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Accelerator ([personal profile] levelshift) wrote in [community profile] etrayalogs2024-04-27 03:07 pm

[Open] That story unknown to all

WHO: Accelerator ([personal profile] levelshift) and OPEN.
WHEN: Shortly after the second wave of arrivals, possibly other prompts later into May.
WHERE: Near the apartments and Kwik Trip.
WHAT: Taking measurements of the environment through SCIENCE, and some all important coffee hoarding.
NOTES\WARNINGS: None as of now.


The Barrier.

[It's around noon when Accelerator heads out from the apartment complex, making his way towards the north end of the island. It's slow going since he's relying on his crutch, but he doesn't particularly care. The only reason he isn't doing this directly outside of the apartment building is because he doesn't want to interrupt anyone or be interrupted himself.

Once he reaches a nice clearing with little else around he stops and hits the switch on the black choker around his neck, the green light flickering to red, then hits another switch on his crutch. The cane portion of it retracts into the cuff that's around his right forearm, allowing him to stand on his own without assistance. With a sigh he cracks his neck, and then there's a BOOM! as four miniature tornadoes suddenly form at his back.

He launches himself into the sky, eventually slowing down the higher he gets and coming to a stop before he hits the invisible barrier that's encircling the entire area. On the way up he's been running the numbers (more like, doing complex mathematical calculations in his head), and once he reaches his destination more formulas and equations flood into his head. With his ability active he can pick up on infinitely more than a regular human would ever hope to with their five senses. It's like going from a single black and white security camera to an infinite number of interconnected nanomachines measuring everything from precipitation levels to background radiation and intensity of UV light. From nothing to practically the entire world.

Accelerator frowns and stretches a hand out. His fingertips don't even come into contact with the barrier, but stop a few centimeters before it. That's all he needs to start sensing its vectors, and he spends a few moments memorizing the numbers flowing into his head and comparing him to ones he's already familiar with.

Once that's finished he drops his hand and the tornadoes abruptly cut out and he sucks in a deep breath, brain switching over to imaginary numbers and formulas. It makes the blood vessels throughout his body pulse and sweat rise up on his skin, but he keeps going until he's analyzed what he needs to. His temples are aching when he finishes and lets himself drop, going back to measuring normal scientific phenomena as he falls towards the ground. When he's close enough he slows his descent to a float, and then lightly touches back down.]



Grocery Shopping.

[Later that afternoon Accelerator can be found at the Kwik Trip, back to using his crutch like a regular person. He's got one of those plastic shopping baskets in his free hand, stopping whenever he sees some food down an aisle that he wants. The basket gets set down so he can toss the item in, then he picks it up and moves further down the aisle.

So far, he's only picked up a few prepackaged sandwiches and junk food. For someone as smart as he is, you'd think he'd pay a little more attention to the food pyramid, but he doesn't seem to care at all about nutrition. That becomes apparent when he gets to one of the coolers containing canned drinks. Scanning each of them closely he stops at a couple rows of canned coffee, and after looking each brand over carefully he proceeds to start tossing some crappy Starbucks unsweetened black nitro cold brew into his basket.

It isn't just one. He's grabbing two at a time, dropping them into his basket with a scowl, until he's taken every single one of that specific kind of can from the cooler. There's over a dozen cans in his basket, and even with that number he's a little irritated that was all the store had. It doesn't even look like it's occurring to him that he might want to leave one or two for someone else who'd like some.]



Wildcard

((If you have something else in mind feel free to PM or hit me up on plurk [plurk.com profile] cryptophyta for plotting!))
redheadcarrier: (Yeah you're gonna have to come in)

Groceries

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2024-04-27 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Asuka needs food herself. It's not like her body stops needing nutrients, even if a part of her feels like it might be better to just lie around in her bed for forever. So she's dragged herself out to both do some more exploring and find something worth eating. Whether that ends up being healthy in the long run is up in the air. Either way, she's also in the Kwik Trip, poking through the aisles and snagging stuff. Microwave food. Instant noodles. Nothing complicated because she doesn't have the energy.

But she pauses when she spots Accelerator and just gives him a long look as he goes through the coffee, bit by bit. She approaches him, one eye still covered by gauze and bandages.
]

Do you just have a thing for black coffee or what?

[ She recognizes him, but god forbid she be polite about anything. ]
redheadcarrier: (Going to cut a bitch.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2024-04-27 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It's healing.

[ Her response is clipped and sharp and hostile. Don't ask. ]

Don't worry about it.
redheadcarrier: (Of course I'm angry.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2024-04-27 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
No-

[ She retorts, her arms folding over her chest. ]

They looked at it when I got here. I said don't worry about!
bad_habit: (like i fucking know)

Food Library (aka grocery);

[personal profile] bad_habit 2024-04-27 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[So there are a few different factors that lead to the moment that plays out in the little convinence store.

The first factor is that there are so many things here. An overwhleming amount of choices for someone who has never seen half the food here (a various assumption of foods from all other lands tucked neatly away to look for likely what is any sort of bodega) and it all actually looks so freakin' good. Even the sort of packaged snacks that are probably not very good for you at all and others might just dismiss as something simple, boring, and plain not even worth a second glance.

It's so much better than half moldy fruit, ice cream littered with bugs, and things of questionable after effects that sometimes can be fun depending but are usually terrible and send you flying to the nearest trash can. Thankfully it doesn't seem like any of the food from Angels world has come here you're welcome etraya. So there's a lot to look at in a small space.

The other is that the person who is currently just overwhelmingly blinded by the shear selection of items that look so good is over seven feet tall.

He'd gotten fairly used to wandering around and it had been mostly quiet. Course it suddenly seems like there's more people wandering out of the hospital and more people in the common spaces so he really ought to be paying attention.

Both these factors mean that Angel is both not paying attention and not able to see as he rounds the corner and totally cranks into the other.]


OH SHIT! I am so sorry!
redheadcarrier: (facing down unit 02)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2024-04-27 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I died.

[ She retorts, with obvious venom and maybe a bit of malice for him daring to pry. ]

Any other questions?
redheadcarrier: (So tired.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2024-04-28 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ She stares at him with that single blue eye, burning bright with anger and hurt and a bit of fear, too. She doesn't want pity. Pity is the worst thing in the world. ]

Why are you sorry?

[ She knows it's meant to be sympathy. She knows why he says it. But she wants to lash out, somehow. To share the sudden bubble of hurt. ]

I'm back. I came back. It doesn't matter anymore, does it?
redheadcarrier: (Yellin' at Kaworu)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2024-04-28 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
No shit it shouldn't have happened!

[ Her voice rises in the relatively empty store, a bit shrill. ]

None of it should have happened to me! But it did! And there's nothing I can do about it now! I dragged myself out of that stupid human soup and now I'm here in this stupid place trying to - to what? Save the world again?
redheadcarrier: (So very worried.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2024-04-28 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I-

[ She has to actually pause and think and the flame of her anger gutters for a moment as she can't come up with an immediate answer to feed into that little furnace. ]

...I don't know yet.

[ She admits that and she's back to being a slightly awkward teenage girl instead of a ball of anger. ]

But I'm going to figure it out! [ As a balm to her own ego. What's left of it. ]
bad_habit: (imma shove this fist up your ass)

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[personal profile] bad_habit 2024-04-28 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He genuinely, for a moment, felt bad and then the guy comes in hot and instantly Angel goes straight to the moon with his attitude.]

... Listen here you little son-of-a-bitch. I swear to F-

[Forgive him for he hath sinned.

And to think he had been doing much better in the whole attitude department as a general rule before getting here. But then the whole doppelgänger thing happened and well things have been real weird since.]
bad_habit: (as if i care)

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[personal profile] bad_habit 2024-04-28 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[And then there is a distinct shift of energy from the other. Anger goes to confusion and Angel still wants to be pissed off but now that he's noticed the shift in energy and actually processes the guy in front of him and sees that he's on crutches and looking kinda worse for wear. Now he just feels generally bad, he's been having some bad here and getting real spicy too quickly thanks to the part of the not him, him, that's stuck around and digs deep in his soul to hear Charlie's little sessions so that he can undo something that took him months to do that was undid thanks to this world in a matter of a couple of weeks.

He both loves and hates this place.]


It ain't my fault I can't see ya! But, you're clearly having other issues.

[Assign blame. Acknowledge differences. All in one shot~ Listen he had changed but he certainly wasn't perfect.]

Do you need a hand?

[He has four, it clearly wouldn't be putting him out. He's trying to say sorry in the only way he knows how; without actually saying it. He's not very good at this meeting other people department here and well he knows he's probably the least welcoming looking thing here, at least from the people he's interacted with, so he can't be flying off the handle at every little thing.

It's already very clear that the only way to get through all this is to be able to work together in some way.]
skaikru: (pic#9056150)

groceries

[personal profile] skaikru 2024-04-28 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
( there comes a point when a person has just Seen Enough that very little ever throws them off again. a weird wind current in the middle of the outskirt forests, on an otherwise lovely and clear day? that's fine, probably nothing to worry about, worlds had different weather patterns. boom and a scattering of birds? probably still okay, it wasn't anywhere close to where clarke knelt stoking a fire. a small speck of shadow in the sky, strangely person-like and hovering, reaching out to touch something? not her business, provided it doesn't swoop down low and disturb her as she shovels bloodied clothing and a plastic kwik-trip bag into the flames and sits to watch them burn. everyone here's a little weird, everyone here's a little on edge. neither of those facts mean it's absolutely compulsory to be nosy on top of it, so long as it doesn't directly harm someone.



later, clarke finds herself drawn to the kwik trip by the lead constantly tied around her heart that insists prepare for anything. she has a basket herself, stuffed with an eclectic assortment of items: baby wipes packages, swiss army knives, lighters and matchbooks, condiment packets stolen from the hot food area, individual servings of OTC medications, protein bars, also a single pack of gas station sushi — because today is apparently a day for recklessness. she's parked in front of a glass door displaying a variety of alarmingly colored energy drinks, past tired and no longer able to rely on solely coffee; ready to branch out to these aluminum containers promising thrice as much caffeine but paralyzed by choice.

and then all too easily distracted by a fellow shopper to her left absolutely shoveling coffee after coffee into his basket. that's, uh. a lot, even by doomsday prepper standards but she isn't here to judge. if anything, clarke's only motivated to speak up when she catches a glimmer of frustration pass across the strangers facial features. )


Don't worry. Pretty sure they'll restock overnight.

( she actually has no basis for this claim, having never witnessed the sheer human barbarity of clearing out an entire shelf of a product. but, hey, fingers crossed. )
redheadcarrier: (Fall asleep.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2024-04-28 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
...yeah.

[ Her expression twists. ]

I just-

[ Actually, she doesn't think she can say it. Vulnerability is painful. Talking about what happened to her is painful. So she just shakes her head and reaches past him to grab something sugary and caffeinated out of the cooler. ]

What happens when you save a place you don't wanna go back to?
redheadcarrier: (Happy for once.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2024-04-28 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
...I might.

[ She juggles the coffee drink she's chosen from one hand to the other, her foot nudging her own basket. It's a weird situation for her, honestly. ]

I don't know why she'd get offended. It's a simple question, right?

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