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Post by Robot on May 26, 2016 22:42:10 GMT
Bunnie is alive by some miracle, been through hell though. Christ I'm no good at this, what would Skrub do? Why the fuck do I have to cry at a time like this? "Don't worry about anything but yourself for a few moments Bunnie, you been through a lot, we'll find Joe." Cecil couldn't meet her eyes if the girl should look up, and with little hesitation began pulling things from his bag. A freshly washed vault jumpsuit (courtesy of his evening with Cindy), a super soda pop, purified rations, two doses of Pokerus Purgative, her Pokedex, and Miss Maples' ball.
"I know the clothes aren't quite up to your standards, but Cindy back in Clearwater wanted you to model some of her designs for her." Cecil tried to comfort her as though their meeting here were just another day and not at all out of the ordinary as he passed the bundle to her. "That purgative stuff's a medicine and really important, we can explain it later." A nervous swallow as he turned slowly from her. "I know you probably... don't... really want to be touched right now, but if you could let Christine give you a once over, I'd appreciate it." A long sigh, with a hint of melancholy to it. "I'm glad you're alright." Pausing as he meandered to the opposite end of the collective party, he turned on a heel. "Amber, If I can have Joe's PokeDex, I'll see if Boneyard can pick up his scent from here."
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Post by David Hilm on May 27, 2016 3:29:38 GMT
Bunnie takes her time eating some of the rations, more forcing herself to eat out of a desire for normalcy than hunger. An image of Joe from before flashes in her mind and she begins to heave. She let's what little she managed to eat settle in her stomach before going off a little into the bushes, close enough to hear the group or to be heard should anything happen.
She changes into the vault suit Cecile handed her, glaring angrily at the remains of the dress she had recently received compliments over. She considers giving the jacket back to Kat, but instead wraps it around herself and breathes.
After a minute she lifts her head high. The people who tricked her may have committed some atrocities to her in the short time she was with them, but she would be damned before letting anyone know just how bad it was.
As she walks back to the group she addresses them as a whole. "Thank you all for your concern. I feel fine though, really." She turns to Kat specifically, gripping the jacket.
"You don't mind if I hold on to this, do you? The last thing I need right now is to be seen in the vault suit I think."
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Post by DataNinja on May 27, 2016 3:38:59 GMT
Keeping back while Cecil and Bunnie had their reunion, Christine slowly approaches the reunited Vault-dweller after it seems she's a little more comfortable.
"You may feel fine," Christine says in a soft tone, "but would you mind just letting me take a look at you? Just in case? There are a lot of insidious dangers up here and... well, I just want to make sure you're okay. I wouldn't want to lose you again, especially to something preventable." Not in the least because not only would I be kicking myself to the end of my days... DeLoria would probably make that end arrive pretty rapidly.
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Post by David Hilm on May 27, 2016 3:46:05 GMT
Bunnie gives Christine a genuine smile.
"I assure you, it's all superficial." She points to her face as an example. "It's the worst I've ever felt, but I feel like it could be worse, you know?"
She turns dismissively around before noticeably flinching a little. Her back still to Christine, she lowers her head and speaks a bit more soft.
"But if it will make you oranyone else feel better, I promise to let you..." She chooses her words with purpose. "Look at me... When we're able to have a bit of privacy."
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Post by DataNinja on May 27, 2016 3:56:34 GMT
Christine has to struggle to not let a little irritation go across her face... but, then again, Bunnie had just gone through a lot. If this was even her... The thought strikes her, as she thinks about Kat's... shapeshifter-thing. No, no, the Dexes should tell us if anything was wrong... but I'll probably want to run a few tests with it anyways. It'll be fine. She shakes the paranoia out of her head.
"That's fair enough, I suppose," she says at last. "I'm sure everything will check out, but I just don't want to take chances." Her tone was more confident than she felt, though...
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Post by Seya on May 27, 2016 4:55:22 GMT
Kat is at a bit of a loss for words when Bunnie clutches the coat tighter around herself, but the small action fills her with a brief, if unexpected, warmth. "Y-- uh, yeah, a'course," she says, struggling to toss the words forwards in quick response after she'd been too caught up in her thoughts to notice the question at first. "As long as y'need it."
She swallows thickly and offers a weary smile; she's relieved beyond anything to know the girl avoided a more horrible end, but at the same time she can't help but feel that her own protectiveness towards Bunnie is out of place compared to the bird's long-time companions. With Cecil acting all funny-like compared to the collected bloke she knew the day before, and Christine's patient wariness... they were struggling through relief in their own ways. It made sense for them to have been worried out of their minds, at least.
So why does she feel so damn happy to see this near-stranger alive and well?
With a shaky breath she clamps down on the confusing thoughts and looks away, directing her concern to their immediate surroundings once more.
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Post by Robot on May 27, 2016 9:45:16 GMT
"We know what the people that took you were about. I found out in the first few hours on being in town, you'll want to take that Pokerus Purgative sooner rather then later. Maybe space the doses a bit, the locals use it, but it didn't exactly come with a pamphlet." Cecil had slid gracelessly into acceptance that Bunnie was alright, even weathered her shifted demeanor. Couldn't bring himself to look at anyone but Kat, even Amber when she finally moved to assist him.
They'd want to look for Joe, Kat would see reason in cutting losses but the rest would hear nothing of it. Whatever had befallen the man would only lead this grim progression down a darker path. "Kat, that Nidoran you caught back at the caves, all those ferals, they were Joe and Bunnie's." He needn't say more, and Amber already knew what was up.
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Post by David Hilm on May 27, 2016 11:58:51 GMT
Bunnie tenses up at the mention of her Nidoran, but is otherwise silent.
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Post by Seya on May 27, 2016 12:24:30 GMT
Kat dips her head in acknowledgement of the truth about the feral pokemon, and begins to reach for the Nidoran's ball-- until she sees Bunnie's stiff reaction and slowly draws her hand away from it. "Well... I think, uh..."
Shite, an inner part of her growls in frustration, taking a quick guess at what might have caused such a reaction. Shite shite SHITE. She could be wrong, easy, but just in case...
She gives Cecil an uneasy look, wanting nothing more than to warn him off the topic at the time being. "I ain't gonna keep a claim or nothin', don't worry yourself over it. But hows about I hold 'em safe until we get back t'town?" Then she grimaces. "Or, uh. Until we find that clumsy kid, I s'pose."
Unsure of exactly how to proceed with the conversation, she releases the newly-healed Hazel who chirps and looks up at her in curiosity. "Be a doll and keep Bunnie here company, aight? If somethin' comes up, listen t'her good and well. Her own pokemon are, ah... compromised, for the time bein'," she says, with another sharp glance in Cecil's direction. She'd have to talk to him privately as soon as possible if she hadn't picked up on Bunnie's reaction himself.
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Post by Slytherclaw on May 27, 2016 21:56:32 GMT
It isn't hard to let Cecil and the others take the spotlight during Bunnie's discovery. She can count on one hand the number of times they've spoken to each other, after all, before they left the vault. Her eyes widen as she takes in the girl's overall condition, and she thinks back to the cave and that weird /smell/ and pales. She lets them chat, keeping an eye on their surroundings, and only looks back to pull the shattered vaultdex from her pocket and hand it over to Cecil. She gives Bunnie an apologetic smile. "Yours is a bit busted too, but not as bad. I'll try and fix it for you when we're somewhere safe." She says, turning back away--she gets the feeling the other girl doesn't particularly want to be stared at.
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Post by Lockdown on May 27, 2016 22:08:29 GMT
As the group is speaking, off in the distance comes a loud bellowing bass roar, seeming to be equal parts anger and pain. You recognize the roar; it's whatever it was that attacked your kidnappers. The roar seems to be coming from the same general direction that Bunnie had emerged from, and through a gap in the treeline, you see a far distant tree begin listing heavily, before it finally starts falling properly. At this range it's a tiny thing, but given what you've seen of distance, it's probably big enough arounnd that you'd need at least one of the others to ring its trunk with your arms.
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Post by Slytherclaw on May 27, 2016 22:14:27 GMT
Amber's eyes widen and she gapes in the direction of the noise. "We need to go. We need to go /now/. Whatever that was just took out a tree thicker around than Bones," She says, spinning back to the group. She stares at Bunnie. "There's transportation back this way...but it's a good ten minutes away at full speed. Can you run?"
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Post by DataNinja on May 27, 2016 22:27:32 GMT
Christine pales. "That's... not good." she stammers, already backing away from where the noise was. "If she can't... Clement might be able to help there. But I wouldn't want to risk it."
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Post by David Hilm on May 28, 2016 0:00:09 GMT
"I'm fine. I can make it." Bunnie's voice sounds equal parts angry and nervous.
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Post by Robot on May 28, 2016 0:51:00 GMT
Cecil turned in the direction of the noise and planted his feet firmly, hands in his pockets. "That might be Vargas. I ain't making the call to leave, had enough blame shoved this way for one lifetime. If we go, he's dead. Weigh that against your fear for a minute and get back to me." Cecil quietly let Fink out of his ball, and tucked Boneyard away. "Humans become advanced forms of human shape Mon. Every one of 'em I've seen was excessively strong. You all remember the cab of the truck. If it is Joe, we owe it to him to get him home. If it ain't then at least my conscience is clear."
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Post by Seya on May 28, 2016 0:55:38 GMT
(Poke Edu as requested: gnEq1|9n3d6 // Response following.)
"No." Kat pales near-white, eyes wide, and she grabs Cecil's arm in an iron grip. "We ain't stickin' around. If your 'Vargas' is in that direction, he's--" She doesn't say it, can't say it, after what this ramshackle little group has already gone through today they don't need to hear just what a rampaging Nidoking can do. "I swear on what's left of my sense that what you just heard ain't someone muddled with Pokerus. We gotta go, now." 3d6
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Post by Robot on May 28, 2016 1:52:08 GMT
"Good enough for me. I'll keep to the rear of the group and harry it if I have to." Gesturing for the Sandile to move, Cecil falls in step behind the others as the group mobilizes. Just as well he hadn't sold them on looking for Vargas. He wasn't entirely sure of where the notion even came from himself. It had been a convincing lie though. The teen wondered if it'd been a lie at all.
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Post by Lockdown on May 28, 2016 2:09:13 GMT
The angry roars fade slightly, but there's an occasional crash, and at one point a booming sound like thunder that reaches your ears, even though the sky hasn't taken on the same dark cast that had preceded the storm last night.
When you get back to the jalopy however, your luck seems to have simply abandoned you. An entire section of the jalopy's frame is missing, including part of critical bars that hold the seats in place. The metal looks like it was pinched by industrial steel sheers at first glance. The only indication of who or what did this are a number of small but deep divots surrounding the Jalopy, and leading back towards the bluff of Hideaway Hollow.
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Post by DataNinja on May 28, 2016 2:32:18 GMT
"We've got a... problem," Christine stammers. "Those look like... teeth marks. On the metal." What could have done this?
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Post by Slytherclaw on May 28, 2016 21:13:17 GMT
Amber pales more at the sight of the jalopy. Despite all the trouble there in, a pitiful whined, "he's going to /hate us/ now," escapes her and her expression is horrified. She walks forward and strokes one of the snapped bars. "I can...maybe fix this. But we need to get away..."
She looks at the jalopy, trying to see if there's any way it could be driven out of danger. It's a huge resource, and if she can save it, too... it's worth considering, even if it means only a few of them can...hang on the sides or something. Maybe make some noise to draw whatever that is after them while whoever can't hold on scatters...
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