Peiquok Town Hall

[Mamono Assault Force]

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Shiva's breath stopped as Kaci drew her in for a close hug, her cheeks going deep red with a blush as the girl drew her in. The surprise of the sudden kindness flustered Shiva, as she walked limply with her to the table. As soon as Kaci let her go, she slowly felt the embarrassment go away, and gracefully sat at the table. Before Shiva even dug in, she looked at Kaci out of the corner of her eye, noticing the girl gorge herself on all kinds of various foods before she herself took a bowl, and took some salad out of the salad bowl, placing it in her own. With a fork, Shiva slowly took little bites of her food, almost nibbling on it, savoring it. She had always loved salad, and seafood as well. But, she wasn't in the mood for seafood, so she figured a nice, simple salad would suffice for now, while she tried to ignore Kaci's stuffing of herself at her side.

 

[Janna]

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Morgan furrows her brow and looks at Melissa. This didn't make any sense, just a minute ago the police woman was acting so confident and now she's turned into a nervous, shaking wreck. The food wasn't that bad, Morgan thinks. What had the other girl said before the medic had taken her out? Something about Lizard Men out to get her? Morgan turns to look at the door and then down the hall towards the thrown together infirmary.

"Look, don't worry about it," she says, hoping that she sounds sympathetic. "There's a lot going on and we're in kind of a weird situation. Just have something to eat and try to rest, okay?"

 

[xivvix]

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Melissa couldn't help but laugh at the situation. Just a few minutes ago this girl had come up to her, talking about having a strange experience that Melissa had dismissed, and now the situation was reversed. Maybe the problem with this town is mass hysteria. Melissa looks up at Morgan with a smile and says, "Thanks. I'm okay, really." Still smiling, Melissa picked up her pace with her food.

 

[TheWeirdOne]

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Seeing Shiva sit down with her food Kaci takes a seat next to her. Eating her food fast she didn't seem like she savored the flavor like Shiva did. The speed at which she ate and how much food she had probably made some people around her wonder how she looked like she was in shape. Her mouth was full when she started to ask Shiva a question. Her words came out a little muffled with all the food in her mouth, "So how long you been in town? I think if you lived here I would have noticed you before." She didn't turn to face Shiva as she asked this question probably sparing her a sight of a strange girl gorging her face and talking at the same time.

 

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Shiva eyes squinted at Kaci when she spoke with her mouth full, finding herself putting a little distance between her and the woman, for the sake of not having anything fall out of her mouth, and onto her...

Shiva, bringing her bowl with her as she moved a little away, answered Kaci with her soft, calm voice, "I came to work as... as a..." Shiva trailed off, her breathing suddenly becoming labored, her heart starting to pound, and a sense of lightheadedness enveloping her. She suddenly placed her hands on the table violently, causing a rattle of everything on it as she sought support from falling over. Her heart was throbbing heavily, and her head felt as light as air, her vision blurring.

To those around her, Shiva looked to be having a panic attack, which surprised her as well, as she's never had one in her life. Although she strangely felt releived, she couldn't help but feel worried about her own sudden condition, as she leaned over her bowl, her hands on the table acting as supports, breathing heavily, her eyes wide with the shock of the sudden development.

 

[ToxicShock]

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Snorting, then laughing, Cara took the guitar back. "Alright, suit yourself." She strummed a bit more, decided it needed a bit of a tune, and went to that for a moment or two. "I don't think anyone would notice. Everyone here is too caught up in their own little world, I think." She nods to huddled groups of towns-people, visitors, and families. Even if some of the soldiers were glancing their way, it didn't seem that anybody was paying them much heed.

Nudging him with her elbow, the woman added, "and I don't think fools can make bigger fools out of themselves one around the other, so don't go getting your panties in a knot." If he wasn't embarrassed, than she was the queen of england; however, the man hadn't gone and told her off like that snippy bald man, so Cara wasn't feeling prone to up and walking away.

Speaking of which, she glanced Cat and Griffen's way, noting that the two seemed to be quarreling. Poor puppy was getting ignored. Ah well, Cara's first impression of the two was that they were both quarrelsome sorts. She wasn't all that surprised. Turning her gaze back to Buster, she wondered aloud, "so what wouldn't make you bored? I have a feeling we're going to be here a while, the way they set up food for us," she noted. She had a feeling that the damn army men (and women, she'd noted) were doing their very best to inconvenience them without actually appearing to. Typical.

The feeling and meaning behind Busters smile returned, albeit slowly, when the girl started tuning the guitar while trying to reassure him that it wouldn't be an embarrassment. She elbowed him and told him he couldn't make himself a bigger fool. In order to break eye contact, Buster turned his glance downward, grinning even more at her comment,and shifted in his chair. Did she just call me a fool? Haha, well she's not wrong, I guess. I don't think I've ever felt this good about being called a fool before.

Buster slowly worked his gaze back up at the girl, hesitating for a second at her neck, before giving his head a little shake and returning to her eyes. He sat back and stared at her, waiting for her to finish while listening intently. "What wouldn't make me bored? Jeez.. there's not much to do around here. I think crack would bore me at this point." He tried to give a laugh before compressing his smile back into his head. Drugs aren't funny, shut up you idiot! Change the subject now! "Tell ya what, play a little bit more, I'll get comfortable and I just might take you up on your offer all right? Even if I do look a fool, you can help me out, and at least be keeping both of us busy right?

 

[TheWeirdOne]

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Seeing Shiva start to ram the table violently Kaci quickly swallowed all her food. Choking a little from the sudden amount of food she just took down she banged her chest really hard and felt better. She quickly got up out of her chair and got behind Shiva placing her arms around her. It probably looked like she was hugging her when in truth she didn't want the girl to suddenly faint and crack her head open on something. She leaned against the back of Shiva's chair and said to her in a concerned tone of voice, "Hey, you ok? Is this like that headache from before?" She left her medkit at the side of seat. Remembering Shiva saying she was a doctor herself she thought she could just let her go into it and see if there was any medicine that she thought would help her in it. Still sounding concerned she said with her arms wrapped around Shiva, "My backpack has medicine in it, you told me you had experience in the field, you wanna see if there's anything in it that'll help you?

 

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Taking deep breaths, Shiva relaxed a bit, and felt herself slowly returning to normal. The feeling of dizzyness fading from her, as well as the rapid heart beat slowly regulating itself. Shiva breathed in slowly, then breathed out slowly, trying to recompose herself lest she attract the attention of everyone around her.

Shiva let out a relaxed sigh, "I'd need to perform a CAT scan in order to be sure exactly what I need..." Shiva looked back at Kaci, and blushed at the way she was being held, with Kaci's arms wrapped around her. Shiva quickly turned her head away in embarrassment, "I-I'm fine..." she whispered in a stutter.

After looking down at her food, she actually questioned whether or not she was really fine. Something strange was going on, this she knew, and it all seemed to occur after she had arrived in this town...

 

[TheWeirdOne]

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She let go of Shiva because it seemed like she had regained her composure and she said she was fine. Also, she caught the hint that she got embarrassed easily. She said to her her voice sounded almost like she was choking now, "I didn't want you to break your head open... 'scuse me." Walking off from Shiva and facing away from her she started coughing violently while covering her mouth with her hand.

After she was done she turned to her and with watery eyes from coughing she said, "Swallowed my food to fast..." Wiping off her eyes she went back to eating but this time far slower.

Shiva could probably tell she was keeping an eye on her because she wasn't really trying to hide it.

 

[Mamono Assault Force]

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Shiva showed her own concern for Kaci, the flush in her cheeks gone, replaced with concern for the girl as she seemed distraught from swallowing more than she should have. Shiva relaxed after Kaci's throat seemed clear, and the most help she could think of giving now would be something to lower her throat's agitation.

Shiva felt shameful that she made the girl choke on her food. With her hands on the table, she simply stared at her salad, and whispered an apology, "I'm sorry..." she told Kaci, her devilish red eyes focused on the salad in thought.

"What is going wrong with me?" she asked herself, though not expecting an answer, "These abnormalities seem to be getting worse... I think I need to go to a hospital for an examination..." Her eyes wandered around the salad, as she suddenly didn't feel so hungry anymore. Her eyes fixed in place, the sounds of Kaci's munching was only a distant thing in her mind...

 

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"Both of us busy, or both of us fools," Cara agreed companionably, then, "more'n likely some of both." Winking, she returned her attention to absent-minded crowd-gazing as her hands and pick teased music from the instrument. She wasn't a stellar player, but she was at least quite competent. The somewhat raggedy woman sought to help Buster calm down with a basic tune that varied enough not to get boring. 'God forbid boring,' she thought as she smiled to herself.

After a bit, she opened her mouth up to speak again, but found herself interrupted by a wave of vertigo, causing her head to lull forward slightly and her notes to go sour as her hands clamped up, looking for something solid to hold her. The initial wave of it passed and though her head still felt a little like it was spinning, she realized that she was already sitting with her back to the wall, ass planted solidly on the ground, thank God. Whatever she'd been about to say passed as a quiet groan as her eyes fell closed for a second. She was torn between trying to shake the feeling away or to bask for a few moments in the flush and sudden yammering heart-rate that came with it... In the end, Cara brought her hand to her face and scrubbed at it, trying to remember what she'd been about to say before her body had hijacked her thoughts like a giddy teenage girl. 'It's got to be someone dropped something in the water,' she thought, managing to quell the worst of the dizziness, though the rest still seemed to linger.

She didn't usually get embarrassed, but she'd realized that she hadn't said anything for a minute or so, and she had no idea where the feeling'd come from. It couldn't have been from just sitting beside a relative stranger like Buster; she refused to believe that she was that... that... naive. Forcing herself to return to the music, at least, Cara shook stray bangs into her face to hide her flush that had taken on an embarrassed heat as she chewed on the hows, whys, and what-the-hells. At least it didn't take her too long to turn her attention back to the man. Without preamble, she asked, "ever get those feelings where you're dreaming and you go to lift your leg, and suddenly you're jolted awake?" That was the closest she could come to describing what she'd just experienced, though there was no dream and it wasn't her leg she was thinking about. She forced herself to look at his face, since she knew she wasn't subtle enough to pull off looking him over (she'd been told as much in the past) to see if maybe it was him that caused the reaction. 'Not my type,' she all but waggled a mental finger at her own nose, just to make sure she had that fixed firmly in mind until she could return to concentrating on what was really important.

 

[Janna]

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Morgan nods to Melissa, "Okay. Just let know if you start feeling weird again; it might mean something." She walks back to the table and retrieves her own plate, looking around the room on her trip back to sit down with the policewoman again; she blinks and stares at Shiva for a moment, watching the white-haired woman almost collapse against the table.

"Did you see that?" she asks when she sits down. "There's definitely something weird happening here; it can't be medical because we haven't seen any doctors. They wouldn't just be leaving us all together if there was some kind of contagious thing spreading around." She bites her lip, "What do you want to be that if we asked her, she'd say the same thing? Just a weird feeling that all comes up at once and then passes before you know can figure it out?"

 

[Icelus]

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Melissa and Morgan
Rosie looks pensive, watching the two. "Look," she says very quietly. "I don't think that it's going to matter whether we keep a watch for these things or not... I think it's going to keep on happening." The gooseflesh on her bare arms is apparent as she rubs at them. "If this is what I think it is, we're all in some very bad trouble..."

Cat
Moxie, picked up by Cat and cradled, gives her the inevitable puppy eyes as he begins to calm down.

Griffen, on the other hand, seems rather unimpressed. "You're a little young," he tells her, though he doesn't try to defend himself one way or another about hitting on her any more. Best to leave it lie, even as offended as he seems. "Besides, you've got sack to tell me to behave, girl. I haven't laid a hand on you and I'm not planning on it," he tells her mildly, though whether that's true or not...

Persuasion Check
Griffen 8+5+2 (Charm) vs Cat 13, Success.

...well, he doesn't seem like he's going to start anything here. Besides, it might be nice to have someone on her side if everyone winds up getting herded somewhere strange.

Jen
The man shakes his head. "Best to lay down and rest it out. Others have shown up," he leans in and tells her, "not lizard men, but other things..."

 

[Rule 34]

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"You still checked me out", Cat complains. "That's a federal offense in Catland", she adds with a thumb pointing at herself. Inside she knows she's acting absurd, but this has turned into a battle about who's right, and Cat would rather die than admit she's wrong.

 

[xivvix]

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Melissa looks over at the girl Morgan had pointed out, furrowing her brows at the girl's behavior. She shakes her head. "For some reason, doctors are the last thing I want to see right now. Hell, they may be the reason it's all happening."

Melissa's head whips around at Rosie's statement, her face suddenly stern. "What do you mean 'what you think it is'?" she asks intently. "Has something like this happened before?"

 

[ToxicShock]

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Buster smirked at her comment and turned down to the guitar, eyes closely looking at the strings as they vibrated at her touch. His hand went back up to his mouth, not to chew on his nails, but absentmindedly picking at his upper lip before his vision went past the guitar at nothing in particular, as his mind blanked and he spaced out listening to the music. It seemed like forever in his mind before he was struck awake by the sound of an off-note, and he noticed her loss of balance as she almost fell forward. His hands shot out in front of her, as if to offer support if she fell but never making contact. There he froze... no.. wait yes, he actually froze for a bit, making sure she didn't barrel face first into the ground, but she seemed ok.

He took his hand back as she regained herself and asked him if he were familiar with the feeling she had just had. "Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean." In all honesty, he had no idea, but he wasn't about to make her feel weird about what just happened. She was staring directly at him for a bit, and neither of them were talking so he reached his hand out and placed it on her shoulder reassuringly before asking "You're all right, right?" And though an answer didn't come INSTANTLY after it was asked, it still seemed like too long to Buster's hyper, overthinking mind. He looked at his hand still on her shoulder, jerking it back at the wrist quickly to come off before returning the rest of his arm slowly to his lap. His eyes followed his hand back to himself and he seemed to return to his habits the closer his hand came back to him, knee bouncing as soon as the hand rested back on it.

 

[TheWeirdOne]

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Kaci looked to Shiva finally seeming to remember her table manners swallowing her food before she started to speak. "Hey, no problem... Don't worry about it, if I didn't eat like a pig that wouldn't have happened." She smiled at Shiva and said, "Small price to pay to make sure you didn't crack your head open or something."

Seeing Shiva still wasn't eating her food she wondered if something was still wrong with her. She was silent though not wanting to embarrass the girl further.

 

[Pheonix Alugere]

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Jen nods at the man and makes some sort of affirmative sound before curling herself more tightly and laying down onto the cot, trying to get some sleep. Although, give the waking nightmare she had earlier, she doesn't know how restful the sleep will be.

 

[Janna]

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The grape she was had in her hand tumbles to the floor and rolls away as Morgan slumps forward, nearly falling out of her chair before catching herself. She blinks rapidly, blushing just a little and touches her stomach, "I... um... What? Doctors?" she seems a bit confused as she turns to look at Melissa again.

Shaking her head, she focuses again, agreeing with the Melissa, "If you know what's happening around here, even if you have an idea or a wild theory, I think we should know." Her hand scratches at a spot just below her belly button though her top, like she has a bug bite or another itch.

 

[Mamono Assault Force]

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Shiva blushes at the kind words from Kaci. Her eyes blink several times before she whispers in response to her caring words, "... Thank you..." she thanks Kaci, her soft voice carrying meaning with it. Looking down at her food, Shiva decides not to waste it, even though she had lost her appetite. Picking up her fork again, she continues to slowly pick at her food, trying to mix many things in the salad together in one bite, as the great taste of it seemed to bring back her appetite a little.

She continued to quietly eat her food, not making a noise, other than the occasional ding of her fork hitting the edge of the glass bowl.