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

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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.
promises_to_keep: (sidelong grin)

[personal profile] promises_to_keep 2013-11-28 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Superbutler, huh? [He looks amused.] Sounds exciting. Do you have superpowers, too?
Edited 2013-11-28 07:18 (UTC)
soul_sister: (That's because we're going to cheat)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-29 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still looking for my true calling now that rock skipping psychic powers fell out.
promises_to_keep: (pondering what i'm pondering?)

[personal profile] promises_to_keep 2013-11-29 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[He hides a laugh behind one hand. What an odd one!]

Shame to hear that didn't work out; I'm sure you'll find something, though. Rock skipping psychic... how's that work? You skip stones and read the ripples? [Hey, might as well humor her. He hasn't had a good ridiculous inane conversation in a while.]
soul_sister: (So uh how much DO statues cost)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-29 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well it was going to be sort of a lifting and throwing them further sort of force. [Read as: Cheating] Though words in water is kind of neat too.
promises_to_keep: (LOLOL)

[personal profile] promises_to_keep 2013-11-29 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[This time he doesn't bother hiding the laughter, and shakes his head hopelessly.]

So what part fell through, then? The throwing part or the psychic part?
soul_sister: (Aggro)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-29 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Look! It probably just takes practice! [HUFF!!!!]
promises_to_keep: (thanks but no thanks)

[personal profile] promises_to_keep 2013-11-30 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[He waves his hands placatingly.] Easy, blondie, I'm just messing with you. I was never any good at skipping stones either, for what it's worth.
soul_sister: (That's not even English)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-12-01 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[Well, as long as he's not going to psychic mastery too...]

It's Rosette. Rosette Christopher.
promises_to_keep: (headscratch//well that's awkward)

[personal profile] promises_to_keep 2013-12-02 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[He's fairly good at reading people, but nope, not psychic.]

Rosette. Nice to meet you, I'm Lea. [She just looks so grumpy now though, he feels a little bad, and kind of grins sheepishly.] S-sorry, I wasn't trying to piss you off. I forget sometimes that people who don't know me mistake my giving them a hard time for actually being a jerk.
soul_sister: (Huuuuuuuh)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-12-05 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[She ... blinks widely. She's never had anyone actually apologize for pissing her off. Huh. ....

She waves it off into the air, her expression immediately clearing.]


Don't worry about it! It's good to meet you.
promises_to_keep: please do not use without credit, thank you! (content//this is why i keep you around)

[personal profile] promises_to_keep 2013-12-08 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh good, she seems mollified. He really is working on that whole making a better impression thing. If he wants everyone to remember him, he'd better make sure it's for something good. Nobody wants to be remembered as That Jerk Who Was a Jerk.

[He smiles a bit.]


Likewise.

So, have you been here long? [He'll accept tea if she makes some, but he's not going to ask.] I don't know that I've seen you around before.
soul_sister: (No it's okay really stop crying)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-12-20 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh? Well! That's good!

[People seem to always hear about the trouble she's in first...

She simply pours it from the kettle, Kevin already having done the hard part.]


It's... been a while. Nearly half a year.
promises_to_keep: (smarmy//sly grin)

[personal profile] promises_to_keep 2013-12-23 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
That long? Wonder how I never spotted you. I guess I was gone for a bit, but... [Maybe his tracking skills are slipping.

[He accepts the tea and holds it in both hands a moment before sipping at it experimentally.]
Hm, not bad.