COSTUMING DAY~♥
Who: Excel (excel_sama) and anyone else who wants to join
What: Excel (and others) go shopping for a masquerade costume.
When: 15 minutes after this.
Where: Meeting place in the garden, then to town to look at costume shops.
Rating: We'll start with G for now.
( The truth was Excel lied about the coupons. )
What: Excel (and others) go shopping for a masquerade costume.
When: 15 minutes after this.
Where: Meeting place in the garden, then to town to look at costume shops.
Rating: We'll start with G for now.
( The truth was Excel lied about the coupons. )
"Nope," she said bluntly. Honestly, what was this woman so seemingly worried about? She then noted Lois studying the bicycle. Was THAT the cause of her big concern? She had to wonder if bicycles were non-existent wherever Lois came from.
"For the record," Excel said, swinging her leg over the pedals. "You don't have to actually do all the pedaling. Just sit in the seat and hold on." After a while, Lois finally shrugged and took her seat behind Excel. "Right! Onward!" She hopped up onto the other pedal and they were off, maintaining a steady speed within seconds. Excel thanked Ilpalazzo for her strong legs. All that running away from workplace disasters was good for something after all.
It wasn't too long before her riding companion asked her what ACROSS was. Excel wasted no time in her answer.
"That is confidential information." When asked why so, she turned her head for a few moments to answer. "I'm only doing wha--AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
If Excel had been watching where she was going, she would have remembered their pathway involved a steep hill.
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She just knew bicycles were uncivil!
"Don't these things have brakes?!" Hell, even the taxi's did, not that it seemed to matter much most the time!
But that was really the least of Lois's concerns given how they were hurtling downward and there were three probably places they would end up:
Plastered to a wall.
On the ground.
In the water.
The last only occurred to her as they neared the hill's bottom and she sighted the break in the buildings which led to the --- she didn't know what it was. Lois had never studied city geography!
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"A genius idea," she said and gripped the handlebars as quickly as she could...which was again probably not the smartest thing to do. The bike came to a halt, but the speed of the stop lurched both the girls and the body of the bike forward and suspended them all in midair. Excel (who still hadn't let go of the brake) now felt as if she were on a unicycle. She saw Lois hanging onto the seat for dear life and was about to comment on something when the bike fell back towards its normal position. Excel finally let go of the handlebar after it connected with her stomach and landed on her back, to which the bike then made itself comfortable on her body.
"Ow...dear Ilpalazzo-sama, you'll be happy to know I'm still alive but in excruciating pain. It's from here that I've come to the conclusion that I'm very grateful automobiles apparently don't exist here. Otherwise I might also be in excruciating embarrassment."
Making sure no parts of her body were caught in anything, she kicked the bicycle off her and dusted herself off. Completely forgetting (or ignoring) the fact that she really hadn't been watching where she was going, she muttered something about an old man cursing the bike and threw it into a nearby ditch. Now to look for that reporter girl.
"Lane-san," she called. "Where did you go?" A groan and a disheveled figure stumbling behind her told her she didn't have to look very far. Excel gathered their belongings and then had the woman lean on her for support. Noting they were not too far from the city, she turned to Lois.
"Lane-san, shopping may have to wait. You look like you're about to faint or maybe drop dead, so let's find a hospital." Hoisting Lois's arm over her shoulder, the two of them began to walk towards the city. Excel went over what they should do in her mind.
"I'll find some nice dresses at the morgue or something while the doctor patches her up," she thought.
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Still, pretending to be worse off than she was in actuality seemed to guarentee said visit to a hospital.
Even if the idea, while true, was at odds with the strange city they were in now. Even when they stumbilingly found the hospital, she wasn't entirely convinced of the incongruities. Who was responsible for the technological and societal gaps? And why would they perpetuate discrepancies.
"Oh dear, do you need help?" The woman was about as distantly friendly as anyone else in town, in a far too ah... interesting nurse uniform than should be considered proper. Lois groaned, rubbed her forehead.
"Just a bit of an accident..."
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"Oh you poor things!" The nurse said upon hearing Lois's explanation. Her sudden perkiness was a complete 180 from the rather drone common courtesy she showed earlier, which made Excel unconsciously step back a little. The nurse walked behind the girls and gave them a gentle push towards the hallway. "You're all scratched up. It must have been quite an accident. Come now, let's get you to our doctor."
'Doctor?' As in one? This hospital looked big enough to be in need of more than one doctor working.
"I think all we need are a few bandages," Excel said, for some unexplainable reason growing more and more nervous.
"Nonsense," the nurse replied. Her tone suddenly became forceful.
[OOC: Sorry for the beyond late reply. D: ]
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The nurse frowned, before smiling brightly and looking appropriately concerned. "You're right? What was I thinking? Just wait here a moment, dears, I'll be right back." She turned and headed down one of the halls, just as Lois waited until she was out of earshot before choosing to talk to Excel.
"What could possibly have prompted that much change?" She didn't expect an answer, but she waited anyway.
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Without waiting for a response, she put on her "thinking face" and poked at her forehead, as if trying to poke a hole into her skull. "It could very well be that Paradisa City is actually economically unstable, which in turn has greatly affected this hospital and caused the dwindling of patients. Howeveeerrr, given the eerie circumstances of our current place of residence, I'm thinking she could be under mind control from a sinister group making illegal experiments that could very well turn us into cannibal zombies."
Excel wisely decided it would be better to not mention the more morbid ideas she had.
"In other words, I have no idea. BUT, I know that in able to accomplish the goals of ACROSS for our new world order, I am to investigate and hopefully eliminate all forms of humanity-menacing corruptions."
She made sure the nurse was still nowhere in sight before turning to Lois. "What do you think?"
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