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EVENT: The Great BREW Malfunction Pt II [OPEN]

Characters: Everyone and anyone
Location: Anywhere in Death City!
Rating: PG-13
Time: July 16 to July 18th
Description: And then it gets worse.

By now, no one is popping in and out of existence, but that's hardly any consolation when odd things keep happening.

At first it's not that bad. An innocuous item or two shows up. Something harmless wanders around that you're sure has never been in Death City before.

By the second day, bigger and more dangerous things start showing up and by the third...

Well.

As long as you don't mind the giant pieces of debris or creatures blocking the road or the sky, it's not that bad, right?

((OOC: List of canon items and creatures arriving can be found here. Remember, the list only tells you where they initially show up. They'll probably move on soon enough to a new location.

Remember to put Character | Location | OPEN/CLOSED in your subject!))

Open Threads
Sephiroth and Cloud
Amaterasu
Keroro
Edgeworth
Trucy
Aqua
Hyoubu
Eve
Hiro
Morgan
Clopin
L
Alucard
Light
Neji
Lily
Psii
Raidou
Takuto

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As fate would have it, it just so happened to be that Shinji was the lucky passerby that Hamel would introduce to the effects of the Pot of Greed. Mercifully, the younger boy had recently gotten himself a set of headphones what were pretty much indispensable when it came to taking a stroll on his own, so while he caught that Hamel had said something to him, the exact nature of the statement remains something of a mystery. He blinked a little in surprise, going to remove said headphones in order to hear him a little more clearly, when...

"Whoa!"

He jumps back a little as the cards are presented, and pauses for a second or two to see if he can't try and make some sort of sense on what just happened.... Nope. He's lost.

"H-how did you do that...?"

Hamel was giving the pot a dirty look and he nudged it back to the side of the building warily. "Pull cards out of a pot?" He asked the other young man dryly, thinking it was a stupid question. "Oh, hey, it's you." He gives Shinji another slow look. The cellist and thoughtful look more interested in the wires to his ears than anything else. "Just shoved my hand in and they were inside." He pointed out. "Want em?" He offers the cards to Shinji absently. "What're those?" He points to the wires.

Shinji gaves the cards a curious look, though he didn't get much of a chance to get a good look at them before the question was presented.

"Eh? My headphones?" He finally managed to lightly tug one of the buds from his ear in order for Hamel to get a better look at it. "I was just listening to some music."

He plucks the bud out of Shinji's hand and squints at it. Then leans close and can hear sort of tinny, tiny music emanating still. And of course it sounds pretty bad when it's not actually in your ear so of course he hands it back with a "It sound like shit man. Why would you shove that in your ear?" The cards get tucked away in his cloak and he turns in the direction he'd been originally going, interestingly enough, the same direction Shinji was headed, starting to walk, expecting Shinji to just keep going with him.

Hamel's disapproval of the music is met with a mildly dejected sort of look, Shinji not quite getting his unfamiliarity with the technology and instead took it as a jab at the music. ~~Good job idiot.~~ Rather than trying to make a defense, however, he's left feeling a little bewildered when Hamel continued on his way. Since they were both headed in the same direction, though, Shinji did follow, at a few paces behind the blond.

"S-so... um, ave you been doing fine with all the weird stuff that's been going on...?" Oh yeah. Time for some awkward as hell small talk.

"Some of it's pretty annoying." Hamel replied, knitting his fingers together behind his head and glancing back at Shinji. "But I guess it's kind of normal where I'm from." He shrugged. "Stupid shit happening ya know. "I swear I saw a piano that belongs to this guy I know. And there are these cactus? Man, you could sit across the street and watch that four hours. It's hilarious. So it's not all bad I guess. Those damn fingers just keep popping up and pointing at crap and they make no fucking sense."

He tilted his head up to look at the sky. "Someone broke something, I figure."

"I can't imagine anything this odd being normal." The sort of strangeness he's used to dealing with was on a little less on the 'crazy' side and a little more 'terrifying'. All he could hope was that nothing he found familiar pops up, even if it were to be something innocuous, he still didn't think it would bode well for the city.

"I think it probably has something to do with the thing that brought us all here. At least, that would make sense..." He didn't sound particularly confident in his assessment, however. "I just wish it wasn't so hard to avoid some of the stuff that's been showing up."

"I live in a world with loads of weirdass demons. So I guess you just get used to it." He glances to the side at Shinji. "Most worlds have weirdass stuff though so I figure you're just used to whatever's in yours."

Hamel wasn't very good at paying attention but he did vaugley remember someone showing him a little thingy that was supposed to be at fault for all this shit. Really with a mom who opened Pandora's box he knows tiny things can fuck everything up. For instance that red car sticking out of the ground over there shining proudly in the sunlight.

"Something smash you or something?" Hamel asked curiously.

Weirdness is pretty subjective, so he can't really bring himself to argue that first point. Not that he particularly 'got used' to Angel attacks but whatever.

"A-ah, not exactly. Some of the things that are showing up are kind of... a little too in-your-face, you know?" He wasn't sure if that's the best way to put it, but as if to prove a point, one of those ridiculous looking trashbots made its way across their path at a very leisurely pace.

Unfortunately Hamel kind of machine rolls over everyone else in general so he doesn't seem at all concerned that Shinji might not share his opinions, everyone should share his opinions. His opinions are amazing.

Hamel's eyes tracked the trash bot and he continued walking. "'dja see the punching cactus? Man that could provide entertainment for an entire day." He grinned nostalgically as they crossed a street, the park now in view. "I saw it just take down this guy. Dude never knew what hit him." A cactus. A cactus hit him.

The most amazing opinions. At least Shinji won't argue with him over them, for whatever that's worth.

But, unfortunately, as with his opinions, Shinji seemed to lack the same views on humor that Hamel does. So rather than being amused, he looked more concerned about this information. "I... did not see that." Then, in an uncertain tone, "A punching cactus?" That's one he'll have to keep a watch for, getting hit by a cactus sounds painful.

Shinji compliments Hamel by being a pushover. Hamel likes him.

"Yeah, it just sort of turned and socked a guy in the face. That's gonna hurt like a bitch to get all the needles out." He makes a motion with his hand to indicate how the guy just dropped, smacking his other hand to imitate hitting the ground. As they entered the park he glanced around, looking for oddities. Just in case. Because watching a cactus punch someone was a million times better than being the one getting punched. "I hear you can eat cactus."

He has to have some kind of redeeming quality, right?

He grimaces a little at Hamel's demonstration, though he opts to not try and continue that line of conversation any further - just thinking about it hurt. That second comment he made, however, came as something of a surprisingly tame topic change. Unless, you know. Hamel was implying that the punching cactus should be eaten. Best not to dwell on the thought for too long.

"I didn't know that." And Shinji sounds genuinely interested! "Do you think you'd have to cook it first?"

He has lots of them. They probably won't sound flattering though if Hamel lists them off.

"Yeah, someone said it." He waves a hand dismissively. "I think it's like fruit, you just... you know get rid of the spiney bits and eat the inside. So you could probably cook it." Hamel just enjoys eating completely inedible things. So the idea of catching and devouring something that can beat the crap outta you is kind of fun. "Betcha could just crack the round ones right open. Like a coconut."

"Huh." He'd have to tuck that idea away in case the opportunity ever presented itself. After all, they're in the desert, it's not like cacti would be hard to come by.

It's Shinji's turn to take a look around the park, and as he did, a thought occurred to him. "I've heard a bunch of people saying they were changed from weapons to meisters and vice versa right before BREW started bringing in all these weird things." There was a curious sort of tone to his voice, hoping that Hamel would follow his line of thought with that statement.

Hamel was imagining the inside of punchy cactii when Shinji brought up the new topic. It took him a second to let it sink in before turning back to Shinji and blinking stupidly. "They whah? Why did they do that?" You'll figure it out Hamel. But maybe Shinji better clarify to save time. Because he plays dumb really freaking well.

And a look of surprise from Shinji.

"I'm... not sure, really. But, you haven't hear that going around at all...?" He supposed it wasn't entirely out of the question that the information hadn't gotten around to Hamel yet. He paused for a very brief moment before deciding to sheepishly add, "I haven't been able to change into weapon form, either."

These are basic questions Shinji, you should have thought of these things. Hamel thinks you should have. He also thinks you're a little soft in the head though. His opinion, fortunately, isn't one you should be terribly concerned about. "I didn't hear anything about that. I didn't know you could just..."

He paused and then turned a bit pink and snickered like Shinji had just said 'butt' or something equally juvenile.

"That must be embarrassing."

Wow rude Hamel.

But Shinji's not so petty that he'd take that too personally. Too personally.

"W-well, I'm pretty sure it isn't a normal thing to happen." Other than instances where BREW takes some of the guests away for extended time, of course. That is something he's heard of being fairly normal before.

That's just how he rolls. Rudely.

"So weapons can usually... perform?" He asked, still clearly entertained by the innuendo. "Maybe you didn't get enough sleep?" Because clearly Shinji didn't drink too much, he's way too goody goody to get all boozed and impotent.

He turned and looked assessingly at Shinji, trying to keep a straight face. "Try again."

Shinji did not appreciate the innuendo, but before he can work up the courage to say anything over it, he was met with Hamel's order. The look he gave in return was caught somewhere between flat, irritated, and exasperated.

"I've been trying." He had made more than a few attempts at it, after all, even after hearing from a handful of others that this problem was affecting quite a number of the other guests. "What I usually do hasn't worked, and the only other way I know of is by triggering a danger response."

... His tone sounded much like the other option was out of the question, but it may not have been the wisest idea to bring it up in the first place.

Hamel knows that look. He knows that look because everyone gives it to him. So it looks pretty normal to him.

"You want me to put you in danger?" Hamel can do that. Hamel can do that and piss five people off in the process. Or he could just hit him or something. Did that make people turn into weapons? Or was that not life threatening enough.

"Absolutely not." Wonder of wonders, Shinji's tone was actually very firm on the matter. That's awfully unusual for the typically flaky and easily pushed around teen.

"Besides, if it's giving me this much trouble at all, there has to be something bigger wrong." It made enough sense to him, at least, he'd never had a problem with transforming after getting the hang of it. Maybe Hamel just didn't understand, since he didn't have the same role, he thought.

Well, when did Shinji get a backbone. It doesn't actually give Hamel much pause but he does notice it. "Don't say I didn't try to help, man. What kind of weapon were you anyway? Maybe I could make something for you. I'm pretty good at that shit. It wouldn't cost you too much." It always costs too much when Hamel's involved unless he really really wants someone to wear his stuff.

The display of resolve is only really kind of impressive when in context, any normal person wouldn't hesitate to protect themselves from danger. Jeez, Shinji.

"A... knife." He's not sure where Hamel was trying to take this. Make him... a spare weapon? That didn't sound all that appealing, honestly. "I-it's fine, though, don't worry that much about it. It's... probably not a permanent thing."

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