<Pink|gm> When last we left Danny, he had just enjoyed dinner and a show... of sorts.
<Pink|gm> Suddenly, salsa seems slightly superficial- shapeshifting superpowers supervened. Showtime.||
<Megastem> ((Anything in particular that happened, as far as his power activating goes?))
<Megastem> There's... There's stuff... Flesh? All over. Is... is that his? Did he do that? And what's that noise? That... that might be him screaming, actually, come to think of it. What the hell is going on?||
<Pink|gm> He can feel it- the crazy thing is, it feels shockingly normal, just like an arm. He can see it, though- a ropy trunk of flesh extending from his shoulder to the wall. Remaining three fingers, he can feel those too - but they are knotty clumps of muscle gripping the wall, gouging into they shitty old wallpaper.
<Pink|gm> Turns out, though, that even when he stops screaming the noise continues in a higher pitched form, his younger siblings' wide eyed heads poked around the corner.||
<Megastem> He's staring at the... the thing. His arm? Whatever it is, he's staring at it wide-eyed. Okay, it is currently destroying the shitty old wallpaper. He would like that to stop. He tried to relax his fingers and then his arm, his breathing heavy.||
<Megastem> $roll 1d6 Wits
<[ATM]> Megastem "Wits" [4]  = 4
<Pink|gm> As he takes a breath and attempts to relax, he can feel the oversized limb go slack, but it still feels like... well, like his own arm, what was left of it, and he finds that he can move it as easily. The bag of chips tumbles to the floor as he bumps into it.
<Pink|gm> The screams are abruptly muffled as Kendra (second youngest) wraps her hands around (youngest) Kelly's mouth.||
<Megastem> He's not exactly sure if taking a breath helped significantly, really. His brain is still full of panic, but most of that has fallen to the background in favour of the one part that's actually telling him something useful. He's going to take this slow and step by step and he is absolutely going to find out what the fuck.
<Megastem> He brings his arm closer, seeing what moving it feels like, and then takes a closer look at his hand and fingers.||
<Pink|gm> It is clumsy, like despite appearance it still moves like an arm... but as it releases the wall entirely, he also realizes just how HEAVY it is- collapsing onto the table and dragging him and the wheelchair along with it!
<Pink|gm> Even Kendra can't help but squeak in alarm as he barely keeps his chair upright, tilted onto one wheel.||
<Megastem> That is not good, that is very much not good. The last thing he needs right now is tipping over into the mess of salsa, because he's pretty sure he won't get up very easily. His arm is way to heavy, and it definitely needs to stop being heavy.
<Megastem> There's something there, he knows, but he has no idea what it is. His brain is kind of conceptualising it as 'letting go', he thinks, but fuck if he knows what that means in this context. He's out of other ideas, though.
<Megastem> He lets go.||
<Pink|gm> Let it go, let it go, can't fall down on the floor. His chair is, fortunately, bottom heavy enough to settle upright with a jarring thump rather than fall backwards. The mass of flesh twitches on the tabletop, raggedly severed from his now empty shoulder.
<Pink|gm> Whatever else one might say about his power, for the moment it is armless.||
<Megastem> And there he goes screaming again. That was his good arm! That didn't say much, but it was still better than his other arm! This one at least had fingers! He wants his fingers back, damnit!||
<Pink|gm> And there comes the screaming from his sisters again, as they flee down the hallway, and Mom must have really gone heavy on the sleeping pills to not be waking up because there is a thumping from the floor - a presumably annoyed neighbor downstairs.
<Pink|gm> Funny thing, though, it doesn't hurt. Huh. Actually, NONE of his body hurts.||
<Megastem> Which is wonderful, but he's still not going to be able to move this wheelchair without an arm with fingers. If he could sprout an arm from his shoulder once, he should be able to do that again, right? Only, this time, try making it his regular arm instead of anything crazy.||
<Pink|gm> He feels a sort of... potential for growth, yeah. It is sort of diffused through his body, but with some effort he can... focus it into his stump... and in a little burst, a foot of smooth skinned, arm sized flesh erupts from the stump.||
<Megastem> He yelps when it happens, but at least he isn't screaming, this time? He sighs in relief when he sees his arm is back. That's better. He can do this. He focuses on that potential again, this time trying to get his fingers back.||
<Pink|gm> They grow more like branches, and are really more of an approximation of fingers- three of them- sticking out at off angles from the blunt end of the arm. He can wiggle them, though, just like real fingers, and he can even lengthen the arm to a more normal length by growing more flesh at the base. It feels... weird. Halfway between sticking out his tongue
<Pink|gm> and getting an erection.
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<Pink|gm> He is able to grow more fingers, too... but he finds that as more sprout, he can only directly keep control of three at a time with the others remaining limp and unresponsive. ||
<Megastem> Okay, okay. This is good. He can work with this. His arm looks kind of dumb without a hand to connect it to his fingers, so he focuses on growing that in between. Can he do that? If he can grow new stuff at the base of the arm, he should be able to do that here, too, since it's all... his body. Right?
<Megastem> God this is weird. Anyway, hand, please!||
<Pink|gm> The end of the arm inflates a bit, partially swallowing the fingers... but he can grow those into shape anyway. Maybe better this time. He seems to be quickly getting a feel for it.
<Pink|gm> Meanwile, the slab of meat on the table already looks a bit dried out, much less... alive than just minutes ago.||
<Megastem> Danny makes a face at that. That's going to be so weird to clean up.
<Megastem> He briefly wonders if there are any bones in there. If there are any bones in the stuff he's just created. "You know what," he mutters to himself, "I don't want to know."
<Megastem> Right, he can clean that mess up, later, for now, he's going to look for his siblings. Reassure them that he's in the same shape he was, like, ten minutes ago. With a couple of added, albeit useless, fingers.||
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<Pink|gm> It is an approximation of the hand, the arm he had had before- the muscles aren't quite right, the hand is still blobby... some of the extra flesh peels and flakes away as he moves, wags his fingers, and that helps a bit, taking away the balloon shape.
<Pink|gm> None of the kids have wanted to look too close at his clawed remainder of a hand since he got home, so it's probably close enough for now.
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<Pink|gm> He finds his new arm  a little strange to move- not just double but triple jointed. It actually feels pretty good, though, and the wheelchair gives him little trouble.
<Pink|gm> Well, no more than USUAL.
<Pink|gm> The door at the end of the hall is closed up, but he knows there's no lock. That's where they'll be.||
<Megastem> Yeah, well, Danny might be sort of a knucklehead from time to time, but he knows they're freaked out, so he's definitely not going to burst in the room saying 'here's Danny' or whatever.
<Megastem> Instead, he knocks on the door, careful not to hit it too hard.
<Megastem> "Kendra, Kelly?" he asks. "Are you okay?"||
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<Pink|gm> A pause. "...Who is it?" Comes a squeaky little voice. He can't tell which it was.||
<Megastem> "It's Danny," he says. "I'm okay, I promise."
<Megastem> "I have powers now." He has powers now.
<Megastem> And they're disgusting.
<Megastem> Great.||
<Pink|gm> "Nuh UH," comes a second squeaky voice which gets quickly muffled. "What WAS that thing?" Asks the first voice, presumably Kendra.||
<Megastem> That is a really good question. "Uh," he starts, thinking. "Do you know how some lizards can grow their tails back after it's been cut off?"||
<Pink|gm> "Ewww, no!" "What do you mean?" It's getting easier to tell them apart. The door wobbles a bit where they're presumably leaning on it.||
<Megastem> "Yeah, it looks like I can sort of grow my own arm that way? There's a lot I don't understand yet, and I leave a huge mess, I think, but I promise I'm okay."||
<Pink|gm> They seem to digest that. "What about you feet?!" Huh. Good question. Better than the muffled 'ew' sounds. ||
<Megastem> "I haven't tried that yet," he says. "I think I could probably get them back? But, like I said, I leave a huge mess, so..."
<Megastem> "And I wanted to check up on you two, first."||
<Pink|gm> The door clicks, and he can hear some scuffling and murmurs back and forth. The top of Kelly's head appears only to get dragged back, then Kendra looks- and finally decides to let Kelly loose.
<Pink|gm> The little girl stares a second herself, then rockets out to launch herself in a bundle of braids and pajama to his lap.||
<Megastem> "Whoa there!" he says, smiling as he wraps his normal arm around her. After a moment of hesitation, he does the same with his power-generated one. "You were really worried, huh?"||
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<pink> To her credit, Kelly is the one in the family who got over the stump the fastest of anyone in the family. She curls up in his lap... well, what lap he has left... and stares up at him in amazement. "I thought it was a monster!" she says. Kendra reaches down and lightly whacks her in the braids. "Shh!"
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<Megastem> "Yeah?" Danny says. "Not gonna lie, so did I. It's cool, though. I think I can do all kinds of cool stuff with this, once I've had time to practice."
<Megastem> He looks a little embarrassed. "Uh, could I ask you two to help me clean up the mess before mom sees?"||
<pink> Enter Danny, today's Tom Sawyer. Gets his sisters to clean up after him by showing off his superpowers. Kelly seems unusually excited by the idea of cleanup, while Kendra is a bit more skeptical and hangs back while the rugrat zooms off to the kitchen.
<pink> Crouching besides the wheelchair, she takes his regrown arm in her hands and turns it this way and that, biting her lip. "What's going ON, Danny? This is fucked up." Guess Mom's been pretty lax on teaching her not to swear. Not exactly surprising.||
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<Megastem> And here he'd been trying not to swear just now. "Hey, language," he chides, grinning a little. He's feeling a lot more comfortable all of a sudden, despite his sister being absolutely right.
<Megastem> "Okay, so, I'm probably not completely right, because I am definitely not a scientist, but some people can get powers when they're having the worst moment of their life."||
<Pink|GM> She blinks. Opens her mouth, thinks a moment. closes it. "...Coming home was the worst moment of your life?" Okay, it maybe sounds kinda bad when you put it that way.
<Pink|GM> Down the hall, he can hear clatters and thumps and hopefully the mess is decreasing rather than increasing.||
<Megastem> His smile falters for a moment, and he quickly shakes his head. "No!" he tells her, before lowering his voice. "No. No it wasn't, okay? I just..."
<Megastem> He sighs. "I just tried to make some snacks, and I couldn't even open up a jar of fuckin' salsa like this, you know? And I guess I had this vision that I was going to absolutely useless for the rest of my life, and..."
<Megastem> He takes a deep breath when he notices he's getting worked up. "And, yeah. I guess that did it."||
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<Pink|GM> She prods him hard in the shoulder. "You're not USELESS, you're just an asshole! I..." She makes a face. "I... sorry!"||
<Megastem> He tries to shoot her a smile he doesn't quite feel. "Too late. You touched it already."||
<Pink|GM> She stands up, leaning on his chair, on him. "Jerk." Her arms reach around him. "So you're gonna do... what now?" Left unsaid, but clearly implied- 'are you gonna be a villain?' She is old enough to know what kind of stuff he's into, at least in broad strokes.
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<Megastem> He leans back, thinking. "I... don't know?" he says, honestly. "I don't think anyone's expecting anything from me, right now, and I'd like to stay really far away from potential explosions for the rest of my life."
<Megastem> "I guess I've got some time to decide." He shrugs.
<Megastem> "Kelly?" he calls to his youngest sister. "How's it going? Do you need something?"||
<Pink|GM> Come to think of it, it IS kind of quiet in there. Kendra straightens, grabbing the handles and wheeling him into the kitchen and... Kelly's balanced on a step stool at the sink, trying to pull the arm out of the compacter. Given the lack of noise and the burnt smell, it seems to have wrecked the motor. "It won't fit!" she says, as the looks over at them smeared in... meat.||
<Megastem> Oh.
<Megastem> Yes, that is definitely very gross. "Okay," he says, not quite sure what else there is to say. "So, stop?"||
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<Pink|GM> "It's STUCK!" she replies. The limb has... visibly degraded just in the time since he detached it, the surface flaking and the insides... gooey. Probably woulda been easier to wrap it in plastic, or even throw it out the window.
<Pink|GM> Kendra sighs, going to fetch the cleaning supplies from the closet.||
<Megastem> Okay. His power is getting more and more gross by the second. He sincerely hopes that stuff is biodegradable, or whatever.
<Megastem> He rolls his wheelchair closer, first trying to touch the decaying limb to see if his power does anything weird to it.||
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<Pink|GM> It seems inert. And kind of... gross.It flaked under his touch, but there is no connection like he had when it was alive.||
<Megastem> Well, that's some good news. At least nothing even worse will happen when he tries to pull it out.||
<Pink|GM> So far! He tugs, and despite his lack of leverage it comes free in shreds of meat.||
<Megastem> He sighs. Okay, so far so good. "Kendra? Could you grab a garbage bag for this?"||
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<Pink|GM> "Hold on," she says, dragging out the mop bucket. "Uhhhgh, don't touch it!" She reches under the sink, unrolls a garbage bag. "That's a gross power... but if you can grow your legs back...?" that last sounds hopeful.||
<Megastem> He nods. "I'll give it a shot once this is over with, okay?" he says. He stuffs the arm into the garbage bag. "Hopefully this won't raise too many eyebrows."||
<Pink|GM> She straightens, gingerly tking the bag. "Bathroom, go wash up. Kelly, go with him, get some towels." A sigh. "We should tell Liv." Olivia, the big sister. She's been trying hard not to say 'I told you so' about the gang shit since he landed in the hospital. Still, she's been pretty much running things when she's had time between shifts.||
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<Megastem> "Thanks Kendra, you're the best."
<Megastem> "And, well, can we hold off on telling people for now? I'd kind of like to figure out where I wanna go, first."||
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<Pink|GM> She gives him a look, but shoos him off as she pulls on some gloves, taking charge.||
<Megastem> He makes sure to turn around before she can see him smile, and heads to the bathroom, Kelly in tow.||
<Pink|GM> "Danny's a superhero!" Kelly cheers as she bounces along, covered in ick. He really should clean HER off, too.||
<Megastem> He snorts at her enthusiasm. That's the last thing he expected anyone to say about him, to be honest.
<Megastem> "So, do you want to get cleaned up first, or should I? You know what? No, superheroes take care of their sisters first."||
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<Pink|GM> Well, she's young enough to think he's the coolest guy in Detroit. She laughs, wiping her hands off on Mom's hanging bathrobe.||
<Megastem> "Hey now, you think mom's gonna like that?" he asks her, as he makes his way over to the sink. "Come on, wash your hands properly."||
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<Pink|GM> She sticks out her tongue, but moves over to the sink. "What's yer superhero name?" she asks, as she nudges over the stepstool and climbs up to reach the sink. She's very big on reaching the sink herself lately.||
<Megastem> Wow, he hasn't thought about that at all, yet. "Uh..." he says. He clearly has to come up with something here, it wouldn't do to disappoint his sister.
<Megastem> "Meristem."||
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<Pink|GM> She pauses, blinking. "That sounds kinda like a flower," she says eventually. Turns on the sink and grabs the soap.||
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<Megastem> "It's what makes flowers and plants grow, basically," he confirms. "So, I think it fits."||