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That's super fair. The world is kinda on fire these days.
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That's super fair. The world is kinda on fire these days.
Felix Buchanan
It took about thirty seconds for Felix to start to relax. Between Rick's less than confrontational attitude and the broom in his hands it was pretty clear that he wasn't here to cause trouble or steal anything. As best he could tell, Prof. Luna had taken on a new TA or something, but regardless, it really wasn't any of his business. And with Rick's interest at his mention of the celestial phenomena, Felix went into full info-dump mode.
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"...and then I noticed that this thing's starting to move. It was barely noticeable at first, but it's steadily grown more and more obvious with each night. The position in the sky it's appearing at is changing, potentially at an exponential rate..." Felix trailed off, mostly finishing his thought as he sighted the darn thing in on Luna's telescope. Taking one more second to ensure he had it properly in view, the lanky young man stepped back and waved Rick forward with a grin. "Here, you wanna take a look? Be my guest."
When Rick stepped up and looked into the telescope, Felix turned away to organize his notes and got ready to chart the latest deviation from his "original" sighting. It was only a sharp gasp from the Professor that yanked his attention back early. Whirling around, Felix froze as he took in Rick's appearance. The other young man was oddly stuck in place, his electric blue hair slightly standing on end. "...What the fu?-" Felix never finished his sentence as Rick started to... glitch.
Spellbound in confusion and a little horror, Felix watched as Rick's arm touching the telescope vibrated, twitching millimeters side to side at a rapid pace, enough to make Felix see afterimages. Then, as suddenly as it began, it stopped. There was a sharp popping noise and the sudden smell of ozone as Rick jolted backwards, tumbling to the floor. Rushing forward to help, Felix paused, uncertain if it was safe to do so. It was only when Rick began to pant and look around, clearly back from whatever had just happened that Felix leaned down to offer him a hand.
"-What the F#$% was that!?"
"I feel like that's what I should be asking you. You looked like videogame character that'd gotten stuck on a piece of geometry there for a second." He offered with wry grin, trying to lighten the situation.
Alright! In spite of my brain getting in it's own way, gonna get a post going.
...and while it is a fantastic shade of deep blue, it's unfortunately a little hard for me to read against the dark gray background of the website. >.<
...and while it is a fantastic shade of deep blue, it's unfortunately a little hard for me to read against the dark gray background of the website. >.<
Felix Buchanan
Four Hours Later, just after 7:
With a stomach full of food and a head full of plans, Felix skipped up the steps to the Astronomy building, long legs taking them two at a time. Letting himself in with practiced ease, the lanky young man strode down the empty halls, half humming, half muttering to himself as he went. "...Maybe it's a comet or something? Not like it could be an alien spacecraft, that'd just be ridiculous." Scratching the back of his head in frustration, a little skip entered Felix's step, and he turned 180 mid jump to walk backwards as he mulled the problem over to no avail. "Fuckin' hell, this driving me nuts." He grumbled. Bringing himself to a skidding halt, Felix let the momentum start to topple him over backwards before turning on his heel to walk forwards once again.
Reaching the door to Professor Luna's lab, he went to unlock it only to freeze when he felt the key smoothly turn, the mechanical lock already undone. What the?... She's never here at this hour. Head full of a dozen potential reasons, each one more absurd than the last, Felix carefully opened the door and slipped inside with as little noise as possible. Head on a swivel as he softly padded into the lab proper, the lanky young man came abrupt halt as he spotted a blue-haired stranger idly sweeping the floor. "Uh, hi there? Do you know where the Professor is?" Felix asked hesitantly, as he awkwardly straightened up out of the not quite half crouch he'd been sneaking around in.
@RickyG85 (If that works for ya)
Oh. Now here's a question: What age are our characters? Late highschool teens? Or early college young adults? I don't ever remember seeing this discussed.
Full size European greatsword/zweihander for Felix. Or maybe a quarterstaff or 3-section-staff. (ic post soonish?)
...could also see him using a polearm/glave.
...could also see him using a polearm/glave.
Felix Buchanan
8:19, 8:19, 8:19, there shouldn't be a star there at 8:19 PM. Much less one that's moving like that. Felix stewed as he packed his bag, the trigonometry teacher's closing comments and homework directions only going half-heard. He knew he'd probably regret not paying closer attention later, but right now his brain had more pressing concerns, like stars that didn't make sense. He'd first stumbled across it on accident when charting constellations. A simple task, but something interesting enough to make leaning how to use a telescope at least a little bit fun.
"It's probably just a orbital tug or something executing a burn on a routine schedule... A really precise routine schedule." He muttered to himself as he shouldered his bag and made for the classroom door. A few funny looks and snickers bounced around him at his verbalized thinking but Felix paid them no mind as he headed out, focused on his problem at hand. But it's too precise to be that. And the movement I'm seeing from it is too minimal... Maybe a distant object at the start of an exponential curve? Which would mean what? Errant bits of math ran circles in his head as he walked, gaze down and only half paying attention to where he was going.
Pausing, Felix stretched, trying dislodge the sense of unease that had settled over him. He didn't have any answers, and none of the theories he could could come up with were making him feel any better. Briefly checking his phone, Felix groaned. 3:01. A little more than five hours to kill. "What's the military phrase? Hurry up and wait." He grumbled to himself.
Got a WIP post coming along. I think Felix is gonna talk in a nice red-orange.
I love him already! Felix and Sully are hitting all the Indian joints...and Felix will have to endure Sully goading him into competing over who can eat the spiciest curry!
I've got a feeling Sully and Felix are going to have the weirdest love/hate friendship as they irritate the ever-living hell out of each other. It should be pretty great.
And with Courtaud's approval...
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