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[20_mentholkools]

Who: 20_mentholkools and open
When: 3rd December, day and night
Where: Around the docks or near Gibson's Boat Rental, you choose!
Summary: Riddick's lurking around doing recon on finding a way off the island.
Warnings: None. The opening's prose, but I would prefer action tags, please!

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[doeswhathewants]

[He's come down to the docks in an effort to find out if fish and birds are able to migrate and swim away from the island or if they are trapped here, too. Unfortunately, ideas of jacking one of these boats and finding out just how far the pull extends himself crept into his mind. And maybe rummaging through a few unoccupied vessels for things to liberate from careless owners.]

Hm.

[He stills for a moment, then glances around]

If you're here to steal a boat, I'm not going to stop you. If you're here to stop me from stealing a boat... well, give a poor orphan a head start, will you?

[20_mentholkools]

[Riddick stays in the shadow of the building he was in, just watching for a moment. He wonders if the kid knows what he's doing, has dealt with a boat or any other sort of vehicle before. But it's not anything to do with him. He shouldn't get involved. There were already too many kids in this city that knew his face.]

Maybe you'll be going after the one I want.

[doeswhathewants]

[Tips his head to the side and shrugs]

I probably am. Especially if you have any modicum of good taste. Thus, I would suggest finding the second best ship for yourself.

[Some of it's bluster, but Serrure is a teenager and teenagers tend to forget their own mortality. Especially when luck, in some ways is kind to them. Never been caught or arrested yet.]

[20_mentholkools]

[Bluster. He wasn't surprised by that, the kid was already trying his hand at stealing a boat, hadn't bolted as soon as he'd realised he'd been spotted. Riddick steps out from the building slightly.]

And what's going to make me want to follow that suggestion?

Early evening?

[southernreaper]

[Kevin was out and about. He was getting restless and the need to touch was getting worse. So, maybe he'd stay out until after sirens. Maybe it'd help, just walking around. He had been told that there was something down at the docks that he needed to look into, and dispose of if necessary. It'd been necessary.

He brushed at his clothing, brushing the ashes off of them. He saw the person. Didn't know who he was, and settled into the shadows and decided to watch. No reason not to be cautious.]

[20_mentholkools]

[Riddick wasn't planning on trying anything yet. Maybe no one was calling this place a prison, but there were still guards, bounty hunters. He got caught for some stupid mistake trying to take a boat, he doubted he'd find it so easy to try again. The docks is a big area to try and observe, though, and after covering a gap he hadn't watched before for several hours, he decides to move further south. Sticking to the shadows, the convenient corners of warehouses, freight containers and crates.]

[southernreaper]

[Kevin should get home. He knew that. He should head home and get under the Void and not be out here when sirens went off. He saw the shadow lurking, probably because he was so damned used to using the shadows to lurk himself.

Hearing his name called, he twisted and sighed, heading over to talk to the supervisor. So much for his unseen observation.]

[20_mentholkools]

[Hearing someone's name called behind him catches his attention. He pauses, looking back, seeing someone turn back. Had they been watching him? He changes his path, doubling back. If he's been seen, he wants to know who by, and what they might do about it.]

After dark

[vw_coyote]

[Mercy generally stayed away from the docks. But tonight, she wanted to smell the wind and the salt. She sat on one of the docks and raised her snout into the wind. Her ears rustled in the breeze, feeling the spray brush against her fur. It felt nice to just sit here. Somewhere, out there, there was an Alpha, with a pack, that was missing her. Somewhere there were Fae and a vampire - well as much as any vampire could miss anyone who wasn't food - who might be missing her. That made her turn away from her contemplation of the sea and head back inland a bit.

An interesting smell caught her nose and she paused to follow it for just a few moments. Well, she'd never smelled him before.]

[20_mentholkools]

[He'd been in the Port long enough to know the darkness, now - long enough to know he couldn't know it all. The dark liked to hide secrets, it was no surprise that this living, crawling thing that passed over the island had several of its own. But that didn't stop him going out in it. It just made him careful, more careful than he was usually.

He notices the hound where it heads out between the boats. Not moving quite like any of the beasts he'd seen in the dark before. Not like the hound that had almost killed Artemis. But still looking nothing like the hell hounds on Crematoria. He stays crouched on top of a freight container, even as it seems to catch his scent. Decides to watch, see what this hound will do - if it was another killer from the city's dark, or something else.]

[vw_coyote]

[Not human. Well, not exactly, anyway. Her nose follows the scent until it disappears between the boats. Then she's even more cautious. She keeps her ears and nose open, prepared for anything that comes her way.

... Including the rabbit that darted between boats. She chased after it, but missed it, whining as it dashed under something and she lost it. She pawed at the hole for a moment, but it was gone.

Dammit. Looked like it was ramen again tonight. She flicked an ear and went back to the scent she'd been following, before losing it around a container. Sniffing around the edge told her it had probably gone up. Sigh.]

[20_mentholkools]

[It doesn't seem to be acting like most of the creatures he's seen in the darkness. Too playful, giving up on his scent to chase a rabbit. Most of them seemed to have a way of pinpointing people, chasing them down. But if this one wasn't something out of the dark, then what was it doing out here after the sirens?

He shifts closer to the edge as it starts sniffing around the container, leaning over the edge, wondering how it'll react if it sees him.]

[afternoonish]

[madvaporskillz]

[Chessur has no real interest in ships, or large bodies of water. What he does have an interest in is people. All sorts of people, no matter what or where they happen to be. For now, he's quite content to watch, quite invisible, although someone watching closely might spot a few odd wisps of smoke here and there.]

[20_mentholkools]

[He knows how alien this city is to him, but in many respects, perhaps he's better suited to it than some of the other people that have been pulled in. His universe had never been fair or kind. The darkness had always been there, it was just here, it came alive.

He's less comfortable in the day. Not as many shadows to hide in, and he was not a small man. It makes him check himself more often, especially when the feeling of being watched crawled up the back of his neck. He can't see anyone around, but he knows that doesn't necessarily mean there's no one there. He leans back against the wall, wondering if they'll show themselves.]

[madvaporskillz]

[For a while, Chessur is content to float lazy along in... no real direction (that happened to enable him to keep an eye on this one person). But after a while he settles down on one of the pillars that boats are customarily tied up to. It's only once he's there that he shows any sign of himself - a pair of green eyes wink into view in the air over his chosen pillar. Just his eyes, watching, nothing more.]

[20_mentholkools]

[It does take him a moment to spot the eyes, mostly because he can't say he's ever expected to see a pair of eyes floating in the air. But he does, eventually, and though it would be easy to assume it was just a trick, there was still that sensation of being watched - and now a pair of eyes to go with it.]

You got anything else to go with those?

/hops in belatedly!

[boundbytreason]

[ When Caster first stopped by the docks early in the morning, she came with a white calla lily in hand. If she noticed the man in the water, she gave no sign of it. She simply looked over the times that Gibson's Boat Rentals would open and close, before she left. ]

[ She returned later in the evening. Dressed in a cream capelet over a white turtleneck, a long purple skirt, and a pair of stiletto boots, she strode across the docks with a dark coat draped over her arm. ]

[ She turns her head, her eyes clearly searching the waters for something -- or, perhaps, someone. ]

[20_mentholkools]

[He'd been in the water briefly earlier in the day, caught out while further out on the docking to look at some of the boats. The only real place to hide had been down in the water, but he wasn't stupid enough to stay down there longer than he had to, the water as frigid as it was.

He's back on the rooftop of a nearby building by the time the woman returns, and he remembers her from earlier in the day. It does make him curious, wondering why she's bothered to visit such an out of the way place twice in one day, and he watches closely.]

[boundbytreason]

[ For a moment longer, Caster remained on the docks, still, wearing a calm expression. She extends her perception, sensing for anyone like she had in the morning. Whether or not there was a building structure in the way, she could discern the presence of another within a certain proximity. ]

[ Then, at last, she speaks out in an articulate, yet gentle voice: ] Excuse me, but...are you still here?

[ Although she knows that the individual is farther off, she still faces the water like she doesn't realize it. ]

[20_mentholkools]

[So she'd seen him in the water, then. That makes him cautious. She didn't seem to have anyone else with her, and Riddick technically hadn't done anything more to the boatyard than lurk around - so far.

He doesn't move from the roof, but it's quiet, his voice carries well enough.]

Real question is, why are you out here looking?