Mysteries of Myron County High School [RP]

Stip45 · **Posted:** March 13th, 2011, 3:20 pm

As he was about to get on his bike, Jack felt a buzzing in his pocket. As he realised his phone was ringing, he removed his earphones, picked up the phone and pressed the "Answer Call" button.

"Hi, this is Jack speaking."

"Hello Jack, it's your dad. Your mom and I were wondering how late you'd be back home, so we called Rick's (mentioned by name on page 7) home number, but they said you weren't there! What the hell are you doing?"

Crap! Need to think of something fast. Jack thought. "Yeah, the thing is, I called Rick on his cell, but he already had plans for the evening."

"Don't lie to me, Jack! I had Rick on the phone myself, and he said he'd just been sitting around playing those "video games" you keep talking about."

"But dad, I-"

"You're coming back home RIGHT THIS INSTANT, you hear me? You're in for some serious trouble son."

Jack sighed. "Fine, I'll be there in a bit."

"You'll be here now." Dad said, after which an audible *clack* was heard, by which Jack assumed he'd smitten the phone onto it's base in anger.

Rolling his eyes in frustration, Jack got on his bike, and began to make his way home.

Znath · **Posted:** March 19th, 2011, 8:13 pm

Stephanie gave Charlie a coy look "Well.. focus on control for now. Try to get it just keeping it red hot and then we can worry about strength testing. Try other things too, that's what we do here on the weekends. The place has been abandoned for ages so as long as we don't burn the place down nobody will notice since all the windows are boarded up. So feel free to do anything"

She heads off to an area of her own practicing her ability making her hands as hot as possible and cooling them off repeatedly.

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Tabitha waved everyone on as they exited her house for the day. "Well, my phone is broken but Nick has my home phone. So if you need to contact me that is how. See you later." She had forgotten how late it was and headed to her room. She pulled out the box from her closet with all her gear and suited up her black getup. In front of the mirror she thought to herself I have heard the south end of town has some problems.. maybe that is a good place to start She heads out the back window and moves quickly jumping fences and following creeks through town. At one point while jumping a road she passes over Nick's car.

She climbs to a church roof with a view of a trailer park nearby watching over the area. After a long while of observation, she notices one particular trailer became more active with men carrying in cans and boxes of things in. She waits until two of them leave and slides down and sneaks over. Looking around the creek, she finds a 4 foot section of iron re-bar and some rocks. She spies through a window to confirm her suspicions. A meth lab alright.. She jumps onto the flimsy roof of the trailer as a distraction.

"Wutha! .. get out there, somebody's sneakin around" A voice from inside yells out. Shortly after an ugly man comes out with a baseball bat looking around. Tabitha swings her bar taking the bat out of his hands and clocks him in the jaw knocking him out.

The second man comes out "Who the :bunny:

are you."

She replies in a whispery voice to disguise her own "Justice, nothing more."

"Yea?! well eat it!" The man hastily replies while pulling out a beaten up 9mm, his hand shaking as he tries to take aim. He fires two quick shots missing as she runs around his side. She thrusts the iron bar into his gun and swings the other end around to hit him in the side.

As the man collapses to the ground, she picks up his gun. "Your time producing filth is over." She says and heads inside picking up a half empty box of bullets and some zip ties. She dials 911 from the phone and leaves it off the hook and ties the two men together going back to the church roof waiting until the police come to take them. She looked at the old Soviet 9mm. Not the best thing, but it will work for now.

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Andrea appeared in the room with everyone, "Um... There's somebody on the roof.. We shoudl check it out."

Stephanie turned "What?! You checked before we got here right? How could they!?..." She followed Andrea to the roof.

When they reached the top door, before them was Tabitha, the black clad figure (covered too much to know it's her) holding the 9mm. She was looking over the trailer court at the meth lab being taken down by the police. She turns when Stephanie reaches the top door and says in a disguised whispery voice, "Be calm, I mean you kids no harm. Simply passing through.."

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There's some time between the two instances, she moves from the church as things pick up and goes to the roof of the shoe factory. I could have just said that I guess. It doesn't change much but sorry.

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** March 22nd, 2011, 8:15 pm

(OOC: You called it both an abandoned shoe factory and a church, right? I assume it's the former, as churches are rarely abandoned or boarded up?)

BIC:

Quinn left Tabitha's house later that night and quickly head for home, hoping to stay out of trouble as much as possible. Once he got home, he set his new iPod down on a table in his bedroom and just flopped onto his bed, staring straight up, trying to make sense of everything. But try as he might, all it felt like was that the world he thought he knew was a facade that had just come crashing down around him. After seeing that Tabitha wasn't quite...a hundred percent human, the thoughts of Stephanie and Erin having supernatural abilities suddenly became much more believable. He wondered how awesome it would be to actually have some sort of weird ability. Or actually, maybe not that awesome, if Erin had gotten into trouble. Or if you turned out to be like Tabitha, where everything you thought you knew was actually a lie. Tons of thoughts flew through Quinn's head as he stared up at his spinning ceiling fan.

"Well it seems like there are other people around the school that have special abilities and whatnot. Stephanie seems to be forming a group of them to investigate or stop the disappearances. I do not think I would join.. I am not that special anyway."

"When do you get off, Dean?" "Just give me a call when you're done, I'll be at the usual place."

The pieces started coming together, perhaps. Was Stephanie's posse not a clique of the "cool kids" but actually a group of people with...talents? Quinn considered calling up Nick or Shane, but decided it was too late at night to call someone he hardly knew about something they had probably already figured out. Instead, he decided to spend the rest of his Friday night hours surfing the internet. I wonder if any of them have Facebook pages. Or MSN or Skype or something. You never know when the ability to instant-message someone can come in handy.

Znath · **Posted:** March 30th, 2011, 11:38 pm

The mysterious black figure left as soon as they came. It jumps off the side of the building and quickly moves out of sight into the wooded area. Stephanie remarked, "Ok.. Any ideas who that was? They had a gun.. did you see that?" Keep things down until the cops are gone from the trailer park there..

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The next day (if you had anything to do last night just include it in your next post)

Tabitha made it back to her house before sunrise and got to bed briefly. She got up realizing her stuff was all still out from last night. "I need to be more careful. If somebody came in that would end it all." She says packing it all in a box then coming to the gun. If I was caught with this too.. She unscrews a vent in her room to store the gun and bullet box.

She decides instead of staying home, to walk to the McDonald's nearest her (about a mile from her house south.. I swear I'll make the map soon). It was still a long distance to the highway through town, but the walk would clear her head.

She made it within a few blocks of the highway when what sounded like a thunder strike followed by a gust of hot air blowing her back several feet to her back. With her ears ringing she sits up wiping her eyes to see a black plume rising and burning embers around her.

It took her a few moments to realize what happened. Down the street a flammables truck had exploded.

*From the smoke, a figure stands floating among the smoke and embers. The figure is tall and masculine hovering about 50 feet up.

Most everyone near there was on the ground or running too much to notice. A nearby house had some burning parts of the truck on the roof. She runs into the house and helps up an elderly woman leading her out of the house and to the street quickly. Tabitha decides to run back to her place and gather her uniform.

The whole area has random burning truck parts and flames closer to the explosion site. Some of the houses and shops are on fire along the highway.

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** April 8th, 2011, 8:42 pm

Quinn ended the night by actually finding their Facebook pages and sending friend requests, though when they'd accept, he didn't know. (He tended to sift through his requests about once a week as it was.)

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He awoke just before 11 on Saturday (having stayed up late Friday since he had nowhere to be today.) As he was lying in bed, trying to decide whether to fall back asleep or get up and be productive, he heard a loud booming noise in the distance. I wonder what that was. ...Probably a transformer. It wasn't unusual for power transformers to just explode every once in a while; antiquated technology, he figured. Lifting his head and turning around, Quinn saw that the clock radio on his bed's headboard was still functioning. Good, we didn't lose power. I should get up and take a shower while that's still a certainty, I guess, he thought, rolling out of bed.

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** April 18th, 2011, 10:10 pm

As Quinn was getting out of the shower and drying off, he couldn't help but wonder about the booming noise he had heard. The power was still on although it didn't sound to be that far off, and despite it all, he was getting a sinking feeling that something was wrong. After getting dressed, he walked into the kitchen to find his mom watching some news on the television, a worried expression on her face. "Morning," Quinn said. "Barely," his mom replied, glancing at the clock before continuing on, "Did you hear about this? A truck full of flammable material exploded on Persimmon street. At least a dozen houses and businesses are on fire. It's terrible..."

Quinn stared at the gruesome scene on the television for a few moments before retreating back to his room in silence. Persimmon street...isn't that only several blocks away from where Tabitha lives? And maybe, just maybe, with all the talk of Stephanie these past couple of days...where there's fire...? He pulled out his cell phone and dialed Tabitha's number, planning to ask her if she knew anything about what was going on.

Znath · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 8:50 pm

ooc
Just a thing to let people know if they're not sure what to do or if they're confused about something just PM me and I can help clear it up.

Also, if anyone has suggestions or other kinds of questions then feel free to send those in too. I know people have schedules and such so I'm not worried about getting posts constantly, but if ever something is preventing you from doing so like what I said before, just let me know and I'll help however I can.

Or even if you wanted to redo your character, I'm open to things like that especially if it helps encourage activity.
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Tabitha ran into her house just as the phone rang by some amazing coincidence. She answers mostly out of breath, "Quinn? ... yea I ...was a few blocks away heading to McDonald's when it happened... I ran back after I got somebody out of their house near there." By this time the sirens are already blaring and the news was covering it as a tanker accident with an unknown cause. "Um.. I still never got to eat though. Is there a place half way we could meet up? or wait I guess dairy queen is that direction so that would be good.. I am not much hungry after that."

After she was done talking to Quinn she turned the TV on briefly showing the 'accident' as they called it. She shuts it off and rushes out the door. They just hide everything... even the media is all in on this. And yet most of the town acts like everything is normal. Why is it only the younger see things how they are? She continued walking down the sidewalk intentionally avoiding the main roads near the explosion site. But there is so little I can do in the daytime.. If I got caught what then... I would just have to hide constantly

Tanksandguns · **Posted:** April 20th, 2011, 3:43 pm

OOC: Sorry, I've been really busy and forgot about this thread. That's my fault.

BIC: Nick awoke the next morning and decided he wanted to go for a walk. He walked towards the downtown area, when he heard a loud explosion. He looked in the direction it came, and saw a plume of fire and smoke rising in the distance, and what looked like a person in the middle of all of it. He sprinted around the corner and ran towards the fire. When he got close, he quickly grabbed a long hose and started trying to put the fire out on a nearby roof. He couldn't see the man in the smoke anywhere. He saw Tabitha running into a house and out again with an elderly woman, but didn't have time to shout her name. When he got the fire out, he moved to another building, and started running from room to room shouting and asking if anyone was in there. He then went back outside, and tried to put as much of the flames out near the truck as possible with a hose from someone's house. It wasn't doing much good.

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** April 22nd, 2011, 9:32 pm

"Uh...yeah, sure, that works for me; I haven't had lunch yet," Quinn said, agreeing to meet up with Tabitha along the way. He was really curious to see all of this for himself, after what the media had apparently "covered up" with the house fire. Since it sounded like Tabitha had been in the midst of it all, she'd probably have a heck of a story to tell. Quinn told his mother (who was still watching the TV intently) that he was going to go out for a while, and left right away, walking towards Dairy Queen.

Znath · **Posted:** April 22nd, 2011, 11:22 pm

After some time walking she found Quinn and followed along. "I imagine you heard the explosion, right? A tanker just exploded in the street. I was a couple blocks away and it knocked me back. I think it was even mostly empty.." She waits a short time and continues "What I can not understand is how nobody, not even the news, saw that man flying above the smoke. Nobody around me even noticed it! It seemed obvious to me at least."

She ordered a small blizzard with oreos in it and sat down. "Is it me or do all the adults seem oblivious to all of this. I mean, Father seems to be honest with me..most of the time, but most other people.. "

Tanksandguns · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2011, 3:06 pm

A fire truck finally pulled up to the house where he was trying to subdue the flames as best he could. Nick sat on the curb for a moment to catch his breath, and then pulled out his phone and texted Tabitha.

"Hey, where are you at? I saw you by the explosion, are you ok?"

Rat King · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2011, 8:48 pm

OOC: Sorry I haven't posted, doing other things.

IC: Charlie spent another hour teaching himself to control his heating/cooling powers. By then end of the hour, he felt he had a good grip on it. He then went home. The next morning, he snapped out of his sleep by a boom. Ah, probably a sonic boom. Oh well, now I'm up, time to get breakfast and then go walking. As he got breakfast, he turned on the tv, and saw a story about how a tanker truck had exploded. As a camera looked up, he saw some other students that he vaguely recognized helping people in the background. Dang. Might've been able to help somehow. Oh well, its pretty much over now. He then told his mom he was going walking, and preceded to do that.

Znath · **Posted:** April 24th, 2011, 12:42 am

"Ah!, oh yea. I got a new phone from Father just before he left. I almost forgot I had it." She pulled out the new phone. It was much more simple than the other one,mostly round, one side a screen and a metal frame on the edge. She answers to find Nick calling,
"I am fine actually. I was on my way to McDonald's when it happened but I was rather far away. I decided to stop at dairy queen instead for lunch. Quinn is here too. We could meet here or anywhere else." After a response from Nick she says to Quinn, "That was Nick, guess he was at the explosion too."

Tanksandguns · **Posted:** April 24th, 2011, 12:52 am

"I'll just meet you at DQ, I'll be there in a few minutes."

Nick closed his phone and began walking towards Dairy Queen.

After a 10 minute walk, he arrived at Dairy Queen and walked in and ordered his food. When it was ready, he grabbed the tray and sat next to Tabitha and Quinn.

"Hell of a way to start a day, huh? Hey Quinn!"

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** April 25th, 2011, 10:36 pm

"I heard the explosion, yeah, but at the time I thought it was just a transformer blowing and paid it no mind. It wasn't until I saw the TV that I saw the scene of all the damage." The flying man she mentioned made Quinn think about things a bit more--he supposed Stephanie probably had no part in this at all (especially if their rumors about her group were true.)

Upon arriving at DQ, Quinn ordered the chicken strips meal and took the seat opposite Tabitha. It wasn't long before Nick showed up as well. "I hear it was for you," Quinn replied with a slight grin. "I'm glad you guys turned out to be okay; the place looked like a giant bomb had gone off on TV." He lowered his voice a little. "...Actually, it's kind of weird that it was all over TV like that; it must have been a good 20-30 minutes after the explosion before I saw it. Coming off of the immediately-cut feed from the burning house, I mean," he added thinking of the obviously non-normal flying man Tabitha had mentioned. It felt so odd to just assume it was true--that strange, possibly magical things were going on around here after all. I might not have believed it at all if there wasn't a clear example sitting right across from me, he remembered. A sudden thought shook him, and he stopped eating a fry mid-bite. For some reason, when Tabitha mentioned a man flying away from the scene, Quinn had naturally assumed the guy had a jetpack of some sort. But given recent events, he realized that might not have been a good assumption to make. "Wait a sec...when you mentioned the flying man...was he wearing, like, a jetpack? Or...?"

Znath · **Posted:** April 26th, 2011, 1:33 am

"Well... no not that I could see. He was just kind of an outline in the smoke." Tabitha said finishing her blizzard. I had thought about going after him.. but.." Soon after she said this a shadow passes over and north of town seemingly landing in the park. A few seconds later Stephanie runs by in hot pursuit. "Wait that was it! I know it was.. We have to see what this is." She says and takes her cup and throws it away seamlessly heading out the door and going north toward the park.

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** April 26th, 2011, 8:12 pm

"Wha--but--um," Quinn stammers as Tabitha rushes out the door. He shoots a slightly-quizzical look at Nick before getting up, sticking his last four French Fries in his mouth, and throwing away his trash before jogging to catch up with her.

Tanksandguns · **Posted:** April 26th, 2011, 9:37 pm

"Where are we going?" Nick yelled as he ran after the both of them. He quickly caught up with Tabitha, and Quinn was only a few paces behind.

Znath · **Posted:** May 1st, 2011, 12:37 am

As they ran, a burst of smoke appeared in the air in front of the flying figure after which it comes crashing down in the vicinity of the park. Eventually Tabitha makes it to the park approaching where Stephanie was.

"What? Tabitha! get out of here, it's dangerous." Stephanie barked out at her.

"What is that thing?" Tabitha said approaching.

The figure walks out of the underbrush from the wooded area toward them. "It's the one responsible for the tanker explosion. You should leave, now!" The figure grabs a handfull of rocks from the ground. It points a fist out like a gun and fires one off like a bullet narrowly missing both of them.

Tabitha looks around and grabs a parking sign lifting it out of the ground hitting the second shot out of the way.

"So that's how it is." Stephanie says concentrating energy into her hands making them glow gradually. "Keep him off me and I can charge up."

(This enemy has the power to control things psychically in a very local region not much further than a few feet away. Stuff like flying, levitation, or launching things. Feel free to make it do stuff so long as you don't insta-defeat it)

Stip45 · **Posted:** May 1st, 2011, 4:23 am

OOC: Is the fight easy to notice? Because in that case it would be a bit more easy for me to write myself into the group from this solo tour I've been taking.
Also, I've added fencing as one of Jack's hobbies.

Mysteries of Myron County High School [RP]

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