[test] THIS WEATHER IS RIDICULOUS

[espigeonage]

Random scenario test drive meme. Some prompts:
> Ah god it's so hot and muggy how awful!
> The worst thing about summer cold snaps: you don't usually have your windbreaker handy because it's been so damn hot.
> The wind is perverse and trying to steal your things and/or crash stuff into you.
> It's raining wet vermy-things, as if the hail and possible storm wasn't bad enough. Now you have rain-echoes to deal with, at best.
> A nice day? I guess those exist?

So where are you?
> Caught way out in the open! At the beach, in the steet, at a fair, anywhere.
> Taking shelter! Bus stop, club you wouldn't normally frequent, bridge underpass, any port in a storm, any shade from the deathsun.
> In the mall or somewhere comfortably out of the elements, you lucky sunuvanek.
> Somewhere... else? idk, do what you want!

Have at thee!

Comments

[aetos]

I see. [Wow, he feels awkward. Is he really this bad at talking to people?

Luckily, his thoughts are interrupted by a loud clap of thunder. Ah. Right.]

This rain may not let up for a while.

I could...walk you to a store for umbrellas if you want. It's just on the way.

[cava]

[He smirks, walking to keep pace with her.]

A desire to get home at a reasonable time, Calista. Is that now considered madness?

[greenbark]

[ She picks at the fringe on her backpack, shrugging a bit. ]

We don't own a TV. I just use the internet to check the weather. I thought that was what all the cool people did! You can get most news shows and TV series online for free.

[sugoku]

[She expected nothing less]

Maybe not, but doing so in this is definitely madness. Being impatient as usual?

[emmuree]

[She tries to smile back. She really does. But the result is as much of a failure as the other time she tried. In the end, she settles for a shrug.] No, it's fine. I'd rather not get rained on anymore either. I can still wait until it lets up.

[cava]

[Good to see she understands him by now]

Does it need to be asked? Besides, you are the one who joined me without so much as a second thought, non? Madness must be spreading.

[cava]

[Cain drops one of his eco-bags when Steve runs into him, cursing. At least it didn't have eggs or glass jars in it...]

Tabarnak!

[he leans down, picking up the bag again. just gonna force that agitation back down.]

It's quite all right.

[sugoku]

It must be the curse of shared DNA.

[ She sighs and decided to clutch the bag to her chest to hold it. Although a thought has her brightening up]

Is your roommate at home?

[brodad]

Yeah, no problem. [He takes the eco-bag; wouldn't have offered if he didn't mean it. Winding up with what's heaviest is just expected at this point come on.]

Where'd you get the new sunglasses? [They look like they came from LockeCon. And why is he wearing them in the rain?]

[cava]

Put it down to that if you must...

[he shrugs, shifting his bags a little. when she asks that, he's definitely a little annoyed. damn it, Calista.]

He texted me not long ago, so I can only assume so? I'm hardly Valéry's keeper.

[cava]

[He finally stops, pulling them off and examining his new pair of shades/goggles. weird. Just gonna frown thoughtfully at these a little.]

Quite honestly? I have no idea.

[sugoku]

[ Well that made things more interesting. She did want to see Val, but she would also be soaking wet by then. The choices a person had to make. Go and properly do work or go and have some fun.]

I have nothing too important to do at home. I doubt you'd mind if I just went to your place until the rain lightened up, would you?

[cava]

[Oh, such a dilemma. He doesn't envy her in the slightest. 8I]

Are you asking or imposing, mademoiselle? [he shrugs, either way. may as well seem noncommittal even if he really isn't sure how to feel about this.] Do as you like.

[sugoku]

[ It was imposing, but she cares not. The fact of the matter was that she was going, and it was much better to wait there than continue walking in this. You know, regardless of the fact it's 79% for terrorizing visiting Val

Before she spoke again, the goggles finally caught her attention.]

Is the rain really that bad you have those googles on?

[cava]

[he frowns slightly, pulling the goggles off and looking at them. weird. he hadn't stopped to register them, not with it raining as it was. he seems genuinely confused.]

I've never seen these before.

[brodad]

So they just crawled onto your head on their own? [haha that's very funny why are we stopping in a downpour]

Come on, I want to get out of the rain.

[cava]

To the best of my knowledge. [shit, right. walking now, shaking his head. he's genuinely baffled by this]

Right, of course. Pardonne.

[sugoku]

You were wearing them, and you don't know where they came from? Could it have been a girl?

[ Although she sounded amused, she was anything but. Letting his guard down like that? It wasn't like him at all.]

[brodad]

[walking and okay apparently Cain actually doesn't know where they came from. except that's not okay at all. it's worrisome.]

You're serious.

[dancingonapin]

[Francis has to force himself not to scoff at the young lady so blatantly insulting him.]

Pardon me, but I simply prefer to keep the news on the telly in the mornings. I'm perfectly capable of getting the weather on my phone as well! I hope you don't mistake me for one of those in my generation who can't keep up with the technology of the ages!

[He's very proud of his Android phone, he paid quite a bit for it!]

Byakuya Kuchiki | Bleach

[stylishtassels]

[It's late, as he glowers at the fat, falling drops splashing against the pavement, his only shield from the wet, cold weather a bus stop that isn't exactly dry--the wind and cars as they pass are seeing to that.

And his only companion is a gallon of milk in his hand.

This is what happens when your wife texts you and tells you to pick up milk. This is what happens when you forget to pick up that milk. Why did he forget to pick up the milk?

It also doesn't help that he didn't grab an umbrella at the weather man's warning because he had been so sure he could make it back before the rain started.]

Surely it must end soon...

[Wishful thinking? Perhaps. He just wants to go home.]

[earnedmystripes]

[As it turns out, that particular bus stop is rather near the police station. And as it also turns out, Kotetsu had to work late tonight. He has his raincoat tonight, luckily, and he's walking to the nearby parking lot, fishing for his keys when he sees the figure sitting half-soaked in the bus stop.

...He knows that face.]

Byakuya?

[They don't see each other as much as they used to, with Kairi living back in Boston with his mother, so it's sort of a pleasant surprise to run into him like this tonight. Even if the weather is terrible.]

Hey, d'you need a lift home?

[stylishtassels]

[He looks away from the relentlessly pummeled puddle in the street, caught by surprise when that familiar voice interrupts his attempts to mentally stop the rain.]

Kotetsu.

[It'd slipped his mind the Police Station was nearby. It would have been far better shelter than a bus stop...

He almost asks how Kairi is, why he's out so late, but there's a question in the air and he remembers just where he is isn't exactly what one would call the ideal conversation place. Does he need a ride... yes.]

No.

[...]

... yes.

[His pride is wounded, but the milk. His suffering is pointless if the milk goes to waste sitting here for hours waiting for the rain to stop.]

[greenbark]

[ She shakes her head at the suggestion of insult, putting her hands up in a very classic "whoa man chill" gesture -- palms out, in front of her chest. ]

No, no way! I'm just...really fascinated! Everyone who lives like normal people in movies is so groovy.

[ She did just say that. ]

[pitch_slap]

[Hikari's wearing her raincoat today--a smart decision based on the weatherman's report, but she is typically prepared for rain. Wouldn't want ruined makeup on the way to a show or something, after all. So when he sees the poor dude with the milk and the bus stop that does nothing... well, she takes pity on him, digging a compact, collapsible umbrella out of the bottom of her messenger bag to offer to him.]

You look like you could use this.