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eudorapatch ([personal profile] eudorapatch) wrote in [community profile] redshiftlogs2019-07-15 05:01 pm

to protect and serve

WHO: Detective Eudora Patch
WHAT: the face-to-face option for her network post, looking for clothes and ammo and other necessities, learning her environment by hitting the streets walkways
WHEN: whole month of July for most of it, though an immediate response to her network post would happen on the 15th, and a belated response can happen any time after that
WHERE: room 020, but also kind of everywhere?
WARNINGS: anything in response to her network post may contain detailed and blunt discussions of violence/death/dying - anything at all with her runs a small risk of her at least thinking about her own death. if this will upset you, please tell me so before we begin so that i can avoid it.

NOTES: I don't like brackets/action-spam. It's not natural for me to write that way, and I much prefer prose. I can read it just fine (but please don't make your bracket text super tiny) and don't mind if styles don't match. So you're welcome to tag me in action-spam, but just be prepared for my responses to come back in prose.

option A
After Patch makes her post to the network, she feels an odd moment of disconnect. What if no one responds? What if she is the only one feeling overwhelmed and out of her depth? What if she just aired her trauma, and she's the only one going through it?

Well, if she did, then she did. Can't change it, and wouldn't even if she could. Because she might not be alone. It might help someone else. Which makes it worth it.

She goes to the door of her room, unlocks it, opens it. It closes again on its own. Right. She opens it again, waits for it to try and close, and sticks her hand in the way. She's prepared to yank it back quickly, lest she lose some fingers, but the door halts its progress, presumably in response to whatever is blocking it. That'll work. She comes up with a little squat metal container that used to hold something, but now is only home to a vaguely musty smell. With that placed along the recessed metal track, it leaves the door to room 020 open about a foot, unable to lock, and accessible to anyone walking past.

option B
She doesn't have much. The clothes on her back, main weapon, ankle weapon, and a few extra clips of ammunition. Plus the junk from her pockets. Never thought she'd see the day when taking stock of her possessions would include a mental tally of 'eight mint lifesavers' but the universe seems determined to keep tossing up hurdles in her path. Well, bring it on. High school track about to pay off in a big way. Metaphorically. She checks her weapons, tightens her ponytail, and runs her fingers over the gentle ridges and valleys of her badge where it's resting under her shirt, like a talisman. Time to go learn her new neighbourhood.

option C
Also time to go shopping. If you can call it that. Some extra clothing would be a good start. Boots, jeans, and jacket she can make do. But a spare shirt, a change of underwear, and something to sleep in, that would be nice. Toothbrush, hair brush, maybe a book. Anything to keep her occupied.

option !
Wildcard! You know how this works. Come at me, bro! :3

15 July
afternoon - Ben comes to talk about how he knows Patch - room 020
also afternoon - Drake stops by for more cheery death talk - room 020
late evening - Cole waits until everyone else has come and gone - room 020

16 July
afternoon - finding out just what a tiny thing Peter is - R & D
killedwithlove: (Not looking)

[personal profile] killedwithlove 2019-10-06 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry," Cole gasps. "People... forget me, don't see me, unless I focus on making it not happen. And sometimes... I don't like being noticed. Focused on." Every other time it's happened, he's been hurt in some way. It's why he manifested like this at all. "I panicked. I'm sorry."
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[personal profile] killedwithlove 2019-10-09 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Perceptible," Cole agrees to the unsaid word. "I'm always here, but most people don't know. When I leave, most people forget."

He shifts, uncertain. "I don't, being the focus of attention. It's not right. Loud voice, bone and skin, sword calloused hands, get away from him, demon!" He pulls on the brim of his hat, awareness clawing for something around her that reflects similarly. "When he notices me, he makes me call Them, they nod encouragingly, you have to, Six."
itsnotaonesie: (it's fiiiiiiiiiiiiine)

[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-10-09 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Peter shrugs and gives her a nod. Eeeeyup, that's about the long and short of it right there, Patch. "As far as I know, I'm the only person where I'm from to get bug based powers that way. There was a guy called Ant Man, though, but I'm not sure what his whole deal was. I remember he could get really tiny," he holds his thumb and forefinger up, about an inch apart. Dude got really tiny, "and then really huge. Like, building huge."

It's been a couple years and Peter only met him once. But anyway, Peter's getting a little off track. Time to focus.

"Uh, the sixth sense is more of a... I can feel when something's about to happen. Like, say, you throw something at the back of my head from across the room. I just know that it's there, I can feel it coming and I'd have time to get out of the way or catch it."
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[personal profile] killedwithlove 2019-11-19 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
"When people see me, they hurt me. Hunt me. He did it to his projects, people said they were his children, but they weren't, they were his projects." He winces and rubs his stomach in an odd gesture that doesn't entirely seem like him.

He looks to her, nodding slowly. "You- protect people. I only kill people to stop them hurting others too."
killedwithlove: (Explain to me)

[personal profile] killedwithlove 2019-11-20 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
"No. I know Klaus and Ben. We met here. I know their hurts from them. But... I could probably find Diego's on you. He never used name for them. Their mother had to name them, when it happened. And they love their names, but some part of them is carved out in the shape of those numbers."

He rubs at his face. "People try and hurt me a lot. You won't. People here don't. I like that."
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[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-11-21 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
'Naaah, no. No seeing the future or psychic stuff. It's more like a physical thing. I haven't really had a chance to have this power analyzed by like, professionals? But, I dunno, I think I'd like to some day." Just to satisfy his own scientific curiosity, really. He's a gigantic nerd that way.

"Brain's always been me, though. That's the one thing that didn't change."
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[personal profile] killedwithlove 2019-11-21 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm Cole's second chance," Cole agrees. Agrees? It's something like agreement.

"You might go somewhere else. You might not. Even spirits don't know what happens."
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[personal profile] killedwithlove 2019-11-24 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know. Maybe both. Or neither." He shrugs. "Ben isn't like other people. Other ghosts. They still hold him in place, They give him definition even if he doesn't want it."
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[personal profile] killedwithlove 2019-11-26 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
"No. They never got to be children. Or people at all." He understands that. Even in Thedas, children get to be children for a little while. "He tortured them and told them it was for their own good."
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[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-11-26 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not... positive. It's not something I've been able to test with like, professionals or anything. The whole super powers thing was all a huge secret back home."

To be perfectly honest, Peter would most likely be the one to suggest something like that anyway. Don't feel bad, Patch. Besides, he has a really hard head, it's fine. If having a building dropped on him isn't enough to give him brain damage, neither is throwing a bowling ball at the back of his skull.
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[personal profile] killedwithlove 2019-12-19 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"A little familiar to Cole. His father was bad man. But he never needed reasons or excuses. Reginald did." He looks at her, quiet for a moment. "I'm Compassion. I always understand the why. I just don't necessarily agree with it. Reginald had reasons and to him they were good ones. But they were very unkind ones."
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[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-12-26 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean it's almost as good but it would be way cooler to see it in action y'know.

"Oh, we have other heroes, and their identities aren't big secrets. For me it's just... I'm still in high school, and I didn't want to freak my aunt out or put her in any kind of danger or anything. I've put a lot of bad people in jail, y'know? What if somewhere down the line they get out and decide they want some kinda revenge? If they don't know that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, then there's not a whole lot they can do."

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