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[chore_boy]

[At some point in the day, Coby found himself alone in his apartment. He decided, with a bucket in hand, that he would try to test his weapon out again. If he vomited, he'd be resolute to continue training properly with it. His 'replenishable energy drink' would give him stamina in moments of weakness. In good health, it gave him an overabundance of power. Having only used the drink to replenish his vitality over the last few weeks, Coby hadn't noted how the drink itself had affected him differently. He had been used to the drink making him exceptionally nauseous, initially and had been expecting it.

Rather, when he drank it in good health that afternoon, something entirely different happened than an onset of nausea. Filled with so much energy he couldn't handle it, Coby smashed open his apartment wall and barreled into the city in a desperate attempt to get his suddenly and immensely painful heart-rate down. Combining super speed, strength and increasing it with magical Red-Bull had been a bad idea. Essentially, he became a white and pink bullet which tore through the city at high speeds until leaving its limits, ripping a new valley in the desolate country-side fifty miles away. Coby would wake up a half hour later, clutching a bucket in his hands. Turning on his tablet, Coby held the bucket in his free hand, shaking visibly. His eyes were bloodshot and the valley which he created in the middle of his sprint had sprung up with an underground water source, a cone of water reaching into the air while it began to fill. Shaking, Coby looked around nervously and fixed his eyes on the tablet's camera.]

C-C-Coby reporting! H-Had something happened t-to the city!?

I'm certain I-I haven't been here, b-before!

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[stonefaith]

I don't know. Nothing strange has happened in the past few days, not that I know of.

[ tap tap. hmm. Bariyan's still a little bit worried about this young man who's out god-knows-where with no recollection of how he got there, but Coby really doesn't seem hurt, just confused -- so Bariyan thinks they can spend at least a little more time trying to wrangle out what happened. ]

You can't remember anything you've done recently? Not at all?

[chore_boy]

No! I was at home, studying--then I woke up here!

[Coby gave pause, leaning against an upturned boulder with one hand. He curled his fingers just a bit and given his sudden uptake of a pulse, when he did so--he accidentally crushed half the boulder into dust and grit.]

Gah--! What!?

[stonefaith]

[ RADIO SILENCE. As Bariyan stares dumbfounded at the scene currently playing out on his tablet. He's just as surprised as Coby is.

Cautiously: ]

I take it that's not normal for you.

[ "studying"?? ]

[chore_boy]

What? No, it's normal. I just--I wasn't trying to do it! [Coby flexed his hand open and shut. He seemed to be staring intently at his palm, there.]

...No, I was just trying to lean against it!

[stonefaith]

You can break-- [ Bariyan cuts himself off. Okay. Not important. And he's willing to believe it, though he's surprised by Coby's display of strength anyway. ]

You'd better find out where you are so you can get back to the city, maybe get a doctor to look at you. Can you find higher ground?

[chore_boy]

A doctor!? No, I'm fine! [Coby jumped as if he were just commanded to.

The problem was, he didn't seem to stop rising. Holding his mirror and regarding this as a normal thing, Coby continued speaking to Bariyan.]

--Oh, but I believe someone's coming to lead me back now!

[stonefaith]

[ THIS IS POSSIBLY THE MOST PUZZLING CONVERSATION BARIYAN'S EVER HAD, made no better by Coby's incredible feats of... something. Whatever he's doing. Bariyan's starting to think that he's not drunk enough for this.

There's a very long pause before he answers. ]

That's good. I still think you should see someone about this -- you might, uh. Hurt yourself otherwise.