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anemoi2012-06-03 04:47 pm
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This morning, Joachim will have woken up to find a few things missing. Namely, his roommate's weapons and, well, his roommate.
There's no sign of a struggle, no damage to anything, no 'I quit' note, no phone wreckage. In fact, his phone is sitting quietly on the kitchen table. There is one sent message on it.
[Text, to Ran]
Ran. I'm sorry. I only wish I'd known earlier.
((OOC: Not dropping him. He's just doing what appears to happen to every resident of Sirocco at one point or another and going missing.))
This morning, Joachim will have woken up to find a few things missing. Namely, his roommate's weapons and, well, his roommate.
There's no sign of a struggle, no damage to anything, no 'I quit' note, no phone wreckage. In fact, his phone is sitting quietly on the kitchen table. There is one sent message on it.
[Text, to Ran]
Ran. I'm sorry. I only wish I'd known earlier.
((OOC: Not dropping him. He's just doing what appears to happen to every resident of Sirocco at one point or another and going missing.))
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Well, we sure found him! Should we, I don't know, call for a vet or something?
[He pries open an eyelid. That's what they always do in movies, right...?]
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... [Right. Bird.]
I don't think it'll come to that. Least, I HOPE not. how the hell did he get knocked out by a basketball in the middle of nowhere, anywaey? [This is a rhetorical question. Clearly it's a mystery for the ages.]
C'mon, featherduster, up and at 'em-- [He shakes him slightly by the shoulder... what he's got of one, anyway.]
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[Then he opens his eyes up all the way and stares.]
... When did you get here?
[Well, colour him flabbergasted. It's a sort of greyish-almost-chartreuse.]
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Just now, of course! You didn't think we wouldn't start worrying about you, did you?
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[Answer: three.]
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Phone. {headshake] ...That's not a number. Thhhhhree? I think there are three. Yes. [he rubs his head.] What on earth hit me?
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As far as I can tell, some kind of basketball ninja got you.
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Basket--you know what, yeah. Basketball ninja, we'll go with that. Makes as much sense as anything. See, we found you next to... where did it...? [He looks around. His back was turned when Joachim sent the ball into orbit a moment ago.] Huh. Well, we found you next to a basketball of all things. Figured that's what knocked you out.
[Then something slightly alarming occurs to him.] You remember who we are, right? [Remember kids. Being knocked out in the middle of nowhere is the leading cause for amnesia in Sirocco.]
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[He lets Gordon pull him to his feet and shakes his head again, still a little dazed.]
"I... of course I remember who you are.
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What were you doing all the way out here, anyway?
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[He produces Shen's phone and waves it to indicate before handing it to him.]
I know it's an invasion of privacy. But we were worried about you, especially after what happened this week. You remember Booster took off too when something like this happened, right?
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I do remember. But I'm not the leader of a team of superheroes--at least, last I checked.
[he sighs, wilting]
I wanted solitude, is all. I wanted some time without other people and their recriminations and their questions. I remembered it for myself, you see. [he swallows and looks away.] I know why I did it. But I don't understand why I did it. That isn't me, any more.
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Ran was worried about you too. Most of us don't care what you've done, just as long as you don't do it again!
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That's right. She was. I wouldn't make her worry like that.
[Granted he IS curious why Shen would ever do something like that... but he's going to ask later. Joachim has just found the singular strongest reason for him to come back, and the best thing Gordon can do right now is just not say anything.]
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She was? Oh, dear.
Should I go back?
[wibble. Oh, good lord, he's pathetic.]
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It's not the same apartment without knives all over the coffee table.
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I see my contributions to entertainment and home decor are valued after all.
[Oh, look, he's gotten a sliver of his snark back.]
How d'you propose we get home, then, without encountering more, er, basketball-ninjas?