TERRACE Draft - Day 1

[lucetimods]

Who: All Draftees
What: Arrival at TERRACE
When: The first day, from 8AM to the wee hours of the night
Where: TERRACE!
Summary: Information post here
Rating: Varies on thread, please mark explicit material.

This post covers the first day, before the attack. Remember, characters here are not expecting an attack and are under the impression they will be going to Region 1 to fight. During this day, draftees will be restricted to T6 and T7 and not permitted access to other areas.

Be sure to tag this post appropriately: [canon] character name

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[gleamed]

"Oh," was her quiet answer. She wished she knew more of Lee's friends so she could ask them, but she didn't know where else to go for answers. If she spent the rest of this draft worrying about whether or not he had been send home...

She would just have to keep her mind elsewhere. She could be helpful here, but she needed to stay sharp. She would.

"Thank you, anyway."

[alloys]

Smartass.

Did you know it wasn't going to work?

[rather_be_surfing]

"Cultists never do. Sometimes, the infected are like that. Anything for the one that bit them."

He picks up the last of the current clips to fill.

"Got an idea of where you might start out?"

[widows_kiss]

"I've run across my fair share of zealots," she agrees. For too long, she'd been one of them. Still, she spared them little sympathy for it.

"Tomorrow, you mean?" She tilts her head in inquiry at his question. "No idea yet. Figured I'd wait and see where they deploy us to. I don't think it's the same area where I fought them before."

[complicatedliar]

Loki's gaze focused on her lips - in the few days he'd had to practice, he'd gotten quite good at that.

Unfortunately, it didn't work that well when it came to words he didn't know to begin with. He sounded it out - Ritz - and finally said, "I don't know what that is."

[wise_maiden]

They're restless types. If you think of it that way, it's understandable. Though no less frustrating when you have to deal with them.

[complicatedliar]

"Joyfully," Loki repeated. "Hah. Interesting. It makes one wonder about the connections in question, since so many experiments seem set on driving people from disparate worlds together."

[reminded]

[Though they've never spoken, Layton recognizes the note-scribbling Jade as a fellow Lucetian. The village is only so big, after all, and this man is distinguishable enough to remember. So with a handful of Sage-brand first aid kits in hand, he stops by for a checkup.]

Pardon the interruption. Have you received a survival kit yet?

[ahappylie]

Oh, just fine.

[He takes a few steps forward now that he's certain Derek is okay with conversation, then looks down at the sword he's oiling.]

Does your home have floating cities like this as well?

[rather_be_surfing]

"Be interesting to see what they have for us, then. I get the impression this is going to end up being a bunch of individual groups going in."

An idea he's not sure he's pleased about, or worried about. Hunting vampires in small groups was one thing; this was an all out battlefield.

[widows_kiss]

"Well, with the sheer amount of people here?" She lets her gaze drift through the overcrowded barracks. "Maybe they think it'll be easier and quicker to maneuver us that way."

[rather_be_surfing]

[Derek shakes his head]

No. Been up in the mountains a few times, but we don't have anything like this. I'm guessing you don't either?

[rather_be_surfing]

"Could be. We'll find out at any rate."

He puts the clips into his jacket, pocketing them in their appropriate places.

"You've eaten yet? Thinking of getting some food and sitting outside for a bit."

[widows_kiss]

She looks a little surprised by his offer, but gives him a grin and inclines her head in agreement. "I could eat. I suppose we should take advantage of what comforts we have at the moment. We could be living a little rough for a while."

[wise_maiden]

You don't want to run across any of them, believe me. [She shakes her head.] In any case, have you picked one up yet? They have supplies for injuries in them as well.

[fourthgenerationprincess]

[ Twilight hears a voice below her and turns her head to look down. And all of a sudden, up is down and down is up. She falls several feet before flapping hard to right herself again, then lands quickly. Wow, she definitely doesn't want to be in the air when that happens again.

Heart pounding, she looks around and sees the figure who distracted her. ]

Hello.

[wise_maiden]

Currently my aim is to make sure everyone else is prepared. [She smiles, wryly, offering him one of the packs.] This is for you.

[mountain_sage]

Ah...hello. Are you well?

[That was some rough flying right there.]

[fleurdesel]

"...it's a medical condition. An. Infuriating one, but something that can be treated. I'm actually on my medication now. Not that it did much." She snorted, massaging her face.

[yourfononsarewhack]

[Not very impressive at all. His attacks remind him of fonic artes in a way - but particularly weak ones. It's odd - the man himself looks old, seasoned, experienced. Like someone who should be capable of some level of competence. Perhaps there's some outside factor affecting him. But Jade keeps watching from the observation deck, with his least impressed face on.]

[fleurdesel]

As tense as she'd been when they last spoke, it's worse when he arrives. Inside and deliberately ignoring the fact they're in the air, and that helps. Just a little. Having something for her hands to do does as well- but there's a set to her shoulders and jaw that betrays her anxiety. The fact that she twitches and starts when Derek speaks is yet another symptom of her mental state.

"...Derek. Hello."

[complicatedliar]

...ugh. Rude of her, to just bring up something so personal like that. "You are mortal," Loki said, as if that was the only necessary answer. And really, if this was what happened with medication and other interventions, it seemed more an argument to him that such things did not work.

[yourfononsarewhack]

[He glances up at the man in question. Professor Hershel Layton, the schoolteacher.]

Mm, that will not be necessary. I've prepared my own, so speak. [There's just no visible kit in sight.]

[fleurdesel]

"Given sufficient force even you can bleed and die, Loki." Not precisely in of the mind to humor him as she normally might, and far too strung out to be wholly civil. She ought to drop the subject. Of course, she didn't.

"I've only been working with Ben on this for a year. It's not something that just goes away overnight."

[complicatedliar]

Yes, and he'd only been battling this problem with self control for a few months. "That may be true," he said calmly. "But I am not so delicate as you. Fear of heights, is it?"