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The Quiet Place Mods ([personal profile] bequiet) wrote in [community profile] quietplacelogs2018-03-26 07:21 pm

MOD LOG #3



MOD LOG #3


Arriving in style
Content Warnings: Fighting, death, violence
Themes: Survival, plot

It's early in the day when it happens. The red dust that seems to be everywhere sweeps through the city streets, mixing with the steady patter of rain and making it hard to see and breathe. All red and leaving the taste of copper if inhaled, what could have been an easy day without any trouble quickly becomes anything but. While those in the community are heading for cover or finding ways to continue on through it, the new arrivals begin waking up in different cities all over the world. There won't be anyone to greet them, and leaving the room through the door is their choice - after doing so, they'll immediately step out into the city they were assigned. The streets are empty, houses abandoned, everything crumbling and in ruins. There will be signs noting their location, which they'll catch a glimpse of before a sharp push forward causes darkness to engulf them.

Waking up for the second time, in Reims but not in the Reset Room, they'll come to inside the red dust as it whips through the streets of the community. They won't be alone for long. Another person will be waking up beside them, and after a few moments of disorientation, try to attack. They might have weapons or use their hands, and they will not stop until they've taken a fatal blow. Their blood is dust, and they, along with their weapons, disintegrate after they've died. Can you stop them on your own? Will someone come to your aid?

The Sight of Lightning
Content Warnings: Poison, sex
Themes: Survival, plot

The day after the storm, the same red dust will find its way through Reims and come into contact with every person. Since the dust is everywhere, some might not notice that it's floating through the community and know that something is off. The effects don't begin until night fall, where everyone will feel the desire to seek out companionship of many different kinds. Though it is not always the case, the people that saw each other in color will "want" to be with that person more strongly than they might already, and will be more likely to confess or do something about it. Some might feel an intense need to be around another person, though not necessarily sexually - almost as if they need that person around them to be happy or content. For some, it might be a desire that can only be fulfilled by more than one person.

The effects wear off the next time the person gets wet. This can be a splash of water across the face or fully submerged. Or even drinking something.

OOC
From your mods:

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NAVIGATION



danzan: all icons by <user name="danzan">. please don't take. (064)

[personal profile] danzan 2018-04-09 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He is reading, so he doesn't feel a need to respond to that bit. Slow at typing as Logan is, it's more lucrative to keep his replies as succinct as he can manage.

And he figures what's important is: ]
You don't like quiet?

[ At least, feeling her lean against gives him the impression she should've expected him to ask.

Tap. Next page, please. ]

[personal profile] ex_tagartist520 2018-04-09 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Her forehead wrinkles and there's something that clicks; "You know, I couldn't stop thinking about this girl - woman - person I met my first day here when I woke up this morning. It was this chick that I saw in color when everything was weird and black and white." She pulled back just slightly, enough so that she can hopefully get a look at her. "It went away when I washed up. I was just trying to get clean before seeing her, but after, I didn't really care about it as much anymore."
ferrokinetic: (before I see you too much)

[personal profile] ferrokinetic 2018-04-09 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she'll sit up a little to turn the page, obliging while she keeps her powers going with the other hand. ]

not really
usually i can at least feel electricity & radio waves in the air

this is like having my powers shut off


[ then, because that sounds super dramatic: ]

what about you?

[ she never really asked what he's doing here in the library of all places. ]
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[personal profile] persevere 2018-04-09 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't notice, which is probably for the best. She's too busy dividing her attention between the visceral enjoyment of feeding on something warm and the very strict control she exerts over her desire to take more than she should.

She pulls once, twice, a third time. Warmth slides down her throat and sits warmly where it settles, radiating outward. She can feel her body knitting itself together in places unseen, beneath the skin. When she finally pulls away from the man's skin, there's a gentle flush to her cheeks, life and vitality present again in her features.

She wipes at her mouth with the back of her hand, a streak of blood staining it, before she reaches for the man's opposite arm so that she can help him press his palm against the wound to stop the bleeding. Her eyes meet his again, eyes expanding and constricting again as she speaks quietly.]


You accidentally fell and cut yourself. Go find something to cover that with and don't show it to anyone. You never ran into anyone while you were here.

[She breaks eye contact then, noticing the daze in the man's eyes as her compulsion sinks in, and then she's moving past him and grabbing Klaus by the arm to pull him down the hall with her.]

Let's go.
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[personal profile] danzan 2018-04-09 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I like it. I don't like the reason.

[ The reason they have to be quiet, that is. It's different when it's something done out of choice -- like when Logan leaves the city to stay out in the wild a little, return to his roots. The quiet here is unnerving because it reeks of fear. Because almost every local he's met has that very fear underneath the other details of their scent: pungent, like sweat stink that can't be washed away. ]

But I get it. No waves in the air you feel = no insect sounds I hear.

Unnatural.
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[personal profile] persevere 2018-04-09 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sniffles once, reading the words as they appear, one by one. It's strange to sit here and have Klaus, of all people, console her. There are a lot of things she might expect, for him to want her to rely on him, for him to say something pretty about some aspect of her personality that most people would rather not deal with. He always did have a way of making her pause and consider the things he had to say, even if at first it was only because no one else had ever really said anything like them to her.

But to say she's underestimating her friend? Her Mom? It doesn't come back to him, the way it so often did. Almost everything he said seemed to circle back to something Klaus wanted for himself.

She looks over at him with watery eyes before her arms slip around his neck as she scoots a little closer, resting her cheek against his collarbone. She'd be lying if she said she hadn't thought about him in the time between their last meeting and now, but she swore it felt like she'd missed him.

She just didn't want to admit it.]


I'm glad you're here.

[She whispers it softly because she can't be bothered to type at the moment.]
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[personal profile] poppycock 2018-04-09 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
( he needs no prompting to follow and does so with one last lingering look at the man she leaves behind, gently scathed but living, the trauma and fear of their interaction erased. it's prudent, yes, and no less than what he would do, given the necessary circumstances.

their definition of "necessary circumstances" perhaps differs.

(it's more than that, he knows. she cares for the people she leaves behind to be breathing.

it means something to her. personally.)

he follows her steps and begins to match them.
) You handled that well, ( he comments.

to start.
)
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[personal profile] ferrokinetic 2018-04-09 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh, she didn't even consider there wouldn't be insects. weirdly, it's the fear that lorna's used to. living with the threat of sentinel services coming down on all of them at any moment was similar in sentiment and feeling, even if they could still talk and make regular noise. the mental stress was the same. ]

at least the food's good

[ if u like canned and dehydrated. which is basically what she was eating before anyway. ]

where were you before this?
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[personal profile] poppycock 2018-04-09 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
( the tears hanging in her eyes shine, deepening the blue of her eyes and the fullness of grief and gratitude in them. the sight of them clenches his heart in his chest, but it's the embrace of her arms that settles him, the press of her body snug against his and her head in the crook of his shoulder that thrums his pulse. he can feel the steady tempo of it thudding after he lifts his hands to press into her back. she is soft, and lovely, and to hold her in his arms is no mean desire; he can do nothing else but answer it. he wants to comfort her. his touches are slow but not hesitant, feeling and pressing into her skin, cradling her as close as she comes with restraint.

he tilts his head towards hers, fighting to keep the chaotic tumult of his wanting and longing and feelings in check, his mind racing and calculating and considering. (he is still selfish. he is still greedy. each inch of him of him wants to take this.

but he also knows how little it will mean if he does so. to her, and to him.)

her whisper sinks into him, melts him to his core; his arm encircles her by the waist closer, but his other slides up her arm to take her wrist, to gently pull her back.
) There is something important for you to hear, ( he murmurs. )
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[personal profile] lowkeycrazy 2018-04-09 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well. . . yes. It was generally red roses that were used for romantic reasons, right? You can be a cherished friend, can't you?

His gaze softens a little as he watches Kurama, a hint of sadness entering his eyes. These sorts of relationships... don't last. He'd only somewhat kept up with one person the first time he was affected like this, and certainly, there wasn't any lingering sense of friendship. ... or, at least, he doesn't think there is. He certainly wouldn't describe any sense of closeness

... where is he going with this? Right... friendship. There's... one, maybe two people here he would consider friends, and with Akira— he has no idea what they are, anymore. He doesn't expect that that number should grow.

He focuses instead on Kurama's explanation, about him having been to a few different worlds. Variant timelines... and he'd met another version of Akira and himself. It does sound rather extraordinary, but so is their current situation and many other things he'd encountered in his life. And yet, he can't help but wonder what kind of a role they played in his life. His other self, in particular...

He takes a sip of his coffee before leaning over and setting it down on the table so that he can sign.]


Your knowledge of that place speaks for itself, I think. Does that mean you were able to get the app?

[Apparently, his other hand isn't going to be leaving Akira's head anytime soon. ...he might also still be nuzzling the side of his head a bit.]

[personal profile] criticality 2018-04-09 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
What was it about? Don't like the jumpsuit?

[ It's a joke, but Vash for the most part is still a little unused to the idea of having a gadget that has its own little world and needs constant checking up on. He is definitely a social person in the face to face kind of way. But he suspects whatever was posted was not the best. He steels himself for the answer. ]
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it's perfect!

[personal profile] poppycock 2018-04-09 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
( klaus can hardly blame the man for wanting to set personal boundaries, and considering he has no real motive to attempt keeping hold, he doesn't. the look is disregarded, but the answer provokes his frustration. not towards his new acquaintance, however. klaus huffs, his lips turning in on a scowl; he glances away to quell his distemper. )

That seems to be the typical explanation.
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[personal profile] poppycock 2018-04-09 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
( well, he doesn't know if he's ever wanted to be killed for 'no good reason' but he sympathizes with the plight. of course there was the exception of his father.

regardless, he digests her answer. so she's a survivor, backed into a corner.
)

My moves are a bit more complicated, but I suppose there are learned. Or inherited, as it were. ( depending on how you look at it. ) Is there a reason you've inspired such hostility before? ( did he sense the bitterness? is he maybe poking the bear to get an honest answer? maybe. )
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[personal profile] danzan 2018-04-09 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
China.

In hiding. War.


[ She's the first person here he's told that to. But in a way, of all the people Logan's met here so far, Lorna's the only one who might actually understand what he's talking about. ]
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[personal profile] thatsruff 2018-04-09 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[For the first time in his life, Teddy experiences the involuntary need to kick his leg in the air, lightly and slow but the impulse is hard to resist as the boy manages to scratch itches on his dry skin that were too difficult for him to get on his own.

It takes him several minutes to regain composure and control enough to remember how to order and spell his next words.]


Fetching resources is my mission. The only wars I know of were not fun. I did enjoy the training games of chase when they were during solo training?

[It isn't a question, but the punctuation is Teddy's way of trying to convey his hopefulness that that is something fun like Eddie is looking for.]

We had to catch the drones before they could get to the end of the run.
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so late i'm so sorry

[personal profile] ferrokinetic 2018-04-09 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ lorna's grinning too. a battle well-fought, alongside someone with powers. this is the stuff she lives for. their enemy crumbles to dust, and they're left temporarily unbothered. she swivels from right to left. nothing but the wind and the rain. ]

Polaris.

[ she gestures to herself with a little flourish, magnetic powers glowing green from her left hand. it shouldn't be the first time she's introduced herself as such, and yet it is. the stage is somehow perfect for it, in the middle of a rusty rainstorm, visibility practically zero. the only way she recognizes her ally instead of an enemy is that he's big. the big guy with the lightning. wait a minute, like that actual god thor?

no. can't be. ]


Goddess of Magnets.

[ W H y. ]
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work eats me every week :(

[personal profile] poppycock 2018-04-09 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
( klaus pulls in a short breath when angus mentions his loss, even if the boy seems to gloss right over it. he's never been rich with patriarchal, loving family members, but he can certainly grasp their importance. especially now, in endeavoring to be one for his daughter.

klaus settles into a seat against an old bathtub, reaching for a towel himself.

the least he should do in this boy's presence is clean the blood off his face.
) Well, I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather, and I appreciate the offer, but I'm quite happy the way I am. ( he smiles, but it doesn't quite his eyes.

perhaps not happy, but he wouldn't want to be different. he is who he was made to be. who he's chosen to be.

he lies, and doesn't, all at once:
) It means I can help people like you, who might need it.

You see, when I was a child, my mother cast a spell to protect her children, and it gave us powers, to protect ourselves.
ferrokinetic: (I never trust my feelings)

[personal profile] ferrokinetic 2018-04-09 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ when she reads his message, it registers how crazy this all is. they haven't even debriefed, had some kind of mutant consolidation and dissemination of their shared information. ]

war's coming home
or the states


[ there's a wan smile. she remembers ur canadian, bub. ]

with the x-men?
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[personal profile] bloodyrose 2018-04-09 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Thankfully he really didn't press. Even whether such a mood is due to him or not, Zero is hardly fazed. ]

Just because it's the truth. There are one too many questions here that have yet to be properly answered.

[personal profile] criticality 2018-04-09 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Any normal time he would have laughed at that and made some fuss about the pun but really he is too distracted and distraught to even really register it. He shakes his head slowly making water from his hair run down his face. ]

No, I am not. But I can watch your back.

[ He'll follow her around and take a hit for her in her place. That's pretty much all he can do. That and try to tackle and take down someone before her keen blade can get there first. ]
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[personal profile] poppycock 2018-04-09 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps no one here has the proper answers, but that hardly makes it the truth. ( he knows, as he has asked, interrogated, and come up as empty-handed as he was in the start, save some important details.

klaus looks down at his device, worried in thought; he thinks of his siblings, their past, and how this world apart from their own seems to have devolved. there are few answers, yes. but he has here someone who might have a few more.

his eyes lift.
)

You were here with an earlier group?

[personal profile] criticality 2018-04-09 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He groans a bit as his body is suddenly tugged upright. Every bump and smashed knee cap is on fire and he feels incredibly beaten. It's been a theme since arriving here. He glances down and does notice the blood on her dark clothes. She is hurt and carrying him at the same time. He feels guilty but what he said was true; if they don't beat the rain and continue fighting the Sound Eaters would come and then they would be dead brawlers walking. ]

Are you all right? Am I too heavy for you?

[ And despite the fact that just moments before she was going to kill him, he is still thinking of her well being. Wolfwood would be furious.

He nods and points down a street. ]


Five minute walk that way. A place that has brown shutters and a red door. It's my apartment. It's safe there.
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[personal profile] persevere 2018-04-09 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[It does mean something to her. She's accepted what she's become, she's good at it, and that means she doesn't need to be a monster. She can have it all, the perks without the negatives.

Just because she's a vampire doesn't mean she can't try to be a decent person. Proving it in front of other people just makes it that much better.

Speaking of, said other person's footsteps start to sync with hers, and she glances over at his words, eyebrows lifting.]


Of course, I did. Just because I don't put myself in that situation all the time doesn't mean I don't know how to do it.
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[personal profile] sunflowering 2018-04-09 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . . Vampires are public knowledge back home. With that public knowledge, however, those vampires who are known to the human race as vampires are often the unlucky targets of suspicion and distrust. It's for reasons like that in which Yuuki keeps her own position quiet. It's impossible in the vampire community, but outside of the Hunter's Association no one really suspects her as anything but a normal girl.

. . . Probably. At least she's not in any headlines, and she'd like to keep it that way for the sake of her daughter.

But curse her fangs...!! Maybe she ought to smile less...?]


Um... [She's not sure how to respond just yet. Lifting a hand up to her eyes she gives a peace sign.] Actually, I prefer going by magical girl! [It's what she's told a few people now. People don't become suspicious of magical girls.] And I promise, my ultimate goal is peace and coexistence! My adoptive father and best friend hunt... magical individuals. [That sounds strange but oh well. Faith probably gets what she means.] That is, individuals who harm others or break the law, and I help enforce that other magical girls and boys behave too!

That said, it would be nice to keep that between us. Or at least not mention any strange diet complications. . .
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[personal profile] poppycock 2018-04-09 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I've no doubt you knew how to do it, ( he says, ) though I wonder why you've taken such measures to avoid it. ( if caroline strives to make a point of proving herself as a decent person and vampire, he's certainly made a point of the opposite. how obvious it is why: he was given no choice, no chance, no guidebook nor guiding hand but desperation and fear.

when finally there was choice, well. there was also a long road of terror and survival. but that was his experience, not hers.

caroline likes control. but she is not so intent on constructing such strict, non-negotiable lines for herself without reason. without experience.

she hesitated. not to feed, but to compel.
)