002 || Really Destitute Vacation

[reddeadvirtuoso]

Characters: Jade Strider, and anyone she is likely to bother. Which is everyone.
Setting: The Cafeteria, the Music Room and the Morgue during the day, and nondescript vague locations at night.
Format: Started in action, but it doesn't make a difference to me. Whatever suits your fancy!
Summary: Now that all that shadow, body-swap and no food nonsense is out of the way, Jade's going back to exploring the Tower, and actually trying to shoot her gun. And actually getting into a lot of stupid trouble again. It's the perfect time to yell at her!
Warnings: Jade being stupid, getting stuck in the morgue, the tower at nighttime, gratuitous Beatles jams


[Cafeteria - Floor One]
[Jade was not a hunter, nor a gatherer. The last week of September was pretty difficult for a 13 year old that couldn't quite fend for herself and refused to admit she was having any problems. Thankfully it was only a week, and once October hit, there was food! Which meant she was currently helping herself to a big old breakfast of pumpkin...stuff, in the cafeteria. There was plenty on the table, so there was probably enough for someone else if they wanted something, while she gorged her face.]


[Morgue - Floor 26]
[There was nothing that suspicious here. Though that...might have, been the most suspicious part. Jade was a small kid, and she was stupidly curious and adventurous (it happened when one of your ecto-fathers was a hardened island explorer), so she was in the process of exploring eeeevery little bit of the tower. Which had apparently included the body drawers.

So someone might have come around, rather spotting a small, red-clad child crawling into one of the drawers, or they might hear some banging from one of the closed ones if someone gets close by....]


[Music Room]
[She hadn't gotten to bring her own guitar to the tower, so the music room was where Jade was usually found, aside from the media room. You'd practicaly think she'd moved in there at least; she was currently seated on the seat of the grand organ, with another stool pulled up to use as a foot rest as she used the organ as a back rest and was currently playing the intro from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band, and other such Beatles classics.

Come on, what did you really expect.]


[Anywhere in the Tower, Nighttime]
[There was normal exploration, saved for the daytime, and there was working on the fact that Jade had such bad aim it was bullshit. It was probably really stupid to be out at night, but that's where she was anywhere around the Tower, with her rifle in hand and attacking any monsters that creeped by. It was much easier to find them at night after all, and they put up more of a fight.

This is probably a really dumb idea. The weird part was, she was even still wearing her shades when it wasn't complete and total darkness-- they were prescription sunglasses after all. If it was absolutely darkness though, then it didn't really matter, and she might have had them propped up on the top of her head, giving you a glimpse of her weirdly red eyes.]


[Room 1-20 - Locked to England]

[Jade had a fashion sense enough not to wear her stupid God Tier PJs, so she was certainly bothered by the fact that her scarf was still a tattered (though not bloody at least) mess since Sburb.

She had to go back in the network and find the guy who she had asked to fix it, but she did track down his name, and found his name on one of the dorm rooms. Instead of actually wearing the scarf for now, she held it in one hand and knocked on his door with the other, hoping he and only he was around 'cause damn this was gonna be kind of embarrassing.]

Comments

Night time

[puppy_lancer]

[Seeing how for Lancer, nights when he actually sleeps in his bed are few and far in between, he's also prowling around the tower.]

Hey.

[He throws a greeting at the girl passing by.]

What are you doing here.

[It was just a little suspicious that she had her sunglasses on at night.]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Sunglasses are totally kosher. Even at night.]

Taking a romantic stroll through the stairways, hoping to find some alien crop circles.

[puppy_lancer]

You're a little too alone for it to be romantic, and I don't think they grow crops in the hallways.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku was still spending most of his time in the morgue, whenever he was forced to he went and spent a night in his room to stave off the growing fatigue and madness that came with not sleeping in your own bed. But he was still avoiding everyone.

He had just been to the cafeteria for food when he returned to hear a banging coming from one of the closed graves. Frowning he went over and pulled the latch to open it, not really caring if there was a monster inside.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

And Suzaku was greeted by Jade lying face up on her back, her hand near the door of it and her hands up a bit, as she had previously been banging on said door.

"'Sup. You come here often?"

There's nothing. Weird about this. At all.

[swordofzero]

"Often enough." He raised an eyebrow and stepped back so she could get out of the crypt if she wanted to. "Were you chased in here?"

Music Room

[alephbet]

[Oh, oh no. Don't let him start to sing.]

It was twenty years ago today~ Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play~

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[WELL SHE'S NOT GONNA STOP HIM we don't care about shitty singers here, it's not Karaoke.

She wasn't going to join in with the singing, but she was gonna grin and start playing louder and more ~dramatically~]

[alephbet]

[Aleph will cheerfully turn up his own terrible singing to match. Anyone else passing by would probably shoot them.]

Morgue

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch spots the flash of red as he's climbing up from the meadow and just manages to focus on the small form of a child before she's crawled into the drawers. Just as he remembers that someone else had been trapped inside and steps off the staircase to warn her, it, of course, closes on her.

Naturally, Enoch is quick to free the trapped child, rushing to the drawer and pulling it open quickly.* You should be careful...

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Wow was she. Kind of glad this guy showed up that soon. She had kind of just plopped down inside it, so she made a rather loud effort of crawling around and popping up out of the drawer once he opened it.]

Nah, s'cool. I'm an expert at deep-metal exploration. If this place had a ventilation system I'd have it mapped better than Google.

I flipped a coin to determine before/after she crawled in and the coin rolled behind my desk...

[warriorscribe]

*....Um. Okay, it's not like he doesn't get sarcasm. It's just that...he wasn't expecting it here, so there's a bit of a pause before the tiniest smile at the joke. Even if he doesn't get much beyond the ventilation system thing, and even then he doesn't understand the full extent of that. But he does know "ventilation" so...*

But it doesn't. *In the tone of one playing along with the joke rather than one who honestly believes what she's said.*

Nighttime, Floor 38

[silentsacrifice]

[If Jade enters the lounge, she'll see Itachi sitting by one of the glass walls. A few small monsters are lying at his feet, and it's clear even in the relative darkness of the room that they're dead.]

Those things will mess with your visibility.

[He's talking about her shades, but he's staring out the window, and has made no move to turn around and look at her. He must have caught her reflection in one of the windows.]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Jade had been investigating the pile of monsters he'd apparently killed from a distance, and since he didn't even look at her, she didn't even realize he was talking to her for a moment. But she got it! Eventually!]

No way bro; a true cool kid is impaired by their absence.

[And she brings both hands up to adjust them for emphasis. And technically she's right! Sort of.]

[silentsacrifice]

[Itachi glances over his shoulder at the so-called "cool kid," then turns back to the window.]

If you say so.

[There are so many energetic children in this tower. He's not quite sure how to feel about this. But if they truly can hold their own, he supposes it's fine... He looks over Jade's reflection, noting her rifle.]

I hope you're proficient with that; these beasts are tough.

[His tone is flippant, as if he doesn't care either way. And there's a bit of irony in him touting the strength of the monsters while sitting a mere few feet away from their bodies.]

Night time.

[chronomancer]

Out fer a stroll, hon?

[Eridan cocked his head to the side, lips twitching into a half smile.]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

You know it.

[No she's not acknowledging the fact that you were right about something. So just kind of, holding the gun down at her side or whatever.]

Normally it'd be time to investigate the freezer to claim the last frozen pizza, they don't got that stuff here. That kitchen's basically throwing my entire schedule off.

Cafeteria

[littlesound]

[You're not the only one pigging out on pumpkin pancakes, Jade. The little girl several seats down is powering through hers as though she hadn't eaten in days. Which... wasn't too far from the truth. There's no time for talk. There's no time to sing. There's just food, glorious food.

Although when her plate is finally empty, and she drains her glass of pumpkin milk, she'll stop and wipe her mouth and take a breath... then look to the still-considerable pile that Jade has on the go.]

...you gonna eat all that?

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Food, glorious food was definitely something Jade understood right now.

She had just started slurping down a bowl of pumpkin soup (completely foregoing a spoon and just drinking it right out of the bowl), before the other girl caught her attention.]

Yep. I'm an advanced alien life form. Gotta have at least Five Thousand calories a day if I'm gonna sustain homeostasis.

[Wait, how many calories did a normal human consume? She didn't even know.]

morgue floor

[septette]

[Remilia has spent enough time on this floor to realize the drawers usually hold active monsters. 99% of the time, she was strong enough to kill them.

Though they never actually made noise. Usually they were much better at sitting and waiting, then pouncing once she flung the drawers open. This gets her to raise an eyebrow. And bang on the outside of said drawer with her fist.]

Quiet in there, you bastards.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[When Remilia came and knocked on the door, Jade knocked riiiight on back.

It was kind of hard to hear her give the metal door that was in the way, but if she was listening, she could hear a muffled;] We shall not be silenced, motherfucker.

Morgue

[thornythaumaturge]

[[It's probably not too hard to hear the girl trying to sneak up on Jade right now, and she's aware she's not being the most secretive! Kind of snickering under her breath is a pretty good giveaway when no one else is in a room. But hey, she's going to give scaring Jade a good try.]]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Come on Rose, you can't possibly hope to scare a super awesome-ninja in-training. And even if she was really bad at that aforementioned occupation, it was easy enough to hear her snickering like a mile away.

Doesn't matter, she'll play it cool anyway; she stopped climbing into the morgue drawer, and instead looked like she was inspecting it from the outside when...]

--Bleh!!

[She quickly whipped around to face Rose, bringing her hands up and making monster-claw gestures with them as she yelled and stuck out her tongue. ]

1-20 CASUALLY REALLY LATE TO THIS

[keepscalm]

[Jade seems to be in luck. England only cracks the door at first, just enough to glance out and see a kid.

When the kid doesn't immediately pounce upon the slight opening of the door, he opens it fully, giving Jade a somewhat wary look.] May I help you?

a gentleman is never late the world is just early

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[She's half trying to peek in through the door when it's only cracked, (wondering if he was hiding something or, something) before actually turning her attention up to him when he answered.]

Yo. You're that England guy, right? [She held the hand holding the scarf behind her back as she spoke, as if hiding it would make this any less embarrassing.]

Uh, name's Jade. Strider flavored. Was wondering if you could help me out with this kinda, little thing.

[Boy the ground sure looked interesting.]