Light of May ::: an original roleplay

Who: Evan and Savvy
Where: Sunny's Diner to start
When: Evening


( as long as you're still burning bright. )

WHO | Quinn & Chase
WHERE | Chase's home
WHEN | Early afternoon

( The thought suddenly occurred to her that she probably ought to have called before just showing up. )

Who: Keelin & Kahlan
Where: Keelin's place
When: Afternoon

( I hope you like it. )

DATE: Sunday, September 27th, 2009

BIRTHDAYS: None

WEATHER: The rain lets up sometime before sunrise, but things are still damp and dreary. Temperatures are hovering around 50 degrees fahrenheit.

EVENTS: Power is returned to all homes and businesses that lost it by about 8:30 in the morning. Which means the homecoming dance is clear to go! Hurray!

SOHS wins the homecoming football game despite a lower than hoped for attendance due to the weather. Either way, spirits are high leading into the dance. The dance starts at 7 PM, and at about 7:30 or so a chaperone notices a kind of weird light in the sky above the high school. There is a good chance that their eyes were playing tricks on them, or that it was just lightning... buuuut the woman calls it in to the police anyway, thinking you can’t be too careful. What with all the random events and weird balls of light, an officer comes to take a look, but the clouds are heavy tonight and he doesn’t see anything, so the whole thing is dismissed as nothing.

Huge mistake.

At 8 PM, the homecoming court is announced. First go the runner-ups of the freshmen, sophomore, and junior years (who are known as dukes and duchesses). Isolde Landers and Darklis Tinka are announced into court as duchesses, and Russel Normandin as a duke. They each get brought up on stage and are given simple red sashes. Next the princes and princesses of the court (winners from the freshmen, sophomore, and junior years) are announced. Max Normandin and Bunny Digby are made prince and princess of junior year, and they each get a somewhat grander, sparklier sash. Then it’s time to crown the homecoming king and queen. First the runner-ups are announced, and they are Locke Hartley and Angeline Moriarty. They are given their duke and duchess sashes, and the king and queen are announced and crowned. They are... Rico Palminteri and Charlotte Angel! They each get crowns and sashes, and are escorted by the court back to the dance floor for their spotlight dance. Aww, isn’t it all so corny and beautiful?

Or at least, it might have been. Three minutes into the song and things get weird. Not teacher getting drunk on spiked punch and hitting on a student weird, but funhouse mirror and psychedelic experience weird.

The song playing is Leona Lewis’ Bleeding Love (which many can probably agree is just a little bit inappropriate with all the ACTUAL blood shed by the student body in the past six months). The song is just a little over 4 minutes long, and three and a half minutes into it the weird stuff starts.

First people will just feel heavier. No way around it. Movements will begin to drag, lifting limbs will take concentration. Eyelids will be heavy. A tired feeling begins to set in. As each person fights to keep their eyes open (not to mention, fight to keep on their feet), it will seem like their eyes are playing tricks on them. Certain things seem sparkly, certain things seem shiny... certain people in their vision will be completely in black and white, and some colors change altogether. In the last thirty seconds of the song, every person in the building will lose consciousness and drop to the floor, one by one. Once the last person in the building loses consciousness, the property is on lock-down.

No, seriously. It might as well be as if a forcefield is slammed down on the property. No one’s getting in. Hell, no one’s even capable of stepping foot off the sidewalk and onto the lawn. There is a giant invisible wall and you couldn’t knock it down with an A-bomb.

The dance was supposed to end at about 10 PM. At about 10:30, when parents try calling their kids’ cellphones and get no answers, the police start getting calls. A police officer arrives on scene at 10:52. And by ‘arrives’ we mean ‘actually crashes into the invisible barrier and has to call an ambulance.’ The second police car shows up ten minutes later, and after one of them walks into the barrier and almost knocks himself unconscious, the last officer standing has a reaction something like ‘ohshitohshitohshitohshiiiiiit.’

Within five minutes of that the property is SURROUNDED by the authorities, and within a couple hours of that the national guard is on scene. No one can figure out how to get in, and spoiler alert: they won’t. Ever. What’s worse, they cannot communicate with those inside, and have no way of saying if anyone on the inside is alive or dead. No one’s answering phones, and that’s probably a bad sign. Families are informed of an ‘incident,’ and asked to come down to talk with an officer to be updated in the ‘situation.’

So what is the situation? Inside the school, anyway.

The situation is that pesky group of faeries. Not just an elderly looking couple anymore, but an entire group of them, channeling a rather elaborate spell eighteen ways (literally) for a week straight. Everyone inside the school is going to experience something like being sent to another dimension.

And they didn’t all go together. They’ve been divided. And wherever it is they’ve gone, you are absolutely guaranteed that they are not happy.

( The groups and scenarios. )