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[systmadmin]

Who: CLU and Toshiko
Where: Level 1
When: Dated to a little after 7pm on Sunday (11/13).
Warnings: Violence, death

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[hopeless_hacker]

Toshiko was tired. Since Rinzler's graduation she had found it hard to focus - she was the sort of person who was just fine when she had something at the centre of her life she could consider her job, but without it everything started spinning away in all directions. Her life at the moment was just a sleep-work cycle, going from the engine room to her cabin with interludes for food only if she was really thinking about it. She had acknowledged she was spending too much time on the Grid, but until it was something other than a guilty secret she was never going to address that.

Her cabin had once just opened with a lock and key but when given the opportunity she had bulked things up a little. She pressed her thumb against a biometric scanner, and a mechanism snapped back to expose the lock; she turned the key and pushed the door open, stepping over the threshold.

[systmadmin]

The moment the door opened, CLU quickly moved forward and knocked the door closed behind him. His mask closed around his face; not to conceal his identity, particularly, but for the protection it provided.

At the same time, and in one fluid motion, his arm wrapped tight around Toshiko's neck, and he used his momentum to slam her head hard against the nearest surface in an attempt to disorient her.

[hopeless_hacker]

By the time she was over the shock, her head was slammed against the wall; everything wobbled on its axis for a moment and she saw stars. Weakened by the blow and working only on impulse, she grabbed at the arm around her neck with one hand and jabbed her other elbow back towards her attacker's ribs, but she didn't have the leverage for it to be effective.

[systmadmin]

The jab connected with his ribs, but weakly. CLU tore her hand away from his arm and twisted it harshly behind her back, then locked his foot around her ankle and threw his weight forward and down in attempt to slam her to the ground.