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| Bag o Bones | Feb 23 2011, 08:37 PM Post #1 |
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The Esno Cafe had been expecting the shipment of vegetables to come in from that new greenhouse that had just opened up within the park of Maizuru Castle. A new state-of-the-art modern facility that offered the campus a great deal on vegetables in an attempt to get in the door and build up a profit base before they could expand elsewhere. But whatever the situation was, they weren't making a good first impression, what with their first delivery being late. But, perhaps seeing the flaw in this business plan, they soon called the cafe and told them that their delivery truck had broken down. They would still honor the order, but they would have to send someone over to pick up the vegetables. They greatly apologized for the inconvenience, and hoped that this wouldn't stop them from ordering from them in the future. That left Esno with a bit of a dilemma. They couldn't send any of their staff over, considering that they had a lot of work to do at the cafe. So, they made a deal with the few students who were already in the cafe at the time of the situation. If they would go and pick up the vegetable delivery for them, they would get free meals from the cafe for the next two weeks. A very good deal for what would probably amount to only minor heavy lifting and at the most a few hours of their time. So that's why this group of students would find themselves in front of a new massive greenhouse. A large modern facility designed to the science of growing gardens. If anyone was in a botany class, then they would definitely have to suggest this place for a future field trip. Well, all they had to do now was ring the bell and speak with some of the workers to pick up the order. Easy as pie. Or easy as carrot cake, considering the situation. (((OOC: Have fun everyone. It might take a moment to get started, but it'll be worth it.))) |
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| Fenrir | Feb 24 2011, 09:44 AM Post #2 |
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To Leo, it wasn't something too challenging, go pick up some vegetables and bring them back to the café before the rush begun. Sounded simple enough right? More so considering Leo had a Bag of Holding that could most likely contain a shipment of vegetables and even then would weight pretty much nothing. What made it complicated though, was the fact that a few days ago, Leo had been in the middle of an incident that involved zombies... Swordsman zombies at it, thus it was to be expected that the easily overloaded mind of the young teen was still a tad paranoid about the whole event... Needless to say, making him leave his gun was now near impossible... Not that it was easy to start with, less so when he discovered the chambers to train. Only problem was getting to the greenhouse, that shouldn't be so much trouble had he actually got his car in the campus, but... Grounded meant he would get no car until the next year... Unless he had exceptionally good grades, or exceptional need for it... Such as if he got a job or something like that... So walking it was, Leo left the campus behind with his bag of holding on his back, dressed quite average for the task... After all, getting the uniform out of the school seemed to be a warranty that something odd would happen... If at all, people asking him what was his ability with the occasional thug that felt like harassing him for being an Evo. The trip was fairly short though, soon he was standing in front of the massive greenhouse. Leo wasn't one to keep a garden, but he was one to appreciate good architecture and thus, he was fascinated with the structure, akin to a miniature, crystal replica of the palace that was just a few gardens behind. He didn't step in, knowing he was supposed to wait the other "recruits" for the task, getting the vegetables could take a while, but it wasn't a serious problem... It would take too long if he tried to just do it alone and himself. |
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| Persephoneve | Feb 24 2011, 10:34 AM Post #3 |
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The first week of school was not going very well. There were evos everywhere, in her dorm, in her classes, where she ate, it was just something she was going to have to get used to. The smart, practical part of her brain knew that not all evos were going to try and kill her, but that didn't make her less...nervous to be in this awful place. Getting out of her dorm room was a good start, but what in god's name made her think that going to the greenhouse was a good idea? It only felt worse as she walked up to the greenhouse, sensing the evo ahead before she walked around the corner and saw him. Leila kept her distance, avoiding eye contact. This was not a good idea, but she was a woman of her word. Leila slowing walked forward, ready to put up her barrier at any moment. She stood in uncomfortable silence, as they waited for more people to show up. |
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| Bowwy | Feb 24 2011, 09:20 PM Post #4 |
CHOCOLATE. THE LORD OF ALL FOODS.
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Free chili dogs for two weeks? Morton would probably kill for that. Scratch that, he WOULD. It had been sudden, but as soon as he heard ‘free food’ he was in, no matter what it was. Puppies? Yep. Babies? Yep. It was a good thing it wasn’t either of them because Morton would have cried for the first few hours or so of eating chili dogs. In fact, he didn’t even have to kill anything, all he had to do was go get some stupid vegetables. He didn’t have to go without friends, either, because Leo was going. The greenhouse was impressive, and Morton could only stare as he walked, standing next to Leo. “Uh…hey L-Leo,” He said, not looking over at him, still looking at the greenhouse. Getting to the greenhouse had been easy. Well, not as easy as you’d think. Driving the Hornmobile around as a civilian car can be a little bad at times, so Morton has to take some very unconventional driving pathways. And by pathways, I mean, like, the woods, and then sneaking his car onto a ferry (Which is another story altogether and probably pretty interesting.). But the thing was was that he had gotten there, right? Yes. Yes he had. But now he wasn’t sure what to do. “So we just get the v-veggies, right? T-Take em back, and then we get our free food?” Morton hadn’t known Leo for too long, so perhaps he didn’t know Morton had an intense addiction to Chili Dogs. He glanced around, noticing that Leila was here. He didn’t know her too well, but he still gave her a quick wave and smile, before slowly turning back to the greenhouse. “…Actually, I’m…I’m pretty hungry that I might eat a veggie or two,” |
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| GreyGuardian | Feb 25 2011, 01:26 AM Post #5 |
He's awoken something in me. Something I haven't felt in a long time, and I'm bloody glorious about it.
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Legato let out a low yawn and stretched his arms above his head. Sure he knew he’d be coming out here to pick up the order for the café, he had been looking forward to it, but he had goofed up in his plans. The previous night he stayed up watching horror movies. The last thing he remembered was some movie called Dawn of the Dead. He enjoyed it a lot, but he fell asleep before the end. And he slept for about an hour before his alarm woke him up to get going. In his sleep lacking stupor he made the mistake of taking the teleporter to the greenhouse. If he had eaten that morning he would have lost his lunch. It took him a moment to get his bearings and find his way to the greenhouse to meet with the others. The majority of them he didn’t know but there was one that he sort of recognized. The last time he saw him they ended up fighting zombies and getting eaten by a hydra. But what were the chances of that happening again? ”Hello. You’re Morton, correct? I believe we’ve met before.” |
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| EndlessDreamers | Feb 28 2011, 06:27 PM Post #6 |
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"Pudding pudding pudding pud pud pud pudding!" Singing to the tune of "Sailing, Sailing, over the brouding main", Gaile skipped down the path towards the greenhouse. He smiled brightly as he stared at the wonderful bright sun and the wonderfully bright leaves and the wonderfully bright day. It was all amazing. Primarily because he had been bribed by the Enso Cafe to help out with a good supply of what was now his staple food, pudding. He couldn't honestly eat vegetables. He, on a regular basis at home, talked to flowers and they were some of his best friends! Of course, it depended on the plant. Some were willing to give up their fruit, but some were sentient fruit. It was easier on the mind not to eat them. Well, when he didn't have to. He needed to eat a balanced diet and needed about 5 more pounds on the scale to balance it properly. Animals were a totally different story. He couldn't, in good conscience (whatever that was), eat something that resembled most half of the population of Wonderland. No could do. He understood the world was different but it was just plain odd to eat a rabbit when your godmother and father were bunnies (technically one was a hare). It wasn't that he held it against the people who chose to, he just couldn't bring himself to eating them. It didn't quite feel right in order to do such a thing. So, he had learned that processed foods such as candy, pudding, milk products, bread and most things not involving things he equated to happy, healthy beings were fine on his list. Pudding? Pudding was different. It was like a god among foods. And given that he didn't have a source of income (which has bad outcomes in this world he learned), he could not imbibe on pudding. He had learned, quite quickly I might add, that you needed a way to keep getting more of the green leafy pieces of paper in order to get more pudding. But the fact that he spent quite a few minutes a day with his face pressed against the glass display case for the puddings had obviously led to sympathy among the staff of the Cafe. They thought he was a bit mentally deficient, but took pity on him and sent him on a nice task. If he completed it? He could have pudding for a week. With the occasional odd job here and there, they figured they could keep at least one student happy. So now here he was. After following the wonderfully confusing hand drawn map of one of the staff members, crossing the great waters of the whatever the surrounded his old and new school, and venturing deeps in to the bowels of the city, he had found this. It was called a green house but it was not green in the least. In fact, it was more white and clear than green. He liked it already! A house that didn't make sense! He was at home already! He smiled brightly as he skipped up to the door, completely ignoring the other people there. He had just been told to go get vegetables. He wasn't even sure why those other people were there or if they were important or not. He was just here for the pudding! And so, he pressed the ringer that said "Press me" just like any good Wonderlander should when confronted by an object that told you to use it. Except perhaps knives that said stab with me. They had some mental issues that some serious psychoknife therapy could work out, but it was best not to help them along by allowing them to do what their horrible obsession with blood wanted them to do. However that wasn't the point currently. The point. Was. Pudding was to be had! |
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| Bag o Bones | Feb 28 2011, 10:26 PM Post #7 |
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The small group of people who Esno had asked to pick up their vegetable order had soon gathered together. Each of them had different reasons (IE. Food) for going on the errand, but it was still a good deed. But, with the arrival of Gaile, the group Esno had sent had all arrived. And it wasn't until Gaile had arrived that anyone even bothered to push the doorbell to let the proprietors of the greenhouse know that they were there. The ring echoed throughout the greenhouse, and a low buzz rang out to the students. Things were silent for a moment before the front door opened. A person, slightly shorter then Leo with a brown goatee and a white lab coat opened the door. The emblem of the greenhouse was stitched onto the front pocket of his coat. “Ah!” The man said, with a slight Russian accent, but nowhere near as heavy as The Heavy, “You must be the students sent to pick up ze vegetable order. Please, come in, come in, and so many apologies for the inconvenience.” The man would lead them into a small hallway once they passed through the door with another door at the other end of it. Once they were all inside, he would close the door behind them before going to the other end of the hallway and opening the door to the greenhouse proper. “So sorry for this, but we must keep ze greenhouse temperature strictly regulated, which means that we cannot have these two doors open at ze same time.” The man in the labcoat swiped a keycard next to the door. He waited a moment before a beeping sound echoed out and he grabbed the handle. “Oh,” He said, “How could I forget. I am Dr. Jenner. I'm the assistant head of research here in ze greenhouse.” With that said, Dr. Jenner pulled the handle and revealed the inside of the greenhouse to the other students. Inside was quite possibly the biggest assortment of plants and vegetables that any of them would have ever seen before. And that was just the first room. Rows and rows of plants and vegetables stretched in every direction, stopping only because walls were in the way. There were several doors as well, and if they looked up, they could see that there were three floors to this greenhouse, the upper levels having a special and classified glass structure that allowed light to pass through easily. That glass structure they developed was one of the many parts of this greenhouse that allowed it to work like that, thus allowing them to have several floors with no loss in productivity to plant development. There was fine mist in the air from the sprinkler system, just enough to get everyone slightly moist and to make the room humid. “This is a special design of glass,” Dr. Jenner said as he lead the students through one of the rows towards the back, “It's made by a top-secret method to allow extra light through, allowing us to build upwards instead of outwards, thus saving space and maximizing plant growth. Its also almost impossible to break or shatter, so we don't have to worry about our plants being destroyed in case a typhoon hits due to a errant rock.” “Oh,” He said again, stopping for a moment, “I hope you don't mind me explaining some of this, considering that's not what you're here for, but I sometimes get zo excited that I can't help myself. But yes, we have three stories to our greenhouse, each one in a three-by-three grid for a total of twenty-seven rooms. We also have labs and offices underground where we can take care of some of our research and business deals. Your order should be in the back, let me call Charlie to see if its ready.” Dr. Jenner pulled out a walkie talkie and pressed a button. “Charlie,” He said, “This is Dr. Jenner. The students are here to pick up the order. Is it ready yet? Over.” He released the button and waited for a moment. Only silence came from the other end. “Charlie?” He asked, “Do you copy? Over.” More silence. “Oh where is he?” Dr. Jenner said as he looked at his walkie talkie in frustration before he got what looked to be a look of enlightenment on his face. He lifted his left arm to pull the sleeve of his coat back and looked at his watch. “Of course,” He said, “It's 2:30. Charlie's in the bathroom. He's like clockwork. Every day, 2:25 in, 2:40 out for as long as I've known him.” “Well,” Dr. Jenner said to the students, “I'd hate to take more of your time, but it's going to be at least ten more minutes before I can get you your order. Would you like to have a tour of our facility in the meantime?” |
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| Fenrir | Mar 1 2011, 06:12 PM Post #8 |
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People began to show up, he knew he wasn't supposed to be alone so it was quite likely that loading the vegetables would take short... Then back to the café to deliver them and get a breakfast. First to join was a girl, a rather tall girl at it, with an apparent Indian decent; she also seemed to be a tad shy or nervous, keeping some distance from Leo while the teenager looked at the greenhouse before he turned to see her, her olive eyes immediately catching the attention of Leo. Morty was the next to appear, standing next to him as he too stared at the greenhouse. Hey Morty, as far as I know yeah, is just getting the veggies and back to the campus. The teen said, chuckling lightly when Morty said he would eat one of the veggies or two out of hunger. Next person to join them was another guy, considerably shorter than both Leo and Morty, with pale skin and black hair, a strange, purple eye-color catching Leo's attention. He spoke to Morty, mentioning they might know each other already. Well hello mister, the name is Leonard, who are you? Leo said, introducing himself briefly before asking for a name reference. Next guy to arrive didn't bother with any of them, going straight for the button in front of them to get someone... Who happened to be a guy in lab coat. Leo had been expecting that, or something similar at least, he wondered exactly what was a Russian in Japan... But he just shrugged, after the zombies of the past week, most everything could pass as normal in Leo's mind. When asked if they were there for the vegetables, Leo nodded lightly, following the man into the small hallway and waiting for the next door to be opened. It made sense regarding control, and he couldn't but notice that when they walked into the hallway, they had stepped into a small puddle of water with chlorine, presumably to keep the place as clean as possible. The good doctor introduced himself to the small group, revealing shortly after the interior of the greenhouse. Leo was amazed, looking all around. He was very surprised by the size of the greenhouse as well as its variety of plants. The light mist in the air was refreshing in the considerably hot greenhouse. The doctor then began to explain about the greenhouse and how it operated, as well as some of the technical aspects, apparently quite proud of his work place, making Leo smile lightly... It was a kind of feeling that was just sticky, seeing someone so excited and so content with their work... It was very pleasurable. With the introduction done, the doctor tried to call someone named Charlie, and at its failure, he offered some interesting facts about the habits of his coworker before offering the tour. I sure don't mind... What about you people? Leo answered, turning to see the others, he did like the look of the place, so a tour would be to the teenager a wonderful idea. |
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| Bowwy | Mar 3 2011, 06:04 PM Post #9 |
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Morton turned over his shoulder upon hearing his voice, and instinctively nodded to Legato’s question. It was then Morton was reminded of the awful dream he had. Coincidentally, a lot of people he knew were in that dream, but he hadn’t talked to anyone about it. Yet, anyhow. Wait, had they met in that dream? This was getting weird. Was this guy a psychic? Or yet, an evil psychic? An evil wizard!? Morton’s train of thought was interrupted by someone singing a song about pudding with the lyrics pudding, pudding, pudding, which, honestly, was fairly sufficient by itself. Ironically enough, the person obsessed with pudding was the first to ring the doorbell. Initiative usually came from the hungry. The door opened a moment later, revealing a nerdy, bearded man, with a heavy Russian accent. He quickly invited them in, and Morton glanced back, giving him a look that said, “I will prevail with justice!” And then quickly scooted into the building to avoid getting hit with a fireball. The man closed the door behind all of them when they were all inside, explaining that the temperatures must be kept correct. That made sense. He introduced himself soon afterwards, as Dr. Jenner. Since when did plants need doctors? Oh well, if free food was the prize Morton could care less. He followed the doctor into the greenhouse, and even he was impressed at…well, all of the green. The boy’s eyes floated up, seeing green, green, and more green. The air was humid, and misty, which didn’t bother Morton much, as he turned his attention back to Dr. Jenner who continued to speak, and then pull out a radio and contact a ‘Charlie.’ When he didn’t answer, Morton glanced back and glared at Legato-it must have been his doing! He was an evil wizard! But, the man had an explanation…Charlie went to the bathroom at this time. Bathroom? OR A DIFFERENT DIMENSION!? He couldn’t blow his cover, though. But he nodded at Dr. Jenner’s question. Edited by Bowwy, Mar 3 2011, 06:12 PM.
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| EndlessDreamers | Mar 7 2011, 02:26 PM Post #10 |
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Gaile waited after he pressed the button, bouncing back and forth on the balls of his feet as he waited for whatever was supposed to happen when the bell was pressed. Finally, a person appeared and Gaile smiled widely at him and waved, saying, “Hello person!” It was about then that he explained that he was the person in charge of making sure they got the shipment. Gaile nodded, glad to be one step closer to getting his hands on some sumptuous pudding. He clapped his hands together and nodded even more as he waved back and forth. They walked through the greenhouse and Gaile looked around. The greenhouse was really nice. It was humid and hot and he liked it. He especially liked all of the plants. Gaile smiled as he bent down and looked up at the plants. He stared down at one of the small plants and started to talk to it. “So, do you like it here?” he asked the plant, taking a finger and petting its leaves. When it didn’t respond, he sighed. None of the flowers on this world ever talked back to him. It was too bad. He hoped that it would be different, but nope. That wasn’t going to happen this time. Maybe next time! He looked around at the strange stuff all around him. An entire house made of glass! He hadn’t seen some of these things in a long while. In Wonderland, they were commonplace! It was an odd thing to see such an odd thing for this world in this world. The mist that was being sprayed over the vegetables was cool and he liked it. It reminded him of some of the strange places he had been before. This place was actually comforting in a sense. The man was talking about boring stuff it seemed, so he wasn’t really paying attention at this point. Something about having to wait. He didn’t mind really. He was just here to help them get vegetables. He didn’t even really pay attention. He didn’t pay attention to anything. He was far too interested right now in the strange house made of glass, the plants and the mist. Edited by EndlessDreamers, Mar 7 2011, 02:27 PM.
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| Persephoneve | Mar 8 2011, 07:27 AM Post #11 |
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Three more people arrived, only one more being an evo. Leila continued to stand back, content to observe her strange companions. Thankfully, no one tried to speak to her, that would have been unacceptable. Soon enough, a large Russian man came out to bring them all inside. The whole thing seemed....wrong somehow, but that was more than likely Leila's own nervous feelings at being confined with these freaks. She was the second to last one to follow the group inside, moving before she could convince herself that this was a bad idea. She awkwardly walked through the hallway, staring at her feet as the scientist unlocked the second door. Truth be told, the greenhouse was amazing. Leila raised her eyes and openly gaped. She had never been inside of any greenhouses, let alone one as impressive as this one. She should have known, everything in this strange place was bigger and better and more advanced than anything she had had back home. It was almost futuristic. She wasn't even paying attention to their host. However her ears picked up at the word tour. She looked at Leo with an almost friendly expression as he agreed to the tour. No body else responded. "I'd like to see the rest of the place. It really is beautiful." Her face was much different when she wasn't being overly shy or hostile. It made her look younger, more innocent, if only for a moment. Leila remembered her self and her face twisted back to its normal angry scowl. "I mean, if we are going to be waiting anyways." |
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| GreyGuardian | Mar 8 2011, 06:47 PM Post #12 |
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Legato nodded to the taller boy beside Morty. ”Its nice to meet you. I’m Legato.” Interesting. He hadn’t seen this guy around before, which wasn’t saying much considering the size of the student body. Was he a new student? It didn’t really matter one way or another. He was a new subject to study, and that was always good in Legato’s eyes. Leo wasn’t the only one he didn’t know. The girl seemed familiar but he couldn’t recall ever running into her before, and the last guy that showed up was fairly alien to him. He was the one to ring the doorbell and get some assistance for the group. Legato followed behind everyone else as Dr. Jenner lead them into the green house. It was certainly impressive to see so many different plants in one place. The prospect of learning more about the research they were doing excited him. He always loved learning about a new field of science. ”A tour would be most enjoyable. I am curious about how you grow your vegetables so big.” |
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| Bag o Bones | Mar 8 2011, 08:28 PM Post #13 |
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Well, the group of students didn't seem to be in that big of a hurry, or seem to be that distraught over having to wait some more in order to get their vegetable order. But, this would be a good chance to show them around, let them know how things worked here. “Ah, wonderful!” Dr. Jenner said, “Well then, please follow me, and I'll give you the nickel tour, as they say.” With that said, Dr. Jenner led them through the door across the room. Through that door was another large room filled with various plants and vegetables. What made it stand out was in the middle of the room there was a large, glass-encovered elevator shaft. “Right now,” Dr. Jenner said, “We're in the middle room of the ground floor. As you can see, there are other rooms on all sides of us.” He motioned to the door they had just gone through, and then motioned to the doors on the other sides of the room. “It might be easier to think of za greenhouse as a big cube with roots. Nine rooms per floor arranged in a three-by-three format. There are two ways to get around. In za middle of the cube, we have za elevator, which is how most of us go from floor to floor. But, you need to have one of our keycards to use it.” Dr. Jenner went to the elevator and swiped his keycard through it to call the elevator down to the ground floor. “Main reason you need one is because its also za only way to get to our labs and offices underground, the 'roots' of our greenhouse, so to speak. For general public use, we have a set of stairs in za corner rooms. That also helps with za occasional plant that needs some shade use to grow.” The elevator had been called, and Dr. Jenner allowed the students to enter first before he stepped in as well and hit the '3' button. If anyone would look at the control panel, they would see that there were three floors to the greenhouse and two underground floors that were their offices and labs. “We also have a facility-wide intercom system set up, so we can call anyone working in specific rooms, or notify za entire facility directly.” As the elevator continued, as the students looked around if they so wished, they could see a figures in lab coats working with the plants and vegetables as they ascended to the top floor. There was a ding as the elevator reached its destination. “We typically give each scientist their own specialty room to work in, in addition to their underground lab and office. Mine is on za third floor.” Dr. Jenner lead them out of the elevator where there was another scientist in a white coat working with what looked to be a tomato vine. The scientist was looking at one of the tomatoes, and it would be easy to see that it was possibly one of the largest tomatoes that anyone would have ever seen before, at least the size of a human head. He was also smoking, which Dr. Jenner quickly snapped at him on. “DR. PRYCE!” He shouted, “How many times do we have to tell you, no smoking in the greenhouse!” Dr. Pryce quickly put out his cigarette. He also took off his labcoat and hung it on one of the other doorknobs. “Gettin' rid of the temptation, Sir.” He said, “Got my smokes and my lighter in the pocket.” “Good.” Dr. Jenner replied, before going back to his regular mode as he continued to lead the students around. Dr. Jenner lead them through a door behind the glass elevator shaft. And within that room, the students would see quite possibly the largest corn stalks that they had ever seen before. “This is my greenhouse room!” Dr Jenner said with obvious pride in his voice, “Using our scientific, state-of-the-art procedures, these corn stalks can provide nearly four times as many ears of corn per stalk, and za corn itself can be even bigger too!” A light mist once again began raining into the room as the sprinkler system turned on and began bating the corn in a fine mist to water it. “As you can see,” Dr. Jenner said, “Using our methods, we can grow bigger and larger vegetables, and then we can ship them around za world, curbing world hunger with our scientificly-designed vegetables. Everything from za fertilizer to za sunlight amount, and even down to za top secret...” Dr. Jenner didn't get to finish that sentence when suddenly a flashing red light and alarm started to blare out. But this didn't seem like it was supposed to be part of the tour as Dr. Jenner had a surprised look on his face. “That's...odd...” Dr. Jenner said, “Would you mind waiting here while I check this out? Its my responsibility as assistant head to check this out, and if this is a big emergency, then we can't really let children running around our greenhouses. No offense, but I shouldn't be too long. It's probably just a cross-contaminated fertilizer pump. But no matter the emergency, it always ends up being facility-wide.” With that said, Dr. Jenner left the room and motioned for the tomato scientist to join him. Together, they entered the elevator and headed down into the basement, seeing if they could pinpoint the source of the alarm. Truthfully, there was nothing stopping the students from leaving this greenhouse room, aside from Dr. Jenner asking them to wait here. But even if they did stay, there was plenty to see inside of this greenhouse. Each corn stalk had a few charts with it that if anyone knew anything about botany they could read. It was mostly talk about what the schedule of when to give it plant vitamins and watering schedule. It might not have been much, but it would have been enough to at least keep them occupied for a few minutes if they decided to wait for Dr. Jenner in this room. In the basement offices, Dr. Jenner into the main computer room. It looked like any other regular laboratory room except there were a few plants in there as well, with a large eggplant pot on one of the tables. Dr. Jenner looked at the eggplant for a moment before he got to the computer station. “Alright,” He said as he took a seat, “Let's see what za issue is...” Dr. Jenner said, checking out the computer and shutting off the blaring alarm and red light. The screen suddenly turned red. Dr. Jenner looked in horror at the readouts he was getting. “No....” He said softly as he switched to the security cameras. In each of the greenhouses, there were scenes of horror playing out. “I...don't believe it...” He said, watching the violence spread, “But...we gave every plant that...this....this wasn't in za possible side-effects...” There was no time to waste. Dr. Jenner got to the intercom control unit. “CHILDREN!” He shouted into it, directing it into his greenhouse area. “THERE IS NO TIME TO EXPLAIN! YOU MUST GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE...!” Dr. Jenner suddenly stopped as he turned slowly to the plants kept in the computer lab. The leaves and vines were moving. But...the eggplant that he had seen just moments before was gone. He quickly turned around in his chair, but it was too late. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” He screamed out, his voice echoing throughout the intercom system. The soft sound of something being eaten soon followed before the intercom died. Whatever force Dr. Jenner had seen had not yet reached his lab. 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| Bowwy | Mar 12 2011, 07:10 PM Post #14 |
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The nickel tour, huh? More like the one hundred million dollar tour! That that evil guy was going to try and steal! Morton followed the doctor silently, observing the plants, his thoughts elsewhere. The doctor was explaining the layout of the greenhouse, and Morton was paying a little bit of attention. Nine rooms per floor, three by three, with an elevator and stairs for moving in-between floors. Morton glanced at the control panel for the elevator enough to notice that there were actually five floors, two of which were offices, underground. Would be helpful if a certain evil super-villain decided to nuke-bomb the place. The group began their ascension upward, to the third floor, and they were treated to quite a bit of scientists as work. Morton didn’t see any nuclear bombs hidden in the plants, so his angst was cured. Slightly. There was still imminent danger present, the Crimson Horn…erh, Morton, was sure of it! He remained vigilant as he followed Dr. Jenner from the elevator, still silent, and glanced over at the smoking tomato scientist, who was quickly chastised. It was weird, to see the little guy so…irked. It wasn’t his natural habitat of behavior. Soon enough, they were in the corn room. Somehow, this was inevitable. They would end up in the giant corn room. Morton began to tune the doctor out as he simply…stared at the corn stalks. They were huge. Far, far too huge. However, he tuned in a moment before the alarm went off. Some sort of top secret ingredient? This wasn’t going to end well, and Morton could already feel it. As the alarm shattered his last hope of having a NORMAL day for once, he closed his eyes, and then turned. Legato was still here. That meant…he wasn’t doing evil things! Perhaps he wasn’t even evil at all! … But who was? Dr. Jenner left a moment later, and Morton decided not to go check out the corn stalks. They were interesting, but the red, blaring light was…well, distracting. However, not nearly as distracting as Dr. Jenner’s voice. The boy jumped as he yelled, and was…well, quite confused for a moment. However, a moment later, when it was obvious he was dead, and being eaten, things became a little more clear. … Wait, no they weren’t. Well, one thing was clear. “W-we need to go!” Morton shouted. If the elevator wouldn’t work, they’d have to go to the stairs, and get down to the main floor to escape. Something must be going on. But something hit him. He crept into the tomato room, and was happy to see the doctor's jacket still there. After quickly searching through it, he found his lighter. With a grin, he returned to Jenner's room. "...S-so what's the plan?" Edited by Bowwy, Mar 12 2011, 07:37 PM.
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| Fenrir | Mar 14 2011, 08:55 AM Post #15 |
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The only girl in the group did seem quite enthusiastic of the tour, at least for a moment, scowling once more when she remembered they were waiting… Leo couldn’t prevent to wonder why she was like that… Since she arrived, she seemed to be the most shy of them all, not talking much to the group and keeping a friendless face… He’d ask later about it for sure. Legato, as the smaller teen introduced himself, seemed to be fairly interested in the proposition of the tour, apparently all too eager to learn how to grow veggies to epic proportions… And speaking of it, the guy that had arrived last was busy… Talking with plants. Leo didn’t ask, he doubted he wanted to know why or how… Maybe it was his ability? Nonetheless, the doctor seemed pleased with their eagerness to follow the tour, leading the group through the door across the room and through yet another large room filled with plant-life, the most important part however was the elevator in the center, which the doctor explained communicated the ground floor with the upper levels as well as with the basement levels which were out of question for them. The corner rooms had stairs to move from level to level without using the elevator, which meant that at some point or another the greenhouse was going to receive visits from schools or institutions that wouldn’t need access to the basement levels… Something that spoke lots about the project, making it more than just a project to solve global hunger, but also to help education. Leo however was enjoying the plants a lot. He liked this, his vacations… At least the preferred kind typically had lots of outdoors and plants and animals, as well as physical work. There were many scientists working on the plants, which went from tropical flowers of colossal proportions, to the classical Venus and Nepenthes flycatchers, to the most impressive tomatoes. The scientist working with the tomatoes however was quickly scolded for his misbehavior for smoking in the greenhouse. Pryce hung his labcoat away before the doctor lead them through a door behind the elevator… The biggest corn stalks awaited in that room, something that made Leo stare at in awe… Woah… If we could have some of these back home… Leo muttered under his breath, amazed by the massive corn stalks. The mist was something Leo liked quite a lot; it was refreshing in the heat of the greenhouse… However as the doctor was nearing to a rather interesting portion of his explanation, an alarm with flashing red light and loud noise was fired. Leo jumped slightly, instinctively turning around and raising his hands defensively. However the doctor quickly discarded something serious and left them behind. Leo let out a sigh, the whole zombies adventure of a couple of weeks prior was still rather fresh in his mind and he’d rather believe that, whatever it was, was something completely usual. His hopes were shattered as suddenly the intercom sounded with the doctor’s voice, before a scream pierced the air and then the soft sounds of munching in the background were heard… The munching sound made Leo remember the experience… The zombies munching on corpses slowly. Shivering, Leo heard Morty… Returning to reality, the teenager decided that yes, they definitely didn’t want to be there at all… His friend headed back into the tomatoes room and got a lighter, returning shortly after to the room. What’s the plan? Well I give you one, we get the hell out of this room and hit the stairs before we’re eaten by one of those flycatchers… Really, what else can we do? Now let’s get the hell out of here. Leo said, his nervousness making him snap with dry honesty to Morty, reaching down for his gun… The munching sound made Leo suspect that somehow the zombie swordmen had returned, and even if he couldn’t but stun them with the practice rounds, he was going to use it… Mostly because he preferred to deal with stunned zombies than with aware ones. Walking up to the door, the teenager opened it and walked out of the corn room, back to the one with the tomatoes and the elevator, searching the labcoat for any card that could lead them down… Because the stairs would give them hell, he was sure of that. What he found, wasn't exactly the card he was expecting to find, but one for the labs... That reminded Leo of an issue... Although they could get out of the greenhouse, the idea of leaving the scientists that could be trapped down there to die was horrible... They were stuck between surviving, and being heroic and try to rescue the scientist... On the other hand, they could always leave that to the professionals. |
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| EndlessDreamers | Mar 14 2011, 11:44 AM Post #16 |
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Blah blah blah bladideblah blah. The man kept talking and talking and talking and there wasn’t much vegetable-ing to be had currently. When the doctor opened the up and down thingy, Gaile was a few seconds late to the uptake before turning around and noticing everyone else was going in to the up and down thingy. He got up and said his goodbyes to his new flower buddies and then strutted in last before they went up. Finally, they stopped before Gaile strutted back in to the new rooms and looked at the big squishy tomato. It was a pretty tomato, and it was bigger too! Maybe this one could talk! But no, it was to no avail. Boo. Oh well, that sucked. He shrugged as he poked it a few times and then turned back to the blabby talky man. He sure did talk a lot. Was any of it important? Probably a lot of it to be honest. Then he left. Oh well, more talking to the giant corn. When did they get to giant corn? Oh well, he didn’t care! He just gave one a big hug before stepping back and smiling. Such an odd piece of corn, he liked it. He wished it could talk back, he would tell it such grand stories! But right, he needed to acquire pudding. That required the scientist to come back, so Gaile waited impatiently for his return, tapping his foot on the ground as he had been told to do when impatient. Suddenly, he heard red lights blaring and saw screaming, no wait other way around, and he turned, wondering what was going on. He watched the others walk out of the room and then come back in and then walk out before following them with a quick step. “So when do we get the vegetables? Do we have to wait?” he asked, completely oblivious to the obvious danger that was possibly going down. |
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| GreyGuardian | Mar 14 2011, 10:38 PM Post #17 |
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Legato felt right at home in the lab. He grew up in a place similar, but with fewer plants and more needles. It was kind of interesting to be just an observer and not the one doing the experiments. The layout of the labs was easy enough to understand. Three floors, nine rooms per floor including the elevator room, and two levels underground. This made for a total of 45 rooms if the lower levels were the same as the upper ones. Rather efficient for growing a lot of plants. He marveled at how big some of the plants had gotten as the group followed Dr. Jenner. The tomatoes were pretty impressive, and the Dr. Pryce must have been pretty good at his job if he was still around after disobeying orders over and over again. Or maybe Jenner was just a nice guy? Legato lingered back a bit before following after the rest of the group to Jenner’s office. That was some really big corn. He didn’t even like corn and he had to admit he was impressed. Then the alarms started. Was it too much to ask for a normal day? He moved over to the side of the corn and leaned against the edge of the table. Then the intercom came on… Was that Jenner? Get out but why? What could have happened that he needed to tell them to get out? Then he heard it. That sound. He knew it, it was flesh being eaten. He had done the same to smaller creatures many times before. That meant something had killed the good doctor and whatever it was he didn’t want to deal with it. At least not like this. ”It appears that Doctor Jenner just became a meal for something… ironic, no?” he asked the others. Legato massaged his temples and looked around at the rest of the group. ”I believe the wisest course of action would be to vacate the premises. It’s a shame, I would have enjoyed going over the doctor’s notes…” |
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| Bag o Bones | Mar 16 2011, 02:19 PM Post #18 |
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Whatever horror was going on in the greenhouse, it hadn't gotten to the room the students were in yet. But, from the rate that Dr. Jenner saw before he was cut off, it wouldn't be long. However, once the warning was given to them, several of the students bolted back to Dr. Pryce's tomato room. They must have been observant in noticing that he had left his coat in the greenhouse, and perhaps there was something they could use. Morty found his cigarette lighter and Leo had uncovered his keycard for the underground offices. At the moment, none of them would seem helpful as they rejoined the group. Neither of them would notice that several vines had been following them, but were unable to catch up before they exited the room. The vines would continue to pile up against the door, and would make several attempts at the handle in an attempt to open it. Perhaps eventually someone within the corn greenhouse would notice, or perhaps they would take a different way out. After all, without one of the keycards, they couldn't use the elevator. But, then again, aside from the screaming warning and the sounds of someone being eaten, nothing really was seeming out of place so far. It would all seem calm and quiet, even more so once the alarm was off. It would just seem like a regular greenhouse, a bit humid and the sounds of rustling plants echoing. A lot of rustling. Like the plants were moving, or something was inside of them. … There was no wind to cause them to rustle. … A low groan, mixed in with a sort of wet hiss soon echoed through the greenhouse, like there was something caught in a throat. The rustling continued. And then it happened. All of the giant corn on one of the stalks suddenly fell off, landing with a loud thud. They were still for a moment. After all, they were just vegetables. … Until the corn started to melt into a black goop. And then one of the cornstalks grabbed Leila from behind. The low moan and wet hissing was coming from the giant cornstalk, as a single blood-red eye suddenly opened on it and a mouth full of sharp fangs appeared over Leila's head. It might have been hard to believe, but this giant cornstalk was about to go carnivore on Leila. And throughout the rest of the greenhouse, the other cornstalks were moving as well. Others had their corn fall off as well, but unlike the other one, this corn was moving as well, growing a single red eye and a mouth of fangs. Corn the size of a person slowly stalking the students as they were trapped within. It would only be a matter of time before they were taken upon like Leila was. They needed to get out of there, and quickly. But which way to go? And how would they escape from the carnivorous corn? |
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| Fenrir | Mar 16 2011, 08:12 PM Post #19 |
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Apparently, someone in the group was in the bliss of not knowing the sound of something being eaten by something else, and if Leo was going to risk a guess, it was the doctor being eaten, there was no other explanation for the scream. We... We'll get them later, for now we should just get out and tell the guys back at Enso that the good doctor Jenner was attacked by something and that we were asked to leave. Leo said, coming up with a plan regarding what to do once they were back at the campus... It sounded well and reasonable to him at the moment. Legato pointed out the same suspicion Leo had, and the irony of it... Ironic or not, Leo wasn't about to wait for them to be eaten, they had to get out somehow, but... How? They couldn't use the elevator, and the stairs were at each corner room... So left or right was good. The rustling noises were unnerving, Leo's attention drawn to the plants... What could be causing the rustling if there was no wind to make them move? The low groan mixed with the wet hiss made Leo nervous... It sounded terrible, scary. The teen was heading already to one of the doors when all of a sudden the corn fell off. The loud thud making Leo jump and turn around to see what had been the cause of the noise. The sudden transmutation of the corn into a black goop made Leo's face go pale, he knew what was next, the goop would attack them in some unsuspected fashion. But that didn't happen, in fact, it seemed the black goop was just a decoy, for the actual threat grabbed Leila from behind, the source of the moaning and hissing becoming evident as the cyclops vegetable opened a mouth full of sharp fangs over Leila's head. Leo didn't need to think it twice... In fact, he didn't, and even if he had wanted, he couldn't, his reaction being a tackle, side to side, to get Leila away from the mouth looming over her. Once on the ground, the teen turned around to see the rest of the group... No one trapped yet... However more of the atrocious vegetables began to make their way towards them. RUN TO THE RIGHT ROOM! Leo shouted, quickly jumping to his feet and shooting twice to the corn that had just tried to eat Leila, the stalk fled, hurt most likely, however and given the fact that it could flee, it was obvious it was still alive. Needless to say, Leo offered his hand to Leila, and once she was back on her feet regardless of if she took his hand or not for help, he ran towards the door to the right, hopefully the next room wouldn't have something like Venus or Nepenthes. |
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| Bowwy | Mar 18 2011, 07:11 PM Post #20 |
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Getting the hell out of there? Really sounded like a good plan. Made Morton wish he had thought of it. Yep. He quickly trotted behind Leo, and then realized he was looking for a keycard. He grimaced, and then waved his arms to get his attention, trying to tell him to just go for the stairs (Which, he wasn’t sure why he was being quiet, though. It wasn’t like being quiet was going to help them) but soon gave up, turning to the rest of the group. One person didn’t seem to notice that there were red lights flashing, and Legato made a joke about a guy getting eaten. Lovely. At least Leo had found a keycard. But, on the other hand, something very, very bad began to happen. All of the plants began to…rustle. Very, very softly. Perhaps it was part of the greenhouse’s effect, yes, circulation, the air conditioner. Or, maybe it was a ghost! Yes, the greenhouse was haunted. No, no…no…Morton knew what was about to happen, he had seen enough B-movies to know. Whenever there was a greenhouse full of genetically enhanced plants, they always, always ALWAYS turned into carnivorous monsters that fed on the flesh of living humans. And dead humans, for that matter, because they would kill you before they ate you. And, soon enough, the cornstalks came to life, and one of them began to try and eat Leila. Leo acted quickly, tackling the girl out of harm’s way, and then firing two shots at it. For some reason, Morton charged forward and kicked the thing as hard as he could. Although it was an awkward kick, coming from the super-powered legs of Morton made it a little more deadly than the average kick. The boy’s heart began to pound, but he felt unnatural resolve within him to survive and keep going. For the first time-he was staring evil mutant vegetables in the face, and wasn’t feeling fear. Erh. … It was the first time he had looked at evil mutant veggies anyway. Maybe he just couldn’t take them seriously. … Yet. |
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| GreyGuardian | Mar 22 2011, 10:11 PM Post #21 |
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Legato tensed up slightly as the rustling started. The only thing he could think of to cause it was something moving within the corn. And considering that there was some form of predator in the place it wouldn’t be good to stick around for it to attack them. He considered leaving the others behind for a moment, but that would be stupid. More than likely he couldn’t survive whatever killed Doctor Jenner on his own, and the others couldn’t be left for dead. All they had to do was get to the entrance they first came through without anyone getting captured or eaten and everything should be fine. Then Legato heard the corn drop to the grown and all hell broke loose. Living monster corn? Just what kinds of chemicals had the scientists been using on these plants? And if they all had the same treatment that meant the rest of the greenhouse could be in the same situation. Legato was useless in a combat situation. He was an ambush predator dammit! He didn’t even have any venom glands, not that they would have helped much in this situation. Still he could at least try and defend himself. A well placed kick into the eye of a nearby ear sent it flying into a couple of the other little buggers. It wasn’t as strong as he would have liked but it did the job. He watched the ears regain their composure for moment before dashing in the same direction Leo did. Right now…he was going to stay close to the guy with the guns. |
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| EndlessDreamers | Mar 23 2011, 12:41 PM Post #22 |
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“No, we can’t! I can’t get my pudding unless we get the vegetables!” Gaile pouted at Leo’s words, obviously very annoyed at the situation that was happening. This wasn’t fun. This wasn’t fun at all. He sighed, slightly disgruntled as he realized he was now going to have to find another way to acquire his staple food source. Even with the rustling all around him, he couldn’t really get in to the mood. He looked up at the strange vines and gave a slight smile. “They’re playing the maracas for us!” he giggled. Indeed, the rustling of leaves sounded like the Latin instrument, except for the fact that instead of awesome beats and grooves being involved, it was rather carnivorous plants. It was about then that he saw the large corn drop to the ground and turn in to black goop. He shrugged as he walked up to it and took a sniff, his nose wrinkling. That didn’t smell like corn at all. That smelled like… like bad! He didn’t like it. He couldn’t eat that. Blech. And why were the red lights still on? Was this a party? Was it like a rave or something like that? He wanted to go to one of those. He had only heard of them, never been to one, but heard they were really shiny and happy and fun. But still. He didn’t even notice the large plant stalk that was trying to take care of the female member of their group. But then everyone was running away and screaming and lashing out at the odd pieces of corn that looked much more like corn than that black corn goop. Why were they running? It was just corn. Though corn was weird. And that was what he was saying. Because it came out the same way it came in. If that wasn’t weird, what was? But it looked like they were scared of it. Why? It looked much more appetizing this way. But no, they were all running. “You guys are acting all strange,” he said, scratching his head as he got up and walked after them. Why were they even running? It wasn’t like the corn was all that fast to be honest. Just cause it had teeth didn't make it any less of being corn. It was still corn. Edited by EndlessDreamers, Mar 23 2011, 12:41 PM.
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| Bag o Bones | Mar 23 2011, 02:43 PM Post #23 |
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The monster corn was met with several different reactions. Skepticism, fear, survival instincts, and complete and total nonchalance. A wide range, to be sure, but which one was the correct one to feel in this situation? The corn stalk was knocked back a bit, enough to make it let go of Leila and free her from the clutches of the cob. Still, it seemed to be the majority opinion that they needed to get out of this room and quickly. Since the elevator seemed to be out of commission, that just left the stairs. And if they remembered what Dr. Jenner told them on the tour, stairs could be found in the corner rooms of the greenhouse. They just needed to get out of there before the corn got to them. Several more ears of corn fell out of their stalks. Some of them melted into a black goo with a hiss once more. Others sprang to life, eyes opening and fangs forming as they stalked after the students. And yet, even though Gaile seemed to be the least bothered by this, he was right in one aspect. The corn was slow. Very slow. Pretty much the only way it could move was in slight hops if it was disconnected from the stalk. Stalked corn wasn't much faster though. Being a vegetable meant that moving wasn't easy, and even easier to get your prey. It was like Legato in a way. They had tried to ambush the students, but that had failed, and now they were going to get away, leaving the corn without a meal. Even with all the corn around, they were too slow to surround the students or prevent them from getting to the door. All the corn could do was moan and groan and hiss as they kept trying to reach them. But, it was far too late for that, as Leo lead the students to the room on the right, hopefully remembering to close the door behind them once they all got out. But what would this next room hold for them? The first thing they would notice, as indeed it was the most complete obvious thing in the room, were the giant carrots. Big carrots, about the size of a person, if the tops sticking out of the soil were any indication. Most of the carrots were still planted, but there was still the strange hissing in this room as well. Several of the pots were knocked over, and on the floor was the strange black goop the corn that didn't mutate had melted into. That was the first thing. The second thing would probably be the monstrous, ten foot carrots that had come to life like the corn had. But these were almost more horrible, with each body part on them a separate carrot. Different carrots for its arms, legs, torso, fingers, its head. Each carrot with eyes and a mouth full of fangs. A Golem made of carrots. And, for some unknown and probably horrible reason, there were bolts in what could be considered the 'neck' of the carrot. And there were four of them in this room. One of the monstrous carrots stood and hissed as the students entered the room. It began to shamble towards them, every horrible mouth on its body hissing and moaning and creating a cacophony. They seemed to be faster then the corn was, possibly because these had legs. And then, just for no good purpose, the automated mist system in this room went off, creating a soft rain shower and raised the humidity. But, perhaps it had a purpose after all. As the mist landed on the carrots, there were soft popping sounds, like tiny circuits breaking. There was also a raised feeling of electricity in the air, almost like a static shock was about to go off. Still, they had their goal. Over in the corner, there was a staircase heading down. The bad news was that no matter which path the students took, there was a carrot in their way. They would have to find some way past or through at least one of them to get down and hopefully further out of this nightmare. (((OOC: Leila is NPC'd now. If Eve returns, she may come back where we are now.) |
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Calvin Tris Why do these things always seem to hit New York City? Seriously, I think Superman was the only space-borne projectile to land in the countryside. | |
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| Fenrir | Mar 25 2011, 10:28 PM Post #24 |
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Who said we suffer insanity? We enjoy every minute of it.
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The general reaction seemed to be pretty similar to his own, going for the room at the side, then again, with the exception of one guy, most everyone was scared of the idea of being eaten by a corn ear. What waited on the next room wasn't better though... Leo's eyes widened when he saw the massive carrots. Now, the teenager had several things in his head. For a start, someone needed to watch out the pudding-boy, because hell knew what the guy was thinking if he had assumed that the stalks were playing maracas back in the first room... And if he could give priority to getting pudding than getting out of that place alive. Next issue... Deal with the carrots... Which for some reason or another seemed to be charged with electricity... Great... I'm blaming you for this one buddy, somehow whenever I'm around you, we're attacked by something strange... Leo muttered to Morty, hopping that they weren't seen by the carrots... if they could see at all. The hissing made Leo turn around to look at the... Well, thing, keeping his gun up and aimed at it. Four of them, blocking the four ways... And mist began to rain on them, making sparks jump around the carrots and make the air feeling like a jolt was about to jump. However it gave Leo a good idea... If the carrots were electrically charged, then maybe the water could short-circuit them. The teen looked over to his minotaur friend, smiling lightly and gesturing for the pipes of water that were on the ceiling, providing the mist. Hey Morty, think you can pull those down and bend them to spray the carrots straight? Leo asked, hopping his plan could work, and that Legato and Leila, as well as the strange pudding-kid would join in for the idea. |
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You know, now I see where the comparison with angelical voices came from, though now I don't know if it should be a compliment or an offense... Made by PJ and Safi *hugs* Assisted by Foxy | |
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| Bowwy | Mar 27 2011, 01:02 PM Post #25 |
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CHOCOLATE. THE LORD OF ALL FOODS.
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Honestly, corn was…pathetic. It really couldn’t…even do anything. That was made obvious as they made their way into the next room, Morton closing the door as the last person made their way into the room, and then took a glance into where they were now. Well, that was hard to analyze because there was a giant Frankencarrot in the room. Actually, there were four of them. All ten feet tall, and all of them had limbs. …Well, they were made of carrots, truth be told, but they were still giant monster carrots, and there were still four of them. It was at least going to be somewhat possibly difficult to defeat the monsters. The monsters began to shamble towards them, and Morton grimaced. Carrots were ruined for him now. Water began to rain from the ceiling, and it grew very humid. Morton cursed, his clothes becoming moist very quickly, and thought about leaping at one of the carrots and attempting to wrestle it to the ground. He stood next to Leo, thinking about reaching for the lighter when he realized that it was…well, extremely humid in the room. “Th-this stuff normally doesn’t happen, I…I just have bad luck,” Morty’s friend had a plan-something to do with the pipes. He shrugged, leaping up on a nearby table and bringing down a pipe, shooting the concentrated mist at one of the carrots, carefully. “I hope this w-will work, Leo,” the boy said, jumping over to another table, making sure to avoid the lumbering monster carrots arms, reaching up and grabbing another pipe. |
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