Luceti Valley - The Second Log

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone
What: The second part of the experiment. Things begin to unravel.
When: August 7th - August 10th
Where: Luceti itself
Summary: Check out the mod post for more. This covers Day 6-9!
Rating: Varies with thread. Please move explicit stuff to appointments post with appropriate warnings.

Luceti Valley continued in its own merry little way. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. A new tax hike had ensured increasing animosity between both groups, despite the protests of the every charitable Lord Mayor. But on the sixth day, something happens and people begin to notice things are unusual. Idle thoughts that if thought about too much is bound to get you a visit to the police station for an hour or so. Or worse, it may just get you committed.

Meanwhile, the asylum continues to gain more and more patients. Those that are trapped there will find escaping difficult, but there may be more to this place than they first assumed...

On the tenth, battle breaks out across Luceti Valley. People begin to exhibit powers and abilities they didn't know they had. The police begin rounding up these people to lock up. If they resist, its bound to come to blows. Even though no one has regained their memories of their true self yet, it becomes apparent that some trickery is afoot, even if they might not know the source or why.


Note: This is the second log! There will be a third and final event log for the aftermath. There will also be two separate logs specifically for finding John and defeating Zompano. For those of you that signed up, we'll be randomizing the results and replying to the selected characters later tonight. In the meantime, keep enjoying the event! If you have questions, direct them here.

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[universal_charm]

_{[ As promised, Kirk handed over the cash to the driver to pay for the ride, then motioned Kakashi to follow him inside. They were alone, the others gone for the day or out to lunch. Kirk wasn't sure. With the doors open and light flowing in, the motorcycles they were working on gleamed, powerful beasts built with care and grace.}

He ducked into his office, coming out a moment later with a wrapped bottle, two glasses with a bit of dust on the outside, and a rag. He set the glasses and bottle down, going to his ice box and chipping some ice off and wrapping it in the towel and offering it to him. ]

Welcome to my shop, by the way. Name's Kirk.

[ura_no_ura]

Kakashi.

[ Kakashi nods as he takes the offered ice and holds it between his hands. The coolness of the ice seeping through the towel is soothing, and he's glad he ended up taking Kirk up on his offer after all.

A quick glance around the shop more or less explains what Kirk meant by "girls." The bikes, naturally, are female. So "finishing a girl" meant finishing a bike.

Kakashi's ridden a few during his stint in the military, but since his discharge, he hasn't had the opportunity to ride. The ones in Kirk's shop are really works of art, and he quietly admires them as he turns the chunk of ice in his hands. ]

How long have you been working on bikes?

[universal_charm]

Since I was a kid, really. My uncle had some, and I would go out there, tinker. My first one was a junker I fixed up myself, and it just went out from there. I built the Harley myself, actually, and I do custom work.

_{[ He got out more ice, tipped some into the glasses, and then poured a rich, amber liquid into each glass. Corking the bottle, he brought over one of the snifters, setting it down near Kakashi for when he was ready to grab it, taking a sip from his own, the liquid burning nicely, just a bit. ]}

I also do all the upkeep work on them, since half the people who buy them don't know how to properly ride the poor things.

[ura_no_ura]

There's a proper way to ride them?

[ Kakashi always just assumed that riding a motorcycle wasn't exactly like chemistry -- or at least, in his experience riding during the military, it certainly wasn't. But they didn't have nice bikes like these.

He nods in thanks for the drink and reaches over, tugging it towards him and raising it up to his mouth, nudging up the medical mask covering his face from the bottom enough to take a sip. ]

[universal_charm]

Of course there is! Those yuppies up the hill know nothing and half the time they come in for maintenance and it's stuff they could prevent if they gave a crap about their form!

_{[ He threw his hands up in exasperation, a true believer facing someone who knew nothing of his religion. He shook his head and tossed back more of his drink to calm himself and then gave the other a wry expression. ]}

Sorry, just... you put your heart and soul into building something beautiful, it sucks when someone takes it and doesn't really appreciate it or use it right.