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Sergeant Rick Doyle || 28 Weeks Later ([personal profile] fuckthemission) wrote2012-06-11 01:03 pm

04 | voice/written/action | Kidnap shifts are a bitch, and I hate 'em.

[June 9th (Nighttime)]

[Doyle returns from the mission and hopes distantly that the shift placed on him would be gone. It is not, and he's got an insignificant wound that probably needs a few stitches and something to disinfectant. He basically makes a beeline for his place, locks himself up (and may run into people along the way, despite his attempts to be sneaky). He'll just have to wait for it to wear off.

Yeah.]


[Voice]

Can anyone do me a favor? Probably a doctor at the clinic--I need, uh. A kit for stitching up minor injuries, things like that? Something to disinfect a wound? I'm not really in a position to go down to the clinic... If we can arrange somewhere to pick it up, I'd really owe ya.

[If you're in Community Housing 7, you might feel a phantom heat passing through the Floor 3 hallway. Also if you're Doyle's neighbors or you're above or below his room, sorry about the weird heat that seems to bounce around your place. :|]

[June 10th]

[It's getting worse. He's feeling a lot more restricted, a lot more like he's drowning in peak summer heat. Started sweating more; he takes nightly walks like he does sometimes, though more-so to escape how his room smothers him. Eventually, though, he starts to realize that he can't go to the grocery store, or the restaurant, or the item shop. Or the middle of the plaza. Frankly, he realizes he's just shoving heat in people's faces wherever he's at.

There's some joke to be made about making people want to take their clothes off, but he's too tired to amuse it. He temporarily stays in an empty house further back from any people, just until this wears off. Needs food, though. Going to the grocery shop isn't going to work out. At all.

A while later, an anonymous person pens in
this handwriting:]

[Written / Anonymous]

I'm stuck in a predicament, and I kinda' need food. If anyone can drop some off at the house I'm staying in, I'd really appreciate it--and I'd owe you one. Just on the doorstep, and I can do the rest.

[If people do decide to help out, he'd appreciate it. He even pens the house number. Just don't be alarmed if you help, or even if you just walk by, that something unceremoniously warm is seeping through the walls of the house. He's got the air on, the fans on, and he's still not feeling too relaxed.

He also goes out and sits at the lake. By the time he's there for an hour, two, he sits in the water and feels some semblance of relief for once.]


[June 11th]

[Fucking hell. Fuck.

He's given up on shirts. He's drinking a lot of water, too. Been sitting in the shower at the unspecified house until he prunes up. It offers a little relief. Not a whole lot. When it starts to rain he goes outside, goes back to the lake, sits in the water, in the rain; he hasn't gotten sick from it yet, so he's not about to stop.

When the rain clears up, he drags himself onto the shore and lays there. He feels too hot. He's going to burn up--they're going to burn him all up, aren't they, those assholes?

Too hot... Ugh... Too hot.

It's raining and overcast and he's laying here suffocating in heat.

What were the odds.]



((ooc: basically anyone within a 10-foot radius will feel like they're in a really hot desert that will progressively get worse the closer they go; the heat is stifling and hard to be around. Another 10 feet after that, there's a mild heat that'll probably be more recognizable on the rainy days. Touching him'll make you feel like you're being burned. Also to note, it only effects living things. So no actual hot objects. :|b

It'll go away before anything gets too intense for him, but he's a little freaked out and anxious and all that.))


no_compromise: (look at that)

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[personal profile] no_compromise 2012-07-04 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shrugged.]

Spent most of my career there. I'm used to it.
geniustheveil: (pgsm ☤ nice young lady)

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[personal profile] geniustheveil 2012-07-06 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
I think so, too. If we stop trying to prevent them, if we give up, then we definitely can't change anything.
no_compromise: (telling the story straight)

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[personal profile] no_compromise 2012-07-07 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
One that wasn't much different from your own, although the force that I belonged to was dissolved seven years ago. It was an uprising that we weren't fully prepared for.
stillplaying: ([interest] leaning in)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-07-07 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[She thinks on this. It gets a little bit of a smile because this? It's something she can do. Something she'd want to do. Rick doesn't deserve what's happening to him right now. No one does.]

We don't have maple syrup right now. [But there's a clear 'but' in her voice.] Maybe the store might have some.
fleurdesel: left, smile, smirk (Ignore my smugness)

[action] June 11th

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-07-08 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a good thing, Rick. You're more often sarcastic or oddly charming than you are the fool.
no_compromise: (asking for understanding)

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[personal profile] no_compromise 2012-07-09 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Dissatisfied humans who were blinded by their own passion. [They had doomed their own world...]
stillplaying: ([serious] keep you safe)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-07-12 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Slowly, she sits. Tucks legs to her side and gives a serious grey eyed stare. Nods.

It's not exactly much of an offer in her opinion. The snow cone maker wound up being surprisingly easy to work. Churning a few out for him, topping them with syrup, wouldn't be hard to do at all. There's no reason not to.]
no_compromise: (ponytail--do i have to say it?)

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[personal profile] no_compromise 2012-07-12 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It's complicated--and you wouldn't understand the full scope anyway.

[Translation: he's not telling a human that he used to oppress the humans of his world and that he took no shame in killing them.]
no_compromise: (telling the story straight)

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[personal profile] no_compromise 2012-07-17 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[And scary hands. Big, scary hands with very sharp claws. :I]

The differences are more than just physical; they're cultural too.

[action] June 9th

[personal profile] herd_effect 2012-07-18 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Queue Will looking rather miffed. And holding the thermometer next to the burning sun that is Doyle's face for a few moments before taking a long, hard look at it. Indeed, there's no change from room temperature. Which means either the Malnosso have somehow figured out how to turn off convection or he and Doyle are under some kind of shared hallucination. He thinks the latter might be more plausible.

He puts the thermometer down, taking out a bottle of saline and a large-bore syringe.]


No, I'll deal with it. [Because he is not about to let this maybe-hallucination get in the way of helping a patient. Damn it, he's tougher than that.]
no_compromise: (ponytail--distant)

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[personal profile] no_compromise 2012-07-19 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
...it's not important here.

[Did the man honestly think that the beastman was going to explain the socio-cultural differences between the two races to someone he barely knew?]
stillplaying: ([surprise] doesn't follow orders)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-07-19 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't quite scramble to her feet but she does sit up at that. Glances back towards the woods in the relative direction of the village.]

We can go back. To my place. I can make you some there.

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