Luceti Valley - The First Log

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone
What: The start of a new experiment... or is it?
When: August 2nd - August 6th
Where: Luceti itself
Summary: Luceti has become an idyllic and peaceful 50s-esque village. The first few days are just business as usual, right?
Rating: Varies with thread. Please move explicit stuff to appointments post with appropriate warnings.

August 1st had seemed like an ordinary day in Luceti. But late in the evening, for those night owls who had not turned in yet, they were witness to strange fluctuations in the barrier. Beautiful, really, almost like Luceti had received its own 'Northern Lights', even though it seemed to come from the far east, across the ocean. This ominous light show lasted for all of fifteen minutes before it ceased all together. Skimming the ocean waters, a horde of cultists entered Luceti, cloaked by darkness. Upon reaching the entrance to the tunnels, their leader stepped inside and was followed one by one by his fellow cultists. When the last had entered, the tunnel entrance closed. Across the mountains, the entrance to the tunnels in the village did the same.

Midnight passed without incident, but by three in the morning, the change suddenly came. Minds were altered, forms were changed, and buildings sprang from nowhere.

Much later, on August 2nd, morning settled on a changed village, the new mayor made his way to his mansion with his pair of adorable dobermans at either side of him. The sun shined bright. It was a good day to be a Lucetian.

Note: There will be a stand alone log for the homecoming dance. There will be another log for the second stage of the event.

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Day 5

[fantheflame]

[Sasuke's conversation with Itachi hadn't exactly been encouraging.]

[It had tried to be, on both their parts. Mutual assurances that they'd get through this, offers on both sides to cut back on everything that wasn't strictly necessary. But all Sasuke had been able to see was one blind older brother with a slow, rattling cough building in his chest.]

[So, an hour or so after he'd seen that Itachi was in bed - later at night than was prudent - Sasuke stood on the doorstep of the Law residence, shivering slightly in the late night cold and rapping loudly on the door with his fist.]

Day 5

[deathsdoctor]

[Law's a light sleeper by necessity - never know when the hospital's going to call for him to come in for one reason or another - and the pounding at his door startles him awake, causes him to slide out of bed, and grabs the gun by his bed.

Lowtown wasn't exactly crime free - far from it really, especially with the strike - and being a doctor meant people assumed he had money and therefore valuables to steal. Not the case - his house is austere as they come.

Then the man blinks and puts down his weapon as he wakes a little further. Trouble doesn't try knocking on his door, it tries to steal in through the window. Ugh... this is someone needing to be patched up from a fight, isn't it?]

COMING!

[Grumble, growl, grumble, gawd I need to be up at five to go to work, opening the door, wha---...?

...

...

okay.]

Sasuke?

[Is it Itachi? Shit is there something wrong?]

[fantheflame]

[Sasuke's hand comes up automatically to clap onto the door once it's open, arm hard and straight. If Law decides to close him out, Sasuke's determined to make a struggle of that.]

Look, I know it's late, and I know I'm an ass, but before you slam the door on me, just -

[He stalls out for a second, just a second, half-surprised he's made it this far and feeling shame and panic both tightening in his chest.]

Just hear me out 'cause I need to ask you for help.

[By the time he gets those words out, cold shiver or not, his face is beet red all across his cheeks and up his ears, under his eyes. Uchiha don't ask for help, but fuck, Sasuke's running out of options.]

[deathsdoctor]

[And Laws are known to be equally proud, and hell, this Law has put up with a lot. He glances up and down the street, before roughly nodding.]

Come in. You stay out there, you're going to land in a world of trouble. [The gaze is that of the veteran looking over the battlefield for his enemies.] The streets are going to be a war zone tonight.

[fantheflame]

[Sasuke starts a little at those words, the insistence in them, and suddenly feels lucky and idiotic at the same time. Fuck, he's just a stupid kid after all, isn't he? He didn't even think of - fuck.]

[Whatever, he slips in through the door Law holds open, stopping just inside and bringing his hands up to rub at his arms, because now he's really shaking, only it's probably more adrenaline than cold. God, he's stupid. He's also never been in here before (vehemently never been in here before) and everything is unfamiliar and if Law was actually a terrible human being Sasuke would be pretty much fucked. But Itachi trusts him and likes him and right now that has to be enough.]

Itachi's sick again. [No sense at all beating about it; he only waits until he hears the door close.] He's sick and he's gonna need medicine and I don't fucking know what to do.

[Sasuke is seventeen and shouldn't be cursing in front of his elders but okay maybe some things are more important than propriety. Like the fact that they barely make ends meet as it is, and now they've gotten a new expense and a fucking tax hike dropped on them in the same week.] I know you don't exactly like me and I shouldn't be here expecting you to even be listening to me right now and - look, fuck, I'm sorry. [If he wasn't red before... Uchiha don't apologize either. At least, this one doesn't.] I've been a complete shit to you and I'm sorry, I didn't care if Itachi liked you but it's not really my business and even if you don't like me I wanna help him - [He's rambling. He's rambling like hell and probably borderlining on hyperventilating at this point.]

[deathsdoctor]

[Cursing's fine. Law's a Lowtown boy and not a snotty upper class twat. He understands there are times for it.]

I know. He told me earlier tonight. [There's no getting around that, and there's something sick in his tone. It's not just medicine he needs. It's recovery time.] He's been hiding it for a little while.

[The dog tags around his neck jingle as he pats his old beat up couch. There's no art in the room and minimal furniture. Just what's needed to survive and that's it. Because that's what it is - survival instinct beaten deep in. When you have no money for so long...]

Listen. I don't care about the past right now. It's the past, and for godsakes it's Itachi. [He seems to collapse - they had a bit of a fight earlier.] Of course I'll make sure he gets what he needs.

[fantheflame]

[Continued here.]