Shenanigans

[alittleblackmagic]

[Palom has volunteered to round up zoo animals!  .......This can only end in laughter and happiness and joy.]

[action, apartments]
[There is a knock on your door!  If you open it up, you will be met by a bright-eyed cheerful child.]

Hi!  I chased a skunk onto this floor, so you might want to not be here in a few minutes.  ...Or probably now.  Maybe you should just jump out the window.  ...Anyway, see you at dinner!

[action, city streets]
[That there is an ostrich making hideous screeching noises as it tears down the streets.  Luckily, it is obeying traffic laws and staying on the sidewalk.  What is the cause for this great alarm and uproar?  ...Probably the boy sitting on its back clinging desperately to its neck.]

I-I-I th-th-thought the g-gaaaaame w-was s'posed to b-be o-over w-when I c-c-caught yooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...........!!!!

[action, park]
[And of course, there is a juvenile elephant in the park calmly eating leaves off a tree.  Everything is better with elephants.  Just when you think maybe you should call animal control or the police or something, the intrepid great mage Palom will leap out of a patch of bushes, staff brandished.]

It's a behemoth!  Don't worry; I've got this under control!  FLAREAGA!

[action, for any animal or animal-esque characters and also Relm]
[You are minding your own business probably sipping tea or meditating or something terribly innocuous when a net bashes you in the head.]

Gotcha!  Don't struggle; you don't stand a chance against the great zookeeper Palom! 

...

Gosh, you look a lot different than the picture they gave me.  They should get better artists.

Comments

[trustycrowbar]

What's a Marlboro?

[He thinks he sees a glimpse of black and white fuzz and glances over. Nope. Probably just his imagination.]

The thing is, the smell doesn't come out easily. If it sprays indoors it'll smell like skunk in here for weeks. Maybe more. Why the hell did you chase a skunk up here in the first place, anyway?

[alittleblackmagic]

It's like a big green plant monster with a lot of eyes and tentacles and bad breath. ...Really bad breath.

And I needed to catch it, of course!

[trustycrowbar]

[Reminds him of the time Barney set him up with that chick in Bio. At first he thought she was one of the experiments...]

But WHY do you need to catch a skunk?

[alittleblackmagic]

I volunteered for the job! A bunch of zoo animals have escaped.

[Since when are skunks kept in zoos?]

I lost the list of animals they gave me, though, so I'm just going by what I think should go in there.

[Oh.]

[trustycrowbar]

[And so much for the fleeting hope that the thing is de-scented.]

Palom, don't you think that you ought to leave this to someone better qualif--

[He cuts off as he sees a genuine bunch of black and white fur waddle across the hall on the opposite end. Oh crap. He just remembered, there are other animals in these apartments too! Ran's cat will be miserable if she meets up with this thing.]

--alright, what's your plan, kid? How're you going to catch it?

[alittleblackmagic]

Chase it around until it gets tired, then put it in a sack.

[Duh.]

[trustycrowbar]

Don't you have, I don't know, a sleep spell or something?

[alittleblackmagic]

Of course I do. But I wanna see it in action!

[trustycrowbar]

Palom, we can't have it spraying in here! ["We?" Oh dammit. Now he's committed to this madness.] And if it sprays you, you're not going to like it, and I'm not going be the one to use vinegar or tomato juice or whatever the hell the treatment is to get it off you!

Now just put the thing to sleep and we can turn it loose outside. Or give it to the Zoo, whatever, just as long as it's out of this building!

[alittleblackmagic]

You're not any fun at all.

...Fine. I'll use Sleep. But if it misses, I'm gonna go ahead and chase it down anyway.