You want quiet? Take the next train.

overreached — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:37:52 GMT

Half the time it looks like they're just running out of ideas.

overreached — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:56:32 GMT

I'd call it a running joke but I don't know what the joke would be.

Better than being turned into something else, I guess.

overreached — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:49:22 GMT

Stop trying to run away.

It doesn't work.

[ SHE WILL CATCH YOU. ]

➝ ａｕｄｉｏ。|

overreached — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:39:27 GMT

How many of you believed the transmission that went out right when the City stopped its world tour?

overreached — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:23:24 GMT

[ Oh the sound of an explosion. ]

...messy.

[ Dinosaur parts.....yes, well. ]

audio (the most deadpan audio...ever)

overreached — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:16:42 GMT

Epitaphs. Just great.

a u d i o.

overreached — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:57:11 GMT

[ spoken in the epitome of Monotone ]

Oh yay. More people to throw out.

[ooc; anything is fine. still backtagging the hell out of everything ;; too....and thus eternal backtagging is fine on this end as well obv.]

open to action or regular network connection....

overreached — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:37:44 GMT

][ a c t i o n ][

[ Light knows there are far worse curses to be met with.

It doesn't make her like this one any more.

At least working security at City Solutions - as she's on shift now - has in fact, contrary to the naysayers' collective insistence, lessened the volume of oncoming traffic (so to speak). Not entirely done away with, but what can you do?

Not much other than try not to kill someone for something that's as out of their control as it is out of her own, and she keeps that in mind behind a perpetually bored expression - deceptive really as she's sharply aware of everything being said and done in the vicinity, but externals are externals only. ]

][ n e t w o r k | voice, accidental of course ][

...Valentine's Day? Never heard of it.

[ CUE the sound of the incredulous other person in the conversation, but luckily their time is up and they move on to the next far more likely conquest. Then there's just a muffled kind of what an idiot before the audio cuts out entirely. ]

➝ a u d i o. (strikes are thoughts, etc)

overreached — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:25:46 GMT

This City makes its citizens do some of the stupidest things I've ever seen.

[ Which is saying a lot, because look, she knows Snow.

Anyway there's a really long pause here.

Like...ridiculously long.

Sort of...the device dialed you by accident in someone's purse or pocket and now you're stuck listening to fifteen minutes of grocery store white noise on your voicemail long.

Long.

She clears her throat, mutters under her breath - it mildly resembles a swear, and... ]

Team building exercise? Exactly my point.

~~Don't I do enough of that back---~~

Besides, why do it with a stranger? I'd rather deal with the unicorn again.

accidental. A U D I O ||

overreached — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:01:10 GMT

[ Time for some BLEACH in Hueco Mundo fighting sounds - that's mildly dragonball z but not really you know, shounen typicality: equivalents to explosions, yelling/shouting/etc, possibly an undertone of good versus evil, you know.

The usual. Yay desert sands...

Then everything gets muffled by the sound of wind buffeting against the device receiver until it all quiets to something dull and shielded to some extent. ]

What the hell?

[ Grabs for device, realizes it's on. FAIL. ]

...

[ Oh well... ]

[ooc: Part of the SHARD PLOT. Click this for actual detailing! <3 ]

audio .

overreached — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:36:24 GMT

[ SO why do these things ever turn on by themselves? Divine intervention? Maybe....all things considered....or....yeah.... oh well...it turns on for whatever reason.

There's just some muffled conversation before something comes through much more clearly. Something that qualifies as Very Important... ]

This hat is ridiculous.

[ ...obviously.

Well.

There's more conversation that can't quite be made out but it's very clearly Light's voice and Vanille's....saying...stuff...who knows~

pause, and then spoken clearly to someone ... ]

What should we do with the tree now?

[ Notably, without the clarification of 'tree' she could as easily be talking about a body :|

...er....audio cuts out here though, yes. ]

Accidental Audio. what else?

overreached — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:48:52 GMT

[ Vicious, unforgiving audio clicks on and there's the echo of footsteps, the kind of doubling effect that large glass lobbies imply and afford. There's the vague sound of shifting, maybe a coat or a bag or just someone turning in a direction. Then the footsteps come to an audible stop. ]

"Hey." [ This, from Arthur. ]

"Hey." [ And this, from Light, and the order alternates this way continuously. ]

"Do you have a second?"

"Sure."

"I've been meaning to ask you about the Underground. You've been there, haven't you?"

"Yeah. Wh--"

[ Light does not finish. Mistletoe knows no bounds. Holiday cheer continues on its diabolical rampage. Etc, etc, etc. This is to say that what follows is the unmistakable sound of a kiss. Curse ever enthusiastic, it carries on for a moment, then another and there's movement audible too.

That happens to be just enough movement to get the pair out from under the enemy however.

A fist connecting with a face is what happens next and however that sounds, well, the word 'painful' is applicable. This is Lightning after all.

It's not that it was a bad kiss so much as that it was a kiss at all.

Only a second passes before reflex gets thrown back into its place by logic, and her apologetic tone is, in fact, rather genuine....for her. ]

"...sorry."

[ . . . ]

[ooc; NO LAUGHING.

No, I'm kidding. Anyways, actual note is that this is mildly placeholder/very, ;; thank you for kind patience lksdfjsld family stuff when disappear yes....

And also slate blue is Arthur, clearly. Light ~~boring~~ gray is Light.....ning.

/shot and moves on ]

⚡ accidental video | backdated to morning of the 22 | midnight express follow-up

overreached — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:07:23 GMT

[ The device lands on the floor violently, like it's been hit across the floor, which in fact it was. When it skids to a halt the screen flickers to reveal Light, sitting up, hand to her forehead and then lowering to the center of her chest -- where her l'Cie brand is of course but you don't see that since it's a profile shot at best. There's the tearing off of a donor sticker that she chucks to one side before glancing over to see the device. She curses -- something about trains -- and reaches out, her hand covering the camera view in a fist. Then the recording stops. ]

⚡ 〙 dated to directly at midnight est.

overreached — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:12:24 GMT

Lightning has unobtrusively scoped her way from one end of the train to the other several times over by the time midnight hits -- the cusp of Saturday and Sunday, breaching day three of this ridiculous moving prison with its illusions trying to reach through the otherwise darkened windows. The ex soldier stands in car thirteen where there is less comfort to be had, willing to bet that it looks different for no reason as soon as she would bet that it looks different because it actually means something. Hard to tell.

If being stuck on a train isn't bad enough, the deaths have been and the bursts of mechanical chaos too -- darkness, inexplicable chills, the damn compartment walls seeming to breathe inward, and the way shadows threaten even in the dark, the way water ripples visibly when there isn't any light to make sense of it. All in all it feels like the deities have just decided to use a minimal divergence from a theme park ride as their literal vehicle to...do...whatever.

Mulling this over with no one else around at midnight seems the perfect time for said whatever to turn its attention to her. When what light there was disappears, panic isn't in Lightning's nature. Instead she focuses on what's around her -- yes still trying to see in the dark however much a losing battle that might be -- and listening, listening to how quiet things are, contrasting deeply with the way the pulsing shadows seem to emulate a sound's image without audibly realizing it. Rhythmic. Measured. What does it mean? She doesn't have time to think about it further.

One moment it feels like everything has become perfectly still, even the train which makes no sense, but that's exactly the kind of point that seems to last much longer to the person experiencing it. Outside of that perspective the last twelve seconds of the midnight toll coincide with twelve different blades tearing their individual ways through her. When the lights come back up -- when someone finds the body -- the mess will only be rivaled by the stench of it.

][ b r o a d c a s t || AUDIO ❱❱ video ][

[ First, there's the audio which amounts to a bunch of static, then the crumpling of a body to the floor, and then the clatter of the device as it lodges itself on the floor after rolling on its side to hit the video function...

...which gives the audience a vague angle of another midnight express victim. ]

[ooc; Death 8 on the best train of all time, uhhhhh investigative types or whoever feel free to...do your thing. ~~Poor City custodial types...~~ ]

⚡ 〙video//audio ] flagged to City Solutions types but not locked

overreached — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:30:54 GMT

[ No preamble, Lightning turns the video function on to reveal herself---which is actually himself today. Sigh. With a resigned look (s)he centers the camera. ]

This is Lightning. Do we have procedures for identifying employees who are not what they usually are? [ Muttered to self as (s)he then swaps the video to audio only because keeping the video on seems unnecessary. ] Or at least...they don't look like it.

[ Meaning (s)he wants to confirm what limited security access has already been given. The personality is the same as well as the work ethic, but it's understood that the authenticity of who you are means something in a place like City Solutions. ]

[ooc; so Light's design was originally based off of Cloud. 8C Yes that's all I'm going on but really it's not such a bad switch right? He may have even less expression than her...but details, details. ]

⚡ 〙text ][ forward-dated to a normal hour of the day

overreached — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 05:16:35 GMT

Shutting Up for ~~Imbeciles~~ Dummies
1. Close your mouth.
2. Keep it that way.

⚡ 〙audio ][

overreached — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:49:38 GMT

Don't assume that there's someone, somewhere who knows that you're in trouble. If you need help and you can reach your device or some kind of communicator, then do it.

[ gunfire and then an explosion

and a few footfalls before the device clicks off with an irritable sigh ]

⚡ 〙audio ][ backdated to much earlier in the day

overreached — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:49:01 GMT

Use your heads.

There's bottled water in the stores, and free water in the streams, or if you want to go as far as the beach you can get your water there and boil out the salt.

It's inconvenient but records show this kind of thing has happened before. Obviously it didn't last.

So calm down.

[ a pause and an annoyed exhale, then the click of the device ]

⚡ 〙audio ][

overreached — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:22:43 GMT

~~That's as close as I never wanted to be to something like that.~~

[ a huff of breath and mild sound of utter aggravation ]

~~Waste of time trying to get past all that.~~

Could be worse.

⚡ 〙13 private text & PUBLIC [audio][

overreached — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:18:26 GMT

Well. Here and gone. Great.

Guess I should check up on that idiot.

~~For Serah's sake.~~

He's usually so loud.

~~Am I complaining about him being quiet?~~

Let's see. Here: no Focus, our brands don't progress, no one except me and the idiot, no fal'Cie at all. There: everything else.

Like I could forget.

But this place is weird and if there's a chance that I could then it's better to have this here.

~~Nothing too detailed. Just enough to jog what should be there.~~

Serah. They say time stops while we're here. I didn't know if I believed that at first, but if I don't it's already too late. So I'm going to believe it.

I'm coming back and we'll find you. We'll keep our promise.

And I need to tell you.

I should have told you.

I messed up. I'm sorry.

]accidental. a u d i o[

[ This? This is the sound of someone landing on the ground roughly, probably rolling a few feet after being forcibly escorted [read: THROWN] out of the security area of City Solutions and then there is the clatter of the device that somehow hooked onto said NPC intruder.

Then a sigh and the scrape of it being picked up as there is a mutter... ]

I don't care what your fortune said. If you haven't been cleared then you're not allowed in.

We have it in writing too. [ The sound of pamphlet being dropped on this person's face probably and then as a sort of after thought...]

If you can read.

[ooc; Lightning works part-time for City Solutions as security when she's not working part-time security for Yuuko at Victrola....but yes, it is boring to her compared ot home so she's almost grateful for idiots like this one. Almost.]

⚡ 〙12 [audio][

overreached — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:19:15 GMT

So.

That's ten attempts at cutting off my head----ten attempts at cutting off my head that didn't work.

Take a hint.

⚡ 〙11

overreached — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:55:00 GMT

[ooc; memory is everything from when they are in the train and on. Apologies for slowness everywhere. Aaand she doesn't know this went up. Yet. Lmff.... ]

⚡ 〙10

overreached — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:01:14 GMT

Serah. I didn't listen to you when it mattered and when I realized you were telling the truth, it was too late. I couldn't protect you any better than he could. I guess we both failed in that area. So much has happened--meeting Sazh and Hope. Becoming l'Cie. Meeting Fang and Vanille. ~~Finding out---~~ Dysley. I hate it. I hate that you were here and then gone. I think I confused you. I've never been...or I haven't been your sister in a long time.

I was planning a trip for us before all of this.

~~But...~~

What I said to that idiot still stands. We're not going to leave you. Fang says eventually you'll wake up...but I don't want you to have to wake up to the same problems...the same fear. ~~The same---~~

I meant to take care of you when our parents died.

But who was I kidding?

I didn't know what I was doing.

~~I still don't.~~

I'm going to make this right though, and no fal'Cie or rotting system of government is going to get in my way. ~~Our way.~~ Maybe they don't want to give l'Cie a chance, but that's fine.

We'll just take it.

~~Now I'm just...stuck here with----~~

Is anyone hiring in security?

~~That's how people do things here, right? Just ask on the network. Seems the most efficient.~~

⚡ 〙9

overreached — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:17:25 GMT

I don't care much. Anyone who really notices would check the Hall.

But she wouldn't want anyone to worry. And she wasn't here long but it's not like that---

For those who knew her, Serah has left the City.

It was actually---

But you don't need to know that.

]▫▫PRIVATE▫LOCKED▫▫[

You still here? ~~Figured--~~

off network & ]][TEXT[

overreached — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:08:28 GMT

Serah's here. Serah's here and alive, flesh and blood. Not an eternal crystal, whatever that was supposed to mean to me. ~~If she wasn't...if she couldn't be...how different is that supposed to be from death? I couldn't---~~ Snow came after, of course. I should've expected it. He's as annoyingly loyal as he claims to be. Persistent too. I'd give him credit for it if I had a moment that wasn't interrupted by something else irritating. Maybe. ~~Maybe not.~~

When the others left I figured I'd just wait. Nothing I do here is going to change the way things work--the curses, or the barrier. Well maybe that's not just it.

I don't have a lot to gain from trying to fight this and I have a lot to lose.

I've got a mission to get back to.

Serah's here. But I need to---we need to save her at home too.

This place. It's almost unreal. I don't know.

~~And I remember this time. I know I'm grateful. I'm trying to think of...~~

Not like a dream but...

The stakes aren't the same and nothing that happens here is going to help me back there except making sure I don't die.

Snow too. He's stubborn enough to be useful getting Serah back the way she should be. The way she never should have stopped being.

If I'd even--

...

Wax is effective to a degree.