overclocking: (storyteller)
actual hobbit trash chrono ([personal profile] overclocking) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-11-10 10:15 am

( open )

Date & Time: Several days after the necromorph outbreak
Location: A VR room
Characters: Chrono + Rosette + open!
Summary: Lil bit of coping in-between zombie apocalypses and civil wars, nbd
Warnings: None! KEVIN AND BREAK
Notes: Feel free to tag around also! ♥


[ Chrono doesn't bother to close the door when he finally decides to try one of these rooms for himself. Something about the last few days (weeks) (months) has left him unwilling to stay in enclosed spaces too long, with no obvious path of exist. Too much like a lab or an undead-lined hallway.

But these concerns slowly melt away as he sets about instructing the AI, and the room gives way to a place that isn't a room at all.

Mountains rise up in the distance, framing a blue, clear sky, and a faint breeze rustles the treetops of a thick Michigan forest. Birdcalls ride that wind, and the air smells cleaner, fresher, than any moon base could reasonably boast. Where the blanket of trees ends, a large, glassy lake gleams in the sunlight. He takes care with this part—instructs the AI to make the water a temperature a bit too low to be entirely comfortable for swimming, knowing full well that this won't actually be a deterrent. But it wouldn't be right, otherwise.

He takes his time strolling from one familiar landmark to the next, having the computer make adjustments as necessary. He doesn't miss details, either; for all the times that Rosette brought him to this very place, his eyes had missed nothing. They were wide and all-absorbing, like someone who had been born anew and was discovering the world for the first time.

(Likely because, in all honesty, he had been.)

He stops once he circles back around to the open door—a black silhouette hanging oddly in the landscape, and the only giveaway that none of this is real. It's here that he surveys the scene as a whole, the sum of all its little memory-parts. ]


Perfect.

[ Well. There's still a thing or two missing. ]

... Almost.
soul_sister: (No.)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-15 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[It's just a flash, ridiculous. Waking up as you hit the water. Watching a fish swim by. And somehow hearing "Don't worry, there's a pond below." And a thought I WILL MAKE HIM EAT HIS BOOTS!]

... Oh yes.
firstroar: (pic#6891947)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-17 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[his mouth twitches. she's so very...vibrant, in more than one way. his hand lifts to shield the smile only briefly before he's moving, slowly kneeling down to collect one of the stones there. it's what she'd asked for minutes ago, after all.]

I'll work to avoid such a scenario, I think. [still smiling, extending the rock to her.]
soul_sister: (What if I just hit it a lot?)

1/2

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-17 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's hard to get him that grumpy, you should be fine.

[She takes the rock, eying it this way and that.] Oooh. Not a bad pick... [She takes a deep breath and hefts it once, twice in her hands, like it was a competition or an art form.
soul_sister: (YES)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-17 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
[She flicks her wrist and off it goes, skipping once... twice... a third and the fourth almost on top of that. But she sits up as it makes the fifth pass and CHEERS as the sixth skims the water a moment before sinking.]

PERFECT!
firstroar: (ʜᴇsɪᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴs)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-17 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[he watches where he's kneeling, only more focused because of how focused Rosette is. her outburst startles him a little, pulling his eyes from the water to her.]

Your record...?
soul_sister: (Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-17 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
By one skip!

Try to beat THAT.
firstroar: (pic#6891954)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-18 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[hm...]

What are the rules? Simply throwing it?
soul_sister: (You'll just have to see)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-18 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Just throwing it, you wont even get one sink. You can only count the times it jumps.
firstroar: (pic#5951989)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-19 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Very well.

[then this isn't cheating: Blue's hand lifts, and one of the stones nearby lifts, glowing.

he flicks his wrist, and the rock goes zipping; he squints, bouncing his finger, and the rock bounces, too. three, four, five, six...

seven...]
soul_sister: (PUT THAT AWAY)

1/2

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-19 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
AH! H-... HOW?
firstroar: (pic#6892337)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-20 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[he winces a little at her volume, but smiles nonetheless, shaking his head.] It's not something I can teach. [his hand makes one of those crooked-finger come here gestures, pulling the rock back from its patch, to his hand.] It's something born in me.
soul_sister: (Celebrate)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-22 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
... That is... [Her eyes squeeze shut for a moment, her hands clench into nearly trembling fists..] so cool.
firstroar: (ᴘᴇᴀᴄᴇ)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-22 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[smiling.]

It is useful, if anything.
Edited 2013-11-22 22:54 (UTC)
soul_sister: (Break ALL the bones)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-23 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Now, if I can get eight skips, I will have transcended human potential.
firstroar: (pic#6892335)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-23 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Untapped, latent abilities? [kidding, sure; please don't magically become a Mu right before his eyes. he might keel over and Elle will have to retcon a lot of things tonight.]
soul_sister: (Try me)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-24 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[There's something in how she picks up the next stone, that causes the setting sun to glint off of the water-slick shale surface. There's something in the way the breeze picks up just then, that pushes her hair back from her face dramatically. There's something in the AIR ITSELF, that seems to be waiting for this one moment.]

Right!

[It skips twice. And sinks.]
firstroar: (pic#5951967)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-24 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[.......................

let's all let this moment sink in. like...you know. a rock.



he peers up at Rosette from the corner of his eye once that dramatic wind has settled his hair.]
soul_sister: (Untrue. Totally untrue)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-25 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
...

...



...


That was a warm up!

[SHE GRABS AND THROWS ANOTHER. Two skips. PLOP.]
firstroar: (ᴘᴇᴀᴄᴇ)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-28 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[silence. bc he can't coach, nor would he; but he's keeping his face forward while his mouth tries to keep a neutral look. trying.]
soul_sister: (A little hard work)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-29 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She pushes up her sleeves and throws one right after another, without much regard for size or shape. Predictably, many don't really make more than a skip if that, but by luck and circumstance one of them REALLY GOES. Only four skips but the last is distant enough to lose track of the rock.]

Good enough! I guess that'll take practice too.