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Asch the Bloody ([personal profile] stupidgenes) wrote2011-09-25 09:25 pm
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XX7: The Dissatisfying Ending [Video - Accidental]

[The communicator switches on from the vantage of someone's belt. It has a view of a white jacket, interspersed with glimpses of someone's dark tabard and white apartment walls.

The first voice is weary but light in tone.]
I can't believe we sailed that far just to end up where we started... [Luke sighs heavily and drops his luggage to the floor.] Florian! We're back! ... Huh. Maybe he's at the restaurant.

Yeah. [He says it all quick and terse, and then there's a loud thud as Asch dumps his packs on the floor as well. Then, there are the shuffling sounds of unpacking as he silently fumes. It's a short while before he finally speaks again.] After going through all that… here we are again.

I can't believe it.
[His voice is filled with bitterness.]

Asch... [Luke stands there with his backpack in his hands, feeling incredibly useless. This is not a new thing for him. His fingers tighten, and then he tries to summon up some optimism.] ... I'm sorry. But we have an idea of what's out there now, and we all made it back in one piece. It could have been a lot worse.

I know that! [Asch snaps as he rises to his feet.] You easily could've died for absolutely no good reason. The party would've been left without the leader who coordinated this, and then we still wouldn't have found a way back home!

[Luke faces his original, frowning in return. Haha, it probably sounds like Luke is arguing with himself.] So we didn't find a way home. What's important is that we know that we can escape. If something really bad happened to the City, we wouldn't have to be trapped here along with it. It doesn't have to end here... and neither do we.

Escape to where!? We sailed across an ocean and found 'land' that was actually someplace back in the City! How is that an escape!?

[Suddenly, the device slides from its holster and crashes to the floor. This is when Asch kneels to check it and discovers it posting.]

Dammit!

[OOC: [livejournal.com profile] chosenfake is red; [livejournal.com profile] stupidgenes is silver.]

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[identity profile] chosenfake.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Luke wrestles with his own communicator.]

Yeah, we're back.

[He sounds a tad disappointed.]

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Understandably so. ]

From the sound of it, it was a dangerous trip… is everyone alright?

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[identity profile] chosenfake.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, we're all fine. Just hungry and tired. And we smell pretty awful.

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well, those things are easy enough to take care of.

How did you manage to get back? I didn’t see the boat.

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[identity profile] stupidgenes.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Through a door. A door brought us back.

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
A door on an island? That is strange… it does sound like just the thing the City would come up with.

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[identity profile] stupidgenes.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, somewhere in the middle of the island desert, there was a door. We went through, and it brought us directly into Building 7.

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That is really disappointing… I had no idea building seven had a door like that. Was that all you found out there, the one island?

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[identity profile] stupidgenes.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
That was the only place we found, and there were a couple incidents that really took out our food supplies. If we could stand being out there a little longer, who knows if we would've found anything else? Judging by this trip, it doesn't seem likely.

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[identity profile] stupidgenes.livejournal.com 2011-09-28 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The boat nearly capsized, the replica burned some food, and some rodents gnawed into our sacks, taking enough to leave us with barely a week's supply.

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-09-28 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
And Luke nearly died? I believe I heard that in your initial post?

[He is curious about that, naturally. ]

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[identity profile] stupidgenes.livejournal.com 2011-09-28 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's because that idiot used his hyperresonance.

[He thinks this explanation is very straightforward.]

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-09-28 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sorry. Eagle has never heard of it. :P ]

Hyperresonance? Is... that some kind of magic?

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[identity profile] stupidgenes.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
It's a kind of ability the replica and I are capable of.

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[And there is another. ]

Replica?

[Eagle smiles. ]

That must be how you were able to get past the barrier? If you were able to make the barrier resonate it would have been easier to push through.

[A theory he had once tested, with different results. ]

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[identity profile] chosenfake.livejournal.com 2011-09-30 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
We had to have a lot of power put into it. That required way more than just me and Asch.

[He pauses, looking incredibly worn out and... sad.]

... Yeah. I'm Asch's replica.

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-09-30 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
If more power was needed that would explain why you needed so many volunteers.

[Replica puts an entirely different spin on it… though Eagle isn’t exactly sure what to make of it. ]

You aren’t brothers then? You seemed to get along so well I could have sworn you were brothers.

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[identity profile] chosenfake.livejournal.com 2011-10-01 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the barrier is really powerful.

[That... almost sounds like a compliment, and it gets Luke to blush.]

Brothers? Hahah... you think so?

[So many mixed feelings.]

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-10-01 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you both do vaguely resemble each other.

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[identity profile] chosenfake.livejournal.com 2011-10-01 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Vaguely is kind of an understatement.

[A pause.]

You don't... think it's weird?

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-10-01 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
I have never heard of cloning being successfully completed, at least not on a scale grand enough to create a person, but if you are from a world that can do things like this why would I think it weird?

[Nah, he is more curious than anything. ]

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[identity profile] chosenfake.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, it's far grander than that, but he won't go into it tonight.]

There's a lot of reasons to fear and hate replicas. I'm... prepared for it. I don't agree with it, but I understand why.

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[identity profile] eagleofautozam.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I don’t really understand why anyone would.

[Unaware of the politics and biases behind being a replica Eagle is immune to them. ]

I have always found you to be a trustworthy person.

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[identity profile] chosenfake.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Awwwww. His look of surprise melts into a soft smile.]

... Thanks.