hadriel_logs | Event Log: Jumpscares

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Event Log: Jumpscares

Who: All characters participating in the event!
What: The event log for the Jumpscares event
Where: All over the city!
When: May 16th-May 20th
Warnings: Some startling jumpscares, interdimensional demon cats, the usual

A dark shadow looms over Hadriel on the morning of May 16th. There's a tension in the air, something palpable, as if everything has gone still and is ready to snap. You've been waiting for the other shoe to drop for hours now, and you're getting to the point where you're starting to wish that it would just happen already so that you can stop feeling this way.

Of course, when it does happen, it's not quite like you expect.

Maybe it's a tiger leaping out of your closet, claws extended. Maybe it's a faceless slenderman, stepping out from around the corner or a monster with beak and claws ripping open your shower curtain when you're most vulnerable- but within seconds, after you've been startled half to death by the monsters, they're gone. They vanish in a puff of smoke, or dissipate into glitter, or become something silly instead for a few brief moments before disappearing entirely.

Weird. But not unendurable, I guess. The bright side is that there will also be a few demon cats that have also made their way through the door. No two cats are ever in the same location, but there seems to be enough of them to go around, though the toothy one can be a bit vicious. Still, they aren't untameable, and might make nice pets, as long as you don't mind a bloody finger or two when it's time for lunch!

► This log covers May 16th-May 20th.
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He rolls his eyes. See, this is what he gets for being concerned about other people's wellbeing. He flicks the umbrella and everything drops, face obviously displeased. Fine, she asked for it.

In an incredibly quick movement, Taako steps back, and is very suddenly not humanoid anymore. In fact, he's now about 40 feet tall and has significantly more teeth than previous. The fun thing about being a transmutation wizard is that Taako is very, very well versed in turning into other things- and his favorite happens to be a t-rex, so, that's happening now. As a bonus, it's still wearing his stupid pointy wizard hat. He leans down towards Rey, jaw close, and lets out a loud, bellowing roar before Rey can almost see the dinosaur smile.

"Well, if you insist." It's a lot harder to pronounce things in this form, so the words are a little stinted, but he's getting it together.

Well, she did ask for it. Boy, did she ever ask for it.

Now she's looking up at a giant dinosaur, and it's looking back at her. Her hair blows back as it screams in her face, nose wrinkling as she waits for the gust of breath to pass.

That's... something. Rather than cowering and stuttering in terror, however, Rey just lifts a hand and--

--and pokes a fucking dinosaur right on the nose. Boop! Definitely tangible.

"You're a T-Rex," she so bluntly points out. "How the fuck do you have T-Rexes in your Magical Pixie Land?"

Shut up magic is still bullshit to Rey, no matter how many times she sees it.

Taako laughs as he touches her in her obvious shock, and it's almost loud enough to be constituted as another scream. Usually, he's a lot freer with his gestures, but having teeny tiny arms sort of cuts that out. Rey can still see him try to spread them like he's flicking his wrists, but it likely doesn't quite translate.

"It's a dinosaur, of course they exist. What world are you in there there might not be dinosaurs?" Seriously, they're as normal as having an elf hangin' around. "Magic and dinosaurs aren't mutually exclusive."

Any threatening gesture sort of loses its impact when you're a giant ass creature with teeny tiny arms.

"Never said there weren't. Wouldn't be able to tell you're a fucking t-rex if we didn't have any. But that's 'Earth'."

A wondrous place where magic is dumb but there are mutations and robots and freak experiments. But that's totally normal. Totally.

Listen, he has like, a ton of teeth, that should be enough of a threat at this point.

"Hey, maybe you saw one here or whatever. I don't judge if your world is too dumb for dinosaurs." Regardless, though, the shock value has worn off, and just as quickly as it happened, he's Taako again, elf and clothed and twirling his Umbra Staff. "So do you believe me now? In the cool shit ol' Taako brings to the table?"

Should be. But he's not like, chomping on her or anything, so that helps.

Rather than marveling at his show of magic tricks, Rey just gapes at him.

"You really talk about yourself in the third person often?"

Yup, that's what she got out of that. Sorry, Taako.

It takes all of his strength not to roll his eyes so hard they leave the cave entirely. Instead, he just gives her a flat, absolutely disbelieving look.

"Uh, I'm Taako? Y'know, from TV? People should be falling at my feet for that name, honestly, everyone here is missing out. It's a reminder! For uh, all of your sakes."

It's cool, Rey, that's what he got out of that, so if we're having an award for who has more tact, neither of them win.

"Think more of the tortilla food at the sound of that name before TV ever comes to mind."

Not to mention TVs are fucking old. Big, bulky things, and old.

He kind of makes this face when she speaks, like he's confused but in a way he absolutely shouldn't be.

"Tortilla food? What the fuck?"

It seems, at first glance, he'd be telling a joke. Making a taco riff. But by the look on his face, he genuinely has no idea what she's talking about.

And Rey is making this face. You know, the are you fucking with me? face.

"What? You seriously mean to say that you've got dinosaurs and television, but no concept of Mexican food?"

Not even a Taco Bell?!

"Okay, well for starters homie, no idea what a Mexican is, 'cuz I'm gonna guess its a place but I've sure as hell never been there." He'd imagine there'd be someone who invented whatever it is she's talking about, but it seems truly ridiculous if his name is associated with it that he wouldn't know. "Second, what does that have anything to do with me?"

God, Rey hates this place so much sometimes...

"You're the one who brought up being named after a delicious beef and cheese snack." Mmm, Mexican... "That's more likely to attract people who are stoned as shit than drop them to their knees in total veneration of... whatever they're supposed to be reminded of."

"Okay, look, I'm pausing this whole thing, right now." Seriously, what is she talking about. He puts his hands out in front of him, umbrella tucked under his arm in a 'bear with me' motion. "Listen-- I'm a chef, alright? I cook for like, a living, though maybe not right now, and you're standing here telling me there's a food that's essentially fuckin' named after me and I don't know what it is."

Rey better be prepared to give lessons at this point, because Taako's absolutely not letting her off the hook on this one.

"Sure as hell wouldn't say that they're named after you specifically..." More like the other way around, from where Rey is standing. "What sort of chef are you if you don't know what tacos are? Used to live in a city with taco trucks all over."

PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN, BOY.

"Uh, if I existed where I'm from without them, then they're definitely named after me, is all I'm saying." He won't even breech the topic that he doesn't know what a truck is, either, because he feels he's already humiliated himself enough today. "Seriously, at this rate I'm gonna invent 'em. Explain, let's go, chop chop."

Rey arches a brow. "You can't invent something that's already been..."

Nothing she says will make this guy believe otherwise, will it? She scoffs.

"Fuck it. Said you were a chef, right? They might have shit here you can make it with."

Not even close. But he does brighten up when Rey relents, grinning like the cat who got the cream.

"Damn right! C'mon, ingredient list, don't skimp on the spices. Even if they don't grow here I can find a sub for anything."

He pulls a book off a holder on his hip that was previously hidden under his cape that Rey can clearly see is titled Uncle John's Elven Bathroom Reader and finds something to write with. If she looks inside, Rey can see the margins are absolutely covered in notes- about magic, cooking, lists of things he needs to remember, and even doodles. It's a miracle he can find anything at all, even a blank space, but it seems he's done it, so...

Of all the weird shit Rey has ever experienced in this place, there's something to be said about how boggling it is to her that this guy went from making clothes dance, turning into a dinosaur, to suddenly -- whatever the hell this is.

"Don't know about spices and shit. If they have corn tortillas at the shops, you might be able to make some shells..."

Ground meat, cheese, and the other stuff might be an easy find, even if Rey doesn't trust the canned meat in any way since it turned people into wendigos.

He scribbles down tortillas and looks at her expectantly.

"Look, I can literally conjure anything I need. It won't, uh, won't last super long, but it'll totally be long enough for anybody to eat it. Full list, seriously."

He doesn't want to admit to it, but he's rapidly becoming, like, very invested in this. Fulfill his dream.

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Event Log: Jumpscares

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I HAD TO HIT THIS BACK INSTANTLY

FFFFFFFF

THE BEST

the hilarious thing is that i just had burritos for dinner. CLOSE ENOUGH.

FANTASTIC i had meatballs yesterday so like, still in the ballpark

http://www.pocho.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/truckinvasion.gif

THANK GOD

TACO TRUCKS ON EVERY CORNER, MAN.

thats what hadriel is about to become

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