OPEN & CLOSED event catch-all with the Gundam Wings

[heeroics]

WHO: heeroics & braidedwonder & zerofive & YOU?
WHAT: three former military teenagers establish a base of operations in the play area of the abandoned mall, while they investigate the mall and the knife-wielding clown apparitions (among others) that are "haunting" them
WHERE: the mall
WHEN: during August event
WARNINGS: child soldiers doing their thing, will add as needed


Throughout the mysterious mall lockdown, Heero, Duo, and Wufei will keep the play area of the mall beside the food court secured and well-stocked with: food court pretzels, bottled drinks, as well as walkie-talkies and nerf guns scavenged from the Toys R' Us. Feel free to tag in with a wildcard @ the play area, or PM for an individual starter.

Comments

closed: walkie talkie chat

[heeroics]

text, sent April 19

[heeroics]

[ so, it starts with the disappearance of Heero Yuy, who had announced to the group chat that he was going to the mall.

- which is unusual in and of itself, but then he doesn't come back.

When (perhaps if) his compatriots come looking - or maybe they entered the mall with someone else, who knows - they'll receive this incredibly helpful message the moment they step through the threshold, allowing Heero's device to finally connect with theirs: ]

the mall is a trap.

status?

[zerofive]

Thank you, that is obvious, now.

[unwritten, but likely still very visible: you phenomenal moron. But then, Wufei's always been the quickest to anger, and to express that anger.]

Does anyone have any useful intelligence to offer?

[braidedwonder]

There was a nice food court and now I can't find it anymore.

I'm disappointed, the pizza wasn't great but it was pizza.

[heeroics]

it disappeared?

or you got lost?

[ the odds are 50/50 here ]

[braidedwonder]

It's gone.
Asshole.

I know how to navigate a few halls when they don't change every time.

[heeroics]

it's impossible to know how much attention you're paying at any given time.

[braidedwonder]

You always assume the worst anyway, so what does it matter?
The weird mall is weird, the sky is blue.

[heeroics]

one of us needs to be prepared.

[braidedwonder]

You’re even harder to not think about fashioning a ligature for now that you’re normal, you know that?

I’m more prepared for a low food, hide out lifestyle than either of you two by a mile if that’s what this comes down to.

(raunchy choking joke)

[heeroics]

[ normal? normal? this little shit ]

empty threat. you can't even hold me down.

😛

[braidedwonder]

Whatever you gotta soothe yourself with while we sleep in the same place, Heero.

[heeroics]

[ thankfully Heero doesn't see tone ]

there's something wrong with the security cameras

[ obviously he's already broken in "backstage," so to speak. the problem: the something wrong is that the cameras make you think you're crazy ]

voice, sent Aug...22? Just after Duo dies.

[zerofive]

zero-two is. Down.

[He sounds very calm about it. A little bit too calm. It's the trauma.]

I'm bringing the body back to base. [Their little hideout, he means. It's no fitting rest, the little printed carpet with its cartoon depictions of smile-faced flowers, but it's the closest they're going to get.] Then I am leaving. The emergency exits seem... intermittently accessible. It's time for this to be done-with.

I'm going to meet him by the train station.