The Library - Tuesday

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

With all the freaky shit going on with the island today, Barry decided it would be a good idea to make sure the library was open today for any researchers to do some researching.

He was even nice enough to have coffee brought in from the perk. Normal coffee. Nothing that may have been brewed with acorns or anything.

For his part Barry was behind the main desk doing his own research by remotely accessing his lab via his tablet but would be available for anyone if they had questions.

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Research - Morning

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Before a certain revelation is made....

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[gavegoodface]

Face had brought in caf of his own to drink while searching, because he currently wasn't trusting coffee that Barry had been anywhere near.

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[bitten_notshy]

Jack had retrieved Emma from New York, but so far he wasn't having any better luck getting her to wake up than Candy had. Out of frustration, he went to the library and started thumbing through a thick volume on unusual diseases.

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[nookiepowered]

Bo wasn't the best at hitting the books which is why she's not actually on the research team, she's just here finding nothing -- she much preferred to solve problems by hitting things that could respond by saying ow -- but she was here with a stack of them in front of her anyway, looking for anything she could find on the subject of Shiny New Invisibility And/Or Insanity Powers and How They May Or May Not Relate To Underwear Kleptomania.

So far she'd ruled out Possessed By Ghosts because it had already happened within the last year and she gave Fandom credit for a bit more variety than that, Bitten by a Radioactive Wallaby because Kenzi's hair didn't seem any shorter or longer than usual during the times Bo had actually been able to see her this week, and Just Really Thought Bo Had Great Taste In Thongs because that was clearly true all the time so why would their house only get invaded by a hot crazy panty thief now?

Wait, what if it was a ghost wallaby? Were all bets off? Did the library even have any books on ghost wallabies? Maybe there was something in this one about the care and feeding of undead marsupials.

...Really, book? You needed a leatherbound cover for two illustrated pages containing the words "Shoot them" and "Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains?"

Important news before Noon!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Okay, SO." Kenzi staggered in, looking like the fourth day of a three-day bender, and people who'd been in Vegas with her would recognize that. "Hey Bo. Hey people. Leland Gaunt is evil, he sold me a cursed ring, it exploded, I feel lots better but still feel like shit, and... yeah. Lying down now." On top of one of the tables.

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[bitten_notshy]

"Wait, what?" Jack was there with the important questions. "What happened? Leland Gaunt -- is he the one from the new store?"

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Yep. Charming guy. Well. Not so much, I guess." Kenzi sighed and curled up into a ball, her head pounding. "He sold me a ring that could make me invisible, and inaudible. Told me not to tell anyone where I got it." She swallowed, opening one eye. "I kinda had to give him something really valuable to get it. And, well...."

Yeah, she'd kinda taken someone else's valuable thing to do so.

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[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Eleanor suddenly had an odd feeling in the pit of her stomach.

"Wait," she said. "He said ... not to tell anyone? He wanted you to lie about it?"

Her very strange maybe-ex-boyfriend had a new necklace. And, at the same time, a helpful new treatment plan.

Oh, Joker .....

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Yup," Kenzi sighed. "Special item and all that. I should've known better, gah." She rolled over to look at Eleanor. "I took it off, decided I need a break, you know? It wasn't even that much fun any more. And I felt better. So I got pissed and broke it. And then..." She gave a nervous little giggle. "Anyway! Did you guys see the fuck-ton of dark clouds outside? How about that crazy weather?"

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[talentforlying]

Normally if a student showed up looking like they were coming off a month-long bender of some sort, John ignored 'em. If he was feeling nice, he might lob the aspirin in their direction, or throw them out so they didn't puke on the books, but mostly he ignored whatever the kids got up to.

This time, however, he was out of his office like a shot. Well, not as fast as he normally would, but still rather quickly. "Did you say Gaunt?" he demanded, leveling a finger at Kenzi. "He's been cutting deals with you kids? Bloody fucking hell!"

Look, JOHN was a fucking adult capable of making his own fucking bad decisions, thank you kindly, and KNOWING they were fucking bad decisions. It was what he did. But he'd had no idea Gaunt was dealing to the kids.

"Fucking shite-stain of an ill-begotten... look, girl, focus two seconds and I'll get you a coffee and some nice pills that probably will put you under that table the rest of the way. You broke it, it exploded, and then the weather rolled in? You sure?"

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Kenzi said, very certain. "It was all sunny, I was on the back porch, playing with Zenkie. Broke the ring. Everything got darker. Fought a ... something that came outta the ring." She was nodding along as she recounted all this. "And then, soon as I burned the leftover thingie, I started to book it over here. Which. Wow. Took a lot longer than usual? I should've called," she realized. "But I wasn't thinking too straight."

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[nookiepowered]

Bo would let other people ask the questions about who-how-why-what-the-hell, but only to a point. The possibly-about-to-pass-out point.

Class, delicacy, and school-appropriate language, thy name is Ysabeau. "You look like shit. Are you gonna be okay?"

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"I dunno," Kenzi said, for once not exaggerating. "I just feel so funky." She stared at the ceiling, then at her hand. "I'm not disappearing, right? I kinda wanna pass out. Or .. no, mostly pass out."

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[nookiepowered]

"You are not disappearing," Bo agreed, "and you're not passing out, either. At least not before I get you someplace with a bed and meds and somebody better qualified to pronounce you okay than Doctor Bo, G.E.D."

For certain values of GED that didn't include her real name on the paperwork or actually having taken the test.

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"You're not taking me to the vampire chick, are you? 'Cause I'm really not sure about that one." Kenzi tried to get up, and managed to at least work her way up to sitting. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

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[nookiepowered]

"...Yeah, no." Bo shook her head and offered an arm. Or a shoulder. Or hell, if need be she could just carry Kenzi there. It wouldn't be the first time. "That one... let's just say she's damn good for what ails me, but with her clothes on I'm not sure I'd even trust her to put on band-aids and hand out lollipops."

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi giggled, then managed to scoot off the table. She thought she could walk. If she got breaks. And they took a rickshaw. She leaned heavily on Bo's shoulder.

"...sorry I've been crazy."

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[nuclear_snide]

Bob stood over Kenzi, frowning down at her. "What sort of cursed ring?"

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"It was pretty. Some kind of lacy stuff. I put it on, poof, no see, no hear me." Kenzi made a face up at him. "Then Baba Yaga showed up after I smashed it. Man that was not what I paid for."

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[nuclear_snide]

"Baba Yaga?" Bob blinked. "I don't see her taking on the form of an old man keeping shop. Cursed items for sale isn't exactly her thing, either. Are you sure?"

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Well, no," Kenzi admitted. "'Cause she didn't really give me a chance to ask her questions, and she kept bleeding black goo all over when I punched at her and Zenkie clawed her. And then she kinda dissolved."

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[nuclear_snide]

"That sounds more like some sort of apparition." Bob frowned in thought. "Designed to keep you from destroying it? Or maybe it actually was the ring..."

He was pretty much just thinking out loud now.

Re: Research - Morning

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Everything was wrong. The island was dying, and she had possibly broken up with her boyfriend (http://fly-so-serious.livejournal.com/7211.html) just shy of their one-year anniversary -- and for no clear reason that she could discern, either, unless he really thought she didn't want him to get better!? How could he possibly --

She wasn't going to think about that. She had curled up in her room and tried not to think about that, but failed. It was worse when she'd picked up the phone to call him, and he hadn't answered. That ... said fairly clearly that he didn't want anything to do with her, didn't it?

She was going to sit in the library and pretend to be helpful and look through books and wish she cared about the island dying.

(before kenzi, obvs!)

Re: Research - Morning

[likethegun]

Sam had been planning on visiting Zoe and Grace, and when Zoe told him not to come to the island, and then told him why she didn't want him to come to the island, Sam had pushed his portal up by a few days because he was just that kind of willfully disobedient. Seriously, he wouldn't have been able to live with himself if he'd stayed in New York and ignored terrible things happening in Fandom. He wasn't sure what he was looking for yet, but he was still hoping to be helpful.

Re: Research - Morning

[nuclear_snide]

Bob was here...well, less "again" and more "still". Perks of never needing sleep. He hadn't found anything yet, but he was determined to keep going until he did.