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Day 59: Cafeteria (noon)

Oct 09, 2011 13:41

By the time lunch rolled around, things still weren't getting any better. The voices hadn't gone away; instead, Firo was pretty sure they were getting more frequent. Ennis had been silent since last night, but Czes's voice had been an insistent buzz in his ear all morning ( Read more... )

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unheroed October 9 2011, 22:54:23 UTC

If Harvey hadn't known better, he would have thought that Jones was avoiding him somehow. Granted, he hadn't made himself all that easy to find in the library and Lana had come across him soon after. In the end, maybe that was for the best. He needed some more time for this whole damn thing to sink in before he dealt with the other man face-to-face ( ... )

believein0 October 10 2011, 18:11:53 UTC

Zero was wading knee-deep in a complicated mess of thoughts. Albedo and the unknown person on the bulletin board had done a fine job of overloading him with information throughout the last hour. Albedo was a living retrovirus, a biological weapon. The person over the board had come from the future - four thousand years, at that. If both people were being honest about these things, then this would mean the Institute had far more power and advanced technology than Zero originally thought they had.

However, the new information was not the most persistent thought on his mind by the time midday meal came around. No, he was most troubled by what the bulletin board writer had told him about the future, along with a silly statement that would probably mean nothing to anyone except someone like him.

Humans were forced to develop the technology to preserve their species so the progress is rather understandable......Even though he understood the writer's intention was to explain why humans had created time travel, the sentence still rubbed ( ... )

unheroed October 10 2011, 22:42:06 UTC

When his name was called out (and so politely, at that), Harvey glanced up and saw the man from last night standing there. Who... was apparently called Zero. Harvey didn't even care enough to pick through whether that was a pseudonym or something else. That was what the guy wanted to be called, and that was that. Either way, his long hair stood out a lot more during the day, but what Harvey homed in on even more than that was the guy's bowl of gruel ( ... )

believein0 October 11 2011, 13:34:41 UTC

Zero seated himself across from Mr. Dent when given permission and was rather surprised by the man's negative reaction to his food. Huh? Was there something wrong with it? He stared down at his bowl, trying to see if there was anything visually different or noticeable about the mush that he may have missed before ( ... )

unheroed October 11 2011, 23:48:08 UTC

It didn't take that long for the confused look on Zero's face to register with Harvey. The guy really didn't get it. Harvey didn't know how that could be possible when he could smell the reek from all the way across the table, but the man either had some sensory issues or he'd grown up in a slum where this was all that had been offered, because...

"It's completely rotten," he said, not bothering to hide how baffled he was. It was clear as day, and yet as he glanced around he noticed that there were other patients who were eating their food without the smallest amount of trouble.

This wasn't him being weird, though. Talking to Shiina earlier had confirmed that, and there were definitely a few patients who were looking green in the face. "You really can't tell, huh?" As Zero started dragging his spoon through it, Harvey saw something move and had to fight not to recoil as a result. "Christ, there are maggots in there." If Zero couldn't even see that, then it meant that something was wrong. He was as clueless as the soldiers who were ( ... )

believein0 October 12 2011, 15:29:11 UTC

So that's what was bothering Dent about the food? He thought it was rotten? Zero looked down at his bowl again but saw nothing in it that resembled decay or maggots in any way. (Then again, when one said 'rotting' he immediately thought of rotting corpses, organic or otherwise. He'd seen rotting food before, sure, but he wasn't nearly as familiar with it as, well...never mind ( ... )

unheroed October 13 2011, 04:19:49 UTC

Oh god, was he ( ... )

Sorry for the delay! believein0 October 14 2011, 22:28:09 UTC

......Was it really that bad?

Maybe Mr. Dent had his reasons for reacting like that, but Zero was just...going to ignore his warnings and eat the mush anyway. If he was wrong, he was wrong, but he seriously couldn't see nor taste anything 'rotten' about the food. Besides, he'd skipped almost all of his morning meal to talk to Lana, and now his body was starting to complain about the lack of energy. Better to take a risk than miss out on another opportunity to keep this body well fueled.

What Dent said next about the pipe was much more important to discuss than the food supposedly being rotten, anyway. "I had been wondering about that," Zero said after swallowing another bite of food. Not just wondering, but also being pretty irritated, understandably. "Why would they return it to me, though?" If it was something that gave him a fighting chance, why would the soldiers allow him to have that advantage? It would make more sense for them to keep their prisoners defenseless, wouldn't it? Or was it more interesting to them otherwise?

unheroed October 15 2011, 21:43:33 UTC

All right, looked like the guy was just going to keep on trucking with eating that crap. If it really didn't seem off to him, then maybe he was in the right to do so, but Harvey wouldn't have been that willing in his position. It hardly mattered to him, though, and so he just tried to keep his attention on the guy's eyes rather than the spoonfuls of stuff he was bringing up to his mouth.

It only half-worked, but whatever.

Zero went ahead and asked the obvious question, the sort of thing every newcomer ended up wondering about. Why did they let them out at night? Why did they heal their wounds (and extra fast, at that)? Why did they let them keep their weapons? "Same reason they let us wander around. They probably want to watch us, want to see what we're capable of. They can afford to do it because they know that we can't really get anywhere. Or that's what they think, at least. It's up to us to prove them wrong there."

Which had been going just great so far. Really. They'd managed to get someone killed and then have it shoved ( ... )

believein0 October 16 2011, 15:54:58 UTC

Up to them to prove the ones in charge were wrong, huh... Zero nodded his head in agreement to that. Even though it was only his second day here, he was already getting the impression that this place preferred using cunning tactics over brute force to maintain control. They could just order everyone around at gunpoint, but they had this strange system in place instead for reasons unknown. In fact, almost everything felt like it was 'unknown'. Basic questions like 'why were they here' were going without any definitive answers so far; even Dent had answered his question about the pipe with a probably. Maybe it was because Zero was still so new, but somehow he was getting the feeling that that wasn't the case here. After all, keeping everyone in the dark was a tactic he'd seen Neo Arcadia use before. That kind of guessing game made it harder to predict what the enemy would do and therefore made fighting back more difficult ( ... )

unheroed October 17 2011, 01:54:31 UTC

Had someone really just used the phrase space-time continuum with him? That was supposed to be one of those overdone terms that only existed on bad television. It was not supposed to be a serious part of Harvey's life, and he resented that it was ( ... )

believein0 October 17 2011, 13:43:23 UTC

2008 and the 1930's. Those were...so long ago, by Zero's time. It was tough to remember his history now, but he was pretty sure Reploids weren't in existence yet in those times. Were robots in general even around? It was tempting to ask Dent about it, but that would be digressing from the topic at hand.

"And I'm from the 24th century," he added instead. In fact, my original form was made from technology that most likely doesn't exist in your time yet. But that, too, wasn't very relevant, so he would leave it out. "Last shift, I spoke to a kid who said he comes from four thousand years in the future. I'm still not sure how it's possible, but I can't deny it's true if there's proof." Proof, so far, was Albedo's word, word from the bulletin board, and now Mr. Dent's word.

Not to mention this whole business surrounding Zero's being human. No, it wasn't like time travel somehow put him into this body. However, the transformation was undeniable proof that something was made possible here that would otherwise be impossible to achieve back ( ... )

unheroed October 17 2011, 22:54:48 UTC

The 24th century. Harvey had to fight not to blanch when he heard that. It was, by all accounts, completely ridiculous. But in the end he knew that wasn't necessarily true. Sure, it was easier for him to accept someone from the past, but in reality his time could just as easily be someone else's past too. The egotistical part of him had figured that he had to be the furthest along, but he had to face the facts: time marched steadily forward, and apparently Aguilar and company had complete control over it ( ... )

believein0 October 18 2011, 13:53:08 UTC

To Dent's request, Zero stared quietly at first. His primary reaction was to give Dent the straight facts, as lying and cryptic metaphors weren't things he were fond of. (Sorry, X.) But was that something he should do in this situation? Did Dent really need to know that the world was still trying to recover from a brutal war which decimated its human and Reploid populations and left much of it inhospitable to most forms of organic life? Not to mention the struggles between Neo Arcadia and the Resistance, Weil's tyrannical rule... If Dent was expecting to hear about a pretty future, well, 23XX wasn't one.

That didn't mean it was a hopeless future. Explaining it to Dent straight may make him think that, so Zero decided he would be honest - just trying to word it in such a way so that things didn't sound worse than they really were ( ... )

unheroed October 21 2011, 03:08:23 UTC

Was Harvey surprised to hear that near constant war had put Earth into a sorry state? Not at all. If one measly city (not that Gotham was small by any means, but in the grand scheme of things it was) couldn't get its act together, then what sort of hope was he supposed to hold for the rest of the world? No, people functioned on their own greed and selfishness and things never got better. Even when figures like Batman tried to fight for justice, it all just steadily got worse. As much as those vigilantes wanted to think that they were helping, in the end they were just part of the problem.

There was a reason that Harvey had decided to give up on fixing things. It was so much easier -- no, it made so much more sense to just go with the flow and embrace his own philosophy for things. At least now it was something realistic ( ... )

believein0 October 22 2011, 06:00:55 UTC

How does what work? How Reploids came to be, or how they literally worked? Either one was honestly a little difficult to explain. Zero had to think for a second about it. "Well...it depends, and our purpose to humans has changed over time. Reploids have been around as long or longer than I've been operating, which has been since..." What was the earliest year he could remember? It was hard to say for sure...um...it was... "...sometime in the 22nd century." He believed. The same century the Maverick Wars were fought in, and as far back as his memory went, so it had to be the same century he was 'born' in, right? ...Guess it didn't really matter so much ( ... )

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