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thenearshore2019-01-05 05:50 pm
timeforpink) wrote in thenearshore2019-01-05 05:50 pm
Cue stakeout music
Who: Noctis and Jen
When: March 20
Where: A neighborhood in the Near Shore
What: Fighting crime o9 anndd some questions about things Jen has heard about the Heavens
Warnings: None expected but will edit if need be.
[ Sunset is pretty, and as the darkness of night covers the area, bad guys start to emerge to do their dirty work in secret. Catching them in the act sounds like a pretty good plan to her.
Also, Noctis doesn't really do mornings, so this is a better time than morning twilight.
Jen suspects the rise in undesirable activity is due to ayakashi, because in her few days of afterlife, it's always ayakashi either causing or exacerbating the problem. Well, there have been a few people she's heard mentioning the Heavens aren't just The Good Guys, but she puts that aside right now. She snd Noctis are on a stakeout.
There's some movement off by a street corner, but it turns out to just be a runner turning onto another street with their dog. Nothing suspicious there.
The shadow that twitches once they pass, though— that's shady (no pun intended). ]
Did you see that?
[ She hisses at Noctis. She's not gonna let this ayakashi overhear and start running. ]
When: March 20
Where: A neighborhood in the Near Shore
What: Fighting crime o9 anndd some questions about things Jen has heard about the Heavens
Warnings: None expected but will edit if need be.
[ Sunset is pretty, and as the darkness of night covers the area, bad guys start to emerge to do their dirty work in secret. Catching them in the act sounds like a pretty good plan to her.
Also, Noctis doesn't really do mornings, so this is a better time than morning twilight.
Jen suspects the rise in undesirable activity is due to ayakashi, because in her few days of afterlife, it's always ayakashi either causing or exacerbating the problem. Well, there have been a few people she's heard mentioning the Heavens aren't just The Good Guys, but she puts that aside right now. She snd Noctis are on a stakeout.
There's some movement off by a street corner, but it turns out to just be a runner turning onto another street with their dog. Nothing suspicious there.
The shadow that twitches once they pass, though— that's shady (no pun intended). ]
Did you see that?
[ She hisses at Noctis. She's not gonna let this ayakashi overhear and start running. ]
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[He was looking in the opposite direction and didn't catch the same thing she did.
Not that he wasn't paying attention, though. On Eos, sunset and subsequent nighttime meant keeping an eye out for daemons. Outside of settlements, anyway. He'd found out pretty quickly that this world didn't have that problem, because the streetlights in the neighborhood they were in weren't nearly bright enough to ward off the creatures, and yet no one seemed concerned.
Then again, they also were, on the whole, relatively unconcerned about ayakashi, but that was because they were basically invisible to the Near Shore.]
No, what was it?
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[ She points. The shadow ripples along the edges. It's honestly kind of creepy. ]
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He actually spots the shadow's movement this time. It really isn't supposed to do that, and after a few seconds of consideration, he takes a few steps closer to it. Tell us your secrets, sketchy shadow.]
Think we should check it out? It might just be a...stray cat or something.
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Yeah. What if the crime spree is supernaturally influenced? An ayakashi pushing people to steal things.
[ Is she reaching? She may be reaching. Either way, she makes her way to the street corner. No need to be too stealthy here on the Near Shore, where they won't really be noticed, but she still keeps her footsteps quiet.
The shadow goes still as they get closer. Suspicious! She points her fingers, ready to cast a borderline just in case. Another step closer, another, and another, and then—
A human crosses the street in their direction, and the shadow darts off to him, settling on his head like a crown. A lizardlike ayakashi. So she was right! ]
Drat! It's gonna be hard to kill it without hurting the human.
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[It wouldn't be unusual, considering the appearance of the ayakashi at the recent parade seemed to spur people into fighting one another.
He follows after her, slightly on the defensive, since he's unable to cast borderlines, as the creature reveals itself and latches onto the nearby person. It's small fry compared to what he's dealt with before, and he wonders if it might be worth it to try plucking it off the guy's head and dealing with it separately.]
It won't be that hard if the thing stays on his head like that. As long as it doesn't move, we should be fine.
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You can use me.
[ Jen isn't sure what her vessel is or what she can do, but... that's what she's here for, and so far, she's feeling pretty positively about Noctis. ]
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But he also doesn't know what Jen's vessel is either. He knows what Moriyo's is, since he summoned her once--for about a minute--just to see, but he hasn't done that with Jen yet.]
Can't hurt.
[Their current target hasn't left the area yet, apparently scoping out the houses, so Noctis holds out a hand in front of him. Goki is a lance, so he's assuming his second shinki is also a weapon.]
Come, Kiwaki!
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Jen feels a tug at her very center, the name on her thumb warm at being called. Then she's weightless, the world going hazy until settling into a view like on a screen. Overall the transformation doesn't shock her, but what she ends up as... ]
A wristwatch? My vessel is a wristwatch? How are we supposed to fight with this???
[ What the heeeck. ]
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The transformation is the same as it was before--there's the disappearing and reappearing in a different form and all--but this time, he's...not holding onto anything.
And now Jen's yelling.]
It--uh...it looks like you are.
[A nice wristwatch, if it makes her feel any better. Hopefully it does, because he's not really sure how to make this better.]
No big deal. Just means we have to come up with a way that involves less fighting.
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[ Uuugghhh! She's not mad at you, Noctis. She's just. Really disappointed. But she's also still determined to kick butt and take names, so she sighs heavily and decides to move on for now. She can be mad later. ]
Okay. We can do this. There's gotta be an upside, and we're gonna find it. Let's follow the guy for now.
[ Hopefully she comes with... some sort of battle benefit. Ugh. Moriyo is cooler than her. But Moriyo is pretty cool in general, so Jen doesn't mind. ]
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[He really doesn't have much of a problem with punching an ayakashi off of a dude's head. He doesn't necessarily want to punch the guy himself, but that just means he'll have to aim carefully.]
Mm, see if you can figure anything out while I follow him.
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I guess... We don't have to kill it, just make it leave that human alone. [ She thinks "aloud" - through their link. ] So maybe if we stun it somehow, we can scare it off.
[ Which might be easier to do if the human would hold still long enough to take a swipe at it. ]
If my vessel were a stopwatch, I'd say you could try to stop time.
[ But no. She's a wristwatch. ...still annoyed, yep. ]
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It's a very strange sensation.]
I'd rather kill it, so we don't have to come back and deal with it again later. [Their target has found a target of his own, a darkened house at the end of a street, and he's trying to find a good entrance. Noctis approaches and stops within conversation distance of him, but his eyes pass over the god like most other people's.]
Stopping time? Maybe we can...got any ideas how?
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I'm with you on that. [ As for how to even stop time... ] Maybe... maybe my vessel is a wristwatch because I can affect time somehow. We're close enough that maybe...
[ Maybe he's right. Maybe they can affect time, if they work together. ]
Try hitting it with the watch. I'm gonna focus on stopping time, like I'm aiming an arrow at something.
[ It feels like the right thing to do. Like it'll work. ]
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And nothing against Jen's strategizing, but 'hit it with the watch' is one of the strangest instructions he's ever heard.]
Uh...sure. [Soo...how best to do this? He's just going to slip the watch--or Jen, rather--off his wrist, considering it for a few seconds, then. Throw it at the ayakashi. This is totally a valid strategy that won't backfire. Though in an attempt to look like he actually knows what he's doing, he warps after the watch to put a punch behind it.]
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At the same time, Jen concentrates on freezing the ayakashi in place for just a few seconds. By pure coincidence (or divine intervention, given they're doing the work of a god here) the timing works out so it freezes as it's getting hit. ]
Hah!
[ A triumphant exclamation, said in the moment or two before the wristwatch hits the ground alongside the ayakashi. ]
Urgh. It worked!
[ And that's the important thing here!!! ]