[But Akechi's tone doesn't reflect that, as he pulls away from the doorframe to study what's available. The recording explained everything. He's confident they can shut a few goddamn doors.]
Maybe your power could be used to blow this whole place up, then we wouldn't need to go through this childish ordeal. Care to try?
My power is intensely limited within the Labyrinth. Like as not I could summon significant destructive power, but it has its own limitations, as you well know.
Then allow me to try once - after all, I don't have the power to destroy a facility, like you do, but I'm sure whatever those eyes belong to can be easily subdued.
[Fuck this place. He doesn't even wait for Venat to answer. A little enrichment will be good in this shithole.
Robin Hood appears - a Megidolaon is targeted down the pitch black hallway.
The result of the explosion is the aftershock pulsing down the hall to their doorframe, even inching into the room - a loud booming sound following. He waits for it to rip up ground, wall and door, but-
Nothing happens.
He looks down the hall. A pair of eyes getting closer.]
[That result is hardly surprising, and Venat takes it in stride. What doesn't sit well with her is her own instinct, a prickling at the back of her neck and a tension in the muscles of her cheek. The only reason she doesn't simply seize Akechi and haul him back into the room is because she expects he'd probably try to shiv her or something for the affront.]
Step inside. Quickly.
[Her tone says it all, serious and sharp as she rarely is.]
[Said as if he hasn't tried to bait the creatures for the least five minutes. Regardless, he comes back into the small room without issue, eyes their situation and the resources at hand.]
I suggest we each take a side of the room and alternate security camera observations, though I assume you've realized as much. The creature is coming closer - as curious as I am, I don't think it will end well for us.
[The darkness offers little clue as to what transpires outside, so without hesitation, Venat pushes the button that shines flimsy, flickering light into the hall just outside the window. A thick, furry paw slaps up against the glass the moment she does, thumping against it with far more weight than it looks like it ought to possess. She immediately releases the light button and slaps the other button instead, slamming the thick metal door shut just in time for it to absorb a sudden blow.]
[Chipper and bright as he eyes the drastic dip in the energy levels from that single button push. Venat's apt and quick response is reliable - now it's down to resource management, which-
Sucks.
Oh well. He continues on - hand gently pressing against his own door button when rapid footsteps start bolting down the hall. An image he barely catches in the security camera. Issue avoided.]
It was about a haunted convenience store and it warped the people involved in it. Those who shopped there suffered horrific deaths. Everything from being bludgeoned, stabbed, suffocated and more. It turns out the reason everyone was going through such an experience was because the store owner mistreated a contractor.
[Creature gone from his side and cameras clear, he reopens the door.]
The contractor, in his rage, broke tombstones and used it in the store's foundation. Some employees are condemned to haunt the store and continue the vicious cycle for all eternity.
[It's FUN.]
I wonder if that's going to be us. Wouldn't that be interesting?
[After a moment, Venat taps the light again. The coast is, for the moment, clear, and thus she quickly releases the door to ameliorate its drain on power.]
I say, that is certainly an interesting response to mistreatment. I doubt most people would immediately decided that, upon being ill-treated, the proper course of action would be to break gravestones and store them.
[She gathers up the small, rectangular device that shows the sights seen by the cameras, only to immediately frown.]
Then I shan't. I would hate to have you regret not stopping me, were something to happen.
[She wonders why he pretends so hard, when she has on several occasions basically written a signed and notarized document testifying that she is On To Him. Perhaps he is self-aware enough to understand that she knows perfectly well what he means, and sees no need to make things clearer?]
[The sound of heavy footsteps clunks around for a moment, as if coming down the hall on his side -- then stops.]
[Venat doesn't particularly take note of his aggressively-intrusive thoughts, because despite her inability to understand his eternal façade, she does not for a second doubt his commitment to it. Besides, the consequences of giving in to such a thought are far too obvious. What would actually be fun about it?]
[Looking up from the camera view, Venat taps the button for the lights on her side just long enough to verify that nothing is amiss. When she looks back --]
Ah. Something is emerging from the curtains. Yet while I watch, it is unmoving.
[Patience is a virtue. Waiting isn't. Sitting ducks in a center room, surround by enemies on all sides.
Door opens. Light off. Akechi studies the TV and the flaring curtain on it - the different buttons and phone.]
We could attempt to alter this world in a way it doesn't expect. Cognitions are easy to distort with the right motivation, so to speak. The right keys. Are you amenable to trying?
[Whether she is, or isn't, lmao. lol. He's doing it anyway.]
That presumes these devices or creatures do possess something akin to cognition, rather than a simply reactive intellect -- whether they are what modern Eorzea deems 'mammets' or simply devices. Yet such an attempt would help us answer that question, and so thus I endorse it.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2024-08-04 07:58 pm (UTC)[But Akechi's tone doesn't reflect that, as he pulls away from the doorframe to study what's available. The recording explained everything. He's confident they can shut a few goddamn doors.]
Maybe your power could be used to blow this whole place up, then we wouldn't need to go through this childish ordeal. Care to try?
no subject
Date: 2024-08-05 04:45 pm (UTC)[How's that statue doing?]
no subject
Date: 2024-08-07 07:35 pm (UTC)Then allow me to try once - after all, I don't have the power to destroy a facility, like you do, but I'm sure whatever those eyes belong to can be easily subdued.
[Fuck this place. He doesn't even wait for Venat to answer. A little enrichment will be good in this shithole.
Robin Hood appears - a Megidolaon is targeted down the pitch black hallway.
The result of the explosion is the aftershock pulsing down the hall to their doorframe, even inching into the room - a loud booming sound following. He waits for it to rip up ground, wall and door, but-
Nothing happens.
He looks down the hall. A pair of eyes getting closer.]
What a shame.
no subject
Date: 2024-08-09 02:20 pm (UTC)Step inside. Quickly.
[Her tone says it all, serious and sharp as she rarely is.]
no subject
Date: 2024-08-10 02:22 pm (UTC)Of course.
[Said as if he hasn't tried to bait the creatures for the least five minutes. Regardless, he comes back into the small room without issue, eyes their situation and the resources at hand.]
I suggest we each take a side of the room and alternate security camera observations, though I assume you've realized as much. The creature is coming closer - as curious as I am, I don't think it will end well for us.
no subject
Date: 2024-08-12 01:57 pm (UTC)[The darkness offers little clue as to what transpires outside, so without hesitation, Venat pushes the button that shines flimsy, flickering light into the hall just outside the window. A thick, furry paw slaps up against the glass the moment she does, thumping against it with far more weight than it looks like it ought to possess. She immediately releases the light button and slaps the other button instead, slamming the thick metal door shut just in time for it to absorb a sudden blow.]
I daresay you've the right of the plan.
cw: description of a horror movie
Date: 2024-08-14 08:21 pm (UTC)[Chipper and bright as he eyes the drastic dip in the energy levels from that single button push. Venat's apt and quick response is reliable - now it's down to resource management, which-
Sucks.
Oh well. He continues on - hand gently pressing against his own door button when rapid footsteps start bolting down the hall. An image he barely catches in the security camera. Issue avoided.]
It was about a haunted convenience store and it warped the people involved in it. Those who shopped there suffered horrific deaths. Everything from being bludgeoned, stabbed, suffocated and more. It turns out the reason everyone was going through such an experience was because the store owner mistreated a contractor.
[Creature gone from his side and cameras clear, he reopens the door.]
The contractor, in his rage, broke tombstones and used it in the store's foundation. Some employees are condemned to haunt the store and continue the vicious cycle for all eternity.
[It's FUN.]
I wonder if that's going to be us. Wouldn't that be interesting?
no subject
Date: 2024-08-16 01:15 pm (UTC)I say, that is certainly an interesting response to mistreatment. I doubt most people would immediately decided that, upon being ill-treated, the proper course of action would be to break gravestones and store them.
[She gathers up the small, rectangular device that shows the sights seen by the cameras, only to immediately frown.]
The curtain in this camera's view is moving.
no subject
Date: 2024-08-21 11:44 pm (UTC)[He eyes the curtain - it would be so much easier if they could just move through the facility.]
Just kidding, of course. Stay cautious of it - unless you want to go investigate it firsthand. I wouldn't stop you.
no subject
Date: 2024-08-23 01:10 pm (UTC)[She wonders why he pretends so hard, when she has on several occasions basically written a signed and notarized document testifying that she is On To Him. Perhaps he is self-aware enough to understand that she knows perfectly well what he means, and sees no need to make things clearer?]
[The sound of heavy footsteps clunks around for a moment, as if coming down the hall on his side -- then stops.]
no subject
Date: 2024-08-24 05:20 pm (UTC)[Footsteps - he presses the light to see-
A creature illuminated right next to the door in flickers and flashes. His hand hovers over the button to shut it and-
Doesn't move. Doesn't press it. He can see its eyes and shadow through the thin window meant to give them vantage.
He could just let it in. Have some fun. See what happens when one of them is caught by the beast, but-
The intrusive thoughts don't win the dice roll. He gives the door a tap just as the shadow moves.]
Oh, that was close.
no subject
Date: 2024-08-26 01:25 pm (UTC)[Looking up from the camera view, Venat taps the button for the lights on her side just long enough to verify that nothing is amiss. When she looks back --]
Ah. Something is emerging from the curtains. Yet while I watch, it is unmoving.
no subject
Date: 2024-08-29 01:41 pm (UTC)[Patience is a virtue. Waiting isn't. Sitting ducks in a center room, surround by enemies on all sides.
Door opens. Light off. Akechi studies the TV and the flaring curtain on it - the different buttons and phone.]
We could attempt to alter this world in a way it doesn't expect. Cognitions are easy to distort with the right motivation, so to speak. The right keys. Are you amenable to trying?
[Whether she is, or isn't, lmao. lol. He's doing it anyway.]
no subject
Date: 2024-09-09 02:17 pm (UTC)[A simple 'yes' would be too good for him.]