⚓ 010; [video/action]

[hellburner]

[Rider wasn't one to angst and cry over losses like some people. Oh, no. That wasn't her style.]

Prospero, I'm not a woman who likes to screw around and repeat herself. So I'll ask this once. Just once, and if I don't get a satisfactory answer I might just start wrecking shit.

Where.

Is.

Nathan.

Drake.

[Her coping mechanism was anger and threats.]

[Some time after that call, Rider could be found on the deck of her still rather banged-up ship in the harbor--slumped in a chair over a small table she set up when it wasn't sailing. Usually she enjoyed blasting terrible music from a radio set upon it, but today the only thing on it was an alarming number of empty glass bottles.]

...fuckin' city.

[Anger, threats of violence, and alcohol were perfectly good coping mechanisms in her book, thank you very much.]

16TH DAY - [Video]

[babel_hacker]

[If he got the date right, that means he’s been in Prospero for almost a year. A year, once June 20th comes to pass. Or was it June 21st? He arrived during the Dark Hour, so the exact date can be a little strange.

No matter. He’s still in this place and watched people come and go. Atsuro even went home that time, and returned to this city. Back to where people would appreciate his help and his work on the Shadow Database. He knows the fickle nature of this place can easily send him home, so Atsuro want to leave something behind. His work, his notes, anything; for his fellow kidnapped friends to benefit from while they’re here.

He saw Diarmuid’s post about Neah’s departure. That’s what brought up his thoughts lately. It never stops hurting when people he knows left (‘Madoka, Naoya...’), but he try not to let it drag him down. Which really means he’s keeping it to himself and let it stew deeply; without his best friend here, his only outlets are his work and the occasional talk with people.

Atsuro's face appears on the network, looking cheerful as ever. But if anyone pay attention, they can see him looking a little tired. A result of some late-nighters.]

Atsuro Kihara here with your usual database updates! [There’s an attached program on this video.] If you have any questions, or you wish to help out with updating it in case I disappear, lemme know!

[He pauses, looking thoughtful before he yawns.]

You know, I checked the calendar and that got me thinking. In two weeks, it’ll be one year since I first arrived in Prospero. Well, since I first arrived and remember. There’s a chance that I might come here waaaay before and forgot, but right now? I’ll be hitting my first anniversary in two weeks, and same for everyone else who came here at around the same time as me.

...Knowing this place, there might be something fun at around our anniversary, or at least the full moon type of fun.

[He’s going to leave out the fact that his birthday is next week. Whoops.]