Zompania Draft - Draftees only, days 1-3.5

[lucetimods]

Who: All Draftees
What: This is your death. Followed by your time-traveling life and desperate bomb hunting.
When: From May 22 to May 20 to early May 23 (days 1-4)
Where: Zompania
Summary: Information post here
Rating: Varies on thread, please mark explicit material.

This post is for the draftee-only portion of the Zompania draft--the day 3 death, time travel to day 1, and then the events until the arrival of the reinforcements. Be sure to use the above info post for any plotting needs you might have. Enjoy!

Please note that there is a specific top-level comment thread for:

• The day 3 arrival of the draftees and the 6 hours that follow until the bomb is dropped
  
• Death--This thread can be treated as REFERENCE ONLY. Responding to it isn't necessary.
  
• Threads prior to departing for Zompania--post resurrection freak outs, arguments over how to proceed, etc.

All other threading, from day 1 until the reinforcements arrive, should be conducted as normal.

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

Comments

[voidseeing]

[Law's eyes will meet a pair of equally calm steel grey ones looking right back at him. He knows what just happened; he's experienced it before, right down to the being brought back part. He knows just how disconcerting it is, and that's exactly why he's studying the pirate's face to assess just how much it affected him.

Seemingly satisfied by what he sees there, he nods once in silent acknowledgement. Yes, that was death, and yes, that is what it feels like.]

We need to keep moving. They'll slaughter us if they catch us here like this.

[deathsdoctor]

[That was death, huh?

... and well... then that is what is waiting for him back home. That. Perhaps not what they felt in the darkness - the unmaking, the thing - but the rest...

It's not something he can dwell on. Not now. Whether the experience is the same or... less in some fundamental way than it would be in their homes. That's for a quiet room when this is over, when he can allow himself to feel and figure if it's alright to be affected or if it's something he should try to just get over.

Law knows, though. He's said the same to Perona and Loki. The pirate nods.]

Perona's sending her Hollows to scout ahead. She'll find us the safe path around the cultists.

[voidseeing]

Do you know how many of them she has access to?

[Focusing on practical matters is good. It's something productive, and it will keep both of their minds off what they just experienced. As long as they can focus on the situation at hand, their minds can't wander.

Still, he can't help the little bit of dark humor in the back of his mind that says that maybe he should start keeping a tally of just how many times he's died by now.]

[deathsdoctor]

At least fifty. I don't know exactly her upper limit. [Pirates keep those things under wrap for good reasons.] She's already reporting that the city is heavily guarded and that surrounding area's the same. We'll need small groups to be able to outmaneuver them. If we stay together...

[Practical matters is good. Practical matters will keep them sane. Law wants to ask of Itachi, but overall business for their survival first. He continues.

He's told you of the Haki, right?]

There's something happening at the city though. I can sense... it's like the place is screaming.

[voidseeing]

The city is?

[Ominous, to be sure, but after what just happened...]

I'm not surprised. This is no ordinary draft, that much is for sure. Something tells me there's a lot more going on than we're aware of at the moment.

[deathsdoctor]

Yes. Or rather the people in it. The energy I'm getting off there is horrible - massively emotionally charged.

[Even weak Haki users not skilled with Kenbunshoku would be able to sense this. That strong.]

... I'd say that something is right on the money. We should brace ourselves for the worse.

[voidseeing]

I wouldn't be surprised if the cultists were torturing them.

[His voice is oddly matter-of-fact for such a disturbing topic.]

What better way to try to draw us in?

[deathsdoctor]

Or worse.

[They could be sacrificing them too. Who knew.]

... well, they'll get their wish if that's so. We just have to make sure they don't realize it's been granted until it's too late.

[voidseeing]

Sneaking in under the radar? Sounds like my kind of plan.

[It's what he's good at, after all. Funeral Parlor had been essentially a terrorist group whose entire existence had relied on their ability to pull off covert operations. It hadn't been until several months before Gai was brought here that they'd gone public, and even then, they still relied on stealth and cunning.]

[deathsdoctor]

[This is the part where Law would normally smile, and he does, but it's wintered in its execution.]

Thought you'd like it. Think a lot of people will too.

[voidseeing]

You know me. I need a little excitement in my life to keep things interesting.

[Even though they'd already gotten far more of that than they'd bargained for.]

[deathsdoctor]

I do indeed.

[voidseeing]

Speaking of which...

[Gai steadies himself, takes a deep breath, and then plunges his own hand into his chest as a glowing silver light surrounds him. Fortunately Law has seen him do this before and knows not to panic, though the sight is likely still an unnerving one.

He doesn't have enough ammo to be able to rely on his Luger here, especially not facing as many enemies as they are.]