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Tweak says, "This sucks."

Barney Stinson (goforbarney) wrote in ipswich_rpg,
@ 2010-01-29 02:44:00

Entry tags:

!complete, !hell, 2010 01, barney stinson, neytiri

RP: Even though...
Who: Barney, open
Where: HELL
When: Jan 29
Rating/Warning: PG-13 'cause it's HELL
Summary: Barney has no idea how he survived this long. NPC (or PC) the demon, or rescue him, am open to both.
Status: Limited to hellians, ongoing

He was pretty sure, if his watch could be believed, that he had been here for nearly a week.

He wasn't sure, exactly, how he was still alive, or why no one had rescued him yet.

There'd been a neat chick with red hair who'd vanished when he'd hit on her, a couple of brunette boys with bad attitudes (... it may have been the same one. Barney didn't keep track of what dudes looked like) and a fuckload of demons.

He'd done a really good job of laying low at first. Keeping his head down. Finding food where he needed to, and fighting where he had to. He did have some fighting skills that he didn't advertise.

... But he was pretty sure the reason he was still alive was because he had been taken hostage.

By a female demon.

Who thought he was a pet.

He was currently sitting in what felt to him like the middle of a barren field, with a strange... strange... he wanted to say banshee like woman demon? He couldn't tell. His impression of her was horribly distorted based on his fear of her. He didn't know how long she had been following him but he had decided she had been there the whole time, learning his habits, keeping away predators so that she could have him all to herself. Cause she was hovering over him, picking... who knows what out of his hair, grooming him, and all he could do was sit there, like a stone, and hope and pray that she either thought he was dead and left him alone, or had sex with him.

... Or that someone came along and rescued him. That'd be good too.

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i_see_you
2010-01-29 03:31 pm UTC (link)

Neytiri counted herself fortunate she'd had her bow when she'd been pulled in. Down. Out. Wherever she was, it was neither home nor the place she'd first landed.

There had been creatures. Demons like up on earth that she and Susan had hunted. Sometimes with the others, sometimes alone. Sometimes with Mal and his gun.

She did not know how to escape, so she focused instead on surviving. She was a warrior, and she knew - if nothing else - how to survive. Fitting one of the bloodied arrows to her bow (she was plucking them from corpses and reusing them until she could find material to make more), she took careful aim for the head of the demon that was ... doing something to a sky person. Human. Someone that she had seen pictures of in the Blackberry.

The arrow struck home, sinking in, and Neytiri smirked faintly. "Come," she ordered the man. "I know a place. Safe."

As safe, at any rate, as anything down here could be.

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goforbarney
2010-01-30 05:10 am UTC (link)

Barney let out a not-entirely-manly scream as the demon that had been... stalking him, probably, but definitely treating him as a pet for some time just sort of... keeled over. With a bow sticking out of it. His eyes were wide with horror and terror, and he threw his hands over his head to shield himself. His suit was torn in places and he was entirely out of place and sorts and had no idea what was going on anymore.

"Don't hurt me!" he pleaded. "Oh god, this is not supposed to be happening to me, I swore it was just a prank, and I swear I'll change I'll be nice and call women back or let them know that I'm not going to call them back beforehand I swear whatever I've done to end up here I can change I can chaaaaange!"

He made soft, faint, whimpering noises and shivered a lot. It did cross his mind that he should get away from the demon corpse, but he really didn't want to run. Running encouraged them to chase you.

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i_see_you
2010-01-30 05:44 am UTC (link)

Neytiri sort of stared at the man before she snorted. Crossing to where the creature lay, she pressed a bare foot to its throat before jerking the arrow out of the head. Shaking off the worst of the gore, she turned her eyes back to the quivering sky person. Human. She didn't think she'd ever shake the 'sky person' term from her thoughts, though she was making a solid effort to keep it out of her vocabulary.

"What were you pranking?" she inquired, if only to attempt to distract the human as she slipped the bow back into the quiver she wore. She was simply glad she'd been hunting with it when it happened. "And keep your voice down. You will attract them if you continue to shout."

Neytiri fixed her hazel gaze on him before she turned and started away again. He could follow, or he could remain as he was, quivering and whimpering.

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goforbarney
2010-01-30 09:03 am UTC (link)

He winced when she pulled the arrow out of the demon, thinking she was going to stab him with it or something - it was SCARY, OKAY? HE'D BEEN HERE FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW - but when she started to speak to him in a normal voice, and - you know - NOT kill him, his hands started to ease off his head.

"I wasn't... I thought... it seemed like..." she was walking away. His eyes widened, and he scrambled on the ground a bit to follow along behind her. "Are you from... from... Ipswich? Did you... did they send rescue parties?"

He didn't really believe it - likely, in fact, no one had even noticed he was missing. It wasn't like he'd made any friends in the time he'd been there. A couple of enemies, maybe, but no friends. So the likelihood that someone had come to rescue him was slim.

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i_see_you
2010-01-30 06:20 pm UTC (link)

"I am from Pandora," she snapped. From Ipswich, she didn't think so. "But yes. Recently I was pulled there. To Ipswich. They have not sent me. I was pulled here alone. I have been wandering about. Seeking a way out." She dropped her eyes. "I have found none," she admitted as if somehow it was her fault she couldn't find what wasn't there.

"How long?" she inquired before realizing he may need clarification. "Have you been here?" she added as she began to walk along toward the 'safe' place she'd found. It wasn't much - a shadowy alcove with a small pool of water. Not much more than a puddle, really, but it seemed to have a slow feed from somewhere. It hadn't killed her yet, and she believed it would not.

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goforbarney
2010-01-31 12:16 am UTC (link)

He winced when she snapped at him. "Right, yeah, not... a lot of us... were from Ipswich..." he shuddered a bit. "So there are more of us getting pulled through? That's lame. Did they... were they... noticing? Or just... 'cause I know that I'm not the only one who's been here going on a week."

He didn't think he wanted to know, really, whether or not anyone had noticed or cared if he or others were missing. He was pretty sure that it would just make him upset, given his delicate mental state at the moment.

"How about you?" he asked quietly. "Have you... been here... long?"

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i_see_you
2010-01-31 01:00 am UTC (link)

"One day," she said in response to his question. "I do not know if others have noticed people missing. I did not." Not that she paid much attention to people outside of her house anyway, aside from Susan. "There may have been others," she continued as she led him along.

She wasn't completely sure why she'd bothered with a rescue, save that he didn't belong here any more than she did.

Pausing at an intersection, she lifted one hand to both stop him and encourage him to be quiet as she tilted her head and listened. Pressing her finger to her lips to further encourage the quiet, she fitted an arrow to her bow, drawing the string back slightly. That was more precaution than anything else ... she listened, then watched, as a large armor-plated demon ambled across their path, not close, but not that far, either.

She had killed things like it on the surface, though smaller ones.

Waiting until it had passed, she lowered her bow slowly but didn't remove her arrow from where it rested on the string. Stepping quickly forward, she beckoned the man to follow.

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goforbarney
2010-01-31 03:31 am UTC (link)

He did go quiet when she indicated, if only because she certainly seemed to know what she was doing, and he definitely did not. He even managed to hold in the whimper that would have escaped his lips otherwise at the sight of the GIANT FREAKING DEMON IN ARMOUR that slipped past them.

"Are... are you sure it's safe?" Barney whispered when she gestured for him to follow. He did start off after her anyway - she didn't strike him as the type to wait around while he angsted about the situation. "What if there are more of them?"

Stupid statement - of course there were more of them. The whole freaking span of HELL was full of them. But he meant in the immediate area. That would notice, when he slipped out and... whatever. WHATEVER. If he died here, at least he died with a beautiful woman who could fight things off.

It felt like a cliche action flick, and he was the expendable character. That did not sit well with him.

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i_see_you
2010-01-31 04:41 am UTC (link)

"There is no place here safe," Neytiri said in a low voice, her eyes moving constantly. Her senses were dulled - especially her hearing - and she hated that. She'd learned on the surface how to compensate for most of the loss, but it still grated on her. If she had her own body, her proper body, this would be so much easier.

"Some safer than others," she amended. "But no place safe. Nothing here is unbreachable," she continued.

Maneuvering gracefully over the stony ground, Neytiri led Barney toward the alcove she'd found earlier. After investigating it for anyone - or thing - that might have invaded in her absence, she slipped into the hollow between the rocks. "Here," she said with a slight gesture, nodding toward the puddle/pool of water. "It will not kill you," she assured him.

It hadn't killed her, at any rate, and he perhaps had been down here longer without water than she had.

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goforbarney
2010-01-31 06:13 am UTC (link)

He knew that was true enough, and he hung his head sadly. He couldn't help his vague hopes that they could find somewhere that was completely protected and fortified from the hellbeasts.

It was becoming increasingly evident that his death warrant had been signed the moment that he'd shown up in Ipswich, and he was just waiting for the day that it finally came to pass that he'd cheated death long enough.

He didn't move very gracefully, mostly stumbled along after her, walking with two left feet but doing his best to keep up. He blinked when she disappeared into the hollow between the rocks, moving quickly to catch up and standing, dumbstuck for a moment before slipping through as well. His eyes widened when he saw the stream, and he dropped to his knees in front of it, not even hearing her as she told him that it would not kill him. If she'd warned him not to drink too much, he wouldn't have listened either.

Once he'd drunk his fill for the time being, he leaned back and sighed, a small smile on his lips. "Thanks," he said, looking around for the first time. "How did you find this place?"

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i_see_you
2010-01-31 06:54 am UTC (link)

Neytiri shrugged before she leaned against a wall, though she didn't release her bow. She did, however, tuck the arrow back into the quiver. "Luck," she admitted. "I sensed the opening more than saw," she continued as she let her back slide down the wall until she was resting on her haunches.

The more she watched him and listened to him, the more she was certain he would not have survived well on his own. He was neither warrior nor fighter, and he lacked any semblance of stealth. He was soft, and her lips curled briefly in a grimace.

No matter. She would watch out for him until he became too much of a liability. "Rest," she said with a gesture. "I will watch."

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goforbarney
2010-01-31 07:54 am UTC (link)

He gazed up at her, but nodded his head. He trusted her. It was maybe foolish, but she'd shown him even the slightest bit of kindness, and he was tempted to be relieved.

"Thank you," he murmured. "I... I don't know how I can repay you."

Probably there wasn't a way to, but he'd strive for it. After he got some sleep. Yes. Now that the adrenaline was fading, sleep sounded like... an absolutely brilliant idea.

He curled up on a rock, not even caring that it wasn't the most comfortable place to be sleeping, and closed his eyes. He didn't really intend to sleep, just rest a bit, away from the screaming.

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i_see_you
2010-01-31 07:59 am UTC (link)

She snorted slightly at his offer of repayment. That wasn't how it worked in her world. However unwilling she was to acknowledge it, this man was part of her new clan. It amused her in a vague sort of way that she didn't know his name ... but she could ask when he woke up.

Pushing away from the wall, she moved to drink a bit of the water herself. Later, she'd go out with the intent to hunt, but for now she was content to wait, to watch over him, to attempt to think of a way out.

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