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redshiftlogs2019-07-15 05:01 pm
eudorapatch) wrote in 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 thestreets 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
WHAT: the face-to-face option for her network post, looking for clothes and ammo and other necessities, learning her environment by hitting the
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
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But he does stick to it, just reaches a couple fingers out and sticks 'em right to the phone and starts tugging it away from her. Bam sticky powers.
"So far I've been able to stick to anything. Ice is tricky though, because of the like, melting."
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"Oookay, out of context this would be super awkward, just-- just saying."
But he does it, he sticks right to her hand and gives it a gentle tug. See, stuck. Super stuck.
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He is also something of an oddity, and she's sure that's super difficult to deal with on top of puberty and the absolute horror show of awkward that accompanies it, but she can't just set aside the interest. "Is this normal where you come from? Is this just... a way humans have adapted to... something?" She honestly wouldn't even begin to be able to speculate on what they'd have to evolve these skills to offset. She's just spit-balling, here.
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"But uh, no, this isn't normal at all. I'm kind of a special case? See, I got bit by this radioactive spider, but instead of something horrible happening, I like, mutated. Like- like turbo puberty, only with superpowers. I can do this sticky thing, I'm really strong, I've got like, a sixth sense now, which took some getting used to."
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She is peering very closely at the spots where their skin is stuck together, trying to see just what it is that's making it possible. It doesn't exactly feel like an adhesive. She's stuck, but there isn't a residue that she can detect. "What kind of a sixth sense? Like... psychic vibrations, or something? Can you tell what's going to happen before it happens?"
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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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"Brain's always been me, though. That's the one thing that didn't change."
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"Physical. So you... what? Sense... air displacement?" Trippy as fuck, man. No doubt about it. Part of Patch wants to test it out by throwing something heavy at the back of his head. A much larger part of Patch is horrified that she wants to attempt to give a child brain damage. She honestly couldn't say which half is larger. It's been that kind of day.
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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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Something else, though. "Why was it a secret? Doesn't your world want heroes?" The Umbrella Academy kids had been celebrities, back before everything went wrong.
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"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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"Well. I think that's smart. The saddest thing about childhood is that so few people realize how wonderful it is until it's gone, and they can't get it back. Not that I'm calling you a child." She pairs the last statement with holding up her hands, palm out, in a gesture of good intentions. It also causes Peter's stuck hand to move, and this amuses her. "So, how about we un-stick and you can go back to showing me how to replace tiny little printer shocks, crazy genius spider kid?"
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"Nah, it's fine, I see where you're coming from," Peter says with a grin, un-sticking from Patch and turning back to what they were working on. "Toss me that screw driver over there and we can get started."
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She lobs the screwdriver at his head. It's a softball pitch, underhand, and very carefully released to put absolutely no spin on it, the heavier handle of the tool leading. If it does hit Peter, at least it won't be with the pointy bit.
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"Thanks. Next time I'll show you how good I am at dodging bullets."
He is 100% joking about that, at least. He doesn't actually wanna have to dodge bullets.