena]> "I don't want him, I only want what he ha--" She ducks, throwing herself to the floor as the phaser energy discharges. She rolls, scooping up the sunglasses.*
Khelann[arena]> "THIS!"
Gabe][arena mumbles from underneath Jeff. "Geh offme."
Jeff[raptor] does so. Sniff. Sniff. Lick.
Gabe][arena hurts everywhere. He's also full of energy, so much he feels as if hes' going to burst. "Got't get... yard." Yes, the yard. Okay.
Thomas][arena] is bleeding, and he's trying to figure out how he's hurting.
Khelann[arena] scrambles for her phaser, the weapon in one hand and the shades in the other, her aim twitching between everyone in the room.*
Gabe][arena is single minded right now, yard yard yard, "Jeff, don' let them follow me okay? I have to get rid of... this." Excuse him, he's going to go nova, ok.
Thomas][arena]> Co...co-someone... please?
Jeff[raptor] chirps and nods, following Gabe as far as the door and standing guard. :|
Khelann[arena]> "You'd better run."
Back to The Sanctuary:
Jeff[raptor]> *a velociraptor in jeans and a t-shirt peeks out of the arena. "No follow," it says, nodding to where Gabe just left.
Metody gapes at Jeff. "....wasn't going to." A pause. "....say. Are you warm blooded?"
Pliskin> What the hell happened in there?
Kyon was really hoping this place would give him more than a DAY off, damnit.
Kyon becomes aware that something's going down here. "What's going on?"
Pliskin> Some cursed thing showed and damn near everyone went in the arena.
Jeff[raptor] nods, then looks over his shoulder. "Wark?" He closes his eyes, then becomes human again. "*God* I hate that form. Hang on."
Gabe][yard> *there is a rumble, the walls rattle and if anyone's looking a few trees fall over outside*
Kyon> ...what?!
Kyon> Which one?! What did it do?!
Jeff[raptor] is now known as Jeff_Levitt
Pliskin> It made everyone jealous.
Kyon> Envy. Son of a...
Kyon> Is anybody still in the Arena?
Pliskin> I think so.
Kyon nods, and runs in.
Pliskin follows after Kyon, drawing his pistol in case.
Metody> "...he really seems to have bad luck with that stuff."
and finally, in The Yard:
Gabe][yard walks as far out as he can, and farther yet, past the treeline and the stone phalloi. Finally far enough from the Sanctuary, he falls to his knees and lets it all go.
Gabe][yard> Trees shift, crack, splinter. The water lapping against the shore pushes outward in heavy ripples. He digs his hands into the earth and it rumbles. Too goddamned much energy, more than he's stored up in years. It aches, burns, chills--he feels absolutely free and utterly destroyed.
Gabe][yard> And then it's gone.
Gabe][yard falls forward, rolls over onto his back, and stares into the sky, dizzy and face bloody.
Jeff_Levitt PINs back in, looking around anxiously. "Gabriel?"
Jeff_Levitt spots a few fallen trees and heads in that direction. Presumably he can find Gabe at the center of the mess.
Gabe][yard> There are what look to be rude crop circle-type indentations in the ground, the closer he gets, the circles getting tighter. There's a confused bird hopping around over to the left there.
Jeff_Levitt follows the circles, getting closer to the center. "Gabriel?" he calls again.
Gabe][yard is lying on his back in a very shallow crater, staring up into the sky, quiet. His face and shirt are bloody from a fantastic nosebleed.
Jeff_Levitt is by his side immediately. "Oh God. Are you okay? Talk to me. Please." Fret, fret, fret.
Gabe][yard looks at Jeff, eyes unfocused. "Okay?"
Jeff_Levitt breathes. "Don't try to move, okay? I'll get you to Ras and we'll get you fixed up in no time."
Jeff_Levitt and Gabriel disappear.
[end]
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*disclaimer: This log mainly follows Gabriel's involvement in last night's events. Kthx.