I can move mountains, I can work a miracle [OPEN]

[rassera]

WHO: The residents of Nonah 05 + YOU!
WHERE: Nonah, Residence #005
WHEN: All month long (January)
WHAT: Nonah 05 open log for January Shenanigans
WARNINGS: Obligatory Bull and Tetsuo warnings apply.


Starters will be appearing in the comments. If you want something specific from any one person (Kaneda rassera, Tetsuo iamtetsuo, Bull rideme and Ken amadaman), feel free to drop them a line and ask! Otherwise, feel free to add your own starters for the whole household or individual residents as you like.

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[rassera]

Your head...

[There's something distinctly familiar about all this. The scream is trying to place itself in Kaneda's memories. Like a puzzle piece.

His hand reaches down, wrapping itself around Tetsuo's wrist, not to take his hand off of him, but to hold onto him in a way that didn't obstruct that.

And the moment he touches that skin...feeling how one part of it is softer than the rest, a strip of it while the rest felt like it'd been scarred and toughened.

His eyes widen.








They're back]

[timecapture]

Besides, think of the photos you can take of it! If you're into that.

[Because Max is totally one to geek over that stuff.]

[iamtetsuo]

[Pain twists his thoughts into a single line, distorting his perception into waves of layered realities. It's only when Kaneda's hand takes hold of his bare left wrist, putting a weirdly familiar pressure across it that Tetsuo's able to make the connection he did. Just like that, clarity's able to penetrate the fog in his head enough to explain what's happening.

That's right... it'd hurt like this before. A long time ago!

Struggling to straighten doesn't get him all that far. He has to trust Kaneda now... who knows how long the attack will take this time? So he does, urgency tinging agony in his voice. There's one person who can make it stop now. He'd already destroyed the resonator. He's got no choice.]

Qu-Qubit... Get Qubit!! Hurry!!!

[rassera]

[Kaneda wastes no time, practically rolling towards the side of the bed with the nightstand to collect one of their comms. It doesn't matter which one at this point. He's racing against time before Tetsuo's power literally tries to split his brain in two.

Fumbling around for it in his fingers, he slides back, letting Tetsuo hold onto him like a security blanket as he flips it open.

There's no call, nothing but a text that he mashes into the keypad and searches for Qubit. He didn't have time for a conversation.

Just a long string of texts that hopefully would get the guy's attention.]

get to nona5

tetsuo

in pain

needs your bracelet

hurry

[Now all he had to do was wait for an answer. And if it didn't come quick enough...]

[rassera]

Heh, you know, I've never had a camera.

[His comm's his first, and that's only for snapchat.]

[timecapture]

I do!

[Hint, hint.]

[amadaman]

[It's not until Tetsuo is inside and the door is closed that Ken pulls out the spear. It's not difficult for him; he's pulled his own out of bulky monsters before, and he's not weakened like Tetsuo is, but it's best not to let him see that. With one disgusted look at where Pan's 'gift' used to be, he puts the weapon back in its bag and follows Tetsuo inside, setting the weapon down where the rest of his bags are.

He came here for a reason, but he looks around now to find the person whose violence he just watched. Where did he go?]

[stealwithit]

[ it is always so Unfun when someone has to explain metaphors. ]

A metaphor for not having anything to say. Because the cat--one of the like, forty you guys keep around here--has got your tongue.

[iamtetsuo]

Six.

[He's not sure why he felt the need to correct her on this. That's some kind of answer, right?]

There's only six.

["only." His ideas of normal got skewed massively somewhere.]

[learntofly]

[She frowns. This isn't the sort of bitterness she's used to. Understand, sure, but dealing with it . . . that was going to be new ground.]

Well . . . Why do you think so?

[iamtetsuo]

If he hasn't kicked someone like me out, you guys are probably here forever.

[That checkpoint, there? That means, officially, he's never having to deal with that dump spike trap again. Saving games is awesome.]

[learntofly]

Ah—Yayoi works. And you are . . . ?

[She straightens up and sets down the dusting rag she'd been holding, wiping her hands off on her pants.]

[stealwithit]

[ Kasumi continues to watch him carefully, trying to get a read on him. He's clearly struggling with this, but what's more curious to her is how much he is. Kasumi knew herself to be the "fall fast, fall hard" type, but she wasn't exactly expecting that from Bull, too. For now, she's content to let the conversation go to where he'd rather it go. She knows that what she'd do if their places were switched. ]

No, not here. [ And she gives a rueful little smile. ] I lost my partner-in-crime back home.

[iamtetsuo]

[...Tetsuo doesn't say anything. The news flickers, talking about a catastrophic car pileup, then some business merger of two companies he doesn't recognize. His body language remains slumped down, but his eyes glitter with sudden sharp interest. Taking all this in.

That area they're sweeping over with aerial cameras doesn't exist anymore. None of this would be news-worthy where he's from. There's no mention of terrorists, no mention of escalating internal conflict. No list of checkpoints that went black as a frequent counter.]

[learntofly]

Ah—no. [She emphasizes the negative statement by raising her arms in a crossed "x" in front of her.]

I promise if he had an injury like that we wouldn't have just brought him here. This kind of injury is the sort of thing that builds up over time.

[learntofly]

Are you sure? There's no way you can be worse than Ikki-kun.

[iamtetsuo]

[As small and terrified as he feels, as certain as he is there's not an ounce of real bravery in him, Tetsuo does keep moving. Once he's got a task, he latches onto it, stare hardening as he looks at the bag, then outside.

Whether or not he can do this doesn't matter. It's what's going to happen now. There's no other course of action that he can take, now that his hand's clasped tightly around the bag. He has to finish what was started.

Taking slow, careful steps, as if carrying something so volatile it could destroy all of them at any second if he drops it, Tetsuo makes his hesitant way forward towards the door, following Bull. Every rustle the bag makes sets his hair on end, sometimes literally rustling in an unseen breeze of anxiety from his powers.

But he's come a ways from the uncontrolled whirlwind that descended on Nonah 05's steps months ago now. It doesn't go farther than that, even with fear in his eyes, hounding after every step he takes. It's when they reach the pit that he hesitates for a moment, uncertain.

It could do anything. It's magic.]

[iamtetsuo]

[Pause. She didn't know his name, that's understandable. But the fact there's no recognition once getting it, even connected to Kaneda..]


You're new here, so I guess you don't really know anything. Trust me.

[A long string of falling spike enemies, why. He's met Ikki by now, who, as far as he can tell, is just brash, annoying, and deserves to be thrown through a wall or something.

But Tetsuo... Yayoi has no idea.]

You've got it the wrong way.

[learntofly]

[She slumps over in the chair again, draping herself comfortably across the arms and fixing him with an unimpressed look.]

Well . . . even if I do, you're still here. So you can't be that bad.

[iamtetsuo]

[This is a cue for more video game playing. This time, it's death after death to his best friends, the invincible walking spikes that fall from the ceiling. Try to jump over the first few, and run into the third. Try to run for it, and fall into one of the pits. Work out timing on jumps over pits while avoiding the hellbeasts...

...game over.

He curses, starting the stage over again.]

[learntofly]

[If it's video game time, she's content to watch. . . . While he dies. A lot.]

. . . Maybe you need to grind more.

[iamtetsuo]

Grind?

[How does he have this much technical skill and none of the terminology?]

[learntofly]

[Well, everyone has to start somewhere.]>/small>

You know, level up more?

[superposition]

[Meanwhile, in De Chima... Qubit's actually asleep when the texts come in. Or he was, anyway. At first he thinks it's Newt, since... who else would bombard him with these rapid-fire messages at godawful in the morning? What time is it?

But the caller ID says it's Kaneda. Why would... Concerned now, he reads the messages, and his stomach twists.

Tetsuo. His powers are back.

Qubit scrambles out of bed, tapping out a quick reply. And grammar can suck it, he's in a hurry.]

OMW. 2 mins.

[It's actually closer to three or four mins, though, before the bright blue glow of a teleportal blinks into the room and Qubit steps through. His clothes are all wrinkled, since he just grabbed whatever was closest, and his hair gives new meaning to the term 'bedhead', but he's here, and he's got a new resonator in hand.]

[iamtetsuo]

[Tetsuo's doing his best to practically burrow into Kaneda, teeth gritted, face a mask of pain, one arm wrapped tightly around Kaneda and the other latched onto his head. There's none of the wounded animal attitude Qubit saw from him before; just a mix of pain and panic.

He barely seems to react to the flash of light; it's possible he missed it entirely with the way he's trying to cancel out seeing anything.

Notably, it doesn't even seem like anything has broken yet, including Kaneda - but that's quite possibly just 'yet'. There's definitely a feel of things being very,very off in the room, like gravity's not quite normal here, or something about the air pressure feeling wrong...]