wade into the water with me, wash my body down

[waiting]

WHO: Rick Bradbeary Bradbury and all you poor fucks who signed up for this or anyone who wants to gatecrash!
WHERE: Coney Island Boardwalk and around the City!
WHEN: December 29, 1PM until January 1st, midnight.
WARNINGS: Naked people, animals, probably a lot of cursing.
SUMMARY: It's all fun and games until someone turns into a polar bear.
FORMAT: Poster's choice!

this post is meant to cover the day of the swim itself and subsequent days after! there will be threads for the swimming/mingling; feel free to start closed/open threads for the following days, or start logs on the main comm, whatever floats your boat! indicate if threads are closed or open and i'll keep them organized on the main post. o/

REFERENCES
OOC PLANNING POST | F. A. Q. AND GUIDELINES

PRE-SWIMMING
Bradbury | Kate | The Shade
"Wild Tiger" | Rikku | Feferi
KITT

IN THE WATER
Bradbury

ON THE SHORE
Bradbury | Kate | The Shade
Jane Vasko | Roy Harper | Spike
James Bond | Bight

Comments

[gevurah]

[ She can't focus with so much noise erupting on the beach and so close to her. These new, fuzzy ears of hers are much more sensitive to sound than she anticipated and she ducks her head as if evading the roaring and snarling. She looks to the-- god, is that a sea lion?-- and inches closer. It's obviously one of the divers, she just doesn't know who. ]

[shotup]

[Holy shit! Is that a wolf?! Look at the teeth and claws on that thing!

Roy lets out a sharp roar almost instinctively, like he's warning the furry creature to stand down. It's not like he can run away, not when it takes so much effort to heft himself around on land. The fact that he's so massively large and definitely not part of a wolf's diet hasn't quite settled in yet. He's really just paranoid about being eaten.]

[gevurah]

[ Well, that works in making her stop in her tracks. She winces and then without really meaning to-- snarls back at him. Damn it, why do wolves have to look so imposing? This isn't helping.

She has no idea if this is going to work, but she has to try. Animals have their ways of communicating, so maybe it'll hear her out.

"Calm down. Calm down. I'm not going to hurt you." ]

[shotup]

[He shuffles backwards for a moment in an almost comedic display of his girth, responding to her with a low, but gentler barking sound. Since when can wolves talk? And since when can he understand when wolves talk? He sniffs the air, grunts again, tilting his head to better stare at the white furry beast.

"What the fuck happened to me?" He raises a flipper. "What am I?!"]

[gevurah]

[ Holy crap, she can't believe this is happening. No, no-- stay calm, Kate. What good will panic do? They don't exactly want to attract the attention of anyone else coming by the beach if they aren't an imPort.

Her head swivels and she sees some of the unaffected, like Jane. Did she dive into the water? She can't seem to remember right now.

"I don't know." Her bright eyes land on the sea lion again. "...I think you're a sea lion."

[shotup]

[Of course he would be something massive and useless like a sea lion. Roy bellows as he stares at his flippers again, then back over the strange mix of animals and people on the shore.

"We've got to fix this. Maybe if we all dive back into the water it'll change us back."]

[gevurah]

[ She looks to the water. "Do you think you can manage?"

She doesn't know how she'll manage even with a smaller body. ]

[shotup]

[He shuffles around so that he is facing the water again, bopping his head up and down in an attempt to nod.

"That water is looking pretty tempting, not gonna lie."]

[gevurah]

[ "Alright," she trots up the edge, dipping a paw in first. The water smells less than pleasant, almost overloading her senses for a second there. Ugh, she figured it wasn't the cleanest of waters in the City, but the smell adds a new found disgust.

She backs up and then springs toward it, diving in snout first under the surface. Animal instincts will kick in, right? She won't drown. She holds her breath and tries to keep her eyes open. She doesn't feel any different yet. ]

[shotup]

[Roy barrels toward the water before slipping into the black murkiness in something that almost looks graceful. It's amazing how something so gigantic and lumbering on the land can instantly move with grace and speed in the water. If Roy was on the shore observing this scene he might have found it in him to appreciate the sight of a sea lion doing what it does best in the ocean. But for now, he's stuck doing what comes naturally, letting instinct take over as he swims quickly around the wolf in the still shallow depths.

However, he's still a sea lion. Not a human. Not at all.]

[gevurah]

[ She finds her legs wading through the water much easier than before. Then she feels the need for air and floats back to the surface. There's a low whine from her as her head rises through. She can still feel that tail moving about behind her.

Damn, why didn't it work?

She can't exactly bend her neck properly to see if the other guy is coming back to the shore. "Damn it. This can't be happening." ]

[shotup]

[A moment later, Roy makes his way back to the shore, bouncing out effortlessly before the lack of water kicks in and he is forced to waddles slowly again. This is disappointing, to say the least

"It's gotta be magic or something. Where's Zatanna? She can fix us!"]

[gevurah]

[ She stares at him with unblinking, bright eyes. "You know Zatanna?" ]

[shotup]

[He stares back, eyes like big, black saucers. "Sure. Since I was a pup. Heh."]

[gevurah]

[ At least she would have never had the decency to laugh at his new body, whatever his original form is.

"Gothamite myself," she shakes herself a little more. "... Kate. I'm Kate."

What a weird time for introductions. ]

[shotup]

["I'm Roy." He barks, though it's a friendlier sounding noise and less threatening or scared than before, like he's well aware of just how surreal this situation is.]

[gevurah]

[ "... Shit," she realizes something. "Someone wanted me to text them after this-- well, I doubt paws are made for texting." ]

[shotup]

["Flippers won't help either." Where did her phone even wind up? Hopefully someplace save and far away from massive mammalians. "Maybe someone turned into a raccoon-- er, or something else with fingers."]

[gevurah]

[ She has to shift her entire body to look around them, seeing bears and foxes and even a tiger. Between her, Roy, the bears, and that fox that made quite a few animals that could swim luckily. And with lots of fur...

"It... looks like most of us became animals found in the north," she says, sounding surprised. ]

[shotup]

[It's funny, now that he thinks about it. None of these creatures appear to be native to this area of the world. They were interlopers intruding into an area where they weren't meant to be and weren't well suited, much like imPorts in the City itself

"So maybe there's a weasel or a marten or something." He can't give up, not yet. Somebody has to be able to help them.]

[gevurah]

[ "The water didn't look suspicious," she recalls. She had been staring at it long enough earlier. She hadn't seen anything underneath the water either or anyone suspicious in the area. ]

[shotup]

["Then maybe it's something in the air." That could explain it, right?]

[gevurah]

[ It's hard to tell, honestly. She doesn't have a sixth sense for magic or the supernatural. This seems all too silly to be Vulcanus' handiwork, so it's possible the Porter did something.

Or Klarion?

She sniffs the air, her nose more sensitive to smells now.

"I'm not catching anything." ]

[shotup]

[Roy sniffs the air, too, grunting and snorting with his great black nose.

"I got nothing." It's not an easy admission, but it's better than lying. Sometimes, you just don't know.]

[gevurah]

[ "Now what?" she mutters, though it comes out as a low, gruff whine. She's trying to stay calm, but it's terrifying to be in a different body-- an animal's body. She didn't have any memories when she was turned into a kid a while back, so she didn't have that sense of panic.

"God... we smell." She finally realizes how dirty that water was after all. The scent is strong in her nostrils and she flinches. ]