glastonbury ♔ they came snapping at your heels

[behindcloseddoors]

See You Soon- Coldplay

WHO || Faye, Lila, Gold? [closed]
WHAT || Faye finally has a clue to Gold's location, and goes to confront him about his absence
WHERE || Glastonbury, England
WHEN || After this
HOW || Actionspam

[ Gold's been gone now for long enough to leave most people assuming that he isn't going to come back. Driven off by confirmation that he was, in fact, the Dark One from the Enchanted Forest by Gaston and Emma, the only indication that he's even alive came in a dream delivered to Belle, where he admitted that he was looking to understand more about this Dark One, perhaps seeking a way to refute the claims of the others. Plenty of people are worried, however, about what direction his search might take him. Others, however, are just plain pissed that he would abandon them without a word - and it's that anger that drove Faye to ally with GLADOS to discover that he was in Glastonbury, and with Lila's help enlist Zero to pinpoint his exact last known whereabouts, at a shitty motel. Together, the girls take a car and head out, hoping to find him once and for all.

There's only one car in the lot when they pull in, the VACANCY sign flashing forlornly above the office door. No lights are visible in any of the rooms, but a COKE machine provides some illumination, along with the lone pair of streetlamps that dully lighten the parking lot. ]

Comments

[andblockbuster]

[Topher rolled an eight, so he's just... not even looking.] But why? Did someone leave a virgin on a ledge somewhere?

[watchmaker]

I don't know! I'm not a dragon expert.

[he also figures that they can't really do anything bc by the time they walked to dragon central the fight would be over, and that if he or topher were needed for help anyway that they'd receive a call or something (h a h a), so he's just gonna ... keep sitting.]

[andblockbuster]

[Topher's gonna turn the radio on to see if BBC News is talking about this. I imagine it totally is. In a comforting British way.]

Man, only BBC radio could make a dragon attack comforting...

[watchmaker]

Do we really need to listen to this when we can just watch the dragons from here? [changing the station thx. DRIVER GETS THE RADIO. SHOTGUN SHUTS HIS CAKEHOLE. and then ... THERE WAS PHONE??]

This can't be happening.

[he means that more in the sense of WHY IS THIS HAPPENING WHEN I'M STUCK IN TRAFFIC HELL WITH THIS DUMBASS CHUMP.]

[andblockbuster]

[Topher picks up his phone and forgetting for a moment THAT PEOPLE HE LIKES ARE IN THERE, he only says:] Dude. Does... he have to pay Hitler's estate to look that Aryan or what?

[watchmaker]

[sylar stares at him like omg u dumbass and then tries to call lila. only to get more three dog night so. u know. that's great. he's so pissed off/distraught he accidentally fries his phone with electricity. it's ok. lila would have wanted it that way.]

Shit.

[andblockbuster]

[Topher jumps and sort of awkwardly slides against the door, like HOLY SHIT.] Can you not do that in an enclosed space made out of metal? Please?

[watchmaker]

I didn't mean to!

[andblockbuster]

Okay! I get that. [he slides back into his seat.] So is there some... protocol for all this? Are we gonna start parkouring across all these cars to get to the danger?

[he actually looks excited about the prospect even though he just barely passed his field cert, does not have said gun with him, and also doesn't know how to parkour.

it's a nice thought. shut up.]

[watchmaker]

I don't know. I haven't been around that long. [he glances at topher, trying to assess] What do you even do?

[andblockbuster]

Iiii'm a neuroscience specialist-slash-programmer-all-around-genius? Haven't actually found my niche yet.

[watchmaker]

Could you fix what's wrong with the network? ... From the car? [i mean besides being in the middle of traffic ... they're not exactly close to a starbucks.]

[andblockbuster]

[Topher stares at him for a long time.]

Yeeeah. D'you have a paperclip and some gum? That's all I need to hack into a secure network that's already been hacked once.

[watchmaker]

[sylar just stares at him like omg suck my dick.] I'm a psion, but I don't have anything that could get us towards London or back to the castle any faster.

[andblockbuster]

[Topher starts fiddling with his phone to see if he can find anything out about the signal, even if he... can't do anything about it. (knowledge: tech 31; computer use: 29)]

[watchmaker]

[ while he does that, sylar starts like counting off on his fingers like what are all my abilities?? can i do anything that would be helpful in this situation?????

spoiler: no.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ he sure tries to do that

and then his phone screen goes entirely red, a deluge of crimson 0s and 1s sliding down it like the matrix from hell. ]

[andblockbuster]

[Ummm...]

Okay, so... This is happening. [he shifts to let Sylar see his phone.]

[watchmaker]

What the hell? [sylar reaches out to fry topher's phone too because topher looks like he's possessed by the matrix and that seems like the reasonable thing to do. (atk 17; 13 electricity dmg to the phone)]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ welp that will fucking fry it. CRISIS AVERTED ?? ?? ]

[andblockbuster]

[Meanwhile Topher DROPS THE CHARRED PIECES OF HIS PHONE.] Don't you dare say you didn't mean to do that. What the frak?

[watchmaker]

It looked creepy!

[andblockbuster]

Well, yeah. Phones going all Matrix like that does tend to look creepy, but I could've figured out why it was happening.

[maybe.]

[watchmaker]

[sylar silently stares at him like could you have, though??? could you???]

[andblockbuster]

[Topher throws his hands up.] Well. I'm outta ideas. Guess we're stuck here. In traffic. With no phones.

[he hits his head against his seat.] This must be what Hell is like.