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Day 59: Sun Room (4th Shift)

Oct 14, 2011 15:38

After an intercom broadcast like that, Kurogane felt somewhat better about the little information he'd gotten from Harrington the previous night. The man only sounded competent when he needed to but was an idiot otherwise. Unfortunately that was furthered proof of the General not employing the brightest of staff members, making another option for ( Read more... )

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its_the_mileage October 16 2011, 03:40:55 UTC

It was hard to play Tetris with only one good hand, so Indy passed on the games and had himself wheeled to the Sun Room. There were several relevant messages on the bulletin board, but he was really hoping to run into Dent somewhere around here. They ought to check in, and he needed to discuss their next move with an adult--all the more so since Dent wasn't impulsive in the same way Peter and Pilgrim were. He was still feeling the effects of the second round of painkillers they'd given him at lunch, but this was still a conversation better had now than later.

He directed the soldier steering his wheelchair to an empty spot near one of the chairs, placed where someone might have to do a little work to overhear. Once that was done, all he could do was keep an eye on the door and wait to flag Dent down if he came in.

unheroed October 16 2011, 20:33:24 UTC

With lunch over, Harvey had one more chance to track down the man he'd been searching out for the majority of the day. If he wasn't able to find Jones now, then he'd have to wait until tomorrow to speak with him, and for some reason that felt like it would be way too long. Granted, part of it was just that he needed to see that Scott had been telling the truth, even though he knew that the kid had to have been ( ... )

its_the_mileage October 17 2011, 03:00:30 UTC

Indy felt the hand on his shoulder and turned to see Dent standing behind him and coming around to take the chair. It was good to see him looking well (as well as he ever did, anyway) after what had happened the other night.

"No kidding," he agreed with something like a laugh. "I'm not complaining, but I could've done without the theatrics." And he suspected the theatrics would be the one thing they could be sure of about whatever was coming next. What was it about madmen that made them so fixated on dramatic flair? Subterranean ballrooms and stadia and giant snake statues. It was more interesting than your average prison, but it also underscored the feeling that they were being toyed with at every turn--which, Indy guessed, was exactly how Landel et. al wanted them to feel.

He took too deep a breath and winced at the spike of pain in his chest, then pressed on quickly before Dent could comment. "So what did I miss? Aside from Peter and Scott fistfighting in the hallways."

unheroed October 17 2011, 18:33:30 UTC

Couldn't they all have done without the theatrics? What had been the point of that whole charade when nothing had changed in the end? Though Harvey was starting to feel like that was the pattern of this place. No matter what went on, in the end it always reverted back to the status quo. Which was that they were stuck here with no way out and the only thing they could really do was toss themselves into danger night in and night out ( ... )

its_the_mileage October 18 2011, 03:02:33 UTC

"I gather they blamed each other for what happened. Evidently they decided the best way to resolve it was to slug it out." Indy's rueful tone probably didn't leave much doubt as to how he felt about that. "Sounds like they worked it out, though."

He was more interested in Dent's answer to the next question, although it didn't add much to what he'd already heard from the kids that morning. Indy nodded anyway. "Glad it wasn't much." You know, while I was in the morgue. "Peter said the night ended pretty quickly afterwards, so it seems Aguilar didn't have a chance to say anything else ( ... )

unheroed October 19 2011, 02:05:28 UTC

Blamed each other? Well, that was idiotic. How could Scott have been to blame? Harvey could understand it the other way around, but it still seemed clear that the two of them had reacted to it the way children would. Which made sense for Peter, but not as much for Scott. Then again, someone in their twenties still had a lot of growing up to do.

If anything, this place was going to teach them how to do that.

Still, if they'd managed to deal with their issues by punching each other, then good for them. It wasn't really Harvey's business and hearing the news suddenly made him glad that he hadn't interacted with either of them since Jones' death. Chances were they'd be back to their normal selves now that the guy was kicking again.

For some reason, though, Harvey hadn't expected Jones to just rebound like nothing had happened. The guy had died and woken up again a day later (where had that happened, anyway? In that morgue he'd found with Lana?) and yet he was ready to just get back on the horse ( ... )

its_the_mileage October 20 2011, 02:47:49 UTC

"I'm not going to rush into anything stupid," Indy clarified, raising his hands in a gesture of reassurance. It was probably true. "But the longer we sit around waiting, the longer it'll be before we even have a chance at getting out. And the greater the chances we'll get killed by something else." He paused. "Again, for some of us."

That was partly true. Dent might come back (and rightly) by pointing out that none of them had any proof--even any evidence--that there was anything down in the basement that would help them get back home. But they didn't have any chance of making progress toward that end if they didn't look around, and they all seemed to have come to the consensus that the basement was their best chance for now. They needed to get back down there to move on ( ... )

unheroed October 21 2011, 02:42:54 UTC

As much as Harvey didn't want to hear it right now, Jones was making some good points. It was kind of annoying that the guy could be so rational about this whole thing when he was the one who'd gotten his chest punched in two nights ago. Then again, maybe that was why. Unlike the rest of them, he hadn't spent a day dealing with the aftermath of that whole mess ( ... )

its_the_mileage October 22 2011, 21:52:42 UTC

Indy nodded. "All right." He appreciated Dent's concern, but he knew enough to acknowledge it simply. Unlike Peter and Pilgrim, Dent wasn't the hugging type ( ... )

unheroed October 23 2011, 08:36:27 UTC

The medical wing, huh? Harvey was shocked to hear that Jones had made it anywhere last night, but he knew by now that the other man was tenacious. What stood out even more than any of that was the mention of gas, though, and Harvey dropped his chin into his hand as he thought it over. "Gas, huh? I think I may have gotten a small dose of that myself." The effects were completely gone by now -- they had been by the end of breakfast -- but that had all seemed surprisingly random ( ... )

its_the_mileage October 24 2011, 00:44:12 UTC

"So did Peter and Scott. It must've been all over." Nice to know whoever was working the switches didn't just have it in for him personally. Indy hoped it wasn't going to become a trend. The pain, and the accompanying feeling of panic as his throat had closed up, were still fresh in his mind.

He was privately relieved that Dent had said yes. "Same as usual. The hall outside the men's block, right before you get to the main hall." He could get that far easily, but he'd be smart not to go much farther alone.

unheroed October 24 2011, 04:46:24 UTC

So he, Peter, Scott, and Jones had all had to deal with this gas. Was it possible that Sangamon and Depth Charge had been exposed to it as well, or had it just been a coincidence that four out of the six of them had come across it? Harvey usually wasn't a conspiracy theorist, but in this case he couldn't help but wonder. Their situation was basically begging for it, anyway.

But as expected, Harvey was just going to have to go a little south of his block (the same direction he needed to go anyway) to meet up with Jones. This whole thing felt so regular, except for the fact that Jones was possibly going to be a wheelchair (or maybe on crutches, if he was lucky) this time around. "Works for me," he said with a roll of his shoulders.

And now he had to ask the one question that had been plaguing him this whole time. "So where did you wake up, and how?" He found it hard to believe that the man had just come to in his room like normal.

its_the_mileage October 25 2011, 02:15:30 UTC

Indy raised an eyebrow, wondering if Dent really wanted to know, but he barreled on anyway. "The morgue. Had to kick my way out of one of the cabinets." When he put it that way, he supposed it sounded sort of tough, like a feat that might make one of the movies. Having been through it, Indy had a harder time viewing it in a positive light. "The worst part was having to get back downstairs with just a bedsheet, though ( ... )

unheroed October 26 2011, 19:53:44 UTC

It was as he'd guessed, then. Jones had woken up in the morgue. Having seen the room himself, Harvey could conjure up a pretty good mental image of what that had been like. Not that he could even guess at how it felt to wake up from being dead, but just the thought of Jones having to kick one of those drawers open and pull himself out of it made him feel slightly cold ( ... )

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