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Embarrassment and stupid ideas at the beach (open)
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Post by Jinxed on Feb 1, 2017 21:14:08 GMT -5
Alex had decided on what he wanted to do a couple of days before, he wanted to go to the beach. It was the first of February and it was COLD at least in Alex's opinion due to his previous residence in Nevada where the summers could breach the 100 degree Fahrenheit (sorry for you non-Americans) mark. The winter had been getting to him as he had contracted what seemed the common cold a couple days before. The sickness had waned though, and it was reduced to only just a stuffy cold and a few coughs here and there, at least that what it seemed.
He desired to go to the beach for several reasons the chief reason being that he had received a quest starter that read as follows:
() NEW QUEST: Beach fun! Type: CHAIN QUEST Go to a beach! Reward 10 exp ()
Alex, who hadn't leveled for a few days, realized the significance of this quest; This quest was a bridge in order to get him back on track on the gamer quoted "EXP train."
Alex donned a sweater and a jacket over it as he stepped into the open, he shivered and went towards the forest, which in some cases seemed to have lost its leaves while the others seemed to have had their needles darken in their coloring. The landscape was nice, The landscape was quiet, The landscape was.... peaceful. Alex hadn't realized how the snow seemed to dampen the sounds of his feet as he waled through it. The nice "crunch" of the patchy snow was the most satisfying as it seemed to complete the picture.
A few minutes later, Alex had reached the beach. Alex hoped to get a quest complete screen but instead he got a quest link screen that directed to him that he would pick up is exp in bulk. His new quest was unreasonable.... at least Alex thought it was.
() Quest link! Strip down to your underwear and go for a SWIM! Reward: 20 EXP and a horrible cold ()
"WHAT TYPE OF REWARD IS THAT!?"
Alex exclaimed as he read the quest. The quest admittedly had told him that he would contract a cold... a horrible one at that... and while he wanted to decline the quest, 20 points of exp was nothing to scoff at, it was an automatic raise from level 2 to level 3. Not only that but his other quest would also be included in the coffers. His mind argued with himself and as a result it could he could be seen muttering to himself saying, to those who had not known of his ability, odd things because no one else could see the page that had caused this conflict in his mind.
After a long amount of deliberation his greed took hold and he grimaced. Alex stripped off his jackets first, and felt a cold wind pass by. Alex shivered and looked out onto the body of water in front of him. It looked almost frozen, with chunks of ice floating on top of it. Alex then quickly took off his cotton shirt and muttered to himself "This is worth it for the exp!" Alex finally took off his pants leaving him in his boxers.
"WELL" Alex screamed "NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED"
Alex started walking to the water.
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Post by Amethyst Rain on Feb 2, 2017 0:05:18 GMT -5
Admittedly, Elleko's current way of passing her free time could be considered unorthodox. Even given her gills, webbed digits, fins, tail, and the like, going out in the freezing cold ocean was not exactly normal. Built as she was for deep-sea excursions, she was still from warm and even tropical waters. But to go all winter without a swim--a real swim in the ocean--was akin to an addict going a full season without a fix, and she found herself homesick and antsy quickly. So she'd found herself at the beach earlier in the day, going for a nice, long swim to make herself feel better.
At the moment she was fairly deep below the surface. Despite the cold she was very much enjoying herself, gills flared as she sped along, scattering what fish crossed her path. Like all of her kind she was sleek, agile, and lightning-fast in the water, contrary to her clumsy self on land, and she added a few corkscrew-twirls and hairpin turns to her zigzagging path just for fun. Nothing bothered her and she bothered nothing, and to her it was a perfect swim. But eventually the cold began to seep through her tough skin, just enough to notice, and she thought she must have been underwater for an hour or more, so she turned reluctantly in the direction of shore. Even if she wasn't quite as sensitive to the cold as most people she could still get sick from being out here too long.
It was easy to find the beach; Elleko only had to follow the scents of land. The trip back was quick and she soon surfaced where she could stand with her head abovewater, pushing sopping-wet black hair out of her face. She pushed it back just in time to see an unfamiliar boy strip to his underwear on the beach. Her eyes widened and she gave a squeak of surprise, unable to look away though a vivid blush colored her cheeks at the sight.
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Post by Jinxed on Feb 2, 2017 1:10:34 GMT -5
Alex, who wasn't expecting anyone in the area at the time, was already knee deep in the water when he registered a squeak. While he should have seen the girl rise up from the water, he was too focused on his goal to notice and had haphazardly dashed towards the water after screaming like a barbarian. Now that he had noticed, He stared for a second and registered the situation at hand in his mind. After making the proper connections between the fact that he was almost naked and the person in front of him was a girl, he blushed for a second and proceeded to dip his whole body other than his head under the water.
() Alex had three dialogue options: "Hello!" "If you are going to stare, take a picture it'll last longer" "W-Who are y-you and w-why are you here? Don't you know its bad for you to go swimming in the w-winter....pervert!" ()
Alex went with the the out of character tsundere answer:
"W-Who are y-you and w-why are you here? Don't you know its bad for you to go swimming in the w-winter....pervert!"
Alex tried his best to act as if he was perfectly justified to be there at the time. The cold was already getting to him. The pins and needles that are commonly associated with skin getting too cold raced throughout his body as he sat in the cold ocean. The cold had made his skin numb and his teeth to chatter as he sat. The girl in front of him seemed on the shorter side. had gills, and seemed slightly cute though he would not admit that as he was in only his underwear and he was extremely embarrassed.
"I-I'm just here for an i-innocent, planned swim!"
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Post by drakehensley on Feb 2, 2017 1:17:27 GMT -5
Nina enjoyed her walks through the wood in silence, she frequently carried a book with her and read while wandering aimlessly up and down the coast of the beach and through the woods when she felt like being outside. The sand always felt great to her bare feet and it reminded her of the island she grew up on. She came through some of the forest thicket too the shore and saw Elleko, the shark-girl rise out of the water and squeak just as another boy from Foresta...Alex she remembered his name was...yelled and ran into the ice-cold water in his underwear. She kept her book in her hand and slowly approached, watching the scene but not interfering.
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Post by Amethyst Rain on Feb 2, 2017 1:18:20 GMT -5
For what seemed to her to be a stretch of time that lasted hours, but was probably in reality only about thirty long, awkward seconds, Elleko continued to stare in stunned silence. And then her shy nature came flooding back to her with a vengeance and she quickly looked away, face heating up even further as she realized exactly how long she'd been staring at him. And not only had she been staring, but he was almost naked and she was acutely aware of the way her sundress--the easiest thing for her to swim in, as it stayed out of the way and was far more comfortable for her than any kind of bathing suit--was soaked through and clung to her skin. She frantically scrambled out of the water, tail curled around her almost protectively, and it took three attempts to speak before her soft voice actually worked.
"M-m-m-my n-name is...E-Elleko," she told him in answer to his question, her stutter worsened by the situation. "I-I was j-just...I j-just w-wanted to s-s-swim...um...I m-mean, I d-didn't mean t-to s-scare you, I-I..." At this point she realized she was essentially babbling and trailed off into silence, unsure of what to do next.
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Post by Jinxed on Feb 2, 2017 1:39:25 GMT -5
Alex started shivering even more, his core body temperature dropping as he sat. He had looked at the girl scramble out as he sat in the water. Her..... sundress was stuck to her body and... Alex blushed and looked away. He couldn't deal with looking at her any longer, it would have been dangerous.
As Alex looked away he heard a bing, which signified the end of his quest and the contraction of a horrible cold.
He listened to the girl talk; The girl's name was Elleko and she seemed to have the same idea as him, other than the fact that he could die from being in the water for too long. The girl seemed a little shy as she stuttered and after trailed off. Alex, thinking he had made her feel bad felt guilty and decided to try and apologize.
"M-M-My a-a-apologies, I-I w-was J-Just surprised I didn't M-Mean to B-be mean"
The water started to become.... warmer.... and he started to nod off, he knew that he shouldn't sleep in the hyper cold water as it could lead to death, but the water was so... comfortable.
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Post by Amethyst Rain on Feb 2, 2017 1:51:35 GMT -5
"O-oh, y-you w-weren't...I-I m-mean, it...i-it's o-okay," Elleko stammered out, surprised by his apology. She hadn't meant to make him feel bad, and she had no idea how to fix it. She'd never been good in social situations; having lived in the ocean for the first nine years of her life she'd missed some critical social development, she guessed, when it came to humans. After all, her kind only really communicated via scent and body language. She wrapped her arms around herself self-consciously, realizing once again how awkward the situation was, and looked at anywhere but Alex for a moment before realizing something was wrong. He looked...tired.
With a jolt she remembered that most people weren't meant to be in the water for long periods of time, especially in the cold. And especially wearing so little, she was sure. Could he be getting sick? Did he need help? He didn't look like he was intending to get out anytime soon. As he looked rather less responsive than he had a moment before she hesitated only another second before heading back into the water towards him. Her hands shook as she grabbed his arms and pulled him towards the shore, a somewhat slow and bumpy process given her small stature, though effective.
The second he was clear of the water she let go, unceremoniously dropping him into the sand, and stepped away. "Y-you...you sh-shouldn't b-be in the c-cold w-water i-in that," she told him quietly, looking away.
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Post by drakehensley on Feb 2, 2017 1:56:13 GMT -5
In seeing Elleko drag the boy out of the water, Nina came down the shoreline, scrawling on paper as she did with a concerned look. She put the piece of paper by Elleko's face that read "Am I interrupting something?" She then realized that was what she had written down when she first arrived and turned the paper around to the other, more appropriate side, "Does he need help?
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Post by Jinxed on Feb 2, 2017 2:08:24 GMT -5
Alex almost fell asleep, his brain had become cloudy as he sat in the ocean. He heard the girl jump back into the water and splash up to him. He wondered why, he was in a nice and warm pocket of water in the winter ocean. She then proceeded to pull him out in a rough manner and plopped him onto the soft, cold sand. She had said something but he didn't really understand. He also had seen another person pop out of the bushes, but he didn't hear her say anything.
"Youuuu knowwww what I'm cold"
Alex's speech was labored as he sat in the sand wet, sick, and only in his boxers.
"Can I put my clothes back on? I mean after I wash off in that bath over there"
Alex had pointed toward the ocean again, thinking it was a bath. Hypothermia had muddled his thought and made his speech barely understandable.
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Post by Amethyst Rain on Feb 2, 2017 2:17:28 GMT -5
Elleko hesitated, trying to understand what he was talking about. "B-bath?" she echoed, following his pointed finger towards the ocean. "Th-that's...that's the o-ocean and y-you sh-shouldn't...n-no," she finished finally. "But y-you sh-should g-get...d-d-dressed." Her voice turned into something closer to a squeak once again at this last word and she awkwardly shuffled another step or two away from him. The last boy she'd talked to had been her twin brother; her experience even being in close proximity to them added up to a resounding zero, and with his lack of clothing and odd behavior combined with this she was completely and totally out of her element and at a loss as for what to do about it. "And w-we sh-should g-get...I-I d-don't know, b-blankets or s-something."
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Post by drakehensley on Feb 2, 2017 2:23:52 GMT -5
Nina opened her mouth for a moment, then closed it and looked around. Her concern for her fellow student mounted and she tried to think of a way to help him from his hypothermia.
Her empirical analysis of the surroundings yielded but one result.
There were not any blankets nearby.
She had what one could call a spark (Ha) of inspiration as she knelt down by Alex and looked into his mildly coherent eyes and thought about the pros and cons of shocking him. Isn't that what lifeguards did on the beach? Could she be used as a defibrillator? Whatever that was...
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Post by Jinxed on Feb 2, 2017 2:37:35 GMT -5
Alex, who was slowly regaining his cognitive facilities, realized that he had been lacking clothes and that the girl in front of him was eyeing him with an almost unsure look. The girl was shorter than the other and seemed to have darker coloured hair and blue coloured eyes. She seemed to gravitate towards her hands. Whatever she was about to do she didn't seem sure and Alex didnt want to take part of it.
"Can someone bring me my clothes, I am quite embarrassed at the moment."
Alex then sits up and stretches, his head aching and his body shivering, a couple seconds later he is seized by a coughing fit and laid back down. His body weak, not so weak as to not walk but weak enough to lose his breath from coughing.
"D*** quest" Alex muttered
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Post by Amethyst Rain on Feb 2, 2017 2:45:52 GMT -5
Now that was something Elleko could actually do. She jumped into action at his request, carefully looking away from Alex as much as possible as she gathered his clothes and brought them black to him. Holding them out she found her voice once again to ask, "W-why...why w-were y-you g-going s-swimming...i-in...th-that?" She was far from brave or comfortable enough to specify, but she hoped that 'that' would understandably encompass the fact that he was in nothing but boxers, which, even to somebody as lacking in understanding of human customs as her, seemed like a terrible idea. Not only for the potential health-related hazards, but the sheer embarrassment of their entire situation. Even fully-clothed Elleko felt self-conscious.
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Post by Jinxed on Feb 2, 2017 3:03:29 GMT -5
To answer Elleko's question he would have to divulge something relatively private, but considering that she had saved his life he mght as well.
"I had gotten a quest off of my game ability, and sadly it required me to do this.... embarrassing act"
He had went into a tangent about his abilities and how they prompt him in order for him to gain experience which in turn makes him level up. He then went on how he had gotten a chain quest to this place and how it required him to swim in his underwear. After revealing the information he felt quite exposed because whoever knew about his ability would probably acertain he would be relatively weak at the moment and he didn't like it.
"Why were you here Elleko, and did you bring this other girl with you?"
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Post by Amethyst Rain on Feb 2, 2017 12:07:28 GMT -5
Elleko listened in patient silence, taking in the information and trying to process. She nodded at what seemed to her like the appropriate times, though she certainly didn't understand all of it. Video games had never been something she was familiar with--her surrogate human family played them, especially the boys, but every time she'd tried to join them she'd found that her webbed hands made it difficult to manage so she'd mostly watched and, as such, had not understood the whole experience incredibly well. But she thought she understood the gist of what he was saying.
At his question she blushed again, her cheeks flaring violet rather than red due to the blue-gray hue of her skin. "O-oh, n-no," she said, glancing to Nina amd shaking her head. "I-I j-just...I w-wanted to g-go for a...a s-swim," she told him softly, flicking her finned tail back and forth.
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