( stargazing )

[absurdities]

the stargazing meme

oo1. comment with your characters
make sure to put names, series, & preferences somewhere!
you can use < ! > sans the spaces to make the comment "blank"
oo2. reply to others in character
oo3. use the rng and enter 1-10
oo4. play out what happens—anything goes!
oo5. profit? oh yeah!
prompts

one → meteor shower you just saw a falling star! and another! make a wish!
two → aliens what was that? was that really? omg no way a ufo!
three → lunar eclipse you've been sitting out for hours, waiting for this. it's so cool!
four → comet does it move fast or slow? either way, it's amazing.
five → full moon the moon is so huge! just don't look too long, it's really bright too.
six → star dust anything can happen in space. make up your own plot!
seven → solar eclipse this might be happening in the middle of the day!
eight → planet sighting is that a new star? nope, just a neighbor in the solar system!
nine → constellations do you know the stories behind these odd patterns?
ten → deep space normal stargazing isn't that much fun. you got a telescope!

Comments

[watchmaker]

[and thus they arrive to the parking lot. he uses a hand to gesture around them.] Choose a car, any car.

[bittersweeter]

A car? [Oookay. She points to a shiny red convertible and no one is surprised.] That one, I guess.

[watchmaker]

Nice. [he looks around and checks that they're ... at least a reasonable distance away from the car, and then FLIPS THAT MOTHERFUCKER OVER with a nod of his head. (concentrate 20 total. he was really set on impressing her ok ...) as one can imagine, the car alarm goes off and people in the bar are audibly like WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED???????]

[bittersweeter]

[]

How did, what is that? Can you do it again?

[Engaged audience, party of one!]

[watchmaker]

I moved it with my mind. [in a "duh" sort of tone. but it's hard to tell because he's too busy preening about the attention . :') ] Okay, okay. One more. Pick.

[bittersweeter]

[And she is just going to point to that big ass supply truck in the parking lot across the street.]

[watchmaker]

[what, gurl? you think he can't do it? WELL, HE CAN. (concentrate 20 total ... again ... ) look at that motherfucker roll over. it's gonna suck for the owner of that shit.]

And now we should probably choose a car to flee the scene in.

[bittersweeter]

[omg she is in love. Again. More than all the other times he caused this reaction.]

Oh, this one. [Yank, she just grabs his arm and starts to drag him to a black BMW.]

[watchmaker]

[yep, that face was worth it. he'd flip a million trucks to win the affection of this morally dubious teenage girl. (even though his brain would probably end up hemorrhaging at some point.) with her in tow, he sneaks on over to the bmw and meets his opponent ... the locked door.]

Got a pin or something?

[bittersweeter]

A pin? On a BMW, no. Stop. [OH THERE IS THAT JUDGY LOOK AGAIN. Hope you missed it! Don't worry, Lila has got this covered apparently. (Disable device 20 total, look they match.) She sets to work untwisting the antenna until it pops off. Homemade slim jim.

Yes. She knows how to break into a car.

And she does so, after a minute's effort because she is MacGuyvering this bitch and automatic locks are bastards. But she doesn't care about breaking the car -- since it's not hers. She pulls the door open with a flourish.] Voila. A pin... honestly.

[watchmaker]

[OMG NOBODY'S PERFECT, OKAY. he's going again only ... making no effort to hide it this time.] I'm driving. [DRAMA QUEEN HUFF as he moves past her to get in the driver's side.]

[look he may be dumb as a box of hair about locks, but he doesn't have that problem with the actual hot wiring part. look at his beautiful i see how all the pieces fit blah blah blah mind go. (repair 25 bc that's what you roll for hot wiring apparently).] There. Ready?

[bittersweeter]

[That's so hot. But she don't care, she finally got used to driving in England, no need to fuck up her flow now. So carry on, princess.]

Always.

[watchmaker]

[he waits for her to get in, and away they go! wheeeeeee chicago traffic ...] So, I guess the question now is where to?

[bittersweeter]

Navy Pier has a Ferris wheel? [Local knowledge 14 = touristy stuff I guess.] And a planetarium.

[watchmaker]

All right. I don't think I've ever been, actually. [and it's gonna show, but at least he's been in the area long enough to have a rough idea of where he's going. (nav 12)]

[bittersweeter]

Like, ever? Or just to this one? I can't remember... either. Although I stopped the London Eye from falling into the Thames?

[watchmaker]

[w h a t] ... How did you do that?

[bittersweeter]

My freaky little mind control cancelled out someone else's. It was some weird magic crap, I wasn't really listening.

[watchmaker]

Impressive. That's one up you've got on me, I guess.

[bittersweeter]

[Shrug, she will just be over here rifling through the glovebox.] Saving the Eye was just sort of incidental.

[watchmaker]

Doesn't mean it can't be one hell of a resume bullet. All I've done is flip a few cars. [while they're at a light, he fiddles with the radio, apparently not pleased with any station's current selections.] What kind of mind control were you going up against?

[bittersweeter]

I don't know, some technomagic trance. Zero doesn't trust me to actually tell me anything useful.

[Shit outta luck for finding anything fun in the glove box. :( Just a boring old bic lighter. Which... Lila has like 47 of.]

[watchmaker]

[that reads "probably not of interest to him" so he'll move right along to] Zero?

[bittersweeter]

Yeah, comes right before One. Surly butthead incapable of withstanding my considerable charms. [aka she annoyed him into submission, but YOU KNOW, SAME THING.]

[watchmaker]

If he's so incapable, maybe you should work him a little harder.