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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 10:29 am
It took him a while longer to remember how to use the keycard, and when he finally tapped it successfully against the lock mechanism, he looked excessively proud, as if he had solved the most difficult part of the quest at hand.
The door slid open, and the room was about white and empty as Rep could imagine it. The only oddity was the kitchen, which had all the empty shelves torn open like someone had run through them all flipping over each one, and one wardrobe with the sock drawer still open. As the door was still open, down the hallway, Rep could probably hear One Piece playing a little too loud.
He stopped in front of a very tall mirror propped next to a hanger that had way too many identical coats and then took a deep breath, before suddenly frowning and patting down a stray lock of hair under deep scrutiny. Ten seconds later- "Stay here, shouldn't take long."
- And then he first tentatively stuck one hand through the surface and made a face, and then walked through the mirror. Oddly enough, if Rep tried to touch the surface of the mirror it was just opaque and reflected that Rep himself probably needed more sleep.
"I got it," said Carl about five minutes later appearing behind Rep and the mirror, holding a rather simple white crystal. He was grasping it with both hands with no effect, which was pretty good news that nothing was going to explode by combining artifacts anytime soon. He hesitated, and then did that weird side head tilt thing. "This might hurt him a lot. Are you sure...?"
If he was under the same influence or issue, he didn't bring that up at all.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 10:52 am
Rep watched with curiosity, not with anything malicious in mind, simply the thought that it might be helpful later if something else happened and he needed to help.
The room looked hardly lived in, spartan and simple and that didn't surprise him too much, given what he knew. It was the very opposite of how he himself lived, surrounding himself in vain with objects that represented moments or feelings - memories - while this room had none, nothing to say that its occupant was anything but meticulous and tidy.
Rep had a lot of coats himself but no two were the same, Killzone's old coat still took a pride of place in his wardrobe, alongside all of his iterations of Sun and a spare Death coat. Cael seemed to be more order oriented.
He didn't expect the mirror and did carefully reach out to touch it, to see if he was hallucinating again. It was just a mirror in the end and he could do nothing but wait -
- and almost jump out of his skin when Carl appeared behind him. Even younger he still had that ******** knack of being able to appear out of nowhere just when your attention was beginning to wander. He gave the crystal an uncertain sort of look.
"Who?" he said. At this point there were a lot of hims in his life and some of them were more harmable than others. "If you mean creation, then yeah. He can suck it up, he's hurt a lot of people on his ******** wild ride and its time to get the ******** off."
Zoobey I want to get off Mr Creation's wild ride.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:11 am
He shook his head. "No, your- your husband. Ace?" Thinking Harrison's name was Ace was probably one of the least incriminating misconceptions in the largely growing list about him.
Carl waited for Rep to exit as well before tapping the card key again as if this would lock it, the crystal, made out of a very similar substance to paperweight that might have been smashed in the Death office by a non status effected rebellious teen, propped in one arm. "I'm not sure if this works more than once." He began very slowly, "But it does on the butterflies at least."
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:28 am
Rep gave Carl a suddenly uncertain look. "Ace? Ah." Now that was a problem. "I promised him I'd never hurt him, way back at the start, way back when we met and I've kept to it ever since. If it would hurt him and not me, I can't. I can't do it if it'd be dangerous to him."
"What would happen? What sort of hurt would it be?" Did Carl even know for sure?
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:47 am
"Well when I tried it on that really annoying kid with the rainbow phone," that was Mik, "he was okay but it probably hurt. But it hurt me a lot more." He meant this quite literally. "And then he cried a lot."
What Carl didn't know was how potentially different the situations were or how much stronger the green was versus the butterflies. He was trying to mull over it now, but without her help, a lot of it was guesswork. "It definitely wont kill him, but he might get really, really angry. Really angry."
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:58 am
Rep seemed to relax a little at this. "Angry is fine. As long as he's not harmed." Harrison was angry quite a lot, it wouldn't be anything enduring, he'd be fine. He relaxed. "If someone else it happened to was fine, he will be too." The reassurance that it wouldn't kill him was the main thing, and Rep would make sure he didn't come to harm, just like he had....mostly..with Carl.
"All right." he said. "How bad can it be?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:18 pm
He went a little quieter as they walked down the stairs and outside, staring wistfully at a few kids playing frisbee in the training fields. "We can try it on me first, that way nobody has to get hurt."
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:27 pm
Rep reached over to ruffle Carl's hair with a grin. "Then you'd be ******** hurt." he said. "Not happening. I like you kiddo, you are important too. Ace can handle it, he's always angry. We are a ******** team, no one is expendable."
And it was funny, saying this to Cael, to whom normally everyone was expendable. "The bar's over that way, he'll still be there, he really ******** likes money, no matter what age he is, he works hard.."
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:34 pm
And then all three teens playing frisbee suddenly stopped, and all simultaneously turned to look at Rep, their eyes glowing a sickly green.
"Where are you going, William?" they neared closer, each one speaking one line at a time.
"You thought you could stop me."
"I'm still here."
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:39 pm
"Yeah great, you little <********>." Rep said to the kids as a collective. To himself he thought We'll ******** see.
Giving them a very concerned look he backed up a step or two and reached over to take hold of Carl's sleeve, giving it a tug.
"Lets go." he said. "This way. Quick."
And he moved MUCH MORE QUICKLY towards the bar.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 1:12 pm
Carl was long, long out of breath even before they reached the bar, just leaning against the doorway trying to figure out which one was Ace. He kept on looking back at Rep for any clues. Toshihiko Two Oh teen Harrison where art thou
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 1:18 pm
Harrison wasn't old enough to legally be working with the fryer, but the island was short on 18+s. He had proved surprisingly adept at bartending, especially with what (for him) were ridiculous gobs of money on the line.
He wasn't old enough to be around alcohol either, but he had also been pouring whatever looked the least expensive (and charging a lot) for anyone that asked.
Harrison beamed at Rep as he came in, dumping a freshly made batch of fries (Rep called them chips) in a metal container.
"Hey. Are you taking a lunch break?" It felt weird being off school for so long, like a really long weekend, but nobody paid him to do that and in comparison it felt like a big waste of time.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 1:22 pm
Rep looked anxiously behind him, aware of the weapon summoning wards on the bar itself and how they were currently working against them.
"Aye you could say that." he said. "You should take a break too." He beckoned the blonde hunter over.
Lowering his voice a bit he said. "Things are pretty dangerous, probably going to get more dangerous. Just a warning."
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 1:44 pm
"The mask, show it to him-" the third occupant standing outside the bar hissed loudly at Rep-
- And then Harrison's eyes also settled to a sickly green. "You have my mask."
Without warning, using nothing but weaponless strength, he tried to attack Rep. Toshihiko Two Harrison suddenly finds himself having an out of body experience in the bar. He is fully conscious of who he is beyond the status effect but can't seem to communicate to the two people inside the bar. He can also see his own body, in his point of view a twisting green mass, and it tells him it has won and he feels himself growing immensely tired against the haze, though he can try to fight it.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 1:55 pm
Oh Thank Jack, B0nez exhaled as Harrison turned off anything hot or pressing and hurried over.
I am going to die in minigame hell. I have been playing nothing but this stupid bar game for TWO DAYS, I haven't earned heart points with ANYONE, yes, please, let something dangerous happen, maybe we will get an actual quest that is not grinding, before my afterlife is over.
Harrison wanted to ask what was wrong, but before he got the chance it all went wrong.
"No!" he tried to shout, desperate and struggling in horror against the haze. "No, no! Rep, it's not me!"
B0nez, if it was possible, seemed even more upset by this development.
NO, He wailed, I GOT KICKED. AFK. YOU DIDN'T WIN ANYTHING WE JUST STARTED I'LL TELL YOU WHERE TO PUT YOUR GG.
Harrison tried to pull at the fog, wishing he had a giant fan.
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