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Newt ([personal profile] sobloodyinspired) wrote in [community profile] redshiftrp2019-08-03 11:31 pm

video; un: shuckitall

[It's obvious that, at least at first, the boy being filmed has no clue about it, nor that it's being sent anywhere else for anyone else to see. It would seem someone left the device somewhere, discarded and ignored.

There isn't much to be seen, the room he's in is mostly empty, besides a bed to sleep on and the like, mostly decked in chrome everywhere the eye could see. The angle is tilted, but the boy can be seen in nearly every area of the room that he paces around like an angry cat. He bangs on the door, demands to be let out, to no avail. Mutters to himself, nonsensical things--

"Kill me! I trusted you."
"Shut up! Just do it!"

"Kill me or I kill you!"
"Do it before I become one of them!"


All the while, he's clawing at his arms, fisting his hands in his hair, punching the wall until his knuckles bleed, but he doesn't seemed phased by any of it at all.

The feed stretches on for a good hour or so, maybe closer to two, before he takes notice of the device again. The camera gives a far-too-close shot of his face as he mutters intelligibly to himself, fussing with the-- well, he doesn't know what it is, but he's sure that flickery-man he'd seen earlier said he could talk on it, somehow. Not that he remembers any of the instructions. Or were there any instructions at all? He can't remember. There were rarely instructions when WICKED was involved, and if there were, they were hardly useful.

"Shuckin' thing... Dunno what'm s'posed to..."

He blinks as he inspects the screen a little closer, eyes squinted in concentration. Everything is hard to process still. They said they cured him-- or something. He doesn't buy it, he's still too jacked in the head to be all right. But... he thinks he's getting clearer, maybe. Or maybe he just wants it to be true.

He pulls the device away from his face and taps a finger on the screen. The young, dirty-blonde boy looks a bit worse for wear, a few scrapes and scratches littering the tops of his hands, one cut in particular on his cheek.

But most noticeable, any time he moves his hands in the right angle in the shot of the camera, are the thick, black veins that run across his arms and peek up from the collar of his shirt, running up his neck and toward his face. When he speaks, it's with a distinct accent.]


Oi, this thing on? Anyone out there? If WICKED is listenin', hear me out, yeah: I don't buy your klunk about a cure. It's never existed, an' I don't reckon it ever will. You're all a bunch of nasty buggers who need to sod right the shuck off, al'right? Every last one'a ya.

[He throws an offensive hand gesture toward the camera and there's a beat after that before he adds:] And let me outta this bloody metal box- cage- thing you lot've shoved me in!
redwinekindofgirl: (108)

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[personal profile] redwinekindofgirl 2019-08-04 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well. This is new.]

Whoa, hey, they've locked you up?

[The attitude doesn't faze her, or the language, or the gestures. Hell, he could be right out of the Stadium, talking like that. She peers at him for a moment.]

Not heard of that happening yet. Are you sick?
itsnotaonesie: movieconnoisseur (stealth nerding)

Video; UN: Spides

[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-08-04 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is the first time Peter's heard of anyone being locked up somewhere after their arrival. Or maybe the new arrival room is just glitching the hell out and the door won't unlock or something, who even knows with this place.

He considers asking where this guy is, but there's no way someone who just got here is going to be able to answer that, so he comes up with a different plan.]


Hey man, pan the camera around the room a little. I can get you out of there, but I need to know where you are first.
itsnotaonesie: movieconnoisseur (what i was totally listening)

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[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-08-04 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, so a chrome room with a bed in it. That's... not a lot to work with. Huh.

Well okay, maybe Peter can still work with this. Judging by this guy's whole like, vein situation, maybe some of the bots drug him to the medbay? Like a quarantine room or something. Or maybe he was completely wrong, but it was a good place to start.]


Don't worry about that, I have a way with doors.

[If hacking doesn't work, brute force certainly will. He has back up plans, it's all good.]
Edited 2019-08-04 23:19 (UTC)
itsnotaonesie: (probably not actually listening)

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[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-08-04 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is the part where Peter would normally hang up since he's got some searching to do, but he has a feeling that this guy could probably use someone to talk to. He'll stay on the line while he's off on his uh. Boy quest? Quest to find this boy, it's a boy quest.]

Not sure if this is reassuring at all, but none of us are supposed to be here. At the very least, we all know what it's like to be snatched up an tossed somewhere weird.
itsnotaonesie: movieconnoisseur (*teenager noises*)

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[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-08-05 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Well that's not quite where Peter had thought this conversation would go. Especially not with someone who looked to be about his age. This got real fucked up real fast, bro.]

See, I means the whole being here at all thing, but um.

[He pauses, glancing around himself a little bit. The whole being dead thing wasn't his favorite topic, and he didn't really want anyone else listening in.]

But uh, technically yes. Died about a year ago.
kaballin: (Nah)

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[personal profile] kaballin 2019-08-05 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Making friends right off the bat with that one.

You're in a cage? We have a jail? Well that's new. What'd you do?
queenofthegirlscouts: (humans are the perfect hunters)

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[personal profile] queenofthegirlscouts 2019-08-05 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shepard? Hadn't expected that antique-style communication device to go off quite so soon, and she sure as hell hadn't expected that vid. Her first instinct is to answer, check in on the kid, but others are on that particular scene. Besides, this kind of panic?

Not good over vids.

She'd been exploring the area around the decontamination ward anyway and it's not hard for her to locate where she thinks the boy is. So here she is, then. Perfectly visible through the window. A tall, sturdy woman dressed in dark blue fatigues, trailing a suitcase. She hopes the suitcase looks battered and luggage enough to be non-threatening. ]


I'll start with a stupid question, yeah? You just woke up in this thing?

[ She's good at the casual, calm voice, even with her military bearing. ]
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[personal profile] redwinekindofgirl 2019-08-05 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[She rolls her eyes slightly. God. A wiseass.]

Okay, that answers that question. But you're probably a particular kind of sick, yeah? Something from your world.

[Julie might look tired - she usually does these days - but she doesn't look to be showing any symptoms of the Flare.]

And yeah, it fucking sucks, but if you're gonna get out we need to work out why you got put in there in the first place. You said something about a cure?
itsnotaonesie: (fuck off it was funny in my head)

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[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-08-07 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Kind of a long story, so uh. Super short version; There was a bad guy, he wanted to murder like, everything, we tried to stop him, aaaaand totally beefed it.

[He's still not super comfortable about discussing all of the details about his deadness in... uh. Detail. It's been a while, but it's still kinda traumatizing, y'know.]
itsnotaonesie: (I'll just start writing my will now)

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[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-08-08 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods in agreement. Why yes, it DOES suck, but holy shit not as much as everything else about this. Peter can't imagine what it must be like being on either side of a situation like that.]

My God, man. That-- I'm sorry, that's horrible.

[Super horrible. And then he registers the rest of what this guy just said, and hooo buddy it's probably about to get even more horrible because this guy being locked up away from everyone else suddenly makes a lot of sense]

This... this virus. Do you still have it?
itsnotaonesie: (i am just out of keyword juice)

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[personal profile] itsnotaonesie 2019-08-08 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[oh no duDE Peter's barely met this guy and his heart is already just breaking in half for him this is horrible. And then he starts off on some maze thing and people stealing his memories like HOW does that even work??? What is this guy's LIFE????

He hesitates to reply, if only because he knows what he's about to say is most likely not something this dude's going to want to hear.]


Shit. Um. Listen, I don't think letting you out of there right now is a good idea. We'll- we'll get this figured out, though. You're not gonna be in there forever.

[He can't actually make a promise like that right now, he doesn't know enough about the situation. He also can't bring himself to say that there might be a possibility that this dude might just live in a box now. If that does end up being the case, Peter's gonna look like a lying asshole later. Shit man, there's just no winning.]

I know it's not much, but in the meantime we can keep in touch like this, or Hell, I can shout through the door if that's better.
Edited 2019-08-08 01:25 (UTC)
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[personal profile] queenofthegirlscouts 2019-08-08 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Shepard.

[ No 'commander', no stumble over the loss of her ship - her ship - because, yeah, she's not stupid. 'Commander' probably wouldn't go down well with the kid. Not when she remembers being that wary, suspicious kid herself. ]

Just got yanked here, according to the vid I watched.

You?
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[personal profile] queenofthegirlscouts 2019-08-08 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, neither have I. But I guess the universe likes keeping us on our toes.

Least no one's shooting at us. [ That's almost an aside to herself, wry and amused. Waking up in that Cerberus medbay had been... an adventure. ]

Did you get any vid welcome?

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