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Night 59: Main Hallway, 1-Center

Oct 24, 2011 12:11

[from here]Just like last night, Vino turned the bend to find that he was first in the main hallway again. He couldn't decide if he preferred it or not. Patience wasn't his favorite virtue, but he supposed he'd have to wait. The two meeting places he would have to be at were right next to each other, right? So that was fine. If he had to wait a ( Read more... )

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vinesofregret October 25 2011, 08:35:59 UTC

[From here]

Halfway down the main corridor, and he'd reached his first goal of the night. There seemed to be faint sounds, following him down the corridor, but there was no movement when he flashed his light down the hall behind him, though. He took a spot just to the side of the doors to the sun room, happy to have his back up to the wall. Easier to see things sneaking up on him while he waited - and hopefully it wouldn't be too long. This place seemed fond of making him think about things he'd rather not be thinking about, and being alone only encouraged it. Something to do - that would be good.

[For Carter]

stlg13bomber October 26 2011, 20:03:40 UTC

[ From here.]

Wandering aimlessly wasn't going to get him anywhere, Carter needed to find someone who knew what he was doing. He tried to catch the attention of the first fairly normal person he found find in the dim, pink shadows. At least he seemed normal.

"Hey, any idea what's going on tonight?" he murmured, setting his back at the wall. "Everything went funny after those alarms went off."

vinesofregret October 27 2011, 02:13:51 UTC

Hakkai gave the man a quick, brittle smile, looking more calm than he actually felt. Being used to danger didn't mean he was completely at ease with it.

"I don't know," he replied, just loud enough to be heard in the hallway. "But there seem to be more... creatures out tonight than last night." The scurrying sounds from the shadows hadn't gotten any closer, from the sounds of it - but they hadn't gone away, either.

stlg13bomber October 28 2011, 17:00:00 UTC

Carter looked back over his shoulder nervously. "Not just the creatures. There's some prisoners back there who are looking pretty funny...there's a girl riding on this giant doll toy thing." She hadn't been bothering him so he'd just walked on past, but it was still pretty odd to look at.

He rolled the end of his crowbar back and forth across his palm. "You think we ought to do something about it?"

vinesofregret October 28 2011, 23:06:51 UTC

A shikigami user, from the sounds of it - Hakkai tried not to let his distaste show. It was a perfectly valid method of fighting, he knew that. But after Chin Yisou and Kami-sama's tricks - he'd be happy to never see one of the damned things again.

But that was neither here nor there, at the moment. "It would probably be best to eliminate them - but I'm supposed to meet someone here, so I have to wait for them, for the moment."

stlg13bomber October 29 2011, 00:08:23 UTC

The crowbar thumped against the palm of his hand again. Carter frowned. "I guess, but there's so many of them out there that it'd probably take all night. And I'm a pretty seasoned monster hunter." He pointed to the two pins on his hat. Perhaps he wasn't the quickest, but he'd eventually picked up that monster battle at night led to pins the next day.

"Maybe I can just wait here with you. I had this list for Okita-san but I don't know where to get to him."

vinesofregret October 29 2011, 00:41:48 UTC

Ah - so that's what the pins meant. Hakkai had spotted a few of them in passing, but it hadn't seemed important enough to actually investigate. "This is only my second night here, but things like this are something of an occupational hazard, aha."

Some of the skittering got closer, and he shined his flashlight that way - another rat dove back into the shadows, for now. "I haven't met someone by that name - I suppose it's not something you could put on the bulletin board?"

stlg13bomber October 29 2011, 22:12:57 UTC

"We talked on the bulletin board about it..." Carter twitched, watching the shadows with care. He could handle anything they threw at him but he also tended to get pretty torn up by it. "He's got long hair and he's Japanese. Looks sort of girly. You haven't met him at all?"

vinesofregret October 30 2011, 04:34:05 UTC

"Hmm... I met a long-haired Japanese man earlier, but he was taller than I was." Physically attractive, yes - but Hakkai would sooner call Sanzo or Gojyo 'girly' than that man.

"Ah - and I was speaking with someone on the bulletin board, who only gave me one name. Kaneyoshi." He grinned sheepishly. "I don't know if that's much use to you though, aha."

stlg13bomber October 30 2011, 04:37:22 UTC

Carter pondered that name. Kan-ne-yo-shi. "I don't remember," he admitted. "Japanese names tend to kind of run together for me. Maybe he told you a different name than he told me."

He dipped his hand into his pocket to feel at the list, then withdrew it again. "He's probably off somewhere important anyway."

vinesofregret October 30 2011, 05:16:44 UTC

"Hm, perhaps. I was asked-"

Hakkai was interuppted by another rat leaping out of the shadows at him. He was ready for this one, though, attuned to all of the little background noises, and a ball of chi flew out off his hands to smack into the oversized rodent. With a squeal, it fell to the floor, and after a few twitches, stopped moving.

Hakkai sighed. "That's the third one tonight - they're rather bold. As I was saying - I was asked to help someone with a list of special ingredients they needed to acquire for something."

stlg13bomber October 31 2011, 02:49:11 UTC

That must have been a really fast punch, Carter hadn't even seen his hand move. He flicked his head side to side, wary of more rats, until Hakkai's comment made him perk up.

"A list?" He scrambled in his pockets and brought up the crumpled piece of paper he'd promised to Okita. "For, eh heh, for baking, right?" Maybe he was in the right place after all.

vinesofregret October 31 2011, 09:40:42 UTC

Hakkai grinned brightly. "Yes, that was it! Were you the one with the list, then? I'm something of a cook myself." True, the man looked a little rough around the edges to be a gourmand - but Hakkai was not about to judge a book by it's cover. He'd learned that much around Sanzo and Gojyo, at least.

stlg13bomber November 1 2011, 00:25:47 UTC

"That's me!" Carter waved the list excitedly. "You're another, uh, cook? I haven't met anyone here who really knows how to mix up a good batch of the stuff."

Finally, another man of the craft. Carter had been getting increasingly exasperated with the Institute's lack of people who appreciated a good bomb. Even Newkirk respected his abilities back home, and Newkirk generally gave him as much respect as he did Schultz.

vinesofregret November 1 2011, 01:20:49 UTC

It was always good to find someone who appreciated the craft. "I don't have much of a chance to, but yes. Unfortunately my travelling companions don't have much taste, so - quantity over quality, as it were."

Not that Goku was unappreciative - far from it. But it would be nice to make fancier things than stews and rice bowls every now and then.

stlg13bomber November 1 2011, 01:56:15 UTC

"That's a real shame. All of mine are hand-made and the best quality possible. My CO says he doesn't mind unless it gets the job done, but..." He shrugged, as if to suggest bafflement at the ignorance of the plebians. "You gotta put your best effort into them."

Now they were really cooking with gas. Or rocket fuel, if they were really lucky. Carter pointed to the Sun Room doors. "Maybe we should check in there? The last time I got to cooking I found some pretty potent stuff in a diner kitchen cabinet." Molotovs were the fast food of the bomb world. Cheap, easy to make, not that effective, but satisfying all th esame.

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