Reville & Phe (Event)

[ElliBleu]

Have at, guys. And have fun. Let me know about any questions. <3

[[After a terrifyingly short briefing session and signing an alarming amount of waivers and contracts, your characters find themselves ushered into a helicopter and promptly blindfolded. A lengthy stretch of time later the craft slows and lurches to a stop and- still blindfolded- they are hastily pulled from the copter and deposited on what can only be sand. As the whirring of the chopper fades off into the distance, the only sounds left are the constant crash of small waves along the beach to their backs and the raucous cries of seabirds overhead.

The only thing they've been told? Reach the end, with your partner- the path is up to you. Simple enough, right?]]

[Ryugexu]

Reville, whom was previous to the event blindfolded due to his condition, didn't mind the attempted anonymity of the challenge. He almost could feel where they had gone but had a feeling that completing the challenge would be quite difficult, after all he can not read a compass. He couldn't read the fine print, the signup sheet, or absolutely anything for that matter.

However, what bothered him most was the odd metal bird that made a lot of whistling and whirling noises that they seemed to have tamed for transportation.

After the god-awful thing had left them in soft sand, he listened intently to the breeze and the sound of the water crashing against the beach.

"Hm. Well, now what?" he muttered.

[Netreemic]

[Given the Zelda post went under, I figured Reville could use some amusing? Just throwing this out there if you wanted~]

Jareth was starting to get a little nervous. He was pretty sure this was supposed to be a team effort but the beach was alarmingly empty. was that part of the game? Find your teammate? He’d been dropped off via helicopter, but maybe his fellow islander was tied over a volcano or something.

The bushes bordering the beach beneath the swaying palms started to shake and Jareth could hear awkward footsteps and labored grunts. He grinned, figuring the noise was his teammate struggling with the underbrush, and jogged towards the tree line. The blonde’s friendly greeting turned into a terribly unmanly shriek, however, when a polar bear – a goddamned, freaking polar bear – reared up and let loose a deafening roar.

Lightening shot down Jareth’s arm with a hair-raising bang, flying with a snarling crackle towards the giant creature. Not even waiting to see if it hit home, Jareth darted to the left and sprinted for all his worth. He stayed beach side of the trees, using the shrubbery free path to pick up speed and pound across the dirty sand.

He distantly heard the bear snarl in pain and spared a moment to reconsider his own sanity. Shady group sending to him an island to play some survival game while not officially designating themselves as Survivor…wasn’t too surprising to see they turned out to be whackos reliving their favorite TV show. He just thought there would be rope courses, river crossings, perhaps the eating of questionable island wildlife but not raging predators.

Leaping a low hanging palm tree, Jareth forced an extra boost of speed into his step when he caught a glimpse of the bear bursting from the brush with another roar. It was HUGE. And he’d only scorched a shoulder, if the black spot was any indication. Jareth’s lightness allowed him almost fly across the sand, but the beast was used to shifting terrain and dug its claws in, eating the distance.

Tensing to disappear into the trees and seek out a hiding place (or at least something more defensible than the openness of the beach), gold eyes went wide when he noticed something, make that someone further along the shore. “Run!” he shouted, desperately sucking in extra air and gesturing violently toward the trees, “Run, run, runRUN!”

[Ryugexu]

((ILU NET! YOU ARE MY HERO~!))

Reville was alone in silence for a bit, but then he heard quite the commotion. "What the hell?" he mumbled, listening intently for the sound to tell him the circumstances.

Before he could focus properly, he heard someone shouting in his direction to run. Urgently.

"WHERE!?" Reville shouted back, looking quite disgruntled. "Give me a direction! I'm blind, you fool!" he raised and waved his cane about like an old man would.

[Netreemic]

Had there not been an enraged polar bear pounding the sand behind him, Jareth might have slowed to a bemused stop. He’d just gotten scolded by some teenaged grandpa. Seriously?! But then the bear let loose another rumbling roar and Jareth had to put aside the unfairness of the situation.

“Polar bear,” he snarled and, not bothering to slow, snatched the other guy’s arm and yanked him into the forest. “Unless you’d rather get eaten, I’d suggest running this way. Duck!” Still running, Jareth panted out rapid warnings as fast as could while not tripping on roots himself. The snap and crunch of vegetation behind them as the bear fought through tangling growth was unbelievably terrifying.

The plantlife had slowed the bear down and Jareth might have been able to escape, fleet of foot as he was, but the other dude was blind and likely to have just as many problems with the terrain. Except the young man didn’t have the bear’s brute strength, much less vision. They need to get high…or something.

Can polar bears climb trees? Jareth took a branch to the face for his mental stumble, a sudden wash of panic going through him at the age old warning popped clearly into his mind that climbing trees was a dumb way to get away from bears. They just come up after you. Sure, he thought as his face stung where the sweat had met scraped skin, the arctic has no trees, but the polar bear still had claws and muscles. Not much else to it.

Feeling more than a little hopeless, gold eyes darted frantically for an escape.

[Ryugexu]

"Polar-what?!" Reville seemed startled by the news, and he wasn't able to react when his arm was grabbed and he found himself being almost-dragged into the forest. His feet stumbled and disobeyed him in the unfamiliar environment of tangling tree roots and uneven earth. He did his best to keep up with Jareth and absolutely refused to let go of Jareth's hand now.

"What. the. hell!" Reville shouted, "why aren't you killing it?! No, you know what? I'll stop it. Release me!"

Reville attempted to whack Jareth with his cane before turning to face the source of the noise, raising said cane into the air and shouting arcane words.

A see-through sphere shot out from the jem atop his cane and encircled the two. Should the bear try to get any closer, it would hit the barrier like a solid brick wall.

[Netreemic]

[Dude, sorry...totally thought I'd posted this up. *fails*]

Jareth was tempted to expound on the fact that only sick and twisted pokemorphs used their powers to kill instead of the acceptable knockout, but decided to save his breath for running. He was hoping for some mystical rock crevice to appear around the next tree cluster, something that two slim boys would fit through but not a pol-

“Hey!” Jareth barely saw the cane whizzing at his head in time to dodge it and instinctively dropped his hold on the other guy. He stumbled a few more steps before stopping in confusion. Between the blind, babbling lunatic and the polar bear, he would bet on the polar bear. “What do you think you’re doing?!”

The shiny bubble answered that question rather quickly. He could feel the tingle of energy, but it looked flimsy in the face of a charging bear. Torn between fleeing onward and not wanting to throw off the man’s concentration, Jareth crouched tight against the tree roots and fought down a scream when the beast slammed into the shield.

Hearing the pained howl, Jareth dared to peak between his arms to see the polar bear floundering in the undergrowth. “Holy crap.”

[Ryugexu]

"And THAT is how you stop running like a ninny and actually do something!" Reville half-showed off, half-insulted Jareth easily, brushing off the tension of the chase. He turned his attention to the dazed beast.

"That'll teach you, you stupid ...what was it? A bear? Stupid bear!"

His British accent was olde and posh, much more noticeable now that he was calmer. He leaned casually on his cane, the gem glowing brightly and the air sparkled around them as the barrier spell carried on. "It'll either try again, or mayhaps it'll give up the fight and leave. When it does, I undo the spell. Until then, I can move the circle, but don't move too far from me lest you wish to be exposed."

"I'm Young Lord Reville Stirling Armingston, and I'd rather like to be heading home. That metal bird which took me here must've been a devil's doing. I only signed up because they said they could give me sight. Either way... who are you?"

[Netreemic]

Jareth snapped upright, indignation tightening his face into a furious scowl. He was a ninny for running, eh? This little British git would have been lucky to hear the bear in the soft sand before it gobbled him up! Aggravated sparks fizzled up his crossed arms, quickly turning his poofy hair into a crackling mass.

“Yeah. Bear. Big thing with lots of teeth and claws…that I shoulda just let eat you,” he muttered under his breath. Nonetheless, he shuffled a step closer to the other guy. He doubted this young lord – and what the crap was that about? – would bother to save him should the polar bear snag part of him sticking outside the bubble.

“Uh, Jareth…yur Lordship,” he drawled, sarcasm leaking into his voice. Signing up for a cash reward was sketch enough on his part, but believing in some kind of medical miracle? This guy had to be living one heck of a sheltered life to buy that…and not know what a helicopter is. Yeesh. “And the only way we’re getting home is finishing this thing so how ‘bout we walk and put some distance between us and the bear.”

Something they needed to do sooner than later given the polar bear appeared to be shaking off the collision and slowly rising on shaky legs. The increasing clarity in its beady eyes was decidedly worrying.

[Ryugexu]

"My sight may be nothing, but my hearing works just fine." he assured Jareth, "a pleasure to meet you. I couldn't have handled that without you."

Reville listened and heard it's breathing change. "Don't get up." he threatened darkly, electricity arching across his fingertips like live wires. As the bear continued to rise, he thrust his hand in it's direction, and a bolt of electricity shot at it, stunning it. "Let's get away from that beast, shall we? I'd like to be heading towards the mainland, where hopefully with your help I could collect some needed materials to create a teleportation spell, so I could go home."