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recountal2014-10-20 09:56 pm
deontological) wrote in recountal2014-10-20 09:56 pm
we're going to get up to 10 threads at once again at this rate good lord;;
[The contestants of the second season haven't been a priority of the producers in a very long time.
They're old news, after all. The fans that had grown up watching that season are old now, and only the really pretentious revamp fans go far back enough into the archives to watch them. But the producers also know from their background research that Chizuru is a friend of one of those contestants, and that Kaoru would move heaven and earth for his younger sister. The survivors have been cautious thus far and they haven't been able to get any of them back for the damage they've caused...
But Chizuru is reckless when it comes to her friends, as they well know, and it isn't a difficult matter at all for them to let the location of the second season's survivors slip. There are only three of them: Sen and two of the Designated Killers that had been selected after Sebastian's group had proved so useful in the first season, who had turned on their mastermind in the last week at Sen's urging. The rest had been lost in a terrible bloodbath and hadn't been recovered.
It's a somewhat roundabout plan - lure out Chizuru and capture her in order to lure out and capture Kaoru. The trap is a little too obvious, though, and Chizuru is left behind in safety (probably being babysat by Sebastian, because it's highly unlikely that Kaoru would ask Okita to look after his sister) while Kaoru comes to investigate the building where the survivors are being kept in stasis. It's rather innocuous-looking, a three-story office building just like any others in the town's business district.
Sen and the other two survivors are in the basement, having passed the last 48 years in blissful oblivion. The two Designated Killers are in a separate room; Kaoru will come across Sen first, seemingly in a very deep sleep. She is hooked up to an IV of some kind, and a monitor - it tracks her heart rate, her breathing, and all her other vital functions. Below the monitor is a keyboard; pressing any of the keys will pull up a command prompt.
The room is utterly silent, save for Sen's gentle breathing.]
They're old news, after all. The fans that had grown up watching that season are old now, and only the really pretentious revamp fans go far back enough into the archives to watch them. But the producers also know from their background research that Chizuru is a friend of one of those contestants, and that Kaoru would move heaven and earth for his younger sister. The survivors have been cautious thus far and they haven't been able to get any of them back for the damage they've caused...
But Chizuru is reckless when it comes to her friends, as they well know, and it isn't a difficult matter at all for them to let the location of the second season's survivors slip. There are only three of them: Sen and two of the Designated Killers that had been selected after Sebastian's group had proved so useful in the first season, who had turned on their mastermind in the last week at Sen's urging. The rest had been lost in a terrible bloodbath and hadn't been recovered.
It's a somewhat roundabout plan - lure out Chizuru and capture her in order to lure out and capture Kaoru. The trap is a little too obvious, though, and Chizuru is left behind in safety (probably being babysat by Sebastian, because it's highly unlikely that Kaoru would ask Okita to look after his sister) while Kaoru comes to investigate the building where the survivors are being kept in stasis. It's rather innocuous-looking, a three-story office building just like any others in the town's business district.
Sen and the other two survivors are in the basement, having passed the last 48 years in blissful oblivion. The two Designated Killers are in a separate room; Kaoru will come across Sen first, seemingly in a very deep sleep. She is hooked up to an IV of some kind, and a monitor - it tracks her heart rate, her breathing, and all her other vital functions. Below the monitor is a keyboard; pressing any of the keys will pull up a command prompt.
The room is utterly silent, save for Sen's gentle breathing.]
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[As ready as she'll ever be. The count of three comes just in time, however - as the door swings open, an explosion rings out from down below them, just as Kaoru had feared. Luckily, it's small and contained, only causing a minimal amount of shaking in the stairwell; a moment later, though, there is the sound of scraping metal and then a thunderous crash.
It's good that they've opened the door, because the elevator is no longer in good working order. They likely won't go back to investigate, but if they did, they would find nothing but an empty elevator shaft with the wreckage of the elevator car far below.
Once the door is opened in this room, they'll need some time for their eyes to adjust - because the lights, which had been dim on Kaoru's first trip through, are now blindingly bright. Sen hisses, but squints, not closing her eyes entirely.
Once they can see, they'll find what was causing the door to rattle. It is a large, hulking monster of a man in a gas mask and a suit, standing in front of the elevator door on the other side of the room. In one hand he has a thick club; in the other, he's holding a square box with a button on it.
Sen would dearly like to disembowel him for all that he represents, but she doesn't; she merely adjusts her hold on the hunting knife and shifts into a stance that will allow for easier movement, once they decide to fight. She keeps her attention on the masked man, and the masked man, in turn, is keeping his attention on Kaoru.]
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SO THROUGH THE DOOR IT IS and while Kaoru is also taken by surprise reentering the once-dark room, he's also relatively prepared for things like this. Life is hard in the future where they have sound cannons and flash-bang grenades... He has a vague, passing thought as he holds a hand up to shield his eyes, remembering how Stiles had tried to shove sunglasses at him on his way out the door because cool guys don't look at explosions or something, and he had left them behind with little more than a "don't curse my luck".
His eyes adjust somewhat quickly at least - and the thing that had been pestering them endlessly earlier is so large that he doesn't need to strain them much to see it, anyway. The details come into focus soon enough. Suit, gas mask, club, box. His mind works quickly: the box might have been used to set off the explosive - there may be more around. Gas mask for protection, maybe? There are a lot of gases that can do damage even to a demon. All that thing needs is enough time to capture them, after all. Containment or death could follow quickly if they're incapacitated. The fact that the man is watching him also unnerves him, since it says to him that Sen is not as high on the objective list.]
—Here. [His eyes stay fixed on the man, but his free hand reaches up to unwind the scarf tucked tightly against him inside of his jacket.] In case you need to cover your nose or mouth.
[This is also one of those moments when he wishes he did prefer guns, because it would be a hell of a lot easier to test for any traps by firing off a few rounds first. He'll have to rely on his speed, then, though he doesn't set off like that immediately. They had been planning for the arrival of a demon, after all. Maybe not him, but he and Chizuru share the same abilities, so he takes a few cautious steps forward first.]