alittlesweptup: (says here you're an idiot)
Charlie Cutter ([personal profile] alittlesweptup) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-11-07 05:04 pm

[OPEN] we expected something

Date: various; post-zombie attack
Location: Various
Characters: Charlie Cutter and YOU
Summary: Skullduggery Charlie does his homework.
Warnings: None (as of yet, will edit if applicable)
Notes: Get yer pre-mutiny CR building opportunities here!

[CAFETERIA]
[Gathering supplies - food, medical kit - is all vital, but being well fortified isn't what's going to win them anything in the end. So more and more, Charlie can be found with his nose in his tablet reading and making notes, brow furrowed and mouth pinched into a thin line.

Reading, research, quoting lines back - all that he can do. But figuring out how to order his own words properly, anything to do with writing something respectable of his own? Less his forte. Oh, he's a good liar when he needs to be, but he's not stupid enough to think they'll slide through this with a little fast talk.

So he's hunched over a meager lunch from what's left of the cafeteria's stores in the wake of the zombie invasion, carefully making notations in hard copies of old speeches that he's found in the AI's database.

Christ, it's the sort of thing designed to produce a headache.]


[VR ROOMS]
[Charlie hasn't actually spent much time in the VR rooms, but they've got their advantages. Though he doesn't go so far as to bother with constructing anything complete, but rather spends some time tinkering up partial floor plans. It's something he'd usually prefer to have on paper, but resources are scarce and - if he'd being exceedingly honest - he's never been much of an artist.

He runs the builds late in the evening when someone's more likely to go off to one of the other compartments rather than take too close a look at what he's doing, but that doesn't necessarily mean his work always goes uninterrupted.]



(ooc: any format is a-okay and if neither option appeals to you, feel free to throw up something random and I can just tag in as is appropriate.)
gevurah: (gail simone's at it again)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-11-11 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ She can understand his frustration. Hell, most people she talks to are constantly making snipes about their situation on the base and who's to blame them?

Kate herself wants nothing more than to get back on solid ground, but she's lost herself in her emotions far too many times, so she keeps herself calm and collected. ]


Can't ever seem to get people to come to an agreement up here.
skennen: ([←] somber .)

[personal profile] skennen 2013-11-11 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
[He's not particularly surprised by that reaction. At least the man seems to be okay... though Connor means to hang around for a bit to make sure of that. He knows a good healer he can forcibly lug the guy to if need be.

He has to follow Charlie's gaze down to the tablet to figure out what that outstretched hand is for, but he promptly gives the retrieved machine back then.]


I ruined your meal, as well.

[He gestures at the splattered remains of what must have been food.]
totallytrustworthy: (ugh magic no thx I am out)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-11 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh come on, there was-- [Chloe stops. Thinks.

It takes the better part of a minute before she has to concede the point.
] yeah, all right. Fine.

But I'll have you know it was all entirely your fault.
gevurah: (ughhhhhhhhh)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-11-11 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
Most did appear agree on one thing.

[ Her gaze trails to the instant noodles and she pokes at it with her fork. ]
gevurah: (terrible jason/tim fic)

appear to...* WORDS...

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-11-11 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
Leaving the Exiles.

[ She had gotten a chill seeing so many people argue for abandoning half a million people. She still wonders why they didn't just stop the bomb using the Transporter.

It makes her wary of other Transports, the ones she doesn't know, that they would disregard not just one life, but many. ]
totallytrustworthy: (Default)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-11 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
[And the edge of her mouth pulls up into a grin despite everything, (negative reinforcement is her favorite kind) chases the arc of his hands till hers are at his back pockets instead. A routine habit more than any genuine desire to cause trouble, it affords her the chance to settle in against him in the dark-- feel something solid in her hands-- while everything else feels two steps away from disaster.

She thinks briefly about asking why he'd ducked out. Tosses the idea entirely. It's in the past; doesn't matter.
]
totallytrustworthy: (MP backlit)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-11 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Like most in her line of work, Chloe tends to give more than she can take: steals when she can't stand being stolen from, cheats when she hates to be cheated, can choose to walk right out the front door--

She digs in her fingers, curls her thumbs against beltloops and the waistband of his trousers on opposite sides. They're both a mess-- reek of salt and smoke and stale, borrowed bedsheets-- the scruff at his chin scraping hard at her jaw when he covers her mouth with his own. It's fine. It's easy enough to sink into. Like sleep or a bad habit.

Like something she'd prefer not to kick.
]
gevurah: (ϟ 06)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-11-12 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Of course, Kate's up here too, meaning she ran with her own tail between her legs. The difference, she thinks, is that she can't forgive herself for any of it.

But there's a long pause before she says quietly: ]
Sorry.

[ Not the topic anyone wants to discuss when attempting to enjoy mediocre meals. ]
Edited 2013-11-12 01:23 (UTC)
totallytrustworthy: (feelings why)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-12 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[It means her grip slips, index fingers and thumbs digging too hard into his sides from the sudden shift back before she's forced them to ease off.]

Fine, but you owe me for it.
totallytrustworthy: (Mmmaybe)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-12 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Paris. [Her hands drop off, settle down in her pockets.]
gevurah: (w/e anna you're irrelevant)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-11-12 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ She nods.

She doesn't know how or when, but her determination won't waver. If they can get through this, then maybe they can prevail after all. ]


There's plenty who haven't stopped working on a solution since they got up here.

[ Good people. People worth fighting for. ]

Kate, by the way.
Edited 2013-11-12 06:33 (UTC)
totallytrustworthy: (dabooty)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-12 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[And she checks his side with her own on the way out.] No fistfights this time.

Edited 2013-11-12 06:35 (UTC)
gevurah: (twofer token minority)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-11-12 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ The corner of her lips quirk with amusement. ]

I get that sometimes.

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