video; text; 001 - OCT 22/09

[2ollux]

[ The first recording comes mid-day, amidst the clamour that can only be associated with large, milling, and largely confused crowds. The audio is little more than a jumble of noise, of fumbling and the clatter of keys; the visual feed is no less confusing. There's the image of a corridor, milling newcomers, and it ends as the camera settles to

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[espionage_gamer]

[Owner of said room just so happened to be out grabbing a pack of smokes, some energy drinks and a new game from the mall. And what does he come back to? Someone in his room.

Several facts keep him calm about this. He doesn't have a gun on him, the kid looks like one of those trolls he's seen Jade and the others talking to sometimes, and he really doesn't seem to be doing much harm.

So Matt just raises a brow as he sets his bag down on the kitchen counter.]

You know, normally you're not supposed to enter someone's apartment without permission.

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[2ollux]

ohfuckhmgj

[ He's up in a matter of heartbeats, the communicator slammed shut in his alarm and haste. Eyes wide behind glasses, and he's scrambling to put the desk between him and the newcomer. Another human. All of the humans. All of them.

Why were there so many? How? ]

Fuck!

[espionage_gamer]

[Matt holds up his hands in defense, showing at least that he doesn't mean any harm.]

Hey don't scramble around so much, you might step on one of my games.

[Yeah, a scared kid who's probably one of the newbies that's showed up with the recent batch. Nothing really threatening about that.]

[2ollux]

[ He wouldn't be scrambling around like a wiggler if everything was Fine. Nothing to fear if that BREW shit hadn't fucked with things. (Not that he was afraid, never.) It's the circumstances, he tells himself, finds himself going over in his head like a mantra. It's the circumstances and the events surrounding and what fucking 6 sweep troll in his right mind wouldn't be alarmed? Even KK would have been. Probably was.

The thought makes him smirk, and he offers the human fellow a grin that's less of a grin and more of a simple baring of teeth. ]

I'm not that fucking cl-- bad.

[espionage_gamer]

[He takes a minute to look over the kid, then glances over to make sure his laptops were still on like he had left them. Looks like nothing was really messed with, so maybe he was just out of it. Wouldn't be a surprise from his current behavior.

Matt leans back against the counter, not making any effort to move closer just yet.]

You're one of the trolls, aren't you?

[2ollux]

[ It soothes him, almost, relaxes him in a way he can't quite express. The wires, the glow of screens, the hum of systems running and the way shuttered windows and the closed door mute out the rest of that too-bright city.

His shoulders are a little less tense when he takes that single step away from the desk, one hand sliding to the back of a chair. Wary, cautious, like an animal in unfamiliar territory. ]

What if I am?

[espionage_gamer]

[Matt doesn't move much aside from a slight shrug of his shoulder. He's smart enough to know the kid still needs his space to calm down some.]

Nothing really, I've heard a bit about you guys from Jade is all. Name's Matt by the way.

[2ollux]

[ It's time he needs, despite himself. Time enough to gather his wits, his thoughts, and what was left of his composure. That brief freak-out in the hallway didn't help much. ]

Who leaveth their door unlocked during the day?

[ A small sneer at best, but he gives the other a closer look at the mention of that name. Jade. That was one of the humans the others had leapt to troll. ]

[espionage_gamer]

Someone who didn't expect to be gone longer than thirty minutes at best.

[He won't admit that he actually forgot, that really was a dangerous mistake for someone like him.]

Ran into a road block on a project, decided to go out and pick something up real quick to keep me busy. Didn't think it'd be necessary.

[2ollux]

Project?

[ Ignoring the dull flush that lisp brings. There are more important matters at hand here. ]

[espionage_gamer]

Something I spoke to Jade with about. She was really disappointed that she didn't have a sylladex here so I mentioned I could look into if the technology would be good enough to make one. From the looks of it the answer's no, but I still haven't looked into the possibilities from the witch's side of things.

[2ollux]

Witcheth?

[ A faint wince, but his interest is piqued, and it's held. He even dares the glance to the laptops on the coffee table. ]

... What do you have?

[espionage_gamer]

[Another shrug, though there's slight curiosity. This kid must be self conscious or something.]

Yeah, their magic can probably do things that technology can't.

[He gestures over to the laptops on the table.]

You can check it out if you want, I've been trying to go off of what I could get from Jade. It's the one on the left, the right one just has some things I've been messing around with.

[2ollux]

Magic.

[ It's like tasting a new word. Magic may not have been real (fakey fake shit and all), but the logistics behind sylladexes were. He takes that step away from the desk, toward the beckoning laptops.

Positively primitive-looking, but-- ]

How long?

[espionage_gamer]

[An idle nod. He figures the kid is at least a bit more relaxed now so he doesn't need to stay in one place himself. Though really his only movement is to grab and open one of the energy drinks from the bag behind him.]

How long what?

[2ollux]

Have you been working on it?

[ Finishing his own sentence, as he moves toward the one laptop, careful of the games strewn about. Everything was so much more bigger than what he was used to.

But that doesn't matter now. ]