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Anthony J. Crowley ([personal profile] serpentinthegarden) wrote in [community profile] diatu2021-08-02 11:29 pm

Surf's up, School's out

Who: Crowley and OPEN - (Now with bonus August Adventure)
What: A demon getting used to school, meeting new people, going to class... what could go wrong? 
Where: In and about the Academy (August Catchall)
When: First day of class
Warnings: Bit of cursing here and there

Room 666
The shades were drawn but only enough so that the light streamed into the room through a narrow slit, brightening the center of the room but leaving the corners rather dark and secluded. That car was still out there. He couldn't make out who was in the driver's seat... if indeed there was anyone in the driver's seat at all... but it had been following him. He thought it had been following him anyway. Maybe it was a mistake?
Maybe every one in this place drove silver DeLorean's. He was too suspicious to be that gullible!

Crowley stood near the window peering out past the curtains, glaring at the stalkers car, fully content to watch it as long as it took to find out who was following him... that is until there was a knock on his door which necessitated his sauntering over to answer it. Now whether the knock had been on purpose or accidental he leaned on the frame and looked over the person in the hall.

"If you are selling I have all the paper and quills I will ever need... Maybe if you try the next door down? And knock really loud," he added for just that extra touch of demonic mischief to incite the maximum level of disturbance to his new neighbor, "They are a bit hard of hearing."


First Class
Crowley came to class on that first day in typical style. He was late and wearing his stylish outfit from home instead of his assigned uniform. He made a grand production of taking a seat at the back of the classroom and propping up his feet on the back of the desk chair in front of him... very nearly on top of the head of the student sitting at that desk.

Intimations class. Crowley had no idea what that was, barely looked at the syllabus when one was passed around to him, and was more focused on constructing a few paper wads to fling at the other student in the next row over... until the instructor demonstrated one of the spells they would be learning in the class by reciting a prayer to the God of Love. Then his demonic outcry would be heard echoing throughout the school.

"NGK!!! What the Heaven... What kind of class is this?!"

With a prayer and a gesture by an irate instructor who had had enough Crowley would find himself unceremoniously magically teleported out of the classroom for being too much of a disturbance. He is bound to reappear; falling from the air, crashing into your dorm bed, splashing down in the middle of a pool... feel free to run into him anywhere.


Escape
He was outside in a flash, hopping down the cement steps and taking off across the lawn in long-legged gate.

"No, no, no, no, no! This is ridiculous! I can't be in that kind of class! Or have that kind of magic!"

Fear and uncertainty manifested itself as anger and he hissed to himself as he fled the school building.

"It has to be a mistake or..."

With a fierce glare he staggered back to snark at the sky.

"Some great big pissing joke!"

He knows you are up there God and just laughing your ass off about this! There would be no answer of course, there never was. There was only the interminable silence and the fear that this was all some how ineffable.


August Adventure - Panic At The Fresco

Renowned artist Brank Cee just finished his latest masterpiece -- only for a sudden Valhudor flash mob to erupt just as he hung it up to dry! Now he's over here, the piece is over there, and the lead actor has come within a hair's breadth of skewering it with his sword prop three different times in one duel alone! He can't get through the crowd to recover it, let alone the performance. Oh please, rescue his painting and he will reward you!

Lounging on a bench Crowley looked up at the panicked artist, then over to the flash mob, then laid right back down where he had been .

"Why not just walk over there and get it yourself? Yea, yea, yea... you are afraid of getting conscripted to the play."

It did seem like they were pulling people in from all over. Willing and not-so willing participants either joined in with the song and dance or sulked angrily in the background.

"I don't know why you think I want to get caught up in it either."

Besides, like a flicker of flame springing to life, he suddenly had a better idea one he sat bolt upright for.

"Why not leave the painting where it is? So it gets skewered! All you need is a crowd of people watching and you could make a bundle off those bits of painting fragments still hanging in the frame. Call it performance art! They will see you as a genius."


 
creepyoldguy: (chaosratman)

Escape

[personal profile] creepyoldguy 2021-08-03 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Beetlejuice was lounging on the lawn in a striped beach chair, sipping a Mai Tai, with his shoulder angel holding a miniature version in her little hands, perched on his shoulder. He pulled his sunglasses down to look at the newcomer shouting at the sky.

"Hi there! Want a Mai Tai?"

Look, this was a study break. He'd go back to class in a minute or thirty.
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[personal profile] creepyoldguy 2021-08-03 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"You got it, chief!" Beetlejuice rasped cheerfully, snapping his fingers and providing a ready-made extra-strong Mai Tai in Crowley's hands, complete with a little striped black and white umbrella.

"Academics get to ya?"
letteropener: (why is fluttershy stoned)

First Class

[personal profile] letteropener 2021-08-03 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aigh!"

When the water finally fell out of the air, leaving a demon plunked down in the fountain, it also left behind a freshly-soggy alicorn. With her mane plastered over one eye, she looked terribly bedraggled for about the first couple feet; her hindquarters were perfectly dry, tail drifting innocently in no breeze at all.

The visible eye squinted open. "Ah, are you all right?"
letteropener: (those wings)

[personal profile] letteropener 2021-08-04 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Not quite -- I am an alicorn."

She spread her wings to their royal half-rest, at the same time tossing her head back to light up her horn. The golden glow swept down her, drying her off and bringing her mane back to life.

"Would you care for some help?"
smilingarmor: (Hello there)

First Class

[personal profile] smilingarmor 2021-08-04 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Sylvando was on his way to Sundering when all of a sudden, a certain demon appeared out of thin air and fell unceremoniously into a nearby bush. Shaking his head in amusement, he walked over to offer Crowley a hand up if he needed it. "That was quite an entrance, Crowley darling," he said. "Getting into trouble already? Or just having a bit of fun that didn't turn out quite as planned?"
creepyoldguy: (thumbsup)

[personal profile] creepyoldguy 2021-08-04 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Beetlejuice shrugged one shoulder. "I went to one. It was boring. I'll go back when I'm done here and hopefully it'll be less boring by then."

He took a sip of his own drink, Rodney mirroring the action. "Was your class some kind of wiccan hippy-dippy shit? Sit in a circle?"
scotch_egg: (mild concern)

Escape

[personal profile] scotch_egg 2021-08-04 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh yes, shout a lot, that will solve the problem." Alec is sitting nearby at a stone table, a stack of books near his elbow and one open in front of him. Nearby a whip shaped like a big black dog chases geese, its barks like sharp cracks. Alec himself looks tired but that's nothing new, but he barely glances up at An-- Crowley as he speaks.

"Bad day?"
scotch_egg: (you rang)

[personal profile] scotch_egg 2021-08-04 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Now he did look at him, chin on the heel of his hand, thoroughly unimpressed and looking like he needed a years worth of sleep.

"Poor pitiful you, forced to learn magic. Unless it involved whips and chains and some kind of dungeon, I don't see what the problem is."
scotch_egg: (upset)

[personal profile] scotch_egg 2021-08-04 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hm. Seems like a waste of time." He stretched and sat back, regarding An-- Crowley for a moment. "Can't you get another class? You're..." An adult, but that was an interesting concept to run into. Did angels and demons grow up? Were cherubs actually tiny babies instead of eldritch monstrosities: "...old enough. Can't you choose your own course?"
scotch_egg: (clever glasses)

[personal profile] scotch_egg 2021-08-04 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Humans don't get as much of a choice as people seem to think." But then again, who knows. "What's going t happen if you don't do it? This isn't bloody... school wizard book." He cannot remember the name of the series to save his life, though he read it to Daisy nightly. "We're not trying to defeat some evil overlord. God, he hoped not.
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[personal profile] creepyoldguy 2021-08-04 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not really. Just a buncha snobs." Beetlejuice had moved onto eating the glass.

He paused mid-chew at that bit of information. "How is that helpful for magic shit?"
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[personal profile] creepyoldguy 2021-08-04 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"You got kicked out? Nice! I try to leave before people make me, that way it's less awkward when I show up again. The only place I've ever really been kicked out of is Hell."

Well, the Netherworld. But, he used the terms interchangeably.

scotch_egg: (upset)

[personal profile] scotch_egg 2021-08-04 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well why not pray to yourself then?" He rose and gathered the books in his arms. "Or something you believe in." Crowley had to believe in something, didn't he? Something greater than himself that would help. Or maybe he had enough ego to take care of it. It was hard to tell, this stranger with a familiar face.

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