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[perfectsymmetry]

[Voice: Screw filters. They're useless as far as Crowe's concerned anymore.

He speaks quickly. It's obvious he's pretty rattled.]

Do not go near them. Do not touch them. Just... just please, stay out of their way. Fighting a-against them will probably have no affect.


Bunkers... Mr. Saeba was working on those, wasn't he? We... I'm going to say we should get back to that.



Has... has anyone checked on Miss Susan...?

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[Action: Crowe will be found tearing apart his garage, looking for metal. Before he was droned, Ryo Saeba had been collecting scrap metal to help build bunkers, and Crowe had been helping him. Now he regrets ever stopping. He's taken what he collected and has brought it down to the basement of his home, and it's at that point he has no idea what he's doing. His housemates will find him sitting there with his supplies, head in his hands, thinking.]

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[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[Crowe's sitting there with some pieces of scrap metal, some tools, and a look on his face that borders between frustration and exasperation.]

O-oh. Hey. Ah, sorry if I'm ah, making too much noise down here or something...

[emperor-cowboy.livejournal.com]

[Hol can only shake his head and hold up his hands.]

Not at all. Just caused me t'become a bit curious as to what's goin' on down here.



... Which makes me wonder if ya know what yer doin' yerself.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Ah....

[He looks around at his stuff, then hangs his head a bit.]

N-Not totally I'm afraid.

[emperor-cowboy.livejournal.com]

[A small chuckle escapes him.]

S'all right. Ya must have some manner of a plan if ya brought all this stuff down here in the first place.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Well, a few weeks ago, before he was droned, Mr. Saeba, he had this plan to build bunkers... I-I was helping but everyone involved got droned so I...

...I shouldn't have given up. Now more than ever, we might need them.

[emperor-cowboy.livejournal.com]

So guess I never outright asked. This gettin' droned thing? D'ya snap outta it? What's with the fellers outside?

...


... Sorry for the questions, guess I'm a little too caught up in my own problems.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, that's ok. We never get to speak much, do we? [Crowe keeps a full schedule, and does his best to avoid Mukuro, so he's not around much either. He sits down heavily on a nearby chair.]

Sometimes, people get sent home, so they say, but even then the droning's not necessarily permanent. I have... had a friend here, she got droned and returned a few days later, but it had been 5 years to her. Sometimes people are droned as punishments for getting out of line. Missing work or school, public violence... things like that.

As for the hazmat suits... a few months ago, a road opened up to a town called Westport. The television here showed a place just like Mayfield, but full of people we all know from our homes. B-But once you went over, it was destroyed. A warzone. Completely burned out, bodies.... But the evidence of people we knew was there. I even still have a picture I found there....

Some people got trapped there, after the road disappeared. The hazmat men showed up, spraying poison gas to kill off anyone left. They hunted down and killed anyone else that tried to hide. I was lucky enough not to get trapped there, but I know a lot of people who did... so please, don't approach those hazmats. You'll only get killed.

[emperor-cowboy.livejournal.com]

Hn... doesn't sound like a friendly place at all. Curious...


That bit of information has been mighty helpful, kid. Lemme tell ya, I won't be shootin' those hazmats 'less they provoke me into fightin'

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

No. It's awful. Stuff like this always happens....

Right. Don't even approach them. From what I was told, they were easy to avoid, at least for a little while. And I'm sure this is going to keep up until Sergei is found.