[ a young man standing straight, adjacent to a desk some of you might recognize as Gino's in the DF office. he's only nineteen, but his expression is all business and it has the effect of making him look older than he is. mature, responsible, and there's just something in his eyes. ]

Good morning, everyone. For those of you who are new here, my name is Suzaku Kururugi. I'm currently head of the Defense Force here in Marina. The Defense Force is here for your protection, and you can also address any questions you might have to us. If you need help, with anything, you can come down to our HQ and ask -- or you can use your communicator to direct a private message to "the Defense Force". The communicator knows who we are.

If you're interested in signing up to join the Defense Force, please let me know. [ a pause, because how to say this, and then: ] We have civilian positions open as well, if there's anyone who's good with computers or details.


[Filtered to current DF members]

...Please report. Several of our people have failed to appear for their scheduled patrols, and I'm sorry -- but Marina needs Defense Force members it can depend upon. I know we're a volunteer organization, but we've also been entrusted with the means to protect people here and that is a duty I hope we all take very seriously.



((ooc: This is both a recruitment post AND a roll call. DF members who don't respond to this post will be removed and have their weapon confiscated! (Hiatused characters excepted.) Please remember that you must be willing to be involved with DF activities: if another player needs to plot with the DF, you and your character should be ready to volunteer. If that's not something you can do, please don't join, resign ICly, or let Suzaku take you off the Force. Thank you!))

It got really cold, huh? Does that mean it'll be snowing soon? [Cold means snow where he's from, but things could be different in an underwater dome.]

[Filtered to Jennifer]

Jennifer-san, were you still planning on getting the remodeling of your house done today? I don't think people would enjoy working in the cold...

I want to let everyone know that I've confirmed that Euphemia is no longer in the dome. [Lelouch is very serious about this; he's taken even greater than usual care to look presentable and respectful for this announcement.] I know that Euphie has many friends here, and I'm sorry to have to be the bearer of bad news.

There's still every chance that she'll be back, but in the meantime, we shouldn't let the things she's achieved be neglected. Please contact me if you have any questions about the welcoming committee, the school, or anything else my sister has been working towards.

[He clicks off the video and sighs, getting up to start going downstairs. Well -- he'll probably be dealing with that for a while, but that doesn't mean his family doesn't need breakfast.]

[ When the feed starts up, it begins, not with jostling or jouncing about (the actions already carried out and exhausted prior to recording, thank you), but with the image of a young man's face. It's not a very impressed face, with his expression wavering somewhere between curiosity, mild wariness, and a careful neutrality. The tattoos and markings that span his face pulse with a faint, agitated glow. ]

Who can tell me more about this place?

[ A pause, and his brow furrows a little more, caution giving way to mild irritation, a hint of disapproval, and then into something very close to frustration, perhaps anger. From somewhere beyond the screen, there comes a rattle of what could only be chains. ]

I'd like to know the whereabouts of my companions, and if possible, how to remove these things.

Now.

I'm sure you're all tired of people asking "Where am I and how did I get here" all the time, and I actually bothered to read the newbie pamphlet, so I'll cut to the chase.

Acumen: I have someone who needs his head chopped off and I can't do that if I'm stuck here. You will send me home, or you will pay.

Strange... I had thought it would yet be some time before snow came. I am usually more attentive than that.

[Fran is curiously regarding the things that have changed in her park, stepping almost silently through the snow as she drifts calmly back to the tree where she had settled her few belongings earlier.]

Winry. I have the schematics for the Strahl, should you still care to see them.

[Early in the morning, just before the announcement, Allen is cozily asleep in his bed. He stirs a little restlessly at a sudden sensation on his face. Something -- poking him --]

Cut it out, Lavi. [mumbled]

[but he snaps awake when an unfamiliar voice responds] You mean Libby?

[And the communicator cuts in briefly on Allen flailing and shrieking like a girl as he knocks his communicator off the bedside table. You'll have about five seconds to see Wisely leaning over him on his bed before the video cuts out again.]



((ooc: backdated slightly))

[ Dressed in a metric ton of pink, the princess is sitting just inside the door to the library, knees pulled up to her chest as she fiddles awkwardly with the communications device. Cookie crumbs are on her dress and she's wearing the scarf, the rest of the welcome basket sitting next to her.]

[Finally, she decides to send a message and is obviously trying to be very very stern and regal and it is sooo not working. Instead, she sounds petulant.]

This isn't fair, you know! Kidnapping a princess, that's a crime, too.

I don't care who Acumen thinks he is. I'm Princess Usagi Small Lady Serenity, and in the name of the Moon, he'll get punished.

[She huffs and pauses awkwardly and then grudgingly speaks again:]

And... um... thank you, people that made the basket. The cookies were really good.

Good morning, inmates. It is the 92nd day of the third generation, and newly processed criminals will be arriving over the course of the day.

The stabilizer error has been resolved, and the cause of the 'monster' disruptions has been removed. After a thorough investigation, the inmate responsible for the incidents has been located and handled appropriately. There should be no further incidents, and it should comfort some of you to know that, as I had concluded, the incidents were not, in fact, real.

There will be a heavy snowfall throughout the day.

[Where he was once an early riser, since coming to the prison he's taken to sleeping in late and so it takes a few moments for Tamaki to wake up. There's something off about his bed. It's... warmer than it usually is on his right side and the wall feels - soft? That's not right. It's almost like there's a person pressing against him in bed.

He turns to his other side and blinks the remaining sleep from his eyes and lo and behold - there is another person in his bed. Another person that he recognises immediately.]

[Tamaki wastes no time in getting his communicator from his nightstand and turning on the video function. He does nothing to conceal his excitement, expression wise or volume wise. In fact, it wouldn't be surprising if he woke up the entire dome with his yelling.]

KYOUYA IS HERE~!

((OOC: This post is serving as Kyouya's intro. There will be threadjacking everywhere but if you want someone specific make a note of it in the subject line!))

Owwww…I feel like I’ve just been hit by a bus. Did a youma attack me...?

[everything is overlapping. she was just at an idol audition wasn't she? no wait - she was resting from the paintball game...wait...paintball? no it was just Usagi's 18th birthday a while ago...................in Marina?!]

...I totally shouldn't have eaten that last slice of cake. Who knew that three helpings of Double Fudge Chocolate Surprise Brownie Baked birthday cake would be so...painful?! And it wasn't even my birthday!

[ooc: I-I will be slowww. ;-; but I wanted to get this in because castmates!!]

[Brrrr! It was really cold! Ade had never been accustomed to this kind of weather before. Even inside the shelter, the weather was too much for her. Fortunately, she already got a lot of warm clothing (and pretty ones, by the way). Maybe it was luck, but yesterday's events were something that Ade didn't want to ever go through. So embarrassing on her part for crying in front of someone... good thing it wasn't that loud and he couldn't see her. But...]

[Voice | Private to TRC!Kamui]

I acted like such a child [there's a pause, doubting about if she should say it or not]... I'm sorry. It was visible you didn't want any help after all.

[End of Private]

[Ade sighs. If she couldn't get out to look for some apartments, at least some advice from the people who live in other Sectors will help. So...]


[Voice & Video]

Huh... Good morning everyone! I... I wanted to ask you something to the people who live outside the shelter: is there a good and nice place around where you live?

Also, I don't mind having a roommate. This includes the new people who arrived today.

[She finishes with a goofy smile and rolls her eyes with shyness, ending the transmission.]

[It's 4 AM in the morning, an early time even before Acumen's announcements and Eridan has just woken up from his nap on the couch in Cain's place, his eyes opening once he's done stretching his sore body out (Cain's couch is all right but it's not his recuperacoon).

That's when he realizes, he isn't blind anymore!

... Well, all right, he's still quite blind due to that his glasses aren't on his face but he can see blurs in the darkness now! Which is why he gets up from the couch and attempts to find which blur in the darkness Cain is so that he can get something to eat. Then go back to his apartment and get his glasses, of course, so let's see --

It takes a moment, since Eridan proceeds to knock over a lamp first before he finds the correct Cain blur he only knew it wasn't the correct one as it hadn't screamed when he pounced on it. Once he finds the correct Cain blur, still asleep in his human bed as Eridan should have been expecting from him, Eridan climbs right onto the bed and then onto Cain. Looking down at Cain's face and staring with those yellow eyes of his, even... Time to wake up, Cain, this troll wants to be fed a sandwich.

The Sandwich Saga, it continues begins!]

[Bundled up against the freezing weather, Xion's sitting quietly on a bench near the graveyard. It's a rather grim place for sitting, but it suits her mood. She just...needs to think.]

[[OOC:Placeholder until I finish my project, won't tag back until tomorrow. I'll probably add more Xionthoughts then, too.]

{OOC: Thread with Hiling, Lyle, Revive, and eventually Lacus is closed. Visiting hours are available for the afternoon. I don't know what time Neil and Lyle might have swapped, if you guys want to thread that, feel free. I'm cool with it. If you want to handwave it, that's all good, too.}

[Tieria was awake. The headaches, dizzy spells and waves of nausea were starting to subside and come less frequently. His memories were slowly slipping back into place where they belonged, but not fully and not the ones he wanted. He was still frustrated at himself for not getting things together faster.

But now that the headaches were less often and shorter, Tieria had more time to notice something else wrong. Something was missing. He felt... curbed. It took a bit, but, after speaking with Regene last night, he had a feeling he knew after all. His quantum brainwaves had been cut off.]

[Getting up this morning had been exceptionally difficult. Sleep is the best medicine for just about anything. It's like winter weather and Joshua really, really dislikes the feeling of it. Shibuya doesn't get like that... Ever. So it's a challenge to get out of bed, let alone his little chosen home and make to the shelter.

He doesn't really want to see people. But he's hungry. Joshua likes to eat. Joshua likes to eat plenty.

Listening to the comings and going of people had been getting tiring. And by the time he has a nice cup of coffee and some cereal, he has his own video feed on. It doesn't matter to him, really. He'll just sit here in the kitchen and eat his breakfast, sitting on one of the counter tops. Joshua is also sitting in front of some appliances, choosing to be a little difficult to anyone who is attempting to make their own tasty food stuffs. Even with the camera on and the video feed going, his expression is rather apathetic, borderline annoyed.]

It's another one of those days, is it?

[Yawns. Bored bored bored.]

Here's a quick question to all those who have been here for a while:

How many are actually staying in the shelter anymore? I don't really see much of a point to now, do you? It's not like there's a function like before the remodel, now is there?

[ Jeanne didn't mean to have the feed on for most of this. She's just rambling on, psyching herself up for the call she had been putting off for far too long. Today was an exciting day, with exciting possibilities... why would she not want to share this with someone she considered a good friend?

Of course she would. That's why she's making this call. ]
( Saya...?  )