silly people do silly things [closed]

[greenspaces]

Characters: Jade Harley (AU) and Dirk Strider with bonus appearance from Jake English AND Stellaluna.
Format: Action
This log is: Closed
Location: Conquest --> The open tower.
Summary: Jade and Dirk drag the dead!Dirk from Conquest to the open tower. They somehow picked up Jake and Stellaluna, who both wanted adventure time and shenanigans and fun. Things happen (???)
Warnings: THERE IS A DEAD PERSON.

[ This crazy idea had better work, she thought. Bodies were heavier than she had imagined, and Jade was not exactly a weightlifter. Even though she'd been in Rakuen for a little over two months, she was definitely by no means back to normal.

Still, she wasn't about to let that stop her. Holding on to the dead Dirk's legs securely, she nodded at the alive one. ]

Let's go fast! Do you think anyone saw us?

Comments

[greenspaces]

I don't think so, either! I wonder if it's friendly?

[ She thinks about this for a second, before she cups hands around her mouth and calls out. ]

Shadows, come back! We want to say thank you!

[fracturedsoul]

[ Friendly, hah. ] Poor things must be lonely. They just wanted a friend and we were nice enough to bring them one.

[ They don't reappear when Jade calls for them; Dirk glances from left to right as he reaches the third floor landing and sees nothing. Though he's holding it together on the outside, inwardly he's trembling like a leaf. It's almost like he can feel those tendrils of shadow around his body, dragging him down to... wherever, but he knows it's just his overactive imagination. Try as he might to shift his attention, his consciousness is still limited to just his dream body. ]

Somehow I doubt we're gonna find anything of import no matter how high we go. I got dragged down, like, into the ground.

[goodboybestshot]

[Pip lsjfsdgs. Jake gives her a grin that's tinged a little with confusion and embarrassment. Oh, did she see his face? He was not about to explain that to a bat.]

Friendly, perhaps for the living. Maybe it has no interest in those that aren't expired.

[He holds a little tighter to the mallet he picked up and sticks closer to Dirk. He gives the landing a once-over himself.]

No sense in going back once we've come this far, though.

[vespertinity]

[Pip crawled up the shirt on Jade's legs - Jake and Dirk had different ones; she wondered why - and clung to it a bit below Jade's knee. She would have tried to go further, but it'd be really hard until the tremors stopped. They were really in the way. >:(]

But... if it only wants the dead, why did it take sleeping Dirk?

[greenspaces]

Pip....

[ She sighs, putting the gun on the ground to pick Pip up and hold her instead. ]

He wasn't sleeping. He was dead. At least, until he came back alive.

[fracturedsoul]

So I'm not the only one who noticed that. Looks like your guess was right after all, Harley.

[ He continues through the third floor, heading for the staircase. If they're heading to the top, he's leading the way. ]

[goodboybestshot]

Wait- he came back? You're sure?

[He hadn't been paying all that much attention. He only cared about trying to pull him back out, not noticing if he was breathing or something.]

[vespertinity]

He didn't look dead to me. [It was much nicer up here than hanging on down there where she might get kicked. Or eaten.]

[greenspaces]

He was definitely not dead, at the end. [ She is going to keep a close eye on Pip! She doesn't want her to fall again. ]

Do you think it's a bad guy? Or a good one?

[fracturedsoul]

We can't begin to guess that without knowing what it took my body for. Or if the entity that tentacle monstered me away is the same being responsible for reanimating the corpse.

[ One hand goes to his chest unwittingly. What was with that spear... ]