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Kono Kalakaua ([personal profile] surf_n_makai) wrote2011-10-27 08:16 pm

2 (It came from the dairy aisle, Day 3)

[If the past couple of days hadn't been crazy enough, what with the few people she knew being... just off, and then that big red blob of disgusting cherry goo, today Kono gets a face full of gas on her way out to work this morning.]

[Action A - Zemekis Corp. Offices, morning]
[Kono's noticing by the time she gets to work that she's starting feel a little taller.  As the morning continues, she notices the coffee cup she continues to refill for whoever just called her "doll" is getting smaller and smaller in her hand.  She decides to go find non-drone employees to see if they are having the same problems.  If you're working today, you'll see a slowing growing Kono looking for answers.]



[Action B - 463 Stone Street, afternoon]
[Kono's sitting on her lawn, now too big to fit in a building.  She's trying to figure out a battle plan for what to do about this problem.  If you're walking or a neighbor, feel free to stop and talk, or possibly plan with her.]



[Action C - Highway, early evening]
[Kono figures here she's less likely to crush an unsuspecting person, and also dammit she's going to at least try to find a way out.  Maybe if she hits the border she'll turn back to normal.  If you're on the highway, feel free to tell her the plan won't work, or if you have a better idea to turn back, feel free to share.]

C

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-10-28 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[on the highway, there is a lilac-haired girl seemingly examining the spot where the blob had materialized the day before. The giant woman will get a brief glance before Yuki returns to staring at nothing in particular.]

Re: C

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 10:23 am (UTC)(link)


Hey, what're you looking at so closely?

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yuki glances up again slowly. ...She points. It is not at all helpful, considering she's pointing at a perfectly normal patch of land.]

There.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)


What's there? I don't see anything.

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
The area from which the previous day's incident initiated.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. You mean that horrible cherry blob thing? How do you know it started there?

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[The answer to that, like the answer to many things is, 'because she is Yuki'. Or, actually, usually silence. The tight-lipped wonder will allow a few more words to spill, though; perhaps it was because she was in intense analysis mode.]

An explosion occurred near this site at approximately 6:13:10 AM; the location was noted in initial investigation through the triangulation of points based on observed landmarks.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 02:19 am (UTC)(link)


So you're investigating what happened. That's a good idea, considering things seem to keep happening each day. Have you figured out any clues to what caused it yet?

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
...

[Yuki will lower her pointing hand, the act of which will hopefully draw attention to the site again. It's pretty nondescript.]

...No further data has been acquired.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 02:24 am (UTC)(link)


Hm. But hey, you have a start if you've figured out this is where everything started yesterday.

I'm Kono, by the way. Need any help?

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuki has never hidden her stiff emotionless nature well. It is only in Mayfield, though, that anyone would truly suspect her of being anything but human. She will turn her gaze to the giant girl and blink slowly.]

Yuki Nagato.

...........Your present state is non-conducive to assistance.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, my present state isn't conducive to much. Hey, you wouldn't know anything about the size changes would you?

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[The response this time comes quickly.]

They are impossible.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
They?

What do you mean, they? The things in the sky I keep hearing about?

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
The size changes.

All those who have been affected would not survive under Earth's atmospheric pressure.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-10-30 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
But it obviously is possible somehow, because I'm not usually this big. It shouldn't be, but it is.

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-10-31 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
That is so.

[She'll give up staring at the nondescript spot now and turn her attentions solely to the giant woman.]

It is of interest.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe more to me than you, since I'd like to go back to my regular size about now.

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuki stares silently at her in response for a few seconds before slowing shaking her head.]

Nothing can be done.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
And how are you so sure about that? No offense, but all I've seen you do is stare at the ground.

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
........
.....
...

[Kono might be too large to see Yuki's mouth clearly or hear the noise that resembles a tape being played in reverse. Nonetheless, Yuki will make her proclamation once more when she is finished.]

...I am sure. The town will likely remove its effects by the end of the day.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:39 am (UTC)(link)


So, you know, for sure, that I'll be back to normal at the end of the day.

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
No.

There is a chance of error. That is an observation made based on previous occurrences; none of the incidents utilizing stereotypical horror elements have lasted longer than a day.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
How big is the margin of error, you think?

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[This is not a quantifiable number.]

Plus or minus 5.392%.

[Yuki quantifies it anyway.]

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)


Ok. I think I can live with that. By the end of the night I'll be normal again.

I hope.

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-11-05 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
The probability that it will last for longer than a week is infinitesimally low.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-06 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I guess that's a relief then. Thanks. I'll leave you to... do your research then.

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-11-06 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuki will simply nod to that, though in all truth, her research was concluded with no data whatsoever.]

B - Fellow big neighbor here! (Hope you don't mind the backtag!)

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Turns out there's someone else on this street who grew to mecha size. And he looks like he ought to be a mecha! Seeing big!Kono sitting on her lawn a few houses away, Gat (carefully) heads on over.]

Howdy, ma'am.

[HIs voice has a mechanical echo to it, but he otherwise sounds like he could be just another human. A Texan one at that.]

Heh—guess bein' "large an' in charge" ain't all it's cracked up to be, ain't it?

[He's currently trying to negotiate the pedestrians and cars on the street. Even if most of them are drones, he clearly doesn't want to hurt any of them.]

Nope, no worries, backtagging's totally cool these days :)

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)


Howdy yourself. I'm personally hating the large part.

I'm Kono. You are...?

:D!

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Name's Falk Gatt, though you can jus' call me "Gat."

How've you been holdin' up today?

Re: :D!

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's been kinda crazy. I mean, there was the cherry goo yesterday, and the day before that people were just acting weird. And now I'm 30 feet tall. Never a dull moment around here, huh?

How about you, Gat?

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Gat inclines his head slightly.]

So far, this's been th' only time this week that somethin's affected me personally. Town didn't replace me with one of them clones, an' I was able to keep from gettin' taken by that slime.

[He glances to the side for a moment.]

It's sure been merciful compared to th' things I've seen 'em do in th' past few months, though.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 12:37 am (UTC)(link)


So I keep hearing. Something about zombies. I'll take being 30 feet to being a zombie, that's for sure.

I'm trying to come up with an idea on how to switch back, though. Any ideas?

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, there was some kinda viral outbreak last month. Organic folks who contracted it got widespread necrosis an' started tryin'a eat everybody else.

[He pauses, remembering how quick Dakki succumbed to it after being bitten.]

As for reversin' this growth spurt ...

[Gat strokes his "chin" with a thumb and forefinger.]

Well, I ain't too sure. I reckon we could just wait it out, if'n it's going to be like th' past two days an' things'll be back to normal come tomorrow.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
I guess we can wait it out, but I'm not so good at waiting.



I'm not seeing too many other options though. Other than try to leave, but that doesn't work.

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Gat takes on a morbid, and somewhat skeptical tone. Like he doesn't feel comfortable with what he's about to say.]

There's one thing that might work, but I ain't gonna suggest riskin' it.

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks more directly at Kono. Or it seems like he is, the way he turns his head slightly.]

Anybody tell ya about th' Post Office?

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that I can regain stuff there, but it's a bad idea because I have to give something up. Like a thumb or a memory. Why?

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Well—if'n this growth is an affliction caused by th' town that can be given up, maybe it'd be possible to go to th' Postman an' ask for 'em to take it.

[Gat rubs the back of his neck.]

But there ain't no guarantee he'd do that for ya, or—given his inclination—that he'd do it just how you want it.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 01:48 am (UTC)(link)


You know, maybe waiting it out isn't such a bad idea.

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Gat nods.]

Far as incidents go, it ain't been all that bad, so that's what I'd suggest.

[He glances down for a moment, at one of his hands.]

'Specially considerin' how this could've gone.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)


I'm guessing you've been through worse here, haven't you?

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gat looks back up to Kono, rubbing the back of his helmeted head as he responds.]

Yeah—when me an' my coworker first arrived here in th' town a few months back, th' Milkman at th' Mayfield Dairy took over as Chief of Police. He made it a law to drink a bottle of his milk each day—an' we're talkin' milk that's either poisoned, fulla fazors or spiders, or psychoactive chemicals.

If'n you didn't, he'd turn somebody in th' family into a drone for a day. Only that person would have murder on their minds.

[A beat.]

That's what he did to me, after we'd tried jus' not drinkin' any.

[identity profile] surf-n-makai.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)


Wow. I'm sorry you went through that. Did you...

Nevermind, it's ok. I'm glad it wasn't permanent, or we'd have a problem. But I'm sorry anyway.

[identity profile] nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[As a Guardian who's assisted the military and police on multiple occasions, Gat has an idea of what Kono meant to ask.]

Naw, it ain't no thing. I didn't kill anybody. My coworker neutralized me before I could do any real harm.

[Never going to forget what it feels like to have a frying pan to the face. Then having to wait for the body to heal naturally.]