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Post by LZ Ravenwolf on Jul 15, 2006 17:54:13 GMT -5
Gareal Plateau/Ruins
These ancient Ruins are set on the top of a large plateau. The Ruins themselves are massive and there's a large courtyard in the very center. This place is beautiful in it's own way. The Earth is slowly taking the Ruins back, large vines and trees cover the out-side and have slowly begun to penetrate inside the building. But upon closer inspection, you will notice that someone has been here recently. There are large jagged edges everywhere and you get the presence that you are being watched with every step. The Empire has been here, and they took something very important and ancient from the ruins, and left behind traps and plenty of sleeper zoids.
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Post by Kuji Lin on Dec 1, 2006 14:30:54 GMT -5
Sleepers and traps. This probably wouldn’t end well, but then again, these kinds of excursions never had. The last time she’d gone crawling around some place where she had no business being, she’d nearly been killed.
But almost being killed just seemed to be her thing.
The last time had been different. Poor Kuji dear had been doing something she shouldn’t have been and it extended beyond just trespassing. She was searching for parts, illegal parts at that, so the nearly being killed may have been justified.
This time, however, was different. She was here because she could be. Kuji Lin loved old ruins, remnants of history, things left over from whenever. Perhaps it was just something about not knowing why it was there but loving it anyway.
She kicked a rock and it skittered off, bouncing off the broken path she was walking in the courtyard. A massive tree stretched overhead, blocking out the sun. She found something unsettling about being alone in such a beautiful place, someone should have been there to enjoy it with her, but there are just some things that can’t be helped.
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Post by Remi on Dec 12, 2006 15:53:27 GMT -5
The sound of a gunshot is normally a fairly loud event, enough to make one cover their ears. But when one is in an enclosed area, such as the courtyard of the Gareal Plateau, the sound bounces off the stone walls and is magnified tenfold that of what it would normally be.
Such was the case in this instance, when a bullet came speeding out of the M1918 .30 Calibur Browning Automatic Rifle, and sped past Kuji Lin's face, barely missing, and whizzed through a small hole in the stone on the other side of the courtyard. This would be the far right of the courtyard, with Kuji near the middle, and Remi- being the one who fired the shot, on the far left side of the courtyard. Kuji Lin was a very, very lucky girl. Had Remi been aiming for her, she probably would've been dead. The bullet had flew past Kuji's face, inches away. The other girl probably felt it go by.
But, as it was, Remi had been aiming for the small opening in the wall, which she had hit. The saying 'wrong place at the wrong time' was a very accurate phrase to fit with Kuji at the moment. Remi was lying on her stomach, squinting through the sight of the sniper rifle. And as we all know, sniper rifles are for far range targets, meaning it's like a giant, dangerous magnifying glass. Remi hadn't seen Kuji, nor did she until she lifted her head up eyes widening, and winced. Hoisting herself up from her position in front of the bipod on the ground, she yelled at Kuji, dusting herself off.
"Hey!" was all she said. Probably not smart, since she had just shot at the stranger and was too far away to scream that it was all an accident.
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Post by Kuji Lin on Dec 26, 2006 16:32:44 GMT -5
Wandering about in peaceful ruins such as these, one does not expect to hear a gunshot. In fact, that was probably one of the last things Kuji Lin would have been expecting. Never having been one for bravado, she screamed and ran. She ducked down behind a smashed stone pillar just thick enough to conceal her from hostile fire.
Not that Remi’s target practice would have been considered ‘hostile fire’. It wasn’t intention, to begin with.
But Kuji didn’t know that. All she knew was that someone had shot at her. And she was in no hurry to find out who or what it had been or what they wanted. They hadn’t hit her, but what if that’s what they were trying to do? She whimpered and wrapped her arms around her legs, which were pulled up against her chest. Kuji sighed and began calculating her options. She could either try to talk to whoever had shot at her and try to reason with them or something… run like hell and hope they wouldn’t shoot at her again, or just sit there and wait.
Her body paralyzed with fear, she took a deep breath and settled down to wait.
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Post by Remi on Jan 29, 2007 14:25:20 GMT -5
"Uh.. ah... shit." Remi stood slowly and scratched the back of her head. Things could get out of hand quickly if she didn't shape up and play nice. "Agh." It was such an unexpected situation, she wasn't quite sure what to do. So she just yelled some more.
"Hey! ..er, hey you!" For lack of a name. She dusted the grass and dirt and other random debris off of herself, and stretched. She was trying to be concerned, but it wasn't really happening. She jogged over to the general direction she had seen the girl (though she hadn't seen exactly where), and stood helplessly.
"Er..hey. Sorry? Uh.. yeah.. uhm.."
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Post by Kuji Lin on Jan 29, 2007 14:35:06 GMT -5
Somehow, the appology sounded more sincere than the gunshot. She looked up at Remi quizically, recognizing her, but not entirely. Surely she'd seen her before somewhere, but where?
She shook her head, there must have been a better time to wonder about that.
"Why..." she paused, contemplating her tone for the rest of the question. Should she be outraged? Somone had just tried to end her life, after all, even if it was an accident. No. Remi did seem to be sorry for what had happened.
"Why did you shoot at me?" She asked softly, her voice shaking slightly, though it was unsure if that was a lingering effect or something that she did whenever she spoke to someone. "Did I interupt a military training excercise or something? That wouldn't be the first time that's happened."
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Post by Remi on Jan 30, 2007 14:08:01 GMT -5
"Yeah, well.." She sighed, looking down at a black smudge that had somehow gotten on her index finger. She absently rubbed her thumb against it, smearing it and transferring to her thumb as well. "Shit.." Was murmured under her breath, not that audible. It's like.. Remi had tuned out for the day. She normally wasn't like this, normally wasn't so.. not there. Normally wasn't so.. uncaring.
"Well. I was just.. practicing." She found it hard to even muster words, any words at all. Not that she was lying or anything like that.. it just. Was. "You know. My sharp shooting. I thought the place was abandoned, never seen anyone else here before, so.." She continued the thought process in her head, but didn't have the will to continue speaking it. She imagined herself saying the words, but in reality she just stood there.
'I never get a chance to practice my long range anywhere else..' She could here her future self explain. 'You know, in the plains, there's no target to aim for, so it ends up hitting people part of the time.' She heard the words that would've normally come out of her mouth, her normal caring considerate self. 'So sorry about that. Never would've aimed for you intentionally.' Then she would have smiled, offered Kuji a hand off the ground, and a polite introduction.
..but, she didn't. She just stopped with the two blank sentences. And just.. stood.
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Post by Kuji Lin on Jan 30, 2007 14:22:01 GMT -5
"Oh. Well if that's the case then I suppose it's all right." She stood and dusted the leaves and dirt off her rump, trying to make herself presentable to the stranger. Not like the stranger would be staring at her butt, anyway. But still, there was the principle of the thing.
"I mean, as long as you wern't intentionaly shooting at me" She half-giggled. "That would be a wonderful first impression, huh?" She smiled, and when she didn't receive any sort of acknowledgement, her smile slipped.
"Are you just going to stand there like a statue? No hello or anything?" She wasn't a statue, of course, Kuji was being silly. Statues didn't magically come to life and shoot at people. Besides, if Remi really was one of the statues from the Gareal Plateau, she would have crumbled into dust a long time ago.
But she did have that same sort of blank and there-but-not-really look in her eyes. She looked aloof and apathetic, like the best kind of statues.
((And now I'm going to have to stop Kuji from going into a rant about how Remi has the classical kind of statuesque beauty. Kuji is being weird today. Don't mind her. >.> This a weird post. ))
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Post by Remi on Jan 30, 2007 14:31:23 GMT -5
Remi was going through all kinds of extraordinary things in her head. And when I say extraordinary, I don't mean it in the "super specially awesomesquee" kind of way. In a, "How absurdly queer" kind of way. It was a long moment before she was able to snap herself out of whatever kind of state she was in.
"Oh, sorry.." She apologized again, not quite aware of what it was she was apologizing for this time. She forced her normal smile back on her face, and it was like a light bulb clicking on. Her face simply radiated kindness. But the thoughts in her head were still the same as her manner had been only seconds ago. 'Probably making a terrible first impression' she heard herself say. But she didn't say it.
"Sorry about all this." She shook her head. "I don't know what to do with myself today." She extended a slender hand with a smile. "My name is Remi." She offered a sigh inside her head, and tried to keep her appearance polite and with it, but it felt hard. Like her face was heavy and she just wanted to stand there and stare off into space as she had been doing. She would feel herself slump every few seconds, and be forced to snap herself back into it. 'I feel we've met before..." Remi had wanted to speak these words, but it didn't happen. She was staring at Kuji.
((I <3ed your post, btw. <3 Go ahead, Remi is very very strange this RP, too. OOC, almost. >> But I'm liking it. ...I feel like make out rp, btw. D: )
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