saveyourselves | Plot Post for October 23rd!

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Events occurring currently:

• As of this morning (October 23rd, between the hours of 3:00-4:00 A.M., a large portion of the Thunder Corp.-owned Dead District has been bombed. Any living or working late in the run-down part of town or, alternatively, possessed of supernatural hearing may have been disturbed by the noise - though they’d not have been harmed by default; inhabited areas and locations such as the LSR Clinic are not within the area affected and, by now, no casualties have been reported. Entire blocks of buildings have, however, been effectively brought to the ground - and no evidence of parties involved or responsible has, as it appears, been found.

• Any snake statues left standing until today are now no longer anywhere to be found in the Dead District.

Events occurring in the immediate future:

• Thunder Corp. deny any knowledge as to the motivation or perpetrators of the bombing as they’d done in response to the rumors against them in September - officials are, however, beginning to voice suspicions to the media "putting two and two together" culminating in announcement in a formal press conference at soonest possible convenience. In line with and supporting their statements, the police department will be investing time and effort in the investigation, identification, and any necessary subsequent incarceration of “eco-terrorists” at work in Locke City.

And you can imagine what this means for you, our reincarnated heroes!

Police presence will now be increasing in all public places - in the form of increased patrols and watch over not only business and industrial areas but such populous everyday locations as Locke City High School and LCU, claimed to be in concurrent increase in drug investigations begun in August, although mercifully enough those with dogs will be few and far between.

• ...Or they will be on all days forecastable except for October 31st - Halloween. It’s a night that invites mischief and with what mischief appears to be afoot in the city nowadays, the police department will apparently see fit to keep watch over most areas in which citizen traffic is expected - shadowing residential and recreational areas as the sun goes down, with not bulbous-snouted beagles but some very ornery-looking red-eyed German Shepherds. Hopefully you’ve arranged such plans as to avoid a Halloween with hellhounds!

Events potentially occurring in the immediate future:

• Under pretense and/or motivation of current eco-terrorism and drug scares, from here on out until any further notice, depending on past actions, reincarnates will be at risk of active approach by unfriendly or dubiously-desirable parties - police and potentially otherwise.

Players of characters at the HIGHEST RISK of confrontation, investigation, or similar trouble are marked down to be contacted via surprise PM or Private Plurk within the near future to begin plotting accordingly.

If you are unsure if your character would be at high risk - or if they’ve simply done commendably at laying low and you’re open to seeing who or what they may run afoul of by happenstance - please, sign them up in the appropriate thread below this post to know to let us know you’re open to them receiving trouble, preferably with a run-down of what they’ve been involved in, where they’re visible, and/or where they might have invited or run the risk of inviting attention so we can tell you exactly what’s in store for them if chosen!

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Potential Echo Opportunities

Visits to Tuning Towers will, again, continue to grant Echoes indefinitely - for anyone willing to get that close to the police! Echo opportunities are also likely to present themselves in instances of trouble that characters may wind up in in the weeks to come.

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thanks to alex and vanessa's nefarious hijinks banagher will be stuck with (what he thinks is) a phantom banana costume for halloween. which he won't wear of his own accord, no sir. (it was this or a unicorn kigurumi he got the better deal i think)

he's also been a big ball of nerves and barbwire lately and picking fights with people he likes for seemingly no reason other than to be contrary, but that's just some of his shounen protag-ness finally showing. he might benefit from some calmer company who he won't butt heads with as much.

chloe's offer of a place to stay far, far from the dead district is still on the table! she lives about 45 minutes outside locke and her parents are snowbirds so she has plenty of space to offer. she hired on killian as a stable hand and may possibly be looking for one more?

Aww. It's hard to get Julien to argue. As the dust settles and the cops get less thick in the DD he's steadier again, too. Though, he has decided to keep going in to take care of the birds - he doesn't have a better place to put them - and he won't be moved from that.

that's because jules is a hero to us all. [rainbow] i'd say chloe could potentially offer space for that endeavor too but it's kind of far out for city birds?

Guilt and birds and birds and guilt!

It would work with the healthy-ish ones that just can't fly too well yet maybe, but there are sicker ones that need hand feeding a few times a day. Even if Jules does get that motorcycle I've been thinking of, that's a bit of a commute.

she commutes for classes every week so she wouldn't be available every single day either, otherwise i'd say she'd be so down to help with that. bananas is just being. a fussmeister he's a lost cause atm.

........WRONG PILOT OOPS

o you.

Hee. Well, they should talk anyway! If I hadn't gone and made four(!!!) posts with him this month already...

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betroth - 2013-10-24 07:07 (UTC) - Expand

freeasabook - 2013-10-24 07:11 (UTC) - Expand

Calmer company, you say~? This one is good at handling shonen types, too, just saying.

YOU ARE TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD meaning yes absolutely i would love to give him someone rational to talk to in the coming week or two, and he trusts richard already, which is a bonus.

HAHA JUST HERE ON VACATION~ but sweet and awww at the trust. Would you just like to have them run into each other at some point?

that works for me! ~~since i'm tagging you in a million places anyway~~ below i mentioned an open post maybe once the bombing aftermath clears up, if there's any place you'd want me to include where they could meet up?

~~we will make it a million and one places then~~~ Hmm would he maybe be near the dead district? like maybe even by a coffee shop or something of the sort?

argents - 2013-10-28 18:13 (UTC) - Expand

flamberge - 2013-10-28 18:14 (UTC) - Expand

I kinda... want them to blow up at each other and then calm down. Because Bakura's temper is quick both ways and if he realizes that someone he likes is upset, he cuts out his shit much faster.

also, holy crap, the weirdness barrier goes that far out?

i think we're just about overdue for this, yeah? i'm all for a shounen shout-match!

AND IT DOES i think it actually used to be farther out but it's more or less settled down into a set area? if i'm remembering my details right (or i could totally be making this up, it's late and i can't remember where those particular deets were)

Where's Mr. Sparkle Tears hanging out that Bakura could run into his stressed out self?

HE'S ONLY CRIED ONCE AND THEY DIDN'T GLITTER, GOSH. probably not a whole lot of anywhere while the city's on lock down, but i was planning on an open log after the bombing mess clears up some?

Sounds good! Bakura's skulking around town still because TEENAGER MUST ROAM and all so wherever Bana wanders, Baku can spot~

Luci is insanely chill and logical, although the company that she keeps can be a little shounen retarded at times. I've been looking for excuses to get her out and interacting with people outside of just the network anyway, so I'd be game.

he might be on his way to fitting right in then it sounds like. WHO NEEDS SELF PRESERVATION OR EARTH LOGIC WHEN YOU HAVE BURNING SPIRIT. OR A GIANT ROBOT, WHICHEVER HAPPENS FIRST. i'd love to do an off-network thread with these guys though!

No seriously she doesn't need more headstrong idiots with no self preservation I mean... yeah that's what I mean.

Also I am all for getting together a small gang of misfits, this sounds like fun times. Poor Luci you get to be team mom to a bunch of burning spirit shounen retards.

gosh yes. i mentioned icly there was a new laser tag place opening up in locke soon. i was making it up, but it should so be a thing they can all do. TAKE OUT HEADSTRONG IDIOCY IN THE LASER TAG ARENA.

Funny thing is, she'll probably give them both a run for their money, if she can tap into some muscle memory.

argents - 2013-10-26 02:16 (UTC) - Expand

Laser tag oh shit Gundam Boy you goin' down.

argents - 2013-10-26 02:17 (UTC) - Expand

You know who's probably calmer company and might be good for those nerves? This girl here.

...Part of me wants to send her on a formal LCU visit as one of those "things seniors do before they apply to colleges" kinds of things, but that should probably wait just a little bit longer.

she's gotten a lot less jumpy yeah? if so i can see her helping him a lot, actually.

with the plot the way it is it's probably going to be a little bit before things are normal enough for LCU visits, but i'm totally down for that route. he still kind of feels bad about getting on her case when she was upset so airing out the laundry might be good for him.