[Motoko is, today, standing in the middle of a rather empty city, looking confused. For rather obvious reasons. The less than obvious ones become apparent as she thinks out loud to herself.]

Diagnostics are coming through as normal, so what is wrong with the audio-visual input?

[At least her comments seem to indicate that she has accepted the ( Read more... )

[Castle's face appears his eyes are soft and worried ( Read more... )

( Private to Mal )

[The sound of a muffled crash starts the feed: something heavy hitting something equally heavy, followed by the clatter of multiple objects falling. Labored breathing can be heard after; the occasional hiss of interference suggests the person must be nearly on top of the tablet's microphone.]

This is -- Valentine. Jill Valentine. [Her voice is as ( Read more... )

[The girl is obviously young, with vibrant red hair and an expression that is genuinely terrified. Even so, underneath the shaking in her voice, there's a thread of anger.] Get your bony fingers off of... Hey.

[The tablet is dropped; it's not really a scuffle that's heard, but there's obvious movement and it's a few moments before the tablet is ( Read more... )

[ My, that's an impressive boot covering the screen. ]

Perhaps that will silence you, accursed thing.

[ Not enough weight on it to crack the screen or anything, of course, but. Y'know. Had to get the device to shut up somehow, while he figures out where exactly he is ... ]

[The feed clicks on to show the confused, pale face of Katherine Beckett ( Read more... )

[It's a normal enough day around the Underworld, right? Annabeth's been working at the guardhouse, though, and the video feed comes on as she grabs her tablet to leave. It catches a rather nice shot as she opens the door of a rather large group of spiders on the ground in front of her and several more on the door which she slams shut after she ( Read more... )

[The video feed clicks on. Lina is not amused at all. Spiders. She doesn't like bugs very much, but she's not really afraid of them.]

What's going on with all the spiders?

[She keeps a grip on the tablet as she looks around. Too many bugs. She shudders a bit.]

Ray Wing!

[She takes off, flying in the air a bit and then looking down at the mass ( Read more... )

( Cut for violent imagery, the manhandling of a lady, and a half-assed murder attempt. Did somebody order a small novel? )