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MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-06-05 20:18:00

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:mingle, aidan reilly, artemis crock, bak chang, bart allen, buffy summers, calliope-caliborn, daniel osbourne, data, dawn summers, dirk strider, elena gilbert, euphemia li britannia, hei, helen magnus, jake english, kitty pryde (evolution), klara guildsen, laura kinney, lyle dylandy, michiru kaiou, miranda lotto, nikola tesla, penelope garcia, peter parker (tas), piper halliwell, piter de vries, richie foley, sam winchester, sawyer ford, seven of nine, sookie stackhouse, spencer reid, spike, tear grants, tieria erde, xander harris, yuuki kuran, yuuri shibuya

Day 222 — Mandatory activity mingle
[ It's a wonderful, stormy day here in Squall Asylum and vacation time is officially over! Your gracious overlords have worked out a light itinerary for you today and they expect you to keep it.

Get in line to pick up your food rations for the day. Eat breakfast if you have time for it, or perhaps you'd rather skip this one time and save yourself the discomfort during the two hours of exercise that follow. Jogging, jumping jacks or perhaps impromptu team sports, whatever you end up doing you bet you'll come out exercised in the end!

Should you not want to participate... well. We have ways to make you join in. Anyone reluctant to get their heart rate up will get a helpful electric prod by one of the bots until they comply. Tough cookies.

Luckily you'll get a chance to wash off that sweat (hope you're not shy, the wash room can get crowded) before it's time for the silent game for an hour, followed by lunch. The day is not over yet though! There's still time for a couple of hours of hard labor tending to the crops, doing laundry or perhaps breaking bricks in the yard. To make sure none of the inmates are broken this is also the time for mandatory physical checkups — bots will guide you to the hospital. No ifs or buts. The violation of personal privacy is for your own good, we promise.

Isn't it nice, being in prison? ]

((ooc: This mingle takes place during all of day 222. A bullet-point for of the itinerary can be found here, where we also encourage you to direct any questions. Event info is here if you need it. ))

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mysterymelody
2013-06-12 02:52 am UTC (link)

[Folding laundry doesn't offer the kind of distraction that physical exertion does, unfortunately. At least she's settled herself better by now compared to the early morning.

Even still, she doesn't try for any false geniality or good mood here; her face a hard mask, clearly distanced from everything around her whether she's absently going through the motions of folding still warm cloth or glancing up at those entering or leaving the busy room without a single shift in her empty expression]

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Tear, no, why? :'-(

bottomless_pit
2013-06-13 03:08 am UTC (link)

[ Hei is no less tightly wound, careful to move with practiced, almost route emotion as he quietly shuffled fresh laundry from dryer to his bin. Moving it down the line, he stopped at Tear's station and murmured an apology. ]

Another load. Would you care to have me return the last?

[ he tried to smile, but the mask is strained, brittle. He knew Tear had never liked Saya. He must try to stay calm, for her. Tear was all he had left. ]

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mysterymelody
2013-06-16 11:12 pm UTC (link)

[When her sight falls on him, even she can't hold up her mental barricade without faults. A shade of raw emotion peeks up in her eyes, behind her cover, and she can't answer him right away-- confidence in her voice momentarily as broken as it is-- but a second and a painful swallow later, all traces of her screw up are erased. She can't falter, when he's right here, holding up... somehow.

He should be free to lose it, and should let himself do so. All efforts aside, she hadn't been even as half as close to Saya, so she doesn't have the right to do that. She'd already accepted that she would be the one to hold some semblance of composure for his sake, besides]

Whatever is fine. I doubt they'll chase you down for not doing someone else's job. [A beat, then a near whisper far removed from her immediately previous disinterested tone of:] Don't push yourself.

[Innocent and innocuous to any passerby, but to the two of them who have gone through a similar morning...]

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bottomless_pit
2013-06-25 04:55 am UTC (link)

[ He looked away as she spoke, but not because her wounds weren't worth gathering, a small gift amongst so much loss. No, it was because nothing was ever fair; Hei knew that fact beyond a glimmer of a doubt. How often had he killed a lover, a child, a parent, or an honored friend? How often had he destroyed the lives of those left behind, erasing the memories until so little was left that they could no longer be counted among the able?

Destruction was his modus operandi and death was a constant. This was no exception, but her words, Don't push yourself, made him swallow, hard, before he spoke. He could not kill the emotion welling inside him, but he could try. ]

I won't. [ it was a simple answer, but if he lingered, it was only because in that moment, he wasn't. ]

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mysterymelody
2013-07-02 03:34 am UTC (link)

[Whether it's because a fragment of her will always question him, or because she herself would say the same while doing just the opposite, doubts fly around in her mind over the truthfulness of his words. But she nonetheless nods after a second, before ducking her head back down to the laundry in front of her and giving in to another silent gulp that doesn't loosen the knot in her throat much at all.

There's only accepting it for now, and keeping watch, until she sees something shout out otherwise. Though she has no idea how she could lift the weight on him, she does know that regardless of the past, she wouldn't be able watch someone close to her suffer under it and do nothing]

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bottomless_pit
2013-07-05 01:26 am UTC (link)

[ and Hei waited, taking comfort in Tear being Tear and knowing that she questioned just as much as he did the worth that was in this world, in these senseless acts, but he could not linger. Taking a step back, he nodded quietly. ]

I'll return shortly then. If we work quickly, they may reward us.

[ unlikely, but Hei had yet to see where Saya had gone. He had questions he'd like answers to before the day was done. ]

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mysterymelody
2013-07-05 06:19 pm UTC (link)

[She holds back the near immediate scoff-- what warden aside from Sentience has been so considerate?-- only out of thought for him. He's trying to be positive, however forced and false it might possibly be, she can't demean his efforts. She should be supportive.

So she flashes him a thin yet reassuring smile, both to convey a hopefulness for that farfetched wish and as a 'see you in a bit']

...Maybe.

[She'd ask what he would want but for the fact she thinks she already knows. If Saya was only asleep, if she hadn't gotten him... someone to end her life as she wished, then she could be with the others...]

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bottomless_pit
2013-07-05 08:10 pm UTC (link)

[ he almost smiled at that long, drawn out "maybe" but he did neither as he wrapped his hands around the cart, ready to wheel it away to pick up a new load of freshly laundered sheets, a new set of clothes to wear that were just as dull and lifeless as the one he wore.

White had never been a favored choice. It showed the grime far too quickly for daily use. In time, it too would become grey, a pale copy of what it once was. ]

Take care... and thank-you. [ And so he moved on, calm and efficient in his movements as he concentrated solely on the task at hand, blanking out his thoughts, burying himself in the contractors creed of emotionless rationale.

It was a solace. ]

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