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128 hours of arguing #39 [Vating+Eva]
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Post by Katsura Ise on Apr 5, 2017 0:39:39 GMT
Katsura was in Western Shibuya. It was a rather well-kept district compared to her hometown. Inside a tall apartment building, Katsura was going from door to door asking for money. It was a time-consuming task but money had to come from somewhere.
In her arms was Nyao the BlackGatomon, with Nyao's powers the method of hustling out money for the two to survive had gotten way more sophisticated than ever. Their trick was simple yet effective, Katsura was ringing and knocking on random people's door asking them for money to get to eat while Nyao was acting like a plush toy to make her appear younger and innocent.
While most would gladly hand out a handful of money some tried to say no to Katsura. Whenever someone tried to turn Katsura down Nyao's eyes glowed and for some reason they changed their mind and gave her money. Often the money she received by the unwilling donator was higher than the willing ones.
Eventually Katsura and Nyao had worked themselves up to the top floor of the building, neither Katsura or Nyao felt they had the energy let alone interest to walk all the way down the stairs.
Therefore, the duo decided to go for the elevator, when it arrived they walked in and pressed the bottom for the ground floor. Little did they know that this would be their longest elevator trip ever.
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Post by vating on Apr 5, 2017 0:59:31 GMT
Timothy, Bibi, and Faluo had just left their home in the apartment complex. The group swore they saw Katsura earlier, especially when Timothy's mother mentioned some homeless kid with a stuffed animal. That didn't matter though, they were out to go to the Digital World and do something crazy. Little did they know, when hailing the elevator, they found a wild Katsura and her partner in crime, Nyao. The group went into the elevator and Timothy, Bibi, and Faluo glance Katsura and Nyao's way, chuckling and giggling. They knew exactly what she did, but none of them were gonna give her away obviously. Timothy quickly said, "If you wanted money or needed a meal, you could've just asked instead of making some elaborate scheme with Nyao."
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Post by Eva on Apr 5, 2017 1:43:28 GMT
Well, today's job hunting went about as successfully as any attempt. Hooray for the economy and the tendency for Japanese companies to want to hire natives rather than foreigners. Would have likely been easier for Eva if she just made her holosuit look like a local rather than something more in keeping with her British heritage, but, either way her accent would make her stick out like a sore thumb. Perhaps looking into work as a translator or English tutor might bring better results. Either way, she had been lucky enough to find an apartment cheap enough for her shoestring budget.
Eva stepped into the lift, glancing over at the other people and giving a nod in greetings. She was still dressed up as smartly as she could in typical business casual attire. Almost as soon as she got in though, and was about to ask what floor these people were going to...
CRUNCH! SCREEEEE... KACHUNK!
Eva flinched, gripping onto the handrails as the lift juddered, the emergency brakes kicking in and lights flickering away, one of them bursting in a shower of sparks until the surviving bulbs came back solid as the brakes held the lift firm. The holosuited digimon took a deep breath to compose herself. Thank god for safety systems stopping them from becoming a pancake at the bottom of the shaft. "Bloody hell! You all okay?"
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Post by Katsura Ise on Apr 5, 2017 21:30:40 GMT
It appeared that the elevator travel was getting just a little bit more interesting. On their way down Katsura and Nyao spotted a familiar face, it was Timothy who was aware of their schemes. Katsura looked in the direction of the door and in came Timothy who said that if they wanted money or a meal, they could had asked.
"It's nice to see you again, are your partners still fighting?"
Katsura pressed the bottom for the ground floor in an attempt to speed up the closing process while waiting for elevator to reach the end. About halfway through the elevator stopped and a woman in a business suit stepped in. For Katsura there was nothing special about seeing such a person so she just returned the nod and waited to get going. That was the time when diaster happen. The elevator stopped and a loud noise could be heard as the emergency breaks kicked in thanks to the business lady affords. As the light went out it became complete dark for a long moment only when the elevator finally stopped did the light return weaker than before.
Strangely Katsura did not stop smiling friendly as the elevator stopped, almost as if she didn't understand that this was supposed to be a terrifying moment.
Katsura then held the emergency call bottom down and waited until someone would pick up.
Time trapped in the elevator: 5 minutes
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Post by vating on Apr 5, 2017 21:49:17 GMT
Timothy nodded to Katsura with a sigh, "Sadly, they still do, hopefully they're good on at least the elevator trip." Both Bibi and Faluo give Timothy a look right as the business woman enters, and they quickly sit down next to Timothy as stuffed animals. As soon as she enters, the elevator seeming breaks down and they get knocked over for a moment. Faluo instantly turned to Bibi and asked, "What did you do?"
Bibi shook her head surprised by the accusation, "Nothing! Remember, we don't leave Timothy's room, and you totally just blew our cover!"
Faluo looked at the business woman and blushed a little, then went back to staring at Bibi, not trusting her one bit. The group had to get out of the elevator sooner rather than later, though that seemed unlikely with the way they were going, and the fact that their writers decided to trap them in for 128 hours. Timothy sat down, keeping his cool, but looked at Katsura and saw that she was still smiling, "Uhh... You seem awfully chipper for having just been trapped in an elevator..." He had no clue how they were gonna get out of this, screw bunny-bots or trains or even Karatenmon, this will be his greatest challenge yet. It also didn't help that this random business woman was in here, "Uhh... We're fine, though... Ignore the talking stuffed animals! They aren't real and this is a bad dream!"
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Post by Eva on Apr 5, 2017 23:57:45 GMT
The response to the whole plushies comment was a thoroughly unimpressed look. It said "seriously?" louder than pretty much any spoken word ever could. The well dressed woman glanced around the lift for a moment checking for security cameras and then reached into her jacket pocket. There was a subtle click of a holosuit disengaging, the image of the smart young redhead fading, and in its place? A strange looking Renamon with a grey colouration and with plenty of very human made looking cybernetics. Seems the clothing wasn't part of the holosuit's illusion though, meaning that yeah, she still looked pretty damn snappy.
"Plushies. Sure. Might help if you didn't speak if that's the disguise you're going with. But I'll agree with you on one thing, being trapped in a small elevator with a bunch of people? That is like something out of a bad dream."
Eva was fairly comfortable that the reveal was safe enough here. One of them was obviously a tamer of some sort, and the other? Well, she had already seen her without the holosuit active anyway, so, it didn't really matter. Even if it did, she wasn't at all phased by the "plushies" and seemed to know the guy who was seemingly a tamer so either way it was highly probable she wasn't going to freak the heck out.
Nonetheless, she flicked the human image back on just in case anyone outside managed to get the door open. She looked over as Katsura pressed the emergency call button. Judging by the overly chirpy attitude after that near death experience? And the interactions before? Eva was getting the distinct impression that she might not be the most stable or the most suitable to try and deal with the horrors of call centres.
"I can handle that if you want."
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Post by Katsura Ise on Apr 6, 2017 21:49:38 GMT
When do these two ever stop arguing? That was a question Katsura would like an answer to. Since she probably won't get an answer on that question, she just sighed bewildered when Timothy's digimon once again started fighting over whose fault it was that the elevator just stopped working.
Nyao on the other hand turned to Eva worried about the secrecy of the digital world. (Do I have to hurt her now to keep Katsura safe?). Katsura took a moment to wonder the same thing, she turned to look at Eva just in time to see that much to their delight, she was actually a digimon sort of. While some part of it looked like a digimon other parts looked like a robot. Somehow Katsura thought it looked familiar. "Haven't I seen you before?" Katsura asked curiously when Eva talked about being trapped in an elevator. Katsura could imagine worse things than an elevator to be trapped in since at least an elevator was a nice place to sleep in. It didn't occur to Katsura that when Eva asked if she would like Eva to handle the conversation that it was out of concern for how it would be handled when the call arrived.
Still to demonstrate politeness and gratitude, Katsura nodded. From the button was held to something happen, it took 10 minutes before someone answered the distress signal. From an unknown source outside of anyone's view, a female voice could be heard as if spoken through a telephone, which seemed to literally be the case this time.
The lady tried to act polite and professional but it was clear that she was in fact rather bored. Apparently, a lot of these distress signals recently had been prank calls. Either that or she hadn't slept in years. "Hello this is the emergency line, sigh what seems to be the problem?"
Katsura was about to answer the lady, in the last minute Nyao who knew what really was the reason for Eva's request waved her head towards Eva. This was to signal that Nyao too thought it would be best that Eva took the call.
Time trapped in the elevator: 20 minutes.
How do your characters spend the 10 minutes of waiting time?
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Post by vating on Apr 7, 2017 12:05:42 GMT
Timothy let out a sigh of relief when it turned out to be some Renamon. He leaned against the wall of the elevator and said, "Sorry about that, panicked."
Bibi and Faluo weren't arguing at the moment, but they were definitely giving each other looks.
Timothy thought for a moment and looked up at the door above the elevator, "Depending on how that call goes, I'm climbing out. He continued leaning against the wall, spending the time to keep his cool. He remembered seeing Eva from... Somewhere. He knew Katsura alright by now and they seemed to get along easy. Nyao kinda scared him from time to time, but he could live with that. Bibi and Faluo were about to go at it again until he stopped them.
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Timothy spends that time babysitting two birds about to kill each other.
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Post by Eva on Apr 8, 2017 1:34:24 GMT
"Yes, hello? The lift we're in has broken down. We're in the Shibuya residential district." The GPS mapping built into Eva's vision was coming in damn useful here, as she rattled off the exact address. However, the response still wasn't too encouraging. A bored "Mmm hmm. You're the twentieth one today. At least you sound sober unlike the others. Please hold, we will be back with you in a minute." And with that, click. The elevator filled with the sound of hold music so terrible that it could drive someone insane.
"Oh. Bloody fantastic." She gave a sigh, leaning on the wall and waiting. And waiting. And waiting. She looked up at the "have I seen you before" question though. "Maybe. Maybe not." The digimon seemed pretty damn irritated right now.
Ten minutes spent boredly waiting being bored. Maybe a little pacing.
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Post by Katsura Ise on Apr 10, 2017 17:01:07 GMT
Katsura was about to say something more to Eva when Nyao stopped her. Thanks to Nyao, Katsura understood that Eva was in some kind of bad mood it seemed. Katsura sat down on the ground in the corner while holding Nyao, she did not move or anything. Just waited while petting Nyao seemly unaware of the seriousness in the current situation. Eventually she looked up at Eva one more time. Katsura was still certain she had seen her somewhere before and not knowing where was a strange feeling. The phone lady seems friendly for Katsura, who out of nowhere remarked in a perky cheerful tone; "She seems nice" Nyao on the other hand sighed, for her the lady was very discouraging to hear and she was wondering whether she would even help or if she was even capable of doing so.
After the conversation some smooth but repeatable jazz was playing on a piano, it will only take 5 minutes to know the whole jingle and another 10 minutes to predict it. Katsura took out her diary and started writing in it (since it's not canon, no post will be made in the thread)
The lady in the phone told the group that it would take a minute. Unfortunately, as everyone who had ever waited for a call center knows a minute in their time is far longer. It was going to take about an hour before the woman could be bothered to call again. The group was willing to wait in 10 minutes but what about an hour? Will Timothy do the things his own way by using the door in the ceiling? Will Eva succumb to her boredom and annoyance or will she sit patiently? Those are questions we might get answered soon.
Time trapped in an elevator: 30 minutes
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Post by vating on Apr 10, 2017 22:08:27 GMT
Timothy sat down against the wall, deciding that he'd rather watch the Digimon solve the problem first, it's pretty funny. He didn't like being trapped for thirty minutes or anything, though it wasn't terrible. Yet.
Bibi and Faluo finally stopped arguing and decided to perform Timothy's idea of trying to get out. Faluo began, "Ninja Blade!" He threw some Ninja Stars at the ceiling door, cutting it out. Bibi began to flap her wings and slowly fly out. With that she began flying up in hopes of escaping the elevator.
They all waited for about ten minutes before everyone would here a, "Woooaaaaaaaah!" Next, a certain Biyomon falls back through the hole and faceplants into the ground, "We're really deep, I can't go that high..." Faluo sighed, "Aww..."
Timothy had shrugged, "Better luck next time Bibi." That was a pretty good attempt, though it ended quite badly for her.
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Post by Eva on Apr 11, 2017 0:37:47 GMT
Waiting. Waiting. Waiting and more waiting. Every ten minutes or so the hold music would stop and a pre-recorded message saying "your call is important to us" would play, each and every time Eva hoping that someone had picked up but, nope. Nothing. "Call is important my ass. She said something about loads of drunk people calling up. I bet that they think this is another prank or something, and are going to make us wait for bloody ages just to make sure. No one would wait around on hold this long to make a damn joke, but, we have no other option. Great."
Just as she was mid grumble, it seemed one of the others had an idea. Firing sharp metallic objects around in a tiny metal box. Eva instinctively activated her stormshield EM barrier, instantly shorting out her holosuit. But, it was a good thing she did as a massive shard of metal bounced off it. If she was a human and didn't have that shield? That could have caused some serious injuries. If Eva was annoyed before, now she was livid.
"Are you fucking kidding me!?" With that, she went straight up to Faluo, and full on slapped him in the face. Carbotanium re-enforced backhand. Wham. "This is the wrong place to be throwing shit like that around! That nearly took my head off you dumbass!" She sighed, shaking her head before looking up at the hole. "Might have given us another option though." there was a subtle click and a whirr as her eyes switched into night vision mode, the aperture and lenses readjusting. "Aha. Maintenance ladder. On the other side of the shaft from the entrance. Who's bloody idea was that? Hmm? How do you fix the elevator? You take the ladder! How do you get to the ladder? You take the elevator that doesn't work!"
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Post by Katsura Ise on Apr 11, 2017 1:05:35 GMT
Katsura was calmly writing in her diary as she heard a loud noise when the door was opened. Unaware of the current danger, Katsura looked up just to see Eva now completely without her holysuit and then the pieces fell together, sorta: "Now I remember! You're that psycho robot thingy from the abandoned house?" Then realization hit Katsura as she repeated herself: "Wait, you're that psycho robot thingy from the abandoned house!" By then Katsura shifted into complete panic and fear as she curled into a ball in the corner only to have Nyao come to her aid and hide her like the protector Nyao saw herself as. "She's gonna kill us all!" Nyao turned to Timothy hoping that he could do something to help Katsura calm down or at least do something to Eva. Still very worried for Katsura's safety Nyao looked around with her head as she stood with her arms out to cover a larger area of Katsura, which actually turned out not to be a lot when she was into a ball.
Eventually the jazz music ended and was replaced by the sound of a phone calling someone up. It turned out that Eva had waited enough time for the lady to return.
"Hello again, thank you for patience. I regret to inform you that our techican left for today 30 minutes ago." Nyao was upset with that answer, especially since they had waited for more than a half an hour. "Why did you not call him 30 minutes ago then?!" The formerly bored phone lady suddenly turned angry and rather unprofessional. "And miss my coffee break?! Are you insane? Do you have any idea how hard this job is?" What followed next was a long rant of unions and regulations and occasional mention of drunk people abusing the phone line. "The technician comes tomorrow if I remember it, you can sleep in the elevator for all I care. F*ck this job I'm going home!" As it turns out, the only one more irritated than Eva was the lady in the phone who slammed the phone down with a lot of force. It seems like the group will have to spend the night in the elevator.
Time trapped in the elevator: 1 hour and 30 minutes
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Post by vating on Apr 11, 2017 2:29:32 GMT
Timothy jumped at the sight of Eva turning into a cyborg Renamon, and that she just punched Bibi when Faluo was the one to throw the ninja stars. He was already on guard when she did that. Bibi was now busy trying to see if Faluo was okay, he was but everything was spinning, "Why'd you do that!? He didn't do anything to you! He was helping with making a hole so I could try and fly out! Meanie!" She was now in a defensive stance as well.
Timothy then heard Katsura shout all this stuff about how Eva's gonna kill them all and he got in an even more defensive stance, "Alright... I don't know what happened, but I think you should not kill us. We all enjoy living, right?" He realized that they were probably at a disadvantage with the hyper-aggressive cyborg Digimon on the loose. He slowly moved in between Katsura and Eva, trying to keep everything calm. Next, the operator returns and as she goes off into her rant, the only thing Timothy can do is shout, "No wait, don't leave us!" With that, she was gone and he slowly turned red in frustration, "Okay... Ground rules... Cyborg Digimon Girl... No killing or punching... Bibi, Faluo... No arguing... Kat, Nyao... I dunno, help me stay sane and don't antagonize the cyborg..." As he's saying all of this, his eye is twitching slightly from the operator still.
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Post by Eva on Apr 11, 2017 2:47:41 GMT
Eva rolled her eyes. "Relax. First, I'm not a robot, honestly, that's a little offensive, second if I was a psycho we wouldn't be talking after you sent a bunch of god damn gangers after me for no reason and third? Why I did that? Because that shit ricocheted around the whole fucking lift! That could have killed one of us! Hell, if I was a human that right there would have killed me for sure!" She picked up a large and incredibly sharp chunk of metal that was sitting on the floor, one side of it slightly charred by deflecting off the hastily activated barrier.
After that, she turned back to the person on the phone, just as the operator came back and ragequitted. "You have got to be kidding me. Lawsuit. One needs to be filed." She sighed, looking up at the hole made by the ninja stars. "I guess we're climbing out. You know those hatches can be opened by hand, right? Rather than by throwing around razor sharp pieces of metal in a confined space?"
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