Garath's Potion Madness!

[Garath the Shadowshifter]

Introduction/Rule Post:

I've been wanting to do this RP for a while now, but keep putting it off due to tiredness, or forgetfullness. Well not today. I'm going to FORCE myself to start this.

Ok here's the deal. I THE GREAT POWERFULL GARATH! (Heh, sorry couldn't resist, so I'm not all that great or powerfull...) due to a 'circumstance' leave a case of my famous potions in the middle of a college campus.

The College campus will be in a NON MAGICAL world. Pretty much it's like a real live college. Magic works, but nobody knows any. I mainly point this out to indicate that you can't be an inspiring wizard or anything. No ninjas, pirates, spacemen etc either.

I'm pretty much looking for 'normal' people.

Here is the point of the RP. I want at least TWO people to find the case of potions. The first two people who want to play and post first get to begin things. Anyone else who wants to jump in can. You can be a teacher, student, even the principle of the school. I don't mind. (Though let's try to do students first ok?)

More on the first two to post later:

Now, you mostly do NOT know what any of my potions do. This is the 'FUN' part of the game. (At least for me). There will be about Five Vials of each type of potion in the box. There will also be two vials of the 'sprays'.

For simplicity sake, when you use a vial of a potion you automatically use the entire vial. No trying to use half or only a fraction of what is in the vial. It will get way to confusing.

The sprays however can be used up to five times before they run out.

The way I'm looking at this to go, is you the player will decide to use one of the potions/sprays and RP using said item. However you WILL NOT post what the potion does. Instead you will write your post in a way so that while it's clear a potion/spray is used. It's left open for what it actually does.

This is where I'll come in. I'll post what effect the potion/spray has. At least for the first time. Once you know what it does, and you want to use the same thing again, you will be free to post the change/effect yourself.

DO KEEP IN MIND. Not all of my potions/sprays have obvious effects. For example and though this is giving it away, one cancels out all other potions. Obviously if you drink this one and you aren't under the effect of anything at that moment, it will seem that the potion did nothing at all. This isn't to say other potions/sprays won't have simular effects, only to activate later. So don't think just because a potion did nothing you found the Cancel out one.

As a last note. Some potions may make the target feel differently, or act differently. If you take one of these potions. I will most likely PM you that the potion is making you do so. It will then be your job to begin to RP that effect without trying to give away that it's due to the potion.

If you have any questions about that, PM me. DO NOT ask them in this thread.

I will actually NOT be roleplaying a character as 'Garath' himself will leave the dimension in the first post I make. If you want me to roleplay an NPC or something. Let me know and I'll take care of it. I may also from time to time have random NPCs show up.

I think that takes care of all of that.

I'll make a post of my 'leaving' the potions ungaurded and open the game. The box with the potions in it will have a small discription telling you that the contents are magic potions. It's up to you what happens after that.

Oh yeah, if you DO happen to find a list of what my potions do. Please don't ruin the game by telling everyone. Frankly some of them will be REALLY EASY to figure out. But I ask you don't blab. Even if you DO know what a potion does, your character SHOULD NOT. So make sure you RP as such.

Now for the two people who get to start this. The next post I make will be the story post. If you happen upon this before I've posted the story post, DO NOT REPLY. Wait untill you see my story post before posting.

First off, only ONE character per person. So please don't try to RP both people.

Which brings us back to my wanting at least two people to find the box. They have to know each other. (Friends/siblings/ something) If you know of someone who will be the second person, then PM/AIM them or something as ask if they are intrested. If you don't know anyone you can also post in the manner that you are with a friend, and leave the second person to post the option of filling in that spot.

In order to do this and not make a character someone would be forced to play you could post something like:

-Ted walked up to the box examining the contents curiously. Turning to his friend he said, "What do you make of this?"-

Obviously I want a longer more detailed post then that, but I think you get what I'm getting at. I'm sorry if I'm being to teacher like in my discriptions here, but I'm just trying to make sure there is no confusion.

Oh yeah one other thing. NO ONE IS TO SEE GARATH. You don't get to see me pop in, and pop out. Generally if you were to find a box that said it contained magic potions you'd probably think it was a joke.

Anyway I think that's everything. Again if there are any questions, just PM me.

[Garath the Shadowshifter]

It was a bright sunny day. The Campus of Moonshine State College was just seeing it's first crowd of students migrate onto campus as some classess were to start in a matter of moments. (Authors Note: Believe it or not I have no clue when Colleges start, so I'll leave that up to whoever posts first).

It was a very large campus, spanning a good two blocks of land. Thanks to a major redevlopment of the facilities, the college now had everything one would need in such an establishment. Another added bonus was all the dorms, rooms, etc, had all been upgraded for the twenty first century.

But none of this is the focus of our current story. Instead we are to focuss on one man, who is standing unseen in the middle of a small park like clearing on the campus. Mainly used by the students to eat lunch and generally unacessed during other times. It was also in a place mostly secluded from the rest of the campus. Making it the perfect spot for Garath to hide.

"I can't believe I'm lost," Garath said as he looked around trying to use his energy sensing abilities to locate any large hubs of magic. Sitting upon the ground next to him was a rather large box that seemed to be filled with many vials of liquid. Each being a different color in a set of five. Only three colors had only two vials to their particular set.

"This was suppose to be a quick delivery to that Spells R Us shop, and then I was free to go watch the latest Gundam Fight Match with my friends Domon and Rayne. Yet here I am, possibly not even in the correct dimension, and I have no idea where to go..." He grumbled again pulling out a map that seemed to be crudly drawn and supposingly showing him which dimensions he had traveled to through some odd realm written on the map as the 'Chaos Realm'

So focused was he on the map that he never noticed the small female figure sneaking up behind him while trying to surpress her giggles. He would have remained unaware of her, had she not then jumped on his back and covered his eyes with her hands.

"GUESS WHO!" The girl squealed, finally allowing her laughter to break free. Garath meanwhile had been taken so by surpised that he was cursing himself for not noticing his pursuer earlier.

"GAH! NIKKOU! GET OFF!" He yelled trying to grab the giggling, climbing girl off of his back. Inwardly he was sighing at this turn of events. Nikkou had followed him through his Chaos Gate from MSF AGIAN, and it'd be difficult to get her to go back.

"Why? What you looking at?" She said poking her head over his right shoulder to catch a quick glimps before receeding back onto his back where he could not get a good hold on her. "That's a rather badly drawn map you know, it's no wonder you can't find out where to go! Where are you taking this too anyway? Hey what's this in your pocket?"

Garath hadn't excatly been given any chances to answer any of the questions or comments Nikkou had been making and could only grunt in fustration as she lept off his back on her own accord, examining whatever she had pulled from his pocket. Free to face her now, he did only to pale slightly at what he saw in her hands.

Nikkou was looking quite intensly at a large vial of black potion with a small glowing white orb sitting ever in the center of the container, surronded by the black fuild.

"Hey!" Garath shouted, trying to grab the vial back from her, only to fail as she jumped back a good few feet out of his reach.

"Hey, don't I know what this is? I think you made this potion before." Nikkou said lazily shaking it. Garath's eye almost twitched. She had already gotten her hands on one of this potions prototypes, and he wasn't about to let her mess with this one.

"You know VERY WELL what that potion is!" Garath said still trying to grab it from the every dodgefull Nikkou. "That's a prototype pregnacy potion I've been working on. By taking a bit of a soul from the 'donor' and carefully brewing a specail potion to make use of it. I can have that small bit of soul actually impregnat a female. If I can perfect it, It would allow all those women who wish to give birth, but are unable to produce an egg, a second chance at childbirth. The soul will take the characteristics of the donor and use them just like a sperm from a father would. The potion would then use the female body to create an egg for the soul to become a child. In short it's excatly the same as if the parents were to make love. Except no intercourse is actually preformed."

"Really?" Nikkou said acting as if she hadn't known that. "Who is the donor for this piece of soul?" Garath twitched again.

"The same as the LAST one," He said despairingly. "ME, who else would I be able to get to give me a small piece of their soul?"

"You?" Nikkou said, her face lighting up in amusment. "You mean who ever drinks this will have your bady? Oh! Let's go find someone to drink it!" With that she opened her own means of transportation between dimensions and scurried into it.

"What? NO!" Garath said as his brain regestered what she had just said. Acting on impulse he quickly leaped through the doorway after her, right before it closed shut.

Meanwhile, in the small abandoned clearing, the box of vials still sat. Forgotten about.

(OK The box has five vials of these colors:

Pink
Blue
White
Brown
Yellow
Lavender
Indigo
Green
Orange
Red
Black
Grey

There are three sets of two vials with perfume like spray attachments on top of the container. Those colors are:

Gold
Silver
Purple

On the box is a rather LARGE label that says the following:

-Garath's Box of Magic Potions Surpise!-

Each of these vials will amaze you with their magical properties! Use at own risk!

As a side note, if anyone comments that NONE of the vials have lables, they will imediantly for some odd reason notice a fine print on the sign.

It reads:

-That's the Surpise!-)

[Shadowmaster]

Steven walked across the campus and found a box sitting there. No one seemed to be around, at least no one that would have owned such a strange box. Especially based on its label. He turned to his friend.

"Hey, check this out." he said.

[Mystic Mina]

"Steve! This better be important enough to keep me from lunch!"

Clark, a person whom many would associate with the "nerd" stereotype due to his somewhat thin figure and bespectacled eyes, jogged towards his friend and roommate, Steve, who happened to be holding a box filled with different color vials.

"What's that you got there? Something from Science department?"

[Mistress Guendolen]

"Yo, what're you two peering at there? Lemme see!" A third figure popped up behind the first two, slinging an arm around each of their necks. This figure was different, namely in being female. Her name was Rhiannon, and she was in the same class as the two boys, and had considered them both friends for a while now. Lively and rather rambunctious, she tended to take a hands-on approach to life.... It was only the arm draped around each of her friends' necks that kept her from personally poking at the bottles on the box. "Ooo. What's that? Where'd you get it?"

[Mystic Mina]

"O-Oh! Rhiannon!" a startled Clark managed to choke out, his form tensing against the gentle hands of the girl. Years of negligence by the female persuasion had left him somewhat inexperienced when dealing with women, and although he considered Rhiannon a good friend, he always felt a bit embarrassed whenever she got so close to him.

"W-We were just looking at this box somebody left here. Seems to be filled with some different colored chemicals or something...."

[Mistress Guendolen]

Rhiannon knew that Clark sometimes got a little tense around her- she never could quite figure out why, but then again, who could plumb the mysteries of the male mind, anyway? She sometimes poked a bit of indirect fun for it, but nothing that would be truly mean. This time, she unhooked her arm from around Steve's neck so she could drape both around Clark's, leaning up against his back. Propping her chin on his shoulder and grinning, she said, "A random abandoned box? Looks like someone got careless with their chemistry set. Never seen anything quite like it before. Wonder what the stuff in the bottles is?... Lotsa colors, that's for sure."

OOC: Okay, just to let you know ahead of time, I'm going to be home on the later side tomorrow night; we're going down to our parents' house for dinner, and well, Mom tends to not want us to leave, so I probably won't be home until at least nine, likely later. So try not to soldier too far ahead without me, okay? Thanks.

[Josh-May]

OOC: AWWW... am i to late to find the potions too?! ><

Josh walks about the court yard to find a decent reading / studying place to call his own.

[Garath the Shadowshifter]

(First off anything I put in parentheses is OOC, so you won't see me put OOC all the time. Just figured I'd throw that info out there.)

(It occured to me that I may want to mention that if you want to play in this RP you don't HAVE to be near the potions at the time.

The joy of this RP is that it's the players that shape how things go. Maybe you want to be a teacher? You can jump in right now with a post about you setting up your classroom. Then the people already playing can decide that they go to your class. When you pick a character and insert them into this world you become a possible 'victim' for the potions.

For those who controll the potions. Maybe you decide to test one potion by slipping it into your teachers coffe? The choices are up to you. I'm just here to tell you what the potions are doing, and silently direct a few things behind the scenes.

So if you want to play and feel that since three people already found the potions you can't get in yet, don't worry about that. Just say you're somewhere else at the time. Perhaps you come across the people testing a potion and see what it can do? Be creative! ^_^)

[Josh-May]

(k )

Josh sat underneath a tree and saw steve carrying a box, and i became curious what it was.

"hey steve! whats that...?!"i yell from my reading area.

[Shadowmaster]

"I'm not sure what they are. Hmmm." He pulls out a potion and begins to investigate it. "Wonder if its poisonous..."

[Kohaku]

Kazuki, sitting on the edge of the park fountain, was vigourously studying his books, constantly pushing his half-moon glasses up his face in agitation. He strove to be no. 1, the creme de la creme, the best, and considered himself an up and coming intellectual. He had no time for slackers. Glancing up from his books momentarily, he spotted a group of fellow students from his class a short way up the path.

Who's there? Oh, it's that slacker Steve and his know-nothing friends, Rhiannon and Clark, and that day-dreamer, Josh.

He ignored them, they seemed to be getting jumpy over some trashy box they'd found. What a waste of time, with these slackers as his competitors, he'd graduate top of the class, no sweat.

[Mystic Mina]

"I don't know if we should be messing with them Steve...."

Clark was naturally afraid of being around these things. What if the guy who owned these came back? What if the faculty found them with these and thought they were selling drugs? What if-

"Kazuki...." Clark growled. He saw that guy look over here, with that full-of-himself look of his. Oh, how he loathed that look, that seemingly nonchalant look that sent his mind whirling with anger. It didn't help that that guy always found ways to belittle his fellow classmates. Kazuki deserved a little punishment.... Suddenly, an evil thought crossed his mind.

"Hey, Kazuki! Come over here for a second!"

[Mistress Guendolen]

"Clark! What the heck are you calling him over here for? You know all he'll do is..." Then her eyes flickered down to the box, then back up again. An impossibly huge grin crossed her face. "Ah, I think I'm thinking what you're thinking, buddy," she said. "That rarely seen evil is streak is one of the reasons I like you so much...." She unhooked one of her arms from around Clark's neck, waving at the self-absorbed Kazuki. "Hey, Kaz! Yoo-hoo! There's something over here you just gotta see!"

[Kohaku]

Kazuki looks up from his reading, giving Clark the much-hated look of indifference. Staring at his fellow students for a few seconds, as though deciding whether or not to acknowledge them, he pushes his glasses up, finally replying.

"What do you want, weirdos?"