Open RP: Wherein Potion accidents result in... happiness?

[canes-can-kill.livejournal.com]

When you're stuck in a castle with hardly any interesting medical cases and a slight tendency to be self-destructive when you're bored, trying to make advanced potions ends up being a really good idea. Especially when you've never tried to make a simple potion, because everything is that much more dangerous and unpredictable.

He'd tried to make some kind of pain relief potion, which he thought had turned out okay. So, it was an obscenely bright orange when it was supposed to be dark blue. That didn't matter. In the end, taking some of it sounded like a good idea, at the time.

Except for the fact that he'd mixed up one of the ingredients. Instead of fluxweed, he'd used Ipomoea violecea (more commonly known as the "beach moonflower"). To House, it didn't seem all that weird when the walls suddenly turned blue and a giant elephant started dancing with an anteater on top of the tables. It was pretty funny, actually. And naturally, the only reaction when the anteater walked out of the room was to follow it.

With a giggle that could only be termed as 'explosive', House started wandering the hallways to follow the anteater - caneless, and it was kinda weird that he couldn't walk properly. But these things matter not to a man when he is following a purple anteater. Life was great! And he had a mission, here, after all.

((Be warned; you may get hugged or talked at a lot.))

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[canes-can-kill.livejournal.com]

Rubbing at his forehead, House scowled at the door. "Doors are hard," he complained loudly, placing his hands flat on the wall and attempting to push open the door. "It's taunting me!" He looked very sad at this fact, and then turned to Ofelia. "You can make it open? I want to go to Candyland!"

[ofelia-moanna.livejournal.com]

"If I draw and open the door, it goes where I want it to go," Ofelia explains to Chance, then looks at House with wide eyes. "Candyland...? I don't know any place called Candyland. How about I make a door to Ravenclaw?"

[chance-silvey.livejournal.com]

"Do you live in Ravenclaw, Dr House?" It was a fair guess. Most doctors wound up in Ravenclaw. If Ofelia could draw a door that would get this guy safely into his own room, so much the better.

[canes-can-kill.livejournal.com]

"No Candyland?" House asked woefully. If he'd had a nice, regular childhood, all his childhood notions would have just been shattered. "And noooo," he grins stupidly as he elongates the word, "Not Ravenclaw!"

These people are trying to take him somewhere! But House is having fun right where he is, thank you very much, so he begins to slide along the wall, hollering "The rain has stopped! I must make it shine! For the people!" as he does so.

[ofelia-moanna.livejournal.com]

Ofelia just stares at House in bemusement as he sidles along the wall. "But it wasn't raining."

She scratches her head. "Maybe we should get a house elf to get a blanket for when he falls asleep...?"

[chance-silvey.livejournal.com]

"That's a good idea." Chance approves. "Maybe the house elf can kind of keep an eye on him."

[canes-can-kill.livejournal.com]

"I don't like the Elephant Man!" House suddenly proclaimed, staring at them wildly. Anybody that knows him would understand this, in his habit of calling the house elves miniature Elephant Men. His mood shifted again, and he grinned brightly at them both. "The cows don't say moo anymore! That's a good thing!"

[ofelia-moanna.livejournal.com]

"Elephant Man?" Ofelia is getting more and more confused. "What's an Elephant Man? Why is it good if cows don't say moo? Aren't they supposed to say moo?"

[chance-silvey.livejournal.com]

Chance thinks she may be developing a bit of a headache. "Honey, the Elephant Man was a famous person with a very serious disease. We can find a book about it in the library." She looks around and snaps her fingers for a house elf. "A blanket for the good doctor, please." Inspiration strikes: "Oh, and a game of Candyland, if you can find one."

[canes-can-kill.livejournal.com]

"Augh! The Elephant Man!" House plastered himself up against the wall when the house elf arrived, looking almost comically horrified of it. "It wants to steal my clothes and clean them and eat my cane and take all my pens! My PENS!" Speaking of, where was his cane? ...And why did he have a cane in the first place? House was so confused.

[ofelia-moanna.livejournal.com]

Ofelia couldn't help it, she giggled at House's reaction to the house elf.

"That was what he meant -- the house elf," she says. "It isn't such a good idea to have them keep an eye on him, then." She looks up at Chance. "What is Candyland?"

[chance-silvey.livejournal.com]

"It's a board game," Chance replies, pointing at the box the house elf left just before said elf beat a very hasty retreat. "Have you played board games before?"

[canes-can-kill.livejournal.com]

Breathing an over-dramatic sigh of relief once the house elf had left, House squinted at the board game that had suddenly appeared. He'd never played Candyland, so he had no idea what the board game even was - all he knew was that it had fantastic colors. Better than the ones he'd been seeing in the hallways!

"Can the anteater play?" He asked, pointing to the anteater on the floor. "I don't know if he likes board games, but he's an ace at dart throwing."

[ofelia-moanna.livejournal.com]

"Of course he can," Ofelia says absently, sitting on the floor and opening the box. Taking out the board, she set it up on the floor and began unpacking the cards and playing pieces. "How is this game played?"

[chance-silvey.livejournal.com]

"I haven't played it in a very long time," says Chance, also sitting on the floor. She'll be damned if she's going to leave a little girl alone with a drugged guy who walks into walls and thinks he sees invisible anteaters. Unfolding the instruction booklet (http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Candy_Land__(2004).pdf), she reads the basic rules to the other two players.

The other three players, if you count the nonexistent anteater.

[canes-can-kill.livejournal.com]

Blinking in confusion, House watched as they sat down and had the vague feeling that he shouldn't be able to do that. That it would hurt, or something. But hey, he was so high right now he could barely feel his leg, so he lowered himself to the floor and ended up lying on his stomach like an overgrown child, propped up on his elbows.

"It looks like a rainbow vomited," he said solemnly. Reaching out and swatting at the anteater, he then snapped, "Don't EAT the board, Hitler!" Yes, he'd christened the anteater Hitler. It might have been because of the stylish square mustache.

[ofelia-moanna.livejournal.com]

Staring at House, then at the board, Ofelia giggles again. It does look like a rainbow vomited.

The doctor was now apparently seeing Hitler. Hmmm. Looked like this medicine was giving him waking nightmares as well as waking dreams, though the idea of swatting Hitler like that was certainly entertaining. Whenever grown-ups read about Hitler in the paper they weren't happy at all.

Picking up a card, Ofelia moved her piece along the board, then sat back and waited for the others to have their turns.

[chance-silvey.livejournal.com]

... Hitler? Chance looks askance at House, draws her card, and makes her move. At least he wasn't going on about the Elephant Man anymore.