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Date & Time: April 20, during the blackout.
Location: Apartment buildings.
Characters: Rin Asano & YOU.
Summary: Wandering around with a slightly-flaming sword in the pitch dark. Nothing hazardous about this proposal.
Warnings: zip zero nada. At least at the moment.

[When the lights blink out she's surprised, but not too irritated - it's not as if she was doing anything important. In fact, after a startled interim where she goes groping around for her sword and some knives (like reaching for a security blanket, to be honest), Rin finds herself laughing quietly in the blacked-out apartment.

Okay. She should take this more seriously. What if this is an Initiative attack?! She should go join the fight. If there is a fight. Or, well, just get out of the dark. What's she going to do in the dark? Take a nap? No, it's time to go outside. Maybe she can figure out why this is happening, too.

She trips and shuffles her way to the door and doesn't even bother locking the apartment behind her. It's not as if - with her weapons at her side - she has much worth stealing, after all.]

Helloooooo? Is anyone else out here? Boy, it is REALLY dark out here... hellooo?

[She puts a hand on the wall for a guide, and after a moment of thought she draws her sword in her free hand and just - concentrates on it. Just a little. In but a moment a flickering corona of gold foxfire sparkles into being around the blade. Not much heat, at least at the moment, but enough light to squint by.

Rin stares at it and then shrugs internally. Not all that surprised. The thing has been growing for some time, in some way, she could tell. And if it'll light her way, she's not going to bother figuring something else.

With that she sets off to knock on doors. Maybe she can roust someone who has some idea what's going on, or how to fix it.]

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[hostage]

[Jesse's gone to explore, as well. Not so much knocking on doors, but skulking about and trying to get a sense of what's going on. It could be literally anything, from a simple power surge to the Apocalypse, Part II. With that in mind, he's got his gun - holstered, but it's there, and his hand is hovering close to it.

A door slamming shut somewhere behind him distracts him while he rounds a corner, and he ends up nearly walking right into... someone. With a glowing blade?]

- Jesus!

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[Rin leaps back, recognizing the voice as she does. The blade damps immediately and she slides into her sneak bubble and then hesitates.

:| What to do now? Not the person she was most eager to encounter in the dark. She stands at bay and waits to see what he'll do.]

[hostage]

[Well, that's... a lot better than getting stabbed, at least. Too bad he didn't see who that was, in all the confusion.]

Umm, hey? Are you okay?

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[... Haha. She pussyfoots around him even though the sounds she makes are at least partly shielded by the stealth field too. On the balls of her feet, sliding her sword away and sneaking closer behind him. THIS IS A BRILLIANT THING TO DO WITH A NERVOUS GUY WITH A GUN CLEARLY.]

[hostage]

[As if he could even aim the thing right now. His tremors aren't as bad as they were a few days ago, but they're still noticeable. Jesse doesn't sense her, exactly, but he's beginning to suspect that the person he just ran into up and vanished into thin air. Which is making him wonder if there are ghosts here. Which in turn makes him wonder if his power works on ghosts. If he can't touch someone...]

[payback]

[Don't go too far into that line of thought, Jesse.

Silently Rin lets the stealth vanish. She's standing behind him now, and she leaps for him.]

[hostage]

HOLY SHHHIIIII -

[The sudden movement sends him halfway into a duck-and-cover (and what exactly was that supposed to do against a ghost?) before he realizes that whatever's jumping onto him is very small and non-lethal. For now.]

- iiit?

[demonbloodblade]

[Walking back and forth on the third floor of the building is Meliantha. She's apparently patrolling, but she sees Rin and her face softens, remembering the woman from her arrival. Her footsteps become much louder, as she comes into view.]

Hello.

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[Rin doesn't remember Meliantha so much, unfortunately, but as the other woman comes into the flickering light of her sword-torch Rin - doesn't get more unfriendly. There is some familiarity and Meliantha looks different enough to have stuck in her memory...]

Hello? Are you leaving too?

[demonbloodblade]

No, actually. I thought I'd patrol the floor and make sure no one tried to take anything left behind. [She shrugs.] I'm sure there's a few people out there thinking it's a good way to get some things for themselves. But I can understand wanting to get out of here.

I can see in the dark, and if I need more light Chainbreaker here can provide some. I just... thought someone should make sure they stay behind.

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... You think people have scrounged up that much stuff here? I have practically nothing. [Almost nothing she'd care about, at least - the stuff she cares about, she's carrying.]

[demonbloodblade]

I have no idea. People might have scrounged, or brought with them. Or something precious to them that they have - a reminder of a friend or a lover, the only thing they still have. Or even just the fact they have a room, and that it's left alone.

Sometimes the most precious thing you can have is a place that's yours and you feel safe in. [Said a bit mournfully, and with more than a little sympathy.]

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[Rin tilts her head and looks at her a moment. Well.]

It's goodhearted of you. Nevertheless, people should learn to lock their doors. That's the least they can do.

[anklets]

[ knows better than to answer a knocked door when one cannot see the caller

she places her hand to the door, feeling out the lock and double-checking its integrity, then lightly rests her forehead to the door, as well ]

Who is it?

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[Not a voice she recognizes. Rin returns with dry honesty:]

A complete stranger. Hello.

[anklets]

[Nor her. Does not find this incentive to open the door.]

I'd much rather have a name to call you by.

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My name's Rin. [She doesn't have a problem sharing that much.] Should I leave you to it?

[anklets]

Rin...

[It is a name as foreign to her as the voice. She chews at the inside of her cheek before slipping the lock and cracking the door. Still can't see anything.]

No, it's all right. Were you looking for someone who lives here?

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[The flickering, pale light of her flaming sword shows Lenalee's wary face. Rin stares back, thinking briefly about how holding up a blade probably doesn't present a friendly first impression. She doesn't move.]

I'm just checking things out, I guess. For starters, wondering if the power's out everywhere.

[inafadingcrown]

[Galadriel answers the door, candle in hand, and just...stares for a moment. Magic sword wielded by a teenage girl. Okay.]

It has been long indeed since any have arrived at my door with a drawn sword. [Metaphorical door in the last case, but that's beside the point.] I will assume that the circumstances here are far less sinister.

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... Eh. [Abruptly, Rin looks embarrassed. She starts to sheathe the blade, leaving only the flickering candlelight to illuminate both their faces.] No, um, this is just handy. I guess it's not sinister.

[inafadingcrown]

[She chuckles lightly] I thought not. To what do I owe the pleasure, then?

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I just... uh, well, is it really dark in your place too?

[inafadingcrown]

I have candles enough to see, if that is your concern. [Kinda surprised not everyone else does, honestly.]

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I just want to know if the power's out everywhere. So far it seems like yes.