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.
hornedomen: (shock)

[personal profile] hornedomen 2013-11-17 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[He clenched the Mark in his hands. It's safe, he told himself repeatedly. Taking a deep breath, he stepped into the room.

It looked like he was outside, yet he knew it was all fake. He did not look at the surroundings for very long, he went directly to the two at the riverbank. Now that he was close enough to see them clearly, his eyes widened in recognition at Rosette.]

I know you.
soul_sister: (YES)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-17 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Almost at the same time, Rosette brightened as well. The kid in the viking hat was distinctive enough..]

The dinosaur catcher!
hornedomen: (Default)

[personal profile] hornedomen 2013-11-19 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, when the Initiative took us to the ocean. I caught some of those animals. She taught me about them. It was a... [He paused to think.] ...An Aviasaurus.

[He looked at the ground and he chose to sit on his feet so he was touching as little of it as possible.]

I'm Ico. [Although Dinosaur Catcher was an amusing title.] What're your names?
soul_sister: (I was expecting something taller)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-22 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[LETS MOVE ON QUICKLY BEFORE CHRONO POINTS OUT THE OBVIOUS.]

I'd been chasing them all day and WHOOSH he snaps one up like it was just a big chicken. A rare and commendable feat.

... Ah! Rosette!