IC: Clan House

[TheTimeSweeper]

Evan and Nav-E

“Our next competition is a dance competition?” asked Nav-E, as soon as the speakers went silent.

“I guess so…” noted Evan.

“Huh…okay,” Nav-E shrugged. “It will be a good way for us to test how long we can go without sleep. We both haven’t slept since yesterday morning.”

“Yeah, hard to believe that it’s only been roughly a day so far, unless my sense of time has been really altered.”

“I have no idea. I’m in the same boat as you when it comes to keeping track of time. All that I know is that it’s roughly early afternoon or so.”

Evan put a hand to his chin in thought. “So, who should be our partners? We’re the oldest ones here and it would be kinda weird to dance with someone younger.”

“Hmm, how about we dance with each other? The OOC guy did say that before dancing, the contestants should select the dance and background music, and then describe how we dance to it in the ballroom.”

“That would be pretty interesting. Wait, who’s the OOC guy?” asked Evan, raising an eyebrow.

“I’m not sure; probably some random person, but he did sound a lot like Tom.”

“Huh… So, what dance should we do and to what music? And it can’t be something corny or outdated like the Macarena or something.”

“Aw, hell no! What kind of brother do you take me for?” laughed Nav-E, clearly amused that Evan would even bring up something like that. “I was thinking more along the line of the We Like to Party dance.”

Evan stared wide-eyed at Nav-E. “Are you out of your freakin’ mind?! Do you know how complicated that dance is? And we don’t even know how to do it!”

“Okaaaay, how about all of the dances from the Evolution of Dance?”

“…No.”

“Yeah, you’re right; we only know about half of them or maybe even less. Let’s see…”

The two of them ran through a list of songs and dance moves in their minds trying to figure out the best combination. After several minutes, they hadn’t come up with anything.

“This is going to be harder than I thought…” said Evan as he massaged his forehead. He could already feel the lack of sleep starting to take its toll.

“Maybe we should wait and see what other people are going to be doing before we make a final decision,” suggested Nav-E.

“Yeah, I think we should. Maybe something will come to us in that time period.”


(Fourth wall breakage FTW! =D)

[charli]

~Sara~

The volume on the TV was turned down, and the captions were turned on. The best way for Sara to block out her thoughts was to work as much of her brain as possible. So she blasted her iPod while following along with the comedian's stand-up routine. Except, the words of the song - "The Walk" by Imogen Heap - were making too much sense. Inside-out, upside-down,/ Twisting beside myself./ Stop that now./ You're as close as it gets/ Without touching me./ Oh now don't make it harder/ Than it already is./ I feel a weakness coming on./ It's not meant to be like this./ Not what I planned at all./ I don't want to feel like this./ No it's not meant to be like this./ Not what I planned at all./ I don't want to feel like this./ So that makes it all your fault.

Because she was trying to block the world out, Sara was taken by complete surprise when someone pulled one of the earbuds out of her ear. Squeaking, she jumped and found herself facing a laughing Eric. "Sorry," he apologized, a crooked smile on his face. Putting the earbud into his own ear, he listened for a moment and then frowned. "Hmph, we could dance to this, but I don't really like the message it would be sending..." So he took Sara's iPod and started scrolling through the songs.

"Excuse me?" Sara scoffed, removing the other earbud from her ear against the onslaught of musical ADD. "What the hell are you talking about?"

Eric didn't look away from the iPod, but he flashed another one of those smiles that Sara hoped didn't make her flush. "The House Bot just announced the next competition. It's a couples dance competition. Grand prize is a dinner for two cooked by Vietnamese chef."

"I can't dance," Sara responded automatically.

Eric shot her a smirk. "You sure about that? We all got our abilities enhanced for this thing, and I remember you pulling off some fancy footwork when Dan and I fought. Besides, I watched part of that documentary on you on the History Channel. They had a few minutes about your musical tendencies. You're not half bad at dancing."

Sara could feel herself blushing. There was video evidence of her dancing?! That was embarrassing in the extreme. Though if it was on a documentary that seemed to be set in a positive light, then it couldn't be that bad. Could it? "What if I don't want to partner with you?" Sara asked Eric. "What if I want to dance with someone else?"

"I already called dibs," Eric responded absently. He stopped clicking through the songs and listened for a moment. Then a smile spread across his face. "Think you can work with this?" he asked, tucking an earbud into Sara's ear.

She listened for a moment, refusing to let any reaction show on her face. But it was a good song, and yeah, she did think she could work with it. Finally, she caved. "I don't think we could pull this off in everyday clothes." Grabbing Eric by the wrist and whispering conspiratorially to him, she pulled him off to their rooms to find outfits that would work.

[TheTimeSweeper]

Evan and Nav-E

Evan and Nav-E were still standing in the kitchen trying to figure out what to do for the dance competition when Nav-E perked up.

“Hey, I’ve got an idea! We can do…”

He whispered his plan into Evan’s ear and waited for his brother’s response.

“Hmm, I was kinda thinking that too, but that would probably be much better for a music competition than a dance competition,” replied Evan.

“Of course, I would be on guitar and you would be on drums.”

“Without a doubt. You are very good on the guitar and especially for the solos in that song as I am very good on drums for the solos in that song. However, I don’t agree with your selection for this particular competition.”

“Okaaaay, well, how about something that probably very few people in this house have heard of. Say, something entirely instrumental so that they would only recognize it if they truly know it.”

“Hmm, sounds interesting. What did you have in mind?”

Nav-E grinned. “Redline Shuffle – Arcade Version.”

Evan’s eyes lit up with excitement. “Are you shittin’ me? Do you think we can pull that off?”

“Hell yeah we can. We’ve done it before many times.”

“You do realize that the regular version sounds a little more authentic, right? The arcade version is a little bit too rock-esque, don’t ya think?”

“That’s what makes it so good though! Okay, rock-paper-scissors-candle. Three rounds. Whoever wins the most rounds gets to decide which version should be danced to,” suggested Nav-E.

“Alright, you’re on.”

Nav-E and Evan each hid a hand behind their backs and quickly produced their first draw.

“Ha, paper covers rock!” Nav-E announced triumphantly.

The second round ended quickly with Evan being the victor with rock over scissors.

“Okay, wise guy…on three!”

On the count of three, Evan produced a candle in the form of an index finger which burnt Nav-E’s paper.

“Well, damn… Alright, you won fair and square,” sighed Nav-E. “So, the regular version then?”

“Actually, I was thinking that we could reach a compromise. How about the regular version to start with before transitioning into the arcade version?”

Nav-E immediately brightened and grinned broadly. “Dude, that would be so freakin’ awesome! Hmm, wait a minute, I just had an idea. If there ever will be a music competition, do we want to play Redline Shuffle or the other song? Both offer very good guitar and drum action.”

“Yeah, but Redline Shuffle has the guitar and drums playing at the same time and I know how much you like your guitar solos in that other song.”

“Well, you got me there. I guess we should go get ready then.”

“I hope our costumes aren’t going to look too ridiculous,” laughed Evan.

“So what if they are? We’ll have fun with this anyway!”

“Well, definitely something comfortable, but also loose enough so that we can move around easily. Blue jeans and plain white T-shirts?”

Nav-E nodded. “Sounds great. And do we have cowboy hats? This is line dance music, after all.”

“You mean sounds like line dance music. I don’t know if it is for sure. And I’ll have to check my dresser for a hat. I think there’s one in there, but I’m not entirely sure.”

“Okay, you do that while I go check my own dresser and get changed,” replied Nav-E as he made his way towards his room.

“You can count on it,” added Evan as he made his way towards his own room.

[Nekoman]

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck." Zach put his hand over his eyes and backed into the wall next to him, sliding down to the floor.
"Of course it's a dance competition, and of COURSE it's a couples thing. Cna't dance, and I can't talk to a girl, and I really don't want to dance with a robot, and.. and... Dammit!"

[tomaszavenger]

Tom

"Yeah... well if it's any consolation to you, I'm not going. I cannot really dance, and I don't want to embarass myself. So we can just do whatever we want, and let everybody else have fun. Of course, no reward, but hey... it's not a huge one. Although, I really do like Vietnamese cooking. What dances do you even know Zach?" Tom asked. "Personally... I can polka and tango, and please don't ask why I know them," he said, glaring a little at a memory that came to him.

"So... we might as well sit outside." Tom said.

Boot

Boot followed Evan and Nav-E to the ballroom. He saw a few of the robots that could morph themselves into male or female figures.

"I'm going to have fun with this..." Boot thought.

[TrickyLA]

Leyla



Wake uuuupppp



Leyla shifted.



You have to get up now.



Leyla moaned in protest.

"...ive....ore....min.....es....."



Leyche for the love of god get your lazy ass up!



Leyla's eyes snapped open, her inner Kat had finally returned to yell at her. She groaned at the sudden movement, still worn out from not sleeping and her nightmare adventures. She remembered everything this time, and she hoped she'd never go there again. Sighing, she cuddled Toadie.

"Thank you...."

She blinked, she felt Kat in the room but she couldn't see her.

Where....

She sat up more now, wincing a bit in the process.



How long was I out for.....?

Blinking she turned towards the doorway. She noticed Aaron and offered him a smile.



See? All better now....



She frowned, petting Toadie absently. It was a bit odd that he hadn't stirred once, but she paid it no mind. She needed to find Kat.

"Kat...?"

Her voice was still very hoarse, so she cleared her throat a bit.

"...where are you...?"

Toadie wasn't moving. He was breathing, but other than that he wasn't moving at all. Not even a sleepy twitch.



Is....he okay?

She was worried about the poor kity-dog, so she shook him once to wake him up. He didn't stir. Panic set into her stomach. She had seen him die once, she didn't want to again.

"Toad....wake up...wake...."

Her eyes widened a bit as she thought.



He was with me in that dream. When I woke up last time I was hurt from my actions in that world. Maybe....maybe Toad....maybe he IS.....

Her eyes teared up, but she fought them back.



He must think he's dead.....but....how can I fix that? Maybe...

She frowned, petting Toadie softly.

"Its okay Toadie...you'll be okay...."

Slowly, she closed her eyes and pet Toad more.

I wish he'd wake up.....wake up Toadie....you're okay....you made it out....

She felt him twitch and she breathed a sigh of relief.



Thank goodness.....



She still had one problem though, Kat. She had no idea where she was.



Maybe she left....

She tried to stand, but found she was still weak to move at the moment. Sighing in frustration, she wrapped her arms around her. Truth be told, she was still absolutely terrified.

[Yetisarge]

Aaron looked over at Zerb. "Hey man I don't know about you but I can't dance so I guess if you want to go for the prize you can personally I'm not a big fan of Vietanemse food myself."

Zerb looked at him and chuckled. "I might be able to pull off a few of my own dance moves to a couple of songs. They did say we could pick our own songs right?"

"I think so."

"Hmm the only thing I need to know is if we are able to mess with the lighting in the ball room." Zerb said as he headed towards the ball room to get some confirmation with one of the bots.

[Kat]

Kat (aka faerie Kat)

"Leyla!" Kat started jumping from her position on the ground. Any more movement and Leyla could step on her.

"Leyyyylaaaaaa!" her wings fluttered and she floated up to her friend's knee.

GAH! >< Kat gave Leyla's pant leg a sharp tug, in hopes of getting her attention.

"HEY!

LISTEN!

HEYYYY!

LISTEN!

LEYLAAA!"

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

Leyla shivered a bit, petting Toadie absently. She needed to get out of this room, that was for sure. She wanted to get up and just move, but she was still too shaky to stand and she knew it. She was thinking about just going back to sleep when she heard distant shrieks calling for her.

What the.....?

She looked around, but didn't see anything.

Huh...but I could have sworn I heard my name....

Blinking, she felt a soft tug on her pants.



HEY!

LISTEN!

HEYYYY!

LISTEN!

LEYLAAA!



Leyla blinked in surprise, finally directing her attention downwards. She gasped.

"K-Kat? Is that you?"

She saw what appeared to be s shrunken version of Kat fluttering by her knee with an annoyed expression on her face. Leyla briefly wondered if she had been trying to get her attention long.

"W-what happened to you?"

[Kat]

Kat

"NO, IT'S THE FRICKIN' CLOTHES FAERIE! OF COURSE IT'S ME!"

Kat pouted, crossing her arms across her chest in frustration.

"I don't like being tiny!"

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

Leyla blinked.

"Well....what do you want...m-me to do about it?"

She didn't know how Kat did this, but she thought it was pretty cool. Even if it was annoying Kat alot. Leyla wanted to help, but she was just figuring out what she was capable of. Messing up on her friend would not be good.

'sides....if she did it to herself....I'm sure she could.....change back....maybe....>>

[Nekoman]

"Breakdancing. That's about it. And how can we not be evicted if we don't participate? I figure we'd be dropped by default.."

[tomaszavenger]

"No... competitions give rewards, but eviction is decided by voting. If things get unexciting, I figure they'll try and change that, but right now, everybody seems to be enjoying the competition... with the exception of me and you." Tom said.

"I might actually do it... just for the hell of it. Vietnamese cuisine sounds nice..." Tom thought, but then decided against this.

[Nekoman]

"You forget who you're talking to. Get me a recipe and I can make it. We don't need to chance the reward if we can get it ourselves, right?" He said, bringing out his 'book' and handing it to Tom.

"Just speak into it, tell it what you want."

[tomaszavenger]

"Oh... I forget. You are a master chef! Guess it's not much of a reward after all. It'll be funny if we had a vietnamese cuisine to eat while everyone is confused why we have it!" Tom said.

He spoke to the book that Zach handed to him with the words: "Vietnamese Seafood Medley".

[Kat]

Kat

Kat frowned and tried to concentrate on growing bigger.

"I don't know how I got so small dammit! And some weird voice said something about dancing and I'm too small to even dance with a robot and I've got nowhere to sleep and no room and and and..." she whimpered, shrinking at the overwhelming loneliness of it all.

"Help..?"

[upsilon]

-Dylan-

Where had he been for the last...however long he'd been out of the scene? Why had he been gone? He'd just poofed into thin air for the longest time. It was almost like he wasn't even a contestant on this crazy show. Oh well, those questions would need to be asked on one's own time. For now, Dylan was in the area again. And he was wearing black cat ears...?

No one would've even noticed his entry into the room, but somehow he was now laying on his stomach on the floor beside the tiny Kat, staring at her. "Kaaaat. Why are you so tiny dear?" He blinked and tilted his head to the side as he pondered over the situation before sitting up crosslegged. "And why so sad? Can't you get bigger again?"

He smiled brightly suddenly, his eyes going wide and starting to sparkle immensely. "Even if you are sad and small...you're so ADOWABLE! I'm gonna take you home with meeeee!" He stopped his swaying and obsessing long enough to blink again though, resisting the urge to smother the small Kat with a hug of doom.

"Ohhhhh, but do you want I should make you big again? Well here then!" With that he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small piece of mushroom which he promptly handed to the tiny girl. "You know what to do, right?" He beamed at her, waiting for her to take the mushroom. If someone didn't read much, his giving Kat the mushroom would probably seem strange.

[Kat]

Kat

"Oh! You.. When did you..?" Kat blinked up at Dylan, staring blankly at the proffered mushroom for a second before she realized what it was.

"Oh! Like Alice..? Will it work then?" she tilted her head curiously and nibbled a bit of the mushroom.

[upsilon]

-Dylan-

"Will it work?" Dylan giggled at the question as Kat began nibbling at the mushroom. "Silly girl. Of course it will work. Just don't eat too much!" Within seconds the oddly small Kat would begin growing back into a full sized one, ending up directly on the floor in front of him from the sudden growth spurt.

"You know...I really do enjoy the full sized Kat more than the bite sized one. So...why were you so small anyway? And what's all this about dancing and whatnot?" He tilted his head curiously, moving promptly beside the now normal Kat as he awaited his answer.

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

Leyla blinked. Then she blinked again.

Sonnova...

Scowling, Leyla forced herself to stand on shaky legs. She wobbled once, but shook it off. Then she grabbed Toadie and stomped out of the room without another word.

I...Fucking...HATE....Ups....

She couldn't stand being in the same room with him, let alone when he was acting like that. Kat was okay now, so she didn't need to have to deal with that shit. Stomping around distracted her from her tiredness, but she was soon reminded when her stomach began growling.

Oh....

Blinking, she headed in a random direction, hoping it would get her to the kitchen. Toadie, who had woken up, blinked up at her. He mewled once, nodding his head in a particular direction. Leyla sighed, heading that way.

Directions from a cat...though this wouldn't be the first time he's helped me.

Toad seemed to grin at that and Leyla wondered if he could understand her thoughts. He nodded.

Guess I shouldn't be surprised. I'm glad you're okay Toad.

Toadie yawned in response. He was probably just as worn out as she was.

"You should rest Toad, I'll try not to wake you..."

Before she knew it, she was crossing into the hallway that would lead her to the kitchen.

Mmmm food here I come......

Toad looked at her, amused before mewling again.

'Don't you have a dance competition to worry about?'

Shocked, she almost dropped Toadie. One, she was surprised to hear him talking again. And two, it hadn't really registered that there WAS a dance competition. She had no idea what she was going to do about that.

Before she could think about it further though, she turned the corner.

[tomaszavenger]

"Well... you've gone silent again Zach. Huh... but the food is nice. Tell me, what gave you the inspiration to become a chef?" Tom asked, interested.

"My ambition... eh, it'll never happen now. Technology has advanced too far for me to even have anything relevant." Tom said.

"But, you know... life is for living. I think I will go to the ballroom dance. Why? Because I don't care if I embarass myself anymore. I mean, if I dance to the steps, I can at least avoid a complete mess up. I don't even care if it's with a robot. At least my partner cannot embarass me, as he/she/it will be the perfect dancer." Tom added, confused when trying to denominate the robot's gender.

"After I finish eating, I'm going up there. Do you want to come with?" he asked Zach.

[tomaszavenger]

Clan House Bot

"Since we are having some unexpected entries in the second round, possibly due to computational error, we are constructing new rooms to accomodate the guests. Some IT technicians have been fired as a result." the speakers announced.

Outside the housing quarters, machines had uncloaked and began drilling holes in the ground, and materials were formed via lasers into the building, matching the building exactly, and quickly solidified into an empty quarter.

A few robots decorated the interior, and stationed themselves for specific room requests.

(OOC: You may now select your room details and items Kat.)

[Kat]

Kat

Startled at Leyla's disappearance into the hallway with her cat, Kat ignored Dylan's question and stumbled up to her feet, following after her friend with a wave of her hand behind her back.

After a few twists and turns, Kat was hopelessly lost, until she came across a door labled with a pair of familiar names. Intrigued, she pushed open the door, a shocked look gradually spreading across her face as she realised who she was gaping at.

Kai

As the door opened, Kai was just rolling out of her queen-sized bed. Shari was still asleep in the twin across the room, so Kai blearily stumbled to the door (or where the door would be) to the hallway, only to run smack into a wall.

"What the..?" Kai blinked a few times, rubbing her brown and purple hair in confusion.
"I need to feed the cat, and there's no damn d- ?! Who are you?" she glared anxiously at the newcomer, who was standing confusedly in the doorway.

The girl slowly backed out of the room, muttering about being in the future and how this was really too weird, before rushing around the corner and through multiple hallways, running smack into Tom, who had been standing talking to another boy.

Kat toppled to the ground, melting into it as a reaction to her fall, before resolidifying, sprawled on the floor and rubbing her head.

"Owww..." her wings fluttered in her agitation.

[tomaszavenger]

"Oh gosh... sorry!" Tom said, dazed for a short moment, before moving downwards and picking up Kat gently and putting her back on her feet.

"Oh... I'm really sorry... Kat? What are you doing out here?" he asked in curiousity. He scratched the back of his head in pain from where Kat had hit him.

"I should have looked where I was going," Tom apologized sheepishly.

[Kat]

Kat

Kat grimaced, biting her lip slightly at the pain in her head.

Oh geez, it's Tom... Be nice, be nice, we like Tom.

"Sorry..." she ducked her head in an apology, "I just... ran into a.. uhm... well, an RP character of mine, and it scared the crap out of me. I just sprinted away without thinking. I'm really sorry, I totally didn't see you."

Kat's body faded in and out of transparency as her head throbbed in pain.

"And what I wouldn't do for a motrin..."

[tomaszavenger]

"Well... I'm British, so I have no idea what a motrin is... although it sounds something like calpol or ibuprofen in my country." Tom said. "I'm sure a robot will get you something if you shout in the air and ask politely," he said.

"And I think it might be a side effect. Leyla had one of her RP characters materialise too. I'm lucky not to have any of my RP characters materialise," Tom thought of Sonic Alert, and wondered how he would survive here.

[TrickyLA]

Leyla

Leyla really had no idea where she was going, but that was just as well. Dragging her feet into the kitchen, she quickly made something to eat before preparing something for Toadie. She didn't really know what cats were supposed to eat, so she mainly tried to play it safe.

While Toad was eating, she was wondering what the heck she missed, and what she was supposed to do about this new competition.

Might as well hang in here for awhile......

[Wolfy]

Ryan

Ryan woke up feeling more than a bit drowsy. After rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, he looked around at the room he was in. He could immediately tell he wasn't at home anymore.

For one, the room was empty except for a few personal belongings he had back home, plus a few new additions. There was a desk over next to the door, which he hadn't seen before. Also, looking over at the wall he saw a stand, one of those stone ones you'd see in rich mansions that people put busts of famous people on. Though there was no statue on top of it, but instead a knightly helmet.

He stared at it for a moment, confused, then slowly got out of bed. He had decided to leave this room and attempt to figure out where the hell he was.

He made his way out the door and into a hallway. After making a few turns down some other halls, he saw two people from a distance. One of them was a boy wearing a metallic green suit. The other was a girl. As he looked at her, she seemed to be...fading in and out. She also had...wings? Though aside from that, she seemed normal enough.

Ryan wasn't the kind of person to just come up to people and start talking to them for no apparent reason. However, he wasn't gonna get any answers by just looking at people. So he started to approach the two, though a bit slowly.

"Excuse me." He called a bit nervously, simultaneously hoping to get their attention and hoping they wouldn't assault him.

[Kat]

Kat

Opening her mouth to reply to Tom, Kat shut it abrubtly and turned her head as she heard someone call out towards them.

"Excuse me." Kat saw a boy about her own age walking towards them. She tilted her head curiously and looked at him.

"Hi..." she said, warily, "Can I help you? You seem a bit... lost." she grimaced for a moment, recalling how lost she herself felt at the moment.

"Also..." Kat was thinking out loud now, "I wonder if you have any motrin." The pain from her run-in with Tom was fading, but she could feel a bigger headache coming on, and fading in and out as she noticed herself doing, was probably disconcerting to others.


Kai

As Kai watched the girl flee their doorway, she decided to wake Shari and Chaos, to see if they could figure out what was going on.

She went over to the twin bed across the room from hers, and shook the occupant.

"Shari, Shari... Get up, you lazy goof."

The little Indian girl grumbled, turning onto her side and ignoring Kai completely. A small black cat stalked up from the foot of the bed and batted the girls nose with his paw.

[Wolfy]

Ryan shook his head and replied "I have no clue what motrin is, so I probably don't, sorry."

"Anyway, yes. I am a bit lost, and I was wondering if you could tell me where..."

He suddenly looked at who it was he was talking to. He didn't have his glasses on at the moment, so he had to squint. However, now that he was up close he was fairly sure he recognized her. It took him a while to figure out who it was, but when he finally did it took him by surprise.

"...Kat? Is that you?"