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.
anklets: (that is,so I've heard it said)

[personal profile] anklets 2013-12-02 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Um, I've heard more tell of princes than witch-warts.

[ embarrassed ]
soul_sister: (Yeah... so about that.)

1/2

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-12-05 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's an old wives tale, honestly. No one I ever dared to try it did, so I'll never know.
soul_sister: (Break ALL the bones)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-12-05 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyways! Here's the trick to this. Never try to catch a frog that's underwater. They're never there by the time you get your hands around em. Eventually, if you hold reeeeallly still, they come up to the surface to figure out what you are and then WOOOSH, you dive in!
anklets: (I always wanted to be a sailor man)

[personal profile] anklets 2013-12-08 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Actually dive in?