2653/The Scene That Goes Like This

The Scene That Goes Like This
Date of Scene:	30 September 2017
Location:	Outside Titans Tower
Synopsis:	A brief RP that got interrupted and never finished. Brick vs. Apokalips Fish-men
Cast of Characters:	Brick, Aqualad, 87

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Brick has posed:
//Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water.
Come back here, man, gimme my daughter.
Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water.
Come back here, man, gimme my daughter.//

The music is not particularly upbeat. A woman's mournful little bit about drowning her little girl for refusing to do what her mommy said to do... creepy AND disturbing. Not at all autobiographical for the writer, and pointedly so.

Still it makes great music for someone doing what looks to be some sort of floor routine gymnastics ... on the waves as they break against the shore. Drones are following overhead and to the side to get all the good shots, and one of them is playing the music. It probably doesn't have the permission of the author. Maybe it's a cover? Still. Maybe it'll be dubbed with something else.

The really weird thing is that this guy is not sinking INTO the water, but rather, bouncing along and ... skating? across the curls of the waves.

It's not the time of day nor the kind of weather where someone would be watching. Also, this beach is slightly gross. But there's good wave action from the hurricanes hanging out a couple hundred miles offshore.

Aqualad has posed:
The water around the Tower isn't particularly clean-- at least not by Atlantean standards. Accustomed to the depths, where there is little detritus to clog the gills, Kaldur swims out a few dozen miles and explores the coastal shallows near the dropoff point quite frequently. He's in fact mapped a good deal of it out; someday, some archaeologist might appreciate his rather detailed notes on coastal shelf erosion.

Mostly, it's the equivalent of taking photography on a morning jog; it breaks up some of the monotony.

He emerges from the breaktide with a burst of spray and foam, leaping from the air and clearing almost thirty lateral feet to land in the lapping tidal pools. He turns, brushing water from his face, and an expression of mild surprise crosses his features at the fellow dancing on the waves. Loathe to interrupt, Kaldur offers only a polite wave, for the moment.

Vorpal (87) has posed:
Preferring to stay a good distance from waves, friendly or otherwise, Vorpal is back at the Tower, sitting at the Monitor room for lack of anything better to do. Keeping track of Kaldur's comm signal in case the Titan might need him (hopefully not, he hates doing the water thing), he frowns the next time he turns back to the monitor from his cup of cocoa. He hits a couple of buttons and focuses one of the cameras, and frowns.

"That dude's not sinking into the water. He'd better not be looking for twelve fishermen or something like that..."

He reaches out to touch the comm to hail Kaldur, when he sees his Titan friend jumping out of the water a bit from the target, and he smirks. Synchronicity. Gotta love it.

"This is Cat in the Hat to Fish-sticks, come in, fish-sticks. To quote the Christmas carol, saith the cat to the Atlantean: Do you see what I see?"

He's in a weird mood, but the beginning of Autumn always has him in a strange mood. He has to fight with himself and keep himself from buying ugly sweaters, turtlenecks, and sit around the table with a sweater tied around his shoulders and both hands cradling a cup of warm tea.

Brick has posed:
Across the bay, a faint BOOM is suddenly heard, as a hole is drilled in spacetime to spit out a single blue-black figure into the water. At the sound, the water-skater stops the acrobatics and slips into a more cautious stance, distracted from noticing Kaldur.

PING! Ping ping ping!

"Yes, I heard it, Mere Boite. Where's it from?"

... Ping ...

"What's an Apoklyps?"

Kaldur will doubtless sense a massively energetic movement as the blue-black figure tears across the water towards Titans Tower, and then the wave-skater heads that way as well, on an intercept course.

Well, apparently the guy's not cautious.