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JOSHUA WASHINGTON ([personal profile] goregies) wrote in [community profile] redthreadrpg2017-03-05 10:26 pm

[OPEN] Does anyone have the time to break me down?

Who: Josh and OPEN!
When: Around the middle of Day 2.
What: With a day passed of this place going neither away nor quickly south, Josh bites the bullet and thinks he'll... try settling himself in.
Where: Around, and then the hobby room!
Warnings: Bit of language - will be updated for anything else as needed.



A. Anywhere.

[It's been a whole day.

Or maybe it hasn't, and his head's still - I don't know, out of step? Just... out of it? Hell, he couldn't even tell you how much time it feels like it's been.

But either way, for a period here, it was day, then night, then he eventually managed to get to sleep (it wasn't as if it lasted twelve hours and was full of pleasant dreams, but when he went, he went right out) and he woke up to find it was day again.

He's still here - and finds himself increasingly willing to believe that "here" is an actual place. Possibly a joke of one, and ell-oh-ell, wouldn't that be swift, ironic justice. But... he doesn't really have it in him to doubt anything at this point, or the will to try guessing into it.

And nothing looks like it's changed or whatever. He wanders the halls... not unobtrusively, he's still not quite "together" enough to manage that, but quietly. He passes by the kitchen. Looks into the courtyard, though he doesn't go out - feels a chill on the thought of doing so, nope no exposure for him, right now, thanks...

And as simultaneously distracted and tuned out as he is right now, he will start at any sound of lone footsteps around me - will reel around with his arms extended at his sides and hands up at the elbows, gasping with voice and wide eyes.]



B. The Hobby Room.

[He hadn't gotten a good look at the hobby room, but... hey. Maybe he should. If there's no out... nothing like an old favorite movie to make someone feel, even by B.S.-ing, that things are all right for now.

From the glance he had gotten at it, it, like all other rooms before it, does look like an ordinary rec room.

He notes the video games - has half a mind to check if anything Chris had ever mentioned was ever in there, and then on a mental static shock shoves that thought away, don't, don't think about them for now, don't think about them for now, just -- just focus, focus... focus on the here-and-now.

But then he goes straight to the movies. The thing that he knows, better than some do, at least. Won't be a bad way to start actually calibrating with today. Put on a good movie, let it run, just... remind yourself everything's real.

He starts flipping through, and as he does, ha - some part of him expected this to be the movie library of some alien location, hipster, or fake deep webby serial killer, but nope! He actually recognizes most of these, so there's that, but...

It's all so random. His complaint isn't even that it's low on classics, or low on horror, or anything. It's just... all over the place, based on the sample he's looking through. It's like a collection of films that the world's most clueless grandpa would cobble together before having the kidlets and grandkidlets and great-grandkidlets over.

And he can't help but actually pull a grin on one side. Still looking through films, giving a meandering shake of his head.

He says this not remotely without humor but muffled and partially behind his teeth:]


Shit -- sucks, man.
hikikosaurus: (Are you okay?)

A, initial alarm

[personal profile] hikikosaurus 2017-03-08 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[The first day could have been a strange dream, but two days is too long. She's really here, somehow, with no explanation how or why. After a lot of trying to sleep and only so much success... It's time to think and look around.

The tiled room she'd first come to in, the woman checking them off and shuffling them out the door... Looking back, at tiled floors and walls, it seemed like a lab room. Her roommate was changed, somehow put in a body that wasn't her own. Was Alphys changed, in some way she couldn't see? Were the others?

Whether they were or weren't, this place, this whole, limited place... was like her lab. A place for keeping experiments comfortable but ultimately separated from the world. And that had to mean there was some way of observing them all. And that means going around the edge of all the accessible rooms, looking for signs of cameras or microphones.

Her claws tick on the floor as she walks around the corner, a too-late warning sound that alarms him into gasping and reeling away from her. She pulls back herself in alarm, mostly at his expression.]


Uh! S-sorry! I didn't see you there.
hikikosaurus: (001)

sorry for the way late backtagging, no hard feelings if you'd rather a new thread sometime

[personal profile] hikikosaurus 2017-03-25 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Alphys jumps in surprise at the near-collision, but his reaction to it surprises her almost more. It's like he's... scared, of her. But that's absurd, right? She's small, she's not very strong, and... and...

Well. Maybe he's got some kind of special powers, that let him realize what sort of person she really is. The idea crawls down her back, and she can't look at him either.]

Uhhh...

[And then the thing he finally says isn't about her at all. It's just that he's sure this isn't real.

For a moment, she has no words. It works out okay; he has all the words, even if they're mostly the repetition of 'shit', and there's no lengthy awkward silence between them. Just a muttering, stammering awkwardness.]


A-are you...

[The stammering awkwardness is mutual.]

Are y-you... okay? It seems like you... think you're dreaming?
cxivth: (?)

hobby room!

[personal profile] cxivth 2017-03-08 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
( for his part, noct hadn't really done much exploring. what use was there when he wasn't entirely convinced this was real? some kind of crystal-fuelled nightmare where he was locked in a facility with a room, and a glass roof. yeah, all of that totally seemed normal.

but then, his life had always been anything but.

he's in a bit of a sleepy daze as he walks passed the rec room, doing a bit of a double take when he sees someone else inside. there's a half step backwards as he stands awkwardly in the door way for a minute, sizing the stranger up, then rubbing the back of his head.

he should probably... say something at least, right? )


Anything... good? ( that probably sounded about as awkward as it felt. )
cxivth: (:\)

[personal profile] cxivth 2017-03-22 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
( yeeeeah, it's all... normal...
watching this guy's body language had noctis half-raising an eyebrow, but then, the behaviour probably wasn't entirely unmerited considering the position they had all found themselves in, right?

right. he'd just... convince himself of that, for now. )
I guess... that's probably expected of whoever's running this place. ( what? elaborate, noct. ) I mean— it'd be worse if they somehow had good taste, or... a bunch of stuff we all liked or something.

( there's a long drawn out breath in, as his arm finally drops back to his side. ) Though... I wouldn't be opposed to a copy of Justice Monsters V, to tell you the truth.
alwaysvexing: (Seriously?)

A

[personal profile] alwaysvexing 2017-03-11 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Vex just so happens to be a set of footsteps this young man he hasn't talked to yet wasn't expecting--and when he's greeted with a reaction of pure shock for doing nothing more than happen to exist in the same room, he can't help laughing a bit.]

Jumpy, are we?
theserpentsmiles: (Who break their backs slaving every day)

[personal profile] theserpentsmiles 2017-03-12 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Considering they've been assigned as roommates, Nagisa is probably the first person Josh will meet. He's already up and dressed, sitting on his bed, scribbling something in a notepad. He slips it into a pocket before glancing at the older guy.]

Good morning.
silentasterisk: (Talking ✼ I don't know about it!)

B

[personal profile] silentasterisk 2017-03-12 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a girl with long black hair wearing a pair of glasses in... pajamas, of all things (don't ask) staring at you, tilting her head. ]

... Oh, are the movies bad? I haven't been able to see any movies in so long... I was sort of hoping they might have some nice ones. A nice detective thriller, maybe! Or... maybe a good romantic movie...