Honey I Shrunk the Pups plot

[iprotectyou]

It all happened so fast.

One moment, the rats were returning Szalinzki's Shrinking Machine--that the kobolds stole from the Ooompa Loompas--to the Lost and Found box behind Bar. In the next moment, the waitstaff dropped it...

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Baze enters the main barroom from the back door, having completed his morning forms--forwards, backwards, and starting in the middle. Sweat beads on his temples and runs down his back in rivulets, and he's looking forward to a warm bath, given that he was out in the snow in nothing more than a jumpsuit and soft-soled boots.

Then there's the explosion of blue light, accompanied by a shockwave that knocks him off his feet. He scrambles to a standing position, grounding his staff, and finds... that everything has become a lot bigger. He's standing at only a few inches tall.

What?

(OOC: And the shrinking plot is a go! Please use Honey, I Shrunk the Pups Plot as your post titles!)

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[quick_clean_pure]

Graverobber isn't in the bar when the explosion happens; only a few minutes after it happens, he walks in from his door to the bar and notices that something seems -- off? For starters, there doesn't appear to be any people, which is new. It doesn't occur to him that they might suddenly be much smaller than normal.

So he walks in and glances around a bit, but without looking down.

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Baze spends a few precious minutes stuffing his burgeoning panic, and tries to assess the situation. He figures out that he's suddenly smaller--much smaller--and that the person walking next to him is Graverobber.

"Graverobber!" Baze shouts, as loudly as he can.

"Graverobber! Hoi! It's me, Baze!"

[quick_clean_pure]

Graverobber hears -- something. He doesn't immediately know what it is, because from up above, it's relatively hard to hear what's going on down on the ground. So it mostly just registers as a high-pitched something.

Still, it's enough that he glances down at the floor and then whoa holy shit.

He blinks a couple times in surprise before crouching down to see if he's actually seeing what he thinks he's seeing.

[iprotectyou]

Baze breathes through his nose, intensely relieved that Graverobber spots him. Otherwise he would have had to knock on his ankles, and that would have been a risky proposition.

"Hoi! May the Force of others be with you! Do you know what happened to me? Why aren't you tiny?"

[quick_clean_pure]

Well, this is weird. Super fucking weird. Still, that's definitely Baze, and given the situation, he feels like he should lend him a hand before the poor guy gets stepped on by somebody.

"Hey there," he says, still crouched down. "Um... I have no idea. About either of those things. I just got here. Are you okay? Did anything happen?"

[iprotectyou]

Graverobber's voice thunders in Baze's ears, and he flinches involuntarily. He slings his staff onto his back.

"There was a blue flash of light, and a shockwave which knocked me down. Then I ended up like this."

[quick_clean_pure]

He realizes how loud his voice must be when Baze winces. Woops. When he speaks again, he tries to keep his voice quieter, as much as he can while still being sensible at least. "Huh. Okay. I'm not really sure what that could've been, but then again, the bar's weird like that."

And then, because Baze is still on the ground where anybody could walk up to them, he asks, "You want me to move you somewhere that you're less likely to get squashed on?"

[iprotectyou]

"Yes, please," Baze says fervently, nodding his head.

"On top of the bar, if you don't mind."

[quick_clean_pure]

"Sure," he says, kneeling so he can lay his hand out flat on the floor, palm facing up. "Just hop on and I'll put you over there."

[ostro_goth]

A few minutes after the accident, a red-headed child comes in from the back, carrying a scruffy monkey doll that is actually bigger than Baze now.

And stops to stare. Is that a doll of Baze, or is Baze suddenly tiny?

[iprotectyou]

Baze spends a few precious minutes stuffing his burgeoning panic, and tries to assess the situation. He figures out that he's suddenly smaller--much smaller--and that the person stopped in front of him is Teja's child, Egil. Baze carefully slings his staff, and holds up his hands as he approaches.

"Egil. Hoi. May the Force of others be with you. Can you get Teja?"

[ostro_goth]

"Yes!" Egil says. "You're really Baze? Why are you so small? Do you want me to pick you up and put you somewhere safe for till I come back with him?"

[iprotectyou]

Baze breathes in through his nose, intensely relieved that Egil isn't going to pick him up and shake him.

"Yes, I'm really Baze. I don't know why I'm so small. If you could put me on top of the bar, I'd appreciate it."

[ostro_goth]

Egil very gently picks him up and puts him on top of the bar.

"That's funny," he says. "I'll get Teja now, and tell the cats to stay out."

Said in the tone of somebody who regularly talks to cats and fully expects them to be sensible. Well, Egil does turn into a fox.

He races off, leaving his pirate monkey doll on the bar beside Baze.

[iprotectyou]

Baze settles on the bar top in the lotus position, trying to meditate his panic away. He closes his eyes and waits for Egil.

[ostro_goth]

Egil returns eight minutes later, with Teja in tow.

"Look, there he is! I wasn't making things up!" Egil declares.

"It did not think so, little one," Teja says, looking at Egil. "This is Milliways; we all know what that means."

"Home of the weird, haven of the impossible!" Egil declares, giggling.

Teja nods, and steps up to the bar. "Greetings, Baze. Do you know what befell you?"

[iprotectyou]

Teja and Egil's voices are loud in Baze's tiny ears, but he doesn't wince. He gets to his feet, staff clattering against his back.

"Hoi, Teja. May the Force of others be with you. I have no idea what happened."

[omgplsstop]

What—wait—huh?

One minute, Nichola was drinking a beer that really didn't go with her salad, and now she's stuck on a 200-foot barstool.

She's really not sure what to make of this, but a quick look around shows that she's not the only one to have been shrunken, at least.

That's a start?

Then she spots a familiar face down on the ground below and tries to get his attention.

"Hey! Up here!"

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Baze spends a few precious seconds clamping down on his panic, and then he's being hailed. He bolts towards the stool at a dead run, his staff bouncing in his hand, and approaches the wooden chair just as someone huge walks past, their steps thundering. Baze pants as he leans against the bar stool's leg, some from fear out of being stepped on, and some from the run, which took longer than he expected.

"Hoi! Who are you? I can only see blurs from down here!"

[omgplsstop]

"It's Nichola! What the hell just happened?" She shouts down.

Suddenly, she realises she's standing high up on a perch, in a skirt, so she quickly sits down.

To more safely lean over the edge, of course. Totally not because Baze would be looking up her skirt, right?

[iprotectyou]

Baze clings to the stool leg. He can hear Nichola, but not see her, as he can only see the bottom of the stool. He hopes she can hear him as well.

"I don't know! There was a blue flash of light from behind the bar, and then this happened!"

[omgplsstop]

Nichola has no idea how to get down from where she is. Nor can she get up onto the bar.

"How do I get down?" she shouts.

That is a tremendously long fall, and she doesn't want to test what happens if you die in a pocket dimension.

[iprotectyou]

"I have no idea!" Baze calls up, cupping his free hand around his mouth.

"Can you jump to the bar?"

[omgplsstop]

"No, are you crazy!" she shouts.

She's wearing heels and a pencil skirt. She's not jumping anywhere.

"Can you get up here?"

D:

[iprotectyou]

"Can you throw me a rope?" Baze says, his brow creased.

"I can only see the bottom of the stool from here!"