A Better Place To Live - January 17th, 2012

17 January 2012 @ 02:13 pm

one sword skyward

[ on the rooftops of houses ]

[Today, Mayfield - you may notice a certain idiot running off of rooftops, jumping to his imminent doom. If only because he was trying to whistle to get his bird...

Except he forgot that his magic bird sensing power was on the fritz. For those who have some sort of fourth walling capabilities, feel free to see (and hear) his hearts going from twenty to eighteen.]

[ at the park ]

[Link has a stick! And he's practicing his sword skills on a tree. But after a while, he'll just roll into the tree. This is obviously a good plan.]

[ anywhere there is grass ]

[And Link over here will be using a small knife, cutting off grass. He then says to himself:] ... Huh, no money here either.

[At least, before he goes back to cutting more grass!]

Tags: *location: john doe park, c: link

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17 January 2012 @ 05:02 pm

-1st Bullet-

[Hol Horse rolled over on the bed and very slowly cracked open an eye. He didn't recall falling asleep. Maybe he drank too much... but then he didn't have a hangover either. Unless he was knocked unconscious by a so-called fellow coworker. Sitting up, he ran a hand through his hair. Nope, nothing hurt. Looking around... something about this place seemed eerily familiar...]

Wait a second...

[Getting dressed, he made his way downstairs, and chose to ignore the family photos. Heading to the phone, he stared at it carefully... and finally tried to dial out. Of course, he was just a new arrival like everyone else, right?]

H-hello? Is someone there?

Tags: !intro, *location: mitchell road, c: hol horse

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17 January 2012 @ 05:35 pm

[phone] Someone just got a new job....

Umm.... some guy just called and asked why I haven't been to work lately. I don't even remember getting a new job. He also said I was a 'shop' teacher.....

Why would anyone need someone else to teach 'em how to shop? This place is weird...

Tags: c: clubs deuce

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17 January 2012 @ 05:53 pm

First terrorist 忍 Phone/Action

[Judging from the generously loud rattling of the phone being picked up all too quickly, it's quite clear to say that the person by which the phone is being handled isn't.... happy, to say the least.

Drugged? No, there aren't any signs of it. Kidnapped? Well, there wouldn't be much of a motive, would there?]

Miyagi, pick up your damn phone!

[But then it dawns on him that there's no ringing, no response, and not even an answering machine. Darn. Maybe it wouldn't place international calls, since this place sure didn't seem like Japan.]

I refuse to believe that there isn't someone at the other end of this line. If this is some kind of joke, it's not funny.

[Residents of 1762 Beaver Street can also find one (1) sandy-haired 18 year old stomping down the stairs and observing the first floor with crossed arms before walking outside and taking a lap around the house. Yeah, good luck with this one.]

Tags: *location: beaver street, c: shinobu takatsuki

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17 January 2012 @ 06:23 pm

[sometime after meeting up with her new-and-humanized twin brother, Rin has managed to sneak out to the post office, wherein she traded in her append and her robot body in order to become human as well. That sure was a short-lived period as an older teen, but what else can she do? She and Len didn't match. They must always match.

So when some heavy packages were delivered to the house, she struggled to get them inside, and then opened them. The first, the reward for trading her append, is a very spiffy yellow and white synthesizer. The second, the reward for trading in her normal robot body, is....

Getting punted off the front steps.]

Get lost, creep!! ♪

[Once it's bounced off the sidewalk a bit, you can see that it is... some kind of mutant Rin thing with nothing but a head and legs. Rin slams the door on it. She doesn't want it, but she doesn't want to return it either, so what else can she do? Meanwhile, Larval Rin continues to stand on the sidewalk, staring at the door and mouthbreathing.

...It's really disturbing now, but at least it'll evolve at level 14!]

Tags: *location: beulah street, c: rin kagamine

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17 January 2012 @ 08:24 pm

1st Fifth - A Hero's Got To Do What A Hero's Got To Do! [Event]

[Back Dated to the 16th]

A) [Action: Beulah Street]

[The Captain is trying to cope with the sound.

His method of coping involved emptying his stock of whiskey.

He's wandering around the street, drinking from his last bottle and cursing at anything that agitates him. That dog, that curb he tripped over, the sun for being too bright, or whatever else he can blame for his misery.]

B) [Action: The Dairy]

[That's it. Enough is enough!

He flies at top speed, tearing through the air and driving straight towards The Dairy.

The impact is loud and sounds painful. The Dairy is unscathed as The Captain bounces off and tumbles a distance away. Knocked unconscious by the force of impact.]

C) [Action: Olney's Tavern]

[Eventually, The Captain will wake up and find his way to the one place he can go to drown away his problems.

Walking in, sitting down at the bar and ordering a drink. Not planning to stop until someone forces him out.]

Tags: !event, *location: beulah street, c: mark matthews (the captain)

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17 January 2012 @ 09:03 pm

The Fourth Bunny: FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK BUN ALMIGHTY, WE ARE FREE AT LAST

[Phone]

[Mesousa lets a phone call ring to every house in Mayfield. He sounds ecstatic.]

He's gone! The evil clown man is gone!

When the sirens woke me up this morning I though he has set fire to my hutch again but it wasn't on fire and and and the people inside were alive and there wasn't blood everywhere!

And I can use the phone t..[you hear the sound of a phone receiver clattering on the ground.]

But I still don't have any thumbs...

Tags: *location: partridge drive, c: mesousa

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17 January 2012 @ 09:28 pm

001 [Backdated to 16th]

1. Park

[The sirens had stopped and his headache had gotten better, but that still didn't change the fact that Gilgamesh had very little idea of where he was...and absolutely no idea of where he was headed.]

[After walking in circles a couple of times, he just decides to give up and stay in the park until he can catch sight of someone that he knows.]

2. Action; all around town

[Gilgamesh is hungry. And given that he somehow cannot find any money in his pockets no matter how hard he tries (odd because he has the blessing of unlimited pocket space), or any restaurant that he can buy food from, he decides on the next best course of action.]

[..."Borrowing" food from someone else.]

[Which means that as you come home, still cradling your massive headache, you'll find a tall Iraqi guy breaking into your house.]

3. Phone; unfiltered

[Gilgamesh has finally managed to make it back to what he thinks is the house he woke up in. Since the door is open, he just steps in without knocking. Once inside, he picks up the phone and makes a call to the entire town.]

Hey, Morgan. I'm lost again. Can you get Arthur to come pick me up?

Tags: *location: nelson street, c: gilgamesh (oc)

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17 January 2012 @ 10:43 pm

7th Broken Illusion

[ Action : Neutron Diner : Late afternoon ]
[ Guess who's now on staff in the kitchen at the diner downtown?

If your answer was: "That boy who could probably start a grease fire by looking at the cooker the wrong way", you're halfway there!

It's not that Touma can't cook, or doesn't like to. He's had to do it while he lived on his own back home, and he does a fair bit of it around the house (when his "mother" lets him). No, he's pretty content (and by content I mean listless) as he works at filling orders and setting them up for others to take to the tables.

But things just happen around him. It's kind of like that clause in insurance policies that mention "act of God" or "force of nature". Except these kinds of acts of misfortune are not the sort he can do anything about, even if he does have his abilities back. ]

[ Right now the kitchen has been temporarily evacuated as the Mayfield Fire Department handles a bit of a mess in there and he is standing outside away from the drone crew, work uniform and apron on and looking just a bit scorched.

Looking at the building with despair, he sighs quietly to himself and hunches his shoulders. ] This is just my luck...

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[ Phone : Drone Filter : Evening ]
Anyone ever switch jobs? I literally woke up with one, and I'm not cut out for it at all.

((OOC: Open to action at the diner or 840 Hastings if you want to talk to Touma. If your character is part of the fire department, feel free to involve them more directly in the first scene!))

Tags: c: touma kamijou

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17 January 2012 @ 11:39 pm

[Around town]

[Strange things are happening, that much is clear. So there's only one thing to do. Death is out and about with her Nova makeup case in hand, checking in on everyone.]

How's everying going?

[726 Anderson]

[Pokey's call has made her nervous. She had to come see for herself. And talk to a certain someone.]

Is Eddie around?

[307 Miller, evening]

[After a busy day of tracking down everyone, she's back home, making tea. In her own mismatched teaset. She is, of course, always willing to talk to anyone who might be around.]

Tags: *location: anderson lane, *location: miller street, c: death

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