goobies: eternal night | continue the story... (closed)

[cinerious]

username: cinerious
day: 1

goob: Billie Crendor
choice: try to save someone and run away!
response:

[solos]

username: solos
day: 1

goob: cookie
choice: 1 [to run away]
response: Cookie freezes upon sight before bolting!

[castiiian]

DAY 1 RESULTS
option 1: run away! (9/10 chance of success)

you get away safely.
nio - neo - 3 coins
fruitbat - dennis - 1 coin
annaebell - soleil - 5 coins
solos - cookie - 4 coins

you manage to get away, but take 5 points of drowsiness.
goodrage - inori - 3 coins
imabanditø - pitre - 3 coins
eatingtuna - maur - 5 coins

option 2: try to save someone and run away! (7/10 chance of success)

you get away safely, and even learn how to fend off the sleepiness. (+25 wakefulness)
AliMonHun - alistaire - 1 coin
nio - cass - 3 coins
goodrage - zeta - 5 coins
caeleesi - kreios - 1 coin
bakuraas. - acryl - 5 coins
polluux. - navy - 5 coins
polluux. - crimson - 3 coins
sushibeans - jemini - 1 coin
sushibeans - moonstone - 1 coin
riley ♥ - wrasse - 5 coins
annaebell - bubs - 5 coins
lupiine - sawyer - 1 coin
rabbit.tears - luv - 6 coins
cinerious - crendor - 5 coins

you can barely manage to get to safety and take 25 points of drowsiness.
griff - grim - 5 coins
saeli - tanzi - 3 coins
imabanditø - neptune - 5 coins
imabanditø - atlas - 3 coins
strawberrymwilk - sadie - 4 coins

option 3: save someone! (5/10 chance of success)

you were lucky enough to escape and defend yourself from the night. (+50 wakefulness)
griff - davey jones - 5 coins
caeleesi - dango - 1 coin
eevee55 - kaze - 5 coins
strawberrymwilk - elowyn - 4 coins

you barely escaped, and were inflicted with 50 points of drowsiness.
saeli - felicity - 3 coins
polluux. - lilac - 5 coins
fruitbat - caillou - 1 coin
riley ♥ - eos - 5 coins

the following users take extra drowsiness, for submitting both art and writing.

strawberrymwilk - 50 drowsiness
rabbit.tears - 5 drowsiness

day 2 is now open!

[Caeleesi]

username: caeleesi
day: 2

goob: Kreios
choice: Ingredient Gathering . . .
response:


goob: Dango
choice: Ingredient Gathering . . .
response:

[Griff]

username: Griff
day: 2

goob: Grim
choice: Introduce himself and then get to work!
response:

Maybe it was greed on his part to try and rescue them both. It certainly was not logical, considering his size and status. He was not a demigob, he was but one small diab! And so, as he tried to gently pull and grab his friends to safety, he found he could feel the exhaustion creeping in. No no no. He had to stay awake, for their sake! If he fell asleep he would never get answers, he'd never be able to help them! And they would help him if the roles were reversed right? He remembered when he had first met both of them... nobody had cared about faction lines. They were not two agels and their tagal0ong diab. They were SPOOKI. Friends.

Eventually, to his surprise, a bubble scooped up his companions. He blinked. Bubbles. Where had bubbles come from? He squinted in the darkness, until he could see faint glowing blue stripes. Well that did not answer any questions. Were some of them wiggling? Nevermind, now was NOT the time for questions! He helped guide the bubbles containing his friends to the same direction everyone was traveling in. He was not sure who had said this was the way to go.. but it felt right. And so he followed.

And then, finally, shelter. Other diabs helped guide his friends onto soft cushions, makeshift shelter for all the sleeping agels. He had a sinking feeling some diabs even might be joining them soon, for as he looked around he could see a few with rings under their eyes or fighting off yawns. He had to choke a yawn down himself, feeling the strain from his earlier efforts. Not yet. He was not done yet. He sighed out, ears twitching briefly back. What had started this all so quickly? What was the catalyst? What were they all going to d-

Oh. He blinked as a cup of tea was pressed into his hands and looked towards his hosts finally. "My name is Kyrkogrim, most call me Grim," he explained. "My friends and I we are explorers in the supernatural, helping goobies who cannot help themselves or find themselves the target of myths and legends..." he explained. "Like the other agels they just... fell asleep..." His ears twitch back again, worry lacing his features. "I just want my friends back... we just met each other..." he adds quieter, before the pair he now knew as Bram and Rune started to speak again.

"Oh! Oh you have a plan! That's fantastic! Of course I will help in any way I can! In all the ways I can!" He was more alert now, even as he sipped on the tea offered to him. Or so he thought, until a small chink of dark goo was pulled off of him. He shuddered lightly, that it had been there and he had been too tired and buy to notice.

"Dreams to shatter?" he asks. "You are just being melodramatic right?" His head tilts slightly before he decides he had best not press. Sometimes even to an investigator it was better not to know. (519)

goob: Davey Jones
choice: Exploring the grounds!
response:
He really should have gone back home. He had no stake in this. He hardly knew anyone here. This wasn't even by his shores. He reckoned there was not even a single pirate here! That darn Calamity Jason would be smart enough to keep his crew away from this... chaotic mess. Keep them safe, keep them home or sheltered. No, those who scattered about running like a school of fish meeting a shark were unfamiliar to him. Why should he be familiar with them? They were not part of his domain. He had no right to care what happened to any of them.

Yet here he was, trying to save them. He was NOT a good guy. He was a ruthless pirate, known as the terror of the depths. He had a reputation to uphold. And yet, as he heard the soft voice of a diab thanking him, he sighed. His expression softened a moment. "Don't thank me yet ye landwalker. Get 'em all to safety firs'." And with that he continued to work, summoning more bubbles to aid in carrying the prone agels away. Why? Why was he doing this at all? It made no sense to him. There was no logic to staying here. No logic to helping. Not when... not when...

A voice from the distance past danced across his memories, laughing in his ancient ears. "Sleep well with the fishes and the rest of your kind..." Then the agel's weapon plunging deep in his skin as he was pushed into the depths. He never had known why. He never got to ask why, or even if she still was alive. Why, for those who had abandoned her, that she had betrayed him. His first mate, turned to the agels cause. It had been so very long ago hadn't it? So many had forgotten. And now... now their descendents not only made peace but tried to help each other. As thought the past battles were completely forgotten. Goobies had forgotten who they were, hadn;t they? had the agels had been forges as creatures of battle? The diabs...

Another voice, ushering him inside. He shook his head to clear it, finding a pair of diabs looking up at him. One pushes a cup of tea into his hands, which he awkwardly took as he listened. "I'm... going to go explore the place, find some clues," he offered afterwards. He did not have any bonds here. No reason to form alliances. He should just go back home. It would be easy to walk away from all of this chaos.

...And yet, he remained. He sipped the tea, just in time to see the second of the ones who had greeted him drink down a darker fluid. Davey Jones raised a both brows at that. Maybe the diabs of this generation were the ones now who were a few planks short of a ship. Shaking his head, he decided it was nor w or never. With his size and tentacles he could cover a lot of ground. Time to explore the... lands. Gross. (514)

[bakuraas.]

username: bakuraas.
day: 2

goob: acryl
choice: process everything that just happened
response:
i think he needs a second

[Eevee55]

username: Eevee55
day: 2

goob: Kaze
choice: Try to come up with ideas to help
response: It had startled Kaze when they saw a couple of diabs fall asleep. It seemed that whatever was happening, it was not just the agels who could be affected by it. Apparently, the diabs also could be forced to fall asleep. Though Kaze wanted to stay and keep helping the agels, and now the sleeping diabs too, he knew he would be no help to anyone if he fell asleep as well. So reluctantly, extremely reluctantly, they followed a group of diabs who were running away, but not without taking one more glance at the sleeping agels and diabs, thinking, 'I'm sorry. I don't think I'm able to save all of you yet. But I'll come back. I will find a way to save you, I won't give up until everyone is safe.'

As he ran, Kaze tried to think of a plan. There had to be something they could do to save everyone who had fallen asleep. The problem was, he was not sure exactly what was causing goobies to fall asleep. It did not seem like anyone else seemed to know what was going on either, especially with all of the confusion and chaos. Well, it seemed likely that the darkened sky was related to all of this somehow, since the goobies started falling asleep right after the sky went dark, but how could the sky be making goobies fall asleep? And how could it be stopped? Maybe if they could get closer to the accumulation of goo, they might be able to get a better idea of what was going on, but... Truthfully, Kaze wasn't sure if that was even possible, since it had always seemed to be far out of reach.

Besides, if it was involved in making the goobies fall asleep somehow, going closer to it was probably not a good idea anyway. At least for right now. But maybe, if he could find a way to approach it without falling asleep... Maybe it would be possible to gather some useful information about what was going on, and what could be done to help the sleeping goobies. When Kaze saw where the group was headed, they felt a little more hopeful. If anyone could find a way for Kaze to get closer to the goo without falling asleep, it was definitely Bram and Rune. Before he could suggest his admittedly not very well thought out plan, however, Bram and Rune gave the group of goobies some tasks. They wanted the group to collect ingredients in some locations marked on some maps, and to observe a specimen.

Kaze was happy to help, besides, this would give them some more time to build upon their idea. As desperately as he wanted to save everyone, he knew that just throwing himself blindly into danger probably wasn't going to fix anything. Maybe helping Bram and Rune gather ingredients and observe the specimen would give Kaze some better ideas, and it seemed like the scientists had a plan as well. So, Kaze nodded and set out to complete their tasks.

[SushiBeans]

username: SushiBeans
day: 2

goob: Jemini
choice: Gather ingredients
response:
After listening to Bram and Rune while sipping the offered tea Jemini felt brave enough to go out to attempt to gather ingredients. Wanting to help solve whatever seemed to be going on and wake up their friends they politely thank Bram for the tea before heading off assist with ingredient gathering.

[Polluux.]

username: Polluux.
day: 2

goob: Navy
choice: Waiting and processing the events.
response:

goob: Crimson
choice: Watching Lilac from the sidelines with June as they all try to figure out what's going on.
response:

goob: Lilac
choice: Trying to find out why Tangerine wont wake up.
response:

Lilac tugs at the wires connected to the youngest brother anxiously, running the test again. The results stayed the same, nothing was wrong. Their brother was mysteriously in a coma-like state apparently and nothing was showing up on any of the tests Lilac was running.

He growled and spun, pacing the length of the lab’s tiled floors and chirped loudly in irritation, tapping his paws against the ground and shaking his head. He could hear June and Crimson conversing in quiet tones from across the lab. Silaus had left to try and pilot the ship to a safe planet to land on.

The Diab turned back to his unconscious brother and walked over, lifting his head with his paws and twisting it gently around parting and looking over his fur trying to figure out what they were missing and what was wrong with him. He ran a paw over the back of Tangerine's skull checking for the hundredth time it felt like for any sort of bump or swelling.

He whined as he felt nothing once again, the fur and bone perfectly normal and fine and nothing felt wrong but everything was so horribly, terribly wrong because their youngest wasn’t waking up.

Lilac slowly dropped his head to the medical table, closing his eyes as he ran through every test they’d done so far trying and failing to see anything that had seemed off or wrong on any of them. He moved the paw that was on Tangerine’s head down to his shoulder blade and shook the orange goobie somewhat harshly with a sharp snarl.

“Wake up.” He snapped, watching as Tangerine only moved with the harsh shove limply, he blinked as he felt a muzzle nudge his shoulder and snapped his eyes towards it with a bleary glare.

Crimson was looking at him with sad eyes, “Lilac stop for a moment, we all need to go get something to eat. It's been hours.” He said gently nosing the younger one away from their comatosed brother.

“Tangerine hasn't eaten either.” Lilac said tonelessly shoving the older diab away which earned him a sharp sad whine in return. He turned his head towards June who was standing a few feet away from them and waited for her to speak knowing she’d voice her own worries if stared down long enough.

June was quiet as she watched them before sighing, “Crimson’s right Lilac, you need to eat. You're running on caffeine and spite as it is right now I'm assuming.” She said looking over at him as his expression shifted to a harsher glare at the betrayal.

He was about to growl at her before the lab doors beeped and opened, letting in Navy and Callisto who were carrying a few bags between the two, Navy put his down and motioned Callisto to do the same while he looked at them and signed ‘I am taking the liberty to assume Lilac’s no food in the Lab rule is abolished for the time being’.

Lilac nodded mutely as Navy nodded back and began pulling premade trays from the bags, setting them out and letting the others grab theirs before motioning Callisto to bring him the other bag they’d brought, tugging some jelly juice pouches from it and tossing them to the others.

“Do we have any idea what we’re going to even do if we manage to land?” June asked as she sat down with her food, the others all grimaced at the question. No doctor would know what to do with their brother, their entire genetic makeup was different from a normal space-wayfarer as it was.

Lilac just looked down at the tray before clicking his claws against the tile, “We’ll just have to do what we do best and play it as it goes.”

[633 Words]

[imabanditø]

username: imabanditø
day: 2

goob: atlas
choice: stare in confusion as bram and rune both drink the goo (without hesitation, at that)
response:

goob: neptune
choice: drink bram’s tea - hopefully it’ll help him calm down?
response:

goob: pitre
choice: question anything and everything - who decided to trust these two?
response: