Society of Justice 3: Crisis on the Earth

[socialtangent]

Levi flinched when Jason's sister sent the much larger man stumbling out of the lounge and through the doors with a single punch. That had to hurt, he thought as he watched Jason follow his sister through the doors. At least she didn't break any walls. It would have been quite irritating to deal with another remodeling of the Promenade. The construction work wasn't really helping him when he was trying to pick up the pieces of his shattered mind.

Banishing that unwanted memory into the back of his mind, Levi looked down at his glass. The liquid inside was a pale, opaque blue that looked normal enough, but he still had his doubts. He uncertainly shook the glass a bit and watched the drink swirl around, half stalling for time and half reassuring himself that what he was about to drink was in fact a liquid.

It's okay, Levi. You're gonna do this

After another moment of hesitation, Levi braced himself, raised the glass to his lips, and took a healthy sip. It wasn't as strong a drink as he had anticipated, but it still had a decent kick to it. The flavor was - dare he say - almost magical. This had to be the finest tasting liquor Levi had ever consumed. "Hey, this isn't bad at all!" Levi announced with a relieved sigh.

"Ich liebe das-" He paused. That wasn't English.

"Was? Was ist das!?"

 

[blaze96]

"Drinking already are we?" Richard said as he walked over to the kitchen and grabbed a glass for himself before pouring some of the liquor inside of it. before hearing Levi suddenly speak German.

"So it changes your language, interesting. Now I have to try it." Richard quickly downed the glass before speaking to nobody in particular.

"Sic quis lingua did ego adepto? Latin , ego sum certus ego ago per is. Ego mos postulo ut persolvo a praetorian tutela quod gero puniceus totus vicis nam ego narro quod nam sanus maximus. Aliquid addo mihi a regius puniceus toga quod a flos of olive stipes." He said in his newly acquired Latin dialect.

 

[NeoAC]

Brian powered down the drink after seeing Levi drink it and not having rockets shooting out of his ears or anything. Once he heard the strange words coming out of his mouth he was a little worried however. Shoot, that sounds like another language or something! What the hell am I going to sound like?

He opened his mouth, "Пижон, я не могу даже понять то, что Вы только сказали. Этот материал испорчен." He then slapped his hand over his mouth. Oh no! The language of the enemy!

 

[RBMidknight]

Taryn started to reply to Leland but the combination of Tommy being punched out of the lounge and team members suddenly becoming multilingual was too much of a distraction. She set down the bag of frosting and stepped way from the table. The final layer of the cake had just been completed.

"Are you alright?" She asked Levi. Other than the altered speech he didn't seem harmed. Taryn glanced at where Tommy had once been. Thanks to Jason's sister she couldn't ask the big man what other effects the alcohol might have. She looked back and forth between the affected men. Levi's new language was somewhat guttural, she thought she heard something about a toga and Latin in Richard's speech. Brian looked either shocked or scared by his newly acquired language. Taryn sighed and looked at the bottle containing the alcohol all three men had consumed. 'I think I'm going to avoid that one.' she decided. Two languages was enough for her. Though, as side effects went, speaking another language didn't seem too bad. 'I wonder how the rest are?' She eyed the other bottles speculatively.

 

[socialtangent]

"Ich denke..." Levi replied to Taryn with a broad shrug. She was definitely not going to understand his suddenly foreign tongue, so he had to rely on his body language to get his message across. He turned to face Leland, who was still working on frosting the cake. "Leland! Kannst wir hilfen du? Ich will nicht Deutsch sprechen. Ich will verstehen sein!" The irony of expressing the desire to be understood in a language that nobody in the Society spoke was not lost on Levi. Hopefully, Leland would understand the gist of what he had to say through body language and context.

 

[tsatoma]

"I heard my name~! Followed by a jumble of odd-sounding words," Leland called out as he turned away from frosting to face Levi, "Okay so you're speaking German I think...don't know that language, but that's not important. You don't really have a happy look on your face so I'm assuming you don't want to speak German anymore? Perhaps next time you won't drink magical alcohol when you do not know what it does."

"Now I don't really have a spell for changing it back since I really only have ones that I can use on a somewhat regular day-to-day basis, and making someone speak English isn't one of them. I can figure one out, though by then it might already be gone. Did you check the label to see how long it lasts?" he asked as he walked over to the other side of the table to practice making the border for the last tier of cake on some wax paper.

 

[socialtangent]

"Uh...nein," Levi replied to Leland, shaking his head. He turned around and searched for the offending bottle of liquor, finding it on the counter where Brian had left it. Picking it up, he examined the label. The name, the location where it was brewed, seals indicating that it was a vintage drink...all very interesting tidbits of information, but they weren't the ones he needed. Finally, Levi came across some smaller text near the list of ingredients.

To return to your native language, ingest four additional shots.

Levi sighed. Are you kidding me? he asked himself. What did I get myself into? If it was the only way, he supposed it had to be done. Heading into the cabinet, he retrieved four ordinary shot glasses and set them along the counter. He filled each one with the appropriate amount of liquid and set the bottle aside. Hopefully there'd be enough for everyone to reverse the magic.

Alright. Just take them one at a time. Levi rarely drank this much. Perhaps abstaining from drinking altogether would have saved him from this situation. After some initial hesitation, he quickly downed the first shot of magical liquor. He placed the empty glass back down on the counter and picked up the second one. Although it was not the strongest of drinks, the shots would definitely stack up.

He repeated the process for the last of the drinks, slamming the final glass down after consuming its contents. Looking up at the people around him, Levi could definitely feel the alcohol doing its thing. Thanks to his altered cellular structure and above-average tolerance for alcohol, he wasn't flat-out drunk. However, he was significantly tipsy.

"Okay, does it work?" he asked nobody in particular. "You guys can hear English, right? I'm not just thinking I'm speaking English?"

 

[CounterAttack]

Her purchases in hand after parking her bike in its previous spot in the garage, Katie entered the Promenade and hurried through to her room to drop off those which she had bought for herself, and retrieved a pen and a pad of sticky notes. Peeling one off, she attached it to the bag from the games shop and wrote:

Tommy,
Sorry about not wrapping it up, couldn't be bothered. :)
K.

She took the end of the bag and tucked it under the large box containing Tommy's 3DS, hiding it from view. With the note finished, Katie took her present for Tommy and made her way to the lounge. She didn't see Tommy, though, so she simply set the package down on the table where she had seen the other gifts. Looking around to the rest of the Society, she found that one of the bottles had been opened and Levi was mumbling something about speaking English.

Chuckling to herself, she walked over to examine the opened bottle of Atlantean alcohol.

[hr]

"So, um, yeah, that's pretty much it," Rowan finished up as he sat back in his seat. As before, he had left out the Cadizki incident, not really wanting to remember it himself.

"Sounds awesome. At least, most of it does besides the whole body-switching thing," Sabrina commented, inciting a grimace from the shapeshifter. "So, um... any half-decent girls there for you to pick up?"

"Sadly, no, though every female in the Society is really good-looking. Guys, however, there are a couple. Not gonna try for any of them, though, 'cause I reckon they're either not interested or have other priorities. Plus it'd just be weird if I turned into a girl to be in a relationship with them and was my normal self otherwise," Rowan explained. Then his offer to Brian came back to his memory, and he added, "On that note, how are the rest of your friends? Anyone single?"

Sabrina thought over the question for a moment, a cheeky smile on her face as she held one finger against her lips in thought. "Well, there's Tess, but... she just got out of a bad relationship so I figure she's out of the equation. Rachel's looking for a nice guy, as is Jasmine, Leya... and myself, of course."

Rowan's heart skipped a beat at the last four words.

So Sabi hadn't been seeing anyone... maybe she still had feelings for him despite the incident and their subsequent breakup. It was a long shot, given that over a year had passed since then, but Rowan couldn't help but feel something akin to euphoria. He tried to contain it by saying, "Yeah, um, my mate Brian, the Canadian healer? I asked him about setting him up with one of your friends, and, um, he said go for it. Real heavy on the Canadian culture, he is. Hockey, poutine, maple syrup and all that. D'you think y- er, you think anyone could take an interest in him?"

Sabrina thought it over, though she shot a slightly puzzled glance at Rowan before she did so. "Erm... Jas' first boyfriend was Canadian, so that could work out. Here, I'll give you her new number, she canceled her old SIM card." She pulled out her phone and passed it to Rowan, Jasmine's details displayed on the screen.

"Alright, cool. I'll talk to Brian about her, see if he's keen," Rowan answered as he copied the phone number into his own mobile.

 

[RBMidknight]

"You're speaking English" Taryn confirmed with a slight grin. "Thank you, Leland." she added. Taryn nodded to the magician who was finishing up the cake. It looked as though the three tiered confection creation was almost ready. Which meant they could start clearing out the kitchen. Stepping around Levi, Taryn picked up his shot glasses and set all but one in the sink. She rinsed the glasses out quickly, placed them in the dishwasher, and leaned back against the counter once she was finished. "How're you feeling?" she asked Levi quietly. He'd downed more alcohol than the others at this point and it was hard to tell at a glance how strong the stuff was. Taryn was still considering sampling one of the other bottles. She just didn't want to be the first to open a new one.

 

[socialtangent]

"Heh...I'm just fine. That drink really didn't do anything besides make me speak German for a bit there," Levi replied. Almost forgetting, he faced Brian and Richard and cleared his throat. "If you want to reverse the....language swap, you have to take four more shots from the bottle. Just throwing that out there in case you want people to understand what you're saying". Today was off to an interesting start, Levi did have to admit that. One thing he knew for sure was that he wasn't going to be ingesting any more magical liquor.

 

[Pm0n3y]

Marrissa smiled excitedly as she approached the staggering Tommy, dusting him off before sending him flying yet again. She turned to Jason as he brung up the rear.

"I like this guy, J. He can take a hit, and he's got a mouth to back it up!" She admitted before taking after the hero again.

"Well, that's Tommy for ya." The older brother answered, Marrissa hastily putting Tommy on his feet.

"Y'know, we can speed up this process if you'd just stay in one place. I know you're strong; now let's see that strength!" She said as wound up another hit.

 

[NeoAC]

This was the first time Brian had been told that the cure for something would be more liquor, and he was quite eager to take that antidote. Stealing Levi's shot glasses, he poured out another four shots of the strange alcohol and downed them all in quick succession. As he felt the liquid pouring down his throat, he tested to see if the cure had worked. "Please tell me....Whew! No more Russian gobbledy-gook there! That's good stuff! Maybe next time I'll ask someone what this stuff does before I drink it there, eh?"

 

[CounterAttack]

"Fascinating... A drink that forces the consumer to speak in a different language," Katie mused, looking at the label of the one open bottle among the other glowing and shimmering liquids. She turned her attention to the others; one in particular caught her eye, because the bottle itself was glowing rather than the contents.

"Well, Tommy's not around, so... we may as well try another one and see what happens, I guess. Just lemme check this one..." she added, reading the label of the glowing bottle. There appeared to be nothing out of the ordinary; at least, she could see a brief description of the alcohol and its ingredients. "Hmm. Nothing to describe its effects," she started, before she found what she was looking for despite the aura emanating from the bottle; Katie had to squint to see it properly because the text was so small.

[sub]

Any magical effects will wear off in time
given the volume of alcohol consumed.
If you have any special requirements or conditions
please moderate your intake.

[/sub]

"Okay, so this one will wear off... It can't hurt to try, right?" Katie asked rhetorically as she found a clean shot-glass for herself. A little nervous about what the drink would do, but figuring it couldn't hurt to try if the effects would wear off, she wrestled with the cork momentarily and got it out of the bottle after about thirty seconds.

"Bottoms up," she said with a grin before she knocked back the shot. She felt the alcohol burn her throat, and gagged a little as a result... then she felt the ground lurch underneath her and a loud thump was heard soon after. Dizzy, Katie shook her head to clear it... and found that she was looking down at everyone in the room. She felt as if she was lying on her back... and then it hit her. She was lying on her back... on the ceiling. The thought was a little weird, and Katie stayed still for a moment to collect herself before trying to get to her feet without tripping over. Her hair was unaffected by the fact that she had fallen upwards, and was hanging down towards the floor the way it normally should.

"I feel like a bat," she joked, giggling despite the rush of blood to her head.

 

[Lizmichi]

Alex opened her own bottle of the liquor, and another, and mixed the two feeling like reading the labels. She blinked and felt her body change, her chest became flat and she noticed she was closer to the ground then before. She looked in the mirror and noticed one eye was green and the other blue. Her body was normal in a way and she felt her body temperature rapidly climbing, she was starting to feel cold.

She looked at the bottle and blinked reading the label. Removes all unnatural, magical or genetic, changes done to the drinker. She then looked at the other. Induces sever intoxication.

"Instant sever intoxication? What the fuu.... Oh lord." Alex said feeling drunk off her ass. She looked over at Richard and smirked walking over to him and huge off of him. "Hey Richard. Feel like fucking right here and now?" Alex said licking Richards ear smashed off her ass.

 

[Captainguy42]

" All right, all right, if that's the way you want to do it." Tommy said as he set his stance. " I mean I was rolling your punches earlier so you didn't hurt yourself but have it your way."
When Marrissa went for her next punch to his stomach Tommy flex his abs and kept himself rooted to the ground. This time instead of flying off Tommy only slid back an inch, while the tiles cracked under his feet.

" What was that? C'mon you 17 more punches to prove yourself, and I don't think I'll be moving from here anytime soon."

 

[blaze96]

Reluctantly Richard downed the four shots needed to revers the spell before Alex jumped him.

"And here I was enjoying speaking Latin." Richard said low enough to not be heard by Alex before replying to her come on.

"Your drunk dear, and not during Tommy's birthday while we are at the Promenade. Perhaps you should lay down, drink a glass of water, take a couple aspirin, and wait for the alcohol to wear off." He said noticing her appearance rapidly changing but deciding not to comment because there were more important things.

 

[NeoAC]

Brian looked at the stuff and now at the now floating Katie and the strangely normal-looking Alex. He looked back at the liquor and shook his head. Wow. he noted silently to himself. I thought booze was supposed to make a girl look better, not worse...

He picked up the bottle that Alex had been drinking out of. "Removes all unnatural changes done to the drinker there," he read to himself. "Hey, at least you know, this one should be safe for me to drink, eh? Nothing to take off me, you know!" He took the glass he had before and poured out a large drink, sure that this one couldn't do anything to him. Down the hatch it went as the flavors hit his tongue and reached deep into his core. The entire glass was consumed in one sip.

He set the glass down onto the counter. "Hmmm, not bad. The aroma gives the suggestion of the more tropical fruits, your papayas, your mangos, and yet there is a distinct taste of apples to it. That's quite interesting."

 

[Pm0n3y]

Marrissa couldn't help but form a wild, devilish smirk as Tommy stood his ground against her forces. Jason's eyes perked up in realization.

"Ohhhh, I know that smile." Jason piped up, nodding in confirmation as he crossed his arms. Without another word, the younger keyholder began her birthday assault, barreling her fists into the study superhero at a growing pace.

"Five! Six! Seven, eight, nineteneleven..." She excitedly murmured as the punches began shelling out at a more furious pace. Eventually, she began to close in on the final punches of the ceremonious ordeal.

"Twenty-one!" She exclaimed, sending the last punch dead into Tommy's chest. The shockwave of the ending strike sent Jason head-over-heels.

"Christ...she's definitely gotten stronger, huh?" Erebus asked as Jason picked himself up.

"...And a pinch to grow an inch!" She added with a bubbly grin as she lightly pinched Tommy, Jason shaking his head in grief.

 

[elementsoul]

Tyson just sat back and watched as Levi, Brian, and Richard started and stopped speaking German, Russian, and Latin respectively. Having told Jason his sister was his problem to deal with he didn't bother with her punching Tommy either. However when Katie floated to the ceiling and Alex's body changed and asking Richard to fuck right there on the spot he felt things were going a bit far.

Tyson walked down the wall Tommy was punched into and saw Marrissa lay a lot of punches into Tommy before stopping and pinching him. Tyson sighed as he walked over towards the group. "If Tinkerbell here is done playing fun in games, and you two are content with destroying those tiles under your feet; Levi started speaking German and stopped, Brain started speaking Russian and stopped, Richard started speaking Latin and stopped, Katie has moved her current location to the kitchen ceiling, and Alex drank one of your potions and wants to fuck Richard in the kitchen. Oh yeah, I almost forgot she changed into a different looking person and Brain just drank the same thing. So I wouldn't mind if you'd comeback and start previewing the liquor before someone starts breathing fire or something?" Tyson said trying to keep the "what the fuck is going on here?" tone out of his voice.

 

[Pm0n3y]

As soon as Tyson mentioned it, Jason quickly noticed that a few tiles were demolished by Tommy's struggle.

"Oops." Jason let out guiltily, Marrissa more concerned about what was going on in the lounge.

"Ooh, breathing fire sounds awesome. I wanna breathe fire!" She piped up.

"Well, he didn't actually say one could let you breathe fire. Besides, you're too young to be drinking anyway. You can watch me breathe the fire instead!" Jason replied proudly.

"Aww, that's no fun. You're a total lush anyway; you'll just fall asleep after the first shot."

"Really? You think so? That's only happened twice...But Tyson's right. Let's get back before someone turns into a Lovecraftian horror."

"By Ty's description, I think Alex already has." Marrissa replied sassily.

"Oooh. Bah-zing!" Erebus gibed with a chuckle.