The Most Dangerous Coffee Shop- A Role Play

[RoostersAreAwesome]

After a period of silence, Brid stood and moved to stand near Fox, hoping she wouldn’t screw this up. “Okay, it’s all a little confusing, but here’s the general idea. That rock you just put in your pocket teleported you here because it’s connected to something called the ‘mother amulet’ that’s in the basement. The mother amulet wakes up about once every thousand years because around that time a several summers worth of bugs the size of him-” She gestured towards Kyle “-appear. You still following?” She paused, hoping that had made sense and sending lost glances at Fox and Kyle as if asking them to join and help at any point.

Kyle nodded along with what she was saying, glad that everything was trying to explain was being understood. “Yup, pretty much. You want some coffee?” The very notion seemed to scare the poor guy.
Rylie decided at that very moment that this was his favorite person in the room. Gee, I hope he’s not allergic.
Kyle braced for impact as Rylie let out an endearing “prrrrrrrrt” and twined between Charlie’s legs, giving some of those adorable head rubs normally designed only to knock Kyle down. This is so awkward.

"She explained it best," Fox mumbled, nodding at Brid. He took a few steps back, staring at the floor, arms crossed over his chest. Anxiety, confusion, embarrassment, sympathy, joy. He could feel every single one of those in the room. Is empathy a blessing or a curse?

Charlie stared at Brid for several seconds, then said slowly. "Yeah, I think I got it. Made no sense, but at least this isn't a meeting on how to solve world hunger, right?" He grinned at her. Knowing that he hadn't barged in on something important, and wasn't going to be attacked, made him feel a lot calmer. He looked down at the cat, and almost reached out to pet him, but thought it might be disrespectful to his rider.

Rylie jumped away from Charlie and hissed at her and Kit in reply. "I have a bit of cynophobia myself," Kyle admitted. "I've been using all my willpower to not run away screaming. Maybe it's best that you leave..." Kyle had never never taken the time to find out which dogs were male or female. He usually ran away screaming first. "Him? Her? Here? Out of danger? That might be best."

"We haven't the time," Kyle interrupted. "Blair is right." Laurel was nowhere to be seen. "We should get going. I should have expected that not all of the stones would be found. Let's go!" Rylie bounded toward the door to the basement and Cam stood up to follow, cheered by his bravery.

Brid looked up as Kyle and Rylie whizzed away past her, the others following. “I guess it’s time to go,” she said absentmindedly to Fox, straightening and beginning to move after the group, her eyes practically glowing with all the new sights and sounds. She stopped to wait for him and Colby, suddenly realizing that she didn’t see the Charlie guy anywhere.

Charlie appeared out of nowhere, after being lost for like 20 minutes. He waved awkwardly at the others and came closer.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

“Yeet-me.” Cam stared at the mouse for a while, pondering the ticked pattern of fur and those deep blue eyes. Kyle’s impression of mice was wrong. He may have thought it looked grey because he assumed all mice looked the same, but Cam saw a light orangey brown.
“She must be trying to tell me something!” Her brown eyes had a crazed sparkle in the uncanny orange light. Cam yeets the mouse far away.“Yeet me! That’s her name!” The mouse seemed to be rolling her eyes. “No? Something else?” Can gave her most bewildered expression.

Cam, utterly startled, nearly tossed the mouse to Timbuktu. Oh. I thought it had rabies for a second.
The mouse was now storming grumpily around her palm. “Uhhh... any mouse experts around here? This one is behaving strangely.”
She twisted her had as if expecting a teenage mouse nerd to step out of the blue.

Charlie ran over and yelled "I'm a mouse specialist!" And promptly yeeted Haddie across the field.

 

[Rose Quartz]

Kipp stood at a distance from the rest of the group, watching and listening. At first he was skeptical that the rodent was trying to communicate, until it turned into a budgie, or some kind of fancy pet store bird, and then actually started making real words. Not that the words together made any sense. Trees don't just grab people.

Just then Take burst out of the trees panting and bloody, carrying the younger missing girl. There are a lot of girls here. Was his initial thought, before correcting himself to be more aware of what was going on and not just musing about oddities.

"Are you guys ok?" He asked, not that he could really do anything to help. He looked back at everyone else there, had Kyle by chance picked a healer to come along, or were they just meant to fight until they couldn't anymore and then just die or something.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

When Charlie caught up to the group, he was met with a confusing scene. There were three out of breath people, two of them with minor injuries. And there was a parakeet. Was the parakeet always there? Was it new? Charlie had no idea.

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

Take reached the clearing shortly after Blair and fell to his knees. He unloaded Ellie as he hunched over and closed his eyes, putting his forehead and hands on the ground. He was breathing heavily, his legs ached and he felt his heart pounding in his chest.

Ellie limped over to a small patch of free grass. She sat down and panted for a few seconds

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

Ellie limped over to a small patch of free grass. She sat down and panted for a few seconds

Then turned her attention to her ankle which was promptly swelling. She shuddered. It looked red and angry. The exhilaration from the trees trying to kill her not yet warn off. She buried her face in her hands.

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

Then turned her attention to her ankle which was promptly swelling. She shuddered. It looked red and angry. The exhilaration from the trees trying to kill her not yet warn off. She buried her face in her hands.

“I want to go home, I wanna go home, I want to go home” she looked over at the dreaded forest

 

[Yowza Wowza]

Kipp stood at a distance from the rest of the group, watching and listening. At first he was skeptical that the rodent was trying to communicate, until it turned into a budgie, or some kind of fancy pet store bird, and then actually started making real words. Not that the words together made any sense. Trees don't just grab people.

Just then Take burst out of the trees panting and bloody, carrying the younger missing girl. There are a lot of girls here. Was his initial thought, before correcting himself to be more aware of what was going on and not just musing about oddities.

"Are you guys ok?" He asked, not that he could really do anything to help. He looked back at everyone else there, had Kyle by chance picked a healer to come along, or were they just meant to fight until they couldn't anymore and then just die or something.

Take lifted his head up at Kipp, a fatigued smile appeared on his face, “Yo.. Kipp..” he panted. He was visibly strained and in pain. The scrapes and scratches definitely made it worse.

 

[Amer]

Take lifted his head up at Kipp, a fatigued smile appeared on his face, “Yo.. Kipp..” he panted. He was visibly strained and in pain. The scrapes and scratches definitely made it worse.

“And the trees did this to you?” Cam said skeptically. “Could they be giant bugs or something?”
All she could say was she met a lot of trees in her day, and none of them violently attacked people.
“Can I just say this?” Kyle asked, spreading his arms. “NOBODY ELSE GO INTO THAT STUPID FOREST!”

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

“And the trees did this to you?” Cam said skeptically. “Could they be giant bugs or something?”
All she could say was she met a lot of trees in her day, and none of them violently attacked people.
“Can I just say this?” Kyle asked, spreading his arms. “NOBODY ELSE GO INTO THAT STUPID FOREST!”

“No he isn’t kidding. The trees grabbed me too” Ellie said looking at Cam “I know I sure as ain’t going back into that forest”