aefenglom | audio; crawl out through the fallout

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audio; crawl out through the fallout

Name: The Lone Wanderer
Date: event on 11/20, late morning
Format: audio

[ Lex has been quiet for some time - busy for parts, sick for others. But the items spilling out of the mirrors this morning has stirred her out of bed, and the item she has received- well.

Well, it's worth saying something. ]

Did anyone- [ a pause, a cough; her voice is raspy from disuse ] -did anyone else get something... potentially hazardous?

[ Potentially. Ha. As Lex stares at the item in front of her, potentially seems incorrect. ]

I need to get rid of this, [ she mutters, and then the connection cuts. ]

((ooc: hi guys! my concussion is finally healing, so Lex and I are back in the swing of things! if you want to hit me up, send me a message either via pm, on plurk

gadgetsandgears, or discord gadgets#7461))

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You can hold off until I get there? [ which isn’t by far. then, he supposed— ] We’ll do what we need to.

Yeah, I'll be okay.

[ She knows, at least, how to not set off a nuke. ]

You feel like you have a bomb in your hands.

[ at least this way, she’ll be comfortable, and no one will eavesdrop as he walks. fast walks.m]

right.

[ Metaphors are good. Safe. ]

thanks, mirrors

There’s a bomb in the house?

yes.

[ well, you asked ]

[

]

Alright
What’s the range and trigger

not sure on range
might be impact
or it might need to be shot out of something

I think I can deactivate it but there's always the possibility of someone reactivating it

Only if they know it like you do.

There have to be buffer charms. Things we can put around it for backup before [ . . . ] flying it out to the ocean is all I can think of.

we can't rule that out

if it goes off in the ocean, it'll poison the water. the fish.

Then it’s not just a bomb.

it's one of the things that killed my world

just smaller

“Just smaller”.

We’ll still have to take it somewhere far from here if there aren’t any spells to contain it.

i mean we could always try to bomb the shit out of the cwyld but knowing my luck it would make it worse

[ if eren could give a huffy sort of not-laugh, it'd be felt right here. ]

Thought that already, too.

For what I know about leylines, it runs deeper than that.

depends on how deep

radiation sinks into the land. the water. blood and bones.

The leylines are invisible paths of magic, I think. Points bound to nodes and spread out into webs that connect to each other all over the world. Aefenglom is a hub, most of the cities here are.

It can be tainted, that’s how the Cwyld spreads through the forest and gets to us, but all I’ve heard to confirm it are theories. Sounds the same.

Edited 2019-11-22 09:48 (UTC)

radiation doesn't need leylines. but it's a good comparison. might give us some ideas for fighting it...

At least this thing is contained. It gives us more options.

[ and, pause. almost there, but. ]

Window
?

[ let him in—!!!!! ]

[ The window opens shortly after, Lex looking outside and gesturing for Eren to come in, whether she sees him or not. She still looks like she's recovering from being ill, mostly thanks to the dark circles under her eyes and the pale pallor of her skin, but she's standing. ]

[ you practically, practically (and by practically i mean definitely) feel eren’s heart do one of those short lived, second-long fluttery jounces in his chest and between his ribs just to see her up and about. he climbs up quick, claws digging into worn down marks too used to his ups and downs by now, and once he’s through the open frame, adjusting to a stand and tugging the tied pack over his shoulder to the floor—

oh, his arms, wings, are so long now, he’s grown to be an impressive tower while she slept off her illness. he barely has to take a step for the palm of his hand to fit against the back of her head like a glove. the rest of him meets her, chest to her face and curving down for his lips to find her hair. the rest simply melts into a tight hug, and what was left of his whip-like tail out the window had slithered inside to coil at their feet. ]

It’s been quiet, without you.

[ Eren moves so quickly and is so tall now that it's almost, almost intimidating. Lex feels slow, sluggish in comparison, still recovering as she is - but Eren is Eren, her Bonded, and she can feel him in her core. She relaxes into the hug, the canine part of her brain encouraging the nuzzle into her chest. ]

Fewer gunshots, [ she jokes. ]

[ a huff of air blows into her scalp. her jokes! ]

You're still sharpshooting.

[ she wouldn't waste her chances, would she! and neither would eren expect less of her. his tongue touches and flicks, wherever it could travel from where his own face to map her close to him again. not that he wouldn't do this when she was resting, curving to the shape of her body in bed— but it wasn't the same. maybe he was too enthusiastic, almost at seven feet and she had been out like a light to most of the spurt, but there was little to help his self control. the least he could do is give her (some) space to slowly find her way around the living instead of comatose.

still too tall, you see, though lex will feel the rest of his frame beginning to adjust, pull to a near crouch to get his forehead to slide to hers. hands find the sides of her face, her ears, and claws almost unkempt slide through her messy bed hair. pulling away is hard! but he does just enough to cradle her gaze to him. his tail is having a good time in coiling, coiling, coiling— until the needle tip is curling up somewhere at her ankles.

he knows there's a nuke in the room and all, but. his bag smells like food. ]

I got you some things.

Gotta do what I'm good at, [ she huffs a laugh, curling into him. She's felt - seemingly from a distance, but felt nonetheless - Eren curving around her, wrapping around her like a security blanket. It's better now that she's awake, the heat from his body more present than the heat of her fever.

Her own clawed hands run over his sides, up and then around his back, holding him to her until he needs to pull away. Dogmeat is far more interested in the smells coming from Eren's bag, and Lex huffs a laugh as she notices him sniffing around. ]

You sure they're not for him? [ It's a tease, and also true; she's going to share with her dog. ]

[ dogmeat . . . eren gives a deep chuckle, one from his throat that doesn’t quite get him to grin as he hooks his bag out of reach and begins to pull out the packages. ]

He ate already. [ eren has been feeding him, but if the dog is somehow sitting and thinking please say sike, he’s correct in doing so! one of the things that the dragon pulls out faster is an excellent piece of smoked meat, thrown for dogmeat to catch however he pleases.

it’s time to prepare lex’s food. sick people food, and would you look at that— the packaging, the quality, it’s all really expensive, shit you’d only be able to buy if you’re an aristocrat. medicinal, tasty and proven to help the body fight off sickness. a valve of water, from the place itself (they don’t encourage using water from other places, this one is pure and energized), is poured into a bowl. eren has to mix the contents, heat it up with his breath, but it should be done in a matter of minutes. ]

Where’s the bomb?

[ he asks, almost casually, while mixing.

he doesn’t mean for it to sound casual, but what to do for now was pretty realistic. keep an eye on it so no one else has a chance to take it, then get hammerspace. cu is on it. ]

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