The Stars Are Left (RP Thread)

[cuzyeahboi]

She nodded, blinking a few times to clear her eyes once more, she was having trouble seeing clearly. She guessed it was the sleep still stuck in her eyes. "Right, right." Thinking for a moment she thought to bring up something, "Oh, Um. Do you by any chance know where to find Ray later today?"

[Rayleonarde]

Kai-
Arturo sighs through his nose and fishes around in his pocket. Withdrawing a notepad, he flipped through a few pages and clears his throat when he stops. "Ray's s'posed t'be at the bank 'til eleven, then at the library 'til two." He checks his watch. "It's eight now."


Sarah-
As you ride into the forest, following a pretty well-worn path, you see a figure meandering along the path far ahead of you. It's a well dressed figure and, as you get closer, you realize it's one Jayce Blackburn.

[cuzyeahboi]

"Right, thanks for coming by to tell me." She said, once more trying to blink the blurriness from her eyes. "Hope to see Ed back soon..." She said, trailing off and beginning to shut the door slowly.

[Brisky]

As Sarah started approaching the pedestrian on the path she was driving on, she steadily let her revs drop close to idle, to avoid startling the figure as she lined up to overtake him.

But, as she got closer, She suddenly recognised the figures stance and shape...

Jayce?? What is he doing here?

Having just seen Stella, seemingly out of nowhere, and suddenly remembering the dream she had tonight, Sarah was quite perplexed by now also coincidentally running into Jayce Blackburn.

Wary, and a little bit mistrustfull from the earlier "coincidences", She quickly figured that the chances of Jayce recognising her on her bike were little-to-none. So, she decided to pass him and avoid the confrontation, for now...


Finding Jayce, alone in the forest, the day after Edwin's dissapearance, Sarah again found the Blackburn's seeming unfazedness quite strange.

She hesitated to turn around and blatantly ask him what he was doing in the forest, with his father's dissapearance to worry about, but decided that she didn't want to risk creating unneccecary hostility on the workfloor.

So, instead, she swerved left,  taking the motorcycle off the trail, and began climbing the elevation in the terrain, looking for a hill with a nice view over the forest.

[Rayleonarde]

Kai-
Arturo sighs and shakes his head. "If y'want, I'll give ya a ride to the 'brary. If y'gon' go see d'eh man anyway." He chuckles, shaking his head again as he walks to the car. "I'll wait fer ya t'ah clean up."


Sarah-
As you reach the top of the hill, you find it wonderfully isolated. The hustle and bustle, or what of it there was, of the sleepy little town is gone. You can't even see the buildings for the treetops. Out in the forest you can see the small, relatively quiet, socialist commune that formed as the refugees from the war filtered in. Mostly from eastern Europe with a few central Europeans mixed in, they live out there to avoid persecution from those fearing communism. A flash of light from the dirt road draws your attention to the silver Bulgarrenault 8 crawling along. Stella's car, something her parents had shipped over when they moved.

[cuzyeahboi]

Kai also laughed and called out a thanks before closing the door and rushing in to switch her shirt and stopping in front of a mirror in her bathroom to make sure her hair didn't look like a lopsided frizzy explosion then she took a moment to splash her face with cold water and to rub her eyes. She still had lapses of just blurry vision but wrote it off as being drowsy. She then walked out after Arturo

[Brisky]

Sarah nervously strided back and forth over the thin trackwall suspended over the floor, acking for some fresh air. But, she couldn't find any. The air within the concrete structure just felt dead and dusty, regardless of where she was.

There were no lights in the facility either. Or, rather. All the armatures seem to have been burnt down, so everything resided into a perfect darkness, acompanied by a dead silence. The only thing she had was a small working light mounted on a hardhat. But, it was barely powerfull enough to light up the wall on the other side of the space, let alone reach into the seemingly abysmall concrete chasm below.

She was completely sick and tired of being stuck in the structure. And figuring it wasn't getting any better "outside", she uncoupled the hooks from the safety-line, and headed back into the claustrophobic control cabin suspended above the abyss from the wall.

Tools and papers were scattered all over the control cabin's floor, but the switchboards themselves had finally been assembled in the proper way, according to the technical drawing she found, although, there was absolutely no sense in any of the controls on the board. The only thing in the entire cabin that seemed to be doing something was a small, locked, control box in the adjacent, office like room, connected to the main switcheboard, wich eminated a faint ticking sound.

Sarah had already took a closer look at the box, aswell as searched the entire cabin for keys to it's lock. But, she couldn't find any keys, nor anything that could be used to decipher the workings of the installation.

However, just as she got closer to the box, and contemplated about trying to break it open, the ticking stopped...

After a few seconds of silence, a series of relays and EMS units inside the main switchboxes suddenly kicked in, and the components within the switchboard began humming from a strong current passing trough.

Sarah walked back over towards the switchboards to see what was going on, but just as she got to them, the facility was shook by an almost deafening metallic "Whang" that rised from the bowels of the facility and echoed around for almost a second.


Sarah shot upright from the treetrunk against which she had fallen asleep.

Loud, intermitted, buzzing noises were coming from her backpack. She opened it up, and found out that it was her tranceiver. Something had began transmitting a signal, and the tranciever was picking it up. Disregarding the signal, she switched the thing off, and got up from the ground.

As she looked over towards the road, she noticed Stella's car driving along towards "Eastblock town".

This town can't be that small, can it? - She thought to herself, on seeing Stella again.

Still a little dazed from the dream, and the sudden wakeup, she picked up her backpack, and leaned over her motorcycle's saddle, staring over towards the small commune.

Eh... Why the hell not? She thought as she got back onto the motorcycle, and drove down towards the road to the small commune...

[Rayleonarde]

Kai-
Arturo holds the door to the car with a smile, helps you inside and climbs into the driver's seat. "D'ah 'brary, d'en?" Before you get the chance to respond, the car is already rolling down the street.


Sarah-
As you approach the commune, you are welcomed by a large bear in a flannel shirt. "'Allo-ah! You come for lunch, dah?" He opens the gates, and motions you through with a warm smile.  You can see that Stella's car is parked on a cleared gravel drive, empty of any occupants.

[cuzyeahboi]

She found this slightly odd but just strapped herself in and waited with her hands in her lap. Looking out the window she watched as the small town passed by.

[Brisky]

"Mornin', Andrei! Shure am..." -Sarah friendily replied back towards the bear.

She slowly rolled the motorcycle onto the commune's premises, found a place to park it, and began thinking of a place to get some food.

As she got off the motorcycle and tied the sleeves of her driving suit around her waist, revealing her normal clothing undeneath, she couldn't help curiously looking around herself to see if she could happen to spot Stella...

[Rayleonarde]

Kai-
As the town passes behind the tinted glass, it seems to flicker. Like it doesn't really exist. Perhaps it's just that you're still tired. As the car slows to a stop, Arturo turns to you with a smile. "Fare's on me."


Sarah-
The bear chuckles as you pass, shaking his head as he closes the gates.

The settlement's kinda small, only five non-residential structures, all in the styling of the Eastern bloc. It's very...efficient.


You don't see Stella in any of the store fronts, or on the street.

[cuzyeahboi]

Kai blinked hard once more and smiled, "Thank you." She said opening her door and stepping out, She thanked him once more and closed the door.

[Brisky]

Not seeing anything, Sarah decided to head towards the butcher's shop and buy a few pounds of meat for later.

But, as she was about to start walking towards the shop, she was struck by a sudden gust of curiosity, and threw her backpack onto the motorcycle's saddle, reaching for the transceiver. Once she twisted the power knob, the same monotonous, rhytmic buzzes that woke her up a few minutes ago sounded from the device. She flipped it over, so she could read off it's display, but much to her surprise the signal didn't seem to be coming from either of the set frequencies, and changing either of them had no effect on the signal. It almost seemed as if the transceiver was picking up the signal from a hidden dual-watch frequency.

Confused, Sarah put the device away again, and started heading towards the store. But troughout the walk there, and even trough the casual smalltalk of the local butcher's son, she couldn't put the strange signal to rest.

Arriving back to her motorcycle, she figured that it was getting relatively late, and it would probably be best for her to start getting on the road back to Bridgestone, if she wanted to get to bed intime for work tomorrow.

[Rayleonarde]

Kai-
Arturo waves from the car before taking off down the street.


Sarah-
Just as you head out the gate, you see him. Jayce Blackburn walks passed you and into the Soviet community. He glances at you and gives you a wink before disappearing into one of the apartment blocks.

[cuzyeahboi]

She walked up to the library, pushed the door open and signed in before taking a seat in the corner after scanning a few titles and pulling out the thickest she could find.