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nysalogs2017-10-03 09:18 pm
guidetoblivion) wrote in nysalogs2017-10-03 09:18 pm
[open, with one closed prompt]
Who: Riku (guidetoblivion) and YOU!
What: Catch-all for the month including but not limited to house #70 shenanigans and event things
When: See prompts
Where: Olympia, specified in prompts
Warning(s): possibly violence, maybe backfired magic, will update as needed
[ A – House #70 | Some night, backdated to end of September | Closed to Housemates ]
[Sleep doesn't come easy to Riku – it hasn't in the past year, and it's failing to find him now after…
He doesn't really know what the presence of that person means for him, if he can just abandon the responsibility he feels for the Worlds into the hands of someone that might actually be capable of carrying that weight...
Someone who didn't abandon his promises the way Riku did.
In the end, he finds himself opening the window of the living room to climb out on the roof and enjoy some of the cool night air – if his ever turning thoughts don't allow for sleep, he might as well take them outside. He leaves the window slightly ajar, more in order to get back in… but maybe someone would like to follow him?]
[ B – Residential Area | Daytime of September 30th | Open ]
[If anything came out of that fight though, it's the certain knowledge for Riku that he needs to grow stronger outside of Ansem's power, that he needs to have different fallbacks than just that and his Limit. He needs to find a way to speed up his attacks, to defend himself without being frozen in place and he definitely needs to brush up his magic… healing and otherwise.
There are no jobs from Aranea coming on this day, and with little for him to do otherwise, he invests a few silver into tin can targets, and finds himself a high, flat roof for himself that – at least to him – seems out of the way enough to get some training in.
With the tin cans put down, and some distance gained, Riku takes a deep breath and focuses – it's been a while since he's had any use for these spells. Then he stretches out his arm focusing on the easiest of the elements to summon, whispering:]
Fire!
[Red flames spark at his palm and he holds them there for a few seconds before he pulls back and releases them, aiming at one of the tin cans. The flames reach their target, but don't leave much of a mark… it might not seem like a particular satisfying result, but considering that he hasn't used the spell in months and managed to call on it without it backfiring, Riku figures it successful enough for now.
In the following hours he continues his practice, switching between fire, ice, lightning and air spells as he goes… Perhaps you are a passerby wondering about the lightning strings raining down one roof up on such a beautiful day… or perhaps it's even your roof that's been chosen as trainings ground?]
[ C – Around Olympia | Throughout October | Open ]
[With the gas attack happening, all thoughts that Riku might have had about his own worth or training are forgotten – finding the culprits behind the attack and making sure that there won't be another certainly takes priority now.
The last year has taught him a lot about blending in with the darkness, about staying quiet and listening for clues… he uses all of that now, when he slips into the shadows of the Red Light district and watches out for any person with the letter M tattooed into their wrist.
And if he happens to run into one of the fugitives… well, it probably is in their all best interest if they turn themselves in. Isn't it?]
[ D – Wildcard ]
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guidetoblivion) and YOU! What: Catch-all for the month including but not limited to house #70 shenanigans and event things
When: See prompts
Where: Olympia, specified in prompts
Warning(s): possibly violence, maybe backfired magic, will update as needed
[ A – House #70 | Some night, backdated to end of September | Closed to Housemates ]
[Sleep doesn't come easy to Riku – it hasn't in the past year, and it's failing to find him now after…
He doesn't really know what the presence of that person means for him, if he can just abandon the responsibility he feels for the Worlds into the hands of someone that might actually be capable of carrying that weight...
Someone who didn't abandon his promises the way Riku did.
In the end, he finds himself opening the window of the living room to climb out on the roof and enjoy some of the cool night air – if his ever turning thoughts don't allow for sleep, he might as well take them outside. He leaves the window slightly ajar, more in order to get back in… but maybe someone would like to follow him?]
[ B – Residential Area | Daytime of September 30th | Open ]
[If anything came out of that fight though, it's the certain knowledge for Riku that he needs to grow stronger outside of Ansem's power, that he needs to have different fallbacks than just that and his Limit. He needs to find a way to speed up his attacks, to defend himself without being frozen in place and he definitely needs to brush up his magic… healing and otherwise.
There are no jobs from Aranea coming on this day, and with little for him to do otherwise, he invests a few silver into tin can targets, and finds himself a high, flat roof for himself that – at least to him – seems out of the way enough to get some training in.
With the tin cans put down, and some distance gained, Riku takes a deep breath and focuses – it's been a while since he's had any use for these spells. Then he stretches out his arm focusing on the easiest of the elements to summon, whispering:]
Fire!
[Red flames spark at his palm and he holds them there for a few seconds before he pulls back and releases them, aiming at one of the tin cans. The flames reach their target, but don't leave much of a mark… it might not seem like a particular satisfying result, but considering that he hasn't used the spell in months and managed to call on it without it backfiring, Riku figures it successful enough for now.
In the following hours he continues his practice, switching between fire, ice, lightning and air spells as he goes… Perhaps you are a passerby wondering about the lightning strings raining down one roof up on such a beautiful day… or perhaps it's even your roof that's been chosen as trainings ground?]
[ C – Around Olympia | Throughout October | Open ]
[With the gas attack happening, all thoughts that Riku might have had about his own worth or training are forgotten – finding the culprits behind the attack and making sure that there won't be another certainly takes priority now.
The last year has taught him a lot about blending in with the darkness, about staying quiet and listening for clues… he uses all of that now, when he slips into the shadows of the Red Light district and watches out for any person with the letter M tattooed into their wrist.
And if he happens to run into one of the fugitives… well, it probably is in their all best interest if they turn themselves in. Isn't it?]
[ D – Wildcard ]
[ Want to thread, but don't find a hook in any of the prompts? No problem, just shoot me a note though PM or plurk (
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[He smiles as he replies, not especially intimidated, but reminded all the same that there are a wide array of abilities that he's never seen before. It would be preferable to see them rather than have a first hand experience with them.]
Perhaps we might work together in the short term? Without knowing what either of them can do, it seems prudent to have backup.
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All right then.
[He turns back to watch their two targets talking, they don't seem to have come to an agreement yet, which gives him and his new partner a little more time to decide on a course of action.]
If we attack them now, we'd have the advantage of surprise…
[But who knows what might be yielded by taking the risk of holding back just a little while longer. Decisions, decision…]
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[Waterbending is useful enough for immobilizing people that he's not overly concerned about the possibility that they'll get away. There's a chance that they might, but not if they're watchful.]