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The network's been quieter this week. The City's been quieter, too. I'm glad. I hope everyone's been doing alright.

Thanksgiving is coming up pretty soon, isn't it? It's not a holiday we celebrate, where I'm from, but it seems really interesting. This is where everyone's like of turducken comes from, right? I've heard this is meant to be a holiday where people gather with their families, but for a lot of us... it's not really the same, is it?

What are you going to do for the holiday?



<filter> [Private to: Edward Nygma. Encrypted and hackable but lol who cares about what the 12-year-old marks as private anyway?]

I don't know if you're around, but... can I ask you about something?
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[locked from: Edgeworth, Remus, Soundwave, Kiryu, and Lyra]

What do you do when people get into a fight, and won't talk to each other? ... I'm not someone who can reach a person's heart like this. I don't know what to say. They're both suffering, and I can't do anything to help them. I don't even know what's wrong.

Everyone is always leaving.

...

[public]

Our school canceled classes until next week, because of all the monsters and accidents recently. I guess this means we'll have more time to study at home, but... I hope they don't close it permanently.
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I, I have -- have someone else's powers. I slipped. I'm stuck, I d-don't--
[A pause, and some deep breaths. She sounds distressed, and pained, but not frantically so. ]
AGH, Ruka! D-don't, don't move, don't move...! H-here, give me the communicator!
[There's some shuffling in the background as Rua, sounding more panicked, takes the communicator. Ruka continues speaking anyway, her voice calmer but not as close as before:]
I'm not! I'm holding as still as I can... I don't think I can use it to get out without making it worse. I didn't mean that it's bad, it's not as bad as it looks-- Can s-someone please help? We're...
[There's a brief brushing noise as Rua puts his hand over the communicator briefly.]
Ruka, I'm gonna switch it to video, okay?
[There's a moment of pained protest from Ruka, but the audio feed instantly switches to video. It starts aimed at the sidewalk, fallen leaves and the edges of shoes the only thing in frame, before the camera quickly jolts up to focus on Ruka. She's leaning against a standard diamond-patterned fence, both hands wrapped around wires of this, as if trying to maintain her balance. She's never appeared in a video publicly like this, so in the highly likely circumstance that a given character hasn't seen her or her brother before, that person's attention might be distracted by her absurdly teal/cyan/aquamarine/unnaturally-colored hair, or awkwardly placed pigtails that make her look rabbit-like. She's also rather short, compared to the fence.]

[The focus of the camera shifts from her face to her arm -- if a person's attention went to her hands, they might notice that while both held tight to the fence, they are clearly on opposite sides of the wire. Her entire right arm, just shy of the shoulder, isn't on the same side as the rest of Ruka -- even though she is nowhere near an edge of the fence, where this should be possible. There doesn't appear to be any damage done to the fence itself.]

[It's perhaps a very good thing that her sleeves are naturally red.]

[She grimaces, frowning at the camera -- and probably at Rua. Though she's in pain, she's trying not to let it show.]
Rua, this isn't going to help if they don't know where we are.

A-ah! Yeah! Right!
[The camera wildly shifts about as Rua looks for a street sign - eventually, it shakily focuses on one.]
Th-there! We're on White street, and... south of the Bellview Library!
[After a couple more seconds, the video cuts off.]





[TL;DR: Ruka started phasing through a fence, freaked out, stopped, and wound up rematerialized with her arm still in the wire. She's pierced on the fence, but it's not life-threatening. And yes this post is completely unfiltered. They're in the pretty far south end of the City, ]

[MILES EDGEWORTH THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR TRYING TO SCHEDULE A TRIP TO THE DOCTOR.]

★17

Sep. 6th, 2009 04:08 pm
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[Audio: English. Filtered from: Seto Kaiba.]
It will be seven months on Wednesday. I know there are a lot of people here who have been here for longer, but... how long has everyone been here without ever having gone home, even for a day?



... Also, what are American schools like? The school year is starting very soon, and I don't know what to expect when I go.



Oh. I would like to learn how to draw. I can pay for lessons, if there's anyone willing to teach me.
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It's been a week now, and Yuugi still hasn't come back. The other person who was killed in the HIVE, Jan Valentine... he hasn't come back either, has he?

Hiruma? Are we still going to...

[a long pause]

I'm sorry, for everyone else who's lost someone to the Porter. I hope the people you care about come back.

★15

Jul. 25th, 2009 09:03 pm
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<Audio Post: English>

Is everyone coping alright? This doesn't seem like a dangerous change, but it must be really strange. And other transformations like this have had bad endings before... has anyone had their powers change, or anything else?

Oh, and how many switches are people that were changed into humans by the Porter? I didn't recognize anyone on Sandrock's list that wasn't always human, but I don't know everyone. Changing genders is probably a lot easier to adjust to than changing species.

Private to: Miles Edgeworth )

★14

Jul. 4th, 2009 03:28 pm
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<Audio Post: English.>

Hello! It seems like a lot of the imPorts recently are people who haven't been always been human, or didn't come from places like this world. Are you all adjusting alright? Life as a human can be a little complicated sometimes, and a lot of the things we do might not make sense to someone who didn't start out this way. Are you doing okay with food? Money? Transportation? ... and clothing, too.

And I know there's a lot of you who have been here longer, that didn't start as humans either. Was it difficult for you to get used to being this way?

I want to know if there's anything about being like this that confuses you — if there's anything I can do to help. It's ... hard enough trying to get used to being without the people you care about, but trying to figure out a whole new way of life, too...

So, if there's anything you've been wondering, but haven't asked... I'll do what I can to get you an answer, okay? You can even ask in private, if you want. I also speak Japanese, if you prefer that.

★13

Jun. 21st, 2009 05:01 am
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<Audio Post, English. Filtered from Known Villains -Islington, +Hodge, +Kiryu, +Osborn, +Crane. Spider-crypt>
[Her voice is a little shaky at first, but steadies as she speaks.]

There was an explosion earlier today, at the library. I guess it would have been yesterday, by now... the sun should be rising soon.

Mister Romulus was one of the people hurt, really badly. He really doesn't want to go back to the hospital. They cleaned his burns, and I think he said that he'd been on an IV, but... he couldn't have been there long enough for them to fix everything. He was really badly b—

[A sharp whistle of a teapot from a foot or so away, and Ruka cuts herself off. The communicator is set down, though from the way it rattles on the counter her hands must be shaking. The whistling stops. The following is spoken over the noise of a quiet faucet, the pouring of the kettle, and eventually the crack of sharply melting ice. There will be no hot tea for the burn victim.]

Badly burned. I need to know what I can do to help him. My power isn't healing... and it really doesn't look like something that just sleeping will fix. Please. I don't want him to suffer.

[ooc: unless the time line for this plot has changed, Remus was caught in massive computer explosions on Saturday, and is thus not a happy camper. Also as of Wednesday Edgeworth's apartment is unplottable / unable to be found due to magic, though if people leave the apartment they can be found.
Unless Ty and/or Grimm say differently. Watch this space for details!]

★12

Jun. 8th, 2009 11:04 pm
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<Format: Audio. Language: Mixed. Security: Filtered from Known Villains, Hodge, Kiryu, Osborn, Crane.>

[ A moment of silence at the beginning of the audio feed. ]

Do you think it's like when the water was poisoned a few months ago? When everyone started acting... not the same as they usually do. Since it's so wide-spread, it has to be something that can be in a lot of places at once, right? If so many people are acting strangely--

Ruka? Ruka!

[ It's a young boy's voice -- unfamiliar to just about everyone on the network -- shouting from another room. Ruka fumbles the communicator, and there's a loud clatter as it drops to the table. The sound of footsteps; then, in the distance, and Japanese, ]

[man those polymorphs are jerks] )

[ Something like silence, and then: a shriek, and a thump. That clearly can't be good. ]

[ooc: polymorph.]

★11

May. 20th, 2009 10:42 pm
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<Format: Text. Language: English. Security: Locked from Known Villains (exempt: Islington), Kiryu, Osborn, CRANE.>

To everyone on this list: [18300491, 18468825, 17799871, 15319387, 17499492, 18901069, 16315178, 16920368, 16306352, 18921992, 17503566, 19288572, 19015632, 19286650, 19064240, 18785787], I have something for each of you. It will take a few days to get them out to everyone, I think, so let me know when you have time. I just wanted to say thank you for everything; I'm really glad I got to meet you all.

... I hope none of you have any allergies.

[ooc: "thank you" list is visible ICly, so go ahead and make disapproving faces where applicable.]
[ps ooc: if anyone wants logs of yay presents random, i'm totally game.
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Private to Sandrock )<Format: Text. Language: English. Security: None.>

Tomorrow will be three months. A lot of people were exPorted last week, and it's so... unpredictable, who will be next. I've known more of you longer than I've known most anyone where I came from, so I'm writing a letter for when I finally go home. We don't know when we'll go, after all.

You guys might want to do something like that, too. Just in case.



And I have a question for people with emotional powers. Empathy, and things like that?

How do you get rid of the ones that aren't yours?

★9

Apr. 14th, 2009 01:55 pm
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<Format: Text. Language: English. Security: Filtered from Known Villains (minus Islington).>

A lot of friends have been exPorted from the City lately — but everyone else is missing the people they care about, too. The way it's happening, there's no sure way of knowing who will be here tomorrow, is there? There's always a chance that they'll come back to this place, or that we'll be the next to go home.

I guess what I'm trying to say is... does anyone want to play chess with me, or Scrabble? It can be anything, really. Since everything's so uncertain, I'd like to spend time with everyone.

This place makes it hard to keep promises.

★8

Mar. 31st, 2009 09:55 pm
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<Format: Mixed. Language: English. Security: Locked from Godzilla>
<Locked from Edgeworth, post-murder>

<Text>

If you know that someone is going around killing animals, and every day going out and killing more of them, wouldn't the smart idea be to go to where the animals are and catch him before he does anything, instead of hoping to find him afterward? We're supposed to be making this City a safer place to live, aren't we? That's the whole reason we've all been ported here. Not just for people. A safer place for everyone.

<Video>
[Viewers will be greeted with a somewhat familiar sight of destruction: in this case, the lions are mostly burnt, though one appears to have merely been crushed. The remains are still smoldering.There is also a familiar voice in the background — a young man exclaiming "We gotta go back! What about the penguins?!" There is also what sounds like a small rodent nearby.]

[The camera shakes as it pans further, where other exhibits can be seen in the distance — many are already destroyed. There are very distant screams in the background, but nearer is the pained trumpeting of elephants. There is a bright flash in the corner of the screen, a loud explosion, and one fewer elephant to be doing any trumpeting ever again.]


<Text>
Metabee and I are at the Zoo.

★7

Mar. 23rd, 2009 08:30 am
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<Format: Audio. Language: English. Security: Locked from Hodge, Kyosuke, Known Villains except Islington>
<Locked from Edgeworth, post-murder>


This comes a little late, but I wanted to thank everyone for their concern over what happened last Wednesday. Especially everyone who came out to that area to stop the destruction, and to get all the people still there away. All you who came for me, specifically... I'm very grateful. (And I'm fine, I promise. It was a little more draining than I was expecting, is all.)

I know that some people might be a little upset with me for going out like that, when everything was so dangerous. People were getting hurt, people older and stronger and better than me, but I still ran straight into trouble without even telling anyone what I was doing. It was stupid, and I know I could have been hurt, or killed, and that I'm lucky that I wasn't. Where I'm from, I'm supposed to be a hero, too, even though I'm still just a kid — and I get sick easily. We didn't fight with the same kinds of weapons at home, but the world is still in danger, and I'm still supposed to help save it. Until just a few days ago, no one good from my home was here, and even with as many people I've met and befriended here, I still felt obligated to help, but like... because the person who has always protected me wasn't here, I couldn't let anybody else do the same.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry that I keep putting myself in danger and needing rescue but not ever asking for help in the first place, for not trusting anyone enough to ask for help when I was the one in trouble. I'm sorry that I keep worrying and scaring you when it didn't have to be that way. I'm... I'm sorry that I never let myself depend on you, when you offered it so many times.

That day, I saw things I wish I could forget. I don't think I ever will. But, because I was there to see that... there are six people who can wake up every morning now, who can live another day in this world that — well, it's not my world, or any of yours, but it's theirs, and even with everything crazy and weird it's still a world worth saving, worth... worth living for. If I hadn't been there, they might have survived... but it's more likely that they wouldn't have.

Ahh... what I'm trying to say is... I can't promise that I won't do anything like this again, because I can save people, and I know I can, and I can't just not do anything just because I'm scared or little or weak in other ways. If it means I can give someone a whole future full of sunshine, even if it's just one person... I'll do everything I can. Even... even if it means getting hurt. Even if it means that.

So I can't say I won't put myself in danger anymore, but... but next time, I won't go alone. Because I don't have to, anymore. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to realize it. And... thank you.





Oh. Right. I'm staying with, ah, one of the other people on this board right now, and I'm safe. Sorry if I made anyone I know at the MAC worry for not going back.

★6

Mar. 18th, 2009 05:45 pm
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<Format: Video. Language: English. Security: Locked from Known Villains, Hodge.>
<Locked from Edgeworth, post-murder>


[the recording opens on what would be a normal street, were this a normal day: normal buildings would line a normal sidewalk, and the normal road would still be in need of normal, routine resurfacing. it may well be a familiar street to some — it's one of the busier ones in town]

We're not going to run out of air, are we?

Would you rather suffocate out there?

Better a place where I can run! This—

—saved your life!


[the voices all sound close to the camera, but all from the same general distance — none close enough to the microphone to indicate one of them as the cameraman. the footage itself is tinged a light translucent pink as it pans up the street. the normal road has been torn open, a great chasm, and torn tires and broken glass the only visible evidence of cars swallowed by the pit. the normal businesses are lacking their normal windows, and the normal sidewalks are littered with numerous bodies]

[those bodies are mutant and human alike.]

[it's just a normal war scene.]


You've got powers, why don't you do something about that… that monster?

You want to lose this shield? If—

Better to stop him from killing anyone else than saving just your sorry ass!


[the camera shakes a little, its wielder's hands unsteady, but the view turns from the bodies on the sidewalk to the figure standing in the street. the man — for at this close distance, he can not be mistaken for a true monster — is the center of it all the destruction, as whirlwinds of debris, tornadoes of revealed earth push upwards and outwards from where he stands. his divine wind pushes and crushes those around him, a violent sandstorm in the city that throws most of those surrounding him through windows, at buildings, at what humans are still out and trying to escape the scene — and far too many of them, there are. what few are not knocked over by wind and earth are cut down by sharp, curved swords, dark fluid scattering easily. the man's shotels are indiscriminate.]

[his features are obscured, but the camera is close enough that those familiar with him will quickly recognize the man to be Quatre Winner.]

[the camera's view darts away from the center of destruction, even as debris and severed limbs collide with whatever pink screen it is shielding the camera. someone close to the camera shrieks, and there are dampened screams in the distance — inhuman wails and distressingly human cries. the view stops on the nearest intersection's street signs.]

[the broadcast ends on the image of that street sign, without a word from whoever was shooting this. the ID number, however, should be intensely worrisome to anyone familiar with it.]

★5

Mar. 5th, 2009 11:51 am
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<Format: Audio. Language: English. Security: Locked from Known Villains, Hodge.>

<Additional filter: locked from king of games>

[Her voice is steady, but a little strained.]

I kn-know that a lot of you won't know him, but Yuugi Mutou's gone missing. Nobody's seen him since Tuesday night, and he hasn't responded to anything on the comm since then, either. I've tried calling him, but he hasn't answered. I think something really bad might have happened to him. He's been ha-having a hard time controlling his electricity, and it's really been messing with his head-- all those times that we thought his comm's translator was acting up and scrambling his translations w-was actually him and he's run into walls a lot because he keeps trying to turn left when he needs to go right and he can't make his hand go back to normal and I'm really really scared.

[a long pause, laced with a hard, shuddering breath; she's obviously trying to not cry over the comm.]

Someone said that I should ask the Blue Beetle about this, but Yuugi might still have his dog tags and his comm, so if there's someone who can hack into Secur--- trace the the broadcast signals, could you please find him?
</end king of games-lock>

Yuugi? I'm sorry if I did anything wrong, but if you're okay, please respond?

[ooc: the let's-go-find Yuugi log will likely be posted sometime tonight, after xepi gets done with all her classes today. Log is here for Yuugi-Jaime-Courage adventures.]

★4

Feb. 24th, 2009 09:07 pm
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<Format: Audio. Language: English, Japanese. Security: locked from known villains, Hodge, Kyosuke>

To everyone that's been helping me out since I arrived here, I'm very grateful. Thank you. It really does mean a lot to me, and I don't know what I would do without everyone's help.

The real reason I'm posting, though... a few days ago, a man from my home world arrived here. He goes by 'Stardust Knight,' or 'Kyosuke.'

If he is the man I think he is, then he also goes by 'Kiryu,' and he's responsible for a hundred or more people going missing in my world. They might all be dead. We didn't find out for sure before I arrived here.

He tried to kill one of my friends.

If he's not Kiryu, then he's one of the people in Kiryu's group, and their goal is to... destroy the city I'm from, and kill everyone there. He might try to kill me.

I don't know what he'll do here, but... be careful of him. I haven't seen his face, but he might have a purple marking on one of his arms. If anyone knows what the Nazca drawings look like, it'll resemble one of those.

I just thought I'd let everyone know.

★3

Feb. 16th, 2009 06:00 am
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<Format: Mixed. Language: English. Security: Mixed>

<Text. Public>


*Found*
One small box, highly treasured.
May have been carried by someone who has died repeatedly.
Please respond to this message with details about this item so I can get it back to you.



<Audio. Security: locked to Door, Yuugi, Metabee, Mamori, Matt, The Shadow, and The Law.>

... so I think I know what my power is.

★2

Feb. 13th, 2009 11:52 am
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<Format: Text. Language: English. Security: Public>

Has this city always been full of creepy old pedophiles, or did that guy bring them in recently? This really isn't funny anymore.

★1

Feb. 9th, 2009 07:19 am
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<Format: Audio. Language: English. Security: Public>

Hello?

C-can any one tell me where I am? I was in a helicopter out of Neo-D-D-Domino City, to Satellite, and then--

Then I was somewhere else, and a man gave me this, and some keys. He wouldn't tell me how to go home.

Please, anyone? I need to get to Satellite. Everyone's in danger! I'm supposed to help everyone over there, and...



They all must be worried about me...

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