Video - Seelie/Unseelie

[teenyoda]

[The image that comes onto the lockets is an almost peaceful one. The blue sky and white fluffy clouds that bob a little from the POV of the locket. A little movement shows that that's because the transmission is clearly coming from a boat. The locket, with a little more jostling, is shown to be resting in fabric on what appears to be the deck of the boat. One might be curious as to why a transmission was coming suddenly from seemingly nowhere on a boat, but the answer shows itself soon enough in the form of one suckered tentacle flipping the locket around. If it was ever possible for an octopus to look both pissed off and surprised out of its mind, this one was doing a very good job. One of its many arms clutched at a small feather, the other limbs flopping around and smacking at the deck as the thing clearly tried to actually go somewhere. It couldn't walk to save its life and wound up rolling out of the pile of clothes, taking the locket with it.

Heavy stomps could be heard as boots came closer across the deck to the cephalopod, a shadow coming between the sun and the locket as a large man loomed over it. "Well then. What's this? How's you get aboard, ye slippery little thing. Back to the sea with you."

A hand bent down to try to pick up the octopus and there was a flurry of lashing arms as it latched onto the man and refused to let go. Curses were spat and the man called out for a fellow sailor, but before the other man could come closer with the knife it held to free his shipmate, a third voice joined. One others might find a bit familiar. A naked seventeen year old was clutching the man's arm and looking up at him with fear and horror. It took Stiles about five second to remember about the locket and he dropped to the deck, scrambling for both his clothes and to turn the locket off.]

~*~

[It was about twenty minutes later when a red-faced Stiles showed himself on the network.]

Um, about that...

Sorry? I... have no idea what happened. One minute I was standing looking over the rails and the next... um... aha. Let's just pretend that didn't happen, okay? Okay. But, if anyone can tell me what just happened, that would be really, really helpful. Especially in making sure it doesn't happen again.

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[all7seas]

You turned into an octopus, flopped a bit, gave out free arm-hugs, and then the nudity.

[Jack has been popcorning his way through the whole thing. He is especially attracted to anything regarding tentacles and the sea, mostly because that haunts his nightmares still.

All told this might be a short conversation, but he is trying to be helpful.]

action. sorry, stiles.

[tensed]

[ he came up on deck just to catch the end of the debacle. coming closer, gale sheds his jacket and holds it up, giving stiles some degree of privacy so he can dress. gale keeps his eyes firmly on the railing.

— doesn't stop him from attempting to ruin any sort of goodwill the act might have merited him. ]

Pity. We could have had a fresh meal.

[ this is a joke. but who would know really. ]

also action

[baseborne]

[Jon comes up after all the commotion has died down. He's still not doing much better, but at least he has less of a thousand-yard stare and more of a general mope now. The feather he'd found floating just over the port bow is tucked away in his pack, after it kept snowing on his head and he couldn't get it to stop.

He still probably got the better end of that stick.]

I heard you were causing trouble.

[mesmerism]

Uh, you wanted to get closer to the surrounding sea life? Probably a spell you didn't want to activate.

[truesight]

It's the feather!

[ totally blurted out because wow, been there ]

I found that out the hard way, too. I didn't even realize it was a thing, and then- bam! Everything was huge, and I was on all fours, and for some reason all I could think to do was cling to the stupid thing in my paw, but that was what kept me like that for longer than I should have.

And then there were two or three fairies just flying around in my face, like they knew, and when I tried to run away I let go of the feather, and- yeah! It was wild.

But, so, it's the feather.

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[steeledskin]

[ she can't be far away. below decks, perhaps. but she's been scarce! lately, she's stopped coming out to see the sick sick stiles by his deckside bed. she's stopped doing a great many things.

but hours after his address to the network, she pipes up with a quiet question: ] Did you learn what caused it?

video;

[extramural]

Interesting.

[ Four black fish flit around the speaker, swimming in midair. ]

Strange things often happen at sea.

NOT HERE

[aliased]

[ HE TURNS INTO ANIMALS. SHE'S GOING TO BE NARROW EYING HIM FOREVER.]