mincingminuet: (No Way)
Penelo ([personal profile] mincingminuet) wrote in [community profile] recolle2017-04-03 07:48 pm

1st Technick: Tomatoes Gone Wild

WHO: Penelope Raban, a renegade monster, and you.
WHERE: Apprassage
WHEN: April 3rd
WHAT: Penelope regains a piece of Auracite and accidentally activates it, freeing the Alraune inside. And it runs off.
WARNINGS: Language and tomato related violence may abound.



A. Birch Hills:

When Penelope had gotten the package in her mailbox, she hadn't honestly thought much of it. She got a lot of stuff in the mail, and this was probably just her new flash drive or a spare RAM stick or something, she figured. But when she opened it and a small green gemstone popped out, she realized that there was something else at play here. Not quick enough for her, unfortunately...as the shard reacted to Penelope's touch almost instinctively. It started to glow, a flash of light bright enough to be seen by anyone who happened to be looking at her windows.

One crash, loud bang, and high pitched scream later and her apartment door bursts open and two things streak outside. The first is an enormous white cat, tail standing straight up. The second is a blur of red and brown about a foot and a half tall. It zips off in another direction, and a wide eyed, very frazzled looking Pen appears at the door.

"Hey! Both of you get back here right now!"


B. Recolle Public Library

Libraries generally are pretty quiet places, to be sure. And today's no different. It's less the noise that's a distraction to anyone who happens to be using the reading room today, and more the strange feeling that there's something moving around beneath the table. Maybe it's a brush of something against your pant leg, or maybe you're feeling watched down there, or it might just be a breeze on you as you feel something whisk by. A cat maybe? Or something else?

Or maybe the distraction is coming in the form of one out of breath Penelope, breathing heavily as she walks up.

"Hey. Uh, have you seen anything weird today?"


C. Recolle Rec Center

By now it's getting close to 9PM and most things are beginning to wrap up here, but that doesn't stop a small commotion from starting when the doors to one of the empty martial arts rooms bursts open and something small and red scurries out, being chased by a breathless Penelope. She's brandishing a wooden sword clearly borrowed from inside and takes a leaping swipe at the red streak. She misses of course, but that doesn't mean she's done. Collecting herself, she looks around wildly for wherever it ran to...

"Quick, which way did it go?!"


D. Closed to Freya


And when all of this fails, she calls up the one person she knows who can help deal with this. The little hellspawn's seemingly trapped but this is definitely a two man job. So, ringing Freya up seems like a good idea. Whenever she does pick up, a breathless Penelope sighs in relief.

"Hey, Freya. I...need your help with something. It's pretty urgent. If you could get to the student union I'd really appreciate it."
belligerentwarrior: (Chasing shadows)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2017-04-04 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Urgent?"

Freya reaches over to turn off the stove, setting aside the knife with her other. Urgent and breathlessness never went well together. Her voice stays level among her concern. "What kind of urgent?"

Or, in translation, what do I need to bring and how many traffic laws do I need to break to get there.
belligerentwarrior: (I'll deal with you)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2017-04-04 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Her hunting bow, huh? Something that absurd, even after the horses and chocobos and unfortunately vivid dreams of being stabbed by tiny green fishmen? There's a clatter as Freya dumps her utensils in the sink. "Well, this sounds like it's gonna be a riot. Ten minutes, tops."

She has absolutely no idea what Pen has in store. She won't just bring the bow—she'll bring her whole damn kit.
belligerentwarrior: (Come on then)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2017-04-04 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Freya at least had the foresight to come hooded herself, since she was going to be waltzing into the student union with a weapon (or three) and all. Though at the moment she just looks suspicious, with a stuffed hiking pack and a duffel bag hanging off her arm.

She merely grins, despite Pen's severe approach. "You know who you're talkin' to, right? C'mon—me, freak out?"

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bold_in_deed: (23)

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[personal profile] bold_in_deed 2017-04-04 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, uh. That's a tomato man running straight at Ilia.

Yep.

One would think her instinct would be to leap out of the way or something, but oh no. She pivots on her heel instead and aims a hard kick at the thing. She misses by inches, and the damned thing runs past her.

But before she can collect herself, she hears Penelope call out. She's not even going to question why she has a sword.

"I think you lost something!" she shouts to her, pointing at where the tomato man ran.
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[personal profile] bold_in_deed 2017-04-05 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I'll do what I can." Penelope is obviously a bit winded, and that thing should not be loose in the city. God only knows what it's going to do. Ilia jerked her head in the direction it went, turning on her heel and starting to go after it. "Isn't that the same thing you saw in your dream?"
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[personal profile] bold_in_deed 2017-04-08 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh good, the worst it'll do is gum someone." Hopefully. Ilia begins to run in the same direction as the rogue tomato. It's not too hard to find its trail, given the shrieks and the weird looks on people's faces.
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Birch Hills

[personal profile] wordcarvings 2017-04-06 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Koutarou had just been coming home after leaving very early in the morning to drive his best friend to the doctor for an emergency, and doesn't expect to return to the apartment building being in a ruckus. He was just going to pass and head toward his own apartment but he stopped in the stairs when he reached the floor the ruckus came from, and has to sidestep to not get knocked over.

"What in the world?!"
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[personal profile] wordcarvings 2017-04-13 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
“Oh!” He hurriedly steps to the side so she can follow the creature down the stairs, and looks at it. “I’m sorry, I’m in the way."
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[personal profile] wordcarvings 2017-04-16 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"No? It didn't." At least not as far as he knew. It didn't even touch him. "It has teeth?" He couldn't see it very well but it was an odd-looking thing for sure.

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darkinferno: (★ suddenly you're standing still)

C! as i roll in here late~

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-04-07 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Dante's been at the rec center getting in a workout--after all, if he's going to learn to fight he'd better have the strength to back it up--when the doors to one of the rooms burst open. Seeing the first thing bolting out of the room is strange enough, but when Pen comes bursting out after it, wielding a wooden sword of all things, Dante gives up on his workout and jumps up.

"Pen, what's going on? What're you chasing after?"

Unspoken, he's wondering if he's going to need to grab one of those swords himself to help her deal with it.
darkinferno: (★ suddenly you're standing still)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-04-10 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not much of an explanation, but it's enough for Dante. "All right!" He ducks into the room that Pen's just come out of, glancing around until he finds the wooden practice swords himself. For some reason, he feels a little more confident holding the sword in hand, facing down an unknown creature...

He doesn't luxuriate in the feeling, though, instead darting right back out and after Pen. He catches up to her just as she's turning the corner towards the workout room, and he brings his sword up instinctively in a guard just in case something's awaiting them.

But instead he sees... nothing?

That can't be right.

"Is it hiding?" he asks in an undertone, eyes scanning the room and its contents slowly. There are cubbies near the door for patrons to stow their bags or shoes in, a pile of mats in one corner, several freestanding punching bags across the room... "It's gotta be in here somewhere."
darkinferno: (★ the loss of friends you didn't have)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-04-14 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Got it." Dante keeps his sword at the ready as he progresses further into the room, scanning slowly to make sure that he won't miss a thing. But the room seems to be completely empty, and it's not until he's almost made it into the far corner that he realizes that something feels off. That it feels almost like... he's being watched.

The hairs on the back of his neck seem to prickle, and Dante comes to a slow halt. Where... is...

A-ha.

The tomato creature seems to realize that it's been spotted at almost the precise moment that Dante realizes what it is he's looking at--"Pen! Get the doors!" he shouts out, but whether or not she hears it is another story entirely, as the creature is leaping toward him and Dante's swinging his sword in an attempt to strike it out of the air. (Is it trying to attack? Is it trying to flee? He's got no idea, just the reflexes to try and strike it down!)

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[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2017-04-10 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
History has got to be one of the worst classes in school. Math? Logical, easy to follow. English? Less so, but it making up some crap as you go wasn’t the hardest thing to do. P.E.? A lot of suffering, but at least it didn’t come with homework. But history was boring and gave you research papers to do. Ugh.

If it weren’t for that, he wouldn’t be in the library at all, but he was just heading back to his table with a few books in hand when he felt a light breeze, and when he looks up, there’s Penelope.

“You look like you just ran a marathon,” he tells her, eyebrows raised. And then he realizes what she’s asking and his face falls. “...Please tell me there aren’t actually were-tomatoes running around the city.”

Then again, if it gets him out of homework...
commandertoolbelt: (wait what)

[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2017-04-11 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god, she’s serious. There are actually manic tomatoes running around town? Should he even be surprised after the fruit thing?

“But it’s not even a harvest moon!” he blurts out, staring at the video in disbelief. This can’t be happening. “What would a tomato want in a library? Shouldn’t it, I don’t know, be seeking justice for its fallen comrades at some Italian restaurant?”
commandertoolbelt: (welp)

[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2017-04-13 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
“Great, we’ve been upgraded from dancing fruit to a tomato monster running loose through the city. What’s next, a swarm of string beans? Killer peaches?”

Don’t answer that.

Okay, okay. They can’t just let a wild tomato run around the city, right? And definitely not in here - the librarians are going to freak out if they learn about this. There’s no telling if it’s out to hurt people or what. So Leo’s just going to put down the books because look, this is way more important than some dumb history report.

“Do you know which way it went? We should probably find it before it finds someone to recruit for its heirloom or bushel or whatever.” He pauses. “You wouldn’t happen to have a sack on you, would you?”

They’ve got to catch it somehow.

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