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Karrie (Vandal) Norton ([personal profile] vandalization) wrote in [community profile] re_alignment_logs2012-07-21 07:07 pm

Ave Maria [OPEN]

WHO: Karrie (VANDAL) and YOU!
WHERE: The Medbay; Solus Temple.
WHEN Sunday morning
WHAT: Vandal, awake and having broken her fever, is no longer in immediate danger of dying, so she decides to keep her hands busy.
WARNINGS: ... She's got a foul mouth when she's upset, but otherwise she's pretty tame. Also slight disturbing imagery.



DO YOU SWEAR TO FOLLOW THE TEACHINGS OF UNITOLOGY?

I DO.

DO YOU ACKNOWLEDGE ALTMAN FOR HIS SERVICES TO OUR CAUSE, AS OUR SHEPHERD INTO THE PATH OF ASCENSION?

I DO

WELCOME TO THE CHURCH, MISS NORTON, WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE YOU AMONGST OUR GATHERING, PRAISE BE TO ALTMAN FOR DELIVERING YOU UNTO OUR CHURCH. MAY THE MARKER MARKER MARKER MARKER MARKER
MARKER MARKER MARKER MARKER BLESS YOU, KARRIE NOW AND F O R E V . . .




Waking up in a hospital that's built for creatures far larger than yourself is jarring in and of it's own right. And Karrie is entirely impressed that she is waking up at all. Maybe this isn't a dream? She feels clear headed enough. And the pain tells her that she's very awake.

Can you have dreams inside of dreams? The desert... the white

She shakes her head, sliding off the small "bed" that had been made for her and fetching her Rig which was neatly laid out nearby. The wound at her side had been stitched. She could still feel broken ribs, though. Those would take time to heal, but this place is far too strange. Surreal... to be left unexplored. At least there's no necromorphs scuttling after her here. Not that she'd seen, anyways.

Nobody around. No robots. But signs of them. She slips out into open air outside, finishing gingerly putting her rig and helmet on. She may be safe now, but who the hell knows what's out here?

She won't stray far, rather balking at the idea of earning Ratchet's ire. Instead she wanders just as far as the edge of the junk pile, poking around for a while. Thinking.

She has to think. Despite not knowing what to even do with herself. She needs a focus. Needs to ask questions.

She begins gathering a few things here and there, and after about thirty minutes she's back in the med bay with a small bag full of what appears to be useless parts. Dumping them on the floor and sitting down like a kid with some brand new legos.

In an hour, the junk she'd picked up has been assembled into two box-like devices and set up on platforms at either corner of the room. And she's fiddling now with a smaller something- like TV remote, the holo-screen of her RIG floating in front of her, and the tools from her belt storage spread out around her amongst the left over, but neatly-sorted scraps of wire, batteries and little bits of tape that she'd scrounged up.
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[personal profile] winged_knight 2012-07-22 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Ratchet had mentioned the need for some assistance in the medbay and as ever Wing was gratified to help. Even if he had little beyond typical field triage knowledge he could at least follow instruction, handle the more menial tasks and keep patients entertained during recovery.

One of the new arrivals was in recovery, and as ever, Wing was curious. He approaches the newcomer's spot on the floor, stopping a decent distance away, cognizant of his greater size and waiting to be invited nearer. If he can gain her attention, he'll offer a greeting.

"Hello. I see you're awake now."
sword_redemption: (D:)

let me know if I need to change anything?

[personal profile] sword_redemption 2012-07-23 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
There's that law of physics, right? Something about an equal and opposite reaction?

That clearly explains why Drift is sneaking back into the medbay, even knowing if Ratchet catches him, he's going to likely be stapled to a repair berth until such time as Ratchet feels he's learned his lesson.

...just short of forever, then.

So that's a 'can't happen'. But still, Drift has a duty. Or something. Maybe it's a deathwish.

Whatever it is, he sneaks along the back wall when he spots Vandal on the floor.

On the floor?

"You sure you shouldn't be on the repair berth?" Protectiveness sometimes sounds a lot like hypocrisy from Drift.
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[personal profile] winged_knight 2012-07-23 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to startle you." Wing smiles. "I came by to see if Ratchet needed a hand and thought I'd check in on his patients. It's good to see that you're recovering." At least he assumes so, given you're up and moving around.

"Drift? Yes I suppose I do." With the swords and white armor and all. Still, it's almost like that's the last thing he expects this woman to say. "We ah, I spent some time training him in martial combat." Yup, that totally explains it all. Okay, not really.

"How are you feeling? Do you need anything?"


sword_redemption: (wut is this)

[personal profile] sword_redemption 2012-07-23 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
....what? No. No, this isn't how it works. You don't go to visit the person you saved and get guilt trips. That's not how this is supposed to happen.

Is it?

"Er." Dammit. Wait. "But I wasn't bleeding to death." Take that! He was rusting, not really to death. Totally different.

He stiffens. "I'm not a snitch." His definition of honor runs, from time to time, straight into his issues with authority.

This is really, really not how this was supposed to go. Hi, how are you doing, you're looking much better...stuff like that. "What are you working on? ...instead of resting."

See what he did there? Little side order of guilt.

sword_redemption: (:/)

[personal profile] sword_redemption 2012-07-24 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Why doesn't that sound like she means it?

"At least you're not being stared at by everyone."

Seriously. You want something to complain about? Try having the mech you totally don't have a stupid crush on staring at you while you bleed out.

And he's so not cool. If he were cool, he'd be winning this argument.

"Seems to me you just want something to do." That, at least, he can relate to. It was the staring at the ceiling that had gotten to him.

Drift has dropped down to one knee to look. "Uh. Maybe. Not sure." Before the war, there wasn't a lot down in the gutters. And after a few million years of war, there was just nothing left.



sword_redemption: (downcast)

[personal profile] sword_redemption 2012-07-25 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
'Pretty'? "No. I think they just...I'm not good at being sick."

Like, really not good. He hated it because it was being weak. And he'd let go of who he used to be, but it was hard to shed that revulsion to weakness.

"It doesn't sound like that Titan Station was very 'normal'." At least he hopes not.

As she moves around him, he shrugs. "Just...none down where I was. Don't take that as a blanket statement for my kind, though."

He tilts his head listening. Huh. It was...strange, pitch and tone moving through time. He didn't know quite what to make of it. "This is your personal music?"
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NOW WITH THE RIGHT JOURNAL

[personal profile] lifepersists 2012-07-25 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
First Aid had always been one to welcome some kind of adventure, but after the Red Rust plague and turning up on some sort of prehistoric version of Cybertron with temples and Acolytes and other mystical slag, he more than welcomed the familiar comfort of a medbay.

It's not really what he's used to-- alien engine replacements, injured organics --but the bustle of reforming routines was welcome.

With how busy he'd been between meeting with Pharma and then jumping right into assisting Ratchet with the surgery, he hadn't really gotten the chance to look at the mech's other patients. Surprise is just written all over his body when he strolls through the medbay and finds Vandal with a pile of junk.

"Oh!" He tries not to sound too surprised and fails. It's so... small. "What are you doing?"
sword_redemption: (determination)

[personal profile] sword_redemption 2012-07-25 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh." Yeah that's a hell of a question. "Not really sure right now, what it is. But I had the Red Rust when I came here. It was very...leaky."

But he is all better! Okay, sort of better. Mostly. He could deal with a little pain.

He gives a rueful smile. "Not really up on 'homes'. Never had one. Just places to move through." Or survive. Here, too.

Drift tilts his head, concentrating. "Is this yours, then?"
sword_redemption: (downcast)

[personal profile] sword_redemption 2012-07-26 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
"It's...not good. A plague. It was killing everyone on Delphi. Pipes must have splashed me."

Drift settles himself on the ground, shoulders leaning against the berth. Close enough, right? At least this way he wasn't towering over her.

"Never had one. The gutters were no one's home. And then just...battle after battle." He shrugs. "And now here. I think it's why I'm less rattled than some. I've been thrown into strange places all my life."

Drift probably can't carry a tune with a gravity sled so he's not going to criticize. "So all your songs have these messages?"
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[personal profile] sword_redemption 2012-07-26 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
"It happens." He's seen worse. He's not fond of being sick, but compared to D-Void trying to reach in and control him? This was nothing.

"It's why I started fighting, actually. It was something to do. Something that gave me some kind of power over my future." He strokes the Great Sword, tilted at an angle over his head.

The touch on his ankle stops him. He's not used to being touched. Well. In a non-medical, non-going-to-blow-your-head-off way.

He gives a quiet laugh. "I'm not sure what I'd say if I had to sing about life."
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sob i forgot i was logged into it

[personal profile] lifepersists 2012-07-26 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
First Aid's not the biggest of mechs, at least, which made things a little less awkward. His interaction with alien species was... very minimal, to say the least though. At the moment, he's not entirely sure what to make of Vandal. He cants his head to the side, optics focusing on the remote.

"I thought humans were squishier."

He moves, settling to sit down next to her with a little bit of stiffness.

"Cybertronian medbays are usually pretty quiet. And dark."
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[personal profile] sword_redemption 2012-07-26 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Swords. It's a long story. I used guns for a long time. But swords, they make it personal. You know what you hit, and you're in danger, not hiding, safely, behind something." He gives a tight, strange smile. Not really something he talks about. Then again, it's not really something that comes up.

Drift twitches, before stilling himself, afraid that any movement would compress his armor, crush her fingers. Besides, she's just looking.

Looking with her hands, apparently.

He holds himself still, but she may hear the slight hitch in his vents at the plucked wire. "I...uh...what are you doing?" He means the singing thing.
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[personal profile] sword_redemption 2012-07-27 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"It's better to know what you're doing. You feel it. Rather than being in a safe distance, pressing a button and...destroying a whole world."

He shakes his head. "No. Doesn't hurt. And if it did, I can handle it." He shrugs. "Stabbed myself once." ...because that's a really cool thing to admit to someone. Drift. Where is your brain?

Fun, huh? He could try a little fun. "All right." Brace yourself, human. He tilts his head, remembering the song. "L-loving...is...what...I...got?" He's concentrating on the pitch, because that's how it works, right?

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