[[locked to warflameIt was the middle of the day when Riza returned to her hotel room after speaking with the owner and making arrangements. The Major was somewhere in the Nexus, and she wanted to complete her tasks before he came back ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, back at the ranch hotel, while Mustang asked the Nexus questionsRiza woke up, feeling stiff, sore, and with a pounding headache. It took her a little while to get the energy to get out of bed, and upon doing so, she discovered Mustang was gone ( Read more... )

An IRC log in narrative fic format, done during the DDOS on SixApart/Livejournal, between warflame and highcalibre.

[["Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart's sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, ( Read more... )

Extending the mindgames from here a bit more; grabbing the comments just prior:That made her stop. "Major?" Riza looked around in the direction she heard the voice. "Where are you? And I wasn't disregarding my safety; I'm still in the Nexus, and was about to turn back." She took a few steps in the direction the voice had come from ( Read more... )

After their talk the night before and Mustang's apparent disinterest in returning home to Amestris, Riza set off after lunch to explore some other areas, trying to locate the way back before it got too late for even her to excuse the unexplained absence to the military's satisfaction ( Read more... )

After meeting Captain Douglas, Riza decided now more than ever that she really wanted to get home. As bad as things were there, it was at least not so unsettlingly confusing.

She continued walking through the Nexus, looking down at the notepad in her hands, reading over the list of various portals tried and dismissed. Hearing someone calling her ( Read more... )

After Riza realized on the first night they would need lodgings for the immediate moment, she asked around about possible places, quite aware that neither of them were carrying a good amount of cash. The joys of the military; most of their needs were provided for already. She discovered that there were various hotels and motels which were willing ( Read more... )