i_speak_softly: (I've fallen and my head hurts.)
i_speak_softly ([personal profile] i_speak_softly) wrote2012-11-11 11:10 am

Sixty-Fourth Theory [Action/Voice]

((First part is backdated to yesterday, November 10.))

[Would it really be so difficult for John's droids to just bring Don home?]

[Apparently, because they instead leave him in a side room of the barracks. On their way out, they drop his journal on the floor, just beyond his reach.]

[He can't feel his legs.]

[He woke up this way on John's table, and while part of his brain tried to assess the situation rationally and offer the mitigating factors that it's just for a week, thank goodness he didn't get this as his death loss, the rest of his brain was screaming too loudly to notice or care.]

[And now he's back in the village, half-paralyzed, still uncertain of his speech, and completely alone.]

[It takes a while, but he pulls himself together, drags himself a few feet across the floor, and painstakingly constructs a filter in the journal.]

Voice to Beast | Unhackable

Help. The barracks. Please...

[He closes the book when he's done. Beast won't get any reply from him through the journals, but will find him prone on the floor of the barracks, just wanting to go home.]



Voice for Everyone, November 11

[By the next day, Don has rediscovered his voice, and wants everyone else to hear it too. Being couchbound, he has nothing better to do than broadcast his every thought over the journal system.]

EVERYONE. Citizens, denizens, residents and inmates of our village of Luceti. Those of you who have just arrived, please find adequate shelter, because this is miserable weather to be out in. You're fortunate, though, to have missed our recent tornado. Also an infestation of ghosts and some messy business involving zombie viruses. Never a dull moment. I advise reading the guide, which can be found in your journal.

Those of you who are already jaded by such events, please entertain yourselves on this dreary day by suggesting a topic of interest: a fascinating subject, an intriguing project, or a hypothetical occurrence that you would find truly surprising. Jokes and stories are also welcome.

[He'll stop there. Finding words is still difficult and tiring, and like exercising any other faculty that hasn't been used in a while, he should take it slowly. Full recovery will come from patient practice, not from exhausting himself all at once.]


((Initial action is locked to Beast. Friends of Don are welcome to handwave hearing of his return and come visit, yesterday afternoon or any time during the week. Today's voice post is open to all.))
frost_jewel: (looking up)

[voice]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2012-11-13 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm fine, thank you for asking.

[She's a bit taken aback by his casual remarks about the draft, but he wasn't there, he doesn't know. Entirely forgivable.]

It sounds like you don't have to worry about entertaining yourself.
frost_jewel: (gentle)

[voice]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2012-11-14 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm sorry. Can I help?

[As long as they don't talk about zombies.]
frost_jewel: (just as planned)

[voice]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2012-11-15 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh? I had the feeling you might want to do the talking instead.
frost_jewel: (content)

[voice]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2012-11-18 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Tell me about...your favorite memory.

[She could use some happiness.]
frost_jewel: (...that's...well...)

[voice]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2012-11-18 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [Yeah she's turning tomato-red right about now.] I'm sorry, I thought- I thought that would be something you'd have fun talking about, I...I didn't mean to pry-

[This just became very embarrassing all around.]
frost_jewel: (thoughtful)

[voice]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2012-11-19 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
No, please don't be sorry. It was my fault. Maybe you should pick the topic instead.
frost_jewel: (looking up)

[voice]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2012-11-20 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
All right. Is that something you would prefer to do in person?
frost_jewel: (splash)

[voice]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2012-11-25 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Of course I don't mind. In the morning is better, if you feel up to it.