This is certainly a tight squeeze. Jupiter does not exactly size up the situation before leaping into the middle of it. "Oh holy shit," she says, half because she bangs her head on the roof of the van as soon as she steps in it and half because, "Ms. G was a total fox."
She slaps her free hand over her temple where she knocked herself. Youngblood's ax still in the other. It's so weird seeing her teachers her age, and she gapes. "Is that Mr. Potkin?"
"I don't have my seatbelt on!" Fred yells in distress when the ignition turns over, still trying to scramble her way off the floor. This isn't the first time she's shrieked since being dumped into this memory and popcorn and a Crockett's foot are crushed under stiletto heels as she tries to wrest herself free of knees and seat backs. More popcorn clings to her jacket and head piece, like the first wave of Christmas decorating.
Everything freezes and her panic momentarily calms.
"Where's Mr. Potkin??" she yells (this is calm), slapping multiple occupants with pom poms and wires (and popcorn) as she whips her head around, not actually freed from the floor but at least in an appropriate upright position, finally. "And you're going to get someone killed!!" she tosses in for good measure, not the first time she's complained since seeing Joop's ax.
"I'm pro-tec-ting us," Jupiter replies, carefully emphasizing each syllable as she turns the ax in her hands, looking very self-satisfied. "Like a lumberjack super hero."
And this lumberjack super hero will get to tracking down Georgie Trullinger's linchpin in just a second. "THIS is Mr. Potkin." Jupiter indicates her target by pinching his cheek and cooing, "Look at him. I love him." Of course, even with her noodle frame, there's still too much of her to not block the way partially. She glances over her shoulder at Fred to see how she's doing in this claustrophobic maze of teenagers. "Hey you got pop corn on your... dingle-bobs."
"What if you hit someone in the face??" Fred protests, and clearly the someone Fred's referring to is herself.
Her face is nowhere near the ax, but she does smack a couple teenagers in theirs with her dingle-bobs as she pulls herself off the floor, kneeing the other Crockett in the process and finding herself now wedged into three teens' laps. "Well if someone hadn't thrown popcorn everywhere–" she looks accusingly at Gilda Santos as she plucks a couple kernels from her pom poms. "Oh my god, is this the librarian?? I think my dad tried to ask her out once." This earns Gilda even more stink eye, but not much further consideration, as Fred tries to twist her way through teenagers to join Joop, elbows swinging.
She doesn't get far. "I see him!" she exclaims when she finally catches a glimpse past noodle limbs and mop hair. "So are we rescuing Mr. Potkin??"
"Hannes wouldn't ask her out because he's in love with me," Jupiter points out matter-of-fact, though the grin she wears when she says it seems to betray her actual intent: riling Fred up. She doesn't quite laugh as their teachers get kneed and poked and dingle-bobbed, though she is obviously delighting in it.
Jupiter makes room for Fred to squeeze in, finally. "Nah, think it's Mr. T's," she says, thumbing over her shoulder at their seventeen-year-old Magizoology teacher. "We were seeing it through his eyes, and then, pop!" She claps her hands. "Now, we gotta, like, find out what sticks out for him in the memory. It'll glow when we touch it."
Jupiter's eyes narrow as she examines their surroundings. She considers touching Ms. Gunzenhauser's butt to see if it's the linchpin, but decides against it.
Fred lets out a war cry that would make Miss Piggy proud in response to Joop's teasing, and tosses what seems to now be a never ending supply of ornamental popcorn kernels at her as she finally manages to scale her way past Wybie YB and Mr. T. (There are definitely more dingle-bob and stiletto casualties along the way.)
"This is totally the plot to episode 27," Fred insists (it's not), flinging herself forward to grab the fuzzy dice without warning. There is absolutely no consideration given to why these would be significant to Mr. T, Fred just likes the way they look.
"Okay, but if we're just supposed to be touching things, then why do you need an ax??" She's not getting over the ax.
Fred manages to land a kernel of memory popcorn right in Jupiter's mouth because she's busy cackling, the sound low and obnoxious—until she starts to choke and cough, and then it's even louder, because now she's laughing harder.
Hard to notice the linchpin being found when you're busy aspirating corn, but eventually Jupiter chills out enough to see. "Oh, hey, look, you found it!" But, Fred had also asked a question. Joop leans on the hilt of her ax, almost tipping over Ms. Gunzenhauser in the process. Damn there is like no room in here. "There's also, uhhhhh, monsters."
Oh, finding the linchpin on her first try will make Fred smug forever. Smug-er. But that victory is short-lived because first Joop is dying (not her intention) and then she's casually mentioning that they're gonna die.
"Like, in here?" Fred asks, voice already raising in alarm and with one pair of fuzzy dice now wielded like they could do any good if suddenly all her teachers turned into flesh craving monsters that want to sacrifice them to open a gateway to an alternate past where the moon landing brought back an Elder God (episode 13!!), and whoops, this is maybe the downside of having such an active imagination. "How many people are even in this car," she cries, "it's a total safety hazard!!"
As though Fred weren't already tense enough, everyone else in the memory suddenly comes to life — starting with the engine roaring, teenagers breathing and moving, and the radio turning on. Music blares: Dolly Parton. Jolene, specifically, which Georgie Trullinger immediately begins belting, because he knows this song by heart.
“Practically a muggle,” Zelda says to Lionel over the sound of Georgie singing, reaching over to pinch his cheek. Lionel grins back at her, looking proud.
The van backfires with a loud bang and it's immediately clear who the muggleborns aboard are, because the only ones not disturbed by the sudden sound are Georgie and Percy Potkin. The young Trullinger goes right on singing, and after a moment, the rest of the gathered teens start laughing, again.
“Think it’ll work for our post-grad road trip?” Lionel asks, and Percy nods.
Behind them, the sliding van door stands open, peering out into Peckenpaugh’s half-ruined auditorium.
[MEMORY COMPLETE! Replies met and linchpin found! You may continue to thread in this scene or exit through the portal.]
Jupiter, a seasoned memory hopper, is set to laughing again, right up to that gunshot sound of an engine backfiring. She straightens abruptly, visibly startled, and grasps her ax with both hands. "Well, I didn't think so..."
The fuzzy dice get flung ineffectually toward the back of the van as teachers start innocently moving around them again. All of Fred collides with Joop, hips bumping against the radio dial as she presses up against the self-appointed lumberjack hero and rips off her dingle-bob, the only weapon she has left. "We're going to die on prom night," she wails as teachers sing and laugh, a truly horrific scene.
One of Fred's boingy things hits Jupiter in the eye. She sucks in a breath and slaps her hand over the socket, nearly toppling over the back of the passenger seat as she does.
After a second of chaos, she soldiers on, pointing the ax toward the open van door and accidentally hitting the teen Wybie Youngblood with it. Whoops. "It's cool! It's cool! See, the door's open. We're safe!" She lowers her hand from her eye, still half-squinting it shut. "Gotta find that linchpin again, though."
Jupiter takes a careful step forward, ducking to keep from hitting her head on the roof of the van again. Determined and unafraid of danger (and squinting one watering eye shut) she certainly cuts a dashing form. Like Utena Tenjou, but Wish Dot Com Utena Tenjou.
"Jewpie Doll!" Fred, the most dangerous person in this van, yelps and Lionel Qualls gets a face full of sproingies instead.
The next episode of the Peculiar Perils is definitely going to introduce Saturn Quodpole, interstellar lumberjack, destroyer of space pirate ships with one fell swoop of her mighty ax. Also one eyed, which is a rampant problem the inhabitants of the Peculiar Perils universe seem to face. Of course, when Fred normally makes someone lose an eye, it's just with her quill.
"Do we really gotta??" she protests, bumping against Jupiter's back in her eagerness to stay close. The teachers may not have attacked yet, but just give them time. No one could truly be as cherubic as young Mr. Potkin appears to be. "If the door's open, shouldn't we just run??"
A Gryffindor's heart beats within this chest for sure.
"We gotta, we gotta," Jupiter says with a head-bobbling nod. She's careful to duck any of Fred's flailing, expecting it now, though she does elbow Young Mr. Trullinger in the chin at least once as she climbs toward the back. "It's just right there, see?"
Jupiter gingerly plucks the golden fuzzy dice from Zed Crockett's open mouth. She pauses to examine the twins and the librarian seated between them. After a beat, she decides, "I'd let this girl step on me." And then she holds the dice up for Fred to see. "Got 'em! Ready to get?"
Upon emerging from the memory out into the auditorium, the portal snapped shut behind them.
Elsewhere in the auditorium, sundew, a magimagicicada was freed! George Trullinger was not freed, and is still trapped somewhere within the nightmare tree.
Fred and Joop each earned 5 Tokens for completing the memory!
They earned an additional 3 Tokens for finding the memory before the cap was reached.
You can check your token totals in Pouch's shop here, and maybe see if there's anything worth grabbing while you're there!
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peckenpaugh2020-06-01 11:18 am
MEMORY: Test Drive
She slaps her free hand over her temple where she knocked herself. Youngblood's ax still in the other. It's so weird seeing her teachers her age, and she gapes. "Is that Mr. Potkin?"
MEMORY: Test Drive
Everything freezes and her panic momentarily calms.
"Where's Mr. Potkin??" she yells (this is calm), slapping multiple occupants with pom poms and wires (and popcorn) as she whips her head around, not actually freed from the floor but at least in an appropriate upright position, finally. "And you're going to get someone killed!!" she tosses in for good measure, not the first time she's complained since seeing Joop's ax.
MEMORY: Test Drive
And this lumberjack super hero will get to tracking down Georgie Trullinger's linchpin in just a second. "THIS is Mr. Potkin." Jupiter indicates her target by pinching his cheek and cooing, "Look at him. I love him." Of course, even with her noodle frame, there's still too much of her to not block the way partially. She glances over her shoulder at Fred to see how she's doing in this claustrophobic maze of teenagers. "Hey you got pop corn on your... dingle-bobs."
MEMORY: Test Drive
Her face is nowhere near the ax, but she does smack a couple teenagers in theirs with her dingle-bobs as she pulls herself off the floor, kneeing the other Crockett in the process and finding herself now wedged into three teens' laps. "Well if someone hadn't thrown popcorn everywhere–" she looks accusingly at Gilda Santos as she plucks a couple kernels from her pom poms. "Oh my god, is this the librarian?? I think my dad tried to ask her out once." This earns Gilda even more stink eye, but not much further consideration, as Fred tries to twist her way through teenagers to join Joop, elbows swinging.
She doesn't get far. "I see him!" she exclaims when she finally catches a glimpse past noodle limbs and mop hair. "So are we rescuing Mr. Potkin??"
MEMORY: Test Drive
Jupiter makes room for Fred to squeeze in, finally. "Nah, think it's Mr. T's," she says, thumbing over her shoulder at their seventeen-year-old Magizoology teacher. "We were seeing it through his eyes, and then, pop!" She claps her hands. "Now, we gotta, like, find out what sticks out for him in the memory. It'll glow when we touch it."
Jupiter's eyes narrow as she examines their surroundings. She considers touching Ms. Gunzenhauser's butt to see if it's the linchpin, but decides against it.
MEMORY: Test Drive
"This is totally the plot to episode 27," Fred insists (it's not), flinging herself forward to grab the fuzzy dice without warning. There is absolutely no consideration given to why these would be significant to Mr. T, Fred just likes the way they look.
"Okay, but if we're just supposed to be touching things, then why do you need an ax??" She's not getting over the ax.
MEMORY: Test Drive
Intentional or not, Fred has found the linchpin! Hang on to it!
MEMORY: Test Drive
Hard to notice the linchpin being found when you're busy aspirating corn, but eventually Jupiter chills out enough to see. "Oh, hey, look, you found it!" But, Fred had also asked a question. Joop leans on the hilt of her ax, almost tipping over Ms. Gunzenhauser in the process. Damn there is like no room in here. "There's also, uhhhhh, monsters."
MEMORY: Test Drive
"Like, in here?" Fred asks, voice already raising in alarm and with one pair of fuzzy dice now wielded like they could do any good if suddenly all her teachers turned into flesh craving monsters that want to sacrifice them to open a gateway to an alternate past where the moon landing brought back an Elder God (episode 13!!), and whoops, this is maybe the downside of having such an active imagination. "How many people are even in this car," she cries, "it's a total safety hazard!!"
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
“Practically a muggle,” Zelda says to Lionel over the sound of Georgie singing, reaching over to pinch his cheek. Lionel grins back at her, looking proud.
The van backfires with a loud bang and it's immediately clear who the muggleborns aboard are, because the only ones not disturbed by the sudden sound are Georgie and Percy Potkin. The young Trullinger goes right on singing, and after a moment, the rest of the gathered teens start laughing, again.
“Think it’ll work for our post-grad road trip?” Lionel asks, and Percy nods.
Behind them, the sliding van door stands open, peering out into Peckenpaugh’s half-ruined auditorium.
[MEMORY COMPLETE! Replies met and linchpin found! You may continue to thread in this scene or exit through the portal.]
Re: MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
The fuzzy dice get flung ineffectually toward the back of the van as teachers start innocently moving around them again. All of Fred collides with Joop, hips bumping against the radio dial as she presses up against the self-appointed lumberjack hero and rips off her dingle-bob, the only weapon she has left. "We're going to die on prom night," she wails as teachers sing and laugh, a truly horrific scene.
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
After a second of chaos, she soldiers on, pointing the ax toward the open van door and accidentally hitting the teen Wybie Youngblood with it. Whoops. "It's cool! It's cool! See, the door's open. We're safe!" She lowers her hand from her eye, still half-squinting it shut. "Gotta find that linchpin again, though."
Jupiter takes a careful step forward, ducking to keep from hitting her head on the roof of the van again. Determined and unafraid of danger (and squinting one watering eye shut) she certainly cuts a dashing form. Like Utena Tenjou, but Wish Dot Com Utena Tenjou.
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
The next episode of the Peculiar Perils is definitely going to introduce Saturn Quodpole, interstellar lumberjack, destroyer of space pirate ships with one fell swoop of her mighty ax. Also one eyed, which is a rampant problem the inhabitants of the Peculiar Perils universe seem to face. Of course, when Fred normally makes someone lose an eye, it's just with her quill.
"Do we really gotta??" she protests, bumping against Jupiter's back in her eagerness to stay close. The teachers may not have attacked yet, but just give them time. No one could truly be as cherubic as young Mr. Potkin appears to be. "If the door's open, shouldn't we just run??"
A Gryffindor's heart beats within this chest for sure.
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
Jupiter gingerly plucks the golden fuzzy dice from Zed Crockett's open mouth. She pauses to examine the twins and the librarian seated between them. After a beat, she decides, "I'd let this girl step on me." And then she holds the dice up for Fred to see. "Got 'em! Ready to get?"
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
Upon emerging from the memory out into the auditorium, the portal snapped shut behind them.
Elsewhere in the auditorium, sundew, a magimagicicada was freed! George Trullinger was not freed, and is still trapped somewhere within the nightmare tree.
You can check your token totals in Pouch's shop here, and maybe see if there's anything worth grabbing while you're there!