Dungeon Residential Camps, Somewhere, Friday

[not_a_whiner]

A strong wind tore through the hallways. Inside the camps, it was only audible: no breeze flicked into the large chambers themselves. Outside them, though, torches would flicker on and off on their own whim, exposing the dungeon's residents to errant grues.

There was something to be celebrated, though: when the maze shifted overnight, its paths crossed and connected all three camps. Time for a reunion.

[ camp one | camp two | camp three | ooc as of yesterday, everyone in camp 1 is free to assume they know about the first key and the vault. ]

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Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[brat_inslayage]

"Wait, that's a thing that happened too?" Kennedy raised an eyebrow, shifting into a more interested, slightly more serious mode. "Like the bizarro vampire verse, and some of the other stuff?"

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[furnaceface]

"It was," Jono confirmed, frowning as he gave his head a quick nod. "Some... turtle... ox... dragon thing made off with some of the island's children. Decided they were princesses or some such rot. And all this madness took the island over until we were rid of him."

A beat.

"He wasn't the brightest bloke I've met."

Poor Bowser.

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[brat_inslayage]

"Huh. That's something," Kennedy mused. "Whoever's doing this knows its Fandom history, I guess."

She grinned wryly. "Kinda wish I'd seen some of that wackiness the first time, though."

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[furnaceface]

"It wasn't the worst thing that's hit the island. I wasn't worried for a moment as I wandered that room, really. The creatures in there are utterly inept and mostly just walk back and forth until you jump on their heads."

Jono shrugged his shoulders.

"Clearly whoever's doing this has been paying attention. The room with the vampires is apparently something that's happened on Fandom Island before, too." One of his ears flicked slightly while Jono thought on that. "The question then is, why are all of these things being dredged up again? The baggage, those angels that look like th'ring of them out in the preserve. What's the point to all this?"

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[brat_inslayage]

"Yeah... I remember hearing about the vampires and wishing I'd been here for that. Not so much wishing it any more." Too bad Kennedy had no idea how apt the word 'wishing' was when talking about that situation, at least the way it'd happened in her world.

"I don't know," she added, a faint note of annoyance in her voice; not that she had the patience to dig for the answers, but she hated not knowing them. "Other than messing with us, I don't know. It's not like you can say they're all meant to give us bad flashbacks when not everyone here's lived through all of it."

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[furnaceface]

"And, for as glad as I am to have gained certain insights into the experiences of Fandomites past, I can honestly say I could've gone without finding out that half the people I care about here have been attacked by vampires since Tuesday."

Vampire issues. Yep.

"The sooner we figure out how to get out of here and back to our own bloody version of the island, the better. In the meantime... I suppose we make do."

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[brat_inslayage]

"Ugh. Yeah. I have issues enough about that at home," Kennedy grumbled.

She dropped down to sit cross-legged on the floor and propped her chin up in her hands. "I swear, they don't make Fandom crises the way they used to when we were in school."

Off her lawn, kids. Or something.

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[furnaceface]

"What I wouldn't give for some... I don't know... more killer tomatoes or something," Jonothon sighed. "At least if we were fighting those again, we'd have food on hand. Scavenging like this isn't doing any of us any good. I'll be headed out again shortly, I think. See if I can find anything edible to bring back. With any luck, I won't end up with paws, too."

Irritated tail thump. Eartwitch. Grumble.

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[brat_inslayage]

One corner of Kennedy's mouth twitched. "Are you going to hurt me if I say you make a freakishly adorable raccoon-thing? Because... yeah, but wow, the killer tomatoes. There's a blast from our past."

She ran a hand through her (increasingly greasy, ugh) hair. "That one made me so mad the first time, like I got cheated out of a real chance to fight things, and now... I kind of wish more of the fights I end up in were like that."

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[furnaceface]

Key word, freakish? Jono didn't do adorable, blast it. Not if he could help it, anyhow.

"I couldn't agree more," he admitted, resisting the urge to lift his hands and try to cover those stupid ears of his. "I'll fight when I need to, of course. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't, I don't think. But some easy fights now and again, ridiculous things like toothy vegetables... I certainly wouldn't mind more of those."

They beat going up against enemies like Machinesmith or the Zodiac any day of the week. And he'd probably take them over the Blood in Glacia after Karla's graduation, too, if he had the choice.

"... And I'm not adorable."

You keep telling yourself that, Jon.

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[brat_inslayage]

"Mmmm," Kennedy said in a vaguely noncommittal tone that, combined with her tiny smirk, translated to basically the same thing as 'You keep telling yourself that.' Because the key word was 'adorable.'

"That is seriously one impressive tail. What are you gonna do if you're really stuck with it?"

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[furnaceface]

"Buy new trousers," Jono replied, looking... still not terribly impressed. "Or cut holes in the back of the ones I've got. This'll put a damper on that 'wearing long coats' thing I've taken to, lately, though."

He really, really hoped the tail wasn't permanent. But it wasn't as though he hadn't seen stranger, really. He'd deal. Probably.

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[brat_inslayage]

"You know, I might know a couple of tailors who know how to work around that kind of thing?" Kennedy offered. "I mean, if you're cool with them mostly catering to the demon set, 'cause tails, horns, weird don't-wanna-know protrusions... they're experts."

Not helping, Kennedy. NOT HELPING.

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[furnaceface]

Not particularly, no!

"I think there's a place in town that caters to much the same," Jono sighed. "I'll figure something out, one way or another. Maybe I'll just get fed up with th'bloody thing and have it docked instead."

... Ow.

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[brat_inslayage]

"That sounds less than fun," Kennedy said, stating the obvious. "So I'm really rooting for traditional Fandom temporary-ness here."

And now she was wishing she'd had her phone on her while she slept so she could at least get a picture. Oh well.

Re: Camp Two - Main Space

[furnaceface]

"Believe me, that would make two of us," Jono replied, shaking his head a little. "As adorable as you might think this look is, I'm not entirely thrilled with it. Temporary would be a pleasant surprise."

Right along with pretty much everything else that was going on in here. Temporary sounded good, indeed.