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peacockstop2024-10-15 09:00 pm
TDM 06
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HEADS
TAILS
MAIN LOBBY
BACK HALLWAYS & STAIRS
MONSTER MASH
THE VALE
SMOKED EGG
BALANCE RETURNS
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▶ Go forth and let your freak flag fly!
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and that's not adding if they do go after zombies or just go back to her suite given there's enough shit going on. texas did reach a point she began to realize that anything is bound to happen and this is only going to get more annoying the longer they're there in the golden peacock with the nature of it.
something that she's not thinking about now whenever texas is soon enough sliding and weaving through these cocky idiots. much to their surprise that she slipped by, but she wouldn't have been good back then as a soldier or a made-woman if she didn't know how to "dance" as much as she did fight. one in particular gets the idea to try standing between her and their talisman user only to find a foot firmly planted against their head and texas launching herself off.
the talisman user in a panic attempts to launch off another to set her on fire, shock her, whatever they can manage only to be knocked down in a swift tackle. there's a terror in their eyes, pleading fast only for texas to knock this poor bastard out in the one punch she gave.
that's one down, she thinks, the few that were on her half of the hallway now are rushing toward her. mistake really, they forgot broca was there too.)
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Aggravating doesn't being to cover the feeling then.
But damn if it doesn't feel good to get some of that aggravation out. Height might have the advantage of longer legs, but Texas is still swifter than Broca. She bobs and weaves through the assailants with ease, snagging their attention as she kicks off of one in order to take down the biggest problem of the group: the "caster" equivalent.
She really does know how to command the attention of a room when she wants to, because the other hunters have their eyes trained on her as the start to move forward, not realizing that the big guy behind them has gotten close enough to put a big hand on the sides of their heads, and bring their skulls crashing together, before letting both of their unconscious bodies drop limp onto the floor. ]
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so she's going to pocket it in her jeans and make sure that it doesn't stick out much. whether or not they wind up dealing with more of these morons would come later in the future, right now texas can only shake her head at them and their foolishness.)
Tch, they're lucky this wasn't anything serious. A real fight would have gotten them killed for trying.
(sharp remark aside, it's not like she'd put it past these poor sods to get eaten too in the future themselves whenever texas opts to move on after stepping past the unconscious bodies. that's always been her style, her way of doing things. texas can deny it as much as she wants, it's just she's always had that air coming off her. a commanding presence, capable of making people listen and shut up whenever they're getting mouthy or pay for it during a fight when they're focused more on texas.
there's no way around that side of her would go away in seven years, if not in general while heading back toward broca's side with another side glance at the carnage before shaking her head.)
Your eyes okay?
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Or at least... that would have been the case for Broca, though he can't say he knows for sure how bloody Texas would want to get her hands. So many stories about the Texas family in Siracusa seemed like whispered rumors anyway, and Broca wasn't in the habit of taking these things at face value.
He just also wasn't in the habit of prying either, and it hardly mattered when they weren't exactly in Siracusa at the moment.
Broca stepped back from the unconscious men slumped at his feet, blinking just a touch more than he usually would. ]
Some dark spots still. They'll fade in a few minutes.
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them in their grand plan, their greatest scheme in which they would separate the familiga from siracusa. they thought surely their golden child would and yet she didn't. she made her decision in the end and for texas it was that she had enough. right now neither of them were talking about this, not about what they dealt with and gone through as soldiers in their own cases. she dirtied her hands yet by no means more than she felt necessary and right now she only pities these fools who would surely get themselves killed.
it wasn't their problems either way what happens to them whenever texas directs her attention toward broca and what to do now. she didn't mind the idea of them still going down to clear out some of the zombies, but there's also that part where they'd have to likely deal with more people mixing them up for monsters. annoying and quite a problem for two people that only wanted to blow off steam in one way they knew how.)
Good. Can't say that I enjoy them getting the idea that we're monsters, but what can we do? If you still want to grab the bats we can, otherwise I don't mind if we wind up going back to my suite or something.
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That and perhaps to upgrade his own room so he could have a proper workshop. Though he appreciated the friends he'd made here, and their willingness to let Broca use their space for his projects, it would be nice to have his own still.
He misses his workbench at Rhodes Island...
That said, these were all problems to deal with later after they'd finished up with the immediate issue of people mistaking perfectly normal features for something monstrous. While he wasn't against helping people escape zombies, he didn't want to keep dealing with this nonsense on the way to that. ]
Second might be easier right now.
[ Given if one set of incompetents assumed the worst of them, there were sure to be others in the future. ]
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later when they do get the opportunity to spar more often, if both of them do start training together in the talon, she might feel somewhat better. texas did make it a habit to go down there as a means of keeping her body from getting out of shape; she might be apart from a certain someone but that didn't mean she shouldn't expect problems. especially if one day she did show up in the resort there to make her life a living hell again in her own way.
....though she won't tell anyone the full story between her and lappland, anyway. not about their mutual understanding, the way texas refuses to kill her, and especially not how well they knew each other.
now that this is settled, this meant taking the stairs. she's had enough elevator rides from hell lately and she's not going to talk about those wild experiences, at least not tonight. they had other things to do like him getting a chance to put his feet up outside of the basement for a time and texas having a chance to put those talismans somewhere that they can't be taken from her at. she doesn't need them sure, but having something extra hidden away from staff can be fine, right? they do come by for maid service which means she would need to find a good spot later.)
Stairs then to the ninth floor, hopefully we'll be okay there now.
(he'll have to also deal with her radio in the background given dead silence has always been a struggle for texas to sit in....or sleep in, admittedly.)
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When you're already dealing with bozos that want to turn you over for money for being "monsters", sometimes you want a little reprieve from things, and being stuck in an elevator where you have to literally fuck your way out of it wasn't the kind of reprieve most people were looking for.
He'll give her a nod, a little confirmation that he's just fine making a climb like that. It's not as if Broca doesn't hit up the gym plenty himself. ]
Should be easier to monitor as we make our way up too.
[ A narrow, confined space. Maybe not a lot of places to run, but also not a lot of places to hide, and with ears like theirs, any sound would echo in a way that made it easy for them to know someone was in there with them.
Even a little background noise shouldn't totally interrupt that. ]
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going up the stairs to the ninth floor won't be hard on her either, she does do enough cardio. at the moment it's a more quiet walk. nothing to grab her attention and not a hint of unusual scents. or scents of strangers, the quiet this time was more normal and not something to worry too much about. given circumstances they had every reason to monitor the area around them and texas surely won't argue about that point of the night.
the way to the stairwell seems uneventful enough, even with texas only reaching at one point to get another pocky stick out to chew on. probably not the greatest substitute for her nicotine cravings, but what can she say? it helps. helps her not do it as much whenever she starts to think about what else the house can pull on them next. surely it can't be as bad as them getting chased by monster hunters, right?)
Can't say that I like the idea that some of them are getting greedy enough to throw anyone that doesn't look "normal" for them out to the Vale.
(features from their birth by no means make them abnormal. then again texas can't say that she wouldn't have been angry had she wound up tossed off into the vale or if someone had gotten other ideas. both aren't that appealing to her, that much is a given.
though thinking too much on it might annoy her, too.)
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But he didn't like being inconvenienced at all, and there seemed to be more than enough inconvenience lying in wait around every damn corner of this oversized building.
Case and point...
Broca huffs out a small sound that could be a laugh, could be a scoff. ]
Some of the other guest here don't look that different from us, but people are quick to be weird about anyone having parts that are a little fuzzier.
[ He's got one guy obsessed with cats after him on a pretty frequent basis, and he's definitely gotten a lot of petting requests that strike him as odd.
He can only imagine what Aak has to go through, being fully covered in fur as he is. ]