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Daniel Jacobi ([personal profile] mrballisticsdummy) wrote in [community profile] lastvoyageslogs2021-08-22 02:01 pm
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Who: Jacobi/Catcobi and Kepler and Tim and Also Open and then Annie!
Where: All around!
When: Flood times!
Warnings: Murder on the last day! Cat shenanigans in between!

[For Kepler and Tim]
Jacobi has never been more grateful to not be affected by a flood (so he thinks). Especially when all he wants is to go home. He’s just finished washing up when the door unlocks and he very eagerly makes his way out, zipping up his jacket along the way. While he’s pretty sure Tim will be there, he has a very insistent voice in the back of his head that says Kepler’s definitely going to be there, too. And, if Jacobi is really honest with himself, he knows that the choice to invite Tim along for the ride was a very, very deliberate one.

[Open to All]

It’s a rare moment that he emerges from his cabin. Living with a warden does have its perks. There’s a kitchen and a shower already and he doesn’t have to worry too much about meeting his needs outside of those walls. However, cabin fever gets him eventually and so he wanders out to do some menial tasks. Laundry. Collecting new books in the library. Dining hall for snacks. Always on edge. Always with his hands in his pockets. Always tense.

As a cat, Jacobi is much more relaxed. He wanders the hallways, enjoying hissing at most people who pass by. He even feels a little more confident wandering about on four legs. So sometimes he’s curled up asleep in the greenhouse after a hard day of chasing bugs or other small creatures. He’s climbing furniture in the common rooms. He’s standing outside of doors, waiting to be let inside of doors, only to want to go back outside of doors again. He’s jumping on the tables in the lounge, knocking things down while staring people directly in the face.

Living his best cat life.

[And then the last day -- For Annie]
Fuck. This. Flood. Jacobi’s already been through the wringer and he just needs a moment to relax. After his experience with the Horror-Formally-Known-as-Tim, Jacobi wants to sit and stare at some familiar four walls that aren’t going to switch and change and twist around him. He’s not ready to unload on Kepler yet, so his heads for his own cabin, stumbling towards the door.
routemistress: ([cockatoo] SHRIEK)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2021-08-22 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
If Iris were in her own shape, she'd be doing her best to ignore him, but this shape makes her volatile.

More volatile. Also, now she can divebomb people, and that's too tempting to resist.

She shrieks as loud as she can and swoops at Jacobi.
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[personal profile] routemistress 2021-08-22 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
She shrieks again and lands on the table with a thud. Then she looks over the edge of it and screams at him some more.

"I should scalp you, you miserable gobshite. What the fuck did Connor ever do to you?"

Then, just to show him she can, she uses her nutcracker beak to take a chunk out of the table.
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[personal profile] routemistress 2021-08-22 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
She spits out splinters and eyes him with her little black dinosaur eyes.

"If it weren't about Connor then why did you violate 'im like that, eh? To prove 'ow clever you are? I knew you were an arsehole, Daniel, but I always thought you were my kind of arsehole."

She thinks hard about how it would feel to drive her beak through flesh. To crack his bones. And she attacks the table again.

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[personal profile] fork_off 2021-08-22 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Thomas is perched in a tree in the greenhouse, dozing, when Jacobi dashes by. Thomas, curious about what he's chasing, swoops after him.
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[personal profile] fork_off 2021-08-22 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Thomas pulls up and lands on a nearby branch, making a sound not unlike a squeaky toy being trodden on. What leaf? He wasn't going for the leaf. (Yes he was.)

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[personal profile] allgotrabies 2021-08-22 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Floods are hard. Breaches are hard. People hurt and kill each other and come back to their real lives grappling with remorse. Annie can forgive all of that without hesitation.

She can even forgive deliberate harm, and a lot of it. If it's against her.

She has spent all week waiting to see if her mind will change, and a few times it did. And then she'd go to the Greenhouse and it came back, hardening like the layers of nacre an oyster builds up around its pain.

When she smells Jacobi and his misery she follows him on silent paws, and the moment he opens the door to his cabin she lunges. Her jaws can bite through a metal pole in a snap, and though she rarely changes forms anymore she will never forget how to kill. It's the first thing a wolf knows when they survive.

Her teeth tear at his stomach. She can almost hear Palo's voice: spill their guts, then a second bite to snap a femur, those are two of the fastest ways to fell a victim without letting them die in an instant.
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[personal profile] allgotrabies 2021-08-25 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
She changes back and kneels on his shoulders, naked and bloody and eerily calm despite the way her own heart is hammering.

"I don't care why you went after Connor, but you need to understand something. He matters. The people he hurt matter. And if you ever go after him again, if you leave a trail of bodies like you did? I will fucking eat you." She rests a hand on his throat, not squeezing, just...touching.

"There is nowhere on this ship you can escape me. You kill me, I'll come back, and I will find you. I kill you? you come back in motherfucking pieces. Nod if you understand."

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Norton is a ghost. Not a tidy pharadyne projection ghost, where he could be mistaken for a real person up until he tries to grasp something, but a proper spectre, floating and translucent and wispy and full of minor poltergeist vandalism. Sometimes he seems more solid and sometimes he's nearly invisible. He follows Jacobi into the laundry room and manifests with arms crossed over his chest.

"Tell me right now why I shouldn't turn your laundry water into blood."
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[personal profile] pharadyne 2021-08-23 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
He floats down until he's hovering just a few inches above one of the washing machines, as if sitting on it, one leg crossed over the other.

"Hm. I'm tempted to accept the aesthetic argument, and that's very annoying. But it's difficult to get out of the way when there's no warning that anything's coming. Why did you do it? What was the point of it all?"

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[personal profile] questionsonly 2021-08-22 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
There's no question about it. Kepler is waiting just outside the door, sitting on the steps and watching the door like a hawk. It's clear that he's got his senses trained on Jacobi before he's even visible; his ears work just fine out here and they can hear his heartbeat, listen to it to sooth himself. Being away from him entirely by choice is something he's never done. He wants nothing more than to see him again, pull him into his arms.

He'd been angry. Now, he just wants him back.
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[personal profile] statementfuckingends 2021-08-22 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Tim's actually a little bit surprised to see someone else there, when he saunters down to Zero on his own time. He's idly flipping his walkie-talkie in his hand, but his pace falters for a moment at the sight of the solid-looking other man just hovering around the doors.

"I suppose you must be Kepler?" he offers, in lieu of any other greeting.
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[personal profile] questionsonly 2021-08-22 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Kepler doesn't turn away from the door.

"Timothy Stoker. From the same world as Jonathan Sims, Gertrude Robinson, Gerard Keay, and Martin Blackwood." In other words, he knows who he is.

Tim is not his priority.

He breathes out slow and easy. And then he stands, walks over to Jacobi, and doesn't wait. He'll sling an arm around him and pull him close, breathe in him and breathe out slow. Quietly, just for him-

"I missed you."

He knows Jacobi worked on his assignment. He knows he did. He won't doubt that.

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[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2021-08-22 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
There's one time when Jacobi's jumping on tables that Hickey, currently stuck in rat form, is hiding underneath a chair. He needs to get out of here. He really needs to get out of here. There's a big furry thing that can kill him and he would not like that to happen.

So there's a moment when he's pretty sure that Jacobi's on a different table that Hickey just bolts to the door. Nope nope nope he is scurrying out of here he does not want to be here anymore.
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NopenopenopeNOPENOPENOPE.

Hickey also hauls ass. Though he is hauling ass away from Jacobi, scurrying as fast as his tiny little legs can manage.

But oh! There's a cabinet over in that corner! Perhaps he can hide under that until this awful thing leaves him alone. Hickey continues hauling ass, but in the direction of said cabinet.

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