02 - Welp (backdated to the 24th)

[agelostdoll]

((ooc: had meant to put this up a few days ago but I had to clean a virus off my PC; sorry about that!))

[Asuka - the eyepatch'd one - comes onto the screen... and looking none too good. Pale, bags under her eye and shivering despite a blanket and a heavy jacket. Yeah. Even her voice is hoarse:]

Anyone wondering about that side effects thing... well, it's pretty fucking confirmed. I'm about three weeks in; haven't touched anybody. Said I would a while ago; experiment.

Fever, headaches, sleep disruption... I think I'm starting to hallucinate. I'm calling it off.

They're not lying about that.

Private text to greenteengenius

you want your scans make it quick

Private text to favored_four_eyes

could use a hand

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[gingerzippo]

As far as I know, yeah. Snapped out of it right after he fired. We got picked up by some medics after we both blanked out. Then I woke up here.

But hey, Mihai's the toughest old guy around. If anyone can get through a rough spot, it's that guy.

[agelostdoll]

...

Well, the sooner you two can get back in contact, right?

[gingerzippo]

No kidding. But who knows how long that's gonna take, with this place. Maybe we can figure out how Berthein took over his brain in the first place. And mine, too.

[He shakes his head.] Anyway, it's over with now. [Aside from the nightmares.]

What I was gonna say before that, though--I'm bored. Like, bored as hell. There aren't even any bands here.

[agelostdoll]

...Is that sort of thing normal for rock stars? [SHE'S HEARD STORIES. Mostly from Aoba and his stupid beard.]

[gingerzippo]

What, not being here? Beats me. The ones I know of are usually all underground. [HAH. UNDERGROUND. (It's a canon joke.)] Play around midnight in small bars and stuff. But there's not even any of that here. I can't find a job, my room is boring, and people outside are way too snuggly for me to hang around.

You find a way to keep yourself busy? I'm dying here.

[agelostdoll]

Actually I meant the 'getting shot'.

...As for me, I just sit in my room, plot top-secret pipedreams against our captors and get increasingly ill all day.

[gingerzippo]

[...Oh.]

Eh, not always! [Asuka what have you done] But, what can I say? People get jealous. Why wouldn't they, right?

And yeah, that pretty much sounds like everyone's agenda around here. It's so dull. This whole place is.

Been thinking of some ways to maybe shake the city up a little.

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[agelostdoll]

[MECHA PILOTS LEAD INTERESTING POST-APOCALYPTIC LIVES]

They'd shoot you because they're jealous? That's just dumb.

[agelostdoll]

[but she perks up on 'shaking up the city a little']

Oh? Whatcha got?

[gingerzippo]

Right? Sometimes it happens, though. You're just too cool. Can't have that, right?

Nothing really, yet. Fireworks is the best idea I got.