Rainy Day Meme

[dontneednopants]

Rainy day meme


You've cross-indexed every weather report and they all call for rain.
Use the RNG to randomize, or pick a prompt yourself.



Stay Dry:
1. Umbrella-ella-ella: A rainbow of colors, from black to red and leopard spots and clear.
2. Raincoat: You've got your raincoat buttoned up--but what about your friend?
3. Staying Inside: You're not going anywhere. Hot tea/cocoa/coffee/bloodwine/whatever, a blanket, and maybe a good book or someone to chat with. You can watch the rain from here.
4. Under an awning/outside: No umbrella, no coat, but maybe these shopkeepers won't mind you standing here until it eases off.
5. Tree: Probably not the best idea, but it's not a thunderstorm, so you might be dry, if it's a big enough tree.


Getting wet:
6. Puddle splashing: Put on your galoshes and have some fun! Or maybe the puddles are just too big to avoid...
7. Let's Play! are you one of those strange people who think the best time to go out and run, bike, or play sports is in the rain? Garden? Fly kites? (Please try not to imitate Ben Franklin.)
8. Work or Duty: You're not out here for fun--you HAVE to be out here. Too bad the weather's so awful
9. Unprepared: The trees are all drippy, the wind gets under any awnings you can find, and finding a dry place to stand for a few minutes is nigh impossible.
10. Umbrell-eh? You thought you were all prepared for the wet weather. And then your umbrella broke, your raincoat sprung a leak, and the gutters are overflowing.


Extreme:
11. Thunderbolts and Lightning! Very very frightening? Or maybe you're reveling in it? Telling scary stories to make it worse or soothing frayed nerves with a lullaby?
12. Blow Blow Thou Wind: It gets into everything! Blowing you off course, small dogs away from owners, and whatever else it can get at. Or maybe you're smart enough to watch the blasts from inside.
13. Water's Rising: Is it just me, or are the creeks getting a little high? Or maybe it's just your waterlogged yard or gutters.
14. Freezing rain: oh well now THIS is fun. Leaves everything in a coating of ice. Slick, brings down powerlines--but you can sled on it (if you don't value your skull much).


15. Wild Card Is it raining frogs? Cats and dogs? Storm of the year? Just a drizzly mist? Rain that lasts for about 5 seconds and then it's sunny again? Whatever floats your boat, so to speak.

Comments

DONE

[myownhand]

Y'really mean it? There is no marriage??

[BEAMING NOW.]

[makeitmine]

[Jim can't help it; he laughs, because of her sudden excitement and the bright look on her face.]

Yeah, I mean it. No surprise wedding bells looming in your future. At least, not from me.

How old are you, anyway?

[myownhand]

[NO. EXCUSE YOU JIM. THIS IS A SRS CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION.

Excuse her as she just laughs loudly, spins around-- and the promptly grabs Jim's hands and forces him to spin around a bit.

BECAUSE YES. THIS IS HOW HAPPY SHE IS.

Give her a few moments to compose herself, Captain. She'll turn to you trying to look as princessly as she can.]

For your information, I'm sixteen.

[...is that Chris Hansen behind a tree.....]

[makeitmine]

[Jim finds himself laughing more as she grabs him and swings him around. He'd both ruined her day and made it within the past hour, hadn't he? (and EXCUSE YOU HE WAS LAUGHING BECAUSE SHE WAS HAPPY, HE WASN'T LAUGHING AT HER)

and then she told him her age, and for a split second his face nearly fell off

but he's Jim Kirk and he recovers well enough and honestly:] Well, it's not the biggest age gap I've ever heard of...

[myownhand]

[She just looks at him with a scoff.] Are y'kiddin' me? I heard of a princess my age just a few kingdoms over who had t'marry someone fourty years her senior. Just because his wife died off and he was "lonely".

[SHUDDER.]

I mean at least you're half-way decent. [Only half way.] I guess it could've been worse.

[makeitmine]

Yeah, no. Ew. [Jim figures that it might help that he goes ahead and outwardly admits that that situation grossed him out just as much as it did her. Solidarity and all that. Maybe it'll help when she finally gets mad at him for lying to her.

He considers taking a crack at "half-way decent," but decides against it in favor of, you know. The fact that he's now drenched and it's not getting any easier to dodge tree roots.]

Do you happen to know anywhere dry we could happen to duck into until this rain stops?

[myownhand]

[She purses her lips and begins walking in a direction, waving him over]

This way, there's a spot we can hide in until th'rain lets up.

[She pauses for a moment, as if she is suddenly remembering something.]

You're not wearin' a kilt. [She turns to him and nods to his pants wearing self.] If y'want t'know what gave y'away.

[And off she continues in a direction a bit deeper into the forest.]

[makeitmine]

[Jim just shakes his head, grinning, as he follows her.]

Sorry for all the trouble, by the way. Wasn't expecting to run into someone.

[myownhand]

You're forgiven. For now.

[At least until next time she threatens to shoot an arrow through you. Up ahead there's a small dip, protected by a few conveniently fallen logs.]

Here we are. [She marches into the little alcove, and finally is able to take that hood off.

Didn't think all that hair could fit in one little hood did you, Jim?]

S'not exactly a castle. But it'll do for th'moment.

[makeitmine]

[jesus christ gurl where do you keep that it's like she's wearing his grandmother's cat on her head]

No complaints here, [he assures her as he ducks under the logs overhead. He runs a hand roughly through his own hair, forcefully shaking the water from it.]

Mind if I ask a couple more questions? Nothing personal this time. Just hoping you could give me some information on that circle of monoliths.

[myownhand]

[A FLAWLESS CAT OKAY?]

Sure, but I doubt I can really help y'much. My mum knows more about that stuff than I do.

[makeitmine]

So what do you do know?

[myownhand]

[She shrugs.]

All I know is they seem t'be imbued with some sort of magical properties. S'not like I was around when they were built.

[THERE MAY BE SOME PART SHE'S SKIPPING ABOUT A WITCH AND TURNING HER MOTHER INTO A BEAR.]

[makeitmine]

Magical properties? [Jim, to his credit, doesn't even arch an eyebrow. He just sounds curious.] Is that just from word of mouth, or are there reports of the kinds of things that happen there?