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KNIFE ([personal profile] rudelanguage) wrote in [community profile] etrayalogs2025-05-09 09:15 am
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damn bitch u live like this?

WHO: "Antigone," Shadow
WHEN: Early May
WHERE: Alexandria
WHAT: interacting...socializing?!....scheming...
NOTES\WARNINGS: marked where needed, none in top-level


A scant-few miles south of the hospital, the land is...rather sparse. It's quiet in unnatural ways, lacking the typical fauna sounds Knife would expect with enough greenery (the chocobo noises are not pleasant to hear, though they're more tolerable at a distance). It makes innocuous sounds sinister with the risk of danger. It makes being closer to people seem...almost comforting?

Until remembering that Knife doesn't fucking know these people and there's autonomous slaves and and and--

Eugh.

This sucks.

While Knife's set up Pending's stashes along the water, they move Antigone inland with enough plausible distance as to avoid being too easily correlated. It makes them anxious to check in on their stuff, useful or otherwise, but it's safer to just leave it be for a time. They've set up a couple tents in a copse of trees near the baseball stadium - close enough to a food source to pinch from, far enough as to avoid regular traffic. It also gives them a chance to pinch any additional bots, should they need to, during investigations with the inactive ones one of the Shadows had mangled for them.

They're...not really a tinkerer, but the real Antigone is, and since that's their mask for now? Fuckin'...gotta learn to tinker.

It's something to do, anyway, that isn't just stressing about being stuck, alone, and separated from Soliton.

Suppose he thinks I ditched him. He's so convinced he's going to live forever alone, the dumbass. I'm not here on purpose, idiot! Don't think I abandoned you!

Antigone's lips curl back in a frustrated growl while trying to reconfigure chips and bits back where they belong; disassembling and reassembling repeatedly helps familiarize them with some parts, even if they don't wholly get computer chips or circuits just yet.

Near and around the tents, Knife has set up little signal traps: Buttons and tiny bells on threads and wires that shift or tinkle in ways not unlike a spider's web to alert them of encroaching bodies. When one of them goes off, they go still for a beat, waiting to hear if it's another damn chocobo. When the telltale dinosaur-thumping doesn't sound, they get up and peek out of the tent, blinking around in the daylight. Scattered giftbox debris, random assortments of wrappers or other odds and ends gathered from shops and trash bins, and...
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's not his expertise either, if there was someone else like robotnik or even tails, then they could help this idiot. unfortunately, they'll have to find someone who can. ]

Save the pieces, you can make something new with them.

[ that's all he can give when it comes to that. ]

Come along, there should be a store with books for individuals like you.

[ building robots for dummies. ]
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ that's quite the deflect.

... hm. ]


You did this on your own time, didn't you?

[ the whole set up and hide away place. it's not like shadow told them to do that. ]

Do what it is you want. Follow me or don't. It'll always be your decision.

[ there's only so much he can do in return. ]
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Depends.

[ don't worry, he's not going to lie and say no, sometimes sonic does other stuff and shadow kicks his ass. ]

As long as it doesn't annoy me. [ but he will save them where he can only because shadow has done this much, but it's not something he says aloud. ]

Don't make stupid decisions.
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
As long as you keep up this attitude, you can prevent it.

[ don't piss him off. come the hell on, fuzzy. ]

How much money do you have?
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ shadow'll scoff, they should have known, and here they are acting as if it's entertaining. ]

You can't rely on me always for this either.

[ but he's able to get antigone what they need when they get there. as he continues to walk through this.... TRASH, shadow clicks their tongue as they walk in direction of the city. ]
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ "dig" on paper. he's able to get an idea of antigone's era, dated, but usable. ]

Could be used, but there isn't anyone aside from those abducted. Things could be free.

[ an empty world for them to take whatever they need and magically restocked? he doesn't know, it's the only thing that makes sense, but they'll see once they get there as he doesn't think anyone has a job here.

antigone couldn't last a day. ]
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[ he raises a brow at the comment which isn't wrong. ]

We are already paying by those willing to follow along.

[ shadow is part of the problem, especially when they were all searching for the flash drive.

it seems no one found it, and it wasn't even brought up by aurora any. what was the point of looking fir something like that when the world was dying? ]


Do you believe in her?
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ shadow pauses in conversation, still moving as they wander into the city. ]

Hm.

[ is that how they feel about the entire thing, also why they stay so distant from the city created by aurora? the less power they have over them the better. ]

She's only in power because they allow her to be. Some like her, trust her, but I don't believe what she promises us.
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ancient dragon"?

[ it sounds like him asking if that's something the other is familiar with. then again, shadow should expect it from them willing to use gold as payment.

dated... ]


I wonder if there's anyone who matches her in strength.
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-17 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ no you are a fool, because that was a statement and not a question!! ]

...

[ now he's going to stare until HIS question is answered....

you really thought you could make him drown in mystery. ]
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-18 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ that is NOT about the ancient dragon... ]

...And you don't?

[ let's start there. ]
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[personal profile] limiterrings 2025-05-19 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
What are you capable of aside from tinkering?

[ as they make their way into the city, they'll come across one of those shops that should give the other more insight on how to work with machines.

tools too...

and books, there's many books for them to choose from. ]

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