Northlake Academy ~ A part fantasy, part futuristic RP

[MissInnocent]

Celia headed up to her room, locking the door. Her suitcase was already thankfully half empty, with only a few useless books in. She opened up her bag and cringed. It was stuffed to the top with clothes. Taking all of them out, she went through the pile, dumping most of the clothes on the trash pile. Pamphlets, pens, books and folders... She wouldn't need any of them afterwards. By the time she'd gone through them all, she was left with a small pile of clothes. A few tshirts, vests and long sleeves, with some tracksuit bottoms and some combats. Oh, and deodorant. Nodding in approvement, she put her clothes into the backpack, folding each of them roughly. Finally, she stuffed the food into the side pockets. Zipping the bag up, she hoisted it onto her shoulders. Ugh. It was so much heavier. She waved goodbye to her room and locked the door. There was this strange feeling inside her -- a mixture of relief, grief, excitement, sadness and dissapointment. Sighing, she started the lonely walk to Flynn's room.

 

[Runner]

Flynn looked into his backpack, and then began to empty it of the supplies he was already carrying. The many packets of peanut butter, and jelly, three granola bars, two apples, a banana, and the muffin wrapped in a napkin tumbled out of his bag. Flynn walked over to his gym bag, and then looked into it. He dumped the contents out of that, too. Eventually, after lots of sorting, he had managed to put two pairs of jeans, two hoodies, two t-shirts, and one raincoat inside his bag, the rest of his clothing stuffed back into the gym bag. With a sigh, he then waited for Summer, Celia, Peyton and Will to show up.

 

[tamaturtle]

Eventually Summer made it to Flynn's room, and gave a quick knock on the door before entering, giving a small smile. "Hey." She said, closing the door and putting her bag down. "I've got what is basically my essentials. Clothes, food, sketchpad." She sighed, playing with the zip on her bag. "I'm not sure about this though... like, I know we have to take a bag to camping, but isn't it gonna be hard carrying a heavy bag each while we're essentially on the run?"

 

[xXMysticXx]

Peyton left shortly after the others. She walked to her room and started to pack a duffel bag up with things she would need. She made sure to pack mostly pants and sweaters. She figured she might as well pack warm with a few tanktops and tshirts to wear underneath. She left the food in the bottom of her purse so they wouldn't get smushed and tossed a sweater overtop.

She then headed to Flynn's room. When she arrived at his room number she tapped at the door and waited for him to open it.

 

[Runner]

"Well, that's why. We'd better all split the food rations and stuff evenly so we get to carry less." Hearing a knock on the door, Flynn got up, and strolled to the door, opening it. Seeing Peyton, he greeted her, "Hey, Peyton, all packed?" He then went ahead and sat back down, and then pushed his pile of food rations out, minus the muffin since he was keeping that for himself. "Alright, so, we've got all the stuff we've collected from breakfast, and we've got the rations they gave us yesterday in Survival Class."

 

[tamaturtle]

"As for other survival items, well..." Summer began rummaging through her bag. "We've got stuff like our Swiss Army knives and a compass, we'll be given a tent and a map, although that'll probably be useless... plus whatever I end up drawing." It was then she remembered the newbie in the group, Peyton, and she grinned sheepishly at her. "Uh, long story. Basically, I can draw things and bring them to life..."

 

[MissInnocent]

Celia opened the door and walked inside, sighing. "God, I never knew my bag would be this heavy. I should've knocked, but meh." She sat down beside Summer and opened up the side pockets on her backpack. A pile of rations and food spilled out. Frowning, she said "At least our bags will be lighter after we eat all this rubbish." Nudging Summer, she asked "Can't you draw some magic bag which will hold everything?", only half joking.

 

[Runner]

Hearing "Magic bag" reminded Flynn of those compressor bags they advertised on TV which could seal clothes and make all the air in them go completely flat so there would be more space to fit things. "Oh, hey, you could draw one of those air compressor bags, so we could all seal our clothes tight, so we get a lot more space to carry food and supplies. Well.. If you can draw one, that is." Flynn sighed, and laid back. "It would be h**luva lot more convenient if you could do it.. We could probably take more clothes too."

 

[tamaturtle]

"'Compresser bag'," Summer said, opening a side pocket on her bag and pulling out her sketchpad. "Is a lot easier than 'magic bag'." Ignoring the conversation around her for the time being, Summer hovered her pencil over the page for a few moments, trying to remember what the things looked like, before deciding to just go with it and beginning to draw. After a minute or so there was a compressor bag sat in Summer's lap. "Okay, who wants this one?"

 

[Runner]

"Um..." Flynn looked around. "I guess I'll take it." He reached over and took the bag, and then reached into his backpack for his clothes. He placed the folded clothes into the compressor bag, and then sure enough, the clothes were compressed to a nice, way-thinner-than-it-was-before pile. He went ahead and placed the clothes bag back into his backpack, grinning at the amount of space that was now available. "Thanks, Summer."

 

[tamaturtle]

"No problem." Summer said, smiling but not looking up from her sketchpad as she drew three more compressor bags and pulled them off the page too, handing two out to Celia and Peyton and keeping one for herself. "Hey, how come Will isn't here? Did no-one think to spring the plan on him early?" She frowned, opening the main part of her bag and starting to pull out her not-at-all folded clothes, copying Flynn and putting them into her bag.

 

[MissInnocent]

Picking up the compresser bag, she examined it, frowning with confusion. Taking her clothes out of the bag, she put it inside the compresser bag, curious to see what it would do. "Ooh..." she remarked at the now compressed pile of clothes. Grinning as she put the pile into her bag, she said "A magic bag would be so much better though."

She sighed, looking around Flynn's room -- the same as her's and Summer's. As she breathed in deeply, a somewhat musty smell filled her nostrils and she grimaced. "Ugh. Yeaah, I think we forgot about him. D'you know his room number?"

 

[Runner]

Flynn thought for a moment, and then shook his head. "Well, I thought I saw him once in one of the rooms across the hall, but I dunno which one exactly. Anyway... Hang on a sec." He walked back over to his dresser, and picked another pair of jeans, another hoodie and another t-shirt. He went ahead and reopened the compressor bag and put the just picked out of the dresser clothes in. Rezipping the bag, he watched as it compressed until the clothes were once again a nice, very thin stack. Flynn replaced it in the bag.

 

[tamaturtle]

Summer repacked her bag of clothes and zipped her bag up, giving a small nod in approval. She frowned, thinking. "Okay, we probably don't have much time left before we have to go and meet Mr Rael and the others in the gym... we might just have to spring the plan on Will." She shrugged, carefully putting her sketchpad away and zipping up the pocket. "Should we move or wait a bit longer?"

 

[MissInnocent]

"We should probably go now. I mean, we're all packed and we can probably go and get the first pick of tents and supplies." Celia said, zipping up her bag after stuffing everything back in. She lifted up the bag, getting up. Hoisting it on her shoulder, she added on "We can go get Will on the way to the gym. Let's just hope he doesn't struggle."

 

[Runner]

"Alright. Let's go." Getting up, Flynn stretched, and then reached down and picked up his backpack. Slinging one strap over his shoulder, he walked over to the door, and then opened it. He turned back to Celia and Summer. "Uh, guys, wait.. Are we just gonna knock on all the doors across the wall to see which one has Will?"

 

[tamaturtle]

"We could just meet him at the gym..." Summer suggested, following the others out of the room after hoisting her bag onto her shoulder. "Or wait outside it and see if he turns up..." In truth, Summer wasn't really thinking about how to get Will. She was more concerned about the near future, where they were going to basically go on the run... could they actually make it? Or would they be found and caught pretty easily?

 

[MissInnocent]

Celia shrugged, saying "We should probably just wait outside it. I think we're early, anyway." Either way, she would be out of here. She didn't want to stay here, in the dorms, if she was going to get out of here. When she was in the dorms, she had a sense of uneasiness, and she didn't like it. The musty, old smell, yet the clean and "new" furnishing made her shiver slightly.

 

[Runner]

"Alright. Let's get moving so we can go get first pick of tents and other stuff they haven't passed out to us yet." Flynn began to walk down the dorm hall out to the main halls, towards the gym. Hopefully, Will wouldn't mind having to have the least amount of clothing and supplies than the rest of the group, since he was probably nowhere near prepared to spend who knows how many days out in the wilderness.

 

[tamaturtle]

"Not a bad idea." Summer said, following Flynn. "Hopefully, he hasn't gone in yet... but won't it seem a bit suspicious if we're all just lurking around outside?" She bit her lip, frowning. "Tell you what. I'll go into the hall and grab our group's stuff while you wait for Will, if he hasn't gone in. That way, if he's in the hall, I can grba him there..."