i_speak_softly | Seventeenth Theory [Action/Incidental Voice]

((Continuity notes: While taking care of Polka after she collapsed, Don and Raph learned that Leo had been mallynapped. They promptly barricaded themselves in Polka's room, but quickly realizing that this was not a long-term solution, they determined to Get Serious about their plans to disrupt the barrier and escape.))

[This morning, the Turtle Twosome can be found stalking around Luceti, sticking close to one another and glaring at everyone else as though just daring them to turn into giant brother-stealing robots.

Their first stop is the library, where they will spend a couple hours poring over books about electricity, magnetism, plasma, and other esoterica. (Well, mostly Don is poring while Raph runs books back and forth from the shelves.)

Later they descend upon the smithy, rummaging through the items there and carrying off a number of metallic parts.

After that they go directly to the item shop, where they bin-dive for more random-seeming objects.

Then, they retreat to C6, lock the door, and start assembling their booty into a device that is essentially the World's Most Awesome Lightning Rod.

In the evening, when it is slightly less excessively hot, they will emerge again, to spend some time cooling off at the lake. This will largely consist of long periods of sitting underwater, punctuated by brief forays to the surface for air.]

((Feel free to run into them at any point, or to eavesdrop through the journals as they're working. Tags will likely be answered by both.))

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Donnie, you try that and I'll kill you myself. [He puts the crap down in the empty corner by the door.]

[Well, he wouldn't bring you anyway. He'd need a second, and it would have to be someone who wouldn't suffer the same effect when they went in to rescue him.]

I guess it's lucky we didn't find the tunnels ourselves. We would have gone in without a second thought.

He absently picks up the stuff Raph just put down, and moves it to an empty part of the living room floor.]

[Raph plops down on the couch, staring absent-mindedly out the window.]

I been around there before. Never went in.

[Don kneels by the pile of stuff, and starts sorting through it.] Oh? Why not?

[Because he got bad vibes, but was too drunk to deal with any shit, but he won't say that much.]

Had better stuff to do.

[Having sorted their haul, Don leans back and contemplates the ceiling.] Raph, which is your least favorite household appliance?

[Well that catches his attention. Have an odd look.]

...What?

[Sigh. Follow the train of thought, Raph.] What modern convenience do you feel most able to live without?

You gonna start takin' stuff apart? If you need the parts, just do it.

The parts are all the same and I only need one set. It makes no difference to me. [He gets up and heads into the workroom to find his tools. If Raph is still apathetic when he gets back, Don will just pick something.]

Take it all for all I care.

I'm picking the oven, then. It's not like we do that much cooking anyway. [And he wanders off into the kitchen.]

[Offhandedly:] Not like Mikey's here to care.

[There might be a brief hitch in Don's step as he disappears through the kitchen doorway. Then, only a lot of clanging noises.]

[Oh, he knows what he did. Still, he's gonna act like everything is perfectly fine. He raises his voice so Don can hear him.]

We've been doin' good, just you and me.

[Loud clatter.] What? Oh, mm-hm. [Bang crash screech.] Raph, come help me with this.

[No reaction, huh? Well fine. (Maybe he did want that fight after all.)

Raph gets up and jogs into the kitchen.]

[Don is flat (sort of) on his back, trying to see and reach into the narrow space under the oven, which has been pulled away from the wall a little.]

Lift up the front of this for me?

[Raph pushes the top of the oven unit backwards to rest against the wall with one hand, steadying it with the other and watching his brother work in silence.]

[Don scooches up, until his head is under the lifted oven, and gets to work prying out the parts from the bottom of the unit.]

Raph -- You've been to the barrier before, right?

Yeah. I tried cuttin' through it the first day we were here.

The first day? How did you get all the way out there so quickly?

Ran. [In the freezing snow, at that. When fueled by anger, Raph's a force to be reckoned with.]

Clearly. [Tinker tinker.] How did you even know it was there?

((OOC: Kind of irregular, but in light of Raph-mun's internet problems and my impending hiatus, we decided to continue this thread over IM. The transcript follows, broken into sections because it surely exceeds the character limit for comments. As you might expect, Raphael's tags are in red and Donatello's are in purple.))

Someone told me when I first came. I was in the woods and some lady wouldn't leave me alone. I thought she was with the Foot. She was tellin' me where I was and how I couldn't get out. So I went to go see for myself.

Hm. So. You arrived in an unknown place, had a conversation with a stranger, and on the strength of her information immediately travelled a fairly great distance to attack an impenetrable barrier. Raphael, has anyone ever told you you are impetuous?

If that means insane then yeah. [Faint grin.]

Indeed. [Points to tools.] Hand me that.

I'm kinda holdin' this thing up. Get it yourself.

Fair point. [Retrieves tool with his toes.] So, what did you attack the barrier with? Your sai?

Yeah. [Aside:] Don, that is so weird when you do that. The doin' stuff with your feet thing.

Huh?

Never mind.

Ummm... [Mentally elsewhere.] When I arrived, I didn't have my bo. Remember, we had to go to the weapons shop for it.

I found mine in a bush.

Really. [Intrigued.]

...Yeah.

What about Leo and Mike?

I don't remember. I was kinda keyed up.

You don't remember?

That's what I said.

Raph, focus. Where were they? Where were their weapons?

I don't remember! Jeez. Mikey went into town before he saw me and talked to some lady. Leo came later but I wasn't payin' that much attention to it.

[Tinkering.] Hm. And then all three of you went to the barrier?

Well...I went and they tagged along. Mike wanted to go to the village. Convinced Leo of it too. But I wasn't gonna go anywhere until I was sure there was no way out of this.

Mm. [Slides out from under the oven.] Okay, put it down.

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In the apartment

In the apartment part 2

Azzip

Picnic at the lake

Fight at the lake

Reasonable discussion at the lake

Into the woods

Return to the lake