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[the_overseers]

[As part of the celebration of 0134 being promoted up the faction ranks, there's been minor construction work throughout the Grounds. After a week, a magnificent fountain with waterslides is in the center of the grounds with unusually bubbly water shooting out the spout. There is a plaque]

"The Bounty of Water: A Lost and Recovered Work of Bergholt Stuttley Johnson. Dedicated to the hardworking Agents of 0134"

[However, soon after the installation, everyone from Enforcer down will notice their clothes disappearing from the laundry, and if one walks by the fountain at the right time they'll see socks, shirts, and unmentionables shooting high up into the sky, without concern for colors or dyes]

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[former_endboss]

!!!!

[See Jacqli climbing into the fountain slash WASHING MACHINE to chase down a floating scrap of white and a blob of black. Bother?]

[tempus_fixit]

"Jacqli!"

Considering the fountain has water slides, it was sort of reasonable that her boss of sorts would be in the water. But she didn't look like she was particularly having fun. She hefts her bag and helmet and other maybe-not-so-waterproof things to the ground and moves closer, wading.

"What'd you lose?" Beat. "...clothes, got it. I mean which ONE did you lose?"

[former_endboss]

"Nightgown!" Jacqli points at it-it's flattened out on the surface of the water and ho-boy is it short. So is Jacqli, but the point remains! That thing wouldn't even come to mid-thigh on her. And it's pure white, no trace of her normal black and red that covers everything she associates with.

[tempus_fixit]

"...That's yours?"

She decides it's probably better not to make a point of it, and goes splashing after it herself.

Lucca isn't a bad swimmer. With some luck, the eddies, currents, vortexes and water spouts will subside long enough for one them to get a hold of it. Maybe.

[beat_eleven_months]

Of all the stupid-

How did my robe end up in here? I dry clean!

[not_that_shady]

"AAAAAAAH!"

What on earth could make Midna create a sound like that? If Ridcully looks, he'll find her without her cloak, and morosely clutching a pink blob of filmy fabric. Filmy pink fabric... with a glowing cyan lining? Wait...

"My cloak! How did it get here? How did the colors run on it? It doesn't even have a color! IT'S MADE OF SHADOW, for goddess' sake!"

[beat_eleven_months]

"Such is the architectural 'genius' of Bergholt Stuttley 'Bloody Stupid' Johnson. I never knew he did work here, though."

[not_that_shady]

"You KNOW the creator of this horrible thing?"

She eyes her cloak, then casts an even more hateful glance at the sun, then decides to tough it out and slaps the pinkened cloak onto her back like an enormous electric tongue.

"Something tells me this isn't the first time his works have made people want to turn him inside-out. Is there a line I need to stand in?"

[insecretary]

Cheryl thought the fountain was very pretty from the air!

Err, until a high-velocity pair of boxer shorts with hearts on them violently intercepts her flight pattern, sending her spiraling with a crash into the water below.

Fortunately, she's able to reach the shallows with relative ease. UNfortunately, when she stands she bears a strong resemblance to one of those old-tyme spinning clotheslines; bits of soggy silk and waterlogged cotton and gods-know-what else are hanging from her limbs; there's even a particularly skimpy string-and-lace dangling from one drooping antenna...

[have_hat_will_travel]

*This is Pid staring. She is wearing her complete outfit. And yet, somehow, her outfit is launching out of the fountain, at the same time.*

... I don't even use the laundry, how did...

[sugar_and_spice_witch]

Neither do I! Yet it still whisked the dress off me!

[Lambdadelta gestures at the pink dress also swirling around in there.]

[micro_icarus]

As he's searching for his gloves in the fountain, Ed muses aloud. "'Lost and recovered'? How the hell do you lose a fountain?"

[tempus_fixit]

"Ed!"

Is that Lucca out there on the deeper end of the fountain. waving to him? She's lacking her glasses and she looks well and truly soaked, but otherwise okay. Happy, even. She looks like she's collecting the errant scraps of fabric, which trail around her in swishy rainbows on the surface as she treads water.

"Isn't this crazy? They installed this thing practically overnight!"

[micro_icarus]

"And hooked it up to the wrong water pipes or something." Ed waded out as close to her as he could while still being able to touch the bottom, then suddenly vanished beneath the water before reemerging a few feet later, spluttering.

[tempus_fixit]

"--Are you alright?!"

She makes a few freestyle-looking strokes his way, worried. Once Ed gets over the water up his nose and the sting of chlorine he'll probably notice that Lucca's only wearing that sarashi-and-shorts combo...

"It's more than just the pipes! This whole thing has kind of knotted up the dimensional membrane. Be careful, I don't want you getting in over your head, and I mean that literally in this case."

[grandtheftmecha]

[ There goes a few shirts of hers. Having heard about it quickly, Katina made her way down, and yep, some of that's hers. Shirts... a pair of pants...

Her lacy unmentionables that only a privileged few are meant to see! ]

How did they fuck this up?!

[scatterflower]

Obviously magic!

[And here's Chika, looking around the fountain and gathering quite a few shirts and skirts in her hands. She even has a few socks in that pile.]

[grandtheftmecha]

Screw magic.

[ Gathering up some really nice lingerie that is now completely the wrong color. Someone's paying for this even if she has to beat it out of them. ]

[forgivethemtheirpain]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

[former_endboss]

Is that yours?

[forgivethemtheirpain]

Some of it! Who even did this!? Who thought it was a good idea to put the laundry in here? Everything's out in public! Everything's turning pink!

[uberlikehermama]

[Vivio blinked and looked around the fountain.]

Umm... am I the only person here who doesn't have clothes flying everywhere?

[draconic_historian]

Of those of you that wear clothes, possibly.

[uberlikehermama]

... I have to wonder who's going to get yelled at for this.

[wright_idea]

Careful, careful... Just act smooth, and don't act too obviously like you're getting that pair of heart boxers from the top of the fountain.

*Whistling.*