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thedressingroom[ there's a tiny inkblot of a person who (despite weighing a probable 91 lbs.) looks like she could easily cut you with her face, curled up on the floor in a corner. she sits with a ratty backpack beside her and a notebook closed and upside down on her lap. partially gloved fingers are working angrily with a string of tape, trying to hold the overheated, warped battery together.
nothing is working, this is why she was headed down to the repair shop, why is everything so Quiet here. she won't complain about that, but it's weird, and without her systems up to run some analyses—
—finally she gives up, sets the laptop aside, and fishes out her mobile phone. fingers tap in a blur over the keypad, done almost before a person could blink. something not quite your average text message has just been sent out to everyone in the vicinity in possession of their own mobile devices:
C:\NEXUS\all\net localgroup>hardware repair specialists
respond_ ]
nothing is working, this is why she was headed down to the repair shop, why is everything so Quiet here. she won't complain about that, but it's weird, and without her systems up to run some analyses—
—finally she gives up, sets the laptop aside, and fishes out her mobile phone. fingers tap in a blur over the keypad, done almost before a person could blink. something not quite your average text message has just been sent out to everyone in the vicinity in possession of their own mobile devices:
C:\NEXUS\all\net localgroup>hardware repair specialists
respond_ ]
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Date: 2012-03-06 03:13 am (UTC)she's on the other side of the room, taking advantage of one of the myriad abandoned bars, when her iphone starts going off. texts from unknown numbers not being an unusual occurrence for her, she still pauses when she gets out her phone. her head tilts to one side. it's a bit before she evidently decides fuck it and texts back. ]
yo you thought about trying yelp
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Date: 2012-03-06 03:44 am (UTC)the phone buzzes to life in her hands; she meets the text with a blank stare for about two seconds. then another whirr of finger-tapping. ]
spawn of paypal hive. not to be trusted.
[ chances are no one will ever be able to tell if she's joking or not. ]
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Date: 2012-03-12 02:00 pm (UTC)[ kezia is always joking. ]
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Date: 2012-03-12 03:20 pm (UTC)can do business with strangers if i see their hardware for myself
[ and if they get close enough in an oddly quiet room for her to try to cop a mind feel.
...there is possibly too much innuendo in both of these conditions already. ]
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Date: 2012-03-12 04:24 pm (UTC)[ madam. sit down. ]
cant help ya tho. all i know about computers is how to work the googles.
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Date: 2012-03-12 06:44 pm (UTC)one pierced eyebrow twitches briefly when she reads the next messages, possibly a combination of amusement and frustration. pleasantly bald-faced innuendo time aside, work the googles is the kind of phrase that makes Tekla's synapses literally flinch. 2.5 seconds of recovery time later, her fingers make quick work of the keys again. ]
are you located by or at least aware of a repair hub/cafe/something that does not involve wishing on a nexus star
[ it could be something resembling a rare usage of etiquette that prompts her to ask first, before electronically tracking who she's speaking to without preamble. ]
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Date: 2012-03-13 03:26 am (UTC)but who wants to come to detroit
[ she keeps hearing someone's phone go off shortly before she gets replies. hmmmmm. ]
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Date: 2012-03-13 04:44 am (UTC)You're right. I don't want to come to Detroit.
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Date: 2012-03-13 05:08 am (UTC)[ she knocks back what's left of her beer; she's drinking just to drink, not to get drunk. then she props her chin on her hand and considers the other woman. ]
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Date: 2012-03-13 05:16 am (UTC)I take it that's where you live.
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Date: 2012-03-13 05:23 am (UTC)You're remarkably Nexus-savvy.
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Date: 2012-03-13 05:42 am (UTC)It's not a Girl Scout badge, [ she says slowly around a puff of smoke, ] but sure.
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Date: 2012-03-13 06:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-13 06:25 am (UTC)This one's different, but I've been around the block, I guess. [ a pause, still searching for a proper read while putting other pieces together. ] Haven't you?
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Date: 2012-03-13 06:33 am (UTC)[ kezia's mind is a wall -- utter blankness. too much pushing and that will turn into static and white noise. she's not capable of strong mental shielding, so she makes it obnoxious to discourage people from trying harder. ]
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Date: 2012-03-13 06:44 am (UTC)[ Tekla is finally starting to get the flickering static sensation, a legitimately physical reaction but only the slightest hint of it. even if Kezia had no capacity to shield whatsoever, this room is making it almost impossible to read anyone at the moment. another reason she dislikes it, or at least distrusts it.
the fact that she can feel that static gets gears working, and Tekla briefly turns away to pull out her phone again in an effort not to alert the girl with her eyes. another diversion wouldn't hurt her investigation process, either: ]
Are you currently a hostage, as well?
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Date: 2012-03-13 08:23 am (UTC)Yeah, but, you know -- [ she reaches over to pour herself a shot, then picks it up and gestures with it. ] Could be worse. She said, thereby jinxing it.
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Date: 2012-03-13 06:00 pm (UTC)she exhales another cloud of smoke at length; there's something almost moody about it, before she's tapping ash into a waiting tray. if free alcohol at one's beck and call is the most people have to look forward to here, Tekla is already doubly jinxed. ]
How long have you been trapped here, [ she asks, one thumb still poised over her phone's screen, although the common lack of higher inflection makes it sound more like a demand than a question. ]
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Date: 2012-03-13 07:33 pm (UTC)[ girl shut up you know exactly how long it was time sense, duh ]
They do open eventually, I hear. Or at least no one's told me about anyone getting stuck here permanently. I kind of doubt whatever magic runs this place is that strong.
let me know if briefly detecting this much is not cool and I will edit! verily!
Date: 2012-03-13 08:18 pm (UTC)Limited data. Doubts [ you can almost hear the quotation marks in her voice ] aside, those odds are currently incalculable.
[ Tekla stares at the young woman again, and the invasive frankness of it is probably rude. beyond the static, there is the vaguest sense that this person has some sort of experience with probability.
...whether that means the girl is a mathematical genius or a Bingo announcer in her spare time completely escapes her. in the next second, even the notion of it is gone, making Tekla suspect she never sensed it to begin with. she stops probing, irritated.
this room sucks. hard. ]
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Date: 2012-03-14 04:31 pm (UTC)If you want to know, you could just ask.
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Date: 2012-03-14 04:48 pm (UTC)...That is how I ask.
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Date: 2012-03-15 10:59 am (UTC)but there are secrets it's important that she keep, even here. ]
It's a little rude. I have a wall for a reason.
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Date: 2012-03-15 12:34 pm (UTC)I'm sure you do.
[ beat.
Tekla turns away again to reach inside of her backpack, ostensibly for something more important than a conversation about attempted mental breaking and entering. ]
Didn't get anything, anyway.
[ her voice is slightly quieter than before. she's not at all sure what prompted her to give that up, and she tries not to think about it.
another beat of silence, and then Tekla huffs a little around her cigarette before finally pulling out what looks like her warped battery. ]
Your head is like a full-body itch, you know. Really annoying, what you've done with the place.
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Date: 2012-03-15 03:54 pm (UTC)Usually.
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Date: 2012-03-15 04:28 pm (UTC)ladies and gentlemen, the physical embodiment of I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids! ]
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Date: 2012-03-15 07:11 pm (UTC)that said, she's going to dig in her purse (...it is shaped like a bat) for her own cigarettes -- hand-rolled, likely not just tobacco -- and her bedazzled bic. ]
What's wrong with your thingy?
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Date: 2012-03-15 11:10 pm (UTC)Tekla rips through a strip of white tape with her teeth. ]
The battery overheated; its frame is warped, now. Making my keyboard stick. [ glance. what is this handbag, even. ] Is that a purse or a pet.
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Date: 2012-03-16 10:44 am (UTC)That sounds super annoying. And probably can't be fixed by hitting it. That's my usual method.
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Date: 2012-03-16 09:28 pm (UTC)