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 Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:32 pm
Noticing Peyton's grimace the redhead put her hands on her hips and shook her head. "What do you expect me to do?! I've never seen a dead person before! Not one that died naturally. Period. Ever. So what do you expect me to do when a headless ******** hunter drops out of the sky like some kind of hot dog?" She wasn't really mad, just incredibly stressed, heart racing. Plus, Peyton had screamed too! Only now the petite young woman was hunting through the belongings as well, right next to Hanna. Oddly Kidana was silent for a change as if she didn't know what to make of the entire thing. Thankfully, no one suggested they peel the body.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:34 pm
Perhaps it was more the sound of the body hitting the crates and sending everything flying that caused Zascha to flinch. As for the body itself, it barely phased him.
Though he was a bit disgruntled as it had snapped him out of his daydream of pies.
Moving towards the body, he watched as the others checked it out. One trying to pry the cell phone from it's hand. Kneeling at where the head should be he reached out a hand to touch the glowing red neck. "What the hell...."
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:36 pm
"Cream?" Nora scoffed. "Try some syrup and nuts, mate. But I'd give cream a shot . . . You too, 'Nanamachine," she added to the Death hunter. "Hell, anyone want some fruit pie after this just follow me--"
And that was when the body plopped into their midst with a rather stomach-turning entrance. Nora blinked. It was still bleeding.
That was probably what Gale and Evan meant by people dying all the time.
Dropping her bananas, she wiped her hands off and began trying to locate where the body had come from. "S'alright," Nora said to Peyton and Cami, a slight frown on her face. This wasn't the first time she had been on the job and saw a corpse, though admittedly its entrance was a little out of the blue. "Just keep calm and keep your wits about you, that's all. Deep breaths and all that. Can't go around like headless chicken over one body."
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:39 pm
Evan had expected more produce to peel, but he had to admit, headless bodies falling out of the sky was a hell of a lot more interesting. "Oh, you must be new," he said to the girl that had screamed. "Well, welcome to Deus." He tilted his head back to look up at the sky, trying to see if he could find who--or what--had dropped the body.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:44 pm
Somewhere to Nora's left, a certain no-longer-blonde Death Hunter was rolling his eyes.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:45 pm
He went to make a comeback to the female hunter when something slammed into the crates. From above them. Or something. He flailed a little, falling firmly on his a**. The hell was that!?
[[ That's a dead person, Mine. ]]
"No s**t." he muttered to himself. Bradley righted himself and stood up, joining Nora on trying to locate where it came from. It probably would have been worse if the body had fallen on the ground flat. Blood everywhere, instead of just the vegetables.
"I wonder where it came from. Name's Bradley, by the way," he said to Nora, looking around.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:45 pm
The body was creepy, terrifying even, its gaping neck fresh and oozing but as shocking as that scene was, it was nothing compared to the sneering voice that made the hairs on his arm stand on end, whether out of fear or anger or both was anyone's guess. "Am I not supposed to be?" Shiloh asked, turning around with a certain wariness. He hadn't seen Alistaire since his outburst, and not since - well, it had been awhile. And with previous death threads under his belt and a headless corpse lying in front of them, he wasn't exactly feeling like giving hte other hunter a warm welcome. He did wonder though, if he'd seen Ian, if Ian was okay, but he couldn't muster the courage to ask, knowing he wasn't prepared to hear whatever Alistaire had to answer. "There are more important things right now than chitchat, make yourself useful," he said instead, moving towards the group gathered around the body. "Did anyone check his coat- Hey, what are you doing, why would you touch-" he began, staring at Zascha in disbelief. "This isn't some dead frog on the side of the road, he's a human being, even if he's dead, stop poking him."
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:47 pm
Peyton looked up, expression suitably horrified, but also gentle. Rising back up, she looked over her hands for any trace of blood, and finding them spotless, rubbed her fingers along her thighs as if to wipe away the feeling of the dead hunter's skin. She might have been desensitized to awful things like this, but that only made it easier to function, it doesn't change the way dead flesh felt, or the how that awful, dread filled knot formed in the pit of your stomach. The one that said s**t was about to happen, and it was probably going to be traumatic in some way. She gave Nora a tight lipped expression, moving out of her way so she could reach the body. Being used to the chaotic s**t that happened didn't make it any less awful. It just made you numb to it. Lips pressed into a thin line, she walked over to where Cami stood. "I'm not judging." Her tone was soft, low, so it wouldn't travel much beyond just them unless someone wandered up beside them. "It's awful, and you're allowed to be freaked out. Specially if this is the first time you've had to see anything like this." This particular horror had been thrust upon Peyton at a very young age, watching her mother die after they'd gotten into a horrible car accident. A hard glance was turned towards Evan and his rather abrupt greeting, but other than that she ignored him.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:50 pm
Looking up from the body, he cocked an eyebrow at Nora. "Well then I will just have to try some pie both ways. Besides, its all going to the same place anyhow. My stomach." He'd never had pie with nuts and syrup, though he'd had pies that had nuts in them. First time for everything he supposed. Zascha could eat for sure. Perhaps he would have two pies to test one with cream and another with nuts and syrup. Yes, that sounded like a plan. If only bodies would stop falling from the sky. His attention now turned to the one who was barking at him, a curious look as his lips drew into a straight line. "And how else are you suppose to tell what kind of weapon cut off his head if you don't poke at him. Not just gonna stand around twiddling my thumbs when something needs investigating. Every clue counts, no matter how invasive or gross."
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:52 pm
Alistaire shrugged, sliding his gloved hands into the pockets of his dress slacks. He was staying well away from the body on the boxes, a vague look of curiosity on his face. "I would have thought with everything going on you'd be holed up in your room somewhere, going on about how you thought that you and my brother would be together forev - "
"Alistaire."
Ian had come up beside him, his face expressionless. He didn't look at Shiloh, but instead stood stoically beside his taller brother, eyes moving towards the body instead, tracing the figure and the lack of its head. Alistaire broke off mid sentence and smiled, tilting his head towards Shiloh, though he said nothing more, merely smirked as the other walked away.
"Feisty taste in men you've got," murmured Alistaire, but Ian merely shook his head and made his way over to the body, kneeling down beside it and checking to see if there was anything in its pockets.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:58 pm
For a moment, Hanna paused in her carrot-poking when Shiloh criticized the other hunter touching the neck wound. It was a messy choice, but she was just happy she wasn't the one stuck doing that (but more power to him). Lots of others had joined in on the search, including Peyton and Cami. After a moment, she grabbed a second carrot to help give leverage while poking around the body for ID. Like carrot chopsticks.
This sudden appearance of a body only served to convince Hanna that this was all some test, just like the trials had been. She trusted nothing, okay. So what was she supposed to do with a bunch of half-peeled vegetables and a headless body? And had he been someone who didn't carefully peel as they had been warned to do?
Still, Cami looked really upset so Hanna offered her a kind smile... but then went back to investigating the very interesting (albeit disturbing) development.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:02 pm
It was not easy to do such a thing as tell Cami to keep her head and not be a 'headless chicken' when she was already stressed out. Lucky for everyone in hearing range Peyton was already stepping up into the redhead's aggro range, trying to calm her down. The random, flat tone welcoming her to Deus helped as much as it hurt, shocking her down into a level of emotional stability. Cami opened her mouth, closed it again, then shook her head and sat down. Hard. "I'm basically a baby. A hunter baby who lived on a tropical island and never did anything very dangerous." For a moment she held her breath, then blew it out slowly. Picking up a potato she threw it at the body, hoping to hit it square on the backside. Turning she tried to smile and, though it was strained and nervous, it was nonetheless genuine. "Thanks Peyton."
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:06 pm
"Sounds like a plan. And it's, Nora," she added, her eyes going to Bradley just to remember to put a face to a name. Then they moved onto Gale where he was simply given a look, then a more significant one at the zombie skinehead girlfriend at his side as if to imply he really didn't have much to be eye-rolling about.
"Moonie here has a point," she told the . . . pink haired one . . . this was one interesting island all right. Not that Nora was entirely sure if knowing what beheaded him would help given that the hunter was quite thoroughly dead. "Not much point staring at a corpse; got to get our hands dirty." Although since her new peach friend there was doing it for her, she wasn't going to impeded his research.
"Rain men often here?" she asked the group at large before watching a potato sail towards the body. Well that was one way to deal with things, she supposed. "Good on you for figuring that out," she told Cami. "Always the first step to fixing a problem. Mind not chucking spuds, though? Better to keep a sharp eye around in case something else happens, if you'd rather."
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:08 pm
kuroopu attempting to get the cell phone out of their hands.
23.0797° N, 12.6123° E
Below seemed like a timetable. It read:
10:15
10:30
10:45
And so on so forth every 15 minutes until exactly 3:00 pm.
Akina Tokuwa nudged the corpse, trying to see if it had any identifying badge on it nesshime trying to find the head that belonged to the body. Beejoux Gingerly, she moved around to check the body for any other obvious injuries. Yayoi he reached out a hand to touch the glowing red neck. "What the hell...." Ol-j-man trying to locate where the body had come from. Inle-roo He tilted his head back to look up at the sky, trying to see if he could find who--or what--had dropped the body. kurotomato checking to see if there was anything in its pockets. Akina Tokuwa grabbed a second carrot to help give leverage while poking around the body for ID.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:12 pm
"Bah, I'm not that heavy," Jack told the pair with a lackadaisical air, finishing off his bagel just as they were visited by a dead person. Hmm. Coffee would have been nice right about now . . . Though even with his long legs, a sprint would be too slow to get some and return for a proper investigation, now that people were starting to swarm.
"Shall we?" Though without bothering to ask permission, he tugged both Noemi and Oliver forward to get a good look. Though the dead body was not the only interesting thing to him.
He attempted to catch Ian's eye, brows raised. Normally he and Shiloh were sickeningly saccarine; the distance was as noticeable to him as Stormy's complete lack of idiot charm. Jack had . . . a bad case of being socially out of the loop with everyone.
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