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jayce "yaoi hand proportions" talis ([personal profile] hexrot) wrote in [community profile] route666radio2025-02-10 01:22 pm

(voice)

—This is Jayce Talis. [ that's not going to mean anything, to anyone. this man's voice is rasping, dragging, in between sounded exhausted, heavy and ill. ] I'm a scientist. I researched . . . The Arcane, with my . . . With my partner, Viktor— most of my life.

[ frequent pauses are a must. he almost feels out of breath if he doesn't, and that puffs through the radio, ragged and sluggish. ]

All of us— seem to have a symbol. A rune, on our bodies. If you've been to the Shrine, then I'm sure . . . You have something else, now. Maybe a message. Please, if you could show it to me. I'll be . . . [ another hushed pause, ] Outside the Common Room. There's a truck, with . . . Butterflies, [ the irony in his voice is dry. ] That's— Where I'll be.

If it helps get us anywhere, I . . . Need, to crack it, I . . . [ i promised, he mutters, before swiftly adding, through a strain that's tight in his throat: ] That's all.

(action/flavor)[ jayce is rebounding hard on his magic sepsis as his first symptom to becoming undead! so he is not visibly well for anyone who wants to come see him, but he is trying deathly hard with the symbols and trying to fight the clock with obsession. the iridescent pick up near one of the camp lights is a mess of papers in the front seats as much as the flatbed behind it, spread out and held in place with pebbles or stones, littered with those very symbols as well as formulas he's trying to link and complete like a map.

it's what keeps him from giving into sleep. ]
airskate: (ʏᴏᴜ'ᴠᴇ paid in trade)

[personal profile] airskate 2025-02-26 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Shadow does want to see the madness that Jayce has sprawled over the bed of his truck. And while he could just jump up there, he's familiar enough with scientists to know that their work tends to be delicate. So he makes use of those little indents to haul himself up and peer over the sides. ]

Right.

[ They may have left said garage behind, but Shadow still remembers it clearly. The symbols being connected to them seems obvious enough by now, but Shadow thinks Jayce will have more insight than he does. ]

Have you ever found the same symbol on two different people?
airskate: (ʏᴏᴜ try and try to ignore)

[personal profile] airskate 2025-03-08 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jayce's response—his even-handed acceptance of his own inability to inspire trust—earns him an appraising look from Shadow. This is... well, pretty different from what Shadow has come to expect from scientists. The Professor and the Doctor had both shared a similar sort of intensity, a dedication to their goals to the exclusion of all else, but they'd also both possessed a degree of self-assurance that tipped over into outright arrogance. If stymied by the distrust and uncertainty of those around them, they would have never assigned any blame to themselves. ]

... Some of the other Drifters might tell me if I ask.
airskate: (ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ searching so far and wide)

[personal profile] airskate 2025-03-14 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, that settles it. Shadow turns his gaze back over the symbols, memorizing what he can. He's sure he'll need to ask Jayce for copies of them if he really wants to commit them to memory, but that's not immediately important. ]

Who have you already asked?
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good to wrap here?

[personal profile] airskate 2025-03-24 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Shadow looks over the list of names. Some of them are people he was thinking he could ask, but some of his candidates aren't on this list. After a moment, he nods. ]

I'll ask the others and let you know what they tell me.