Logfile from Nerak Mon Feb 18 11:04:29 2002 CST

Fareia grins and holds her list out in front of her,"We can play darts, play poker, truth or dare, let me give you all facials, pull pranks, tell scary stories....The list goes on. All kinds of stuff to do."

Yzarc takes this as the time to show off his perfection and terrorist decor. And who's chosen as the winner of his attention? Kiriya, of course - she looks good to him. He takes a little trip in her direction, chittering. And what have you for him, Goddess? Care to feed him a bit?

"Hey, Yizz," Toniac calls in the direction of the firelizard. "Leave her be - I'm sorry, Miss."

But no, Toniac! She's a Goddess, and she will feed him! For shame, silly friend.

Kiriya notices this... blue thing staring up at her. A blue firelizard no less. "S'ok. He looks hungry." She digs in her pocket and finds a little leftover sandwich from earlier. "Want some, little fella?" She dangles it by the blue firelizard with a grin on her face.

Nerak walks into the healer lounge, in her pajamas. She has her cup of klah with her, but refreshens it from the fire. "Hello all!" and picks a chair within the circle to sit on. This aught to be fun!!!

Kylianna gives a little nod, eyes going slightly hazy as she contemplates the options. "Scary stories are best saved for later. Much more fun in the dark, closer to sleep... The mind wanders more. Darts are fun. Poker is /really/ fun." She likes to get people's marks. A lot. "Truth or dare... Hrrrrm." Possibilities, possibilities. "I don' know." And her final answer? A shrug.

Yzarc leaps at the dangling offering. Feeding him, Goddess? Of course he wants food. Who could not want food? And food from a Goddess?

Toni's just laughing.

Fenrys walks in tentatively and takes a seat. She recognizes only a few and waves to them. She catches the end of Farie's sentence. Poker? This party sounds cool already...

Jassay shrugs slightly. "Truth or dare," she offers, willing to start the party off on a high note. "Or something just as interesting."

Miralwyn's eyes twinkle from her corner of the room. "Truth or dare works..." she drawls approvingly, deigning to move herself and her firelizards to the circle. "After all, I should not like to turn people off the idea of the party by vanquishing them too soon at poker... So. Who goes first?"

Toniac grins. Yes. Absolutely yes. He never says no - "Truth or dare sounds great. " Yes. Not very good at daring, but he doesn't turn them down.

Fareia nods slowly, refolding her list and leaning forwards in her chair. "I think...We should start of with truth or dare. Poker's more fun later." A nod to Miral and she grins sinisterly,"Now then. First person to go will be..." Not Farie - she's always been bad at thinking up things to ask. "Miral, how about /you/ ask first?"

"Truth or dare," Kylianna affirms. Twenty-six Turns doesn't make her too old to enjoy it, right? She still looks as a teen as she giggles, dragging her chair forward. Of course, not knowing most of the people here will make it more difficult, but hey... "Very fun." And she hugs her ferret close, her youngest 'lizard Conspiracy peeking out of her hair at the other healers.

Kiriya snickers. "Truth or dare? I'm up to it." Of course Kiriya is- she's rather insane when not healing as most of her friends can vouch. "Yeah, Miral. Have fun." Wink. She crosses her legs, puts on her black overtunic (to cover her arms left bare by her purple tank top), watches, and waits. All nearly-nineteen Turns of her is ready to do whatever silly things she must to Be The Champ.

Nerak giggles "I'm game too, for truth or dare." and laughs, looks around for Slider, and wonders what kind of trouble he is getting into. "This will be fun!!"

"So we all wish to play." decrees Miralwyn with a regal air. "But the question still stands. Who will go first?" You see, if /she/ asks the question, it won't be her, right?

Jassay waves her hand slightly. "I will," she offers. "Unless someone else wants to.

Nerak "Go ahead... Kiriya gasps. "Oh. My Faranth. I nearly bloody forgot- It's my nineteenth turnday... my teenage years are nearly over." Eek. "Anyhow. This might be a nice lil' celebration. Anyway... yeah." Green Miko nuzzles her humanpet- she wubs her speshul Turnday Girl. "I will?" Beware Kiri's wiles. She has a dastardly mind- watch out, you might be doing something crazy!

You call to Slider, who flies over and lands on your shoulder, carefully wrapping his tail around your neck. Nerak laughs, "Ok, let the turnday girl go first..."

Jassay shrugs. "Yeah, you go first Kiriya," she motions.

Fareia chuckles quietly and reaches over to pat Kir's shoulder,"I'm already twenty, dear. Not a huge difference." A pause and she glances around,"Aren;t you /not/ supossed to want to be asked? "

Miralwyn twinkles at Kiriya. "Congratulations on nearly being old," smiles the happily-18 Wyn. "We will no doubt have to pull a prank in honour of you." And then she turns to Jassay with a glittery almost-grin. "Well, I should say it's too late for her to back out. What will it be, Jass? Truth or dare?"

"Definitely. And make you a pillow fight victim, too." Heehee. Kylianna gives an innocent grin, snuggling up in her chair as she watches. And is a little afraid. Truth or dare hasn't always been her best game.

Jassay shakes her head slightly. "Neh, let the turnday girl go first, I'll wait until later, when she's gone," she notes.

Nerak gets excited, she certainly wont' let anyone here know that she has never played this game before, that is why she accepted it so quickly. She never played any of these games with her father, where they lived so far away from everyone... She is determined to sit back and watch for a while, to get the hang of the game... She takes a sip of her klah, and gets comfy in her chair... "This will be fun!" she says.

Fareia giggles at Jassay,"Oh come on, Jass! You're not /suppossed/ to want to be asked."

Farie certainly doesn't - or does she? Gotta love this game. Now then...Think up dares...

Jassay snickers slightly. "But if I get asked sooner, than I won't be asked for awhile," she points out.

Toniac laughs a bit , reclining nicely on his chair. Truth or dare, a favourite. Sipping his klah, he eyes Yzarc, who's flitting about. "Hey, _I_ like being asked. It rules - y'can ask me anytime, I'd be fine."

Kiriya snickers. Muwahaha. "I'll ask first." Her mind thinks up a dastardly truth or a dastardly dare... "Fareia!" she calls to the apprentice. "Truth? Or dare?" Wink wink. Taking her klah mug, she takes a sip from it. "One of two ways ye can go." She has something up her sleeve.

Nerak warns Fareia "Don't go for a Kiriya dare!!!"and giggles

Miralwyn's eyes twinkle, and she subsides into a dryly and wickedly amused silence, watching and hopefully staying out of things. Not that she's chicken. Merely that she's too proud to turn down a dare or a truth, and some dares are just not... dignified. And some truths needn't be told.

Fareia winces slightly as her name is called out by Kiriya. Frightening Kiri dares - but also frightening Kiri truths. "Hey, I can take it," she defends herself then waggles an eyebrow at Kiriya as she laughs,"Do your worst. Dare."

Nerak ooohs... "Brave woman chose a dare...." and giggles...

Kylianna gives an appropriate "oooooooh". Dare. Lovely. This will surely amuse Kyli... Hopefully. Unless it's a wimpy, girly dare.

Jassay listens intently, curious as to what Farie will be dared to do. She can't wait.

Magen walks in from the Healer Great Hall. Carrying in a bag full of goodies...Magen is wearing her slumber party outfit. An extra long stocking cap in black and white stripes, that trails to the floor. Black boxer shorts and a white shortie top, with over the knee high black and white striped stockings. *smiling innocently* And a pair of thick fuzzy hot pink bunny slippers...

Kiriya hmmms. "What dastardly deed can I make you do?" she ponders aloud to Fyria. "Oh, this could take thinking. Dear Fareia. Get up. Belly dance. Belly dance like you never have before." Grin. "And the rest of us," she calls out in a slightly louder voice, "will take the part of drunken dragonriders in for a good time!" Woohoo! Magen is noted and waved to. "Hello Magen, come join the fun!"

Nerak hmmms, everybody?? She laughs "Oh no, not that!" she says as she giggles uncontrollably...

Waving, and laughing at the 'already started party'..."I brought snacks. How's it going so far? How are you doing Jassay? Oh my, Fareia, what's Kiriya got you into, now?" Looking around at the rest...Miralwyn, Kylianna and Nerak. "Oh, we have someone new, at healers?"

Miralwyn arches an eyebrow. Have they ever /seen/ drunken dragonriders? Wyn has. An appreciative laugh, and the normally self-contained girl adopts the casual swaggering air of a blue or bronzerider, parroting neatly "C'mon girl, let's see a good wiggle out of ya!"

Toniac raises his head from the nothing he's been staring at. "Me, the new 'un, now?"

Jassay chuckles slightly at the dare before offering a nod towards Magen. "I'm good, have a seat, It's Farie's turn to do her dare," she states.

Kylianna shudders. Once upon a time she lived at the 'Reaches for a few months. That scarred her for life. "Lovelyyyyyyy," she murmurs, shaking her head before letting out a wolf whistle. Innocently, of course. "Shake it!"

Magen waves and laughs at the look on Kerali's face..."Yea, another partier!"

Nerak watches the appies around her immitate drunks. "Hey baby, shake it!" she imitates... laughing at the dare Kiri made Fareia do... but laughs so hard, she can't keep acting like that... and almost falls off her chair...

Fareia sits there for a moment and grins, then stands up with a 'look' at Kiriya. As she was dared, she begins to bellydance around in the circle of chairs, making a circle past everyone, laughing the whole time.

What a Kiri-ish thing to dare. Kiriya ahems, inserts two fingers in her mouth, and lets out a 'fweet!' to Fareia, adopting the role of a rowdy bronzer. "Ow-/ow/! C'mon, baby, shake that thing!" She shakes her fist accordingly. "Rowr!" Yes, she's so shardin' evil when she wants to be.

Kerali drags herself into the Lounge...and...just...stares as Fareia bellydances? Oookay. "Heya you healer-types...um...am I that late?" Dropping her bedroll, she simply stares again. Obviously, she's not -that- late.

Miralwyn, playing her bluerider persona to the hilt, bangs her sandaled heels down on the nearest table as if they were heavy leather riding boots, and raises an imaginary glass of ale. "Now /thas/ what I like t'be seeing. Come up t' my weyr after, and we'll have a private session, hey?" A cheerful leer.

Magen pulls out her pipes, and blows a sultry tune that would bring a tunnelsnake out of hiding, to accompany Fareia's dance...

Nerak laughs as Kerali enters. "We're playing truth or dare. Kiri just dared Fareia to belly dance. The rest of us have to act like drunken dragonriders" and she is red-faced, but playing her part...

Jassay takes on the browner and lets out a loud hoot. "Heya baby, yer comin up to my weyr after for our own 'session'," he states, with a wink added in for effect. "Oh yeah, show your stuff."

Kiriya *Farie's belly dancing and Kiri's dared everyone to act like drunken riders as she watches.

Kerali idly wonders how much everyone's been drinking, considering Apprentices are /not/ supposed to be drinking. "Umm...okay...who spiked the redfruit juice?" She ambles over to sniff at the pitcher, then shrugs, pouring herself a mug. Mira's and Jassay's comments earn a lifted eyebrow even as she settles somewhere amidst the madness. "Soo...I have to act like a rider, then?"

Fareia chuckles as she bellydances her way over to Kerali,"You might be next, Kera! Watch out!" A flirtatious wink goes to the "riders" as she slinks her way over to them then back around to Kiriya,"AM I nearly done?" she asks through laughter as she shakes and wobbles around the room.

"A drunken one, preferably," notes Miralwyn to Kerali with a sudden shift back to her normal refinement and reserve.

Magen has to stop piping, laughter escaping her. Sitting down on the floor, crossed legged she passes around the snacks she brought...

Toniac is going to be the skillfull bronzerider, and raises his shoulders in a sort of strut. "Come on, dolls, notice me, the great egotistical bronzerider," he teases playfully.

Nerak "Shake it baby, then follow me back...and you can shake me... hehe!" she shouts, joining in on hte fun...

Kiriya licks her lips suggestively like a drunken bronzer Kiriya would. "Naw, babesh, one more time 'round, y'shee? I wanna shee ya shtrut yer shtuff! Danshe! Shtep lively! An' you can danshe for me up in mah weyr later too." Wink. Yep. Once more around, Farie dear. ^^

Kylianna gives a purr, like a rather drunken greenrider, stretching out across her chair and emphasizing her. Um. Feminine assets. "Mooooooove it," she purrs, a catlike yowl escaping as she flutters. Mroooowl.

[Healer Chat] Toniac is trying not to be caught laughing his head off.

[Healer Chat] Aerrin is absently scared of the apprentice perception of drunk riders. ;)

[Healer Chat] Kiriya: Go figure. We're appies.

[Healer Chat] Kylianna heehees.

[Healer Chat] Jassay nearly spit her milk out at Neraks comment...

[Healer Chat] Kylianna grins. Kyli lived at the 'Reaches once upon a time! She saw drunken riders. Scary drunken riders. :-D

[Healer Chat] Nerak: you mean lil ol' me??

[Healer Chat] Jassay: My alt lives at Reaches.

[Healer Chat] Kiriya: My alt lives at 'Reaches too. Skeery place. Pern's looney bin of sorts.

Fareia continues around the circle of apprentices-gone-drunk rider, still belly-dancing like she has never belly danced before...Probably because she never /has/ belly danced before. Finally, when she gets back to her chair next to Kiri's she drops into with a laugh,"/Satisfied/?"

Kerali simply stares at Fareia as she wiggles her way towards her, and ponders. Should she? Meh..why not. With a waggle and flutter of fingers, she blows a kiss Fareia-wards, adding "Well honey, why don't you come back to mah weyr and join mah lil' harem, hmmm?" Flutter flutter. "I'm sure we'd be delighted to have you as an...assett...to our collectoin."

Jassay stands up, a pretend cup in hand as she staggers towards Farie. "Heya Baby, le' me take ye home an Ah'll rock yer world," she offers, barely managing to not die of laughter.

Miralwyn retreats into a calm facade once more, the odd chuckle breaking loose, but for the most part restrained, now that the others have gotten into the act. And with the dare over, it's time to fade delicately into the background. Nope. No-one's going to call on her.

Kiriya chuckles and reverts back to Kiri-self. However, it's debatable whether that's better than her lecherous bronzer impression. "It's okay. Yer done, Farie." She can't help but stifle a giggle at what she's caused... oh, she's so bad.

Fareia strokes her chin thoughtfully as she looks slooowly around the circle. Whooo to pick? Oh the suspense. Finally her gaze rests on Toniac. "Okay. You. Toni, right? Truth or dare?" Miral's turn /will/ come eventually.

Nerak laughs so hard that she spills some of her klah on the floor. "Ok, Fareia, it's your turn now... hehe." and to Kiriya, "that was a good one!" She gets the idea of the game now...

Toniac grins. Dare him, Darling. He'll do what you want him to, No doubt. He's as good as Yzarc, he promises. Shoulder-length sandy locks cascade and then he lights up. Aha, they've chosen him! An icy grin crosses his face. "Dare. Do your worst."

Kylianna snickers. And cackles. And erupts into a rain of giggles as she flops back in her chair, greenrider sexiness gone to her normal self. "Oyyeeee." Toniac gets eyed with hungry, predatory eyes. New blood. And a dare. Oooooh. Interestin'.

[Healer Chat] Fareia: Halp@ I need a good dare!

Jassay chuckles and flops back into her chair, chuckling all the while. "Make it good Farie, very good."

[Healer Chat] Kerali: Wear a bra on his head and parade out into the hall.

[Healer Chat] Toniac: Don't ask me, I'm the victim.

[Healer Chat] Kerali: Then again, I don'tknow Toniac. He might enjoy that. ;)

[Healer Chat] Jassay peers at her cat, who was making friends with the floor....

[Healer Chat] Nerak: hmmm, run naked on the beach? Never mind, taht's been done... hehe!

[Healer Chat] Fareia wracks her brain for dares.

[Healer Chat] Miralwyn hrms. And thinks back to memorable dares. Have him run along the backs of all the furniture, repeating "Owa Tana Siam" over and over?

[Healer Chat] Jassay notes we shold kinda keep it between us, I kinda got in trouble for not doing so...

[Healer Chat] Toniac: Plotting to kill me with embarassment, ne? Toni wouldn't mind. :D

[Healer Chat] Miralwyn notes to Jassay that there are several rankers spying. And hey, so what if we all get caught.

[Healer Chat] Kiriya yoiks. Hm. Run around the chairs and sit on the girls' laps for fifteen seconds each wearing a pillowcase on your head, a loincloth on your bod, and "I (heart) Me" painted on his chest.

[Healer Chat] Kiriya: All this referring to Toniac.

[Healer Chat] Miralwyn: It would take a while to set up, though. The paint and all.

[Healer Chat] Jaqui: no I think Jassay means within the hall to yourself and that's probably a wise idea

[Healer Chat] Kiriya: There's probably some around the hall. :P

[Healer Chat] Nerak: how about sing a love song to each of the othe players???

[Healer Chat] Nerak: other...

[Healer Chat] Toniac has ten minutes, so y'all best hurry.

[Healer Chat] Miralwyn nods at Jaqui. Quite true.

[Healer Chat] Toniac makes that five, damn.

[Healer Chat] Nerak: Make up a poem on the spot??

[Healer Chat] Jassay noddels. "Yeah."

[Healer Chat] Toniac has a date tonight IRL, and can't back out now. Very sorry.

Kiriya oooohs. "Farie, dare away." Will this be /nearly/ as good as the one she gave Fareia? Probably not. Egotistic she can be when she's wicked.

[Healer Chat] Magen: there once was a young man from Marshem?

[Healer Chat] Nerak: hmmm, that is scary... hehe!

[Healer Chat] Miralwyn: Limericks are good... Fareia smiles sinisterly,"Okay then. You have to...compose a love song...And sing it to the girl of your choice." Evil cackle. Who will get sung to?

[Healer Chat] Toniac: A poem on the spot would be good.

[Healer Chat] Fareia beams.

[Healer Chat] Nerak: good job!!

Toniac pales. Just pales. Melt. "Well, I'm telling you my choice is unbiased and has nothing to do with actual feeling, okay? Just making sure, right?" And sets to work on coming up with one.

Jassay raises a brow and peers. "Ooh, this should be very interesitng," she states with a chuckle and a grin.

[Healer Chat] Jaqui: Poor new appy ;)

[Healer Chat] Kiriya meeps. Have to go eat dinner. ^^ Still can sing to me though :P

Miralwyn's eyes glimmer appreciatively, and she settles a little straighter in her seat, perfectly poised, and looking rather cool to those that don't know her. Eyes flick over to Kiriya. Will the Turnday Girl get the dubious honour?

Nerak rolls her eyes, and laughs... "Wow, another good one, this aught to be good" especially with the new guy... wondering who he'll sing to... most of us in the room are women, so he is sorely outnumbered... hehe

Kiriya *skitters. Pose around. ^^ Dinner

[Healer Chat] Toniac screams! He has to go. _Swears_ this will get done next time they're together - an owed dare, okay? His ride's yelling at him.

[Healer Chat] Fareia: Okies!

[Healer Chat] Toniac: Great, thanks.

[Healer Chat] Toniac smooches everyone and is gone. :D

OOC: Fareia erms... Well then. CHange of dares.

Magen stuffs another sweetroll into her mouth, while rummaging through her carrysack. Pulling out her notebook, she begins to sketch her healer friends, in candid laughter...

Fareia strokes her chin thoughtfully as she looks slooowly around the circle. Whooo to pick? Oh the suspense. Finally her gaze rests on Miralwyn. "Wyn. Truth or dare?" Obviously her fading into the background didn't work. Is that a quiet chant of 'pick dare, pick dare' coming from Kylianna's direction? ...Possibly.

Damn. Miralwyn looks slightly deer-in-the-headlights for a moment, before recovering her poise. Regally, she regards Fareia, and smiles. "I think... to be different... I shall choose... Truth." And kindly don't ask about any mysterious breaches of curfew, thank you.

Nerak whispers "pick truth..." how bad can that be???

Jassay applauds slightly. "Pic dare Wyn," she mutters before she finally says truth and Jass lets out a slight aww...

Fareia rubs her hands together as she thinks. How perfect. Miralwyn picked truth. Now, do we all know what's going to be asked of her? "/What/ is going on with you and Alain, please include why you two came back to the dorms so late." Hehehe. What do you /think/ she was going to ask?

[Healer Chat] Jaqui rolls, you had to have expected that one Wyn ;)

[Healer Chat] Nerak: hehe!!

[Healer Chat] Kylianna snorks.

[Healer Chat] Miralwyn laughs. Well, good thing no Masters are IC-ly present. ;)

[Healer Chat] Jassay chuckles...

[Healer Chat] Jassay peers and just relized, she can't pick truth...

[Healer Chat] Jaqui: Why Jassay?

[Healer Chat] Jassay: Not all too many people at this party know a thing about Jass....

[Healer Chat] Jaqui grins, that should make it easy then ;)

[Healer Chat] Nerak: not many people know about Nerak either... hehe, but that is the fun...

Miralwyn's dignified look doesn't shift a whit, although her eyes look slightly pained for a moment. But... Truth must be upheld. "Oh very well, but don't let it leave the room." Hah. Like that'll happen.

Nerak sits forward on her chair, ready to hear some dirt... "Ok, well, tell us!" she says, eager to hear.

"Uh-huh." Okay, so Kylianna's posting may mean she's not the most /familiar/ with her fellow apprentices, but she's always a sucker for gossip. Always. And leans a little closer, an evil smirk flickering on her expression.

Magen looks around the room, and noticing a quiet young healer with wavy crimson-brown hair, and arms crossed, wonders if she's meet her before? So many faces at healerhall, it's hard to remember all the names..."Hmmm, Kylianna, I'm from Paradise, remember?"

Miralwyn draws herself up even more, and deadpans matter of factly that "Alain and I came back to the dorms late because we were busy having a fling in the orchards." She allows silence to fall before smiling lightly. "Will that suffice?"

[Healer Chat] Jaqui coughs and thinks it is a good thing Alain isn't around ;)

[Healer Chat] Jassay peers....

[Healer Chat] Miralwyn grins. Wyn would've told it anyways.

Nerak feels her jaw drop. "We aren't supposed to have relationships.... You go girl!" and giggles...

[Healer Chat] Jaqui would like to see how our gay boy reacts to that one ;)

Jassay listens intently before letting out a sort of smirk-snicker thing. "Interesing," she notes with a grin as her eyes dart about teh room, ensuring that no rankers are present.

[Healer Chat] Miralwyn laughs.

Fareia nods, leaning closer herself. At Miralwyn's answer she raises an eyebrow and glances around the circle, then back to Miralwyn. "Wait...But isn't he- ? So why- ? I won't ask." A slight chuckle and she raises a brow,"So, who will be the next lucky one?"

A small can in thrown harshly into the room towards the back wall from the Great Hall. Suddenly the air is filled with knives that accompany the can to the back wall and frame the can, holding it firmly in place. Another knife goes zinging through the air and hits the stopper on the can. Out boils a small horde of trundle bugs who quickly rear up and begin to immediately fill the room with a horrible odor. One more knife goes sailing through the air and embeds itself in the wall. It carries with it a letter which reads, "Enjoy your time! And remember. I am everywhere." Signed, "The Butcher". There's a P.S. "P.S. It's left the room." The madman with the knives has struck again. Two more cans of trundle bugs are thrown into the room as if the stench wasn't bad enough already.

[Healer Chat] Alain has joined this channel.

[Healer Chat] Aerrin dies.

[Healer Chat] Jassay mrps....

[Healer Chat] Alain chuckles, "Trust me, nothing you could say to Alain would embarass him..."

[Healer Chat] Alain: Well...very little.

[Healer Chat] Fareia grins.

[Healer Chat] Jaqui guesses it depends on the truth of the statement ;)

[Healer Chat] Alain: Depends on the topic of the statement.

Nerak eeks and yells "Oh no, it's bugs! I hate trundle bugs!" and jumps up on her chair, screaming, holding her bedding above her to keep the bugs out...

A loud and shrill shriek can be heard from jass as she leeps to her feet and narrowly avoids a knife, few. With that she jumps onto a chair, out of pure habit more than anything else. "Who on Pern did that?" She enquires as she looks about the room.

[Healer Chat] Nerak: hehe, Jathen strikes again... hehe

Magen's shocked look on her face, tells it all. Jumping up onto the table, she hugs her carrysack. Screaming while looking all around her, at the bugs on the floor. Watching everyone jumping up and running to escape the scurrying critters..."Who did that? Did you see who threw that can in?"

Looking at Jassay... Miralwyn had been busily turning a pleasant shade of pink when attack occurs. Ah! Distraction! Wrinkling her nose at the smell, Wyn fishes a handkerchief from her pocket, and heads towards the diversion, squashing the odd bug with a vengeance as she passes. Reading the note her brow furrows. "Does anyone know who the 'Butcher' is?" she queries.

Fareia stares at the bugs for a moment then screeches,"Ick!" With a wrinkled up nose she runs over and grabs the note, quickly skittering back to the other side of the wall. "Enjoy your time! And remember. I am everywhere, The Butcher" she reads from it. "The /Butcher/?" she asks the others as she jumps onto a chair. "THose bugs better not get at the food!"

"Jathen! Isn't he the butcher? Oh, shoo...get away, you nasty thing." Watching a bug make doo doo on her notebook....*smile*

Nerak remembers who of the upper ranks likes knives.. and answeres "Jathen said in a class one time that he was the buthcher... I'm sure he did it." Knowing that she left the title out, keeping in mind he wasn't here - or hoping he has left the area enough to not hear them.

Nerak *and also is the queen of typos.. hehe

"/Ew/." Kylianna shudders, scrunching herself up into a frightened little ball on her chair, nearly squishing her poor ferret, who lets out a shrill chirr at the sudden shift. "What in Faranth's name...? I knew there was a reason I never came up here..."

Jassay has gotten over her initial shock and now sets her feet on the ground, carefully avoiding any of the bugs. "Jathen?" She enquires. "But why would he do something liek this?" She enquires with a shudder as she moves to keep the bugs off the food.

You paged Fareia with: Nerak pages, "Ok, I have my scary story ready... I'm going to tell it a few lines at a time... to keep up the suspense..."

You paged Fareia with: Nerak pages, "Of course, when truth or dare is over..."

Shivers run up and down Magen's spine, watching all the bugs. "Kylianna, do ferrets like to eat bugs?" Looking around to get a better look at Kylianna's ferret...

"Ah yes..." muses Miralwyn, muffled by her handkerchief. "Jathen, the Butcher of High Reaches," she intones, sending a few more bugs to sandal-assisted oblivion. "I believe he'd do something like this because it's... funny. You /did/ scream like a stuck porcine, Jass."

Nerak grins, she knows that Jathen likes to do things like this just for the shock value... "Jathen has done quite a few stunts - throwing knives in class for example... Scared us all witless! Im sure he did it just to hear us scream!" and shakes her head, feeling like a fool...

Magen calls over to Jassay..."I'll trade you one of my pink fuzzy slippers for one of your shoes, so I can kill a few of these bugs." Laughing, now that the initial shock has worn off...Rune, and Dagaz, Magen's firelizards, fly down to take part in the hysteria...

Slider flies down to the trundle bugs and tastes one... and seems to like it!... Leave it to Slider to find food! He settles himself down on the floor and looks as if he is motioning the rest of the firelizards to do the same....

Fenrys is curled up on her chair, surrounded by bugs. Ew ew ew gross gross gross!!! What has she done...? She calls her flizzen, who would eat his own tail if he were hungry enough, and tells him silently to feast his little heart out. "Well, I'm not sure if ferrets eat trundles, but flizzens surely will..." she mutters as Laeding chomps a bug down whole.

Jassay chuckles slightly as she nods to Magen. "Yeah, let's get bug killing and see if we can get some of the firelizards to join us," she notes as her four males sweep towards the ground, her green remains in her place, a snooty look upon her face. The apprentice quickly removes one of her shoes and hops over towards Magen. "Here, have a shoe."

Fareia calls her own firelizards down, being quite barefoot and trying to stay /off/ of the floor. "Ew! I can't believe Jathen! We will /so/ get him for this!" But that will come after they air out the smell, of course.

Aerrin slips in from the Healer Great Hall.

"Ta da. Thank you, Jassay. Here, have a pink fuzzy slipper." Jumping down off the table, Magen starts hammering away. "You just wait Jathen, the butcher. Your day will come...."

Jassay slips the slipper on her other foot, which avoids stepping on the bugs, while the other one tends to do a lot of squising. "Welcome," she offers with a chuckle. "And we will have to get him, won't we?" She enquires.

Bully turns to see Aerrin enter. Uh oh.... Heh heh heh. Laeding swoops down lazily and plucks a trundle out of the wriggling mass and settles himself on a rafter. He almost swallows the thing whole, and goes to gets seconds. There'll be fifteenths before this is over...

"My ferret is /not/ eating bugs!" Kylianna gives a little yelp, squeaking as she remains curled up in a tight little ball. Eep. Meep. "Aerrin!" The senior appy gives a little squeal towards her favorite master. Save them?

Kiriya *is /finally/ back.

Aerrin steps in in a /rage/. The Master's face is flushed, and curls fly amok - judging from that and her dress, she was already in bed.. and now she's out here. Hmmm.. that doesn't seem to be a good change. Her hands settle on her hips as she stops in front of the door, glower already moving to rake each and every apprentice. "/Do/ tell me, apprentices," she states lowly, voice near an irritated hiss. "That you have some /reasonable/ explanation for being /awake/, in the /lounge/, and /screaming/ at this time of night?" At least she's too angry to notice the word 'ferret' being tossed around the room.

Miralwyn arches an eyebrow, and urges her firelizards to join in the trundlebug hunt. They demur. Wyn doesn't press the point. "Why not just shuffle them all into a little bag, and have someone drop them outside?" she inquires, chasing down a fine specimen, and trapping it in an empty numbweed jar from her satchel.

Fenrys *has to leave. Thanks for the RP y'all!

Nerak turns around quickly "Master Aerrin? Hello there, um, someone just played a dirty, and smelly trick on us..." and holds her nose, and points at the firelizards eating the bugs... "Someone threw three cans of trundlebugs in here, and cut them open with knives...

With a belch that could be heard around the room, from Magen's bronze glutton....the only sound since the arrival of Master Aerrin...oh, oh!

Fenrys goes home.

Laeding suddenly disappears ::between::!

Jassay eeks slightly as she stops her bug stopping. A bow is offered. "Master Aerrin, we are horribly sorry to have awoken you, someone from outside thought it might be interesting to scare us," seh notes with another bow added in, her own firelizards continuing there meal.

Fareia stares wide-eyed at Aaron, pausing her shrieks for a moment. "We were having our little party remember and um...someone threw in a can of trundlebugs." The note that came with the bugs is thrust out to Aaron for her to read it to prove that is really wasn't their fault.

Slider doesn't care that a master just entered the room, all he cares about is that there is food, lots of food, crawling around on the floor...

"We were being quiet til /this/ happened!" And Kylianna shudders, pointing with great distaste at the trundlebugs, another shiver sliding down her spine as she sort of... watches. A little afraid, admittedly. Dealing with a cranky Aerrin isn't on her list of favorite things.

Kiriya squeaks, awakening from her daze, and practically raises hell right there in the room. "OH MY FA-/RAAAAAAAANTH!/ EEEEEEEWWW!" Yes, Kiriya is bloody scared to death of trundlebugs no matter who threw them in there, and she's up on a table shivering incredibly. "EW EW EW EW EW EW EWWWWW!!!!!!" Scream.

Magen can't help but laugh.

Master Aerrin, looking so angry, Kiriya, just now, waking up, and screaming...bugs everywhere...and the chomping and crunching from the firelizards. Covering her mouth, to stop the giggles.... Snow peeks in. Someone say ferret? This little girl runs up and perches right on Aerrin's foot.

[Healer Chat] Jaqui rolls....Sabine I think you would have stopped dead in your tracks at the scene in the lounge ;)

"APPRENTICE!" Yes. The word is pratically /shrieked/ toward Kiriya as Aerrin's hands clench into angry fists. "Do you have any idea how long it took me to get Kurrin down to sleep tonight? I certainly did /not/ spend hours up walking with him to have him woken up in the middle of the night by apprentices who cannot control themselves..." Nevermind Aerrin's lack of control in the middle of this speil. "I suggest," she finishes coolly. "That you all sit down. And tell me why in Faranth's name you are out here and screaming." Ok, so some already explained.. she missed it in the midst of /more/ screaming.

Keeping a straight face, even though her stocking hat is sitting askew on her head, with one pink fuzzy slipper on one foot, and the other foot bare...a shoe with squished bug guts as evidence of her 'do no harm' personality showing.... Miralwyn continues to shuffle trundlebugs into her empty jar, apparently oblivious of Aerrin until her chasing of one specimen leads her almost to the Master's feet. Ooops. She shuffles back involuntarily at the howl of the sleep-deprived mother. "Ah, I believe it was already explained, Master Aerrin, but Senior Journeyman Jathen decided to have a little fun with knives and trundlebugs."

Kiriya is /shivering/ regardless of whether anyone else is asleep or not, and several of the apprentices in attendance (which is to say, nearly /all/ the appies) have backed against the wall. "I'm. Bloody scared. Of sharding. Trundlebugs." This is said with a stammer. "And I will /not/ come down from this table unless the trundlebugs decide they want to climb up it and get their stinky little feet all over my gorgeous little body!" This is stammered as she clenches her fists and shuts her eyes, trying not to scream bloody murder.

Fareia's mouth snaps shut and she sits down after making sure there aren't any trundle bugs in her chair or in front of her. As she did arrange this thing she stands up and turns to Aerrin,"Well Aerrin, we were being niiice and quiet and having our little slumber party and we were..em...talking when jars of trundlebugs were thrown at us along with this," and she holds out the note for Aerrin. Again.

Magen looks the Master over...hmmm, nice jammies. We got to get her some thing nicer to wear to bed. I wonder if Kurt can give us suggestions....;)

Kiriya *erps and adds that the appies in question are NPC that she's talking about- not counting the PCs. :)

Jassay trundles over to a chair, which isn't bug infested, one foot covered by a pink slipper, the other by her shoe. Sitting down she focuses her attention on Master Aerrin, the girl does offer a quick glance over to her bag, which is safe from the bugs.

Sabine walks in from the Healer Great Hall.

Sabine slinks back in, curious as to what's going on. Healer's in jammies, upset Master, looks like fun.

Kylianna isn't moving. They could try to force her to leave the room, but the collection of slender limbs seems to be stuck as she remains curled up in a ball, trying oh-so-subtly to keep her squirming ferret quiet and hidden in the folds of her skirt. "W-we were just out here, Master Aerrin. Relaxin' and havin' some fun, when suddenly /that/," and she manuvers out a slender finger to point at the cans, "gets thrown in here. With knives. /Knives/." Which means Jathen. Which means Aerrin shouldn't be mad at them, right? "We were bein' right quiet and peaceful, but that scared the life outta us." See? Good, nice appies. Be nice to poor appies.

[Healer] Kiriya thinks she's going to die laughing. :P

Nerak watches Sabine walk in, and whispers the details of what has happened so far..."We were playing truth or dare, and 3 cans were thrown in the room. These were followed by knives which opened the cans. People are stomping out the bugs, and firelizards are eating them. Master Aerrin was woken up by all of the noise... I think that about summs it up... Needless to say, she's rather mad..."

Aerrin's eyes snap to Fareia as she begins her explanation. "/Master/ Aerrin, if you please. Fine. Then someone get these disgusting creatures out of here, please? /Now/?" This is ordered with a faintly sympathetic glance toward Kiriya - after all, Aerrin has her own irrational fears - while she steps foward to take the note. She skims it quickly, frowning, then glances back up. "And you know who did this?" she questions. As if she needs to ask. She and Jathen we apprentices together for Turns.

"Begging your pardon, Master Aerrin," comments Miralwyn quietly from somewhere around her elbow. "But there really is only one likely candidate that goes by the nickname of 'The Butcher'." Another bug is spotted and pounce upon.

Jassay sits silently, allowing the other apprentices to answer the master's question,a she really has no idea of much, especially when it comes to who did it.

Magen grabs Dagaz, whispering... "That's enough, you." His belly gorged to it's limit. And yet another belch...

Sabine bites her lips to keep from laughing at the explination and shoots a sympathetic look at the other Apprentices. She wouldn't want to get Master Aerrin mad, no way no how. She's a little, well, scary. For the moment it looks safe enough, but she stays near the door just in case. As a bug approaches her foot, she gives a good hard kick and sends it flying.

Fareia goes quiet and sits back down in her chair with a nod to Miralwyn. She's done her part in speaking and now she'll be all meek and quiet, all the while trying to stay clear of the bugs.

Nerak gulps "And, Master Aerrin, Sr. Journeyman Jathen has thrown many knives in his classes, we feel it was him... He does like doing things for the shock value..." and bends down and tries to clean up the squished bugs... ewwww. She throws the little carcasses into the fire and hears them hisssss. Ugh, they smell worse now...

Kiriya's eyes narrow at mention of 'The Butcher'. Oh yes. She's familiar with that pseudonym. "Mrrrgh! I should have known by the knife, but... Ew! Trundlebugs!" Squint. "Tenshi! Touga! Miko! There's your dinner! Eat now!" Said three firelizards start attacking scads of trundlebugs and gobbling them up. As Sabine kicks the bug, the trundlebug goes flying down her shirt... and Kiriya is sent into even /more/ hysterics. "GET IT OFFA MEEEEEE!" Scream. "IT'S TOUCHING ME! NONONONONO! OFFOFFOFFOFFOFF!!!!!" Kiriya has lost so much control that she falls on the floor writhing. "THEY'RE DUNNA EAT MEEEEEE!"

"Indeed." Aerrin's voice is calmer now, though the fire has simply been replaced by ice. Which is soon to be redirected. "Please. Gather as many as you can, and put them back in those jars. I'll be taking them with me." Her shoulders set as she reaches up to shove one of many errant curls behind her ear. Well. If they've determined whose fault this is.. she's going to have to turn her anger there. At least now she can pull rank on the sharding boy.

Magen watches as Sabine kicks a trundlebug away...oops, airborne...too late..."Move Jassay, watch out, incoming." Pointing to the now flying trundlebug...

Jassay stands slightly and makes her way over towards Kiriya, collecting the bugs as she goes. "Yes Master Aerrin," she offers as she peers at the flying trundlebug, which she holds up an empty bucket to catch. "Hee, let's get this place cleaned up," she notes.

Nerak gets a smile on her face... Master Aerrin taking the bugs with her??? She takes a jar off a counter top, and starts herding bugs into it... She hands a full jar to Master Aerrin, to the disappointment of her firelizard, who thought she was saving them for him...

Fareia winces slightly as she goes to grab a jar, nudging the remaining bugs into it with her foot, all the while whimpering,"Ew. Ew. Ew." She finally fills the jar with bugs and quickly trys to cap it,"Ick!" She delicately picks up the jar of bugs and walks over to the master,"Here you are, Master Aerrin." Ick. Bugs. How...unpleasant.

Kylianna is just gonna remain seated in her chair. Because touching trundlebugs is /not/ on her list of happy things to do. The healer tries to subtly move while shoving her ferret back into her skirt pocket (specifically designed for the critter), and distinctly keeping her gaze /away/ from Aerrin. Far away. She doesn't even want to ask what Aerrin's going to do with them. A couple of the critters scoot in her direction, and she wrinkles her nose as she plucks them up. "Ew."

Miralwyn crams a few more creepies into her empty jar, and then fastens the lid, presenting it with a flourish, and a quiet, hopeful murmur of "Perhaps turnabout might be fair play...?"

Sabine smacks herself in the forehead as she watches the trundlebug go airborne, not one of her best ideas. As it lands on the hysterical girl she winces and starts over to the girl, quickly removing the bug from her body and, taking her by the arms, loudly stating, "It's off of you, it's off. I'm sorry oh man am I sorry. Honest, stop screaming." She shoots a look at Master Aerrin and prays she didn't notice.

Magen chuckles, an evil chuckle..."I like where Master Aerrin is going with this." Eyebrow raised, while she watches the Master. Even though Aerrin's anger has calmed down, her disheveled hair, and rumpled jammies, still gives a certain scarry look....

Jassay grabs a jar, dumping the collected big in the bucket into it, then a bunch of the annoying creatures are shoved into the jar and capped before handed to the master before she gets another jars worth of bugs.

Aerrin is simply.. going to return them to their owner. What else? "Thank you, Fareia," she intones cooly as she collects the jar and then scans the room. "That will do.. you can let the 'lizards have the rest. I'm sure they'll be all too happy..." With another wrinkle of her nose, she turns toward the door, only to stop and look over her shoulder. "And I do /not/ want to have to come out here again. I suggest you quiet down, or go to bed. Next time, you'll find yourselves spending all night scrubbing every floor in the hall." And with that, she disappears, stalking out the door with a purpose.

Kiriya is finally finished screaming and hurting everybody's ears, and noticing Sabine help her, she smiles. "Thankyousomuch! You're my hero!" Glee. Finding her mug, she gulps down the rest of her klah and rather reluctantly uses it as a bug jar. Placing some leftover meat inside, she coaxes in the trundlebugs, puts some cloth over it, and shudders. Good klah mug went down the drain to catch those blasted /trundlebugs/." The jar is set aside and Kiriya returns to her perch, vigilant to see if any trundlebugs dare come her way. Because... well... *squish* Oh, there goes one already.

[Healer Chat] Jaqui laughs, who is logging?

For Virtual Sound, please pinch nose, while reading this...Magen pulls out a clothespin from her carrysack. Holding out a few spares..."Want one?"

[Healer Chat] Kiriya is.

[Healer Chat] Nerak: I am...

[Healer Chat] Jassay chuckles :) This should be interesting.

[Healer Chat] Kiriya: Kiriya's so weird. Screaming because of those tiny little things. :P I have a rider girlie elseMU* who EATS them.

[Healer Chat] Jaqui blinks at Kiriya and laughs

[Healer Chat] Aerrin grins. Hey. Aer's afraid of /ferrets/.

Fareia wrinkles her nose up and plops back down into her chair at the head of the circle. "Well...THat was disgusting." A thankful nod to Magen,"/Gladly/." Oh, they should all tell stories in nasally voices next. Farie filled her jar of bugs. No way is she touching them anymore than she has to.

[Healer Chat] Jaqui laughs and thinks the loggers should send a flit to jathen to get the upcoming "discussion" too ;)

Nerak finishes cleaning up the bug guts around her... "Maybe we should do something more /quiet/ now?" and smiles. She puts the cleaning rags away. "What should we do now???"

Magen says, "Retaliate! Hang the bugger! Numbweed on his privy seat!""

Kiriya mmmms. "Numbweed on his privvy seat? Now /that's/ not a bad idea there!" She nods to Magen. "Perfect retaliation! And I'm sure the 'Butcher', being who he is, will just /love/ the idea. Right, girls?" Giggle.

Fareia chuckles to Kiri and shakes her head,"Not /now/ though. We don't want Aerrin to come back out.." A glance over to Nerak,"DIdn't you say you had some stories or something?"

Kylianna gives a faint shrug, still stuffed up in her chair. "Quieter... We could play darts. Or move ourselves somewhere a bit farther away, so Aerrin doesn't come back and tries to rip our throats out with her teeth." Kyli has seen her do it, too.

"Numbweed on the privy seat?" Kyli raises a slender eyebrow, another giggle escaping. "Been done a few times, but... I liiiike..."

Sitting down in a big comfy chair, and pulling up her legs beneath her, Magen pulls a blanket out of her carrysack. "Any one know any spooky stories. Legends. Folklore?"

Sabine stands up an moves out slowly to the outskirts of the circle of girls, not really knowing any of them and unsure of her welcome.

Nerak smiles scarily "I do! I know a good one!" and looks around. "Do you want to hear it?

Kiriya oohs? "Oh yes!" And she'll even make scary sound effects too.

Jassay chuckles mercilisly. "And he will most certianly deserve it, I wonder what Master Aerrin's doing right now?" She asks as her male quartet eats away.

Miralwyn gives a slight beckoning to Sabine, curling herself in a duvet light-fingered from one of the empty cots. "I know a few, but I am a poor storyteller." she admits. "I shall simply listen."

Magen smiles at Sabine, waving her over to sit beside her. "Yea, I love spooky stories!" Nodding to Nerak...

Fareia nods to Nerak,"Of course. Let's hear 'em."

Shayla walks in from the Healer Great Hall.

Nerak looks around, taking on the 'scary storyteller face'. "Is everyone ready?"

Sabine smiles at the girl who just waved at her and sits down next to her. Pulling one leg under her she leans forwards and bites her lower lip in anticipation. Maybe she'll get to know these girls after all....

The ferret squirms loose from Kylianna's pocket, squeaking as she darts down the healer's leg. Kyli waves at Shay, noticing another Paradisian entering. "Shay! Come on over! You missed it, girl!" She'll remain curled up on her chair. "Ready!" Kyli gives a chipper little chirp. Can't scare her.

Shayla quickly scoots in and flops down right next to her good buddy Kyli, "Heard 'bout this all over Ista while gathering herbs...couldn't get away from Elinda until she went to deliver some," Shay rolls her eyes, uugh Elinda. "Anyway, what are ya'l doing??"

Jassay takes a seat as her firelizards swoop and dive, occasionally taking up treats to the green Kim. "Ooh, stories."

Magen draws her blanket up close, around her shoulders. Her eyes wide open. Whispering to Sabine, "Hi. You just missed all the excitment. But we have to be quiet or Master Aerrin will make us all scrub the hall floors. So now, we'll listen to Nerak, tell her story."

"Personally, I think Aerrin would much rather go back to sleep than supervise us cleaning," muses Mirlawyn dryly, curling up furthur in her duvet, and keeping an ear out for the story.

Kiriya chuckles. "Raising hell. Nothing much more so far." She'll shut up now. "Oh, please do, Nerak. I'll add sound effects."

Magen takes a handful, then passes around a bag of meadowsweet gummies...

Nerak Ok, We have to pretend that we are on Earth for this story, with technology far superior to our own. Telephones, and answering machines... Once there were 2 women that shared an apartment. One night, the first woman, Kathy, was listening to their messages and writing them down. When, suddenly one of the messages terrified her... "I am ze Viper, I come next Tuesday!"

Kiriya makes the sound of a stylus scratching on hide. Oh yeah. Go SFX girl.

Jassay curls her feet up under her in her chair, listening intently to the tale as she debates what the Master's doing now.

Kylianna grabs a handful of sweets, passing the bag on as she squeaks a little closer to Shayla, giving a slight nervous giggle. Maybe the trundlebugs have sent her to a bit of an odd state. But she's listening, yes she is.

Miralwyn nibbles judiciously on a sweet, and then passes the bag along to Sabine, looking dryly amused.

Shayla snuggles in closer to Kyli...just 'cuz they're buddies and all...she'd just feel safe that way. She pulls a blanket out of her napsack, and wraps it snuggly around her body. Ok, now she's ready for any and everything.

Sabine wraps her arms around herself as she leans forward even farther to listen. With a whispered thanks to Miralwyn she grabs a small handful of sweets and passes the bag on.

Nerak: Kathy called her roommate, Ginny, over to listen to the message again, and pushed the button with trembling fingers. "I am ze Viper, I come next Tuesday!" was repeated. Now both girls were scared witless. Who was this Viper - a murderer? A rapist? A salesman! They didn't know which was scarier! They tried to decide whether or not to call the police, but since they didn't know who this Viper was, they decided not to call. His name was not on the news as a dangerous criminal...

Fareia grabs a handful of gummies from the bag then passes it on after grabbing a pillow and leaning back in her chair as she listens, hugging the pillow closely and grinning over at Kiriya before turning back to Nerak. Ooh...Spooky.

Jassay snags her pillow up as well before she snags a handful of the sweets and moving the bag on, listening raptly, already caught up in the story.

Kiriya downs several sweets and makes little sounds of firelizardish sirens. Hugging her knees to her chest, she listens intently. "Ooooooooo."

[Healer Chat] Jaqui peers at her log, if this works out, I have even the earlier bit about putting out signs

Nerak "The girls just decided that maybe it was a crank call, and chose to ignore it. Several days later, there was another message on their machine. "I am ze Viper, I come in 5 days..." This chilled them to the bones... Now, they decided, was a good time to call the police...

Magen reaches into the gummie bag, and pulling out one to stuff in her mouth...noticing the movement in her hand, and looking down...eeewww. "Damn trundlebug!" Throwing it over her shoulder, up against the wall...she passes the bag along...

Miralwyn continues to look vaguely amused, and not the least bit scared. Although she /does/ draw her duvet more tightly around her shoulders, sitting stiffly and pointedly by herself off to the side. Wyn is not to be hugged.

Sabine takes a deep breath and cozies into the seat. She grabs her blanket and wraps it around herself, putting one end into her mouth and chewing on it.

Nerak "They called the police, who had not heard of this 'Viper'. The Police decided to stake out the apartment building the next Tuesday evening, just to be sure. Since there was no message the next two nights, and the girls were getting more and more nervous. They wondered if they should even be in their home that night. They talked together, and decided they would be there, but they would be armed...

Sabine casts a surruptitious glance at the the other girls, not wanting to appear any more afraid then they are. She pulls the blanket corner from her mouth and starts biting on her lower lip again. She never has been very good with scary stories.

Nerak looks around at the other appies, wondering if they are getting taken by the story... she continues..."Sunday, they got another message. "I am ze Viper, I be zere in 2 days." Now, they were sure, more than ever, that they would be here, and ready for this Viper. They were not going to let just anybody into their home! They stepped up their security measures, installed extra locks, and a chain to the door.

Jassay listens intently, gradually getting a little bit more scared bit by bit, and gradually she crawls towards one of her fellow apprentices,.

Magen eyes widen more...pulling her blanket up to cover her mouth, and drawing her knees up tighter.

Fareia leans closer to Nerak, eyes wide as she hugs her pillow. Oooh. Skeeeery. A blink at Jassay and a very quiet giggle and she pokes the other apprentice's shoulder with a quiet whisper,"Scared much?" so as not to interrupt the story but goes immediately back to listening.

Yumi is sitting quietly in a corner, amused by the story. Eyes twinkling, she glances at the other girls. She loves scary stories..

Miralwyn muffles a quiet laugh, getting an idea as to where things are headed. Still... easing musckes isn't the /only/ reason the self-contained girl suddenly sees to it that she's leaning up against a nice, solid couch.

Kiriya chuckles in glee as she adds more sound effects, which begin to deviate from what they should sound like. Hee.

Sabine scoots a little bit closer to Magen and feels her eyes get a wee bit wider. She starts muttering to herself, "Don't scream, don't scream"

Nerak watching her fellow appy faces, she realizes that they /are/ being drawn in. She /could/ be a harper... "The next night, the message on their machine said, "I am ze Viper, I come tomorrow night." The girls were really spooked by now, afraid that they were dead for sure. They were only slightly comforted by the fact that the police had assured them that they would be just outside.

Jassay sends a glance at Farie as she sits down, having snagged her blanket on her way, which is wrapped about herself, her pillow held in her arms. "Shh," she utters to the Farie as she listens to the story.

Sabine shivers a little and takes a deep breath in, unconciously holding it, waiting to find out what happens next

Nerak leans forward in her chair for effect... "The next night. All of the bolts were locked, the chain was set into place, and they sat and stared at the door. On their machine was one last message. "I am ze Viper, I come at 8."

Miralwyn's smile grows a little more unholy, a twinkle forming in her eyes, despite the sympathetic shivers running down her spine.

Shayla stares intently upon the story teller. She glances over at Kyli...wha? Oh sure, she'd have to fall asleep at a time like this...

Shay turns her attentions from the sleeping Kyli back to the story...

Jassay hunches up in a slightly scared manner, she's petite and she acts it sometimes to. A slight glimpse is offered towards Farie and the other apprentices, are they as scared as she is.

Fareia grins in the rush of being frightened, still clinging to her pillow and leaning towards Nerak.

Yumi snuggles in her blanket, ready for the end of the story. Snacking on some dried fruit, she munches contentedly.

Nerak "They were starting to shake, doubting that they could go through with it now, realizing how much his message had shaken them. Their watches said 7:45. Kiriya giggles with glee. "Ohhhhh!" She's more gleeful than frightened at the point as she snacks on a sweetstick and passes some more around.

Jassay clings tightly to her pillow and blanket, in anticipation of what will be the next part of the story.

Magen visibly shaking...

Nerak "At eight o'clock, on the dot, there was a knock at the door. The girls both looked at each other. "He got by the cops!" they hugged each other and shook.

Miralwyn's eyes widen, a move covered by a quick arching of the eyebrows. No. She's not nervous. Nopenopenope. Figment of you imagination. Perhaps you should see a Mindhealer?

Jassay meeps slightly, her eyes widen in fear as Nerak continues. "Oh, um, dear," seh mutters softly.

Kiriya should see a mindhealer, but for different reasons. Anyhoo. Kiriya is still trying to make sound effects, but she gives up and starts into a fit of giggles. So much for suspense. Ehee.

Nerak readies herself for the finale..."They get their weapons out, at the ready, and look through the peek hole on the door. The man is in a maintainance uniform. He croaks, "I am ze Viper, I come to vash your vindows!"

Miralwyn wrinkles her nose, and tosses a few of the meadowsweet gummies in Nerak's direction with a groan. "Ughhhh! That ending was just... pun-ishing."

[Healer Chat] Jaqui coughs and groans at Wyn! and yours wasn't any better ;)

Jassay jumps slightly as they get to eight o'clock and sntaches Magens ankle, before she gapes, wide eyed and mouth agape. "That's it?" She enquires, rather hoping that it isn't.

Kiriya goes from giggling into an all-out LAUGH. "OH MY FARANTH!!!" she cries as she is subdued by her own fits of laughter. How sad she is. Poor braided child is left giggling, her feet kicking in the air. Maybe a little too much klah, hmm?

[Healer Chat] Miralwyn sketches a bow. Hey, I've got to keep in practice, you know.

Magen jumps! Then stuffs her head into a pillow to scream. Closing her eyes tightly, and kicking her pink fuzzy slippers. Slowly she lifts her head out of the pillow, to look around the room. "Oh, that was great, Nerak! I've never heard that one, before." Laughing at Jassay...

Yumi explodes into fits of giggling, rolling around in her blanket. Applauding, she whistles and calls out, "Yea Nerak! Woohoo!" Still giggling she tries to pick pieces of dried fruit her hair. She got a little carried away...

Shayla is all prepared for a scary ending...oh, wait...that wasn't scary though. Hurmph. Well that's not cool.

Sabine moans and lets out an explosive breath sagging again her seat, "Oh no! That's awful." She starts giggling and stands up, "I'm off for a bit, goodbye."

Sabine walks to the Healer Great Hall.

Nerak laughs so hard she almost falls off her chair... "Hehe, I got you guys on that one!" and now she falls off her chair... hehehehehe!

Jassay chuckles and lets Magen's ankle go. "Oh, dear," she states as she stands and grabs her pajama's. "I'll be right back, gonna go change," she notes as she heads into the dorms, only to return a few seconds later, wearing a dark blue, short, tank top, and a pair of shorts. "Okay, what's next?" She enquires, returning to her seat next to Farie and near Magen.

Kiriya giggles. "Makeovers!" Though she would never let one be given to herself, she'll give one. Unfortunately, she's not thinking about it at the moment... "Anyone got the facial masks n' stuff?"

Nerak *out of curiosity, how many of you had /not/ heard that one before?? I got my kids w/that one at their slumber party once... hehe!

Standing up, Magen quickly gathers up her things. "I think, on this note, I'd better get the heck out of here, before Master Aerrin, comes back. She said we'd be scrubbing floors, if we made any more noise!" Laughing..."This was fun! Let's do it again, sometime"

Tossing Jassay a packet of kelp mask, "Here, try this. It glows in the dark! It should be funny."

Magen walks to the Apprentice Dormitory.

Fareia chuckles and dissappeards behind the circle of chairs to grab a bowl of mized up ingredients,"I've got something. My own little concoction." Ooh doesn't look terribly appetizing. "So...WHo wants to be the first victim..." A glance around the circle and she grins at..."...Kiriya?"

Nerak gathers up her sleeping stuff, and sits down on the floor... "I'm ready for facials! Giving or getting..." she is excited, has never done this before either...

Jassay catches the packet and grins. "Ooh, giving a facial, we should do a makeover," just so long as she's not getting the makeover, she might hurt someone.

Jassay *notes, we should do makeovers.... ;)

Shayla yawns and looks around...wha? make-over? No, not for Shay...she's not the make-over type...she'll give people make-overs in their sleep...ah, yes, new idea for tortouring N'ano...must mention it to Kyli...

"Nonononononono." She finally remembers how much she hates those things. "Kiriya is not good for makeovers. She look bad. Ya." Reverting to piece-meal grammar? Oif. "It'll take a lot to pin me down and put that stuff on /me/." Eeeeeep.

Nerak grins... "We /can/ all hold you down, Kiri..." and looks around, giggling, anyone want to hold her down??" giggle...

Jassay chuckles. "Yeah, we can hold you down," she notes. "Hey, who's got the scissors (knives)?" She enquires of the group. "And, umm, some sort of dye, you know, for hair," she offers with a chuckle and a grin, this'll be fun.

Fareia giggles evilly and scooches closer to Kiriya. "You'll look /pretty/." They can hold her down, Farie can shlop the gunk onto her face.

Kiriya tries not to die on the spot. "Don't touch the hair. No. My hair stays okay. Touch the rest of me if you dare, but... leave the hair alone." Shudder. "And you will have to pin me down." Get ready to run.

Nerak gets closer to Kiriya, and helps hold her - she is even ready to tie her up if necessary...

Jassay makes her way towards her fellow apprentice. "You guys want help?" She enquires with a chuckle. "I can help," of course she can, she know how to hold people down.

Fareia holds up her bowl of experimental glop,"You guys hold her down and I'll put this on 'er." Evil cackle again and Farie gets yet even closer.

Shayla picks up her stuff...nope, defintely not staying for makeovers, working for Elinda is funner than this. She does make a suggestion though, "Hey, make Kyli over...make sure it's while she's sleeping though..." and with a quiet chuckle, Shay walks out, just waiting to hear stories about this later...

[Healer Chat] Shayla wavies, thanks ya'll for the fun RP...it's bathtime for me right now...byes!

Kiriya jets to the other corner of the room. "Keep that awayyyyy..." Stammer. "You. Will not. Put that stuff. On my pretty face."

Shayla walks to the Healer Great Hall.

Yumi * Oh, what a goooooooooood turnday Kiri's having. Right? Uh...huh.

[Healer Chat] Jassay eeks and is thwapped. "That's it!" sits on Kiriya so she can get her makeover. "What, my mind isn't working...." Or it's taken up residence in the wrong part of town, haven't decided yet.

[Healer Chat] Jaqui pokies Jassay ;) try posing to the room Jassay ;)

Nerak grabs Kiri's right arm, and holds tight, being wary of any legs to kick "I've got her arm, you guys get her other arms and legs... I don't want to be kicked. Slider, keep her flits away... tell them it's a joke!" she says and ducks, hoping Kiri's flits won't attack...

[Healer Chat] Jassay mrr, but why?

[Healer Chat] Jaqui grins

Jassay chuckles slightly. "I'll grab her feet," she offers with a snicker as she makes her way to the apprentices feet. "Just no doing me," she states, is that challenge?

Kiriya eeks. "Get offa meeee..." However, she's reduced to whimpering, and her flits are being real bad today and neglecting her in her distress. Whatta turnday. She heaves a breath. "Fine, fine, don't touch the hair, but otherwise... be creative. Be warned though- I will wash it off as soon as possible."

Nerak holds Kiri tight, but watches as the makeup is applied. She watches everything, keen to find out how to actually apply makeup...

[Healer Chat] Kiriya eeks. Mom wants to use the computer. Appies who are in the room with me, feel free to do as you please, but don' touch the hair like she said. Ee.

Fareia stands just out of Kiriya's reach, hugging her bowl protectively. With a sligh smirk to Jassay and a mysterious,"We'll see." She crouches down a scuttles closer to Kiriya,"/If/ we let you out so you can wash it off." Giggle giggle. "Okay, so we put this on first because it's supossed to soften your skin, or at least it's supossed to if I mixed everything right. And then it's someone else's turn. I just have skin treatment stuff. No actual makeup."

Kiriya glares at Nerak. "Gee thanks Nerak..." she says, then glares at the rest of them. "I'll get you all back for this!!" She then turns to her flits, and gives them a 'Kiri-Death-Glare' as well.

Nerak waves a free hand to the others. "SHHH!! remember the masters are just down the hall!" she whispers. "don't want to get into MORE trouble!"

Fareia grins and begins to smear the moisturizer type stuff onto Kiriya's face with a finger, giggling sinisterly the whole time. When she's done she backs up to let someone else in,"Someone else's turn. I'll hold down a limb..."

Jassay *randomly has a run for it in mind

Jassay chuckles as she watches Kiri. "Shh, we don't want to wake the masters up," seh says, hushing the girl as she holds down a leg or two. "We won't hurt," or so the girl hopes.

Kiriya sighs, then looks at them. "I hope you don't hurt me, then maybe my flits wouldn't ignore me!" she looks at Nerak. "I'm guessing that's your doing as well?" she asks, already knowing that she's right. "Just as long as you don't mess with the hair!"

OOC: Fareia whiiiines and has to leave.

OOC: Fareia shnuggles all. See you!

Nerak giggles softly, not wanting to be overheard... "Faerie, why dont you just do the whole thing, since you're not holding a limb... if we let go, she might hit or kick!" and looks down at Kiri, not knowing what will happen...

OOC: Nerak says "Or not... if you have to leave..."

OOC: Nerak says "Ok then,I guess that answers my question, she just disconnected...!!"

Nerak sits on Kiriya to keep her down...

Jassay relinqueshes the legs to another apprentice as she takes over the makeover. "Too bad we can't do your hair Kiri," she notes as she finds some oddly pigmented powders.

[Healer Chat] Jaqui idles to go lay down...if my log kills, I'll need someone to fill in the missing pieces....hopefully my ISP will behave and keep it running :P

Kiriya looks suspiciously at the powders. "What are those?" she asks, gasping. "Nerak... Get off... I can't breathe!" she gasps, struggling against the other girl.

Nerak calls over some of the other appies that are against the walls, just watching..."Come on over here and help us!" she whispers "we really don't want to get into any more trouble, but the turnday girl should look nice! Help hold her down nicely..." and 2 other appies, come over and help. "Good, hold here, and here. Just think, you're learning how to hold a patient down in case they begin to get upset during a treatment..." and winks

Jassay chuckles and peers at Kiri. "You're a blue girl I think, blues and greens anyway," with that she gets a brush and loads it with a light blue powder, which is added to the eyes, or the attempt is made as she tries to get Kiri to keep her eyes shut. "You don't want me to poke your eye out do you?"

Kiriya stops struggling, and closes her eyes, waiting, and plotting pranks for later. "I will get you both back." she growls.

Nerak snickers "Kiri, you love this, and you know it. This is a lot of attention on your turn day. We all are your friends, and want to give this makeover to you as your gift!" she says, convincingly... trying to convince...herself?? "You will look so beautiful when she is done. If you promise to be good, and sit through the rest of this, we can let you up." She almost offered to let Kiri do her face next, but thought the better of it.

Jassay *Hey, I gotta idle for dinner, someone just do a bit of Power play, okay, I'm free with it, I'm putting the make up on.

Kiriya sighs, then smiles wickedly. "Nerak, my friend..." she pauses, then continues, "You're next!"

[time passes as some characters are on, and some leave. Then the apprentices left in the room (Nerak and Jassay, then later Toniac, Kerali) played darts for quite some time after... :) ]

(Aerrin and Jathen's conversation - as eavesdropped on by Slider, my firelizard)

Aerrin has already stalked up and down one hallway in search of a familar Senior Journeyman.. now she's expanding her search, and with each stride, anger becomes more and more apparent on her face. She holds a jar in one hand.. and the other is clenched. She pauses for a moment, feet stilling as Jathen is sighted, and then a slightly scary smile twists her lips upward. Her footsteps begin again, pace quick, and she swiftly upends the jar.. directly over Jathen's head. Letting the jar fall to the table, she steps back, arms crossing over her chest, and waits.

Oh, so it has to be that way..., "I did most of the late night stints, actually. I function better at night than Sudanna does. And I've been doing those stints most of the time three past three Turns because Sudanna's been away alot, unfortunately." He points the tip of his knife at her, "I appologize is I inadvertantly interupted your sleep or anyone in your household. I'll /try/ not to let fly at the apprentices during the evening hours again." He ribs her, "But honestly, you have to laugh at the way they reacted. And I also got some interesting information out of them before I let the cans fly."

Jathen starts and throws his chair back. His glares at Aerrin, his long hair running with the bugs. He throws his hair around in a ferocious gesture and in an instant a couple knives are in his hands which quickly disapear, cutting Aerrin's sleeping garments, but not skin, "'Ware, Aerrin, 'fore you upset your former college and present friend." He snarls coldly, "We've gone down this road before and come back..." Another two knives are in his hands.

"Try it," Aerrin shoots back, gaze cooly furious as her arms drop to her side. It's not that she really thinks she could stop one of those knives before it does damage.. it's simply that she doesn't believe he'd do it. And she has ways of retaliating if he does. Turns and promotions evidently haven't faded the occasional pettiness rising from long aquantice. "I /suggest/," she continues, eyes blazing in contradiction to the icy tone of her voice, "That you sit /down/, Senior Journeyman, before I have cause to question your Oaths. And just how many turns has she been waiting to pull rank on him? That's her secret.

His eyes blaze right back at her, "I'll sit for a friend, but not someone pulling rank on me, so long as she sits as well..." He's aged and so's she but the fighting goes on, "You have no cause for questioning my oath. You were there when I said them, dimglow." Childish terms, but a fond rememberance of days gone past...

"Keep in mind that I /have/ the rank to pull.. and I'm certainly not the one who started /that/ trend," Aerrin returns swiftly, fingers absently clenching and unclenching before she jerks her head toward the table and raises a hand to absently check the bit of cloth now ruined by Jathen's knives. "Sit down. Honestly, you sharding moron." Fondly, of course. "I have a bone to pick with you." What else is new?

What else is new precisely, "You know you don't have any rank to pull when it comes to me, Aerrin. Possibly when it comes to healing, but not in personal matters, which this apparently stems from. Besides, I don't think this Hall would really want to see me leave because of an old tiff with one of my best friends." He sits on the edge of the table and then scoots back on the table, sitting crosslegged, "That said, what can I help you with, Aerrin." There's a definite lack of title there. This is petty and chirlish on both their parts and he knows it, but it's still fun. Some things never change. He doesn't like change either. He slides the knives up his sleeve and the other goes into his bandalier.

"I'm quite sure this hall didn't want to see /me/ stalking around in /this/ state, either," Aerrin returns, lifting a hand to indicate pajamas and.. hair. It's really amazing what curls can do after a few hours of fitful sleep. Her arms cross again as she stands, staring at him for a long moment. "Tell me you aren't /honestly/ asking me that question." She rolls her eyes, voice irritated, but noticeably less tense as her gaze rakes him in annoyance. "You /may/ have noticed a sudden /shower/ of trundlebugs... I don't suppose you know anything about that?"

Jathen shrugs, "We /have/ been having some odd weather lately, you've got to admit." He grins at her and then winks, "Maybe the Redstar's decided to start throwing trundlebugs at us now." He chuckles at his own joke but quickly quiets and actually gets serious, which is a thing that only people that really know him see. He turns almost brotherly and sighs, "Aerrin," He gets out one of his knives at gestures with it slightly, his elbows leaning on his knees, "You of all people should appreciate what I did." He turns the knife around and pokes her with the handle and then turns it around again, "You honestly can't stand there and tell me it wasn't funny. And besides, have you gotten a look at yourself lately? And those cuts in your nightclothes? It's just facinating." He looks her up and down and then smiles softly, "We're gettin' old, Aerrin, dear. And don't tell me we aren't. I'm just havin' some fun until I have to settle down for good." He looks down, pausing, and then looks up again, "In the old days I would have filled herdbeast stomachs with water and threw them at them and /then/ done the trundlebugs..."

Aerrin is not amused. As evidenced by the lack of her usual good-natured grin. Her arms are still crossed quite firmly over her chest, and she tilts her head to regard Jathen, patiently waiting until he finishes. "Remind me again.. you have children?" Obviously she's moving toward a point here, since she delivered one of them. "I don't suppose you recall those nights, oh so long ago, when they /loved/ to refuse to sleep and enjoyed keeping /you/ awake instead?" Her tone begins easy and smooth, but rapidly aquires some of its former icines. "You know.. the nights when you walked with them for /hours/ to get them to sleep? Or did you always make Danna do it?" Nevermind the old days - Aerrin's concerned about being able to /function/ when she reaches the infirmary in the morning.

"Hmmm. Well. Unfortunately, I do /not/ function well on a lack of sleep. Despite my best efforts to the contrary recently. And I do /not/ appreciate having to get up with the same baby I'd put down just hours before!" Whew. That rant took some effort. She scowls, righteous anger suddenly fleeing in favor of the irritated apprentice look that Aerrin's never quite grown out of. "Honestly, Jathen, couldn't you just stick to scary stories and tormenting them with your sharding knives during class?" His last words, though, are noted with interest, and she allows her arms to drop back to her side as she peers at him. "Interesting information?"

Jathen beckons her closer, "You've got to promise that you won't go pulling that 'ranker' business or anything and get them in trouble. If anyone does any thing it should be me anyway..." He raises a brow, waiting for confirmation, "What do you say?"

Aerrin falls asleep.

Jathen shoves Aerrin's limp body into a body bag and carries her off to a nearby lake... Mwuaahahahaa...!

Aerrin wakes up and stretches drowsily.

OOC: Aerrin erms. Repose?

[Healer Chat] Nerak: hehehe!!!

Jathen shoves Aerrin's limp body into a body bag and carries her off to a nearby lake... Mwuaahahahaa...!

OOC: Jathen says "Oops...wrong one..."

OOC: Jaqui gasps for breath ;) better be the pose...erk too late

Jathen beckons her closer, "You've got to promise that you won't go pulling that 'ranker' business or anything and get them in trouble. If anyone does any thing it should be me anyway..." He raises a brow, waiting for confirmation, "What do you say?"

[Healer Chat] Nerak: we got a kick out of the 'throwing her body into the lake' pose! hehe!

[Healer Chat] Jassay: Heehee.

[Healer Chat] Aerrin: Oh look. And now I get to lag. I love it when that happens.

Aerrin isn't /that/ old. And besides.. the mood of standing in the middle of the Healer Hall in her pajamas, in the middle of the night, with Jathen, seems to bring out the worst in her. Bad influence. "All right," she agrees after a moment with the beginnings of a grin. "As long as /I/ get to watch. If you do anything."

Jathen nods, "Fair enough." He grins and stands up. He puts his mouth near her ear and whispers, "Someone named Alain and our Miralwyn were...well...let's just say, being more than cozy in the orchards the other night..." He chuckles in her ear and the grabs her head and kisses her cheek, "G'night, Aerrin, dear!" He picks her up, twirls her about and sets her down, opposite of where she was and then jogs from the hall, picking up knives as he goes.

OOC: Jathen says "Still there?"

OOC: Aerrin says "Yeah.. I'm having horrible lag, though.. it /seems/ to be dealable at the moment. And I missed your pose, if you had another."

Jathen nods, "Fair enough." He grins and stands up. He puts his mouth near her ear and whispers, "Someone named Alain and our Miralwyn were...well...let's just say, being more than cozy in the orchards the other night..." He chuckles in her ear and the grabs her head and kisses her cheek, "G'night, Aerrin, dear!" He picks her up, twirls her about and sets her down, opposite of where she was and then jogs from the hall, picking up knives as he goes.

Aerrin rolls her eyes as she's spun around, though she can't quite help the amused grin that slides into place. "Jathen!" she calls after him, hands on her hips again. "You really /must/ grow up sometime. And clean up those bugs!" With a short shake of her head, the Master tugs at her pajamas, straightening them a bit before she trundles back toward the comfort of her bed.

Jathen goes home.