A Better Place To Live - February 3rd, 2012

03 February 2012 @ 12:16 am

Chapter 11 - Armed and Dangerous

[Around Mayfield, February 2nd, Throughout the Day]

[Upon being deposited in front of the hospital bright and early, Dakki was quick to leave the scene. None of that bleeding and moaning and blinking in confusion for her, no sir. She seemed very enthusiastic about being up and about, even, if the way her body held itself was any indication. Why, it's even taking her along her normal morning jogging route.

The alarming part is that, as she jogs, she's using those assault rifles that have replaced her hands to just... fire at things. Mostly people. The even more alarming part is that she looks absolutely horrified the entire while. The body is all business and violence, but the head is screaming and shouting and pleading every step of the way.]

No! No, no, no, not this way, absolutely not this way... aaah! Up ahead, you, up ahead! Get out of the way! RUN! I can't stop this...!

[But it's a long day, and Mayfield is very large, and Dakki can be found just about anywhere. Downtown, by the school, in the park, darting across Tiger Field... And if you look too familiar or too friendly, she'll be sending a spray of bullets your way.

At least her aim doesn't seem to be too good.]

(OOC: Dakki was operated on and is now possessed by weird black stuff that's making a valiant effort to kill everyone she knows. Tagging into this is probably going to be violent as heck. I am looking for someone who can take her down or disable her, if possible.)

Tags: !event, c: dakki sigal

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03 February 2012 @ 01:45 am

Memory 004: I don't have any friends, remember?

Action: Outside the hospital, morning
[When Tara is released, all she can do is stare glumly at everyone. She doesn't get up to go home, although she looks like one of the few who might've gotten off lucky. She doesn't stop to help others, and all she does is keep her distance from everyone.]

Action: Everywhere else
[With no one to claim her from the hospital, she starts to wander around the town in her thin hospital gown. She looks furtively around her, and every person who steps near her is cause for fear and anger. Maybe you went a step too near? If you did, she'll back away from you and snap:]

Get away from me! I know what you're going to do!!

[Try to talk sense to her? Take her home? Be warned, she looks slightly off at the moment, and prompting her too much may cause her to flip out and attack you.]

((OOC: Tara now has full amnesia, and a side effect of the surgery is that she's paranoid about everyone, and she feels that her friends are betraying her to her enemies. Thank you mods!!))

Tags: c: tara strong

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03 February 2012 @ 10:32 am

009: I can fix it...

Action: Outside the hospital

[No sooner had the hospital released him did Engie start to make the long, tiring road back. Without a mirror, he has no idea that there's a sapper stuck to his back that's draining him. But right now, he knows that the first step to fixing the problem is to know what it is.]

Action: 1450 Mitchell Street

[He pushes the door open and stumbles into the house. The walk back had taken out quite a bit of his energy, and he now knows that Dr Johnson must have done something else to him other than implant those metal wings on his back. He sinks down on the couch; he needs to catch his breath and rest or he won't be able to carry on.]

Phone

Howdy there folks. Engie here. I was wonderin' whether any of ya want some help? I can't claim to be a doctor, but I've got a degree in Medicine an' I know a thing or two.

Tags: c: red engineer

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03 February 2012 @ 01:13 pm

04. My Little Poland, My Little Poland Ahh ahh ahh ahhh~

[a. Outside Mayfield Hospital-back dated to January 31st]

[Poland's standing outside Mayfield hospital with a cardboard box over his head while clutching to a prescription pad and a pen. He swiped the prescription pad off a counter and found the box in a hospital supply closet. No matter what, he's not taking that box off his head. He doesn't want anyone to see what that terrible doctor did to him, even if it means he has to walk home blind. There wasn't anything he could get his hands on that was sharp enough to cut through the box, so it lacks eye holes for him to see out of.

Hopefully he'll manage to find his way back to his house, stumbling around stubbornly along the sidewalk.]

[b. 1332 Benny Road]

[Only after getting inside his house, closing and locking the door and pulling all the drapes closed on the windows does he hesitantly take the box off.

In place of his head, rests a pony head sewn to his neck with infected sutures.

Poland knows that cleaning the stitches is important, the incision wound is still oozing slightly of blood and yellow pus and it's been causing him a lot of pain and nausea, making him feel disorientated. He digs around the house for something to sanitize them with, pulling apart the cabinet under the kitchen sink for peroxide or betadine... when he feels something brush up against his back, gently.

Poland nickers something softly, to say "not right now," since he can't verbalize the words thanks to his new appendage, but it brushes up against him again. Turning he expects to see his pet pony trying to comfort him.

Instead he turns suddenly realizing where Dr. Johnson had gotten the decapitated equine head now sewn onto his shoulders. He was face to face with his own human head sewn on to Mr. Pony's body.

Even with everything in his house shut, locked, and hidden away; Poland's horrified scream echos through the neighborhood.]

[c. Phone]
...
[Oh, right. Poland can only make pony noises. The phone is utterly useless to him.]

[Click.]

Tags: *location: benny road, c: chell, c: miku hatsune, c: poland

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03 February 2012 @ 08:16 pm

fifth ▲ a brother is born for adversity

[337 Brady Lane; locked to Rin]

[He's given Rin more than enough time to retrieve his sword, so it should be no surprise when he finally comes by to pay the amnesiac boy another visit. It's very early in the morning, the sun not even risen yet, and Rin will, hopefully, be woken by someone tap-tap-tapping on his bedroom window.

Amaimon's hanging upside-down from the gutter, right outside said window. That's not creepy at all, right?]

[Uptown & Downtown Mayfield]

[Unsurprisingly, the rest of the day is spent ~~doing wholesome family bonding activities~~ showing Rin how much fun being a demon is! Which comes down to trashing every store front for shits and giggles. Taking what they want, chasing people out of places, terrorizing the drones! With most of the town out of action due to the horrifying surgeries, the masters of the town gone from sight and mind, and the drones being useless to stop them, why the hell shouldn't they?

Amaimon and Rin can be found raising hell quite a few places throughout the morning and afternoon. In particular, flipping all the cars at the used car sales lot or taking over the whole damn candy store so Amaimon can loot it to his utmost delight, but nowhere is truly safe from this rampage!]

(ooc: this is a joint post from Amaimon and Rin! They will both be replying! Feel free to pick other places to find them trashing. A second note is that while Rin may not be up to killing people, Amaimon definitely is. Please let us know if you don't want your character harmed in your subject line!)

Tags: *location: brady lane, c: amaimon, c: rin okumura

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03 February 2012 @ 08:35 pm

2nd Shot :: when the war came

1. [Action :: Outside the Hospital :: Backdated Feb.2nd ]

[Get out of the open. That's the first thing Tyve thinks of when she finds herself deposited outside the hospital. She can hardly believe the war zone Mayfield has become during her short captivity. She's visibly distressed as she sees bodies and shooting everywhere. Has the attempt to escape begun? She's running on adrenaline right now. She might try to get you to come with her when she thinks you're an ally. Or she might try to get away from you.]

2. [Action :: Feb. 2nd + Over the next Few Days :: Throughout Mayfield ]

[For better or worse Tyve still has the rifle given to her during the dairy raid. So she's running around Mayfield, ducking, rolling and doing the sorts of evasive maneuvers one tends to do during a battle in an urban environment. If you try to stop her, she might yell at you for being stupid for being in the line of sniper fire. Or she might point her gun at you. Or something else entirely. Luckily, while she's hallucinating that the rifle is loaded, it's quite empty at the moment.]

3. [ Action :: Over the next Few Days :: 727 Anderson]

[Tyve does go home everyso often. You're probably going to catch her currently on the roof of her house in a shooting position. This time however, she has real ammo as opposed to imaginary. It's hard to tell who's an enemy and who's an ally (And even that changes) so if you happen to be walking by and if she thinks you're too close, she might try shooting at you.]

((ooc: Tyve's suffering from hallucinations that Mayfield is a war zone and also partial droning. She'll be flipping between being against Mayfield or supporting Mayfield throughout. I don't intend for her to kill anyone ~~this time around~~, but if you want to be injured by her shots, let me know. Otherwise, assume they miss or they're warning shots.))

Tags: *location: anderson lane, c: tyve russell-rasmussen

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03 February 2012 @ 09:19 pm

here lies the latest intro ever

Um-- Excuse me.

[today, out in the streets, wherever you may happen to be, a young (and fairly confused looking) girl is approaching you. yes, you.]

Can I ask you a few questions?

Tags: !intro, c: maka albarn

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03 February 2012 @ 10:18 pm

Seethe

[phone]
That's it.

[It is the day after his encounter with Tara. Beast Boy slams a fist down on a table. Given that it is a gorilla fist, it breaks.]

I've had it. I'm sick of this. I just did this. I just did this! Three months and we were finally friends again! I'm not going through this... this crap. This is crap. This is bull. Crap. [This sounds like the first time someone has ever said anything harsher than heck.] I don't know what you guys are gonna do, but I'm not letting some crappy fake doctor do this kind of thing to my friends!

Starfire, Raven. We're still the Teen Titans, Robin or not. You guys in or out?

I'm gonna be at the dairy. I'm getting to that machine and I'm fixing it. I hope whichever one of you bozos went in and blew it up is happy.

[Yeah, that's right. He said bozo. What're you gonna do about it, huh?]

[action, dairy]
[Once again, there is a Tyrannosaurus Rex on the loose in Mayfield. This time, it pounds itself against the walls repeatedly, a desperate, kamikaze effort. Beast Boy is not one to give in to his bestial urges. There is nothing feral in this methodical battering except insofar as a man may be so enraged as to lose all that distinguishes him from an animal.

This will continue until he is droned.
Or... until after an hour has passed, when he slowly shrinks back into a skinny, green-skinned, pointy-eared kid, sinks to his knees and tries not to cry in pain, rage and despair.]

Tags: *location: mayfield dairy, c: beast boy

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03 February 2012 @ 11:53 pm

-001

[Phone]

... Now hold on a minute... I know I've been around this place before. Something about it seems a little, well... to be honest? The place was messed up to begin with, but things seem to be going further downhill. Anything a person can do to make it somewhat better?

Tags: !intro, c: locke cole

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03 February 2012 @ 11:54 pm

❄ fifteenth reminder

[ phone ]

Um... [ This is not the usual bright, cheerful Jade speaking on the phone. She sounds exhausted and empty, and definitely like she just got done crying. ] I, sorry, I'm bothering you right now- I, um, just need-

[ She wails, somewhat dramatically, and the tears come again. ]

I can't do anything right...

[ mayfield high ]

[ The weather outside is cold and wintery, but inside the school the temperature is about as normal as it gets. Jade however, is completely bundled up from head to toe, trying to hide the new glowing green state of her body. A soft glow still emanates through her clothing, but she's doing her best to avoid notice. Occasionally a whimper escapes the moving pile of clothes, but she doesn't have much of anything to say. ]

[ around mayfield ]

[ She's less bundled up than before, having determined that trying to hide the horrible glowing is as unequivocally hopeless as everything else. It doesn't matter where she is, in a store, on the street, something manages to set off the water works and she finds herself reaching for the nearest dry think to wipe her tears and blow her nose - your shirt. ]

Tags: c: jade harley

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