{005} Network Video + Log

[lovesickkiller]

[Misa is obviously freaking out a little. He eyes are wide, she's breathing fast, and she is newly blonde since she last appeared on the network. But her latest echoed change isn't anything that's visible.]

The lights over Tokyo— something is happening, I'm going home. If anyone is coming and needs a place to stay, my apartment is open to you. It's not very big, but I'll make room for anyone who needs it. Bring a sleeping bag or air mattress if you can. Private message me for the address, and if you have a doppelganger either do it in person or by phone. I don't want any uninvited guests showing up.

[[ooc: feel free to handwave Misa giving your character this information, as long as they are not a doppelganger and we have some previous CR.]]

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Who: Misa and ALL THE PEOPLE
What: Crash at Misa's one-bedroom apartment during insanity in Tokyo. SLUMBER PARTY. There will be separate header threads for different weeks, plop your person anywhere.
When: April 10-28
Where: Tokyo, Misa's place

Comments

LOG: April 10-16

[lovesickkiller]

[Action]

[scarlet_devil]

Guess who said she'd be visiting Misa at her apartment? Her rather cramped feeling apartment, that is. When she heard of the Kappa rising and saw the pink lights, she knew she would have to help out somehow. It wasn't just Misa who needed help here.

Emilia used the teleporter, of course, to get over here. And she might have someone tagging along with her. Soon enough, there will be a familiar voice at Misa's door, greeting her in Japanese.

[Action, April 13]

[chalicejoker]

There is a very polite, though insistent, knock on the door. And if Misa looks out the peephole to see who's there on her doorstep, she'll see Hajime, who is repeatedly looking over his shoulder for...something. It's not clear what. But he looks tense, as well as a bit tired.

April 14th

[ursoreckless]

There's a knock on the door and if Misa checks the peep hole first, she would see Shou, but a very different Shou than the one that tended to wear rather loose sweats around the school, or the one that wore jeans and talked with a definite (and weird) yakuza accent. This Shou has been cleaned up and was wearing a suit that made him look less like a thug and more like a businessman.

Except he was still wearing shades and visibly carrying a gun on his hip.

[Action]

[dead_black_eyes]

[About an hour after their video conversation, there's a knock on Misa's apartment door. Opening it will reveal a thin man clad in his typical dark clothes, with a rollaway suitcase in one hand and a deflated mattress under his other arm.]

[oncedevil]

By the way, guess who got himself a new unstable echo? This guy. Tony hasn't had an opportunity to practice with it, honestly he's not especially aware that it's even there yet. There was a crackle, a surge of energy like nothing he's ever experienced before, and then it all went quiet again.

That is until the frozen toaster waffle decided to take longer than his bottomless pit of a stomach would be patient with. Impatient and irritated he reaches out to tap at the toaster, as if doing that would somehow make it hurry up. Well, it works, kind of.

The toaster certainly hurries, right into a violent explosion and a small fire, after a crackle of red-black energy had sparked off of him like lightning. Tony would muse about it but first he's gotta take care of this minor counter fire. Halp?

LOG: April 17-23

[lovesickkiller]

OTA

[evowhisperer]

The apartment is a tiny one, but there is a table, and it is empty enough for him to use in brief stints. He might have a laptop open with maps displayed one time. Or he might have a camera plugged into it, showing photos of destruction and glimpses of scales. He won't be in the apartment for more than a few visits across two or three days, but when he is there, he's either sleeping, eating, or working. (Jetlag and his own brand of workaholism is not kind.)

Any time someone walks into the room he'll stop and look. Is this someone he knows? One way or another they're getting at least a slight grin, and the salute-like sign that is 'Hello'.

OTA

[solvethepuzzle]

He's wound up staying longer than he'd intended. Truthfully, he does not particularly have to be here anymore. He isn't involved in any additional talks with the government; the first meeting had turned out to be all he had it in him to do. Too much stress, too much anxiety for him to manage more. At least there are others who can handle such things. He'd done as much as he'd felt able.

So while he periodically goes out, Nathan spends much of his time at the apartment. One might expect him to be tapping away at a computer, or at least reading a book. But no. He's sitting at a table, or possibly even on the floor . . . playing with robot action figures, apparently. The action does not appear to be bringing him any particular joy -- his expression is placid as ever -- but he's doing it anyway.

LOG: April 24-28

[lovesickkiller]

[[No Misa, she is in the hospital.]]

video; private

[stefanged]

[It takes him a few minutes to respond to this, because a blonde Misa isn't a sight he's used to. He struggles to keep his expression neutral, but the surprise takes over pretty quickly.]

I... I think I've got an extra sleeping bag somewhere. [How, he's not entirely sure; Xander must've left it behind in the chaos.] Are you going back now? Like now-now?

video; private

[lovesickkiller]

Yeah, the transporter is linked and I have enough of my things at home to skip packing.

[She can't recall if Stefan has seen her with blonde hair yet; his surprise could stem from any number of things.]

Do you want to come with me?

[It's definitely short notice, and it might be unreasonable to expect anyone to be able to drop what they're doing and go to another country like this, but truth be told she is afraid of what she'll find at home and wouldn't mind not going alone.]

[Video, private]

[chalicejoker]

So does the offer hold for giant bugs?

[At least he's not a giant bug right now, good job Hajime.]

I don't think I'll need a place to stay; I've got some cousins over there, and I don't need to sleep anyway...but it's good to plan for emergencies.

[Video, private]

[lovesickkiller]

[Misa thinks on that a moment. If he had contacted her in bug form, she might have said no.]

As long as you keep the bug put away! And wait, you don't sleep?

video;

[ursoreckless]

Hey, send me the address so I drop by and bug you.

[Private Text]

[lovesickkiller]

[Oh boy, it's going to be a party. But truth be told she won't turn down any muscle she can get; it might be a good idea with multiple Numbered congregating in a new place. Besides, it will be good for everyone's nerves to have someone around who is perpetually calm.]

[Misa sends over the address, figuring that if Shou had a doppelganger to worry about he would have mentioned it by now.]

try to behave

Voice

[solvethepuzzle]

It's still in one piece? [Since . . . gigantic creature smashing its way through Tokyo, and all.]

Voice

[lovesickkiller]

Yeah, that... thing didn't destroy the building. Power is spotty, but the offer is still good.

Video

[dead_black_eyes]

I'm going to be there on business and I think I'll take you up on this very generous offer. I'm bringing a double-wide air mattress to ease the space concerns.

Video

[lovesickkiller]

That sounds great, thank you.

[She gives him a tired smile.]

It's a shame everyone is going to see my home looking like this... but at least the building is still standing.

[It occurs to her that a double-wide air mattress will actually be a bit of a waste of space, if only one person is going to be occupying it. Lazarus does not strike her as the type to be open to sharing a bed with someone.]

Are you coming alone?

[Action] who knows when some time around when L's staying for a while?

[oncedevil]

[Kappa, that's what they were calling it. Despite the various military's best efforts, so far they'd managed to convince them to hold off on blowing the poor creature sky-high.

Well 'they' being the people who could actually speak to anyone. Tony was mostly there for moral support and muscle, helping out the other monsters where he could, and being there for L should he need. He probably didn't, but Tony liked to stay close anyway. That's his brother after all.

Thankfully Misa was willing to put them up for a little while. Even if Tony was distinctly uncomfortable in new places that just meant he was very careful not to touch anything unless explicitly permitted to, and mostly just found corners to disappear into until he was called upon. Or, like right now, grab a shower because chasing military vehicles is exhausting work.

He hadn't bothered putting his eye-patch back on after finishing, it was kind of nice having the liberty of using both eyes again, and headed for the kitchen. Maybe he could convince Misa to let him swipe a snack.]

[permaaction!]

[stefanged]

[While Stefan didn't have much reason to hang around Tokyo logically, he kept returning back for Misa's sake. (Or so he kept telling himself, even as he helped restock the fridge from time to time.)

The grocery stores are laid out differently here, so he couldn't exactly cook what he was used to - hummus, roasted chickpeas, that kind of stuff. Instead, he'd taught himself to cook large pots of miso soup for everyone.

When Tony enters, Stefan glances up from the pot and gives him a nod of acknowledgment.] Hey. Soup should be done in a minute.

[Action!]

[evowhisperer]

He'd heard the water running when he'd let himself in, but there hadn't been anyone else around. The apartment was small. It looked like it had just been vacated. Cesar took off his shoes, listening for any sounds that might indicate a third person in the apartment. Had there been some text that he missed?

The note on the table said otherwise. A food run? Well, that was promising. He put the note back down and sat himself down next to it, taking his laptop from a sturdy bag over one shoulder. If he had some time to focus anyway, then it was just as well that he go over some of what he'd recorded today.

The bathroom door eventually opened. Cesar turned with an easy smile, ready to snap back forward if it turned out they weren't decent--okay, no, there were pants. White hair, too, and sculpted muscles--wait, was that Tony?

Cesar's eyebrows shoot up, and he raises a hand to grab his attention. It's been maybe a month (a month or few?) since they'd last seen each other face to face, and it's clear that time has been very kind to the young man. Thank goodness, it wasn't as though he could use anything more piling up on him--

Cesar intakes air sharply through an open mouth, and his eyes have found Tony's healthy, unscarred eye.

The eye is undamaged.

Where there should be nothing but a disfigured socket is a filled eyelid, with a piercing eye staring back at him. When did this happen? How did it happen, and could it be repeated?

Does this mean that now that this is healed, then at least one more horrific scar from Cesar's actions is gone?

[lovesickkiller]

[In the kitchen he will find a note on the refrigerator that says 'Help yourself to whatever you need! Restock if you can. Don't eat everything, TONY']

[Video]

[charcoalfeather]

It's really kind of you to offer this.

[Video]

[lovesickkiller]

It's no trouble. Things might get tight, but I'd rather not be alone anyway.