this is a [test] of the emergency broadcast system

[titansno]

TEST DRIVE MEME

> The Park. Man, what a nice day out. Why not enjoy it? I'm sure -- shit, yep, there's some echo monsters.
> The Mall. Exactly what it says on the tin! Dodge the hordes of teenage mallrats or take part, whichever suits your tastes.
> Rainy Day. Agh, it's fucking awful out. And is it raining those vermilion things?? Now you've got an Echo to contend with on top of everything else. Find some shelter, quick!
> PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, HOW FUN
> The most horribly kitschy Arts and Crafts Fair you can imagine.
> Wild Card! Make up your own.

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Toboe | Wolf's Rain

[nottame]

A.

[Tobias Malin is a twenty-four-year-old with a baby face, currently transitioning from Rainy Day to Public Transportation. He steps into the bus from the evening gray looking a tad sulky, shoulders hunched, hair dripping, that coat he's wearing definitely looking soaked through.

And all the seats are taken.

Fair enough, the cold would probably set in all the more if he settled down. He strides on toward the back, grabs the bar in front of the rear door - and promptly, restlessly shakes himself off. Probably splashed anyone in the seat in front of or behind his position or who boarded behind him.]


B.

[It seems that you and one of your fellow numbered - this one, as it appears - found yourselves needing to take on a Vermedi. And you succeeded! Bashed the thing's head in.

The two of you are standing over it. He breathes a "...phew", and begins licking his teeth in some leftover anxiousness.

Pauses.

Goes licking very pointedly at one of his canines. Hard to say why - it appears to be a normal canine. All the same he lifts a hand to his mouth, outlines it with a finger - still appears to be a normal tooth!]

Ho-o-oly shit so uh... You? [Obvious playing-off-disquiet - sounds about as immature in his tone as he looks.] You get something?

[He means an Echo.]

A

[talk_like_a]

Hey!

[The girl who got splashed the most out of all of that is looking awfully disgruntled, if not even slightly pitiful. She's got an unhappy frown even as she raises a hand to try to brush the soggy hair away from her eyes.]

Re: A

[nottame]

[Looks back over at her - with his hair much more minorly splashing off to the side with the movement as he does so - and, well, the thought rises that that was a "whoops" on his part, but what slips out is - ]

...Hey, I'm wet, too!

[The thing is it does sound a tad sorry - moreso petulantly defensive.]

[talk_like_a]

[Rather than accept his apology like a mature person, she instead chooses to do the next best thing - namely, shaking out her own hair and splashing everyone around her, Tobias included.]

A

[earnedmystripes]

[You know what sucks? Having your car in the shop on a rainy day. Luckily, Kotetsu left home prepared, and he is warm and toasty in his raincoat as the bus comes to its next stop.

...Which is more that can be said for the unfortunate young man who's just boarded. Kotetsu frowns lightly as the man shakes himself off--just out of the splash zone, but wow, that's very wet--and gets up, plodding on over to the bar he's holding onto.]

--Ah, here.

[Offering up his jacket with a light grin.]

[nottame]

[Toby was a bit too caught in shivering and shaking - to keep himself "busy" in a silly way - to even notice that one of the other passengers had gotten up let alone approached.

He blinks on a man speaking up, turns his head. Blinks again at the coat with a lightly lifted brow, takes a moment to process the answer to "Are you talking to me?" and then, in turn, the offer.

A smile pulls itself up and open onto his face - and somehow the huskiness from the cold puts a little more eagerness to receive it into his tone.]

Ahh, god, man, thanks!

[Takes his hand off the bar and squirms and shrugs off his own wet coat - just as he finishes the bus starts again and he grits his teeth and sways a moment - plants a foot and catches himself! Pulls the man's jacket up and on with an idle, shivering laugh - in lieu of the "brr" that he might've actually emitted before achieving technical adulthood.]

Just - to tide me over 'til I get to my stop. Man, I was running around in the rain for like half an hour!

[He could be exaggerating; however long he was running about the rain he's certainly not in the past hour been within view of a clock. Not one that he would've noticed, at least.]

B!

[detectivetroll]

[At some point, Nick should probably stop being surprised by the weird things he runs into since he's gotten involved with the network.

Actually, he kind of thought he was, until he ran into whatever the hell this is. At least it's dead, now.

He makes a noise of agreement at that 'phew,' somewhere between a sigh of relief and a disgruntled huff, as he turns to face his whatever-the-hell killing partner.

And pauses as he sees the guy licking over his teeth, looking closely at him.]

Not sure. Mine seem to have a habit of going unnoticed for a while. You?