[May-in-Hiro] Driving to distractions

[weirdweb]

Who: May-in-Hiro, Hiro-in-May, Chloe-in-Faith, Rose, Isabel
Where: Hallway outside laundry room, en route to Kitchen/Cafeteria #2 (not the research caf)
When: Day 29, shortly after 1 pm (coming directly from this thread)
Invited: Anyone wanting to avoid the research, labs, or murder scene
Status: Complete

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[Chloe]

[sinanju]

Chloe turned once to look back the way they came before focusing her attention on their destination again. She wanted to go back. Something had happened, someone was dead--Shannon (in Charlie's body), if what she'd heard was true. Chloe wanted to go see for herself, investigate the scene, ask questions

[Isabel]

[nohatmatt]

"My plan involves lots of coffee," Isabel said, "seeing as how this place probably doesn't have any vodka."

And it wouldn't be wise to get drunk with whatever it was that killed Shannon around, she thought, but there was no point saying that. May's expression when their eyes had met showed that she understood - even on Hiro's unfamiliar face, that was easy to read. Something bad had happened. Just how bad, everyone would find out eventually. In the mean time...

"We all need to stick together," she said. "Something killed Shannon, right in the middle of the bunker. Best not to be alone if you can help it until something can be done about the killer."

[NPC Ripley]

[starborn_scribe]

Ripley and Scott would have gotten to the cafeteria a whole lot sooner if he'd let her carry him. "It's not like this is *your* abused body," she'd prodded

Re: [NPC Ripley]

[nohatmatt]

"Something," Isabel said, "as in we don't know what or who it was. I'm sure if they find out anything, Daniel and the Doctor will let us know straight away."

She grinned at Ripley.

"And of course my... err... 'mojo'... is ready should anything untoward happen."

[Rose]

[purplerhino]

While the others were talking, Rose was looking for the spool of nylon rope she had seen in the large junk drawer. Finding it she unspooled a six foot length and tied one end to Oorie's collar, and made a loop at the other end.

"And of course my... err... 'mojo'... is ready should anything untoward happen." Isabel offered.

"Well I feel safer. Least we aren't totally helpless." She grabbed the butcher knife out of the knife block anyway. "Where's the Doctor? The real one, not Daniel. Wait a minute." Rose's eyes got big. "If... when they fix the body swap thing... what happens to Charlie and Shannon?"

She looked over to where the magic gathering... group... people were.

OOC:

[nohatmatt]

The magic people are in the other cafeteria.

Re: OOC:

[purplerhino]

Oops. So she didn't look at them. ;) Sorry.

[Chloe]

[sinanju]

Chloe had to stifle the urge to pepper Isabel with questions. The woman either didn't know any more than she'd already said or was told to keep the details to herself for now. Chloe didn't doubt that Isabel was telling the truth: they'd know what had happened as soon as the big cheeses figured it out.

Still, the habits of years nagged at her--until Rose dropped her bombshell question.

Chloe felt her eyes get wider. "That's...a really good question," Chloe said. Even coming from Smallville, meteor freak capital of the world, Chloe hadn't believed in the supernatural until fairly recently. Superhumans, yes. The supernatural, no.

Then she, Lois and Lana had been possessed by...well, ghosts, Chloe supposed. The ghost of witches, but ghosts. So she'd had to deal with the reality of life-after-death, in some form. At least if you had enough mojo to make it happen

[Isabel]

[nohatmatt]

"I don't know what will happen," Isabel said. The obvious worst case scenario was the entirely plausible idea that Charlie would swap out of Shannon's body and attempt to return to his own, but with nowhere to go his soul, or spirit, or self, or whatever it was which had been swapped, would simply have nowhere to go and Charlie would die. Charlie's body had been completely destroyed. Still not the time to share that with the others.

"We will have to make sure somebody has told everybody looking into a solution to see if they can make sure that Charlie will be okay." Even if he does have to end up looking like a girl for the rest of his life. At least he'll have a life.

[Rose]

[purplerhino]

"So... we could be looking at two people dying from one death? I mean if Shannon's gone to the other side, or whatever, and Charlie's mind tried to go into a dead body... Or maybe Shannon goes home and Charlie dies. Or Charlie is stuck in Shannon's body... None of them seem fair." Rose didn't like that. But the universe was rarely fair. It just was. The Doctor taught her that.

"But the other thing to worry about is we have a killer among us. Right? I mean, an animal would have been noticed, and an accident would be announced right away. So it has to be murder, yeah?"

[Chloe]

[sinanju]

"I...don't know about that," Chloe said.

"I mean, if they thought there was a killer among us, I think they'd have said so--if only to warn us to watch one another." Chloe thought furiously for a moment.

"I mean, maybe it was suicide...." Chloe trailed off when Isabel shook her head.

"Or--there's that...smoke monster," Chloe almost mumbled. It felt silly even saying such a thing, but it was no joke. It had killed the pilot of Flight 815 shortly after they'd arrived on the island. Nobody had seen it since as far as Chloe knew, but that didn't mean it wasn't still around.

[Mayday]

[weirdweb]

((OOC: Has anyone mentioned the smoke monster to Isabel yet? May and Jon ran into it the same day she showed up, but I definitely think she was kept out of that briefing.))

May frowned. "The smoke monster? No way. If that thing had even come near the building, we'd have heard it. It's not exactly stealthy."

There was a pause, and she realized that everyone was staring at her. "Uh, Jon and I kind of had a run-in with it when we were on recon a while back. That was around when we first settled in here."

[Rose]

[purplerhino]

Rose shivered at that last suggestion. "The Others did say it feared the beach but was comfortable in the interior." She looked down at Oorie, who seemed to be more comfortable on the makeshift leash and surrounded by people.

"But wouldn't we have heard it? It's kinda loud and destructive."

[Chloe]

[sinanju]

"Yeah, that's a good point," Chloe said.

She remembered waking up in the middle of that first night on the island. Everyone had. A god-awful roaring in the distance and trees shaking and collapsing near the treeline.

She'd thought it had to be a dinosaur or something. A monster made of smoke seemed anticlimactic--until you remembered that it was perfectly capable of killing you, and it could follow you into places no dinosaur could. And...it was loud.

"Well, I guess all we know for sure is that we don't know," Chloe said. It was frustrating to be left in the dark, but probably nobody else knew much more. She'd just have to wait.

"So," Chloe said to Isabel, "you said something about coffee?"

[Mayday] Brainstorming

[weirdweb]

((OOC: Oops. I didn't pick up on Ripley's question about the sword. My bad. Need to do it here

[Kenzaki]

[estirose]

ENTER KENZAKI.

Kenzaki felt he was slowly getting used to Miho's body. Enough that he was able to help Sukotto-san* before he wandered off in the direction of the storeroom to pick up some of his stuff. He became aware something strange was going on, and he saw that people were starting to be herded into the other cafeteria. Curious, he headed in, hoping to get some answers.

"Hello?" he asked in his native language. "What's going on?"