The stairs, from the fifth floor down, Monday after classes

[nadiathesaint]

In a brilliant cascade of colors and bounciness, several hundred rubber balls of varying sizes, from the small superbouncy balls to the large playground balls bounds cheerfully down the stairs in a omg dangerous beautiful display of . . . ballsiness ballness.

Anyone who should happen to be on the stairs was about to get a bit of a surprise if they haven't been warned by omg!traitors!

[ball attack! join the craziness! Craziness over with! Come join the ball-infused cleanupness! no, wait....]

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[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"What the..." Jack said, before he stepped on a particularly slippery blue ball and fell on his ass.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I heard somebody!" came a voice from up the stairs, "Fire!"

And another shower of superballs rumbled and tumbled down the stairway. Filling it like crossfire... in some place... where there was a whole lot of shooting.

[nadiathesaint]

A blue cat tumbled by. It tried to pounce on a ball, rolled a bit, itself, and smacked into a wall. It shook it's now flattened face until it *popped* back into shape, and then started trying to run back up the stairs.

The effect was reminiscent of trying to run up a fast moving escalator.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack called up the stairs, buried under the second onslaught of balls, "I surrender!" Then he watched the cat. The blue cat. "Um... are you a student? One meow for yes, two for no."

[nadiathesaint]

"Meeerowwwwwwowwwwowwwwowwwww!" howled the cat. then it pounced Jack's foot.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"OW!" Jack howled in return. He attempted to swim out from under the deluge of balls and escape to his room.

[nadiathesaint]

The cat continued to roll, pounce, and tumble its way through the balls. It seemed like it might be having the time of its life.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Taking careful aim, Pip got a bead on Jack's head. He fired off a marshmellowy round.

[nadiathesaint]

from up the stairs, comes a cry of "No quarter given!"

[nadiathesaint]

The cat begins to chase the marshmallows. and tumble and roll and bump into things.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter stood under the shower of balls for a moment before snagging ball after ball out of the air and whipping them at high speed back up the stairwell.

It was all very impressive until he fell on his ass.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter recognizes that voice and begins throwing balls from his place sitting on his ass, watching them perform some amazing feats of bounciness to go back up the stairwell.

[section9-togusa.livejournal.com]

Loading uup the Tachikoma with superballs, the voice of Togusa could be heard over the clamor.

"Fire! Fire! Fire!"

Rounds of balls came from the Tachikoma and struck out at targets.

[nadiathesaint]

A soft "Okay, ow," is heard from up the stairs.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

As the balls came back up the stairs, Molly leaned over the rail and fired off several marshmallows. "Take that, lowlander!"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip smirks. He knew there was someone he had forgotten to warn.

...Or had he?

He took aim with the marshmellow gun. "Oi, Walter!" he calls out, firing.

[section9-togusa.livejournal.com]

Togusa saw Walter and aimed carefully. "Heads up!" He threw the ball straight at Walter's head from two feet away.

[OOC: He's in Therm Optics. ;p]

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter caught the marshmallows out of the air and stuffed one in his mouth before throwing a few back at Molly.

It was more sporting than hitting a girl in the face with a bouncy ball.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter didn't see where the ball came from, but the "heads up" was enough to catch his attention and let him duck.

Unfortunately for Togusa, Walter had a boyfriend with a built in version of thermoptics. He thrust his arm out, palm forward like a policeman directing "stop" where Togusa was most likely standing.

[section9-togusa.livejournal.com]

"Dammit!" Togusa bounced back and yelled out to the mini tank. "Tachikoma! Fire at that black haired boy!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Never warn a trained fighter before firing on him, silly mercenary. Walter caught the marshmallows out of the air and stuck another in his mouth, grinning as he began to whip them back up the stairwell at any target that presented itself with high priority on Pip.

Still sitting on his ass, of course.

[nadiathesaint]

The cat, still bounding amongst the balls happily, pounces for Walter's foot.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly had already ducked back by the time Walter threw the marshmallows back, so there was no danger of her getting hit with anything.

She watched the marshmallows fly past and then ducked out, briefly, to fire three more marshmallows down the stairs.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

And never assumem that a trained merecnary is that stupid. While distracting him with the marshmellows, Pip had kicked over a crate of superballs down the stairs in Walter direction. He ducked behind the wall to reload his marshmellow gun.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter is entirely surprised by the cat and has to keep himself from booting the cat down the stairs when it discovers that he doesn't wear socks.

"Bugger!"