TOKYO OPT-IN 3/4

[tokyodisa]

Who: Opt-in characters
What: Play telephone and fight a monster
When: Backdated to 3am, 21/July
Where: Tokyo... or is it?
Rating: PG-13

It's been hours, and the woman still hasn't come back. Zeiram is still out there, somewhere, in the darkness, and you're still trapped in the empty cordon. What are you going to do?

[ A GIFT | CONSTRUCTION SITE | RETURN ]

Comments

[97995]

[omg.] It's fine. Calm down. Are you all together? Are you safe?

[hellofist]

Safe for now. Others are... somewhere. How do we- stop monster? If it comes back?

[WHEN is probably a more appropriate word.]

[97995]

Comes back? Zeiram is loose?

[hellofist]

Different monster came, broke cage. [It was gross.] Does it have- weak spot?

[97995]

[The woman mutters something in a rapid-fire foreign language. It's probably a swear.]

There shouldn't have been more than one to begin with. Zeiram was supposed to be alone. [She starts speaking in that fast language again, though it's a little distant, so she's probably talking to someone else. A male's voice responds to her and they spend a few seconds going back and forth before she speaks clearly again.] He must have brought them with him somehow. I don't know anything about him other than he's dangerous.

My maps show that I have a weapons cache where I left Zeiram, in that construction site. Can you get there?

[hellofist]

[She damn well better be able to, going up against that thing bare handed hadn't gone as well as it should have.]

We'll find it. Anything else... we should know? Do?

[97995]

Yes -- listen to me. You need to stay together so I can rescue you when the time comes. The Zone is on a set timer -- in two hours, it'll disappear. And you'll disappear with it.

Get to the weapons cache and look for a silver case. There's a powerful gun inside, though you'll need to construct it. I'd like to take him alive and get my bounty, but I won't make you do that.

[She pauses, and her voice drops slightly. She's been all business so far, but her tone softens slightly.] For what it's worth... I'm sorry this happened to you. It wasn't supposed to happen.

[hellofist]

Alive is fine. Can shoot out legs. What kind of gun? Weird space gun, or- Earth gun?

[It's that other bit that worries Cass, the part about everyone staying together. That kind of rule hardly ever gets followed, there's always someone who thinks they know better.

And Cass has been business too, it's hard to turn that off when the immediate danger is still very real, but she can at least be polite.]

No one's dead. We'll be fine.

[97995]

[There's a pause on the other end, because... well, obviously a "weird space gun" is going to be normal to somebody who's from space.] It doesn't look like your weaponry.

If you can't figure it out, try to hold him off until I get there.

[And then --] I didn't even ask your name. I'm Iria.

[hellofist]

Got it.

[It's kind of sad that they can't do this in person, Cass is getting a good vibe from this woman. Maybe they could be friends, even.]

Cassandra. Are you hurt?

[97995]

A cracked rib, maybe. But I'll be fine.

It's good to meet you, Cassandra. Stay safe, and good luck.

[hellofist]

You too, Iria.