Re: THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELED [S!1][ROUND TWO: ETA CARINA]
04-26-2012, 10:16 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by Pick Yer Poison.
"Excuse me, lifeguard?" A pleasantly mezzo-soprano voice emanated from somewhere below and in front of the lifeguard on duty. He cracked open an eye behind his sunglasses to see if it was a cute girl speaking or just some kid who sounded like one. Meeting an agreeable sight, he sat up a little straighter and, leaning forward slightly, asked what the problem was.
The girl gestured towards the pool behind her, in which a large number of guests in varying amounts of swimwear were drifting or darting around in the cool water. "There's a...thing in there." She shrugged. "Some kind of jellyfish"
The lifeguard lowered his sunglasses and stared at her over them. "We don't have any jellyfish in the pool, ma'am. Maybe you've been sitting in the sun too long."
She grabbed his hand and pulled him over to the pool to show him.
The jellyfish in question was experiencing a rush of happiness at finding himself in a mass of water teeming with life. After he'd been transported into a body of water he had thought that the cold thoughts that had pressed themselves onto him had been wrong - he'd been sent home after all! Waves of joy radiated out from him, and every creature in the pool immediately felt their spirits uplifted for reasons they couldn't discern.
However, this wasn't what had caused him to be noticed. What brought attention to Nizzo was when he started dancing, carving intricate patterns into the water that no one else there could understand. It was to this bizarre sight that the lifeguard found himself staring at, having completely forgotten that there was a bikini babe right next to him. "What the heck is that?" he said incredulously. "And how'd it get in there?"
Nizzo's dance slowly ground to a halt. Something was wrong. He cast his mental net around the pool, and to his dismay, found that the living beings around him were not familiar in the slightest. His joy quickly vanished and was replaced with disappointment, strong enough for everyone nearby to feel. Some occupants of the pool, realizing these mood swings were not their own, began to look around uneasily, trying to find the source of the telepathic influence.
Finally, a shapely, vapid-looking woman located him, and let out a squeal of excitement. "Look at this thing! Isn't it adorable?" Then, before the lifeguard could warn her not to touch it, she reached over to Nizzo and circled her arms around him, giving him a large and slightly squishy hug. Nizzo, mistaking the move for an attack, flailed his tentacles in panic, making them splash weakly in the water, which only elicited a coo of appreciation from the woman holding him. Other swimmers began to join her in admiring the strange animal that had gotten into the pool, while the lifeguard simply shook his head in astonishment.
"Excuse me, lifeguard?" A pleasantly mezzo-soprano voice emanated from somewhere below and in front of the lifeguard on duty. He cracked open an eye behind his sunglasses to see if it was a cute girl speaking or just some kid who sounded like one. Meeting an agreeable sight, he sat up a little straighter and, leaning forward slightly, asked what the problem was.
The girl gestured towards the pool behind her, in which a large number of guests in varying amounts of swimwear were drifting or darting around in the cool water. "There's a...thing in there." She shrugged. "Some kind of jellyfish"
The lifeguard lowered his sunglasses and stared at her over them. "We don't have any jellyfish in the pool, ma'am. Maybe you've been sitting in the sun too long."
She grabbed his hand and pulled him over to the pool to show him.
The jellyfish in question was experiencing a rush of happiness at finding himself in a mass of water teeming with life. After he'd been transported into a body of water he had thought that the cold thoughts that had pressed themselves onto him had been wrong - he'd been sent home after all! Waves of joy radiated out from him, and every creature in the pool immediately felt their spirits uplifted for reasons they couldn't discern.
However, this wasn't what had caused him to be noticed. What brought attention to Nizzo was when he started dancing, carving intricate patterns into the water that no one else there could understand. It was to this bizarre sight that the lifeguard found himself staring at, having completely forgotten that there was a bikini babe right next to him. "What the heck is that?" he said incredulously. "And how'd it get in there?"
Nizzo's dance slowly ground to a halt. Something was wrong. He cast his mental net around the pool, and to his dismay, found that the living beings around him were not familiar in the slightest. His joy quickly vanished and was replaced with disappointment, strong enough for everyone nearby to feel. Some occupants of the pool, realizing these mood swings were not their own, began to look around uneasily, trying to find the source of the telepathic influence.
Finally, a shapely, vapid-looking woman located him, and let out a squeal of excitement. "Look at this thing! Isn't it adorable?" Then, before the lifeguard could warn her not to touch it, she reached over to Nizzo and circled her arms around him, giving him a large and slightly squishy hug. Nizzo, mistaking the move for an attack, flailed his tentacles in panic, making them splash weakly in the water, which only elicited a coo of appreciation from the woman holding him. Other swimmers began to join her in admiring the strange animal that had gotten into the pool, while the lifeguard simply shook his head in astonishment.
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