Luceti Land!!

[lucetimods]

Who: luceti
What: Amusement Parking!
When: Today til the end of the month
Where: A veritable pleasure island, east of the Beach Fort.
Summary: An amusement park has popped up in Luceti. It's all over here.
Rating: F is for friends who do stuff together!

Just some notes here not in the mod post -
1) The weather will be bright and partly cloudy for the rest of the month on the beach side of things. A nice cool sea breeze will keep people from melting out there.
2) All the old Luceti Land rides are still available. However, feel free to make up your own attractions and rides as well.
3) Since this is around for two weeks, we may put up another mass log if this one gets too full. So keep an eye on that!
4) Don't forget to tag your character's name on to the log! If you don't have one yet, just let us know and we'll get you hooked up.

As way of explanation for all this, Bil will have written a message on the first page of the journals. It cannot be replied to, it simply states:

"My condolences for all the trouble. You were due for an experiment today, but I thought you might enjoy an amusement park instead. It seemed like the sort of thing the Great One would do."

Comments

[all7seas]

"OUCH!"

One moment, Jack was yelling and trying to shoo away the hand or whatever-it-was that had groped him. The next, he was seeing stars and hearing bells and feeling the steady trickle of something warm and wet into his left eye.

Mercifully, at least the music had stopped. There was another sound filling the tunnels, now. The sound of metal on love.

"That...doesn't sound wholesome."

[consultmybooks]

"Is there anything about this that does strike you as wholesome?"

Giles resumes his past position of head in hands and eyes shut. It doesn't matter that its still pitch dark. It helps his already frayed state of mind, and slightly lessens the temptation to add another head wound to Jack.

[all7seas]

"No."

The metal sound resolves itself into the sound of tromping metal feet. Sloshing, tromping feet.

[consultmybooks]

Giles goes absolutely still for several seconds...before letting his head thud in defeat against the rail.

"Bugger..."

[all7seas]

"To me? To me that sounds like the justice portion of the Tunnel of Love and Justice, mate."

[consultmybooks]

Giles' reply is to reach out and grab a handful of Jack's hair.

"When Buffy gets back? We're having a discussion of your mental health. Again."

[all7seas]

And the sad fact is that no matter what Giles does to Jack, the pirate cannot retaliate. He suffers the hair-grabbing with a grunt and a nod. Right. Discussions. Of course.

"Can I get drunk first?"

[consultmybooks]

"I would sincerely recommend it."

Mercy arrives in the form of the lap bar slowly raising with an ominous kachunk. It quickly transforms into a worsening of the situation when the lights come back on, to reveal a droid standing at either end of the tunnel.

[all7seas]

The droid in front of them reaches down and grabs hold of Jack by the shoulders, swinging him up and out of the boat like a parent picking up a disobedient toddler. Booted feet kick vainly as the robot slings the pirate over its shoulder. Jack wipes a bit of blood from his eye and stares at Giles from this undignified position.

"I suppose they'll throw me in the dungeon, now. I'm officially blaming you, mate, I'll have you know. And now she's gone."

[consultmybooks]

Giles is hoisted out of the boat in a similar fashion, tossed over the shoulder of the other droids like a sack of very unhappy potatoes. For once...just this once...he doesn't kick. He just hangs, and glowers at Jack upside down as, job done, the droids begin to march towards the exit.

"Funny thing, that. Because I'm blaming you.

And she was never here."

[all7seas]

Jack opens his mouth to retort, but says nothing. Was Giles correct? How could he have mistaken that familiar blond hair? That petite frame? There HAD been a crowd, but...

Fortunately, he will have a lot of time to think this over in the particular spot reserved for him in the Time-Out Corner. He allows himself to be dragged away, not protesting.

[consultmybooks]

And Giles does the same. An unconscionably long while of listening to Dracula monologues follows, leaving him in a horrendously bad mood when he's finally let out. The moon is well up, a quick check of his pocket watch confirms that it's well past time he should have been on his way.

Cursing the world in general and pirates in particular, he starts off for the gates and the path yet again.

[lostinmyway]

Grune is just wandering about, absorbing the sights without really participating in anything. When her brain finally registers that one of the sights is Giles, however, she comes back to herself enough to smile, call out, "Giles, hello!" and...sort of hurry over.

[consultmybooks]

...screw it. Restraint and personal space are for people who haven't just spent an hour listening to vampires verbally chew the scenery.

So, Grune, Giles is just...going to hurry over with slightly more actual speed and hug you. No, he doesn't care that it's not a squishy hug. Life just...sucks right now.

[lostinmyway]

Grune is a little startled by Giles' unusually enthusiastic greeting, but unhesitatingly, her arms go around him and she pulls him close. My, he seems very happy to see her.

[consultmybooks]

Okay. That's nice. He's about to spend the rest of the night looking for his surrogate daughter and his best friend. Nice to know the entire world hasn't gone insane.

Giles pulls back after several very cathartic seconds to smile apologetically at Grune.

"S-Sorry about that. I just, um...

...I'm, um, I'm going to go, now. Back to the village, I mean."

[lostinmyway]

As always, she smiles back. "All right. Are you going to take a little rest?"

He does look a little tired.

[consultmybooks]

"Probably a very long rest, actually."

...six hours. It's a jump over what he's been getting on a nightly basis, which is closer to three. His recent nightmare has proven in no uncertain terms just how catastrophic sleep deprivation can be.

"I'll be back tomorrow, all right?"

[lostinmyway]

"All right." Her smile deepens. "I can't wait."

Today was a lot of fun, and tomorrow can only be better.

[consultmybooks]

"I admit. Neither can I.

Take care of yourself until then, Grune."

[lostinmyway]

She gives him one more hug, just to say good night.

"You too!"

[consultmybooks]

Which is happily returned, before Giles steps back to leave. He smiles, and waves, and then turns away to hurry off through the crowd.