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Event Log - Total Recall

Who: You and you and mostly me and you
What: Everyone's been Shifted in their own way
When: A hero doesn't care if this event last a whole ten days
Where: Everyone can blaze a hero's trail
Summary: It's that special time when the Malnosso collect all their recent experiments and apply them all at once to measure effectiveness. Although invaluable as research, it tends to leave the subjects looking just a bit mad.
Rating: Rated H for HEROIC

So there is a mod post and it pretty much tells you EVERYTHING you need to know. This is a mass log for people to comment around on if they don't want to make posts. Or even if they want to make posts anyway. There will be at least one more of these later in the event! ENJOY!

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[It was the simplicity of it that settled Red, with the knowledge that there was only one life in the room that he needed to be an anchor for. That was enough got his concerns to fade enough for him to just chat. Fujiko would come later. Much later.

She was going to be the hardest to talk to.]

Just imagine it--they have an international bromance that's lasted for a few decades now. Close friends can get very physical too, you know.

[Levarre drifts on any currant or eddy that comes her way. LeBlanc doesn't really need anchors. He's grateful for the offer, though but. Knows well enough the look of someone that needs to lean on someone else for a change.]

Why you say physical, do you mean casual contact such as this- or do you mean to say they have gotten bored and slept with one another?

Just casual contact like this--Lupin and Jigen would never--

[He breaks off into a smile at the though, and chuckles. Doubtless, there were people the world over that wondered the same about the two of them and their hijinks.]

Even Luke appreciates a hug every once in a while, you know. He's free with them too. There can be touches and no romance.

I am asking to ask- I've no assumptions on the matter. They seem more like brothers than anything else.

[And by this point in their lives they might as well be- if everything she's heard about their exploits from Jigen is true.]

That much I know, Remy, my Remy and I are quite openly affectionate with one another. It's a side effect of having known him my entire life.

They are brothers. They're a family, all four of them. [For as strange, awkward, and even violent their interactions, they were as much a family as any of them had. Like how Luke and everyone were family to him, bonds that surpass the ties of blood and name exist in every world that he's been on.]

You understand it then, with your Remy. You know how important these things are. [The same was true in Luceti--Goldie was right. Lupin and Adele were good for each other.]

Lupin, Goemon, Jigen, and the Inspector. What a strange little family they have. [She can't help but huff a laugh and, well, snuggle closer. Because with Red it was almost like being with her Remy, her brother. And only a shade or two different from Lupin.]

...Levarre is a sneaky, manipulative little bitch. And she has my admiration. This is the second time she's conned me into realizing something after she's left.

[And Fujiko. Adele forgot Fujiko, but that was probably intentional on her part. To his understanding, the two women had a strained relationship. He settles back into the cushions as Adele snuggles in, and settles his arms on her shoulders.]

...she isn't that sneaky or manipulative, but truely wants nothing more than to help everyone, whatever her definition of 'help' is. What did she help you realize?

That sometimes you have to rebreak a bone for it to mend properly. Metaphorically speaking, I'm aware of the medical practice. And...that there is a reason why she loves you. And I shouldn't keep myself closed to similar possibilities- in general. Not with you or Lupin just. In general.

...That's good then. Very good. [Would that help Adele to trust Goldie's judgement a little better? Red couldn't tell.]

It's better to be happy and healthy and not worried about everything. It's better to not carry everything sometimes.

I did stop worrying for a little while- and then I got stabbed. Here, see?

[He shifts to the side and tugs down the loose collar of his shirt, showing the mostly mended tissue and long line of the scar.]

I remember that.

[He did. It was another time when the echoes and impulses blurred, but he kept himself in check. There was nothing he could do anyway--it was all on Lupin.

Hesiatantly, he reaches up to brush the line of the scar with light fingers, tracing its path across her chest.]

You have terrible luck, you know that? If you want to avoid a war, please be more careful in the future.

[He doesn't flinch, but he does twitch a little. The skin itches and the memory lingers. A frightened boy with a knife.]

We're already in a war, Red. Willing or not. Anything that happens in the enclosure is extra. Starting another one in here, for whatever reason, is a waste of time and resources better spent finding a way out.

Adele. My entire existance is as it is because I joined a war effort. I know what it looks like, and I know the dangers. Just--just...[He trails, hand settling on Adele's shoulder at he searches her eyes for something to latch onto.]

Lupin is going to start a war one way or another at some point, and even wanted to suggest it to you back in February. Even before he was certain, you were a valuable asset to him. Now you're also a friend, so you need to take better care of yourself. For your sake, his sake, and everyone else's sake.

There's nothing I could do or say to convince him it'd be foolish, is there? Raging against the Malnosso without a plan, without information that we do not have won't amount to anything but wasted time and effort. We need to know more before we do anything, and he knows it. I know it and I'm not a soldier, I don't know many, I don't know tactics- I don't. Know. War.

But I know him doing anything without proper planning is going to get himself and others here killed. And I can't temper or curb this. I'm trying to learn what I can to be of use. To pick up skills that will keep me alive whenever it finally comes down around us- because it will. Maybe not while I"m here, but I'd rather be prepared. But I can't control everything. Neither can he.

[Red manages a smile for Adele, an attempt to soothe her misgivings as he speaks.]

He knows he can't control everything, that's why he's being so careful and starting small. It's why he's asking questions. It's why he's gathering intel. The last thing he wants to do is waste his time and get himself or other people killed.

It's only a way back home that he wants.

If you want to be useful? Stay safe, and keep doing what you're doing. The insights are helpful--why do you think he surrounds himself with people who disagree with him? So he gets an honest opinion. He'll let you know that he has something when he has something. You don't need to worry about that either.

You're but a commander. Lupin? Lupin is a thief. He's not a soldier, he's not a warrior, and he is not a general. A rebellion isn't a heist- he can't plan around it. He can't plan through it, he can't work at this like he normally would. It's an entirely different Game. One he could very well lose.

And I can't bear to watch him fail should it come to that.

So I'm going to argue, I'm going to call him an idiot, and I'm going to distract him as much as I can to keep him from acting prematurely. It won't work. But. It'll be something.

...he's not going to fail.

[It was said calmly, but with utmost confidence.] He's not going to lose because he's taken down worse enemies for riskier causes, even if his motivations were different. He's a thief, yes, but that just gives him a different advantage. No one knows when or how he'll strike--he's unseen.

It's good that you care, but helping him will be better than hindering him. Just be honest, and support him when he does make his move.

This isn't his world, this isn't any enemy he knows. It's a different Game, with different rules, and different consequences. Lupin might be able to remain unseen- an army can't. If he means to wage war he cannot do it alone- I won't allow it. He'll die. And they won't bring him back.

[Absolute worst case scenario- but that is how Adele's mind works. Find the holes, find the reasons a plan, a bullet, a man could fail. Lay them out nice and neat, break down the variables and patch them.

But some holes are beyond patching.]

Just have a little faith, would you? He's not going to do anything for a long time, but he is making the right connections in the right places. He won't be doing it alone--not if Smoker and Luke have anything to say about it. Or any of his other friends.

...you're panicking. Don't worry about it just yet.

Faith isn't going to keep him alive. Planning and preparation will. I didn't take enough variables into account once- you both know where that landed me. I won't let this happen to him. But. Good. Smoker and Luke will be better able to keep him alive than I could.

...I am not panicking. You've seen me panic. Lupin has. This isn't panic. This is preemptive frustration.

Preemptive frustration that will become panic if this keeps up. We are on the sixth level, so it's better for you to stay calm.

...All right. Help him then. Just don't work yourself too hard.

And smile. Please. It really does suit you.

It will no-

[Oh. That bastard.

Until now, Adele's ignored it. Managed to push that little detail to the back of his mind but that confirmation, so blatant in the middle of an emotionally charged debate? Trips him up. Sends him reeling. He tries to stand, stumbles, and sags back against the sofa. Curls his knees to his chest and forces his eyes shut, tries to still the spinning of the world, the sudden tightness of his skin.

Tries to breathe and finds he cant.]

[That...was not the reaction he anticipated. Mentally kicking himself, he catches Adele as she falls back against the sofa and wraps his arms around her, just providing physical comfort until whatever it was passed.]

Didn't mean for that to happen--but you see? Worry about yourself first. Taking care of your own needs will be better for everyone.

...Sorry. You seemed like you were getting better, so I didn't think this would still be a problem.

You...are-

[Deep breaths. Just. Take deep breaths and don't think about where you are right now. Center and focus. It gets a little easier after the third failed attempt to breathe. Hand over eyes he manages to grind out something.]

A manipulative dick.

Intelligence officer. Spy. I can be very unkind if I need to.

[Not that he's proud of himself with this. He doesn't remove his arms from her shaking shoulders, and keeps his own breathing steady. He was a rock once again, and likely little more--

No rest for the anchor just yet.]

You're an extremely stubborn woman who doesn't listen to reason or accept anything as it is. Just relax every once in a while.

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