I wear a demeanor made of bright pretty things [Semi-Open]

[espigeonage]

Who: Julien and whoever decided to come with him! See the plot post.
Where: The Locke City Reservoir, maybe an hour's drive west of the city center. It's a fair-sized lake surrounded by forest, with a shoreline that is mostly inclined gravel. It's not suited to canoeing or camping and isn't a recreation site, but the area isn't exactly off limits either.
When: Sunday the 11th! Forwards-dated slightly.
What: Finding the source of the contaminated water.


[This is three threads. Please, PM or plurk me if you have questions or concerns. I'm Joysweeper.

Thread one is pre-reservoir on the tenth - as part of the handwaved preparations Julien wants to see if people actually can sneak, so asked some of the volunteers to meet him in a park. This is specifically set up so Julien can meet Alex and Nick in separate threads, but if anyone else wants to meet/talk casually with him, even if they're not going on to the next two threads, feel free!

Thread two is finding the site and Julien deciding to stake it out. His plan is for some quieter people to be investigating with him, a bunch of more combat-oriented ones hanging back in the woods, and a few people even farther back at the cars, but he doesn't really have authority. Feel free to have people from any group mingle and kill time together, especially if it's been a while since he decides to wait.

Thread three is the tanker full of pink goop showing up, a few hours after thread two started. You're fully welcome to have a character who was in thread two decide to leave and not be there for three! This is kind of in the middle of nowhere but waiting is boring.]

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[savethenpcs]

The driver's breaths are shallow and panicked and his face is a mask of terror and disgust. "S-s-so you're a mutant roach?!"

[chalicejoker]

Alex's comments about roaches being gross earn another bit of grumbling in Hajime's monster tongue, mostly just to keep helping to sell his story. Really, he thinks roaches are disgusting too, despite being a rather large sort of one. "I am a highly evolved roach, and as far as I am concerned, I am surrounded by mutant apes. How your ridiculous species is ruling the planet is beyond me."

...yeah, he's going to owe Alex and anyone else within earshot some kind of "I am really not crazy, and I am sorry that I ever made you think otherwise" speech later on.

[amberhearted]

Later, Alex will reflect on this moment in his life. Mostly he will be impressed with Hajime's improv skills.

"Hey, hey, don't insult him," he says to the driver. "The quicker you tell us what you know about this stuff you're dumping into the water, the quicker you can split."

[needsmorezippers]

Neku, for the most part, is officially just listening in- but since he's in range, he'll be over here reading the driver's surface thoughts and hopefully confirming anything he does manage to get out. Anything that's not 'oh god giant roach,' anyway.

[savethenpcs]

The driver took a deep, shaky breath. "They told me it wouldn't hurt anyone," he repeated, saying it like a mantra that would save his life. "They just hired me to do the driving. Drive it from the warehouse to here, dump the payload in the lake, pick up a fat paycheck. I'm just doing a job," he said, gripping the steering wheel and looking more than a little sick.