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<td valign="top">[[Image:MoA Cloak2.png|left]] '''Moment of Awesome: [[Tyrone Johnson|Tyrone Johnson/Cloak]]:''' ''When they're attacked while [[Poor Unfortunate Souls|playing lookout on the high seas]], [https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/3988623.html#cutid1 Ty gets lunch] and [[Laurie Collins]] gets scientific at a really inappropriate time.''
  
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Ty really wasn't sure how he'd ended up here, or why. But between the gut-wrenching post-teleportation disorientation and what appeared to flying fish and....
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"Medic! I'm hallucinating giant crabs!" He shouted.
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"No. I'm fairly sure these are real." Laurie hopped back as a coconut crab snapped it's large claws at her feet, scuttling across the deck of the ship. First ambulatory seaweed, then flying fish and sharknadoes and now homicidal coconut crabs, all it needed to be complete would be a white whale and a man named Ishmael. She was just about to kick the crab back into the ocean when it put on a burst of speed and swarmed up her legs. "Argh! Get off you stupid crustacean!"
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A sliver of shadow whipped out to consume the top-most crab. Ty perked up. "Oh, nice." His expression turned to a delighted grin. "Mm, lunch." More fingers of shadow lashed out, picking off crabs one at a time.
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“That is both incredibly fascinating and also deeply disturbing.” Laurie cooked several more crabs as Ty’s shadow tendrils picking off the ones swarming up her body. “Do you actually gain sustenance or is calling them lunch an affectation?”
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Ty just stared at Laurie. "What? Yes? Maybe? They were trying to eat you, so I ate them back!"
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"Interesting. Does that mean you do not need to eat the normal way? " Laurie stepped back and out of the way of another swarm of crabs, knowing that the battery her arm contained wouldn't last much longer and once it was gone, the entire arm would be useless until she could charge it in the sun. "You may need to take over much of the defense here, my battery is almost empty and I'm not sure it would be wise to leave myself without an entire arm at this point in time."
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"Does your therapist know about this inappropriate timing thing?" Ty asked.
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“My therapist gave up long ago. You would like her, wonderful woman, always appears to have a harried expression when the mention of my name comes up.” Laurie pulled a gun from its holster under her jacket and started to shoot several of the crabs. She hated to use the gun, especially in such a close quarters situation as this but given the alternative was to leave Ty to his own and her defence, it seemed an appropriate use of force. “I am not without alternatives, of course. I just dislike the use of such blunt force and inelegant solutions. Especially when an assailant has merely to disarm myself in order to have the upper hand in both weaponry and possible future attempts at my life.”
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Ty just backed up a few steps and finished off the crustaceans from a safer distance. "You do you, woman. You just... do you."
  
 
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Latest revision as of 22:17, 14 July 2018

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Moment of Awesome: Tyrone Johnson/Cloak: When they're attacked while playing lookout on the high seas, Ty gets lunch and Laurie Collins gets scientific at a really inappropriate time.

Ty really wasn't sure how he'd ended up here, or why. But between the gut-wrenching post-teleportation disorientation and what appeared to flying fish and....

"Medic! I'm hallucinating giant crabs!" He shouted.

"No. I'm fairly sure these are real." Laurie hopped back as a coconut crab snapped it's large claws at her feet, scuttling across the deck of the ship. First ambulatory seaweed, then flying fish and sharknadoes and now homicidal coconut crabs, all it needed to be complete would be a white whale and a man named Ishmael. She was just about to kick the crab back into the ocean when it put on a burst of speed and swarmed up her legs. "Argh! Get off you stupid crustacean!"

A sliver of shadow whipped out to consume the top-most crab. Ty perked up. "Oh, nice." His expression turned to a delighted grin. "Mm, lunch." More fingers of shadow lashed out, picking off crabs one at a time.

“That is both incredibly fascinating and also deeply disturbing.” Laurie cooked several more crabs as Ty’s shadow tendrils picking off the ones swarming up her body. “Do you actually gain sustenance or is calling them lunch an affectation?”

Ty just stared at Laurie. "What? Yes? Maybe? They were trying to eat you, so I ate them back!"

"Interesting. Does that mean you do not need to eat the normal way? " Laurie stepped back and out of the way of another swarm of crabs, knowing that the battery her arm contained wouldn't last much longer and once it was gone, the entire arm would be useless until she could charge it in the sun. "You may need to take over much of the defense here, my battery is almost empty and I'm not sure it would be wise to leave myself without an entire arm at this point in time."

"Does your therapist know about this inappropriate timing thing?" Ty asked.

“My therapist gave up long ago. You would like her, wonderful woman, always appears to have a harried expression when the mention of my name comes up.” Laurie pulled a gun from its holster under her jacket and started to shoot several of the crabs. She hated to use the gun, especially in such a close quarters situation as this but given the alternative was to leave Ty to his own and her defence, it seemed an appropriate use of force. “I am not without alternatives, of course. I just dislike the use of such blunt force and inelegant solutions. Especially when an assailant has merely to disarm myself in order to have the upper hand in both weaponry and possible future attempts at my life.”

Ty just backed up a few steps and finished off the crustaceans from a safer distance. "You do you, woman. You just... do you."