KRAKEN DRILL!, EARLY Wednesday morning

[weirderthanthou]

In the middle of the night, the sirens went off.

Everyplace that had a siren unless it was handwavily broken in case a player doesn't want to get involved exploded into a cacophony of sound. It rang shrill, and loud, and it was nearly impossible to escape.

It rang again, louder.

And again.

And then the PA system kicked in."HELLO ISLAND. KRAKEN! KRAKEN! KRAKEN! PLEASE GO TO TOWN CENTER AT THE CROSS OF BLACK SWAN DRIVE AND UNICORN STREET, AWAY FROM THE SHORES, AND TIE YOURSELF TO THE NEAREST AVAILABLE OBJECT."

It repeated itself another handful of times. And then the whole thing started all over again.

At the center of Black Swan Drive and Unicorn Street, a variety of ropes and scarves and some handcuffs had been left for those who didn't bring their own.

Well. That was new.

[[ KRAKEN DRILL! Now with some OCD... ]]

Comments

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

"I always have a reason for the things I do!" Mostly it involved rage or annoyance.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"If you say so." Belle was not convinced. Belle was also very tired and annoyed about being outside in his shirt her pajamas.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

His shirt.

This was distracting and only made him look more surly over it all. "I do say so. You'll know when I'm the cause of something."

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Oh, will you tell me?" Belle asked.

Seemed unlikely.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

"Maybe I will," he replied. Like he was only doing it out of spite. Which was possible.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"I'd like that," Belle admitted.

Because she was tired.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

"Well. Good. It's happening." And he was doubling down.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Good. I look forward to it."

Why were they like this?

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

Because it was their charm!

"Good," he grumbled, glaring out at the town in general. Not moving away or anything. Just standing nearby.

For reasons.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Reasons like he might need to grab Belle and whisk her off to safety? Those sorts of reasons?

"Good," Belle echoed, tugging at the hem of his her shirt. Look, words were hard at this hour.

"Do you think there's really a monster?

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

Look, if it came down to it... yes.

"If there is, this is the dumbest plan," Five muttered.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Aww, he cared.

"It does seem unwise," Belle said, frowning, "to bring us all to one place."

Maybe the goal was just to set up a buffet for the kraken.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

"Right?" You saw it too, Belle!

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Perhaps we should go."

Shh, don't get hung up on the 'we' there.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

"It'd probably be the best option," he admitted, squinting around for his idiot brother for a moment longer.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Diego could throw knives at any marauding monsters and he had a nearly invincible girlfriend, he'd be fine! Probably.

"Unless there's a reason everyone was called here and it really is the safest place to be?" Silly girl. Far too trusting sometimes.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

Yes, but his codename used to be The Kraken and he didn't trust the man to not get himself in trouble here.

"Bold of you to assume anything done here is for a reason," Five replied.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

That was a fair point.

"That's true," said the girl who had traveled here via magic bean. "Who is even responsible for this sort of thing?"

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

"...the mayor maybe?" He was fuzzy on the politics of this town.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Oh. Perhaps." Belle was also not entirely sure who ran anything around here. Maybe the island ran itself.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[apocalypsehow]

It did sort of feel like a sort of place that did that. Mostly because of the insanity.

"Or the principal?" Guys, not the important thing here.

Re: Get Thee To The Center of Town

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Do you think she's in charge of everything? There are plenty of people here who aren't students."

Sticking to very important subjects here.