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[horrible_phd]

Who: Billy, Bret?, innocent bystanders
What: Dropping things. For science wizardry!
When: Thursday afternoon.
Where: A tower near the city center

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[weedyshyguy]

Bret raised his eyebrows. It was the best he could do to show amusement at the moment. He didn't feel like smiling. But it was kind of funny.

"Sure, you go ahead." Bret wasn't all that excited about going near the edge anyway.

While he waited for Billy to take his turn, he took his egg and, without thinking, drew glasses on it. His stomach dropped and he turned the glasses into square eyes, and soon he had a robot-egg. Actually, he felt a little less weird about dropping something that didn't look like a person anyway, so that worked.

[weedyshyguy]

Bret looked up, surprised. He held Penny's gaze for a moment, feeling vulnerable and obvious and not entirely comfortable with the idea of everyone being able to see what he was going through. Well, maybe not what it was, but that it was. That he wasn't happy or musical or anything that made him normal.

Maybe Penny was just especially insightful. But it still made him feel weak.

"No," he finally admitted, "Not really. But I'll live." It was the most he could be sure of at that point.

[horrible_phd]

While Bret was talking to Penny, Billy got up and approached the edge of the tower and looked down, muttering, "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall..." He knew he wasn't the best at making people feel better.

He held the egg, focused as hard as he could on wanting it to survive the fall. "Humpty Dumpty had a great fall..." He let go, and something exited failed to happen. He turned back to the others.

"Well, that was a bust. Like, literally. I guess I'll try something else."

[weedyshyguy]

Bret gave Penny a small nod. It was nice of her to offer, even if he couldn't quite agree that everything would be okay. He hadn't seen Jemaine in a week. It seemed so unlikely that anything could ever be okay. But it was a nice thought, certainly.

Cautiously, he made his way to the edge and peered over. He managed to keep from murmuring, 'OhGodohGodohGodohGod', and frowned at the remains of the egg on the ground. "Um. Let me try."

Giving his egg an apologetic look (because maybe it was a sentient robot) he dropped it over the side. Don't break. Don't break. Don't break. Grabbing onto the ledge a bit too enthusiastically, he watched it fall-- and dissolve into a pile of something shiny just before it hit the ground. He squinted down at it. Coins? "Oh. That worked."

[fixdpointintime]

Jack flinched just a little when one renegade rebound coin bounced off the ground and hit him in the eye. Come down to ground level for ten minutes and start getting attacked from above. He looked up into a familiar bearded face and waved. "You could have just called."

Jack bent down and swept the pile of coins together, scooping them up in his hands and depositing them in a pocket. He did this a few times together everything up, then picked up the stragglers with his fingers. The small group of children that seemed to follow him wherever he went were now staring up at the Wizards with no small amount of awe. Jack dropped the last of the dremlin into the hand of one of the oldest. "Go buy some sugar and torment your parents for a while."

Candy proved to be a greater draw than worldwalkers, and they scattered while Jack headed into the building and up the stairs.