search for something warm

[poisonousflame]

Characters: Axel and OPEN!
Setting: Any floor where powers work. ALSO, any day between December 1st and December 13th. (Just note the floor and date in the subject!)
Format: Anything goes; I'll match you!
Summary: It's cold. Axel's trying to find a warm spot. Travel ensues.
Warnings: None yet!


The carnival, while not exactly his thing, had been warm. Not just warm: it was like a nice summer day, and Axel had enjoyed every second of it. He'd even taken a few naps. Sure, it ended up being creepy and full of crying girls and whatever else, but he preferred to look on the bright side.

As the temperature continued to drop, Axel began to search for more places like the carnival. Warm places, that is. And what better way to search than to open up a corridor and just ... walk through?


[ ooc: prompts for floors 100, 54, and 38 are also all OPEN! ]

Comments

probably sometime late I don't want to backdate too far - 12th?

[bloodyashes]

There's a slight double-take - Axel doesn't look enough like Reno to make Asch care one way or the other, but they sound enough alike that he cracks his eyes for another look. Okay, no, not quite an alter-Reno so whatever.

"No," he says with a bit of a huff. "Mostly, anyway. Had a bad run-in with a couple of violent quail."

He says it like this is something that happens every day, which it almost is.

sounds great! /o/

[poisonousflame]

Violent ... quail?

The Nobody is quiet for a moment, waiting for the punchline. Only ... there isn't one coming. From the looks of this guy, he's being completely serious.

Alright then.

"Really?" he asks. "Didn't know we had aggressive poultry around here. Y'know, they really should have some kinda handout. Or at least a 'Beware of Birds' sign."

Not that he actually thinks such a sign would be posted in this place. From what he's seen so far, dangers go unannounced.

[bloodyashes]

He's supernaturally serious. Axel's attempts at humor get mostly a flat stare.

"The animals on the sixth floor are as likely to attack as run from you when you're hunting them," he says for explanation. "The birds are especially nasty; it's not my first run in with them."

Quail, pheasants, he's had the works. The things you go through for your poultry in here.

[poisonousflame]

Fortunately (or unfortunately), the stare does nothing to deter Axel. After being stared down by so many members of the Organization, he's developed something of an immunity to it.

"Hunting birds, huh?" Or maybe hunting something near them; Axel wasn't sure. "Any particular reason for that?"

Might as well ask. For all he knew, the birds around here might have some kind of magic healing feathers. Or the hunting was because of their aggressive behavior.

[bloodyashes]

At least the guy he's talking to now has a heart to be amused in the first place.

"You can't be so new you've missed the state of the cafeteria." It's said like the reason is obvious. "And with Jason there's not even the certainty that that will remain all month."

No magic feathers here, just food.

[poisonousflame]

"The cafeteria?" he asks. "What, did that carnival appear again?"

Even though it had ended up on the creepy side, Axel's tone suggests that he wouldn't object to such a reappearance. The rides hadn't been his thing, but the food had been good. The warmth had been even better.

Jason's name is known, but the implications that come with it are largely either unknown or disregarded. Axel's never experienced a month with Jason in charge.

As for the cafeteria's severe lack of selection: it doesn't enter Axel's thoughts. Sure, it's not great, but that just makes it ... not great. Nothing to dwell on.