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| Smitejr | Feb 17 2014, 10:25 PM Post #1 |
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Kursten walked down the street, work concluded. The library wasn't particularly busy, it rarely was, but there were a few students that came by that needed his particular specialization. They usually went away wondering what someone with his knowledge was doing in a mere library, but he just did the usual, shrug and say "Who knows?" Sometimes they took it as some great mystery, but in reality it was just something that paid the bills as he worked. His work on the Book was proceeding smoothly. He was understanding more and more of the archaic text each day, which was pretty good for a language that just seemed to be completely nonexistent anywhere else. In all his research, he hasn't found a single tome with similar script, let alone a translated piece. Still, he was tired, and he'd worked enough for one day. When he went to cross the street, a car zoomed past the crosswalk, hitting him square in the body at high speed. Drystan bounced, flying into the air, and landing down a good ten feet away, blood trailing at his feet. Needless to say, the car zoomed away, hoping to outrun any police that might be called for him. At that speed, no one could survive...at least no one normal. "Well...that ruined my day..." Kursten murmurs to himself. |
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| Smitejr | Feb 18 2014, 12:20 AM Post #11 |
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Taking the bag, Kursten breaths long and deep inside of it, the high carbon dioxide content forcibly reducing his rate of breathing. as he did so, something started smelling really, REALLY good behind him. When he turned around, he saw a lot of him up in flames. "AHH!" Scrambling backwards, Kursten gets far away from the street, pressed against the wall of a building. "Jeez! Could you warn me next time? I nearly had a heart attack! Then again, if that crash was lethal, I'm not sure if a faulty heart would be either." Sighing, Kursten lays down, gratified to see that his stomach had finally sealed itself up. He had a new scar to show for it, but it was much better than it could have been. "That's some powerful flames you had there." Kursten says, after he's had some time to calm down. "Did you do it without an artifact? Because that'd be really impressive." |
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| SarahSyna | Feb 18 2014, 12:37 AM Post #12 |
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"Well, I'm glad you're feeling... good...." Destiny said, wavering a little. She took a step back as her eyesight wobbled, lost her balance, and plonked down in the middle of the street, right onto her bony little ass. Then she crawled over to the sidewalk, dragging her bag with her by the strap, and sat on it. She felt much safer there than in the middle of the road. "I didn't have breakfast today, or dinner! I knew I forgot something." she said cheerily by way of explanation., She pulled a calorie bar out of her pocket and unwrapped it. Apparently Kursten wasn't the only one who had found that incident to at least smell delicious. She broke off a piece and held it out to him as she took a large chomp. "It's got a strawberry filling!" she said, speaking around a wad of tasty, synthetic strawberry calories. "As for the fire, it's just me! I can't use artefacts at all. No magic at all, and they did test me. They used pins and everything and that was terrible because I bled a lot and almost died. Or was that something else.... " She thought about it, then shrugged. It didn't really matter, after all. "Probably! Oh well! Are you magical then?" |
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| Smitejr | Feb 18 2014, 01:02 AM Post #13 |
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Kursten blinks. He wasn't sure how someone forgot something like that...then again, he had rather larger calorie requirements than the norm because of stuff rather similar to what happened. Writhing tentacles from another dimension needed to eat too, he figured. "Sheesh, it's a wonder you haven't gotten hit by a car yet." With that rather dark pronouncement, Kursten scratches the back of his neck. "Darn, I'm probably going to need a new jacket after this." Taking the offered calorie bar greedily, he devours it. After that kind of healing, he was absolutely famished. "No...No kidding" He says, though it sounded more like garbled chewing than anything approaching speech. "That sounds pretty bad. I just got practical tests, my family was pretty consistently magic." At her question, he shrugs. "I'm not dead. You tell me." After a moment, he adds. "You have another bar? That strawberry is delicious." |
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| SarahSyna | Feb 18 2014, 01:06 AM Post #14 |
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"Oh, you know if I got hit by a car! Well, actually, you wouldn't. Because I'd be all super dead and that'd just suck a lot, and I'd be all over the place, even more than you were! I'm sire glad you;'re feeling better though! But I don't have nice helpful tentacles to put me back together, so I'd just kind burst everywhere because I'm just a big brittle bag of easily breakable squishiness and spindliness and lots and lotsa of blood!" Destiny said as she rummaged through her pockets. She held out three 3600 calorie bars. "There's a strawberry, a chocolate and an apple one too! You can pick what one you want, I like them all. I wouldn't be carrying them around if I didn't. That's just be silly. So, what's your name? Because we've sure been talking and I'm just been calling you sir, and guy and mister tentacles in my head." Edited by SarahSyna, Feb 18 2014, 01:14 AM.
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| Smitejr | Feb 18 2014, 01:38 AM Post #15 |
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"Yeah. I don't know how people live without them. Especially people who tend to be a bit absent minded...then again, maybe they don't!" Kursten grimaced, he tried to make a joke, but it just came out depressing. "Well...I'm glad it hasn't happened to you yet. I wouldn't have gotten to meet you if you bursted into all that before." When the calorie bars were given to him, Kursten takes the strawberry. He wasn't the kind of guy that liked taking risks, current research notwithstanding. "Name's Kursten. And it's fine, you can call me mister tentacles if you want. I kind of like the name." With that said, a tentacle extends from his arm and snatches another calorie bar. "Ahh! I swear I didn't mean to do that!" Flipping open the book, Kursten tries to find out what is happening. "The blessing of the Dark One work to make you...innermost feelings are the strongest for the Dark...Is it working on my Id? I know I'm hungry, but isn't that excessive?" Kursten quickly eats the strawberry one, hoping to calm the wild tentacle down. |
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| SarahSyna | Feb 18 2014, 06:23 PM Post #16 |
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"Well, I do just fine without them, Mister Tentacles, but I reckon they do have their uses. So as long as you don't do anything to me with them, I'm okay with them!" Destiny said brightly. "My friend showed me a comic thing one that had tentacles in it and it was really, really weird and I had to cover it in red pen because everything about it was wrong and a little creepy. Also badly written, which I think was the worst of all." She shook her head sadly, but was instantly cheered up when one tentacles swiped not just the strawberry but the apple bar as well. "Hey, it took the apple! Does that mean it likes fruit? Do you like fruit, and it's based off what you like first? And why is it the Id? Whyy not the Ego, or the Super Ego? Why Freudian at all, and not some other debunked psychological theory, or one that isn't? Why not Jungian? It could go for the archetypes, and.... change into them? One for every month! That'd be very confusing though, I guess. Especially if you needed January in December." |
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| Smitejr | Feb 18 2014, 09:06 PM Post #17 |
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Kursten tilts his head. "A...comic thing with tentacles? What kind of thing? And why would you do something like color all over his book, that doesn't sound like something you should do to someone else's book..." His eyes narrow when she mentions it was badly written. "Then it probably deserved what came to it...but you probably should have asked her first. I probably wouldn't want my books covered in red..." As she interrogated him, Kursten got a bit of sensory overload. There was only so much he could take in at a time, and it started to glaze over him. "Uhh...Yes? No wait..maybe. I think maybe is the right answer there..All I know is it doesn't always listen to what I have to say." Biting into the strawberry bar again, he nods. "Wait, the answer was yes! I love fruit." When he got a bit of calories inside of him, the tentacle seemed to calm down a bit, though it still seemed to hover warily, as if it was a guard dog. |
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| SarahSyna | Feb 18 2014, 11:39 PM Post #18 |
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"Oh, she wouldn't have wanted ot back anyway. "Oh, she wouldn't have wanted it back anyway." Destiny said. She wrinkled her nose at the memory of that book. "It was so sticky that I had to use forceps because I didn't want to touch it and smelt like she'd stored it in... bad, bad places." She unwrapped the chocolate calorie bar and bit off half of it, struggling to fit it all in her mouth. "Sho! Terme 'bout yer powersh!" she managed to say around the fake chocolatey goodness that was somehwta determined to choke her to death. Edited by SarahSyna, Feb 18 2014, 11:54 PM.
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| Smitejr | Feb 19 2014, 12:02 AM Post #19 |
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"Huh." Kursten didn't quite understand what this tentacle book her friend had. "Who knows, maybe it had some dark power about it. Then again, if the text is readable, I guess it wouldn't be like..." Kursten realizes that he was close to revealing something he'd rather not, and coughed. "Well, it's probably nothing. Just a bad book, I guess. Might have wanted to see it, though...I'm a bit of an expert on strange books..." Completely failing to understand what it was he said, he gets a bit defensive. He didn't want to talk about what he could do, let alone how he could do them. "Uhh...what's to tell? You've about seen what I can do...or at least, what I think I could do. Grab stuff and not die. Pretty helpful, I guess." Kursten shivers. Night was falling, and there was a giant hole in his jacket and shirt. "Do you have a house or work somewhere around here? It's kinda cold..." |
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| SarahSyna | Feb 19 2014, 12:30 AM Post #20 |
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"I don't think she'd have given me a book with dark powers, in case I'd read it and it'd eat me or something. She jokes about me being eaten a lot, but I've never met anyone who could fit even my short little self into their mouths, so I think she's just talking shit." At his comment about the cold, she sprang to her feet, mortified at her own rudeness. "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't even notice! I'm not far from here at all, I was on my way home from work, actually! Oh crap, everybody's going to be real pissed at me. But dinner should be ready. And I think dad has some spare clothes you could borrow and you can have proper food! Come on!" She tossed her satchel over her shoulder and started to skip ahead. |
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