CAMPUS WIDE EVENT: JUNGLE FEVER

[intercom_voice]

[Much like last time, the intercom buzzes to life in the middle of the night for only a moment. An annoyed sigh can be heard.]

Oh dear. That's not supposed to happen...

[That's the last thing everyone will hear during the night. But in the morning, they will find themselves surrounded by vegetation so thick it'd be almost impossible to tell that they're in a school if they didn't already know. Vines coming out of the floorboards and covering the walls/ceilings, exotic plants growing out of the walls. Not to mention the wildlife! Just about any animal you would imagine to be in a jungle, dangerous or not, can be found lurking in the school. But don't worry! Not every corner of the campus is infested with poisonous plants and carnivorous beasts. The cafeteria is one hundred percent clear. It seems that the lunch lady's awful cooking is doing some good at keeping the wildlife at bay. In fact, anything that starts to grow anywhere near to doors of the lunchroom dies off pretty quickly!

May want to steer clear of the auditorium, though. The vegetation there is the thickest...and most dangerous.]



((TIME FOR ANOTHER EVENT. Seeing as how this one went up a day late it'll go on until the 19th. Every area is covered in vines, flowers, and animals. Some are dangerous (plants included) and some are harmless -- I'll leave that up to player discretion on what's hanging around. As long as they're plants/animals that would normally be found in any kind of jungle. Remember: nothing too big, it has to fit in the campus! The air is also really humid and muggy. The auditorium will have the bulk of the dangerous animals/plants, and also the biggest!

Lisa the nurse will be around to heal wounds or any poison (the symptoms of the poisonous plants are up to you. It's not a mind altering poison or anything, though), but her office will still be filled with vines and small animals, nothing dangerous. And as mentioned above the cafeteria is all clear and Edna will be around cooking all her awful food. Have fun!))

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WHICH LANE SHOULD SOLAIRE GO TO? [Location: Anywhere/Cafeteria/Auditorium in later post]

[praisingsun]

[LOCATION: Anywhere]

[All across the campus, fellow junglers can spy an armored fellow hacking and slashing his way through the thick underbrush in a futile attempt to clear paths for people to get from place to place quickly. As you come across him, he raises his sword arm in greeting]

Hail stranger! How fare thee these past hours with this queer forestry all about?

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[Location: Cafeteria]

[You can spy a tuckered out Solaire taking a breather at one of the tables in the caf. His helmet is off, his shield and sword on the table next to it and he is drinking what appears to be some orange dusty drink from a large stone flask. Still, despite his exhaustion, he looks as upbeat as he usually sounds[

My, what an adventure! Truly, one such as myself could never have imagined such an environment for all my travels!
[What say you to that?]

Cafeteria

[amazingswinger]

[WOW! This is crazy! It's like an episode of 'Man vs. Wild' or something!]

[But just as Tajima began to wonder if he'd have to drink his own pee to survive- He comes across the lunchroom! And it's wildlife-free! In fact all of the wildlife around it seem to be... dying off.]

[...Is that a good sign?]

[Eh, whatever- he just happens to be hungry enough to find out!]

Location: Around Campus

[pluginboy]

[Piko was not built for the jungle. All the moisture and heavy heat in the air has him struggling to keep moving, before finally falling down onto his behind with his legs splayed out as his side.]

This isn't good... [He squints his eyes as some of the lights on his exterior fluctuate.]

((ooc: Piko's will end up malfunctioning a little bit if he stays in the jungle too long))

[thoseblackmoonblues]

[For a long time, Saphir merely wandered lonely as a cloud through the foliage. The heat was unbearable, and the air felt thick, but the fascination of the plant life in this strange place was enough to grab his attention from the discomfort. He had never seen plants like this. His home planet was almost devoid of plant life, after all.

He would have walked right past the stranger were it not for movement in the corner of his eyes. How wonderful. A stranger. And a strange one too. Was this what the people of Earth called 'cosplay'? He crouched down beside him.]

Are you unwell?

cafeteria

[devotedpawn]

[ At the exclamation, Barnaby looks up from the herbs and fungi he managed to collect just outside the cafeteria. ]

'Tis strange, certainly. It offers resources once scarce but I fear there will be trouble should anything be lurking within those depths.

[ He sets aside a newly created poultice, lining it up with three other flasks. ]

Have you any need for curatives, you need but ask. I shall offer what I can, ser.

[cybrid]

[ Leo leaves as soon as the sun rises with the intention of scoping the new scenery out. He has no idea how something like this can happen overnight. The building's condition was fine earlier and with it being inhabited, there's no chance for anything like this to grow. ... But clearly it has. He can't deny what's right in front of him.

The humid heat doesn't bother the cybrid much what with his tech being top of the line - even acid rain poses no real threat. It is unpleasant to walk around in leather but he'll live. Others, though... ]

Piko! Hey, Piko, can you hear me?

[ His eyes light up to scan the area as he yells out for his young roommate and he slices through particularly thick brush with one of his positron blades. ]

Cafeteria

[truetocaesar]

[Vulpes has never seen a jungle before, and it only takes a few minutes before he determines that he wishes he had never seen a jungle. While the animals here don't appear to be particularly mutated, he isn't interested in exploring the area unarmed just in case the more dangerous beasts are lurking somewhere else within the hallways.]

[When the Legionary realizes the cafeteria is untouched by the jungle, he decides to set up camp there. Anyone who stops by will see him sitting at a table eating lunch as if nothing unusual is happening in the rest of the building.]

around campus

[thumbsdown]

[If there are a few things Boone is used to, it's heat and wild creatures running around all over the place. He isn't, however, used to all this vegetation. He picks his way through the jungle, rifle in his hands, and crouches down by some thick foliage. He spots something moving nearby and looks through his scope at it, finger poised over the trigger. Yeah, he'd rather hunt for his food than be subjected to whatever the cafeteria lady decided to "cook".]

[A short time later, he's carving up an unfortunate capybara. It kind of reminds him of the giant mole rats in the Mojave, only with fur.]

Re: cafeteria

[praisingsun]

[The knight looks over to the other man and nods approvingly at his diagnosis of the situation as well as his forward thinking at gathering supplies]

Indeed! Perhaps t'would be best to gather a group and undergo some manner of expedition in order to glean a surplus of such items whilst the opportunity still exists....

But you need not worry for myself. Keep such curatives for those whom are ill prepared for such dangers. My estus is all the curative I shall need. [He raises the stone flask in his hand before taking another sippy]

[He pauses, thinking] Out of curiousity, have thou found anything that can act as an anti-toxin? Some of the plants look frightfully poisonous and I could not bare to think of another dying a slow death to poisonous materials.

[perpetuallyexposedchest]

How the hell are you still alive?

[Having been walking by with his own tray of food in hand; Miguel had to stop as he spotted Vulpes from a distance. He figured the man would have died of starvation in that scavenger-hunt room by now, seeing as he was given the task of finding a friend in order to leave... and Vulpes is about at friendly as an agitated snake.]

What kind of lonely, pathetic individual did you lie to in order to escape that place, eh? I'm curious.

[truetocaesar]

[Vulpes looks up from his meal to stare at Miguel, then takes a slow sip of his drink. He looks the man over behind his goggles for a few seconds, noting the way that the top of his boxers are still visible over his pants. He thought that would have been solved by now.]

Your pants aren't on right. Is that why you're bothering me? Unfortunately for you, I'm busy right now.

[perpetuallyexposedchest]

[Miguel looks down at that; before rolling his eyes. Vulpes is starting to sound like his mother; telling him to fix his pants all the time.] My pants are on just fine.

Funny; You don't look very busy to me. [Miguel takes it upon himself to take a seat right next to the other man; setting his own tray of food down upon the cafeteria table. He doesn't actually have any plans to eat a full meal with Vulpes, but he's bored enough to bother him for a short while at least.] Like I said- I'm here because I'm curious. So did you fool some unfortunate soul for your escape, or should I be alarmed to know that you actually have like-minded individuals to get along with in this godforsaken building?

newly arrived (around campus)

[wildmongrel]

[ Shen hasn't a single damn clue as to where he is or how he got here but he does know that this is absolute bullshit. He practically snarls, swatting away at that insects that are buzzing around his head. For once, he's wishing that he wore more than just an over-shirt; the heat around here is humid and the foliage is no joke. And the bugs... ]

Dammit.

[ He scratches around his abs where round bumps have formed. Seems the local insects find the man irresistible. ]

[truetocaesar]

[Judging by how often Miguel compares Vulpes' comments to his mother's, Vulpes has to assume that Miguel's mother was an exceptionally moral person.]

If you insist.

[He doesn't react when the degenerate sits beside him, knowing better now than to let the man visibly annoy him. Vulpes very much intends to keep the upper hand around Miguel from now on.]

It's interesting that you should ask. In fact, I have had several of my men following you for the past few days.

[That's completely untrue, but it couldn't hurt to try and make Miguel a bit nervous.]

[devotedpawn]

[ The pawn nods at the suggestion. ]

That would be a decision most wise; however, I would not be able to assist should anything attack. This pawn's days of wielding a blade have long since passed.

[ Once the question is posed, Barnaby looks down at his gathering. He sifts through his herbs, pulling out one in particular to hold up. ]

There is the mithridate, though it is limited in its supply. I cannot make anything more potent; the herbs used to enhance the mithridate's curative abilities grow only in the canyons.

[pluginboy]

[Piko looks up from his spot on the jungle floor, hair clinging to his face from the sheer humidity of the air around him.]

It's really hot and...wet. [Placing a hand on his knee, Piko pulls himself up to his feet with a slight wobble. He doesn't appear all that apt on standing, but does so anyway.]

Do you know if there's anywhere...uh, normal?

[pluginboy]

[Piko looks up from his spot on the floor when he hears Leo calling his name. He definitely recognizes that voice, and he sounds close by.]

Mister Leo! [He looks around him, trying to spot the other man.] I'm over here...uh...by a big tree!

[perpetuallyexposedchest]

[Miguel stops just as he had been raising his food to his mouth.]

Following me?? [Angrily.] 'The hell are you--

[But then he stops; narrowing his eyes at the other man. He highly doubts that Vulpes has built up an alliance of 'several men' within this building.... right? Then again, Miguel himself knows that rallying men together isn't very hard- so long as they're well paid- or all unified in a single cause. He himself has organized a small resistance group against the Mishima Zaibatsu not too long ago- and Miguel hardly considers himself to be any big organizer or leader.]

[Cautiously;] ...Hnh..... Bullshit. I would have noticed.

[praisingsun]

Then I shall merely have to be more vigilant to make up the difference. [The armored knight nods his head, smiling brightly]

Mithridate? I've ne'er heard of it. Pray tell, have you come across any peculiar mosses? Particularly mosses colored blood red, violet or violet with white blooming flowers? I know the purple mosses as a potent anti-toxin whilst the red moss is useful to ebb the flow of blood.

[truetocaesar]

[In reality, his "alliance" is essentially limited to his friendship with Micheletto, his roommate. That's nothing to shrug about considering the size and abilities of the Italian assassin, but it's still less than what Miguel probably is imagining.]

Of course you wouldn't have. My allies are far too competent for that.

[He takes another calm bite of his food, behaving as one who had plenty of protection might behave around a potential enemy.]

But believe what you like... I simply prefer to keep an eye on those I don't trust.

[perpetuallyexposedchest]

....

[Reaching out, Miguel suddenly grabs Vulpes by the neck of his ridiculous hood; yanking it over towards himself as he forces the other man to look at him.] Whether you're telling the truth or not- That's nothing to joke about.

If I do catch any lapdogs of yours following me, I'm sending them back to you in body-bags. -And then I'm coming after you. Comprende?

[truetocaesar]

[Vulpes frowns as he's tugged by his hood, the suddenness of Miguel's action causing him to drop his fork.]

Is that right? But you don't really follow through with your threats... do you?

[He reaches up and wraps a hand around Miguel's wrist, allowing his fingers to dig into his skin roughly. If he can just find that one pressure point that'll make him let go...]

[perpetuallyexposedchest]

[Miguel's eyes narrow. Welp; he wasn't looking forward to eating food that looked like the inside of a horse's ass anyway.]

Is that a challenge..?

[As Vulpes digs his finger's into Miguel's wrist, it would seem that he has his answer. The Spaniard grits his teeth- but he doesn't let go until the other man suddenly presses a finger into the pressure-point of his wrist; causing Miguel to make a brief noise of surprise before letting go.] Gh-..!

[His response is immediate; suddenly reaching out with his free hand to knock Vulpes back with a swift MANLY SLAP across the face.]

[truetocaesar]

[While Vulpes isn't used to his opponents attacking him with a slap of all things, the force is still enough to nearly knock him out of his seat. He spits out some blood from where his teeth cut into the inside of his cheek, then swiftly rises to his feet, kicking his chair out of the way.]

I don't sit idly by when someone threatens me... even if they are a coward such as yourself.

[He doesn't particularly care if Miguel is bigger than him. Vulpes has a reputation to maintain. Allowing himself to be walked all over isn't part of that.]

[perpetuallyexposedchest]

[Miguel stands up as well; stepping away from the cafeteria table as he cracks his knuckles.]

I keep telling you not to test me, pendejo. Unfortunately for you, I've been having a bad couple of weeks.

[15 days... It's been 15 days since Miguel has even touched a bottle of booze. This is the longest he's been forced to go sober in quite some time. As such, he's been even more agitated than usual lately; which is probably one reason why he chose to intentionally make himself a bother just now.]

I could use a good excuse to vent some frustration.