7367/The End of the Earth

The End of the Earth
Date of Scene:	30 April 2019
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Jubes meets a god.
Cast of Characters:	Jubilee, Poseidon

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Jubilee has posed:
"The afternoon sun is waning in the west. The sky is darkening but splashed with a riot of color where the sunset sprays upward into the clouds. And on the beach, beneath the quiet of night's veil, sits a lone figure. She's wrapped in a yellow peacoat, and sitting on a quilt on the sand, as a windy chill rolls off the water and blankets the sand. Others have all packed up and fled for the warmth and sanctuary of their homes. But not this one. Not Jubilee. Here, she finds solace and solitude. And here, she can breathe.

Poseidon has posed:
there's nothing better than a swim in the sea, or at least, that'd be probably the general opinion of anyone that happened to be a god ruling over the mentioned sea. Just coming from one of these swims, and maybe wanting to enjoy a favourite human activity, and that'd be walking on the beach, Poseidon is just now resurfacing in front of the beach occupied by Jubilee, maybe a bit to her left but otherwise in sight. At first, it'll just be a head breaking the surface of the water, with light brown hair, a face belonging to someone in his early twenties probably, and a pair of hazel eyes. As he approaches the beach, coming more and more out of the water, his body will reveal itself to be six feet and two inches of athleticism, with slightly tanned skin and not a single scar, wearing a pair of black shorts. An average swimmer, if it wasn't at least for the fact that his body seems perfectly dry as soon as it exits the water.

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee doesn't speak, but instead just watches the spectacle of a perfect male figure emerging from the water. I mean, that's just like...Tuesday, for Jubilee. Right? Handsome guys dropping out of rafters, emerging from the sea...wait, it actually /is/ Tuesday. She curls her knees up to her chest, and wiggles her toes in the sand at the edge of her blanket.

"You know, I'd ask where in the world you came from, considering I was alone here...But I think I'll stick with thanking whichever god brought you here, because wow. Not that I'm looking. But ....okay I'm totally looking," the girl confesses with a smirk.

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon moves a few steps on the sand, his bare feet appreciating its freshness and consistency, but turns his head in Jubilee's direction immediately upon hearing her voice. Looking at her, he can't stop a smile at first, and then a chuckle at the mentioning of thanking gods "well, you know, gods are always pleased when you thank them no matter what, I'm sure just selecting one and thanking it will work! But well, considering you're on the beach, well, maybe... There's one who would surely benefit from your gratitude!" he comments, walking calmly towards the girl and stopping a couple of metres away in front of her.

Jubilee has posed:
The petite young woman is thin, with the lithe form of a gymnast. She's wearing cargo shorts with a baby tee-shirt, blue with a picture of sun and clouds. It reads "You Are My Sunshine." She gathers her glossy black hair as the wind whips it around, and she smiles. "Where /did/ you come from?" She furrows her brow, her honeyed brown eyes looking up into his. "I thought I was alone. Not that I'm complaining..." She looks around, finding no signs down the beach of any other visitors. "Yet...here you stand."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon chuckles again and just crosses his arms over his chest, offering the woman a smile. "well, but from the ocean, of course... Didn't you just see me walking out of it?" he asks, still smilingly "I was just, swimming around, sort of... So I totally happened here sort of randomly!"

Jubilee has posed:
"Randomly..." Jubilee doesn't sound convinced. But she smiles and nods. "I guess I'll buy that. But only because I don't see some surfer guy car or beach chairs. So you just pop out of the sea sometimes? I pop out of random places, but usually only to scare someone. Also, you don't have a towel. And you don't seem to need one." She crinkles her nose. "Are you that Aquaman guy everybody seems excited about? Or...who /are/ you?"

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon blinks, amusement showing on his face afterwards, then turns to look briefly at the sea behind him.
"Aquaman? No no! Not at all!" he comments with a grin "I'm just, Poseidon..." he offers almost casually, "so well, yes, I just walk out of the ocean with no towel because, I don't need any..."

Jubilee has posed:
"Maybe," Jubilation concedes cautiously. But it's a good thing you opted for the shorts, because seriously...you decide you don't need those, and you're gonna create a /real/ stir on the beach." She looks around, where night has begun settling into the low places on the beach. "I'm Jubilation, by the way.....Poseidon. Is that your real name or like some sort of surfer name?" She's looking him over suspiciously. "I thought Poseidon was like a million years old. Long white beard. Pitchfork. Fish tail."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon can't stop and just laughs at Jubilee's words, amused now as it shows on his face. "oh? how's that?" he asks about the shorts thing, then moves a step backward "This is definitely my name and, no, really, the fish tail is just a legend!" he spreads his arms, then he's just not the man he was before. Tall, powerfully built, with white hair and blue eyes, wearing a green armour with golden accents and a golden cloak that flows down from his shoulders. His right hand, then, is wielding a trident of the most perfect quality "and this, is a trident, by the way." he mentions, tapping said weapon on the sandy floor. Then everything vanishes again, his magics making him reappear as the guy in shorts.

Jubilee has posed:
"Oh." Jubilee is dumbfounded for a moment, then grins. "Well in that case, all hail the god of the sea!" She finger guns, shooting little pink and gold fireworks that explode with little pafs around them jubilantly. "Sorry, I don't get a lot of mileage out of my fireworks in regard to sound. But it's what I've got." She winks and stands up to brush the sand off herself. "So you're like...really him?"

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon moves a step backwards, and then performs a flawlessly executed bow in Jubilee's direction. "Nice fireworks, Jubilee! It is a pleasure to meet you, anyways..." he comments, straightening himself again, standing in front of the woman "looks like that, I'm really him..." he admits, and just to prove his point the water, in the ocean behind him, rises to form an image of a trident that remains in place for a couple of seconds, before dissolving with a splash.

Jubilee has posed:
"Wow. Yeah I can't do that sorta thing...." Jubilee frets at her bottom lip and tilts her head. "So what random reason did you have for comin' up for air here. Like...now? Did you know somethin' I didn't? Is there something going on that drew your attention?" For the first time, she takes a really good look around at the beach, wary of any sort of danger that might have drawn a god from the water.

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon smiles gently and just lets his arms hang to his sides, then it's just a matter of channeling a bit of magic and a blue towel appears on the sand. Lying down on said towel, arms behind his head as if to relax under the sun, if there was any sun to relax under, he just admits "I truly went up here randomly... I sometimes just walk around on land as well, in this particular case I just wanted to be on a beach and so happened here. No other reason, really."

Jubilee has posed:
"Well then! Lucky me!" Jubilee grins and pulls her quilt along behind her until she is beside Poseidon. Then she drops it and seats herself on it, watching him. Because watching him is good. He's fun to look at. Like Steve Rogers. Or that guy on the Calvin Klein billboard. "Just let me know if you need me to put some moonscreen on you. I'm probably really good at that..." That last part is under her breath as she averts her eyes to hide her blush.

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon half closes his eyes, feeling connected with the sand under him, and even more so with the sea, aware of everything happening into it in quite a considerable range, yet focused now on the woman that is just sitting next to him. "moonscreen? Why, do you humans use moonscreen now? I feel outdated sometimes..." he chuckles, but turns to the woman to send a smile her way "well if you say it's something needed, then, I will not surely complain, I suppose...."

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee giggles softly, but shakes her head. "Nah, we don't use it. I'm pretty sure there is no such thing. It was just sort of an innuendo thing. Like...if I just wanted to um..." And then and there, she decides to let that die, because explaining it is worse than doing it. "I have some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, if you're hungry. Or some beef jerky...pop rocks. Hershey kisses. Red Vines..." The list goes on. "And I have peach soda," she offers brightly.

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon raises an eyebrow for a moment, looks at the woman and smiles again "Oh come on, I know what you meant... I might be tousands of years old but, well, I'm not that out of the world yet... As for the foods you just mentioned, I'll say I have no idea about what the last two are. Who's kissing what?" he asks, closing his eyes for a moment, just relaxing on the sand

Jubilee has posed:
Even more embarrassed by being caught flirting, Jubilee hops up. "Chocolate. Hershey kisses are...chocolate...kisses, I mean." She returns with a handful of light blue, sparkly foil-wrapped kisses. She places two on his chest, and sits down next to him again, unwrapping one for herself. "I mean...they're awesome, if ya like kisses."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon chuckles again, and smiles again at Jubilee. "ah, thank you!" he exclaims, unwrapping the thing just placed on his chest and eating it slowly, taking his time to savor it. "mhm, I'd have to say you surely know how to give kisses, but that'd just be a half assumption! Lets just say I like this particular kind of kisses, too..." and he looks definitely relaxed now, the sand very comfortable and the towel even more so, the company then surely adds to the pleasant atmosphere

Jubilee has posed:
"Aww...I bet you get kisses all the /time/..." Jubilee quiets for a moment and grabs a couple of peach sodas, setting one on the corner of his towel. "Heads up...that's cold. Don't wanna catch ya by surprise." Jubilee lies on her own quilt, on her side, tracing designs in the condensation on her soda bottle as she watches him. "What does a god do all day, anyway? Like...smite things a lot, I bet. Like, 'Smote this....smote that thing over there, and that one thing in the other room. Smote that one real good. Gonna smite some stuff later too....' and stuff." She imitates his muscular stance while lying on her side...cause it probably helps with imitating his voice.

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon grabs the offered soda bottle, opening it with just a flick of the wrist, and then placing it against his lips to take a sip "I will say now, I don't know why us gods don't go in your world and eat and drink more often. I mean this stuff is obviously unhealthy, but it tastes good for sure." he admits, sipping again from his bottle.
The woman's question deserves a bit of consideration, but an expression of amusement can't be totally hidden on Poseidon's face "Oho, no, well, lately it's just going around doing nothing special. Just, well, protecting the ocians from evil things, making sure you humans don't doom us all by melting things that shouldn't melt and get inundated, that sort of things. The occasional walking on streets to mingle a bit but, eh, since there are not that many worshippers anymore it's not like I can do that many things..." he shrugs a bit "noone whose prayers I should answer, either."

Jubilee has posed:
"Oh..." The thought never occurred to Jubilee that gods like this would have worshippers and people praying to them, too. "I guess people's religions change, huh? I mean, I've read the stories...the old gods totally did all sorts of questionable stuff and they STILL had worshippers. Like I mean turned themselves into animals and seduced the womenfolk. Never understood that...They're gods, all they have to do is make a pass and a girl would just swoon. Why turn themselves into a bull or a swan?" Jubilee is rambling, half to herself, about the whole matter. "Bet it's a lot harder to seduce a chick as an animal..."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon closes his eyes, his mind maybe going back a couple of centuries or millennia, remembering things as Jubilee speaks. "Don't just believe all the legends, but then, lets say, girls back there were definitely naughtier in some cases than the average girl here, so don't be that surprised actually..." he chuckles, then turns to the woman "oh, do you mean that I'd just have to walk out of the water shapeshifted like an handsome man in his twenties to win the lust of every mortal woman I randomly happened to find on a beach?"

Jubilee has posed:
"Well yeah! I mean, I haven't ever looked at a cow and thought Mmm...wish I had me some of--wait..." She goes back to his original question in her head, realizing that she is, in fact, a random woman he randomly found on a beach. "I dunno....I mean you're sexy and all, but you're no bull or swan..." She grins mischievously.

Poseidon has posed:
"I think" Poseidon starts "that the thing is that a woman was quite ready to have sex with a bull because of I don't know what kinky minds... But maybe it's just you know, you see a bull turning into a man, you see he's a god, and then you go ooooh! He's a god! Lets have sex with this amazing powerful great creature..." he chuckles slightly again, stretching on the sand "oh you find me sexy enough already without me having to turn into an animal, now..."

Jubilee has posed:
"How did this become about me?!" Jubilee blinks. "We were discussing you and all the stuff you can turn into. Right? Or how the old ones did that stuff. Not that YOU ever did that. I'm sure you never turned into...." She pauses. She doesn't remember all of the stories. He might have. "I mean...Probably not. Right?"

Poseidon has posed:
"because turning the topic to you is more fun, of course!" Poseidon explains, then grins slightly "oh you know, I got to do a lot of things in over ten tousand years, so I probably turned into a lot of creatures, honestly... But now aday, my favourites are this form, my true one, and whatever happens to be necessary. I'm not really that loving of changing my shape, really. Some other deities love it far more than I do"

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee blushes, thankful for the darkness to hide the pink in her cheeks. "Well. I like /that/ form. But I like your other form, too. Cause people should be who they are. And you're all beautiful and majestic like that. And probably whatever else you turn into is all majestic too. So I'm not one to judge!" She grins, rolling onto her back to look up at the stars. "Look at me, just lying on the beach under the stars with a god. Who'd have guess I would ever do this in my life?"

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon can't refrain a laugh, and so lets it out in a quite armonious way, the sea itself reacting with a few smaller waves reaching out on the beach, almost touching the two relaxing people. "ah! True! Well, I like your form as well, if you want my humble opinion." he comments, still amused by all this "eh, well if you brag about it make sure I get some credit at least! You, humans, you don't pray anymore my days are getting boring, you know..."

Jubilee has posed:
"So don't have to be bored, y'know. You could always come see me. Does my talking to you here count as praying since I'm talking to a god? Or do I have to be doing it from somewhere else? And does that even WORK? Because I guess I could think in your general direction, but can you hear that? And if you can does that mean you can read my thoughts? WAIT, CAN YOU READ MY THOUGHTS?!"

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon raises an eyebrow, then even more, to the point where it looks almost comical. "oh wait wait let me address all those things one at a time!" he says. "first, yeah, I'd love to come visit you from time to time." he lifts a finger as if to count "second, no, it doesn't count... I mean praying is, well, don't you ever pray? Think about me and pray, that'll work from anywhere..." he shrugs, lifting another finger "and I am not a telepath. While I could use magic to read your mind, sort of, I am not actively doing it right now. Why?"

Jubilee has posed:
"Oh, pff....No reason," Jubilee replies quickly. "I totally just wondered. I didn't know what all you could do. You can do all sorts of things, can't you? I mean you're a god, of course you can...." Jubilee seems lost in thought for a moment. She looks up at Poseidon from her position, as if considering any number of things. "I don't pray...I didn't know I should. I think I would, to call on you, if you were here and I wanted to talk. Or see you. Or something..."

Poseidon has posed:
"well..." Poseidon says "people usually don't just pray to see me, but since I've nothing else to do I suppose you could definitely just, do, that... And since right now I'm here you don't need to pray to talk to me, I'm here!" and just to affirm his point, he extends his right index finger and tries to lightly poke the woman on her left side "and sure, gods can do a lot of things... Did you have anything specific you want to know or see or, whatever?"

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee rolls onto her side when she's poked, giggling and grabbing the poking finger. "Oh, I'll ask, as things arise... I never met a god before. I'm kind of...starstruck..." She watches him, still holding that finger. "There are so many things in my head right now I can barely sort them out...."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon lets the finger in Jubilee's grasp, chuckling gently and lying down, eyes half closed "ah, ah really? You don't seem like the girl who'd get starstruck over a god, really... What with all the cool heroes you surely get to meet..."

Jubilee has posed:
"Heroes are cool. But we're all still human. Most of us. Except that one guy." She doesn't elaborate. "I'm human. Sort of. But I can't turn into things, or do all the cool stuff you can do. And nobody will ever pray to me. Not that I would want them to. But you...you're like. You've been here since the beginning. You know everything. You've experienced /everything/....You can do things that mortals, expecially humans...could never dream of doing. I guess I just can't help it..."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon chuckles, shaking his head briefly "ok, true, I have a lot of power and I've experienced lots of things, but well, it's not like I'm all knowing. I know next to nothing about, say, space? Ask me anything about the seas, about weather, about volcanoes even, and I'll answer... But it comes to, don't know, mechanical stuff about truks? I've no idea about what's that..."

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee grins, rolling closer to look directly at the god beside her. Then maybe I know some things you don't know. You should stick with me. I'll teach you /anything/ you wanna know..."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon offers a nod, letting Jubilee move in closer "Ah! ANd should you ever wish to visit the seas, well just call and I'll show you what you land things are loosing... You will see the magnificence of it all!" he exclaims, but turns in Jubilee's direction, head propped on his right arm, to offer a smile.

Jubilee has posed:
"Wow...you'd show me all that? I mean...I'm sure you have lots to do out there." Jubilee tilts her head with a playful and lopsided grin. "I guess...as far as the magnificence? I thought I was already lookin' at it."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon seems amused again, returning the playful smile with one of his own "oh, an awestruck pretty girl, how could I be more in luck!" he exclaims, then sweeps his right hand towards the ocean itself "of course I'll show it to you, you humans should get to contemplate the ocean a bit more, it's so wonderful!"

Jubilee has posed:
"Aww...well, I definitely look forward to seeing it all." Jubilee smiles softly. "I guess it all just sort of hit me, all of the things you know. All that you have seen. It's a lot to take in," Jubilee says thoughtfully. "I never expected to meet someone like...well, a god..."

Poseidon has posed:
"well to be honest I didn't expect to find a pretty girl either, when randomly walking here..." Poseidon admits, shifting his position slightly to be more comfortable "but I am not complaining, at all..."

Jubilee has posed:
Shrugging, Jubilee grins. "I thought it was standard God of Stuff protocol, that you run into girls everywhere you go. They're everywhere, falling at your feet, serving you, feeding you grapes. Fanning you with palm leaves."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon shakes his head, chuckling amusedly "oh no, no, definitely not working like that... It's not like we just enter a room and girls just throw themselves at our feet, you know... That works only in legends, or in women fantasies..." he admits, still looking at Jubilee

Jubilee has posed:
"I'm...I'm not...It's not a fantasy. It's...It just thought that was how it worked. Like. Ok, maybe not." She shifts her gaze and narrows her eyes. "Did you need a chick at your feet? Cause I'm kinda short, so I'm halfway there, already."

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon keeps chuckling amusedly, then tilts his head a bit "kick at my feet? what do you mean with that now?" he asks curiously, yes he's not really familiar with some expressions it seems! Poor Poseidon... "and I wasn't referring to yous specifically, honestly... Why do you have those fantasies?"

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee laughs, but then stammers. "N-no, I means like...Women at your feet...I could be one because I'm a lot shorter than you and I am nearly at your feet anyway, so you wouldn't have to look for a woman to sit at your feet, and your time could be freed up for other...other stuff. You know?"

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon laughs and extends his finger again to lightly poke Jubilee's side "ah would you?" he smiles "well, let not be said that I turned down such a thing!" but the smile is a gentle one.

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee grins and sighs. "How could I have known when I left for the beach that I would end up sitting here giggling and giving kisses to a god at the edge of the world?"

Poseidon has posed:
Poseidon reaches out with his right hand to ruffle Jubilee's hair a bit and grins "chocolate kisses, but still better than nothing I suppose!" he exclaims, turning then to enjoy a few more minutes of easy relaxing before standing up, to say his farewells to the newly met Jubilee and returning to the sea, not without however promising a meeting, soon...