[FIELD TRIP] Indirect Visual Stimuli pg. 28: CLASS OVER

[prolixity]

Ah, fun time with the old human was over. The little hint of fear from the human's panicky flailing had been delicious, but someone had rescued both Selene and the human. And the ghoul who'd jumped in after them. Nahm spent a moment eyeballing her. Nice.

When the commotion was over, though, he went back to Shine, because Shine seemed to feel better when she had someone to cling to, and Nahm had no qualms about enjoying being clung to. "Ready for more adventures?" he inquired cheerfully.

The bright lights at the movie theater made him wince and pull the hood of his sweatshirt further over his face. With the form-altering pin on, he didn't have to worry about the light burning him - and wasn't that an interesting development, one he'd have to look into for future consideration, because he was proud of his cultural heritage but sometimes the necessity of wearing the robes at all times was just plain inconvenient - but the reflex of keeping away from brightness was deeply ingrained. Anyway, he just plain didn't like all this flashy light. Was the human world always this bright?

The smell of food distracted him, and he licked his lips thoughtfully. "Shine, you hungry?" he inquired, and moved to take some of the human money that Selene was passing out, the paper with the number 100 printed on it. Was that 100 seeds, or 100 seed slices? If it was 100 seeds, then they might actually be able to get some decent amounts of food with it - no, wait, movie theater. Did human world theaters inflate prices like Halloween theaters did?  

[Sexy Cocaine]

Riyo propped the shovel up against her and plugged her ears as Poke began to scream, only daring to remove them when the ghoul turned attention towards her.

Oh. Yeah. She was holding the shovel that conked the ghoul out, huh?

"Well. Time for me to make like a tree and get the hell outta here!" She might've messed up the quote a little, but at least she cracked a smile before trying to dart off in heels... Then falling on her face much like the teacher had done. Hnngh. The only thing that hurt was her pride. Okay maybe a little bit more than her pride.

Pales

poke mattix

 

[Duke of Donut]

Once Selene came through, the group had begun to move en masse through the city. Steffani tried in vain to focus on her brief explanations as they went, but all of the sights -- and, let's face it, the gripping fear that something would go terrible wrong -- were an unpleasant distraction. She made sure to drag Lark after her more as a method of protection than comfort, and even reached back at one point to ensure that Eldrid was following along, too. She didn't want to just leave the poor boil behind! Especially not here. D:

They got to the theater fairly quickly, and Steffani shuffled in with the throng, looking around and grimacing at the bright poppy colors of the snack bar. No thx. Grasping her ticket, she looked over at Lark and Eldrith, smiling a bit. "Going to get something? If not, we should probably go find good seats."

This part, she wasn't too worried about. It was a movie! What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

pinchmonster

Nerpin

 

[Eight]

A movie! A moviiiiie! Yaaaaaaay! This was so exciting. Jurassic Park 3D? What movie was that? And...what kind of paper was this? It was weird and had a face and numbers all over it. Did humans eat this? "Efflo look, this man has no hair on the top of his head! He looks silly." Sibyl giggled and pointed at him. Maybe if she had a pen she could give him hair! Was that it? This was an assignment? Design an old man's hair! Yay! Except she saw others giving the paper to the boils and ghouls behind the snack counter, Gabby included. Oh...it was..currency? Weird.

"Gabby, Gabby! Look! This man has no--" Eh? She blinked, watching Gabby grab Efflo, stick his tongue out at her and growl something before walking away...without her. Her smile fell. Wh..what? Why did he do that? Did she do something wrong? Was he mad at her?! Why was he mad at her?! Did this mean he wouldn't love her anymore?! What had she done?! She looked down at the paper money in her hand with a little frown, pocketing it and making her way toward the theater auditorium. She peeked around the corner and searched for Gabby and Efflo, finding them in the back as they'd been told to do. That giant popcorn was in the seat beside Gabby, too. Normally she would make the logical assumption it was a seat being saved for her but not when she thought Gabby was mad and didn't love her anymore. This was good though. Gabby looked happy which was all she wanted for any of her friends, right?

Maybe she should give him some time. She could go get her own snacks! Was human food any good? Sibyl quietly snuck out of the theater again to return to the concessions counter, looking over the huge board of options. Some of this smelled weird, some of it looked weird. "I waaaaaant..that frozen drink! The blue one! Annnnnd...Swedish fish? Gimme lots of those!" She slapped her money down on the counter with a huge smile. The boil grimaced.

"You too? What the hell is this some kind of joke?!" Why were these kids coming to him with these huge bills!? He was tempted to write out a sign saying no bills over 20! He sighed, preparing her Icee and grabbing ten bags of Swedish fish for the girl. "Here you go, that'll be--hey! Your change!"

Sibyl had gathered everything up in her arms and wandered off. What were Swedish fish? They looked tiny and red..were they filled with blood? That sounded weird. Sibyl didn't mind blood but she preferred some meat, not just packets of blood. Maybe she'd just bought vampire treats...oops. Were there any vampires here? Sibyl returned to the theater and looked around. Selene had said not to go up front, but Gabby was mad at her for some reason or another...decisions.  

[poke mattix]

Having fully prepared to payback Riyo for her supposed 'thwack'. Poke was about to give chase when the feline (and figure out what the heck she'd been saying) when Riyo tripped over her own shoes.

"...."

It was kinda hard to get into a predator/prey chase when your prey...defeated themselves.

With no other ideas coming to mind, the dragon ghoul bent down and started poking Riyo in the side of her ribcage.

Sexy Cocaine

Pales

 

[Pales]

Akubi stared thoughtfully between Poke and Riyo and then watched as one ran off and did a nice little face plant. He tilted his head as he meandered over and knelt down, "It is not nap time it is walk time, maybe you missed it," he grinned as he gave her a little pat-pat on the head and then shifted to tug her back on her feet again or at least try to before he moved on.

At least he wasn't leaving her on the ground to wallow in her shame. Maybe he wanted to bask in it a while.

"Let's go, let's go," he announced, he didn't try too hard to get her on her feet but he did try before he just got up and moved along. Movies? Sure why not. He took that weird green stuff from the professor and bought a packet of weird looking worm-like gummies and simply left the person behind the register staring at him. They said something that he didn't quite catch and he merely handwaved. Were they complimenting his lovely black eye?

Thanks. Riyo made it just for him.

Sexy Cocaine

poke mattix

 

[Sexy Cocaine]

All Riyo could really do was grumble and hiss when Poke poked back. Really, she was just grateful the ghoul hadn't thought of worse methods of torture.

"I'm not napping, you a**." The feline said lowly, but apparently wasn't above accepting the help. Her knees were scraped, she looked a little disheveled, and her shirt wasn't nearly as white as it had started out... But she still had her shovel.

The walk was quietly observed, her thoughts and emotions on the matter kept to herself. Such a dull night life these humans had. At least their theatre looked kinda cool.

"Yoink." She snatched one of the bills for herself and began examining it. Sniffing it. Such an odd odor. Probably didn't taste much better. When she reached the register, the employee seemed to give her a once over.

"You look like you've been busy." The male gestured down to her bruised knees with a grin.

"You look like you need to shut the ******** up and serve me, peasant. I want to purchase your strange fish-shaped confectionery." The ghoul slammed her fist on the counter and gave him a death stare until she was shakily handed the bright blue box. In turn, she placed the green paper down and waited for the transaction to finish. When the change was handed, she practically ripped it from his hands. Oooo. They had faces on their coins.

When she turned around, she stared in awe at the box of cute little red fish. She didn't realize how happy finding fish flavored candy in this world would make her.

poke mattix

Pales

 

[chirigami]

Shuffle shuffle shuffle. And then Olivia lost the second hand, her own groping mid air for what Andrew pulled away since her eyes were looking elsewhere. Well, she could kind of feel why Andrew would have pulled it away, now that she too felt the perspiration on the palm of her hand (at least the rest of the room hadn't affected her as of yet). An odd sensation, usually any sort of liquid on her persons was from a third party and not her own. She brushed her own hand on the folds of her skirt and then held it back out. And nothing happened.

Olivia frowned, then turned from the posters (at least she was done looking at them, an almost complete circle), well Molan had gotten her pleading look right at least. That brought a smile back, but he was also shoving a large tub at Andrew. Well, now none of them could hold hands at this rate!

(Jericho's complaint of food caught her ears at this time)

"Shall we go get seats?" The wight suggested, with little much else to do really. And their hands were all occupied, but hey they could at least all sit together now.

Raja

phantompanther13

 

[phantompanther13]

“Jack, Molan.” Andrew caught the popcorn with his temporarily freed hand. It was meant to go back to Olivia but now, he glanced between his now occupied hand and Olivia’s before tossing Molan a scowl. “My name is Andrew, one and two, I already have my own.” His tail would have burned in annoyance and swished. As it was he could only glare uncomfortably. Even so he impulsively snuggled against the warm from the bucket. It was so much better than outside. “Why did you get it if you didn’t want it? You didn’t have to buy anything.” He grumbled and then realized what Olivia said.

“Oh sure.” She seemed to be done looking at posters. Andrew tossed her a happy smile, wondering what exactly the class had come to do. He doubted they were really just watching a movie. But either way this field trip was already pretty fun, despite Molan’s annoying presence.

chirigami

Raja

 

[Nio Love]

Efflo's answer was reassuring, but Gabby had already started to settle off of his bad mood, and he just managed to get comfortable when Sibyl entered the theatre. Gabby reached for his popcorn, but she.. left.

"What the hell." He whispered under his breath, turning to give Efflo a confused look. He waited until she returned, laden with snacks, and looking for a seat.. that wasn't the one he'd saved her. "What the hell." He repeated, picking up his popcorn and slamming his boot down on the seat. "SIBYL."

And this was how best friends saved seats.

Loudly.

Eight

sammpai

 

[Eight]

She nearly dropped her snacks when she heard her name shouted over the crowd in the theater, the sudden call making her jump. Eh!? WH-what? Oh. It was Gabby. Right. Yes. He...uh..?

...Was he saving that seat for her? She blinked, making we way up the stairs and flopping down in the seat Gabby's foot was on. She may have sat on his foot too. "Sorries. I was looking for you~." Sibyl lied with a grin before she carefully set her frozen drink in the seat's cup holder and dropped the boxes of swedish fish all over her lap and the seat. "Humans package their fishies weird...I wonder why they're in boxes." How were they not leaking? Or at the very least why didn't they smell like rotten fish?

She looked up at Gabby again, then at Efflo, then at Gabby. "Did I do something wrong?" She asked the dragon boil, looking worried. "I thought you were mad at me."

Nio Love

Sammpai

 

[mare]

The misunderstanding was all his fault but Efflo couldn't bring himself to tell Sibyl that. He just sank lower in his chair when she glanced at him, wanting to be small again. He didn't let go of Gabby's hand, but he'd let the grumpy dragon field this one.

Eight

Nio Love

 

[Nio Love]

"Liar." He called her out, wrapping his other arm around her shoulders. "You weren't looking for me at all. And yes. I'm a little mad. But I'll get over it. Eventually."

Now there was no room for his popcorn box but his lap, which was where it perched, mysteriously staying up. He was obviously really good at balancing.

"All right. Both of you shut up, get to snuggling, and maybe when this movie is over I'll like you both again." He pursed his lips as tightly as he could, to keep from smiling. In the end, he just looked constipated.

sammpai

Eight

 

[Eight]

"Totally was!" Sibyl protested, pouting at Gabby for a second until she finally sighed and gave up. "You're right, I'm sorry." She sighed. She didn't like Gabby being mad, especially when she didn't know what she did. But he was holding her! Yay!

She blinked. Shut up and get to snuggling? Well..okay! She couldn't argue with those demands! Sibyl smiled again and curled up on her seat to lean against Gabby with a happy noise. "You don't hate uuuuus." She teased, sticking her tongue out at Gabby while she opened up her first box of Swedish fish.

"Fishy?" She offered the two boils, pouring what she had been assuming would be real fish into her hand. Instead a handful of weird looking red things came out that were most definitely not fish. Sibyl made the most unhappy face. "This..is candy...?"

Humans are weird.

Nio Love

Sammpai