aerialassault: (thinking -- arms crossed like a boss)
Cliff Fittir ([personal profile] aerialassault) wrote2014-08-25 09:09 pm

007 [Action/Audio]

[...It had started off small. A flash here or there in middle of the night, an awareness that made his heart dance and his blood run cold. Sleep always evaded him after that, leaving him to fiddle away with his hands on his small robotic vacuum until the golden rays of dawn peeked through the apartment windows. His mind would settle down after the sun arose, and he could always go about his day like nothing was wrong at all.

But, like all things, it grew. The sporadic flashes in the night grew into haunting images that stuck in his craw and nagged him to a point of annoyed frustration. They were sometimes grim recollections of the chaos that was the battleground in Zompania. Othertimes he was in that run down building with Fayt again, injured and outnumbered-- that spear still left him reeling with a white-hot rage--

--And then there was that eerie sense again. An instinctive, almost animalistic awareness of a threat that at once unnerved him and pissed him off. It was that thing that existed in a space he couldn't reach, something that could hurt him and everything he loved....and something that he couldn't even touch.

Sleep never returned on those nights, but his engineering projects just weren't enough to soothe his boiling temper.]


[Action]

[The Battle Dome had become his friend. It was the most high-tech spot in Luceti, and it was always open. He could slip out of his apartment and work out his frustrations in the hours before dawn without disturbing anyone else...and, that was just fine by him.

He had work to do anyway. The battle at Zompania had forced him to pay a price and, while he knew there were worse fates, this one was still damn annoying.

The program that he used in the simulation chambers was deceptively simple to the inexperienced observer. It was a series of targets that he had set up around the stark room, at randomized intervals along the walls and ceilings. It looked almost like a firing range in many respects, except it was clear that they weren't used for any ordinary firearm.

...or anything ordinary for that matter.

Anyone who happened to be wandering through early that morning would find a ragged, sweating Cliff in one of these simulations-- clearly, he had been in there for a while. The broad grin and wild look of glee in his eyes made it doubly clear tht he had accomplished something.

Surely, it had nothing to do with all of the noise that had been coming from that simulation room during that time. The ricochets of energy bouncing off the metallic walls and his own cries of frustration or whoop of glee had nothing to do with any of this.

Nope. Not at all.]


[Audio: Private to Vegeta]

Yo. It's me. Can ya meet me at the Dome....say, sometime before noon? It's been a while since we beat eachother up.
[Audio: Open to All]


...back where I'm from, the quiet was always sort of a bad thing to hear in the middle of the night. It meant that you were having mechanical trouble, and that was usually a Big Deal if ya understand that sorta thing. Sleeping planetside was never a problem though-- there's always something outside making some kinda sound, and normally you just...I dunno. Sleep.

All you guys who've been doing this thing for a while....well. How do ya handle it? I've been working on a few projects myself, but those are gonna run dry pretty soon at this rate.

[Then, softer and mostly to himself:] --can't keep sittin' around like this--

[The feed clicked off as abruptly as it began, as if the whole question were an afterthought, meant to be forgotten.

Cliff doesn't do talking well.

Other early risers can find him hanging around the plaza that morning, nursing a cup of coffee as he made plans for the rest of his day. Time waits for no one, after all, even if the progress hear could amount to nothing at the end.]

faithfulflame: (Rei Lineface (Mako))

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2014-08-26 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Action and meeting face to face was the order of the day. Rei had seen the broadcast...and never really cared for the journal much anyway, so off she goes in search of her big, dumb uncle. Itachi can manage the shrine for now, she figures.

But she too, meanders by the coffee place before finding him. Taking a sip, she sits down next to him on his good side and nudges him with an elbow.]


Are you having trouble sleeping? Or...are you just bored?
misterbrief: (SSJ4 - Tired of your shit.)

[personal profile] misterbrief 2014-08-26 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He'd gotten the message in between sessions, snapping the journal shut. Good thing he decided to check it now, huh. The red-haired man walked along the corridor of the Dome, until he finds the one that Cliff is in, opening the door without knocking and calling out to the Klausian.]

I'm already here, what do you want.
faithfulflame: (Rei Amused)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2014-08-26 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Really? You? Run out of projects?

[There's a note of amusement there, but also sympathy.]

Honestly, if it wasn't for the shrine, I'd be in a similar position.
faithfulflame: (Rei Big Eyes)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2014-08-26 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Quark is...your organization?

[Rei's thinking more out loud...]

And you could always do what I do in my spare time.
misterbrief: (SSJ4 - What'd you just figure that out?)

[personal profile] misterbrief 2014-08-26 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He narrows his eyes, seeing the blast coming right at him- and he raises one hand, easily knocking it away and sending it exploding into the wall. He glances at where it had landed, then back at Cliff.]

You've got a lot of nerve to pull a stunt like that. It's about time.

[About time he learned that technique geez]
faithfulflame: (Rei Positive Thinking)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2014-08-26 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Me?

[Honestly...Cliff, she's a little surprised you asked. Not because she doesn't think you care, but because she's a teenage girl, and you're very much...not.]

I study magic, for one. I practice what fighting skills I have, and I read?
faithfulflame: (Rei Not at all)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2014-08-26 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the only other hobbies I have are things you'd probably find boring.

[He doesn't really seem like the artsy sort of man.]

And oh? Are you calling me an old timer? Just because you've run out of things to do? Because if you're bored...I can always find things to do.
etherealblast: (pic#5245280)

[voice]

[personal profile] etherealblast 2014-08-26 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Fayt had noticed Cliff's absences some nights-- he'd wondered about it, yeah, but he'd decided to leave it alone for now. For all he knew, Cliff was spending the nights at Souji's.

Hearing this just confirms otherwise, though.]
I take walks, or I try to wear myself out with a run. Depends on my mood.

[And what was keeping him up at night.]

Having trouble sleeping?
etherealblast: (Scan)

[voice]

[personal profile] etherealblast 2014-08-27 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, it is. [Fayt wasn't exactly ashamed of the fact that he had nightmares, but it wasn't something he made a big deal out of.... or talked about with anyone. Mentally, he rationalized them, understood the science behind them enough to tell himself it wasn't a problem, and dealt with them quietly in his own way, but it didn't make it any less of a problem to deal with when you couldn't get back to sleep, with memories and phantom sensations rattling around and creeping about in the back of the mind.]

That's why I run. I just make it so my body has to sleep, you know?
faithfulflame: (Rei Privileged)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2014-08-27 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Only a year or so more...

[This is one of those traps, Cliff. You should run. Run fast.]

Something with your hands, probably. There's all sorts of things a big strong man can do.
misterbrief: (SSJ4 - When there's fusion....)

[personal profile] misterbrief 2014-08-27 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
I do. It's a pity no one around here is strong enough to fight me, especially now. [His hands spread, signifying his new look.]
theideaguy: (incredulous)

[Voice]

[personal profile] theideaguy 2014-08-27 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe you should invite Vash over so he can scream "love and peace" to you over and over to get rid of the quiet.
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Huh? What you say?)

[Voice]

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2014-08-27 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
[HEY! VASH CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING SOKKA!] I could, but I don't think I really want to stay up that late. Could I make a recording instead?

[Too bad he doesn't care and is happy to join in the mocking of himself.]
borntorebel: (Thoughtful)

[Audio]

[personal profile] borntorebel 2014-08-27 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Leia can't help but notice the words of someone from a rather technologically advanced time where space travel was normal.]

To be honest, I've spent more time planet-side, but I've always slept better when I'm in space.

[Especially after Alderaan. And she usually only sleeps through the full night if she's with Han.]

Since I've gotten here, I spend a lot of time researching both this world and those that the others are from. It helps.

[She's no engineer after all.]
ahappylie: (With a fan)

[Voice]

[personal profile] ahappylie 2014-08-28 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
But a recording isn't the same at all! It sounds funny having your voice come from a tiny box or book.
theideaguy: (vengeful)

[Voice]

[personal profile] theideaguy 2014-08-28 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't know if I'd use the word "funny" for that.

Then again, Souji, you do have a strange definition of that word.
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Your stupidity is spreading)

[Voice]

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2014-08-28 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
But the middle of the night is when I sleep! Nope! He'll just have to be happy with a funny sounding voice! [Because Cliff agreed to his already OBVIOUSLY.]

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