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Waking the Dead 2.0 || July 5-11, 2063 || The Wait
[Beautiful as Seigi is and generous as your hosts have been, it is hard to forget why you're here again.
Zangyaku is carrying on as per usual, as if your presence doesn't mean anything. It isn't a dismissal, though: it's an acknowledgment of the work that you must do, and that they are, by merit of your presence, helping you do it.]
General OOC Notes:
+ This is a catch-all post for any interactions that take place during the in-game period I indicated. Make sure to label your subject lines accordingly!
+ You're all staying at close to the Wolf's Ward, which is the wing devoted to the Blade King and the Wolfborn.
+ You're free to move around until about 7 PM. You have free run of the base.
+ You can, regardless of whether you have a license with Zangyaku or not, join in on minor routine engagements like patrol, or helping out at any of the divisions.
+ There is a free teleport back to Falner. You can go any time, as long as you're back before call time for the vigil with Ginko Takasugi-Vice from 8 PM until 4 AM.
General behavior of significant NPCs in the area:
+ Kasumi is your host, and effectively the officer in command for this leg of the operation.
+ Hikaru is generally NOT around during the day. He only turns up around dinner time to eat with everyone, take a temperature check on his end, and then immerse himself in his own work.
+ NPCs that have been fielded out to watch over David Young and Minato Arisato are available on call.
+ Other NPCs may be available on request. Just ping me?
8 July 2063, Sunday : Sometime after breakfast | Josh & Yulia
Yesterday's argument with Kaz is still fresh, so Josh isn't going to sit by the Hounds today, opting to grab coffee and food that he doesn't really feel like eating before he takes it outside.
He's done with his meal by the time he goes through his fourth cigarette, eyes glued to that phone of his as he reads through what little there is by way of reports.
It's day four and there's still no word on Jessie. And then, of course, there is that other thing he wants to keep his mind off of. ]
Re: 8 July 2063, Sunday : Sometime after breakfast | Josh & Yulia
[ So, there's a Yulia standing a little ways away from Josh, arms crossed and eyebrow raised. Yes, she's been watching him for the past few days. Yes, she's still pissed at him, even after ranting at the Brands and talking with Kasumi the previous night.
She said she'd give him time, but this? This was too much. Even Kaz had blown up at him yesterday.
It's definitely time for that brick to the face. ]
If there's an update, there will be an update, and your phone will tell you when.
[ Of course, she knows there's something else other than the mission that's been bothering him. She's asked on the first day, but he refuses to answer her straight. ]
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He lights up a cigarette.
He's fine. Can't a guy be concerned in peace. He's already gotten sleep, not that it's helped, it's enough of a reprieve to rest up even if he's not really had an opportunity to let his mind refresh. ]
I'm allowed to review the status, Yulia.
[ That's all he says before he lights up a cigarette and takes another sip of his now cold coffee. ]
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She's been watching you, Josh. You've done absolutely nothing this morning but look at your goddamn phone and eat when you remember. She knows your coffee is cold (and disgusting) by now. ]
Not an excuse to do it all morning, Joshua.
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I've been up all of an hour. [ Less, actually. Those cigarettes of his burn slow, so usually, yes. An hour. But he's been going through them like nothing at all.
It doesn't register to him, though. He's fine. ]
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Forty-five minutes. Thirty of which was spent glued to your goddamn phone. Do you even remember what you got for breakfast? How many cigarettes you've gone through?
[ Yeah, Josh, she's been watching you. Taning, as well, but you don't need to know that (probably already know that). She's pissed at you, too, if it wasn't obvious enough. This is what, four days and counting? ]
You are going to burn yourself out faster than your cigarettes if you keep that up.
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The rolls. Six of them. [ He would have sat down and had rice, but yesterday's spat with Kaz has on top of everything else has been killing his appetite. ] And this, [ lifting that cigarette now, before he kills it on the borrowed wooden ashtray he'd swiped on his way out. ] Is my fourth.
[ Lighting up his fifth one now, gaze level with yours, Bostova. ]
#rage
Those were rhetorical questions, Joshua Lee Brennan. [ Yeah, she's so Angry, she's using Full Names now.
And while she's almost into full-on rage mode, she knows you'll hate her for this but you really need a wake up call, so-- ]
You are a disappointment as a blade leader. Instead of leading the Hounds, you have spent the past few days doing nothing but read your stupid updates, or play butler to Ginko Takasugi-Vice.
Zhalki.
So pathetic, it makes me want to ask the Blade King to change leadership of the Hounds to someone else. Someone who is not as stubborn and stupid as you. I pity Cindy for having a brother like you.
[ Sorry, not sorry. ]
#onyd
Why are you ragging at him about this, Yulia? He picked you as his second because he knows you know him well enough to have his back, to field yourself when he can't. Of course, it doesn't occur to him right this instant that this might be why you are on his case. ]
I don't think Ginko can sleep for the duration of this engagement, because she has to keep herself awake and ready if Jessie comes up on the radar. [ Which could be at any time at all -- morning, afternoon, night. You were there in the briefing, Yulia. He doesn't know about you, but he's concerned about that, about her, about this whole thing and how long it's going to go, and how that's going to wear on her, on Minato, on David Young.
He straightens and kills that cigarette. He's lost the need for it now. ]
And if those are your real thoughts on my leadership, go right ahead and tell Hikaru. [ If you can actually get a hold of him. He stopped trying after Friday night. ] As I recall, I told the lot of you before that I wasn't the right kind of fit.
[ He's not going to comment on Cindy. He loves you, Yulia, and he has an idea now, of the kind of shit you went through. He wouldn't call you someone the Makhai would be disappointed in. That's a line he'll never cross even if you would. ]
yeah i went there
[ The point
your head. ]
You either need to stop being an idiot, or sit this engagement out.
l m f a o
Go into Dark Hour without your only Sin-Eater.
[ Yes, Yulia. The boy is missing the point. ]
Smart.
[ Not even going to comment about your assessment over how he's fussed over Ginko because he doesn't see it that way. When Ginko asks him to back off, he does. He hovers, but it's hugely because he wants to be there in case the spell kicks in. He has to be there. ]
w o w
Screw patience, she is so done with you. Have a fist flying to your face now. ]
y e p
This conversation is over.
[ He doesn't want to fight you. So he's going to walk away. ]
I'll see you later at shift.
gj larue
[ Raised eyebrow, smirk. She has her fists still clenched tightly at her sides, and she gives him a challenging look: Are you running from me, Joshua? ]
Or maybe you just don't want to be embarrassed that a girl can kick your ass right now.
gj yulia
We have shift later.
It's not smart for us to wear ourselves out if it happens that we're needed.
[ He'll take you. But this isn't the time or the place. ]
fite me
[ Eyebrow still raised. ]
Think of it as warm up, in case we get a ping tonight. I might even let you win.
Of course, I don't mind not taking this to a training room.
wala joshua, ur on ur own man
Fine. You're on.
[ He's setting aside that ash tray now. ]
Pick a room. If we're going to spar, we'll make it official.
[ His own fingers curl, letting those rings dig into his flesh. ]
glhf
She jerks her head in the direction of the training halls. ]
This way. You had better not walk the other way. I might hurt you more than I intend to.
#hugaskamay
Fine.
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Would you like me to give you an advantage?
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No. [ The word is heavy as it leaves him.
He's not happy about this. But you insisted and he's never been one to back down from challenges issued lile this.]
round one.
Your grave.
[ There's a smirk on her face as she pulls out two of her knives with a flourish. You'd probably expect her to strike right then and there, but she drops the knives. She also removes the holster of throwing knives on her thigh. Then drops the Kukri, and Anya, and holds her hands up. ]
Safety precaution. So I don't accidentally kill our blade leader.
[ She drops into a stance much like her usual. Best foot forward, striking arm up, but empty of knives. ]
sorry josh, ur on ur own
He doesn't want to do this.
He takes a defensive stance. Palms up and facing Yulia; knees bent and feet set apart just enough move his center of gravity lower. ]