Light of May ::: an original roleplay

Who: Teddy and Slevin (and Boo, NPC).
Where: Teddy’s room at the motel/hotel Omega are staying at.
When: Early evening, around the same time as this.

They were getting low on painkillers. That was all Teddy kept thinking as he reached for the bottle he’d set beside his workstation in his room. It had been a simple desk with complimentary stationary at one point before their arrival but he had made short work of converting it and now it looked like every techie hacker’s dream. Wiring tucked out of the way, monitors and harddrives and keyboards, everyone someone in his position could ever want or need. Right now though it wasn’t bringing him nearly as much simple joy as it usually did, not when he was taxing himself the way he had been since that stupid bubble had popped up around that stupid school. The bottle in his hand rattled distinctly and when he popped the lid off he saw that there were, in fact, only a small amount of pills left inside. Teddy sighed and checked his watch. It had been long enough since his last dose that he could take more.

He would have to get up from the desk in order to get a glass of water. No one else was allowed to have food or drink close to his gear and Teddy was anything but a hypocrite on that front, not when a lot of the equipment was worth more than the manager of the motel made in a year. Maybe that was an exaggeration but he was past the point of caring. Looking down at the pills in his palm he decided he didn’t need water. He hadn’t for the last dose either. Popping them in his mouth he swallowed them dry and then pushed his glasses up from his face with his fingers which he went on to use to rub his eyes with. They were aching enough that he’d had to dig the glasses out of the drawer where he’d tucked them and it was with a sigh that he had done so. All the electronics at the school had sent his powers into overdrive to the point where a migraine had settled in and wasn’t showing any signs of letting up any time soon, especially not since he was using them to try and come up with some kind of explanation. Fae, witches, elementals, demons, angels, there were so many branches of the supernatural to investigate, so many possible explanations, that Teddy had barely gotten any sleep since this whole thing had started in favour of continuing the search.

Time was getting away from him, which he only realised when he felt a distinctly familiar tug on the hem of his pants leg. When he looked down his glasses fell forward and he had to fumble to catch them before they tumbled right off his head altogether. A small leonine face looked up at him, the material of his pants still hooked on sharp little teeth. “Hey,” Teddy complained, reaching down with one hand to prize his clothing back from the cub. “How many times, huh? No chewing or tugging or gnawing of any kind.” He paused then, brow furrowed and eyes narrowed. “When did you get here? No, scratch that. How did you get here?” Last he’d checked the door had been well and truly sealed shut.

Who: Maxine and Slevin
When: Late morning
Where: Wherever they're staying

"Reports of street signs reading as hieroglyphic symbols...Wow more reports of accidents on that intersection, did people suddenly forget how to drive? Nah, this is fishy." Maxine was talking to herself as she scrolled down the various news sites she was browsing for news of Scarlet Oak's latest odd occurrence: A great number of accidents on the same intersection which had caused it to be closed off until further notice. At first Maxine had thought it might just be a problematic intersection with bad signalization or visibility, but the way officials spoke without saying much had her 'spider sense' tingling before long.

Naturally, research followed the first television report in which they announced the closing of the streets in question, and Maxine found reports of street signs that weren't in English - or in any language most people could make out. In fact, some people reported it as hieroglyphs, which, well, sounded weird and interesting and like something worth seeing. It also sounded like fishy magic of some sort and then there was that problem of car crashes potentially killing people. She wasn't sure this was a matter for Omega yet, but it was worth keeping an eye on.

Maxine swung her chair back and forth as she scrolled with one hand and drank some awful dirty water-like cappuccino from a machine with the other. Living in motels was better than living in cars, but not when it came to this kind of thing.

Who: Ash and Ice (plus Slevin and possibly others later on!)
Where: The hotel Omega is staying at
When: 5:00 p.m.

( 'ICE IS FREAKING ME OUT GUYS SERIOUSLY!' )

Who: Slevin & Allegra
Where: Scarlet Oak Community Park
When: Noon-ish

( He was seeing this, he was not imagining it... Unless Ice had done something. )

Who: OMEGA, bitches
When: Mid-morning
Where: About an hour outside Scarlet Oak to start
What: Arrival

Maya hadn't been pleased to give up her ride to Logan as he left to investigate the wolf situation, but it had made the most sense - the smallest vehicle went to the single person departing. He couldn't take the equipment van, not if he wanted to give Teddy an aneurysm, and it didn't make sense for one man to take the SUV and leave a car that sat four at best for the six of them. So for the long trip to Michigan, Maya was stuck driving the equipment van. But though she missed the power and handling of her usual vehicle, it couldn't be helped.

They'd been driving for most of the night, which Maya tended to prefer. Her night vision meant she didn't have any visibility problems, and there was less traffic to negotiate - which meant fewer people who might notice their passing. The last stop had been a rest station a few hours back, and a protein bar and cup of coffee had meant she was good to keep going for a while longer. As it happened, though, the GPS mounted in the car showed they were just over an hour from their final destination.

Picking up the two-way radio sitting on the dash, she hit the button to radio the SUV that Ash was driving, with Ice and Maxine for company. Teddy and Slevin had drawn the short straws to ride with her. "Exit for 94 coming up in two miles. That should take us straight into town."