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dave strider ([personal profile] turntex) wrote in [community profile] piper902020-10-11 12:20 am

[video]

[The post that pops up in the feed in the middle of the night doesn't appear to be made with Dave's comm device, but it's Dave that pops up on the screen anyway, and he looks like hell. A split lip, a bruise blossoming along the jaw, nose bloodied, and...there appears to be a dirty sock caught on the collar of his uniform?

Honestly, the weirdest part is probably that it's a video post in the first place. He doesn't have time to sit around messing with this too much, though. Even as practiced at typing as he is, it's harder to do while moving and judging by the background, he's definitely on the move.]


Rise and shine, [PROFANITY CENSORED]. Elevator closest to the infirmary. I know y'all are functionally a bunch of temporally helpless infants, all shaky legged, eyes barely open and all that, but I need you to get your [PROFANITY CENSORED] down here yesterday regardless.

[He's not even trying to dance around the vulgarity filter. It's real bad.]

Found our baddie. Tall lady, redhead, red tattoos. She originally had on a suit and a blonde wig and some kinda mask but no idea if she's sticking with all that. Crazy strong and fast. Pretty sure she can heal herself up, so that's awesome. Lots of ninja weapons, like this [PROFANITY CENSORED] not only ripped off Tenten's skin but also her whole schtick, it's pretty insulting honestly. The skin thing's probably still a bigger deal but hey, I'd be pissed.

[He's babbling a little, half mumbling by the end there, but his expression remains flat and unreadable the whole time. Finally he seems to get where he's going and he pauses, swinging the camera around to the scene in question. Blood everywhere, dents and furrows in the metal walls, smoke still pouring out from the elevator shaft.

The camera spins back to him, and he somehow only looks more tense.]


She got Wash. Probably someone else too, judging by the blood she already had on her when we ran into her, but [PROFANITY CENSORED] if I know who or where.

[He leaves it at that.

For anyone actually sleeping like a normal person at this time, someone comes running through the dorm area soon afterward to bang on walls and make sure people wake up. Seems like Dave sent over the people that had been on watch outside the infirmary.]
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[personal profile] vampthropologist 2020-10-14 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm out of ideas.

[Beckett slumps against the wall, moving his hands like he expects to put them in pockets that the jumpsuit doesn't have. He scowls, and does his best to turn it into an inscrutable but purposeful gesture]

Blood on her hand? As in she'd dipped it in, or painted it on? I can think of a good dozen magic rituals and techniques that would involve getting your hands bloody. Aside from human or animal sacrifice, that is.
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[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2020-10-14 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
God, I hope we're not dealing with blood magic. [Dan hates blood magic. He tries not to hold it against the people who use it, but there's something inherently distasteful about draining other people dry just so you can juice up your powers.] Bad enough it's a mutant healing ninja.

[Dan does, however, get an idea.]

If she had blood on her hand, she might have pressed some of the buttons. It'll give us a better lead than nothing. [Dan's sense is that the alternative will be to just go check out every floor one by one, looking down the hallways for blood. And there are a lot of floors.]
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[personal profile] vampthropologist 2020-10-15 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
The thought doesn't appeal. Have we any magicians on board? The, ah, Easter Bunny - [this pains him deeply] - said she was supernatural. There may be another kind of trail to follow.
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[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2020-10-15 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
If you got a better idea than digging through rubble or going floor-by-floor, I'm all ears. Far as I'm concerned, we got all night.

[Dan's certainly not going to sleep while there's anything he can do, even if what he can do is painstaking, probably futile stairclimbing and debris-parsing.]
Edited 2020-10-15 02:56 (UTC)
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[personal profile] vampthropologist 2020-10-15 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Then I suggest we pursue that as the new lead. And you should get to the infirmary, Dave.

[Beckett has been doing his absolute best to ignore the rich, living smell of fresh, hot blood dripping just out of arm's reach. There isn't much of it, so it's not that hard, but it is rather like smelling the neighbor's barbecue when all you've had in the house for a week is plain oatmeal.]

You're leaking.
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[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2020-10-15 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Great. You want to give us the debrief while we take you to get the medical you should probably have already got? [Dan doesn't want to go through the whole nonsense of Alexa reading the comm posts out to him. It's just not efficient.]

Beckett and I'll check the wreck of the elevator, and if that don't give us shit, we'll start going floor by floor. Can't say it'll be helpful, but the worst it gives us is wasted time.
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[personal profile] vampthropologist 2020-10-16 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Now, get to the infirmary. [You're making Beckett hungry]