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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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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!!! ]