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Riku ([personal profile] stilldontgotit) wrote2011-04-07 11:06 pm

38 - voice/action;

[There's something seriously ironic when your friends get kidnapped again and again and you yourself have not... in almost two years.

So, today, as Riku flips through the journal, he takes a moment to speak.]


You know, I've been here for almost two years, and I've never been kidnapped. It's happened to my friends a few times, probably most of the village too... But it's pretty weird.

Anyone else in the same boat? And if not, how long did it take them to get you?

[Hmm... With that taken care of, he tosses up a quick filter.]

Filtered to Terra//100% Unhackable

Hey. You doing okay?

[A little later, he leaves the house, heading out to the Battle Dome. Once there, he sets up the simulation in a strange area full of floating stones and rushing waterfalls. Several different Heartless appear in large numbers.

At first the fight isn't too hard; he's dealt with Heartless before, after all. However, as the fight progresses and the Heartless increase in number, it becomes a bit harder to dodge all of them. One of the Wyverns swoops down from above with its talons at the ready, and Riku has little time to react.

So, without even thinking, he steps back, as darkness envelopes his body. He reappears right behind the Wyvern and has little time to consider what just happened. Instead, he blasts a thundaga spell to finish the beast.

A few minutes pass, and he leaves the battle dome. For the next few hours, passers by can expect to see him opening up dark corridors to test the waters. It's true that he's held back a little with his darkness, but the fact that the portals work again is enough to merit some experimentation. He'll be all over the place within the village and forest. ]

[ooc: Mods okayed the use of dark corridors a while ago, but I never got around to an IC discovery of them on Riku's behalf, so here we go.]

[voice]

[identity profile] stilldontgotit.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
I sure think so. We have to put up with all their experiments and wars, after all.

[voice]

[identity profile] dawndigger.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm.

[SIGH. Life in Luceti can be so unfair. ...Oh right, he doesn't even know this guy's name.]

I'm Simon, by the way.

[voice]

[identity profile] stilldontgotit.livejournal.com 2011-04-15 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Name's Riku.

[Hmm...]

Hey, haven't I talked to you before?

[voice]

[identity profile] dawndigger.livejournal.com 2011-04-15 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
Um... maybe...

[Think, think... the hair is pretty familiar...]

Oh, when I asked for advice about weapons! That was it, right?

[voice]

[identity profile] stilldontgotit.livejournal.com 2011-04-16 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, now I remember. You said something about... "Ganmen," I think?

[voice]

[identity profile] dawndigger.livejournal.com 2011-04-18 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Right- my Ganmen. Ah... it's a robot. A big one that I pilot.

[voice]

[identity profile] dawndigger.livejournal.com 2011-04-20 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
When I have to. It's how people fight on my world, so... if you don't have a strong Ganmen, you're in trouble.

[Or you die. You know. But that just sounds depressing.]

[voice]

[identity profile] stilldontgotit.livejournal.com 2011-04-20 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
So it's survival of the fittest. Seems pretty common, no matter where you go.

[voice]

[identity profile] dawndigger.livejournal.com 2011-04-23 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Aren't there any safe worlds out there?

[voice]

[identity profile] stilldontgotit.livejournal.com 2011-04-23 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Some are safer than others, but I doubt there are any that are really safe. Not completely, anyway.

[voice]

[identity profile] dawndigger.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
That's not fair... people deserve the chance to live free and safe. Not everyone can fight, and... lots of people don't want to.

[voice]

[identity profile] stilldontgotit.livejournal.com 2011-04-27 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
In a perfect world, maybe. It'd be nice, but... kind of boring, too. What's the point of a world without conflict? Sooner or later, someone'd get restless.

[voice]

[identity profile] dawndigger.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Fighting would be okay if it didn't get people killed.