AUGUST EVENT PART TWO: GIL'S ALL-FRIGHT DINER

[sailmods]

[someone has to be the first to notice.

is it someone on the ship? who passed through the metal detector, only to find themselves still standing on deck zero; who watched Friday freeze up suddenly before fleeing from the room, hands wringing together?

or is it someone in the diner? who opens the portal door to find that it's now a real closet? who notices that the clone Friday has disappeared completely, along with every native vehicle? someone has to notice it first, and then spread it through the crowd like contagion. who's first?

it doesn't matter. all communication has been cut off. all access has been blocked. for now, on both sides of the portal, the passengers are on their own.

for now.

the sun has disappeared over the horizon. the beginning of stars in purple skies. and everything is completely silent.

for now.]

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[makesomedeals]

[Nice car you have there Clarke. It looks like it's ready to do do battle on the Fury Road. What it doesn't look like, is very fast.

NYYYYOOOOOOMMMMMMM

That's the sound of that rover being overtaken by Max and Ava in his nicely polished and shiny floating car and heading towards the base of the cliff to watch the inevitable carnage.

Sorry everyone in the parking lot, he's not offering any seats. But you do get to watch his car drive away and that's truly a blessing to cherish.]

[mooninthewater]

[ Mizuki, who has taken Ebalon's hoverbike to head to the point as well, gives Max a little nod as he passes by. Feel free to shoot dirty looks at Ebalon, who's riding behind him??? But, uh, you know!! Driving solidarity or whatever.

His car is still very cool. ]

[opheliac]

(so there they go. but then she notices clarke and a few others hop in her vehicle. then max literally speeding the fuck off, too. oh then there's ebalon and mizuki leaving as well. feeling all amp up, jinx grins wildly while bouncing in place and re-adjusting pow-pow and fishbones over her shoulder.

she's not going stay here with the rest of these losers. and who needs a car when she got her own speed? chuckling to herself and biting her bottom lip, the pinks glisten violently as she can feel the shimmer bubble in her veins. jinx makes one more last giddy hop and zoom! she runs off right after everyone else.)

[luminessense]

[ Alright, well, if everyone is going off to see those two at the "finish line", then Lumine might as well go, too? Mostly, she just wants to make sure Jinx is okay. She's not too keen on actually watching the race.

But, uh, with a quick glow of purple herself, she's able to keep up with Jinx, actually, with an inhuman speed of her own. ]

[opheliac]

(if it weren't for her natural instincts that pick up someone is keeping up with her, the voices would had definitely told her. but either or, jinx spots lumine briefly and her heart drops a little. jinx had been avoiding her since...well. anyway, she'll just keep her eyes forward for now and focus on running since this is a little more important. life or death situation kind of thing.)

[wimdy]

[ very unfortunately for max and ava, if the window's open a stroke of wind would slip inside and then manifest into venti in the back seat, patting lightly to their armrest to let them know, hi, you have an intruder. ]

This car really is fast! [ ...... maybe being a car wouldn't be so bad??? yes he might be kind of a speed demon. ] Say, is it possible to put the top down?

[ he'd rode in a topless thunderbird and liked to stick his head out to feel the windstream, sue him. ]

[decohere]

Ava's so intently focused on the road ahead, fingers clutched so tightly into the fabric of her skirt, that the sudden appearance of somebody in the backseat (WHEN SHE WAS CERTAIN THEY WERE ALONE) outright startles her enough to whip around and throw a punch directly through the seat at the intruder. The seat itself is unharmed, of course.

Ava looks slightly apologetic once she gets a good glance at this guy. Mixed with annoyance. Mixed with... no, she's too distracted for this, attention immediately snapping back to the front. Her breathing is heavy.

"Who the absolute f..." no she respects Max's car too much to swear in it. "Max, do you want me to dispose of the stowaway?"

[makesomedeals]

"This is Venti. He's going to turn into a car soon. Venti, this is Ava."

He doesn't take his eyes off the road or even look at Venti, he just knows it's him immediately.

"And no, it's not a convertible. "

[wimdy]

All right, so he totally shouldn't have startled the other passenger like that. And he has no clue what Ava is capable of but apparently she's very capable of phasing a punch right through to him, deservedly.

It hits him square in the face, he makes a startled sound and claps a hand to his nose. Ow, ow...!!! So, he might have a nosebleed now. "I...! I didn't mean to surprise you--

W-wait, I'm still working on the cure, I still have time before I'm fully cursed right?!"

[decohere]

"Ah," Ava says knowingly, because she's been looped in on this situation. Even if she didn't have a face to the name. Venti. "That's a tragedy," she tells him, because even if Skulduggery is about to die she cannot allow his legacy of convincing some idiot of car curses to die alongside him.

"Don't get blood on the upholstery," she warns him. "Or you'll be doubly cursed."

[makesomedeals]

"Yes, you still have time. Though perhaps you are in luck with this. Should the car be destroyed I'd presume it releases you from the grip of the curse." His voice is as flat as he can make it because if he lets even a single ounce of emotion in there he is going to lose it laughing because this is absolutely the funniest thing to happen.

When Skulduggery isn't in a death race and probably going to end up in a pile of twisted metal and loose bones, he's going to have to congratulate him on this.

"Though maybe we should have taught you how to drive just in case. A little late now however."

[skaikru]

( hey max, rude. fair, but rude.

the rover tops out at 70mph and that's pushing it, but that's also carrying up to ten people so, yanno. insert something about leadership and carrying the weak masses, like they're not all morbidly trekking out to watch one of their own die. like passing a car and both ending up at the same red light, whenever they draw level again clarke's just gonna glare at him. )

[decohere]

A small wave out the window.