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redshiftlogs2019-08-04 05:14 pm
tenuefarfalla) wrote in redshiftlogs2019-08-04 05:14 pm
cause of death: being too darn normal
WHO: Cho Takahashi, with a closed prompt for Finnick, Peter, (and Diego?) and open prompts for other people
WHAT: cleaning the kitchen, exploring, walking her cat (not even sorry), staring at the wreck out in the desert as the sand builds up
WHEN: late July/early August
WHERE: mostly the mess hall and random walkways, the observation deck with the best view of the crashed ship, and anywhere else you want her
NOTES: I'm not an action-spam person. It's not natural for me to write, and writing long face-to-face tags with it ends up feeling like a chore. I don't mind reading it, though. (Just please don't use tiny text for your brackets.) So don't feel that you have to write prose if you're not comfortable with it. You can write brackets and I'll write prose and our styles just won't match. I don't mind if you don't.
Cho is in the kitchen following the first half of this post and before she makes the monumentally bad decision that leads to the second half of it. It's not necessary to see her post first to find her there. She's turned on a GPS beacon so that everyone can have access to the kitchen, and she's playing music.
A - kitchen - 21 July
Even after it's clear that she's probably not going to get any more interest in the kitchen (or maybe it's just too early and she should wait it out) Cho can't make herself want to leave. There are things to do here! Something to accomplish! Eventually a small cabinet turns up some unidentifiable cleaning solutions and gloves and a pile of rags. Which just renews her determination. She can start with cleaning, with the job that no one ever wants to do.
She sets her new phone up on a counter, so she'll see it if she gets a message. Then she pulls her old phone out of her pocket, and finds a suitably peppy playlist, depositing it at a very specific angle in a deep bowl to increase the sound output. Music always helps. Then, she gets to work, with her plan of action being to first rid every surface of dust, and then to scrub them to a gleaming shine.
After which, maybe, if she's very brave, she'll venture into the refrigeration unit. Or maybe not. Might need a safety suit for that one. Definitely at least a mask.
B - kitchen - after 21 July
Her experience has sobered her, but not killed her enthusiasm entirely. Yes, she almost died. Yes, it was utterly awful to experience and she never wants to do it again. But it doesn't mean she can just bury her head in the sand and ignore... everything. Not an option.
She keeps on going back to the kitchen, even after the power cut. Emergency lighting is better than nothing, and Peter helps her get a generator hooked up to keep power to the refrigeration units going, so the things that she's already gotten together don't spoil. That would just be a hell of an insult on top of a hell of an injury. If anyone wanders in hungry, she's very happy to make them something, welcoming the distraction. Some small shred of normalcy. It's not much, but she'll take it. The rest of the time, in those general vague breakfast and dinner hours, she's sitting at one of the large tables, sketch books and sheets of paper spread out around her, occasionally powering on her tablet to make a note or add something to a digital document before turning it off again to save power. There's something going on in her mind, and she hopes it turns out to be something useful.
C - random safe walkways
If Marmalade hates this place at full power, he really hates it in emergency mode. More specifically, he hates not knowing what's going on while everything is dark and scary and making odd noises. Which makes him restless, which makes Cho nervous. She had no desire to let him out when everything was more or less working and she didn't know what lurked on the agricultural level. Now that it's all breaking down and she does know, she's even less inclined.
But he's still determined. Which is how she ends up organizing limited excursions. It sounds better in her own mind if she says it that way. Even though it amounts to walking an inquisitive little cat through an abandoned creepy science fiction city with a leash and harness made from two silk robe sashes, because this is apparently her life now. Right. Leaning into it.
It doesn't get any more normal a couple of weeks after the blackout, when the cat is joined by a hedgehog with a second leash and harness apparently made out of an unraveled scarf. Bizarre is the new normal and this is just... it's whatever it is.
D
observation deck with the view of the crashed ship
It's a strange thing to be drawn to, even she can admit that. Doesn't stop her from wandering up there every few days. She's not foolish enough to venture out into the desert to look at it. Which is not to say that she's not foolish at all. Recent experience provides a whole lot of evidence to the contrary. Still, it's a morbid fascination, and with no real concrete reason not to, she's leaning into it.
So she just sits, and watches, occasionally poking the fingers of her hand through the slots in the side of an animal carrier on the bench next to her, also angled to give its inhabitants a view of the wreckage. When she hears footsteps behind her, she doesn't turn around. "What do you think is out there?" It's a question she's been asking herself a lot, and never coming up with a good enough answer. Maybe someone else will have a better insight than she does.
! WILDCARD
Wandering around in general, hanging out in her room, any other location or activity that you're interested in that I haven't talked about. Feel free to either come poke me to plan something, or to just go for it here and we'll make it work on the fly.
29 July
what is day and night? - exploring the Glow with Cole - agricultural levels
WHAT: cleaning the kitchen, exploring, walking her cat (not even sorry), staring at the wreck out in the desert as the sand builds up
WHEN: late July/early August
WHERE: mostly the mess hall and random walkways, the observation deck with the best view of the crashed ship, and anywhere else you want her
NOTES: I'm not an action-spam person. It's not natural for me to write, and writing long face-to-face tags with it ends up feeling like a chore. I don't mind reading it, though. (Just please don't use tiny text for your brackets.) So don't feel that you have to write prose if you're not comfortable with it. You can write brackets and I'll write prose and our styles just won't match. I don't mind if you don't.
Cho is in the kitchen following the first half of this post and before she makes the monumentally bad decision that leads to the second half of it. It's not necessary to see her post first to find her there. She's turned on a GPS beacon so that everyone can have access to the kitchen, and she's playing music.
A - kitchen - 21 July
Even after it's clear that she's probably not going to get any more interest in the kitchen (or maybe it's just too early and she should wait it out) Cho can't make herself want to leave. There are things to do here! Something to accomplish! Eventually a small cabinet turns up some unidentifiable cleaning solutions and gloves and a pile of rags. Which just renews her determination. She can start with cleaning, with the job that no one ever wants to do.
She sets her new phone up on a counter, so she'll see it if she gets a message. Then she pulls her old phone out of her pocket, and finds a suitably peppy playlist, depositing it at a very specific angle in a deep bowl to increase the sound output. Music always helps. Then, she gets to work, with her plan of action being to first rid every surface of dust, and then to scrub them to a gleaming shine.
After which, maybe, if she's very brave, she'll venture into the refrigeration unit. Or maybe not. Might need a safety suit for that one. Definitely at least a mask.
B - kitchen - after 21 July
Her experience has sobered her, but not killed her enthusiasm entirely. Yes, she almost died. Yes, it was utterly awful to experience and she never wants to do it again. But it doesn't mean she can just bury her head in the sand and ignore... everything. Not an option.
She keeps on going back to the kitchen, even after the power cut. Emergency lighting is better than nothing, and Peter helps her get a generator hooked up to keep power to the refrigeration units going, so the things that she's already gotten together don't spoil. That would just be a hell of an insult on top of a hell of an injury. If anyone wanders in hungry, she's very happy to make them something, welcoming the distraction. Some small shred of normalcy. It's not much, but she'll take it. The rest of the time, in those general vague breakfast and dinner hours, she's sitting at one of the large tables, sketch books and sheets of paper spread out around her, occasionally powering on her tablet to make a note or add something to a digital document before turning it off again to save power. There's something going on in her mind, and she hopes it turns out to be something useful.
C - random safe walkways
If Marmalade hates this place at full power, he really hates it in emergency mode. More specifically, he hates not knowing what's going on while everything is dark and scary and making odd noises. Which makes him restless, which makes Cho nervous. She had no desire to let him out when everything was more or less working and she didn't know what lurked on the agricultural level. Now that it's all breaking down and she does know, she's even less inclined.
But he's still determined. Which is how she ends up organizing limited excursions. It sounds better in her own mind if she says it that way. Even though it amounts to walking an inquisitive little cat through an abandoned creepy science fiction city with a leash and harness made from two silk robe sashes, because this is apparently her life now. Right. Leaning into it.
It doesn't get any more normal a couple of weeks after the blackout, when the cat is joined by a hedgehog with a second leash and harness apparently made out of an unraveled scarf. Bizarre is the new normal and this is just... it's whatever it is.
D
observation deck with the view of the crashed ship
It's a strange thing to be drawn to, even she can admit that. Doesn't stop her from wandering up there every few days. She's not foolish enough to venture out into the desert to look at it. Which is not to say that she's not foolish at all. Recent experience provides a whole lot of evidence to the contrary. Still, it's a morbid fascination, and with no real concrete reason not to, she's leaning into it.
So she just sits, and watches, occasionally poking the fingers of her hand through the slots in the side of an animal carrier on the bench next to her, also angled to give its inhabitants a view of the wreckage. When she hears footsteps behind her, she doesn't turn around. "What do you think is out there?" It's a question she's been asking herself a lot, and never coming up with a good enough answer. Maybe someone else will have a better insight than she does.
! WILDCARD
Wandering around in general, hanging out in her room, any other location or activity that you're interested in that I haven't talked about. Feel free to either come poke me to plan something, or to just go for it here and we'll make it work on the fly.
29 July
what is day and night? - exploring the Glow with Cole - agricultural levels
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Well great, now they're all going to get killed because they won't leave her, even if staying is a horrible idea and leaving her is the thing they really need to do. Something attacked Peter, Diego is in pain, and if Finnick dies doing this, she's pretty sure Annie is never going to forgive her, which pales against the fact that Annie just plain won't be able to cope.
So. Staying here and hoping they get bored is not an option, and if she makes the guys come to her, they're going to get hurt even more badly. She doesn't want to go outside. She wants to stay behind these walls, where she has the illusion of safety, where she can watch the scene unfold and feel like she has even the tiniest bit of control. But she can't. So, instead, she's running up and down the length of the windowed rooms, trying to figure out where everyone is, where all the lizards are, and realizing only after she's begun that it's fairly pointless, since she doesn't know how many monsters she has to account for, since she has no idea how many are actually out there.
Dang it.
"There aren't any windows by the door. Is it clear? Can I--" The words won't even make it out of her throat. They get caught, pulled back down, as her brain screams at her about how stupid she's being. "Can I make a run for it now?"
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He knows better than to assume that there being no more visible lizards means there aren't any camouflaged by the trees, but Finnick keeps going. They'll never be sure they have all of them, not in a place like this, and he knows some of the tricks Gamemakers use in the arena to lull tributes into false security. They need to get out.
He only stops when Cho's voice comes through the communication device again, pausing and pressing his back against a tree so that at least one angle's covered. He looks around again, listening for any movement in the trees, and there isn't any. Nor are there any mutts prowling around the building.
"Okay, Cho? I'm just south-east of the door, by the edge of the forest. You're clear. You run, I'll meet you partway and we'll get out of here, okay?"
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"They can't come this way anymore, it'll take 'em a while to get around my uh, stuff I did. Go now, I'll cover you!"
In the meantime, Peter's gonna pluck a few lizard teeth out of his arm. Them's some bitey lizards.
no subject
So she takes a deep and shaky breath, and with a whimper in her throat, yanks open the door and starts running. If there's anything out here that wants to eat her, stopping to look around isn't going to make anything any better. If it's close enough to catch her, she's toast, and nothing she does will change that. The best chance she has is to just run.
no subject
Once Cho is off, Diego isn't far behind, darting out of his spot and heading in the same direction. He catches up eventually and moves to fall in step beside her, assuming Finnick will flank around her other side so she's protected as they run.