69,06 - Disastrous as Always

[ichoosefight]

[ Private to ALL FRIENDS ]

Chromie's right about this one. On top of everything else, I think there's something wrong with the air. What's everyone up to?

[ Private to Wanda ]

Hey, where are you?

[ Public ]

Um... has anyone been able to contact the guys still on board? I'm not sure my messages are going through.

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[VOICE]

[creatingalegacy]

The Admiral said communications between port and the Barge would be fucked-up. Then he said not to worry.

[Pause.]

Hard to do when you're notified that some organization here is coming to "repossess" one of your vital organs.

[VOICE]

[ichoosefight]

He said difficult, not impossible. But then I always knew he was a lying scumbag, so who's really surprised?

Re: [VOICE]

[creatingalegacy]

I'm sure as hell not.

Are you lined up for legalized murder, too?

[VOICE]

[ichoosefight]

Yeah, and apparently they want my entire ribcage. [ She has broken most of those bones, but still! ]

They want 'em, they'll have to catch me first.

[VOICE]

[creatingalegacy]

They're after my heart. Talk about irony.

[VOICE]

[ichoosefight]

I wonder how they even choose. I mean, it's not like we actually bought any of this stuff.

[Audio]

[truth_is_cold]

Something in the air indeed. Can you smell the dead bodies?

Even if you can't immediately catch the scent, it's everywhere.

[Audio]

[ichoosefight]

Yeah, and it's getting hard to breathe. Decaying corpses aren't the only thing wrong with this place.

[Audio]

[truth_is_cold]

I would be pleased with my genetic predisposition if I weren't "past due" on parts that, to my knowledge, should very much be mine. [They want his bone blades, which he got to keep but now they say they gave them to him?]

[Audio]

[ichoosefight]

I'd like to know how they got any of our names, but I think the best answer we're going to get is "barge magic".

[Audio]

[truth_is_cold]

I think in this case "how" will take a backseat to avoid joining the dead.

[Audio]

[ichoosefight]

I'm with you on that one. [ Cough. ]

Gonna have to do something about breathing first.

[scarlet_discord]

[Coughing]

Still in the docks area but I gotta move. Someone's after my throat...literally.

Thoughts--posse up with people, or scatter?

[ichoosefight]

Oh hell no. I'm leaving you alone in this place. Pairing up is probably best anyway. Easy to hide, but there's still someone to watch your back.

Find a safe place, someplace higher up if you can, and contact me. I'll find you.

[scarlet_discord]

[A faint relieved smile, and then her face is all business again.]

All right. I'll find myself a rooftop. Maybe I can get above the [cough] smog level.

[It takes Wanda about fifteen minutes to call back; she's puffing almost asthmatically when she does.]

"Ruined church. Top of the hill at Fortieth and Baker."

text -> ACTION!?

[ichoosefight]

ETA 10 minutes.

[ When she appears, it is in the shadows. She tosses a gas mask across the roof at her inmate's feet before stepping out of the darkness herself, in full costume. ]

Yaknow, I never regret bringing all this stuff with me.

ACTION!

[scarlet_discord]

[Wanda jumps slightly, making a mental note: Okay, she's good at that sneaking up business!] Then she scoops up the mask and quickly puts it on.] Thank you.

[She hesitates, then looks around.] First spell I am inventing is a quick-change spell. Though I never did exactly mask up. I just wore my best Goth stuff and a cool jacket.

Ideas on where to go?

ACTION!

[ichoosefight]

It's not just stylish, it's insulated, fire-proof, and wired up like you wouldn't believe.

[ Sadly it does not come with a gas mask. They get those for special missions. ]

Food and shelter. Food shouldn't be too hard, but finding a place to stay the night that's under the radar might be hard.

Here, yet not.

[some_kinda_hero]

[ They're not. :C ]

Here, yet not.

[ichoosefight]

[ The worry. It hurts. :C ]

[strangehistorian]

I need to find Jim, where is he?

[Chromie sounds close to tears.]

[ichoosefight]

Jim? I dunno. If you can't get him on the comms, I guess he's probably still on board.

Are you alright?

[strangehistorian]

I didn't buy any organs, Stephanie...

[ichoosefight]

No, I know you didn't. But do they know that? Are they after you?

[strangehistorian]

They claim I did...