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skipped3rdgrade (skipped3rdgrade) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-04-06 16:31:00

Current location:	The forest near the gas station
Entry tags:	!dropped, !incomplete, cielo, day 03, lexie grey, location: gas station, rorschach

Day Three: Arrival Thread, Early Morning
Who: Ciello, Lexie, Rohrshack
What: Being dropped into the woods
Where: Near the gas station
When: Crack of dawn
Rating: PG-13 - Rish... All depends on Rohrshack, me thinks.

Certain things about her present situation didn't make a lick of sense to Lexie Grey. First off, she was laying on her stomach. This was in stark contrast to the fact that the most recent pose she had been was standing. Next, she was quite certain she was outside because of the rather pleasant breeze that whipped across her face. This would not make much sense given the fact that she had been inside the observation gallery. Third and finally, Lexie was quite certain that the smell was that of fresh dirt. The sort of dirt that had just been rained on. Again, dirt had no place in the OR gallery.

Snapping her eyes open, Lexie marveled at the forest she suddenly found herself in. Was she hallucinating? It didn't make any sense to have been in the gallery one minute and laying in the middle of nowhere the next. Tentatively, Lexi reached down and pinched her thigh, eliciting an "Ouch!" as her reaction. She could be having sensory and visual hallucinations. But, why? She wasn't all that more stressed than usual and she was healthy... why was she sitting in a forest?

"H-h-hello?" She stammered, pushing herself to a standing position. Dressed in scrubs and sneakers Lexie actually was feeling quite naked. Spinning about she spotted a pouch laying nearby, "H-hello?" She asked again, tentatively bending over to pick up the pouch.

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cloudlesssky
2009-04-10 11:36 pm UTC (link)

For a brief moment, the silence from the woman confused Cielo and he found himself glancing back over his shoulder at her. The physical reactions, the backing away and the chewing at her lip, spoke of what he thought was fear but he wasn't certain enough to hang a firm name on it just yet. Still, she appeared to be a rare civilian so that probably meant that she should be covered instead of having to try to fight on her own -- right?

"It'll be okay, sis," Cielo called over his shoulder. He offered her a bright smile and an almost casual wave of his hand as if this were all just a casual meeting in a neutral place rather than a case of waking up in an entirely strange forest with weird masked men who liked to fall out of trees. Not that Cielo wasn't curious about both their current location and the reason said masked man was hiding up in trees, but he wasn't at the point of getting severely stressed over it. "See, even the weirdo with the mask thinks so."

Speaking of the weirdo with the mask -- Cielo turned his attention back around front. His arms crossed over himself, he tipped his head curiously at the masked man and, for all the world, he looked like a curious child just trying to figure out why the silly adult was being so needlessly vague. "What's the big secret? You're not hiding the reason for why we're here, are you?"

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walters_journal
2009-04-15 09:47 am UTC (link)

Rorschach noticed the woman's unease and fear; typical for females, he thought disdainfully. The young man with her was continuing to puff himself out and strut around like he could not only protect her, but himself as well. Either he was bluffing, or completely unaware of what Rorschach was capable of doing. He waited patiently for the young man to finish his reassurance to the woman (brave) and calling Rorschach a "weirdo" (dangerous and foolish).

Ciello did resemble a child, and that was how Rorschach was beginning to see him. Children, of course, did not get to hear important secrets. Not that Rorschach seemed to know the one that was most relevant. "Am like you. Don't know why we're here."

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-04-15 07:39 pm UTC (link)

Am like you

Yeah, the dude had just said that, right? Oh, now Lexie was just feeling like a total lame duck. Just because the guy looked kind of weird, and talked kind of weird, and totally skeeved her out; well, was it really right for her to totally judge him like that? Shouldn't she at least wait for him to do something insane like... eating human flesh? Or talking to trees? Or saying that the aliens were living in his brain?

"I'm Lexie," She quietly introduced herself to the pair of them, forcing back on the facade of total confidence. "We should probably go look for a phone or something, right? Call for help?"

Help in getting out of here

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cloudlesssky
2009-04-15 10:58 pm UTC (link)

Though he did still have his doubts about the strange masked guy, Cielo quickly decided to just accept that they were all in the same boat and to not hold whatever it was that drove him to wear a mask against the other man; who knew? Maybe there was some sort of deformity involved...or maybe he was using it to disguise his own atma mark. Whatever it was, it certainly wasn't the most important thing to worry about.

"Just call me Cielo," he answered Lexie's introduction in kind and even offered her another cheerful little wave. The mention of trying to find some help did seem like a good idea and so he nodded, but his head remained cocked to one side as he thought it over. "This..." He paused a moment, searching for the right word for all the greenery and failing to find it. "This place can't be so big, yea? We can walk a bit and see if there's a complex or anything."

The idea of climbing up on one of the taller structures in order to scout out the area did occur to him but doubts of how useful any such action would be kept him from actually bringing it up.

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