exsiliumlogs | MISSION: RELEASE THEM BACK INTO THE WILD

Date & Time: April 27th - May 1st
Location: Wollongong, Australia, 2464.
Characters: All voluntary transports + maybe a few drafted ones.
Summary: Make those stay-at-homes leave their nerdcaves! My god, do they even know what sunshine looks like???
Warnings: none planned, will be updated accordingly!

The city is old, dark, and very, very quiet. A good deal of the buildings are crumbling and old, but the ones that are actually inhabited glow like candles in the dusk the Transporter has dropped you into. All of these buildings are infested by wiring pouring in from every angle, ensuring that each inhabitant in his or her little block of a room has every modern convenience available in 2464.

There is no one on the streets, no public transportation, and even cars look scarce. But that doesn't mean there's no movement. Maintenance drones, controlled remotely, run deliveries or work repairs. Armed law enforcement drones patrol on rounds through the city, although their mechanized attention is mostly turned outward. Still, they might come to investigate a ruckus within the city limits. And if the persons causing the ruckus don't respond to peaceful attempts to get them to cease, the drones might attempt to subdue them with paralyzing technology and haul them in for a night in the city jail — another dark, unused place.

If you get hungry, there are entire warehouses dedicated to the production of foods. It can't be that hard to sneak in and collect a meal, right? Or you can hack into the system and order whatever you want, if you're good with that kind of thing. Or you can just scavenge—or fast for four days, maybe—if thieving and hacking aren't your style.

And somewhere around here, in those glowing, secluded towers, behind the legions of automated drones, live the reclusive citizens of Wollongong. The methods are up to you, as long as you can get them to come out and breathe the fresh air somehow.

[[ ooc; Mission details are here! This will run from 27th of April to May 1st, with those on the mission returning to Exsilium at the same time that the new arrivals show up. It's an optional mission, but if you'd like your character to go along that would ICly sit it out, feel free to say that the Initiative drafted them for this one.

There aren't any teams or structured threads to this one, so go wild! ]]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Taking pictures is fun. Besides, you don't let me do it very often!

I still don't get it. Do you keep them?

Of course I do! That's why people take pictures. What else would you do with them?

I dunno. I don't really take them so I don't know. I guess people keep them in albums...

That's what I'll do. I'll have an album of aaaall the pictures I take!

Besides, they'll be nice to look at~

[She shakes her head.] I still don't get it but since it makes you happy, it's fine.

Is it that strange to believe someone wants a picture of you?

[She shrugs.] Well, yeah.

[Oh...]

How funny! I'd think that since Leader's so elusive, a picture of her would be worth a lot!

Now I sound like one of those lake monsters everyone's always trying to get a picture of...

... pffft! No, no, you're much scarier than a lake monster!

[....]

Are you trying to get me to punch you?

[He quickly shakes his head.] It was just a joke! Don't mind it, don't mind it.

[She looks at him for a moment before holding out her hands.] Let me see your tablet.

[He gives her a curious look, but hands over the tablet as requested.]

[She messes with it for a second, thinking.]

Think of something really happy, all right? I don't care what. Just something really happy. You can tell me about if you want, or don't if it's private.

--ah! So Kido's taking the pictures now!

[He folds his hands behind his back, grinning. Think of something happy, huh? Well...]

Should I do a cool pose?

[She supposes she wasn't very sneaky about this...]

No way. Just be yourself.

Making cool poses is natural for me, though!

[The happiest things... they were back in that small brick house, when they still had someone to play heroes with. He thinks about that, about chocolate and the first day at their base, about his family's smiles, and how she smiled earlier...

His smile when he drops the mask isn't as big as the ones as he usually gives, even though he tries to prop it up by flashing a silly peace sign.]

Cheese!

[The fact that it looks soft and fleeting is what makes it real. Kido smiles herself as she takes the picture. She looks down at the tablet.

Even though that smile will be gone when she sees his face again, she can look at it here anytime.]

...I think I understand a little...why you'd take pictures like that.

It's fun, isn't it? Ah, and it's easier to remember things when you have pictures of them!

[It's good to see her smiling like that. He wants to take another picture. How greedy of him.]

[She hands the tablet back.]

Let me keep that one. It's just a souvenir for myself.

[He glances through the pictures before looking up.] Do you want the picture we took together too?

Ah, I guess so, sure. It's not weird since you're in the picture, too.

[He sends them to her (along with some others) before putting away the tablet.]

See, see? It's not so bad. We should do more things like this.

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