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st_ackeddeck ([personal profile] st_ackeddeck) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2019-04-01 01:22 pm

GP: April Fools!

It didn't take any sort of precognitive abilities to predict some kind of shenanigans on the first of April. Many of the people stuck in the bubble world of the Madonna Inn were from times and places where April Fools' Day pranks were normal, expected... (in many cases) minor annoyances. And then there were the residents who remembered the strange egg hunt from a year ago, and the sometimes confusing explanations of the two holidays falling on the same day and how that related.

Also, life at the inn could be interminable. After a while, people started hoping for some kind of strangeness to happen, just to break up the monotony of being trapped in a kitschy no-snow globe.

So, no. You didn't have to be a mutant fortune teller to expect some kind of joke being pulled. But Emma was, and even she had no idea what was coming, other than it was going to be frustrating and topsy-turny, and the visions she'd been getting from the tarot – and way more reversals than was usual or healthy in her experience – were even less clear than usual.

She definitely didn't foresee waking up without the powers that were as much a part of her as her heart. Or just as suddenly having powers she had no idea how to control. But she did, and she had*, and she was far from the only one. The same thing was happening to people all around the inn.

(*Not to worry. The singe marks should be gone in a day or so. Right?)

[Powers swap GP! Tag in. Tag around. It's a time for out and about at the inn coping (or not) with powers gained (or lost).]
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Re: Rocket & Mia

[personal profile] st_ripetail 2019-04-04 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Rocket couldn’t help smiling back, a bit, then offered the glass he’d been sipping to her. “Try this. ‘S called a Long Island Iced Tes. You like it, I’ll make you one’a your own. You don’t, we’ll try somethin’ else.”
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Re: Rocket & Mia

[personal profile] st_artfeeling 2019-04-04 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
She took a sip of the offered drink and began to cough as it burned down her throat. Her eyes watered a little bit, too. "Curious." But after the sensations quieted, Mia found that she actually liked the taste of it. She handed it back to Rocket, "I'll take one of those."
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Re: Rocket & Mia

[personal profile] st_ripetail 2019-04-05 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
“Sure thing.” As with his own, Rocket used exclusively top shelf stuff fir Mua’s Drink, mostly because he could reach the top shelves. It was an easy drink to make, so inside of a minute or two, Mia had her own Long Island Iced Tea. “You’re probably gonna wanna go a bit slow,” he warned her. “Booze can hit hard when you ain’t used to it.” He was very used to it, but Mia wasn’t used to anything.
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Re: Rocket & Mia

[personal profile] st_artfeeling 2019-04-06 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
This time Mia's sip was more tentative and truly a sip. "are you drinking because the inn made you human? Or are you only taking advantage of the opportunity, like me?"
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Re: Rocket & Mia

[personal profile] st_ripetail 2019-04-10 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Nah, I drink a lot anyway." Rocket shrugged. "I like bein' able to reach the shelves, though. Gonna miss that shit when I go back ta bein' me."
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Re: Rocket & Mia

[personal profile] st_artfeeling 2019-04-11 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Mia's brow furrowed, not realizing that it had. "They should put some shelves down low so that you can reach them and put the alcohol that you prefer there as well."