It's a jungle out there

[dualbladewarrior]

Who: The escaped animals, a frazzled quadrant leader, and YOU
Where: The Carnival/Amusement Park
When: Friday
Style: Will follow
Status: Open! Help, hinder, take animals home for yourself!

[The animals have escaped! And Hubert is attempting to round them up and get them back. Help him? Don't? Hang out with animals or take them home? It's up to you!]

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Threads with Hubert

[dualbladewarrior]

[Interact with Hubert here!]

Re: Threads with Hubert

[mysterious_groper]

*As Hubert rounds a corner, he sees something that would honestly seem surprisingly normal, if it weren't for a key detail.

Namely, he'd see Pascal, coaxing the sheep along a path slowly with surprisingly gentle taps of her Shotstaff.*

Go on! Keeeep moving!

*Wait, wasn't Pascal no longer in Vat as of several weeks ago?*

[dualbladewarrior]

[Yup. This is Hubert's shocked face. Isn't it lovely?]

... P.... Pascal... but--...

[She was... gone. Wasn't she?]

[mysterious_groper]

*And then Pascal stops, spinning around slowly.*

Oh, hey Hu!

[dualbladewarrior]

[Animals momentarily forgotten, Hubert just stares at Pascal, wondering if maybe the stress has finally gotten to him and he's seeing things.]

... when... did you get here?

[mysterious_groper]

...

*Pascal sniffs herself.*

... I'd say a week ago?

[dualbladewarrior]

[Oh that is disgusting--

Wait.]

... a week? How in the-- why haven't I seen you until just now?!

[shirleyhopeful]

[Hi Hubert, don't mind Shirley playing around with some of the animals here]

[dualbladewarrior]

[Oh, some one is actually helping. Finally.]

Thank you...

[shirleyhopeful]

It's not a problem! And besides, it seemed like it would be really difficult to round them all up by yourself!

[dualbladewarrior]

It's been quite difficult so far, yes. I can't say I'm enjoying this at all...

[shirleyhopeful]

But you must be so lucky, you have all the animals you want to play with you!

[about that...]

[dualbladewarrior]

... I'm afraid you're mistaken. They don't want to play, they want to escape.

Threads with Hubert

[dwightandclean]

[And have a 6'4" blond with a tool box strolling by. He cautiously avoids a goat, that just bleats at him, and looks around for...a blue haired man?]

[dualbladewarrior]

[Said man is currently hefting up a very fat rappig, attempting to get it away from a goat who has apparently been offended by the tubby creature. It's oinking very noisily while the goat is bleating the same.]

Oh that's enough, both of you! It's like bickering children, I swear!

[dwightandclean]

[And Dwight just stares for a moment before walking over. He glances over at the pens.]

I guess I should fix the pig pen first?

[dualbladewarrior]

Oh. Yes. That would probably be the ideal place to start...

[Said as he tries to keep the squirming thing in his arms.]

[dwightandclean]

[Dwight smiles.]

Right.

[He just sort of reaches out towards the pig.]

Here. It's not the hardest thing I've done. The pens should be fixed within the hour.

[dualbladewarrior]

... he's friendly, when he's not fighting with that goat. I swear, I've seen rival nations be more friendly towards one another.

[A long suffering sigh]

Thank you for your assistance...

disorder and confusion everywhere!!

[teradine]

[Having seen Hubert's broadcast, Argilla decides not to waste time responding, and simply heads straight to the scene. It's about as chaotic as she expected, and she can't help but stare; her eyes bouncing from animal to animal as they dash in this direction or that.

Eating who knows what.

. . . Where do they even start? She spots Hubert's blue hair and approaches, although he's probably got his hands full.]

Hubert. How did this happen?

:O

[dualbladewarrior]

[For the moment he does, yes. He's trying to gather up a couple of young ducklings before one of the more rowdy goats can stomp all over them. Unfortunately they keep squirming and flapping out of his arms.]

I have no idea! If I didn't know better I would say it was planned, but that's just as ridiculous as this situation is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5Be5a86uA :) (your post title)

[teradine]

[A- Awww baby ducks! Argilla would probably react more to them if she actually knew what they were, but at the moment, Hubert has her attention almost in full. She does take a better look at them, though, when she realizes they're the ones giving Hubert trouble. The way the flap their wings--

They're trying to get away from him. Honestly, they look about as frantic as he does.]

Stay calm. Yelling will only make it worse.

[. . . And of course, she's approaching him and trying to help him. Two sets of hands are better than one for keeping the ducklings from getting away.]

Yes xD

[dualbladewarrior]

[He's too frazzled to be calm anymore. He started out on edge and it's only gotten worse. But he does stop trying to hold on so tightly, waiting to see if more hands will actually help.]

This is humiliating, happening on my shift...

[teradine]

Even so. Is it truly your fault?

[Argilla's presence seems to scare the ducklings even more, at least at first; but she decides to reach out to them anyway, despite not knowing what damage they could do. In hindsight, it probably wasn't the best idea-- those beaks look sharped, and their wings flapped wildly. But her gentle stroking of the feathers on their back seems to help.

They're so tiny . . .]

[dualbladewarrior]

... I suppose not, no.

[You know he's going to take it hard, anyway. That's just how he is.]