Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Jul 19, 2012 17:32:40 GMT -5
M11W1D2, Kaon-ic Tech facility, semi-privateTarantulas is in an excellent mood as he enters his lab and turns on the lights. Helpless victims always put him in a good mood. He's whistling The Girl From Ipanema as he strides over to the table where he has Hotaru Watanabe restrained. She arrived earlier today, unconscious and with a note reading 'This is Override. Try to spark extract her.' Tarantulas has never been one to question a windfall. He continues whistling happily to himself as he taps the bubbles out of a syringe full of stimulants, then jabs it into Hotaru's arm to counteract whatever sedative she's currently under. "Wakey wakey," he says, running a couple of fingers down her cheek, "it's time to do science!" He chuckles quietly to himself as he turns his back, allowing the chemicals time to work. While he waits, he logs onto a computer and brings up a music playlist labeled 'Override'. It'll start playing Little Old Lady From Pasadena before moving on to the Speed Racer theme song. Where it goes from there is anyone's guess. OOC: Puncturing with permission.
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Override
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Post by Override on Jul 19, 2012 20:12:36 GMT -5
Hotaru comes to pretty quickly, despite her rough treatment. This should surprise no one; she does everything quickly, after all. She looks around, attempting to take stock of the room. Definitely not the room where she was jabbed unconscious, that's for sure. She spots the man at the computer and narrows her eyes. "What's all this about?!" she demands.
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Post by Tarantulas on Jul 22, 2012 16:50:12 GMT -5
Tarantulas is delighted with her punctuality. "Ah, you're awake, excellent!" he gushes, turning around and picking the prototype spark extractor up off the table where it's resting. "I'm going to use this device on you. If it works and you have a spark, it will be extracted. I have no idea what this will mean for your human body. If the device doesn't work, or you don't have a spark, I'll fiddle with the settings just in case, which means you get to have big metal claws digging into your chest." He smiles wickedly as he talks.
"We ought to get some excellent data, one way or the other," he adds as he positions the extractor.
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Post by Override on Jul 23, 2012 19:23:51 GMT -5
Hotaru calms down, not because anything about this situation is calming, but because panicking isn't going to get her anywhere. She begins to attempt to test her bindings, trying to see if any of them are weaker than the others, perhaps a bit loose. "You're crazy!" she exclaims. Sparks? What's tha- oh. She... she might remember, actually. But still, best not to give it away.
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Post by Tarantulas on Aug 9, 2012 18:32:48 GMT -5
"That's what they s-" Tarantulas starts, prepared to starting cackling maniacally. Then he flinches. The last time he played this scene, Vok came out of his victim and he only didn't die because he got transported to a different reality. His gaze flicks to the corners of the room, half-expecting to see ethereal skull aliens floating up from nowhere to kill him.
"Get ahold of yourself," he mutters quietly, positioning the spark extractor over Hotaru's torso and powering it up. "You ruined my good mood," he says, louder, addressing Hotaru.
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Post by Override on Aug 9, 2012 20:52:19 GMT -5
"Y'know, suddenly interrupting what you're saying to another person to look around the room and then talk to yourself doesn't exactly do a lot to disprove the whole 'crazy' theory," Hotaru says entirely too cheerfully. "But you know, it's kind of cool that you've given me power over your feelings! Good to know!" Now she's actually beaming.
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Post by Raymond Stantz on Aug 11, 2012 8:12:12 GMT -5
From just outside the door, there is the soft sound of polite cursing. Raymond has spilled his lunch all over his shirt, and now it is sticky on his fingers, too. He key-codes open the door. Just need to duck in and use the sink...
He blinks several times at what he sees, blood still all over his shirt and fingers. There's a tied up boy - woman? - and Terrence has the spark extractor out.
Raymond demands, "What is the meaning of this?"
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Post by Tarantulas on Aug 11, 2012 18:34:00 GMT -5
Terrence gives Hotaru a hard, mirthless, stare, which slowly breaks into a grin. "Oh, I just can't stay mad at you people when you banter!" he says, reaching out to pinch Hotaru's cheek. "I'm going to enjoy attempting to yank your soul out of your chest," he proclaims, getting the spark extractor into position. He's about to power it on when Raymond walks in.
He freezes, thinking fast. "Wh- don't you ever knock?" he says, carrying the spark extractor at his side as he leans in to try and whisper to the other scientist. "Listen, Pincher, I need the lab today. I pulled the old 'I'm a genius scientist, want to come up to the lab and see my 'equipment'' routine on this chick. She's hot to trot and a total freak. Let me have this, okay?" he pleads with all the sincerity he can muster.
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Post by Override on Aug 11, 2012 20:26:38 GMT -5
"Help!" Hotaru shouts, trying to jump up and down despite being tied to her chair. It's possible that she gets it to rattle and move a little. "He's crazy! He's ranting about ripping out my soul! He's going to kill me!"
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Post by Raymond Stantz on Aug 14, 2012 19:47:07 GMT -5
Raymond covers half his face with a hand and growls, "Terrence. This is completely unprofessional. Just... build a lab in your basement or attic like a normal mad scientist. You cannot bring hook-ups to work. Victoria is going to have cassettes."
Kittens, he means kittens.
Raymond ambles over and tries to untie Hotaru, rolling his eyes behind his sunglasses.
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Post by Tarantulas on Aug 14, 2012 20:32:15 GMT -5
"I built a lab in my basement," Terrence mutters, lower lip sticking out in a pout, "but she shanghaied me here."
And wow, Raymond is really, really gullible. All the better really. It gives Tarantulas a chance to see if the spark extractor works from behind as he tries to press it to the other scientist's back and activate it.
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Post by Override on Aug 15, 2012 19:00:25 GMT -5
"What?!" Hotaru screeches when Raymond calls her Terrance's 'hook up'. "I am not his 'hook up.' He's cr- look out!" As she shouts the last moment her eyes go wide and round, while she stares over her shoulder at Terrance.
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Post by Raymond Stantz on Aug 20, 2012 19:37:04 GMT -5
Metal claws dig into Raymond's back. His irises tighten into pinholes, and his fangs extend. His hands claw at nothing.
Then Raymond starts coughing up blood, skin going even more ashen than usual. he's usually cold to the ouch, but now he's freezing. His muscles slacken, legs turning to jelly under him.
Then he crumples entirely, perhaps leaving Hotaru with a dead, cold, bloody man on her lap.
Terrence now has a shiny globe in his spark extractor, mostly blue shot through with some tiny threads of green and red.
Hotaru may have been untied by Raymond, though, for the obligatory chase scene.
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Post by Tarantulas on Aug 21, 2012 20:56:42 GMT -5
"I cannot believe that actually worked," Terrence comments calmly to Hotaru. "The transparent lying, I mean. He's met me before, after all. The spark extractor working was more of a pleasantly fulfilled expectation," he says, breaking out into cackling laughter as he moves to deposit Pincher's spark in a glass canister.
"Now it's your turn," he says, turning back around slowly. Is she going to try and run? Oh, he hopes she does. That would be so fun.
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Post by Override on Aug 22, 2012 20:15:18 GMT -5
Hotaru is going to run, yes, but first she pushes Raymond's body towards Terrence as forcefully as she can. Nothing personal, Ray! It's just that you're already dead and she isn't yet! With that, she darts towards the door and hangs a right, looking for an exit sign as she runs. It's entirely possible that left would have been a better choice, but most office buildings and lab buildings don't actually dead end (it's unsafe), so she should be able to find some route as she runs.
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