ROCKAWAY BEACH - THE SHORE

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

  Dana-
"You can do it, pop.  Can't be worse than me - WOOP!"

    Dana slipped then got their grip again, bobbing in the short waves.

          
        Tristan-
    "Easy there, Dana!"

[◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊]

Anselm-
"Okay, okay, hoo... I vant to be a surfing boy."

He slumped on the board like a dead fish, rolling his eyes around for a moment.

Anselm-
"Surfing... boy..."

The board was a little unsteady, but August found it easy enough to level it out, the other vampire weighed about the same as a sack of dried-out apples. He got a little more nerve after a moment of bobbing around, and feebly paddled with limp arms.

Anselm-
"Mn, I guess not so bad..."

A moderate wave was on its way!

[∆§Indea§∆]

"That's the spirit! Ya naturals! Alright! Here comes the first wave."

August whirled them both around so the wave was coming from behind holding onto Ans' board. He just had to hope that Ans held onto it too. The wave took the vampires pushing them towards the shore frothing to reach the sand. August glanced hoping to see an Anselm right beside him.

[◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊]

Anselm-
"Wahh--"

Anselm rolled around a bit and August caught a bit of skinny flailing limbs, but Anselm remained gripped on the board for dear un-life, his sunglasses hanging off one ear.

Anselm-
"Whoa-- hah-- wow-- "

Anselm-
"Hey, not too bad."

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

    These two rode the wave. Even lightened as he was in vampiredom,
Tristan was much lower in the wave than Dana, who was outta control.

  Dana-
"WhoooOOOooooooaaaa"

 
    Tristan-
 "WOOO!"

  They landed in the mud of the shallow water,
Tristan chilling on his side there for the moment,
  in a sassy pose.

[∆§Indea§∆]

August sat on his board the waves pushing at his boogie board pushing it nto the sand. August wasn't quite used to the change in his weight, the board almost broke free couple of times before it settled down.

"Well have I converted y'all to the ways of the boogie board? Are ya ready for another go? Heh I'm glad I ain't human at times like this. They're all huddled and cold. Remember when ya wanted to go out but it was too cold? No more. No wetsuits required. Those things are gross to get off. Like slimy seal skin."

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

    Tristan grabbed Dana around the waist as
 they trooped by, pulling them into the water.

 
    Tristan-
 "oops."
             
           Dana-
            " ! "

  Dana-
"We should have another twenty
            goes, just to be sure."

 
    Tristan-
 "We must master the boogies!"

[◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊]

Anselm-
"Yeah! It's fun... I don't know how to do vhen I fall in vater
but someone comes to find me, okay?"

Anselm-
"I don't get eaten by a vhale, right? "

[∆§Indea§∆]

"Nah, you'd have to be the unluckiest damn hambalos around. I'll fetch ya out.It ain't deep enough for a whale, they only eat sea monkeys. Pretty sure! That's what me sister told me. "

August stood up with his board not to be out boogied.

"Now! We must be become boogie board lords and master the ocean with our boogie.  There ain't enough ocean for all of us. Forsooth it was foretold and y'all must take the waves like so many horses."

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

And lo, August and comrades did boogie mightily. Anselm lived the dream of the Surf Ninja.


DKender Dr. Jar

A way down the beach from that, Babette led a small party to the water's edge. She yearned to go beneath the waves, but some of her companions were humans she knew from working on the movie. Would they freak? They would. Babette, Ru, Wilhelm, Chloë, Scylla, and Kang stood in the moist dirt, looking off into the foamy black expanse...

[Dr. Jar]

                          
    Scylla-
"This is it. The big challenge. Christelle           Kang-
wouldn't even try. To dip, or not to dip?"     "Don't be a wuss."

Ru-

"It's a beautiful, dark night, isn't it? During the day, sometimes, it's hard to tell the sky from the sea. Thankfully at night it's easy enough... Oh, Chloe, what do you think of the water?"

He would hold Chloe's hand if she so permitted, and would try to hold Babette's with the other, as if afraid to let go.

"It's been...more fun than I can remember parties being."

[DKender]

"Yes, yes, the night is surely dark. But its reflection-the black ocean-is a place of tragedy and miracles. Listen up, everybody. I bet you ten buckeroos that Ru and I can hold our breath for five minutes. We've been practicing in the tub. Who's game?"

Of course, Babette wouldn't actually accept money from her fashionable mortal darlings, but without something at stake, the experience lacked a certain edge.

[◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊]

Chloë held Ru's hand tight with her fuzzy paw, and shimmied in place, staring off at the ocean.

Chloë-
"Oooh I wanna go swimming so bad.
Should I lose the fur...?"

Wilhelm unfolded a deck chair and took a seat like an old man.

Wilhelm-
"It is 'zhere for one to swim..."

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

     
   Scylla-                                         Kang-
"Really?"                               "Should we hold our breaths too?"

[DKender]

If Chloë was wearing a bathing suit with teddy bear prints all over it, Babette would *die.* Just *die.* But in a not actually fatal way. It would be like how she *died* when she saw a chipmunk standing on its hind legs like a little person.

"Really-really. But you definitely shouldn't hold your breaths, too. Ru and I are actors, so we know lots of breathing techniques that expand our lung capacity and slow our heartbeat. Hold on. Hold on."

She'd felt her wrist for a pulse.

"Nothing. Wait, wait. No. Nothing."