jayce "yaoi hand proportions" talis (
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—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.
it's what keeps him from giving into sleep. ]
[ 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. ]
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even if it's just the pepe silva meme. ]
In the garage, right? [ that was their starting point— and shadow was right. jayce glances over the papers and points to the sketches from the garage itself; there's the same symbol. ] These symbols, they could be . . . Connected to us. That's how it could've triggered a summon.
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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?
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[ but some question his motives, his health, even his mental state, which, alright. not the first time he was called unwell in the head. mother was the first to point it out. ]
It's not easy to come off as trustworthy, like this. [ but he's not about to make himself mister golden boy of the century again. he had everyone drooling over his looks and profitability and no one actually interested in science. he's not about to do it again, so jayce only cants his head in acceptance of that. ] Patience.
[ thing is, he might not have enough time for patience, and his expression tightens with grim truth as he scans his formulas and fits shadow's somewhere. ]
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... Some of the other Drifters might tell me if I ask.
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at least he saw it before he couldn't change a thing. with slight surprise, jayce looks up from his organization, pulling his parted lips together. if shadow is offering, it means he has at least some level of trust with the others. that he wants to put this forward, that there's value in it— ]
If you could do that, [ he bows his head, and tries not to think about the ticking time he's got over his head. ] I'd owe you.
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Who have you already asked?
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[ which isn't much. jayce can scribble the names down: serph, blake, viktor. roger. yang. that's it. ]
good to wrap here?
I'll ask the others and let you know what they tell me.
thumbs up!!!
Thank you.