MISSION: GRAB THE EYEBALLTAUR

[initiates]

Date & Time: March 7th, 1994
Location: The MICA campus: Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Characters: Everyone
Summary: All transports are shipped back to 1994 to steal art from art students. Also, some of them arrive bodyswapped.

The Initiative has timed the incoming waves of Transports to the MICA campus for Freshmen Orientation, but even so, the flood of newcomers gets a few surprised glances. Looks like MICA's up for a major boom in attendance next year, wow. But do some of those freshman look a little old to you? …And do some of them seem to be freaking out a lot more than usual about being in Baltimore?

The cloaking devices, with holograms visible only to the natives, will be blending everyone in with the native 90s fashion senses, and all non-humans will find themselves getting much more tame curious glances than they might back on Exsilium, as they project a human appearance to natives around them. So at least there's that. Just try not to get arrested, hit by cars, or challenged to any break dance competitions as you grab and run off with bizarre works of art, alright? The weirder it looks, the more likely it probably is to be the power source the Initiative needs for the Transporter.

Oh, yeah, and sorry about the body-swap-around. Just deal with that as best you can, because the mission really must go on. Any harried and worried Initiative employee along on the mission that you might be able to find will just sputter a hasty not-really-explanative explanation and hurry away, trading frantic messages with the headquarters in Exsilium. They'll get this all sorted out by the time you get back, don't worry.

Comments

[controlledvariable]

I think they might call is surrealism, but I never really paid attention in art class.

[Her smile is a little apologetic] You didn't ask. [The way she says it implies a silent "I wasn't sure if you cared", but, still, she adds:] Steph.

[kneecaptain]

C'mon. The asking's implied. [ He's not that bad. ]

[controlledvariable]

Is it? [She looks for all the world like this is new information to her] Guess my conversation skills are a bit rusty.

[Or she just doesn't like giving people her name. Whatever.]

[kneecaptain]

[ Pauses. Changes the subject. ]

This must be a real trip, huh?

[controlledvariable]

[That gets a laugh, as she shoves her hands into her pockets, looking as casual as can be.]

It wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I was thinking about seeing more of the world.

[That's a thing regular college students think about, right?]