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Post by Override on Feb 20, 2012 23:14:37 GMT -5
OOC: M7W3D4, Open, the Belle Island Racetrack.
On one end of Belle Island is a state park, one that held a meeting between machines and machines-in-flesh about a month and a half ago. On the other end is the Belle Island Raceway, sometime home of the Detroit Indy Grand Prix. This is not a Grand Prix week, and this is not a Grand Prix day. In fact, this is not a day at all. It's night as Hotaru pulls onto the track. She pauses puts the car in park, at which point the hover-vehicle settles onto the ground. She gets out, looking over the lamp-lit tracks with a smile, hand resting lightly on the experimental Blackrock Industries race car that she's been asked to test. One of the conditions of her agreement to test was that she be allowed to choose some of the testing fields, times, and conditions, and this... this is her time alone with the car.
She looks over the vehicle. Supposedly it was inspired by one of the alien robots that had arrived on the planet a few months ago... the ones that then largely vanished. It's not expected to go anywhere near as fast as him, and in fact, it's not even expected to be the fastest human car ever made... but its hover capability gives it better maneuverability and ground clearance that should more than make up for it.
She slips back in, buckles her seat belt, then starts the car back up, and the it lifts from the ground. Then she takes deep breath, places her hands on the wheel, and her eyes half close as she settles into the car.
Oh, my, but this one feels good.
Car and driver, now for all intents and purposes one and the same, take off down the track.
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Post by Sable Conolly on Feb 20, 2012 23:35:10 GMT -5
When the car takes off, there is a dark shadow lurking around the track. It doesn't have a hope of catching the car when it is in motion. However, at some point, the car will need to stop, and the driver will need to get out.
If not, perhaps the matter can be forced.
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Post by Override on Feb 21, 2012 15:08:34 GMT -5
Sure, the car eventually needs to stop and the driver eventually needs to get out... ...but does that have to happen here? Hotaru easily whips around the GM turn, heading next to the Porsche turn. The car - she moves quietly, accompanied by an almost electric buzz, and she thinks to herself that the engineers may do well to add a rumble and a roar in order to play to expectations, and thus to make the car more... satisfying to the typical driver. After all, owners can always find a way to shut off the noise, right?
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Post by Sable Conolly on Feb 21, 2012 15:31:26 GMT -5
An unexpected gust of strong whips a rather large branch at the windshield of the car.
The car is going so fast that the driver will need excellent reflexes to avoid a windshield full of tree.
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Post by Override on Feb 21, 2012 16:49:46 GMT -5
As it turns out, the driver does have excellent reflexes. The car has excellent reflexes. The hovercar whips around the branches, hardly slowing, and continues down along the course.
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Post by Sable Conolly on Feb 21, 2012 17:04:08 GMT -5
Oh, was that not a challenge?
Good, because there are some boulders on the road up ahead.
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Post by Override on Feb 22, 2012 10:56:33 GMT -5
... Why are there boulders on the road? This is a professional raceway!
The hovercar does slow down a bit for these, getting around them by driving off the road entirely, handy in that it also tests the vehicles ground clearance. As it does this, it (well, its driver) makes a mental note to check into why the things are there later, and to make sure they're reported.
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Post by Sable Conolly on Feb 22, 2012 11:32:29 GMT -5
Someone is messing with Hotaru; that is why.
Messing with her by putting a big sinkhole in the stretch of track ahead.
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Post by Override on Feb 22, 2012 20:14:29 GMT -5
Of all the-?!
She jumps the thing easily, reveling in the responsiveness of the car as she clears the obstacle...
... And then she pulls it to a swift stop, twisting so that the driver's side is facing the hole, and separates her consciousness from the car. The door opens and she steps out, frowning at the hole in the road. She steps over it and kneels down to inspect it. "What the hell caused this?" she mutters to herself, more for the benefit of the viewer than her own.
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Post by Sable Conolly on Feb 22, 2012 20:40:07 GMT -5
"Me," says a shadowy figure who steps up behind Hotaru. The figure attempts to wrap one arm around Hotaru's neck to choke her and to grab one of her arms with the other arm.
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Post by Override on Feb 22, 2012 23:10:33 GMT -5
Hotaru's eyes fly wide and she starts to spin around...
... Not fast enough.
An arm is wrapped around her neck and one of her arms is held in place. She struggles, attempting to beat the free arm against her attacker, then attempting to stomp on one fit.
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Post by Sable Conolly on Feb 23, 2012 12:24:51 GMT -5
The attacker is wearing armour. Metal armour. In this age of Kevlar weaves, that is pretty unusual. The attacker then tries to fling Hotaru through the air and off into the lake.
Not drowning ought to keep her busy and short out any electronics on her, and Hotaru is not expected back for a while, yes? She was supposed to have some alone-time with the car.
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Post by Override on Feb 23, 2012 19:58:45 GMT -5
Hotaru is flung into the air and towards the lake! She splashes into the water and then sputters towards the surface, and although she keeps her head and is soon paddling towards the shore, she's no longer anywhere near Mordred.
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Post by Sable Conolly on Feb 24, 2012 11:06:35 GMT -5
That business settled, Mordred gets in the car and looks over the controls.
Nightshade had better appreciate this gift.
Then Mordred sets off in the stolen vehicle. The thing about hover cars is that they'll go over water. It's nice.
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Post by Holi on Feb 24, 2012 15:13:21 GMT -5
A face without eyes watches the streets, lights reflecting in arcs on the rounded surface of a glassy, grey-white mask. Hollister took to the HUD in the helmet easily, like putting on an old glove; he's supposed to have data readouts on the things he looks at, not hang every move on estimates and guesses. It's comforting to read the distance from his perch to the ground, from himself to the next building, from here to that car racing across the lake.
Across the lake?
He zooms in on the car and its black-suited driver; a flash in the dark behind it catches his eye, and he looks to that. Someone in the water? Well, doesn't this look suspicious. He sets a tracker note on the person swimming and looks back to the car, following it with eyes and sensors. It looks… vaguely familiar in shape and form, but he puts that out of mind as unimportant for the moment. Stopping a car theft isn't exactly grand heroics, he tells himself. It's very small overall. But, he tells himself after that, he's still getting the hang of the suit, so it's as good a place as any to start.
The gleaming lines of his suit shift hues to a pale green-blue with anticipation. He waits.
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