foolishwren | 96. [Accidental Video/Action for Ecruteak] BACKDATED TO THE 22ND

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96. [Accidental Video/Action for Ecruteak] BACKDATED TO THE 22ND

_{[Chaotic and occasionally-accidental videos have become a relatively frequent occurrence during the outbreak, and this video is really no different in that aspect.]

[The feed comes to life in a chaotic jumble that makes it clear that the 'Gear was bumped or jostled into turning on-- no amateur-but-deliberate filming of Pokemon attacking action figures this time around. It does, however, come to a brief halt as the carrier pauses.]}

_{[Sunny the Togekiss peers sorrowfully down from the outdoor-rafters she's perched on, apparently refusing to come down.]}

-ny!

SUNNY!

Get the HELL down-- oh my god, you know what?

Forget it.

FORGET IT.

Forget it.

Fucking BIRD.

_{[The screen whirls and and all image coherency disappears in a swirl of bouncing sky and trees. The WHACK WHACK WHACK of the mic hitting the other contents of Heather's bag as it swings at her side destroy most of the audibility too, but snippets of voices come through-- Heather's and someone else's. People who are familiar with her and the people she travels with will recognize it as her father Harry Mason.]}

Heath--r please be reason-- just stop for a moment and think ab-- you don't need to d-- let it g--

No. NO. She--

I don't CARE if she's not g-- to-- I'm going--- do what I should have done in t-- --ace!

--L MASON--

_{[The thumping stops as Heather apparently stops and spins on her heel. As she does so, the camera's view once again settles, offering an off-kilter perspective view of her from roughly waist-level. She's been staying away from the network as much as possible as the effects of the strange outbreak started to hit her hard, and now it's fairly evident why: dark, scorched-looking splotches have spread across every inch of skin like burns-- and where they crack, bright, veinlike lines like something molten spread. Her hair is smoky and black.]}

I am NOT losing you again, Dad!

_{[And then, after that raspy, croaky scream, she whirls again and keeps going. The feed times out at some point, after a lot of jumbled sounds as other voices join the apparent debate.]}

[OOC: Cooooonteeeeeext. Replies over the 'Gear will likely be ICly delayed and/or limited.]

Threaded | Flat

[Not getting rid of him that easy. Following after her.]

Cheryl Mason, I told you to stop.

You need to calm down.

Kid, what are you doing?

[Throughout this plot, Minnie has pretty much refused to show herself, due to her new hair color, white. but this calls her attention and is far more important than her looks.]

Heather!

Edited 2012-07-28 11:39 (UTC)

[... Kaito sure isn't taking this video sitting down. He's out and about looking for her as soon as he gets it, and in the meantime, is posting his own response to the network]

Heather! O-oi oi, what're you doing?

[Okay, that? That certainly doesn't concern something as trivial as blowing up hot dog stands. No, it appears to be really serious this time, so Crow (who's still blissfully unaware of what it means for him) will act accordingly.]

Heather, what's that all 'bout?

Heather? What the hell happened?

[Because something must have, and whatever it was couldn't be good.]

[For the first time since this mess started, Otacon switches to video rather than text; every time he gets much closer to the screen it starts getting faintly staticy. Which is just as well, as that makes it harder to tell his eyes seem to have turned red in addition to streaks of gray no amount of hair dye could cover up.]

...Talk to me. What's going on?

_{[He's heard Heather angry more than a few times before. But there's something very, very different about it this time, the intense and urgent tone of it that is easy to read as something being very, very wrong somehow.]

[Naturally, he worries.]

[She's rash. And while he doesn't know the context here, he knows enough about her to know that someone should probably step in, even if just to talk her down. (It's interesting to think about, the way he's apparently one of those people now.)]}

Heather? Heather, what's going on?

Threaded | Flat

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