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.
heartstorage: (oh uh...)

[personal profile] heartstorage 2013-11-10 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah...[ALL TOO WELL, actually.]

Hmmm...maybe you heard it from one of my friends? I have a few here!
theguideless: (♔ we're ok)

[personal profile] theguideless 2013-11-10 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Who are they? Maybe that's it...all my friends have lots of friends. [it seems to be the happening thing.]
heartstorage: (oh really?)

[personal profile] heartstorage 2013-11-10 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, let's see...there's Riku, Roxas [He..counts!] and..there's my roommate Naoya! Do you know any of them?
theguideless: flawfree kingkaiser@tumblr art (◊ ermh...i didn't...)

[personal profile] theguideless 2013-11-10 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[his face gets frownier and frownier as he lists them off, thinking hard. he scratches his cheek, his head...]

Oh, I...I don't know...I don't think so, but... [he ducks his head, apologetic.] It might be something from my old time here...There's a lot that's hazy.
heartstorage: (the fuck what.....)

[personal profile] heartstorage 2013-11-10 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Your...old time here?
theguideless: (♔ a watcher)

[personal profile] theguideless 2013-11-10 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[the frown shifts to a kind of self-conscious smile, head dipped down some.]

Mmh-hmh. I was a different person here before, thinking different thoughts and doing different things...I knew a lot of people then, too, but never tried to remember all of them.