Loksfjoer

Paranormal Activities [SporkoBug and Calle]

Benjamin turned to Steph when he heard her words and had a smile for her before he opened the door and stepped inside. As he had expected, the room was the same as his and the one Steph had before.
A new start. Hopefully Steph would be more at ease now she had her new room; she needed a place where she could rest after an emotional day like today. Maybe he could buy a small gift for her.

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Stuart wrote down the characteristics as he examined Rose's body with a professional eye. Once he had written down what he needed to and took some obligatory pictures, he told Rose she could get dressed again.
"The agency can tailor some new uniforms for you," he informed her. "Please keep me informed about any changes you noticed: dietary, sleep pattern, habits. You are free to go and if I have additional questions I will know where to find you."

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"That's not important right now," Alex said. "Let's focus on building this fence. You got quite a terrain that will need to be closed off." He nodded to the talking spider and continued with his work.

Zombies! (Lyly & Calle - Dutch RP)

"Ach ja, ik heb goed opgelet op de dokterschool," merkte Andy vrolijk op als antwoord op Mae's opmerking dat het knap was dat hij wist hoe hij de zombie had kunnen uitschakelen. Haar bedankje nam hij met een glimlach in ontvangst en hij haalde zijn schouders lichtjes op toen ze opmerkte dat ze niet had verwacht dat hij voor haar de held zou uithangen.

Hij volgde Mae naar de deuropening en keek eerst naar haar toen ze verbleekte, daarna langs haar naar buiten. Andy vloekte zacht en opende de auto met het knopje op zijn sleutel. "Dan gaan we. In de auto zijn we sneller en we rijden naar het volgende tankstation. Hopelijk hebben we daar meer geluk, want hier heb ik geen benzine gevonden." Het volgende tankstation konden ze nog wel halen, dat erna ook. Dan zouden ze echt in de problemen komen.

Samen met Mae ging hij naar de auto en hij keek naar de zombies. Die zouden de achtervolging vast wel opgeven als ze uit het zicht waren, maar dat wilde niet zeggen dat ze geen nieuwe zombies konden tegenkomen.

Snel ging hij de auto in en hij wachtte tot Mae ook zat, zonder haar zou hij niet wegrijden. Maar hij stak wel al de sleutel in het contact zodat ze meteen konden wegrijden.

"Wat voor lekkers heb jij trouwens als voorraad?" vroeg hij. "Ik heb aardig wat gevonden in de keuken van het ziekenhuis, de kleine keukens van afdelingen, en in de snoepautomaten zat ook nog het een en ander."

A Trainers Ambition [SporkoBug and Calle]

"Okay, fine," Penalopy replied. "The problem won't go away because no-one wants to brings it up though~" she added cheerfully. "I'll see you outside again!"
She floated to James and together they went outside.

Michael greeted Mindy when she joined them, and sat in silence because Mindy sat down next to Niccia to talk with her. It was good to see them get along; Mindy was a friend after all. He picked up his Cyndaquil, who seemed really nervous about it all and tickled him a bit.
"Will you be in your true form during StarFall?" he asked Frosiien, not paying much attention to the girls next to him.

"I'm going to get breakfast first and then..." she moved a little closer to Niccia. "Change into the dress I bought for this occasion," she whispered. "Then I'll be ready for today. Maybe we can both go to our rooms after I ate and let the boys wait outside for us."

RPGC: General Discussion

To give a sneak preview of what is to come in the last months of 2020:

In October there will be a new RPGC writing contest and even though the last art contest didn't go very well, I'm going to host a new one. Maybe this one will go better.

In November there will be no contest on the site as it is NaNoWriMo.

At the beginning of December there will be a microfiction and poetry contest again, keeping the rest of December free for the holidays.

And we'll start the new year big with both an RPGC and an Art contest.

So keep an eye on the sidebar and the Writing Contest and Gallery subforums :)

Zombies! (Lyly & Calle - Dutch RP)

Tegen beter weten in probeerde Andy toch even alle benzinepompen, maar dit was hopeloos. Misschien hadden ze bij het volgende tankstation meer geluk. In de stilte die heerste viel het geluid van vallende spullen op en Andy draaide zich met een ruk om naar de winkel.

"Mae?" riep hij terwijl hij ernaartoe ging. "Alles goed daarbinnen?" Had ze zich bezeerd? Hij keek door de deur naarbinnen en zijn ogen moesten even wennen aan het weinige licht in de winkel. En toen zag hij de zombie.

Zijn geluk was dat als een zombie eenmaal een slachtoffer had, dat ze daar meestal op gefixeerd bleven. Hij sloop behoedzaam op de twee af, af en toe omkijkend om te zien of er niet nog een zombie tevoorschijn kwam, en haalde een zakmes uit zijn achterzak. Terwijl hij het mes openklapte stapte hij op de zombie af. Nu kwam zijn medische kennis goed van pas. Na een moment van mikken stak hij het mes tussen twee ruggenwervels en sneed.

De zombie liet een schreeuw horen, eerder van woede dan van pijn en wilde zich omdraaien, maar door de schep ging dat niet. Terwijl Andy achteruit ging zakte ze zombie door haar benen.

Dit zou hem nooit gelukt zijn in een aanval; een mes als deze kon een zombie niet ver genoeg van hem weghouden. Maar met de aandacht op Mae had hij haar wel kunnen uitschakelen. "Zombie of niet," zei Andy, "ze hebben nog steeds het centrale zenuwstelsel nodig voor hun motoriek. Maar dat was knap hoe je die zombie op afstand kon houden."

Nobody Will Believe It [SporkoBug and Calle]

The doctor gave a curt nod and turned to his work again.

"Right," Benjamin said. "Ray, you stay in bed and when the doctor notices you are fine again he will discharge you. Come look for us when you are free again." He glanced over his shoulder. "Ari will stay with you, Dia can't. She's not a spirit at the moment and they will notice she is here." He placed his hand on her arm and showed a friendly smile. "Take care, we'll see you two soon."

He stepped back, looked around for nurses and went to find Dia so they could quickly leave before the medical staff would ask annoying questions.

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"You did great," Marc said as he took his tickets too. He was glad Sara seemed to be enjoying herself here. It was good to remember. Maybe next time they could go bowling or something.
"Would you care for another game?" he asked as he looked around. "A shooter perhaps? I'd challenge you to dance battle, but I really suck at that game." He laughed a bit as he rubbed the back of his neck. "You'd beat me within a minute."

A Trainers Ambition [SporkoBug and Calle]

As Andy walked outside, Penalopy made herself visible but she kept low to keep herself hidden from human eyes. "Well, yes, he hasn't been good, but was he officially banned from our ranks by Arceus? Because if Arceus didn't Darkai can still enter StarFall. And Arceus can only ban Pokémon if there is evidence his rules were broken. Darkrai is cunning, he'll know how to cover the tracks that lead to him, so while we suspect he is behind a lot, there are things we can't prove, can we? And torturing a human, as sad as it is, is for several of our family not really important, that doesn't break any rules, because humans torture Pokémon too, according to them."

Michael listened to Frosiien and Penalopy. He had felt better when Frosiien listed all the reasons why Darkrai wouldn't be welcome, but that feeling soon dissolved when Penalopy countered with her question and remarks. He hoped Darkrai was banned, but if the others still saw him as a legendary Pokémon too, he might not be.

Mindy entered the common room and noticed the large group of humans and Pokémon, recognising most of them. She walked over, quickly waved at Gavin and went to where Niccia and Michael were.
"This probably isn't the best location to be gathering," she said. "Soon we'll see more trainers entering and leaving this place and a group this big draws attention to itself."

Paranormal Activities [SporkoBug and Calle]

When Steph nodded, Benjamin went to the door and walked to her new room. The furniture there would be the same as in her old room; just the basic needs to allow agents to change their clothes and sleep there. He walked passed the dent in the wall where Gaia had crashed into. That would have to be repaired, but it probably would take a day or two before there would be people working on it.

What an eventful day. Hopefully the next day would be a little less exciting.

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"We are getting quite divers, yes," Stuart said, "although not by choice I'd say. I mean, sure, they accepted the dragongirl and the aliengirl as agents, and in the past the agency had hired a vampire or a demon as special agent for specific missions, but that is rare. The recent changes were unplanned and transformed agents that cause no harm can't be discharged, according to Article 12. I'm sure you are still wanted, but I wouldn't use the recent events to say the agency as a whole is more divers and open to agents of other kinds."

He had opened the program where he could make the new file and he started typing the things he already knew. "When you're ready, and if you consent, would you please undress so I can examine your body?"

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The agent looked at the hand, then at the spider who apparantly was called Y'moph, and he quickly shook it. "Alex. The poles are over there, Jim overhere has the map they have to be put in the ground. We'll add a gate too and give they key of the lock to you, so you can leave when you need to."
He noticed he got a message and took his phone to check it. "Oh, and our agency has some questions about the transformation of our agent, if you have time for that."

Microfiction and Poetry Contest Hall of Fame

MF&P #2 - Stars

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Interstellar

Oh look to the heavens and despair,
Stare into the emptiness from below,
No distant beauty that was never there,
Fair stars which burned out long ago,

They who once had shined so bright,
Night must come to follow every day,
May stars guide us by their dying light,
Might we too soon lose our way,

Centuries traveled to reach the eye,
Why journey forth as distant memories,
Sentries blinking hung upon painted sky,
Die then in your cosmic serenity,

One by one winks out each star,
Far fates destined to be undone,
None remain reaps the repertoire,
Are certain ends which had begun,

Trust in them who are gone,
Spawn ripples as they combust,
Just as from them we live on,
Dawns a new star from the dust.

Microfiction&Poetry contest #2 - voting and feedback

The voting period has now closed. With a diverse set of entries, we had a diverse set of votes.

Stars, The Stars and Written In The Stars each got one vote, but the winner is Interstellar with 2 votes.

Interstellar will be added to the hall of fame soon.

I want to thank everyone who joined; I enjoyed reading your take on the prompt. And I want to thank the reviewers and voters too.

To give a sneak preview of what is to come:
In October there will be a new RPGC writing contest and even though the last art contest didn't go very well, I'm going to host a new one.
In November there will be no contest on the site as it is NaNoWriMo.
At the beginning of December there will be a microfiction and poetry contest again.
And we'll start the new year big with both an RPGC and an Art contest.

So keep an eye on the sidebar and the Writing Contest and Gallery subforums.