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nobody likes kate kane ([personal profile] gevurah) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2014-01-05 12:48 am

( closed ) said you would never give up easy

Date & Time: from early to mid-january
Location: various locations
Characters: kate & various
Summary: doing things and running into people: the rp life.
Warnings: there will be some violence eventually
Notes: while there's prompts for those from the CR meme, if anyone else wants to do something don't hesitate to ask. feel free to PM me on this account or through plurk.


Raiden

[ Richard Lawson's parting words have left quite an impression on Kate.

Don't let them find you.

Her nights are a lot more restless than usual. The bottle of wine she gifted Ros is tempting, but she knows better than to turn to alcohol again while there are pressing matters. As usual, she dons her layers and boots and heads outside. She goes for a jog again today. Without any kind of workout facility she relies on the cold terrain.

The shelters are her first pit stop. They need to be cleaned out and stabilized, but at the forefront of her mind the UE's stash of bombs render shelters useless if they can easily drop another nuke on them.

If they know they're here, why haven't they? She stands with her hands on her hips, lost in thought. ]



Lightning

[ She's grown somewhat rusty with hunting. In spite of her intensive training that pit her around and against the world in various death traps and unfamiliar land, until last year she's lived a life of luxury.

The elderly woman she and Roslyn have been residing with lent her copper wire to ensnare rabbits with. She stalks the snow covered land for a rabbit trail, following their footprints into a good clearing where it appears they pass through.

As quickly and quietly as she can, she cuts down branches thick enough to hold any large rabbit. When she's done with setting up the branches and placing the wire, tying a noose and letting it hang in the center.

There are heavy footsteps in the distance. Yeti, she concludes, and hopes they don't frighten off the rabbits. ]



Seiya

[ Another grey and cold morning, but Kate's out for her usual jog. She warms up with basic stretches outside her current residence and half a minute after she's completed them, she's off. She sticks to a familiar path, edging along the outskirt of the town, but never wandering too far off.

She breathes through both her nose and mouth, but exhales through the latter only. Always breathing through the stomach or diaphragm to ensure she's getting enough air.

It's not always the most quiet run; there's always someone, be it Transport or one of the locals. A yard away from her she can hear dogs barking and the loud crunching of snow as the dogs run forward, pulling along a large sleigh with dead their master and his bag of what appears to be his hunt for the day. ]



Actual Damsel Martin

[ Today's jog is quickly disrupted by deep rumbling and the ground beneath her shaking to a point Kate nearly loses her footing. She stands with feet spaced out, applying as much weight as possible to keep herself upright while her eyes scour the clearing to spot whatever large animal it is stomping across.

It doesn't take long, but it's not exactly difficult to miss the mammoths bursting into the clearing. She's ready to hightail it out of here when she catches a glimpse of something else running ahead of the pack.

No, not something. Someone.

Kate's heart is almost ready to leap from her chest as she shouts: ]


Martin!

[ There's no hesitation, no second thoughts. She breaks into a sprint to meet the boy halfway, maneuvering with her bag to dig into its content, reaching for the grappling hook she always has on hand.

Cue. ]



Roslyn

[ Kate shudders one last time as she pushes the door in behind her. She notes the silence in the house, cocking her head to one side curiously and wiping excess snow off her boots on the rug. Then she begins to undo the buttons on her jacket, angling her head the other way. ]

Anyone home?

[ Home. It's almost laughable. God knows how long this setup will last this time. Lawson's disappearance reminds her the kind woman who owns this house may someday vanish before her own eyes. It's an unsettling feeling, not knowing it will happen and if it does. ]

Ros?
theguideless: (♔ unease)

[personal profile] theguideless 2014-01-09 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[another breath through chattering teeth:] N-not anything like this! Not on-on purpose! I don't know why they got mad at me! [a beat.] I mi-might've gotten too close...
pauldron: (distanced)

[personal profile] pauldron 2014-01-09 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Above their paygrade--she frowns. What happened after the Vestige wasn't a one time thing in Cocoon's history, and she understands what the Initiative is doing against the UE, but if she's got the right idea, then...]

So what does your army even do? Fight humans?
pauldron: (hands on hips)

[personal profile] pauldron 2014-01-09 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Lightning's frown gets deeper, darker. She knew it.]

It's stupid. Why fight your own kind when you're supposed to be protecting them?

[Or at least, that's what the army and military she knows does. There's a reason they call them the Guardian Corps, after all.]
devotedtothecore: (take the pieces.)

[personal profile] devotedtothecore 2014-01-09 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
A second question, then; have they still the ability to cross to those worlds?

[ He plucks the cigarette from his mouth as he turns back to face her, eyes downcast. ]

...answers are needed, and the sooner the better, one would think.
pauldron: (-___-)

[personal profile] pauldron 2014-01-09 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
Right. [a snort, one that seems to crack the stillness around them. People...somehow the animals and things after their heads make more sense.] A lot of people being stupid and starting fights they couldn't finish. Like always.
pauldron: (fal'cie pets)

[personal profile] pauldron 2014-01-10 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Countries--oh. Right. The way this planet was before everything went to hell all those years ago. China and Japan and Russia and the others in the history books. Cocoon and Pulse weren't like that, but...]

In my world? Five hundred years ago. [She looks up at the sky, promising more snow any time now.] They called it the War of Transgression. Both sides nearly wiped each other out before it stopped.
theguideless: (♔ my trespasses)

[personal profile] theguideless 2014-01-10 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yes...Y-yes... [he sighs too, but definitely more out of trying to get over his nerves.] I, I know. I'm sorry...really, I am. [and he doesn't feel guilty apologizing for this one!

but-- blinking.]
Y...We flew?
pauldron: (how to put this)

[personal profile] pauldron 2014-01-10 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
No. The other side stopped attacking and ours stopped the fighting to rebuild. [a shrug. It's a lot more complicated than that, but...] Everyone thought it was over, and it seemed like it was. The monsters were all we had left to deal with. [snort.] Not that it stopped everyone from fearing an invasion at any moment. No one knew what had happened to the other side, or why they stopped attacking. Not for a long time.

[No one who'd tell the general populace, anyway. Fear ruled their world.]
boughtabookstore: (what: use smaller words)

so late and i only brought bagels

[personal profile] boughtabookstore 2014-01-10 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Roslyn's in the kitchen, sitting on the table as she bends over paperwork. She hadn't been expecting Kate back quite yet, but there's a pot of soup warming over the back burner of the stove. Apparently she was intending to eat sometime soon.

But she looks up as soon as she hears Kate's voice, calls back. ]


I'm in here. How'd it go?
pauldron: (distanced)

[personal profile] pauldron 2014-01-10 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Just like that. It's the most explanation Lightning's going to give--these people may not be after her head, but the whole l'Cie thing is a rock she doesn't want to overturn.]

Sounds like it. Though the one we're in now is probably the worst of them, considering what the UE's done so far.
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[personal profile] pixieboots 2014-01-11 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ He hears Kate before he sees her; there's a Kate-ness to the way her boots crunch that he knows he'd never mistake for anyone else. He's still on his stomach, still pressed into the relative safety of the fort when he catches her looking up, and that's enough to start the giggles before he can help himself. On any other day she'd be right.

And since that'll give him away before he even has the chance to keep the element of surprise a little longer, on a whim he hefts one of the smaller snowballs and lobs at a spot a few feet behind her and then darts for the nearby roof. ]
theguideless: (♔ the delay)

[personal profile] theguideless 2014-01-11 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh–? [from the gun to her, he looks back up, genuinely confused.]
devotedtothecore: (consider this.)

[personal profile] devotedtothecore 2014-01-12 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ ....a raised eyebrow. ]

Answers?

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