OOC: Damned Tracking & Powers
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Night:
F1-F10 - Woke up confused and in the dark, but quickly managed to find and turn on her primitive new flashlight. Then decided to find some answers and so out the door she went!
F-A Block, South 1-B - Continued to look for whatever was responsible, following the signs of other patients wandering the halls. The fact that nobody was very upset or found her unusual confused her a bit, of course.
Main 1-W, Main 1-C, Entry Room, Bus Unloading Area - Decided to ambush Neku, forcing him to lead her to the outside of the building and answer a few questions in the process. Although she learned a little, she kept silent about herself the entire time, of course.
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52 -
Day:
I. Dawn Intercom, Breakfast - Attempted to escape almost as soon as she got up, but was caught and sedated by the staff. Taura pretty much took over after that, explaining a few things to Lightning even if she didn't really understand half of it.
II. Sun Room - Brooded for a while by herself as the sedatives very slowly wore off.
III. Lunch - Found Snow! Unfortunately, they pretty much just ended up confusing the hell out of each other until Lightning got a look at his Brand and found out he didn't remember as much as she did. She ended up storming off instead of listening to him try to tell her stuff she already knew again.
IV. Game Room - Briefly noticed a not-so-well Grell.
V. Dinner - Met her roommate, Tifa, and got warned a little more about the night-time and stuff.
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Night:
F1-F10, F-A Block, South 1-B - Came around to some strong conclusions about the nature of the institute, and constructed a basic plan for the night: see how far she could go once she was out of the building.
Main 1-W, Main 1-C - Saw Gambit testing his own powers and became curious. When the intercom came on with a rather alarming exchange, the two made a loose agreement to see if they could reach the third floor from outside.
Entry Room, Bus Unloading Area - Talked to Gambit very little as they made their way outside. Finding little clue how to scale the walls, Lightning attempted to summon Odin and failed spectacularly. Right afterward, they vaguely heard the intercom go off again and noticed something strange about their shadows, but were then attacked by a group of adamans. Fight didn't really go as well as it could have, and Lightning got roughed up a little... and then their shadows turned into sadistic copies set on unsettling them.
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53 -
Day:
I. Breakfast - Tifa came to sit with her, eventually trying to convince her to eat and to ask for a healer on the bulletin.
II. Sun Room - Met Zack in the process of being harassed by the staff. Ended up being mildly annoyed most of the time, although she did learn some... interesting information.
III. Lunch - Had an entirely baffling conversation with Scott Pilgrim about snow (the weather phenomenon).
IV. Music Room - Exchanged information and theories with Snow.
V. Dinner - Discussed getting a healer with Tifa while the other woman messed with her home-made alcohol.
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Night:
F1-F10 (F6) - Took some quick notes about what she knew and then met Sakura, who healed most of the burning on Lightning's arms.
F-A Block, South 1-B, Main 1-W - Met up with Gambit and jumped straight to business. They agreed to go and try helping out with "rescuing" people who had been taken for experimentation.
Stairs by Lobby 1, Main 2-W - Led Gambit upstairs, but didn't actually get anywhere.
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54 -
Day:
I. Breakfast - Made uneasy by the new militaristic additions to the staff, sat with Snow to discuss the problem. Before she could warn him about the magic dampening, however, a food fight broke out and they decided to try escaping, attacked some soldiers, and promptly got their butts kicked.
II & III. Solitary Confinement - Self-explanatory. 8| Thoroughly beaten and sedated, spent some time alone wondering why she hadn't just been executed on the spot.
IV. Rec Field, Sun Room - Although still quite sedated, managed to get herself knocked down for defiance during roll call before being let back inside. Met Cloud and fended off repeated offers for help before weirding him out by mentioning Zack. And then Martin Landel marched in and got himself fired.
V. Dinner - Discussed the crazy day's events with Tifa, then got to talking about weapons.
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Night:
F1-F10 (F6), F-A Block, South 1-B - Went along with Tifa to meet up with Zack, having a brief discussion about fighting and then man in question.
Main 1-W - Met up with not only a (strangely-clumsy) Zack, but Cloud as well. They couldn't really come to a decision on what to do (too many protagonists in one place?) and got distracted talking about Landel getting dragged out. And then Zack tripped into Lightning, activating her event effect for the night and making her relive his death from his POV. Night ended shortly afterward, after she'd kicked him in the side and mostly recovered.
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55 -
Day:
I. Breakfast - Woke up to find the military had really taken over, new cadet-like uniforms and all. Also found she was still to be punished for causing such trouble during the riot, forced to watch patients who hadn't caused trouble clean while she talked to Snow. She finally admitted to him that he was missing quite a bit of time, out of what she remembered.
II. Courtyard - Herded outside while it was snowing. Ran into Zack again and revealed what she had seen... and promptly began making wrong assumptions to explain it without accepting he'd really died.
III. Lunch - Got to the cafeteria to find she wasn't being fed again and that she was expected to actually do jumping jacks in front of everyone else. She refused, and the punishment was passed to Tifa instead. Happened to start talking to Kibitoshin, who offered her the use of several sharp pointy things.
IV. Showers - Thoroughly horrified to find that showers weren't at all private... and noticed a strange lack of l'Cie Brands on others. Struck up an awfully awkward conversation with Taura after help was offered working the water, mostly about accelerated healing.
V. Dinner - Talked to Tifa over the sludge-dinner and punishments, then about her deal with Kibitoshin before deciding to do some clothing reordering.
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Night:
F1-F10 (F6), South 1-B - Finished altering her clothes and set out to go find her appointments for the night.
South 1-A, North 1-A, M-B Block - Happened to run into Zack again, then agreed to bring him along and possibly let him in on getting a weapon.
M71-M80 (M74), M-B Block, M41-M50 - Found Snow and insisted on keeping to getting to business, giving only a brief description of what was going on while leading him and Zack on their way.
M41-M50 (M46) - Left the boys to discuss her in her absence and to go to Kibitoshin's room. Agreed to take Haseo's three blades, learning a little about their origin but not much...
M41-M50, M-B Block - Got pretty mad at Zack and Snow again upon finding them talking about Serah and the like, but went ahead and handed off one sword to Zack before... not getting much farther that night again.
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56 -
Day:
Bus 2 - Slid into a seat with Cloud while wearing the worst clothes ever, briefly went over her night, new weapons, and hearing the rumor about 'released patients' thinking they were someone else.
Morning: Magus Park - Discussed the absolutely riveting topic of snowing weather with Snow.
Noon: Main Street, Tasty Burger - Decided the town was pretty bleak as she wandered downtown with Snow, then ducked into the most prominent fast food restaurant for some baffled observation and obtaining some stuff supposedly edible.
Early Afternoon: Kelley Street - Happened to run into Hope, who didn't remember pretty much anything about their time together and actually thought she'd. It went about as well as expected-- AKA awfully with some distinct heart-breaking taking place. :'(
Bus 3 - Was... very, very upset on the ride back to the institute.
Dinner - Still wasn't in a very good mood during her dinner with Tifa, of course, but did ask the other woman to keep an eye out for Hope.
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Night:
F1-F10, South 1-B, Main 1-W, Main 1-C, Entry Room - Decided to go and look for Hope, as futile as it might be, wandering all the way up to the front of the building where she heard the night's surprising radio broadcast and was then confronted by an SCed Tear.
Main 1-C, Main 1-W, South 1-A, M-B Block, M71-80 - Since it was apparent nobody had left through the front, went back the way she came... then finally decided to see if she could find Snow. Still aaalll by heerseeeeeelf~ ♫
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57 -
Day:
I. Chapel - Met Gren in a room she... really didn't understand at all.
II. Brunch - Discussed the soldiers with Firo over their daily gruel.
III. Waiting Room/Lobby 1 - To her eternal horror and confusion, was visited by a girl who seemed to be her sister, Serah, to all senses, and yet held to the institute's story and assigned name for her.
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Night:
F1-F10, M71-M80 - Woke up desperate and headed straight for Snow's room, just to 1) scare the fire out of him by trying to knock down the door, 2) deliver the awful news about Hope and Serah being around and messed up.
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58 -
Day:
I. Breakfast - Spent her morning alone yet again and totally uncertain over what to do with herself.
II. Showers, Sun Room - Forced herself through washing up, then met Utena in front of the bulletin board, which she... still wasn't that impressed with.
III. Lunch - Approached Zack to talk with him, but ended up utterly writing him off when he admitted to participating in the military's drug trials.
Tweaked powers/skills for Damned
Lightning's normal abilities are a bit too gravity-defying in general for damned brand of reality and therefore the more extreme of her jumping and acrobatic skills have been reduced - essentially, barely stronger than the level than they were before she was made a l'Cie (which... still puts her noticeably above "normal" people in these areas). Unfortunately for her, her acrobatic prowess and speed are reduced a bit to more realistic boundaries as well, and likewise her skill with a sword and gun is reverted to pre-l'Cie levels if otherwise mostly unaffected (except for the part where she doesn't have her fancy gunblade with her).
In following this, Lightning is incapable of summoning Odin (no magically-appearing Eidolith crystal here!), as well as using all of her healing and most of her magic spells. However, she still has two: Ruin and Thunder, although they are obviously only capable of being used at night and are extremely limited in how many times they can be used in comparison to canon.
Ruin- single blast of non-elemental magic: like a small explosion, but without the fire.
Thunder- weak strike of electricity-based magic: definitely enough to stun or cause a burn, but usually not enough to kill unless the target was fairly injured anyway. Can also be used by charging something in her hand for an extra bit of punch, as with 'Sparkstrike'.
When 'thrown,' both of these skills are restricted to a small range (approximately ten to fifteen feet away at most, although she also can't be too close for risking injury to herself), cause reasonable pain in her chest at the site of her Brand and, because of that, leave her mildly incapacitated for a short time (probably one or two rounds of posts, depending on how fast any action is moving). Under normal circumstances, she will only be able to use one spell a night, but if she were in a pinch, possibly two. Of course, in this case she would really be useless for the rest of the night....