Need room when war is over

alter · Post by **alter** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:58 pm

((is there a list made of the toons and their room assignments? i'd put two and two together, but i'm horrible at math and i had too much of the Silver Bullet last night. I know that everyone is currently in the bunker, but since Vivian/-Alter isn't 100% capable of blocking out other people's thought, she would probably try to live in the Quads for the solitude regardless of the war.))

It was a little maddening, her first steps into the bunker. So many students with no idea how to keep their thoughts to themselves. An undisciplined lot they were. Perhaps she could teach them... but then, she'd have to learn to keep their thoughts out before she could teach them to keep their thoughts to themselves. She could already feel a headache coming on.

She waved hello to the few students she had met prior, Alex and Sam most notably, and then tried to find a dark corner of the basement in which to curl up. And that was when it happened, terror struck her like a linebacker. It began to well up within her and forced her to her knees as she looked around desperately for the source. There... in the corner.... something was going to die.

Vivian forced herself to her feet and stumbled towards the source only to find mother nature hard at work. An orange tabby had cornered a rat and was playfully, sadistically, playing with it before eating. The rat knew what was going to happen, it knew it was going to die and that there was nothing it could do to stop the inevitable.

So Vivian did was anyone else would do to aid someone about to die, she focused on the cat and tried to send thoughts of a dog coming. The cat instantly jerked and jumped straight up, twisting in the air before coming to a halt facing Vivian. It hissed at her as if sensing she was the imminent threat and then bolted from the basement.

Finally the terror within her subsided and she moved back to her corner to sleep.

Later on that night, as the Sister's did their rounds of the bunker, checking on the students, they noticed something that bewildered them all. They found a young girl, Vivian, wrapped happily in a blanket, surrounded by little shiny trinkets; one solitary rat curled up sleeping in the crook of her elbow.

Gravwarp · Post by **Gravwarp** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:30 pm

( The list is stickied at the top of the School Setting Forum. Link. )

alter · Post by **alter** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:45 pm

((The list that I saw was posted over a year ago, just wondering if there was a more up-to-date list.))

Misericorde · Post by **Misericorde** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:58 pm

We edit the existing list. Grav has no reason to lie.

MoonTide · Post by **MoonTide** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:52 pm

Misericorde wrote:We edit the existing list. Grav has no reason to lie.

Hey,you are not his roommate! Some of the things that guy does ewww! *shudders* Just kidding! yeah the first post looks really old but the date doesn't get updated as the list does.

--moon

Timothy Bastian · Post by **Timothy Bastian** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:01 pm

((If you take a look at the most recent posts in the thread, you'll see they have pretty recent timestamps, too.))

alter · Post by **alter** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:39 pm

(( gotcha gotcha, new list, old stamp.... now i'm ....not sooo confused

))

It was relatively quiet, and quite warm, down in the bowels of the bunker. There was no one to bug her because there were no beds down there. No one's random thoughts leaking out to keep her troubled mind from resting. Nope, it was just her and Steve McQueen. She couldn't remember why she named the rat Steve, but he seemed pleased for some reason when she thought that. That, and the fact that no cat set foot on the stairs when Vivian was around.

The Sisters had first protested about Vivian being down there, but when they noticed that the rats didn't tear up her blanket and leave droppings anywhere near her, they decided to move a spare mattress down for her to sleep on. This pleased Vivian to no end because she knew Steve would like something softer to sleep on.....