Podpop!

[cityship]

[ooc: Newbie Helpers List | Instructions: Post your character with one post establishing them as being podpopped. Tag each other in groups of 2's, 3's, and 4's, to get some interaction to start with. If a thread doesn't already have 2 or 3 people tagged in, tag it with your character's podpop popping near the other people, rather than making a

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[myboggartismoon]

His first thought was that he had lost control, that he had failed to hide himself appropriately, that perhaps he had caused some grievous harm --

But not. This was surely nowhere he knew, town or forest or anything. And the full moon hadn't been close. So what -- where?

When he spoke those questions aloud, answers came -- so to speak. And a trail appeared, even as he patted about his goopy, naked body with evident alarm.

"I need my wand."

[helipack_jack]

Nearby, someone was taking this much less serenely.

"Oh no. No. Not this again, I already did this once!" a boy's voice yelled.

"THIS ISN'T FAIR, STACY! DO YOU HEAR ME?!"

[myboggartismoon]

Serene? Oh no. All the panic was simply on the inside. As much as this situation didn't seem Dark, the same survival strategies apply.

"Pardon me," he said with as much politeness as he could muster in this situation. "May I ask if you understand what is going on?"

Their mutual nudity, he stoically ignored.

[helipack_jack]

The young man was pale, with a shock of red hair and dark, scowling eyes. He wiped a slick of pod slime from his face on his forearm with evident disgust, then spat more of the same to the floor.

"Yeah, yeah. I don't know why I'm down here again, I already did this before."

He looks up at the ceiling again. "HEAR THAT STACY? ALREADY DID IT! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A ONE TIME DEAL, RIGHT?"

Again, she did not answer. Jack scowled more deeply. "Okay new guy, that's Stacy. Lesson one: She's never around when you want her."

[unicornjesus]

Aljan slid from the pod with a soft "oof" as he hit the faintly spongey ground. Almost instantly, he'd gathered his hooves under him and was up, rearing and whinnying in alarm.

The ship's message did nothing to calm him. He didn't recognize this voice, this "Stacy". It was not the voice of Alma, or the red magicker Jah-lila. There was a lifelessness in its tone, automatic and unfeeling that jarred with the rush of mother's love it gave him.

"There must be some mistake, Stacy," he called out, fly-whisk tail tossing nervously. "If there is danger to my people, they need me among them. I must go home!"

There was no answer, only the softly glowing trail of lights on the floor of this strange cave, unlike any Jan had ever seen.

The dark unicorn tossed his head to throw his dripping forelock from his eyes and, after taking a moment to examine the bizarre fleshy thing that had expelled him, set out warily along the muggy corridor. There was nowhere else for him to go.

[makeherblue]

By now the Doctor has got his slime legs under him for the most part. They're still wobbly just a little bit but he can navigate now without slipping and sliding and that's what counts. Sitting back near "his" pod won't get anything done. As soon as he gets his slime legs, the Doctor is up and about, investigating some of the pods that still have occupants (probably best not to touch those for now, there's simply some processes you don't rush without knowing how they work) and poking at some of the remnants of the others that did pop. They're very gloopy. And green.

And they also don't look or smell like anything he's seen before. Basically, he still doesn't know where they are. The Doctor is about to check out another pod when he hears what sounds like a whinny. Was that a horse?

Actually, it's a unicorn, the Doctor finds out as he peers around an unopened pod. A black unicorn, clopping down the corridor. Either he knows exactly where he's going or he wants to know exactly where he's going. That's good enough for the Doctor. He

[unicornjesus]

(Gonna use the thread below if that's alright? :D)

[makeherblue]

[That's plenty all right. The one with Kanaya? Should I delete my post and repost it in that thread?]

[justoutrunyou]

Sandy was confused...she was scared, and worst of all she had no where to run.

Suppressing a tremble she ran her fingers through her hair a few times compulsively and suddenly wished she had Kasey's hat back. Or any hat. A hat was important right now for reasons that were completely pointless.

Champion? Protector? Stacy had picked up the wrong girl that was for sure. Unless there was a race she was no champion. And the only person she'd ever been any good at protecting was herself.

"This is so messed up..." She muttered quietly for what might have been the fifth, seventh or tenth time. Because frankly it was difficult to process much more then that. She'd already been having a pretty terrible day before waking up here.

[kaboomed]

Coconut didn't remember putting together any weird human-sized cocoons, let alone encasing herself in one of them, but here she was -- naked and covered in some kind of protective slime, having just burst out of a chrysalis. She stood up, shaking despite the warmth, and looked around. "Eevee? Grandpa...?"

No, the only person nearby was an unfamiliar girl. "Um... hello?"

[justoutrunyou]

At first Sandy didn't realize Coconut was talking to her and when she did even then it took a minute to plot out an answer. This was such a sudden shift in tone for her location wise did people still greet each other normally or was there some weird scifi hello like on T.V.

"Um...hi." She settled on a impeccably understated and in her own mind lame return of the greeting still covering herself uncomfortably. Being naked was just another great reason to hate today.

[kaboomed]

At least it was another girl. Coconut didn't have to worry about a boy seeing her naked before she could even get Almond to look her way.

"Hi," she repeated, then realized she'd basically already said that. "Did... was it just me, or was there a voice just now...?"

[brustriese]

Signum wakes up gasping, disoriented, and feeling mildly disgusting. That sudden break in memory, that lurching feeling...it felt almost like dying, except she'd never woken up quite so confused after dying. Nor should she be able to wake up at all after doing so, not anymore.

She centers her mind, casting off the instinctual fear and natural confusion of her state to look around, assess where she was - the impression was one of not so much more than the inside of an enormous creature's nostril, but she dismissed the shape as too clearly artificial. She was naked, could not feel Laevatein either on her person or mentally close, and it seemed there were other humans - humanoids, anyway - nearby.

She's dropped into a semi-crouching position, ready to sprint for cover, when she starts to hear the voice in her head. Used to magical communication like this, she cants her head curiously, but does not seem any less defensive while she listens, carefully, to Stacy's standard greeting and decides whether or not to believe it...

[wontendlikethis]

Arf had no idea what was going on, but as she looked around she spied a familiar figure. That was at least comforting. Without any reservation whatsoever, she quickly ran towards her.

"Signum! That's you, right? What's going on?" she blurted out, her words coming out so quickly that they nearly bled together a bit.

[brustriese]

We're unarmed, naked, and covered in something horrible in an unknown place. In other words, I know exactly as much as you do.

...weren't you at the central fleet office?

[wontendlikethis]

"Yeah, that's what I figured..." Arf trailed off, feeling a bit stupid about even asking.

"I was at the Infinity Library with Yuuno last thing I remember."

[memorystringzzz]

Waking up from her naps never felt this gross, and she never woke up naked. Jade was already kinda used to waking up in weird places. It came with her tendency to just fall asleep wherever or whenever, even if Bec usually managed to get her back to her bed. This, however, was way different.

She had a hard time seeing - her lack of glasses really didn't help her much, the caverns were blurry at best - but she was pretty sure this wasn't the Medium! She could hear other people moving around, and none of them sounded like her friends

[turntimetables]

Wait, was that...

"Jade? Shit, Jade?" Dave hadn't really expected to see any of his friends here, but it was unmistakably her. Her and her fucking beast-thing. She hadn't taken his advice about the shed and the gun after all.

Oh well, there was more important stuff to worry about.

[memorystringzzz]

Why would she take that advice? Bec was a good dog and her best friend! But anyway, she heard Dave's voice and promptly tried to cover herself up, partially using Bec as a shield.

"Dave? Is that you??"

[turntimetables]

"Yeah. Hey," OK that sounded kind of stupid, but how cool could you be naked and covered in slime? OK, Bro could probably pull it off but Dave wasn't exactly up to that kind of cool yet.

Dave was pretty sure that Jade didn't need to see any little boy peens, but didn't exactly have a way to cover himself up, aside from moving his arm "nonchalantly" (in massive sarcasm quotes) in front of his crotch, which he went ahead and did. He also took care to avert his eyes from her, although he was grateful for the dog for once. Made it less awkward.

"Man, shit, I was gonna ask what's going on but I think that'd be a really stupid question."