iamawaited: (joe is dead)
Nux ([personal profile] iamawaited) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2015-07-26 07:47 pm

1 - Open as the Wasteland

Who: Nux and you!
Broadcast: Hello world!
Action: All around the Marsiva!
When: July 26

Video

[This video is either going to be very interesting or very boring to viewers, depending on who's watching. It opens on a blue eye in a very pale face, with some kind of dark makeup smudged around it. The eye tilts crazily to one side, then the other. The camera pulls back to on a second identical eye, a scarred nose and cheek -- then further still to reveal a mouth crossed from end to end with vertical scars, like skeletal teeth.

The boy -- it's definitely a boy, or really a young man -- squints at the camera, and then the image tips to the side again and jerks wildly back and forth as he bangs the communicator against the nearest surface and brings it back up to his eye with a curious sound. After a moment, he seems to give up looking for whatever it is he wants from it and puts it down, leaving the camera staring at the ceiling.]


Action

[He had done the same when he'd awoken. He'd opened his eyes on the cleanest, shiniest surface he's ever seen, and thought, chrome. Then it had hit him all at once: the rig, Capable, Rictus...

...Valhalla...?

Not like any Valhalla he's ever imagined, he'd thought when he'd sat up and taken a look around -- that was when he'd spotted the little machine with its blinking red light.

Now, he abandons it and starts exploring his surroundings closely. There's information trickling into his brain, but it's a lot to take in all at once. The room alone is a lot to take in all at once: real beds, glaring bright lights, equipment he's never seen before, the huge night sky out the window.

Eventually, he finds his way into the showers, blinking when he spots the tap. Guzzoline? Mother's Milk? He turns it and jerks back in surprise when liquid starts spraying out onto him, turning the tap off again quickly. His eyes widen when he licks his scarred lips: water. He wrenches the tap back on and turns his face up to the shower head, taking a few greedy gulps of aqua cola.

Eventually, he'll tear himself away again and resume his exploration, not seeming to care about the fact that he's soaking wet, or that the already-faded white-and-black war paint is running from his bare, scarred torso.]
mortalcoil: (written on my face)

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[personal profile] mortalcoil 2015-07-27 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[--that face.

Coil never turns on his video feed. he's always sitting behind the anonymity of reluctantly-written words, if anything at all. he hates the communicator, and he usually hates everything that he sees on its screen and hears from its speakers.

this, though.

on his screen, Nux will suddenly find a different face--just as many scars, but one less eye, and a little frown on his face--just looking at him.]
kill_switch: (pic#9343564)

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[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-07-27 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Furiosa is making her rounds on the ship to familiarize herself with this new environment, distract herself from the pressing questions about where the Wives were and how she was wrested from the Citadel, and trying to figure out how she can find her way back.]

[The absolute last thing she is expecting to find here is a ghost, and turning the corner to see the dripping Warboy exceeds even her furthest imaginations. She stops dead in her tracks and eyes him, brow furrowing. It wasn't just a Warboy, it was the Warboy, that had become part of their little party; from a stone in her side to an integral part of their escape. How was he even alive?]


You.

[This has got to be a hallucination of some sort.]
mortalcoil: (unmade)

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[personal profile] mortalcoil 2015-07-27 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[after another minute of silence--with maybe Coil tilting his head a little, as if that would actually get him a better look at the guy--he lifts his hand so the camera can see, and gives a little wave.

hello, stranger.]
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-07-27 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks down at him, considering. Seeing him here makes her less certain that she did make it through. She'd been unconcious for a while; is it possible she never recovered and what she thought happened was merely the mind weaving its final ends? At this point she can't be sure.]

We were victorious.

[It's a simple answer, since she doesn't trust the details right now, but it's as true as she knows.]
kill_switch: (how every single word you spoke)

[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-07-27 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[She takes a deep breath and lets it out in a huff, looking around them.]

It's a ship. In space. [Her augment told her so. How it's all possible, she's even less sure.] Apparently there are a few other, smaller ships. Typical warparty formation.
Edited 2015-07-27 01:08 (UTC)
mortalcoil: (pick a hand any hand)

[video]

[personal profile] mortalcoil 2015-07-27 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[well... Nux isn't wrong in his guess, but it's probably not in the way that he means it.

so, Coil tilts his hand back and forth in a 'so-so' kind of gesture.]
mortalcoil: (would smile if I knew how)

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[personal profile] mortalcoil 2015-07-27 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[he nods! and he doesn't smile, but his features do lighten up a bit.

there, good. they've at least established the fact that this whole communicator business is an interactive thing. it's a good step.

and then, trying to look as questioning as he can, he points at Nux. or, at the screen really, but he's hoping he gets the idea.]
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-07-27 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Doubt it. It's too clean. [Everything is too clean. It's unsettling.]

Have you been around? What have you seen?
mortalcoil: (unmade)

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[personal profile] mortalcoil 2015-07-27 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[oh, right. well, he can only hope that Nux follows this one.

pointing at his own mouth, the kid draws a little X with his fingertip over his lips.]
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-07-27 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[She cocks her brows at him. She knew about the drink dispenser in the cafeteria, but that in a different direction from what he's motioning.]

They seem to have an excess of it. Show me.
mortalcoil: (I'll trust a last breath)

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[personal profile] mortalcoil 2015-07-27 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[he's used to the newbie confusion by now, and he can't explain easily, so he just... waves his hand out to indicate something that is far away. wherever he's from, Nux hasn't heard of it.

and, like he'd done before, he points at the screen again with a quizzical look.]
mortalcoil: (unmade)

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[personal profile] mortalcoil 2015-07-27 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[and Coil tilts his head? because, of course he hasn't heard of a specific place by that name... but it sounds like it could be interesting.

and also... sounds remarkably like a name that could describe his own home, at least a little bit.

he motions with his hand to go on. elaborate, maybe.]
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2015-07-27 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She already knows he has the capability to be useful and can be trusted. She follows without hesitation, at an easy lope to keep pace with his enthusiasm.]

[Furiosa slows as she walks into the shower, looking at the showerheads and wondering why anyone would put a spigot so far up.]


what is this for? [It can't be for drinking, not when they have a dedicated machine for it.] Is this for bathing?

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