ROCKAWAY BEACH - THE PARKING LOT

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

   As vamps arrived at the park, their headlights joined a weak
 street lamp at the entrance of a gravel parking lot in bringing
the place to undead life. The decommissioned lighthouse stood
inert and dark, looming over the empty beach.

 Anselm suddenly zipped his bike past August's car and over the parking
lot, toward the sound of the ocean. It jerked to the side as it sunk into the
  soft earth. He flipped away from the bike and rolled several times in a
 spectacularly dramatic flailing of gangly limbs. He laid still a moment,
   half buried in the sand before sitting up sluggishly.

Anselm-
"Wow. Sand is veird."

   Back in the parking lot proper,

          August-
  "Yoouch! That can't be good for ya bike! Heh, we'll dig it
  out. Oooh we hafta make sand castles! We could have a
competition or something! Also ya gotta be buried alive.. ish!"

August parked his car and instantly began flinging off clothing into his
 car like an Antearctan whirlwind. Last to go were his thongs which he
   attempted to fling off his feet and into his car but they bounced off
        instead and he threw them in with a sigh.

                  August-
              "BOMBAROO! BEACH TIME!!"

He ran into the cold Glennish water glad he couldn't feel the
 cold like he used to. He was wearing board shorts with the
     Antearctan flag plastered over them. Anty pride yo!

                       
                   Tristan-
         "Wow, you are a so excited guy!  I should do too."


Tristan started to strip and Cam hung out of his window nearby.


 Cameron-
"It's cool, I'll hang back and unload."

   Anselm left his bike semi-toppled in the sand and likewise tossed his
helmet into a dune in his eagerness to join the others. He stripped down
 to what might have just been dark colored underwear but was hard to
determine. But he didn't forget the cool shades, no doubt. He scrambled
  after the others, doing a double take at the wide expanse of ocean.

   
Anselm-
"Oh man! Wow... Zo big..."

  Tristan had stripped down to a skimpy continental bottom
   in a silky-looking magenta-ish color.  He hustled to the
       water, leaving Cameron alone in the parking lot.

 Cameron-
 "Party animals... We're
gonna need mad brews..."


 Cameron-
"Oh, and mad humans..."

While them other cats whooped and beached in the black black night,
Cameron used a bit of vamp strength to aid his endeavors, hauling
all manner of electronics and whatnot this way and that across the
length of the park - always coming back to the parking lot at some
point in his process, until the car was emptied.  On his last trip, he
was there to see some new arrivals...

   A janky brown van rolled up in that cut, the colorfully
haired driver honked the horn and leaned out the window.


Janice-
"Wooooo take it off, Red! We want
more of that ginger bod!"

               
              Cameron-
         "Oheeyyyyy, it's the Jan with the plan.
             Who all you packin' in that thing?"

  Janice-
"The beautiful people. Now get more undressed
so we can see what you're packing in THAT thing.
 Heyoooo!"
               
              Cameron-
         "Sorry baby, my tiddies must stay under wraps
 for now.  Don't wanna scrape off a nip with all this
gear."

People started clambering out of the side, adjusting
  to the cold and stretching limbs as much as their
     living and unliving physiologies required.

                                                    Yelyena-
   Lucio-                                 "*YAAAAWWnnnn*"
"Already?  It isn't
   even ten yet."

          
 Jennifer H-                                The Human Fly-
"It was a bit of a trip."           "Aw, we're fine.  Just gotta
                                                      stretch the legs a little."

 Willem-
"Mmm, who brings de van full of men?"

               
              Cameron-
         "Hm.  Everyone here so far is a man, so..?"

Janice already wore a fly bikini and searched the horizon for hunx.

Janice-
"I see some out in the water.
Die Zeit für einen Moskito-Angriff! "

 Willem-
"Jawohllll."
               
              Cameron-
         "Cool.  Hey, who's a firebug?  I wanna
               get at least two bonfires going."
  
Lucio-
"I'll be happy to supervise."           Yelyena-
                                                         "Somebody need a light?"

          
 Jennifer H-                                 The Human Fly-
"That was fast, you pyro."       "Let's shake a leg."

Shake a leg they did.

Shortly after that, a group of humans and vampires made their way shyly
through the parking lot, having come in on the bus. They decamped to the
bonfire, by then coming to life in earnest. Bit by bit, car by car, the rest
began to arrive...

(( DKender Dr. Jar Ru is driving the Ellenmobile, with Babette shotgun and
Clovis in the back seat. They're in a convoy with another car containing
Chloë, Wilhelm, and the Naughty Boys! Ru will drive into this parking
lot first.  Jara, you got first post, then DeeK, then a GM.))

[Dr. Jar]

Ru-

"Well, it looks like we're almost there... What exactly are we doing? Just talking and smooshing?"

He leans back against the car seat and puts both hands on the steering wheel.

"Is anyone coming besides all the babies? So many questions. Most importantly, should I be Demos today?"

He gives her a brief but fangy grin.

[DKender]

"Did you say smooching? Save one for me."

Babette propped her feet on the dashboard and crossed her arms, eyeing the parking lot warily.



"Ah, the sea. Inhospitable, alien place. I have a theory: they who love the beach must be sensitive to siren songs. Drawn to inhospitable depths, moths to a flame. No wonder this is where we corpses gather to frolic."

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

Clovis rolled down the window a crack.

Clovis-
"Vhat strange scents. I have not smelled the ocean zis strong,
ever... Ru, you should be yourzelf, it's very nice... Babette, do
you think zhere is something of death in the smell?"

They could hear the wilhelmmobile drawing near, but still out of sight.

[Dr. Jar]

Ru-

"You...are as ever, very poetic, I suppose those things are true, though I just find the ocean beautiful..."

He gazes out into the waves and briefly ponders about its depths, but not nearly as deeply as Babette, he imagines.



"Th..thank you. I suppose I don't really know what me I like best sometimes..."

He rubs his cheek with a free hand, and wonders if he should go back to gazing at the sea.

[∆§Indea§∆]

An August came rolling over the dunes with a large smile and already in his bathers. The Antearctan flag in bold colours.




 

"Howdy y'all. Now ain't the time for hiding in ya cars. Nothing dead here. It's a jumping living bombaroo party! No gloomy gus' allowed. Or I'll get Dazza to give you mouth to mouth!"

[DKender]

"Euck. You're right. I think that's what plankton smell like as their tiny bodies are ripped apart by the crashing waves. If we go swimming, the death perfume will cling to our hair and bodies. I'm really quite excited now!"



"Clovis is right, Ru. Lord Demos might be funny, but *you* are our friend. I'm a bit concerned, honestly. Your reliance on method acting is ... um. Well, you didn't even want to be an actor before Lychgate. Now, it's all you do."

Babette rolled down her window *all* the way and leaned outside, regarding August. She studied his bathers a bit toooo intently, but it's because of the flag, honest!



"I actually wouldn't mind mouth to mouth from Dazza ... was that supposed to be a threat?"

She winked.

((OOC: Nobody tell me about DMS or other smelly compounds. I know. I know.))

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

((everyone can resume posting. one post each between GM posts.))

Clovis started at the new arrivals.

 Clovis-
"Oh hello there."

     
                  Tristan-
          "August says right.  You all get in beach clothes
    and get out of cars.  It is pratty much the rule, guy."

 Clovis-
"Is this beach cloths?

 Clovis lost the overshirt.  The Wilhelmmobile drew closer, still not there yet.

[Dr. Jar]

Ru-

"Oh, hi August! I um... I'm not near the water yet, but I brought a suit."

He was still wearing his gloomy funeral-esque writers-outfit. He was ready to be an ACTOR AT SEA. Or at least, at beach. He wasn't really one to swim. Maybe to walk along the shoreline...

"Ah...uh, ok, I'll just be me."

He mentally added 'me, who would probably never normally go to a beach party and hadn't since he was 12. He was glad he could get Wilhelm's help in figuring out a bathingsuit. The man had...artistic vision...

[∆§Indea§∆]

August smiled widely at Clovis' attempts at beachwear. He looked like he'd be more comfortable at a certain club instead.

"Yeah! Sure, Clovis! Ya got it. As long as ya can swim in it. It's all grits and gravy. "

"I don't know if ya would keep saying that if ya knew what Dazza puts in his mouth, Babs. It ain't pretty."

"Being you is the best, Ru. Ya one bombaroo hambalos! Ya can take me word."

[DKender]

"..."



"Oh, you!"



"But do warn me if he uses chewing tobacco. To each their own - however, the taste makes me gag, Darling."

She finally climbed out of the car, preferring to contort through the open window like a polka dotted ghost instead of actually opening the door.

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

   Clovis started at the new arrivals.

     
                  Tristan-
 "Alright!  Avryone is lookin' cool, good times!"

 Clovis-
"I could swim..."

 The Wilhelmmobile pulled in!  There were humans in the back
  seat, and some kind of large stuffed animal riding shotgun?

[DKender]

"You can swim. You can swim! But will you sink with me, too, Clovis? We don't need to breathe, and how heavy the ocean must feel as it accumulates on our backs ... what in the ... what is *that?*"



She laughed and gestured at the passenger in Wilhelm-mobile.

[∆§Indea§∆]

"Now here are some cool party guys! What do ya reckon that is! Oh lawdy! Let's go see!"

August raced over to the Wilhelm-mobile.

[Dr. Jar]

Ru-

"Oh, who is the stuffed animal friend?"

He adjusts his jacket awkwardly. He did feel a little overdressed at the beach but was feeling too awkward to join the relative-nudity of the party.

"It's strange to be out here like this... But I guess that's a good thing...Oh, Chloe? Are you in there? And Wilhelm? Welcome to our beach party!"

He pulled the bottom of his coat down awkwardly and fiddled with the neck again.

"Ahhaha, I brought a book."