Exercise in Futility - OTA - Backdated to April 24 Dawn

[st_arknaked]

He was deep in the jungle when the warm humidity became cool and crisp and the dark earthy smell suddenly held a hint of salt and sea. Midnight became brighter, the sharp sliver of new moon suddenly large and ripe and more than half way to full.

It disoriented him, the wolf immersed in the hunt and the night and the man deep within who registered the shock and then the anger as he shifted back to human form and recognized where he was. The far outskirts of the world of the inn was dry and spare and seemed neverending until you found yourself dumped back where you began and he knew with the awareness of an animal that where he had been was a long way off.

And so were his pants.

He swore viciously, not sure what made him angrier the loss of a pair of pants or that the other world hadn't afforded him a way home. That it had in fact been a sop, from whoever was holding them here, to make them feel less like prisoners. And that for a short while it had worked.

He wandered the emptiness, then the woods as he worked his way back to the inn, the wolf hunting for... what he didn't know. Restless and pacing like a caged animal more than really searching for anything specific.

Then as dawn broke he found his feet on the well manicured lawn of the inn, shifting back to human form as he made his was wearily to his room.

[ooc: When the other world went away at midnight he got dumped back in the little world of the inn and he's annoyed. He also has no pants. He isn't really concerned by his nudity but please feel free to notice.]

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[captaincorsair]

Yasmeen had been in bed with Raleigh when the world-door closed. In fact, she only knew of it now, because she'd risen early intending to go find new work from Sar Peou. When she got to 137, the door was locked and no longer glowing. She could pick the lock of course, but she figured she'd find one of the science types and ask what had happened. Somehow, they always seemed to know.

Kitty, head down over a pile of scrap metal, confirmed for her that access to Songrun had been cut off, and then returned to her work without saying anything else. Yasmeen didn't press; Kitty's reaction to being trapped again was none of her concern. Raleigh's reaction...could wait until she'd processed her own. On the run. As far as she could go, for as long as she could be gone.

She'd barely made it out the door before she found Dyson, buck naked, and looking like she felt. "Songrun steal your pants along with your hope?" she said, a faint growl of fuck-this-place in her tone.

[st_oh_honestly]

It was early, but not so early that Dot wasn't up and about. She had to be to make fresh bread and muffins for breakfast. Not that she minded, the good lord knew she worked in far better conditions now than she ever had before Miss Phryne. Early morning baking was easier than early mass, not that Dot would ever admit that to her mother.

Walking toward the main building she found herself face to.. uh face with one very naked man.

"Oh!" she exclaimed, hand going to her averted eyes, though not so quickly that she hadn't gotten a good look. The man growled at her, GROWLED, and stalked past and an extremely scandalized Miss William's took to her feet to go find Phryne.