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Post by Bee on Mar 30, 2008 20:36:17 GMT -5
Thalia was hoping that the magical stardust superpowers of the figurine would just teleport them somewhere safe, but it felt like little more than a worthless little lump of wax, and she was terribly disappointed. She supposed she could run Tosiek back to the apartment and they could hide out there, safe from the rampaging crazy people of the bazaar, but she didn't want Tosiek to get eaten alive by apartment monsters like the plants--even though Mom had taken most of those to Court--and the banders. She liked him too much to feed him to the beasts.
She ran with her friend, and shook the figurine violently, like shaking viciously it would force out its mystical abilities. "I think it's a dud, Tosiek. That man is trying to sell people crap. What a jerkface. We should go burn his stand down. Hey, where are we going?"
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Post by Kiki on Mar 31, 2008 19:10:23 GMT -5
Bee and Sera receive 1 token each, to be redeemed in Ashwin's Shoppe.
This will automatically be added to your recorded totals in the shoppe.
Congratulations, and keep up the good RP!
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Post by seraaches on Apr 7, 2008 11:45:15 GMT -5
"Just keep running, Thalia," Tosiek sighed instead of responding to her quip. If they went back now, he'd probably be lynched and he certainly had no desire for that any time soon. He greatly preferred being alive, thank you very much.
"I think there's a park up past the gates of the Bazaar," he told the strange little hybrid female. "We'll stop there and see if we can get it to actually wor-- Thalia, watch out!"
They crashed into a jewelry cart that had slowly made its way into the road and-- for the love of Light-- had stopped.
"Watch it, you old hag!" Tosiek yelled at the driver of the cart, uncertain and uncaring as to the actual gender of the owner. He helped Thalia up, scooping a few bangles in the process in righteous outrage, then hurried her off, uncertain if she'd managed to carry off something as well.
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Post by Bee on Apr 10, 2008 0:38:30 GMT -5
Other than getting smacked in the face by an errant wheel, her flailing tentacles had managed to protect her from harm. She ran along after Tosiek, only becoming aware that she too had committed a theft when she saw glinting silver out of the corner of her eye. Her tentacle waggled a bracelet. Not really her style. Maybe Tosiek would like it.
It was a relief to finally be reaching the edge of the bazaar; once they were out and into the park, they could find a good place to hide and stop running. Thalia was the most awkward sprinter in the entire world; her tentacles never seemed to know what to do with themselves, and this amused themselves by tripping the rest of her.
The park was quite a bit less crowded than the bazaar, but not nearly devoid enough of life. They would need to find a quiet corner to try to get the figurine to work, just in case it did something weird. They should probably hide behind the bushes or in a tree or something. She turned to Tosiek to ask his opinion, when she saw the pretty bangles he had snagged.
"Hey!" she said. "Those are awesome. I'll trade you this for them." She waved the bracelet.
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Post by seraaches on Apr 10, 2008 1:23:13 GMT -5
Tosiek fought the need to sigh in amusement but he, of course, agreed to do as the girl desired. Though there was a good chance he would have just given the girl all of the bangles without a second thought. He didn't need any fripperies.
It didn't seem wise to try and argue with the girl, though, and he figured he could just try and give it back to her later. So he swapped with her and just fingered the bejeweled bracelet for now as his attention turned back to the figurine. As he got a closer look at it, he realized it was monkey in shape. They'd gotten a monkey figurine. Huh, that was interesting.
He wondered wot it might do, but the girl seemed a little bit distracted right now-- shinies appeared to be something of a serious problem for her-- and Tosiek patiently waited until he could get her full attention again. "The figurine, Thalia?"
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Post by Bee on Apr 10, 2008 1:55:36 GMT -5
Thalia had been quite busy slipping the bangles over her left front leg and then watching as the little golden rings jingled and bounced and caught sunlight. Much better than bells. She glanced up at Tosiek.
"Oh, yes!" she said, a bit embarrassed that her attention had been snatched so completely from the task at hand. "The figurine. Okay. Tosiek," she continued, impatiently, "put your bracelet on, otherwise you'll just lose it. Then we can fiddle with the thing and see if we can get it to work."
Her Corvie blood was kicking in again; she wanted to examine the little monkey from every angle, take it apart, figure out what it was about it that made it work--or not work. They might need to take it back to the lab anyway. But best to do a preliminary check here, to see if it would be worth the trip and the punishment she'd incur for breaking into Mama's fortress of doom.
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Post by seraaches on Apr 10, 2008 16:06:43 GMT -5
Tosiek gave a small grimace at her demand, but he obediently slipped the bracelet on over his talons to appease the girl. A tingle danced along his foreleg briefly and his brow furrowed slightly when he glanced it. The bracelet twinkled innocently from his wrist and the boy swiftly put it from his mind.
"Are there any buttons or anything on it?" he asked curiously. He wanted to play with it, sure, but he didn't have the obsessive need to figure it out that Thalia probably had. He was easily able to hold himself in check and wait for the girl to begin exploring the figurine.
She probably knew better how to figure out how to make it work anyway; at least one of her parents was obviously Corvistowneian so supposedly she'd be able to pick up at least a few techniques from said parent. Of course, this was Thalia he was thinking about. . .
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Post by Bee on Apr 11, 2008 3:56:55 GMT -5
Thalia turned the little monkey figurine over in her paws. Wax, with little streaks of gold and silver flecks that were almost certainly not stardust, though she would have to shove them under a microscope to make sure. Minerals were not her specialty--nothing was, really; she tended to have a passing flirtation with just about every field of science, and something of a crush on chemically and energetically unstable material--and they weren't Mama's, either. She wanted to break it open and see what was inside, but she didn't want to risk ruining the figurine just in case it was magical.
She handed the little monkey back to Tosiek with a sigh of deep sadness. "In my confessional Corvistownian opinion, it's just a stupid lump of wax with sparkles." It almost pained her to say the words. They had gone through so much trouble to get thing.
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Post by seraaches on Apr 20, 2008 1:27:20 GMT -5
Tosiek took the monkey and began his own inspection. It looked like it should do something; help them fly, or change time, or. . . Tosiek stared down at his empty claws in surprise. Where did the monkey go? He looked around in confusion and his brow furrowed as Thalia sent him the exact same look she had when he had put on the bracelet-- one of triumphant satisfaction-- then began to twist and turn over the figurine.
Deja vu swept over him like a wave and he stared at her in bewilderment as she made the exact same checks and motions she had not a minute before. "You already did all that," he finally stated, his confusion evident in his tone as well. "You twisted that way and you looked at the bottom and beeped its nose and then pushed on its belly. You just did that; why are you doing it again?"
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Post by Bee on Apr 20, 2008 1:55:46 GMT -5
She had no idea what the blazes he was talking about. She hadn't done any of this before. She had just taken the figurine from him, just examined it, just pronounced it useless. There was nothing more to the story than that. Perhaps Tosiek was not as sane as she had thought he was. Oh, gods! He was a crack addict. She had just made friends with a crack addict.
She had best warn Mom to hide her stash better when she brought Tosiek home to visit. She would flip if her weed went missing, and she didn't want to see her friend get hurt.
"Tosiek," she said, and her voice was the patient tones of someone dealing delicately with a small retarded child. "This is the first time I've checked it out. You've been with me the entire time. It's just a stupid lump of wax with sparkles.
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