ZANE . house venture

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Mon, 28 May 2018 02:56:15 GMT

Memes, PSLs, etc.

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How's My Driving

Fri, 31 Jul 2015 01:05:13 GMT

Any remarks on my roleplaying? Feel free to comment here, or contact me @ cornichaun on AIM, Plurk or gmail!

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Eachdraidh Info

Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:49:37 GMT

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071st metal . voice & zero spam . possible cw for self-harm

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:46:51 GMT

[ voice ]

[ Zane's voice is soft, and hoarse. ]

When will someone let me out.

[ action ]

[ He wakes up in Zero in agony. Too many kinds to sort out and identify: raging thirst, the world swimming in front of his eyes, the stabbing pain of every heartbeat, the full-body torture of the death toll, but it's all mixed, all together, and he's moving before he knows it. He grasps for metals, but he's empty, there's nothing, there's no feeling of Allomancy at all.

He falls to the cold ground and goes to the sink, drinking thirstily, and then, with no memory of what happened between, he finds himself at the bars. ] Charles. [ He's calling for help, the cry of an angry and hurt child, and he hits the bars and shakes them, and it's too long before he remembers that he doesn't have a warden anymore. He is a warden.

His mind feels torn to shreds. He wants to hurt things again. The voice grips him.

He curls up, shaking. ]

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070th metal . voice

Sun, 22 Mar 2015 04:21:56 GMT

I love this boat.

[ His voice sounds odd, a mix of detached and too intense. ]

In my world, if I hurt someone, I almost never saw the consequences. The grieving widows. The angry comrades. Here, I can see it all. I saw it spread. I saw you notice, and I saw you get afraid. I smell you afraid.

...do you hear it? God says I should kill you.

If you want to try me, come and find me.

[ Zane can be found around deck: greenhouse, deck, Enclosure. ]

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069th metal . mystery murderer . closed to pre-arranged threads

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:53:13 GMT

[ Per this plotting, Zane has begun to go on a violence spree. Separate murder threads in comments. ]

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068th metal . breach . video & action

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 21:55:26 GMT

[ video ]

[ Zane broadcasts from the Kwoon. He's got a reputation as one of the best hand-to-hand fighters in there - maybe not particularly innovative with the jaeger, but in person he's incredible, fluid, graceful, in a league apart.

His partner is in a coma right now. His jaeger isn't operational. So he's been training people. ]

Who wants to lose a fight?

[ He asks it lightly, a little smile on his face. ]

[ action ]

[ Catch him in training, grabbing a meal in the cafeteria, or stop by his room. ]

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067th metal . video

Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:37:07 GMT

I...

Maybe I shouldn't have kept all the weeds alive.

[ He turns the camera to show a weed pile, overgrown, tangled, and spreading. It's horrifying, but has a lot of nice wildflowers poking out. ]

Does anyone... want wildflowers?

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066th metal . video

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:02:26 GMT

You're dreaming about each other's deaths. Some of you are dreaming about deaths on the Barge.

That means some of you might dream about deaths that I caused. [ Allison, Touko. ]

I'm a killer. I can't change that. But I'm sorry for what I did, and I try not to hurt people anymore.

...that's all.

[ He comes back on later. ]

In the greenhouse, I'll be making a cloud of Soothing. It should calm more turbulent emotions. If anyone wants that, you can come there.

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065th metal

Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:01:05 GMT

[ spam ]

[ He stares out at the stars half-panicked, wide-eyed. They're so clear: more of them than he's ever seen before.

He burns steel/iron/tin/pewter, shields with copper, stretches out with bronze. He can't hear anything.

He's darted around the ship, lurked in the shadows, moved quick and quiet and unobtrusive as possible, but what is on deck stuns him. ]

[ video ]

[ The feed is trained on the stars. ]

Why are the stars like this.

Why is it all metal.

[ His voice is flat and cold.

And much too young. ]

[ replies from venturemistborn. ]

( Dear Admiral... )

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064th metal

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 03:36:47 GMT

[ It is astonishing the way this city has been built for him. The buildings are metal, skeletons of metal and decorations of it, metal lining the street and sunken into the concrete. Metal moving with the cars and still in the lines encased in rubber.

Zane takes to the skies at night. He Jumps from sources of metal, sometimes not even touching the ground between. He lands light on the rooftops and runs to the edge and Jumps again, soars as high as he ever has and letting himself fall until he catches himself on a little squat metal thing on a streetside and flies again.

Sometimes he rests on the edge of these buildings and listens. He doesn't want to get too close to the crowds. But he does want to see their freedom. Their happiness and despair and their lack of fear.

He looks for familiar faces, but mostly he just watches. ]

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063rd metal

Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:04:54 GMT

Yes. It's normal.

[ Zane is in the greenhouse dome; he's lit by the panels of lights aimed on the plants, to keep them alive. Keep them going. ]

For the Barge to be dark, and for people to be left behind.

More than a year ago, now, it was Silent Hill. It's been the Mirror Barge. It's been the Emperor's attempt to escape... it's been crash-landings on planets of caves and lightning.

Stop talking about the Barge like it's safe. Just because you can't die doesn't mean you're safe. It means that there will always be another opportunity to set things right. It means you can't let go of hope.

If anyone wants to, in the greenhouse, you can adopt a seed or a seedling in honor of someone left behind. I don't know if it will help. It might.

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062nd metal . mirror event cont'd

Sun, 05 Oct 2014 02:37:11 GMT

Sylvanas set fire to the elevator.

I'm sorry.

[ He sounds more than a little exasperated. ]

Hopefully, in the future, particular - entities who should be focused on piloting the ship can refrain from provoking my inmate.

[ NOT THAT HE'S NAMING NAMES. ]

She's confined to her cabin for the foreseeable future, unless she agrees to assist with Maintenance. [ Which she won't. ]

If anyone has problems with other inmates, or if they don't feel safe, as always, as long as I'm in charge of the greenhouse, I enforce a ban on violence there. You can treat it as a sanctuary.

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061st metal . mirrorverse

Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:38:19 GMT

[ Zane decides to hunt down the impostors. He could request a port for Morgana, or Aslan. He might even find a way to help them escape. Hunting from the shadows would work, it's always been his habit, but -

But there might be a tactic that's even better.

He knows something about the other Zane. Nathan told him, once. It was something about hope, and finding people to care about. To love. He understands that. But, in the end, he can have that and be ruthless. He doesn't have to let any weakness creep in, except when it comes to the few he's claimed.

So he keys the comm on, and he pretends to be from that - other place. ]

I want to know that the people I care about aren't changed.

[ He injects a little bit of desperation into his voice, under a layer of control. It's complex. He shouldn't assume his counterpart is incompetent. ]

[ ooc: Zane is switched, and planning to try and draw people in by pretending. He might not actually end up killing them, if he's interested enough in who they are and what they're saying, but fucked-up torture-y things might happen anyway. If you want to arrange something specific, pm or plurk. ]

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060th metal

Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:20:56 GMT

I wanted to talk about the Barge.

[ He's in the garden again, the garden that's going to become lonely without Morgana. (Visible in the shot is a certain special, elaborate, beautiful flower that he's threatened people over before.) ]

I got here... it's been almost two years for me, though less for the people here. I graduated in five months. That time was terrifying, and painful, and wonderful. I changed so much. But I've changed more since then. It was just a step, not an ending.

I think it's hard to be a warden because what the Admiral does, sometimes, isn't fair. He takes people who have suffered and hurt and lost and makes them suffer more. He traps people who have been trapped their whole lives, and he's not concerned with anyone calling it wrong.

I know - I know inmates have almost always hurt people. I know the Barge changes us into people who don't. I think the way that happens is that it makes us not alone anymore. It shows us mirrors of ourselves. It shows us love. It hurts us and shows us that we can heal.

[ He's started to cry, tears spilling over, though his expression doesn't change. ]

I was never loved. You, all of you who were, you're so lucky. I thought that a son should love his father, and so I let him use me, and I gave him everything he expected. I killed, and I watched, and - I even tried to kill him sometimes, because he expected it, and he would have thought I was weak if I hadn't. Then, when I became too skilled, he tried to dispose of me, and when that didn't work, he tried to buy me, and I...

You don't know how lucky you are. You don't know how it changes everything when people love you.

[ He wipes tears away. ]

It's not going to be the same without Morgana.

[ spam for sylvanas ]

[ He stops by her cabin, after making the post. Just a check-in, which he does every once in a while, making sure she's all right, that she doesn't need anything. He knocks, because he never comes in without asking - at least, not until Lirath's opened the door for him. ]

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059th Metal . video & flood spam

Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:02:53 GMT

[ video . backdated to Friday night . filtered from Jerry ]

I put the vampire in Zero. [ Zane doesn't appear injured at all. In fact, he barely appears ruffled. ]

I'm not his warden, but I suggest that you don't visit him and don't message him. Let him be bored.

I'm letting him out tomorrow morning, as Zero clearly isn't a permanent solution. It should be enough time for anyone who wants to put mountain ash in front of their cabin doors.

[ spam . the princeling ]

[ Zane is the somewhat-archetypal second son of a king; without the promise of inheritance, and with the shadow of scandal over his birth, he has gone out to seek his fortune. He travels with light armor and a sword, calm and quiet and determined.

He wanders through the Barge, and will help anyone who appears to need it, even if it's something as simple as helping a person carry a load of straw, even if it's as complex as offering defense against a monster. ]

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058th metal

Mon, 01 Sep 2014 21:05:13 GMT

[ spam, greenhouse ]

[ Recently, anyone entering the garden (while Zane is there) experiences a mild increase in general peacefulness. It's a subtle effect, like releasing a heavy breath, like feeling some tension melt away. It could just be attributed to the pretty, idyllic setting. The greenery. The hush.

But the more psychically sensitive may be able to identify it as a gentle pull on all emotions in the area.

Zane can be found watering, pruning, fertilizing, tending the plants. ]

[ spam, CTS, on top of the greenhouse dome ]

[ He hasn't been around much the last few weeks, preferring to stay in and watch the newborn rabbits under his care. But they're growing more independent and he's growing restless. His lover still hasn't awakened from the coma yet. Nor has Marsh. He climbs the greenhouse dome in leaps far beyond what an (apparent) human should be able to do, soaring through the air and landing lightly on his feet.

Eventually, time finds him in front of the CTS, struggling with the decision to enter. He is dressed in a mistcloak, made of interwoven strips, independently moving; in the mist, he would be almost completely invisible. As it is, it's a little overdramatic in light of day. But it belonged to a mentor of his. He likes it. ]

[ video ]

[ He may look a lot like Stephen Hart, but his voice is lower, no evidence of an English accent. He studies the camera, and says: ]

I could use more help in the garden.

[ And then hangs up. There, that was all he wanted to say. ]

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metal 057 . video . bunnycam

Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:18:11 GMT

[ The camera is carefully placed to give it a full view of a large basket full of hay, cotton, and baby rabbits. There are six of them, sleeping in a pile. The fur ranges from dark grey to mostly white with some splotches, and they. are. tiny. ]

Someone watch these.

There are battles to fight.

Blanket battles.

[ The camera will continue, off and on, for several hours. The bunnies wake up, wriggle around, do cute things, nibble on a little fresh grass, play with each other. Sometimes Dani, dark grey and fluffy around the neck, joins them. ]

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metal 056 . video

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:07:58 GMT

I'm Zane.

I've killed hundreds of people. Thousands, maybe. Some were soldiers or guards. Some were in the wrong place. Some annoyed me. Some didn't see it coming. Some had a chance against me. Most didn't.

And it. Was. Easy.

Rogue said that when killing is easy, you've lost something that makes you human. I don't believe that. Because it's still easy. What's hard - is not.

When you decide not to kill someone, it's not just once. It's every day. It's every moment. Over and over again. When you decide to kill them, it's over. And sometimes all I want is for it to be over. And there are people here that, if I could, I would just kill them, and I wouldn't look back.

I'm a warden here.

Resurrection isn't just for our protection - for a warden's protection. It's for their protection too.

Killing can be right. Suffering can be right. Pain can be right.

Love can be wrong. Happiness can be wrong.

But this is the truth: killing is easy. It takes years to make a person. It takes seconds to end them. Knowing that doesn't make you inhuman. Being tempted by that doesn't make you inhuman. Rage and revenge are human too.

I regret. I hate myself. I struggle. That won't ever make me not a killer.

It won't ever make me not human, either.

[ Viciously, he cuts off the video. ]

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metal 055 . death toll/cabin spam

Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:25:33 GMT

[ Waking up like surfacing, like breaking out of deep, dark emptiness to the light of half-panic. Zane is in incredible, liquid pain, centered on heart and head. One is familiar. One is new. He gasps and breathes and sobs softly.

When he can move, when he's alone, he slides off of the broad, heavy-wood bed, taking the blanket with him, and collapses on the ground in the closet. The distinct lines of storage shelves on his left, the slats of the closet door on the right leaking light into the darkened space. He wraps the blanket around himself and stays quiet. ]

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54th metal . spam

Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:45:54 GMT

[ When he steps into the mirrors, he doesn't know what he's in for.

It twists him slowly. Sight does not serve him, but sound and smell and touch do, and he breathes deeply and calmly as his heartbeat starts to come faster. It starts as a whisper, in the back of his mind. It grows, pesky as a spiderweb, as soft, tickling hairs. It grows. It grows.

He looks to one of his reflections, and it is as though he could see through flesh and bone. He sees the spike that is permanently embedded through his heart. He sees the monster that was always there.

He strikes, shattering the mirror.

Yes, whispers God. Kill them. ]

[ Zane is homicidal. If you would like him to attack your character, wound or kill, or if you would like your character to bring him down (haven't worked out how that's going to happen yet, so it's open), hit this up. ]

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53rd Metal . video

Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:06:52 GMT

My rabbit is pregnant.

[ He doesn't really mean to make this an announcement. He's more just completely bewildered as to what he should do next. Ask the Admiral to stop it? Take the kits back to his world, and release them? What happens if he does that? Would he make a new breed of rabbits? Would they be able to survive?

Help?? ]

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52nd Metal . Video, Spam

Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:22:13 GMT

[ The video shows a woman, now, with the same dark hair and perhaps vaguely more suspicious eyes than Zane. She is holding up a small dark rabbit with a ring of fuzz around its neck, sort of like a lion's mane. Frequent viewers may recognize this as Dani the Rabbit. ]

Who lost a rabbit?

[ Her eyes move to the ground, somewhere off-camera. ]

...two rabbits.

And a rabbit house.

[ She frowns at the screen. ]

I'm looking for anyone who can keep up with me in CTS. If you can't, I'm not interested.

[ She cuts off the video. ]

[ spam, greenhouse ]

[ This Zane has the bad habit of staring at people when they walk into the greenhouse, and watching them like a hawk while they stay.

When she leaves, she has another bad habit: finding a way to lock the door shut, even when she's not supposed to because this isn't a warden-only area and the door doesn't naturally have a lock on it. (She can attach one, okay. She never said she wasn't petty.) She'll let you in if you give her a call over the network. Probably. ]

[ spam, elsewhere ]

[ Common areas, gym, cafeteria, the bar, the laundry room. She goes about her ordinary routine, and watches you going about yours. ]

[ ooc: Zane believes she has always been a lady. She is rather more hostile and rather more intense than dude!Zane, and more inclined to use sexuality to her advantage. She's also newer to being a warden, and isn't so sure she's redeemed yet. ]

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51st Metal ; video

Sat, 05 Jul 2014 21:43:35 GMT

[ He's in the greenhouse, as usual. He's weaving a vine into a trellis; the camera is set nearby. ]

Have any of you ever talked to God?

What was it like? For you.

[ private to Morgana ]

We should talk to him.

[ private to Aslan ]

Where are you?

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50th Metal

Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:06:05 GMT

I'd like to put in place a few new rules for the greenhouse.

[ That's where he's broadcasting from; it's video, warm and green around him. ]

First: This is a safe place. Any violence, and you'll be banned. I'll decide how long. You might be tossed in Zero too.

Second: If you maliciously hurt any plants, that's grounds for banning too.

Third: I've heard that talking to plants is good for them. So I want to invite everyone to come in and talk to them. I'll keep the things you say secret. So will they.

Fourth: ...if there's anyone who wants to work there, tell me.

[ Oh, right. There are new faces, lately: ] I'm Zane. I'm in charge of it. [ For some reason. ] I'm not a botanist or anything. I just like the flowers.

[ Here, he is stiff, a little awkward: ] And I was an inmate once. I ... know what it's like. And I was an assassin, too.

[ He tries to think of more to say, fails, and hangs up. ]

[ flood ; action ]

[ Encounter Zane as a still figure, standing, blindfolded. He does not react to most things around him, but he is poised, tense. Breathing. Listening. He wears woods-roughened boots, dirty blue jeans, a ragged t-shirt.

Speak to him, if you want. ]

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