R1 DEADLAND

[lockdownmods]

[it’s strange, for the people who were already dead, the shift in scenery is sudden and complete. For those who have just arrived? It’s like you’re back where you left?

How strange.

But if you ever need her, you can always reach out to the guardian of this place.]

LOCATIONS
Note: locations lag a week behind the living counterparts

Comments

[machrophage]

I guess it would be too easy to have a Perceptual Teleportation System lying around...

[Don't even ask, Connor.]

It's a start. Having a goal to work towards, even if it seems impossible, is better than nothing at all.

[preconstruction]

I agree. Being goal oriented is important.

[machrophage]

If there's a ceiling, tear it down, or drill right through.

[That's the Dai-Gurren way.]

[preconstruction]

[ that gets him to smile ]

Then let's hope we can find a roof.

[machrophage]

[Connor might be surprised to note that not only is Viral also smiling, but that there's just something more relaxed and open about his posture, like something that had been held taut and distrusting has finally been let loose.]

Oh, I'm sure that won't be a problem.

[preconstruction]

I'm glad to see that your spirit is still strong.

[machrophage]

Hmph. If anything, it's stronger.

[Though that really is a subject all on its own.]

Everyone's memories seem to return when they get here, after all.

[preconstruction]

I noticed that. It's quite a relief.

[machrophage]

It was overwhelming at first. I'd lost seven years.

[Which, you know, is a lot of time.]

[preconstruction]

I knew we thought it was a time skip -- but that's a lot. I assume even for beastmen.

[machrophage]

Especially given what happened in those seven years. Humans are truly incredible - impossible, even.

[preconstruction]

I take it they got their cities back.

[machrophage]

[And Viral... laughs?]

Teppelin was never a human city. They razed it to the ground and built over it - Kamina City, I wonder what he would have thought of that. In seven years it went from nothing but a ruin to as beautiful as our capital ever was.

[preconstruction]

Humans really can do incredible things.

[machrophage]

As long as even the slimmest possibility of success exists... We'll manage it. Because that's what Team Dai-Gurren is.

[It's said like a motto or a mantra, something familiar taken as his own.]

Changing and becoming something better, even at the last possible moment.

[preconstruction]

Technically speaking, there's always a probability that an unlikely outcome will occur.

[ he'd said the same thing to markus. maybe it made him reckless, but maybe people around here could stand to be a little reckless. ]

[machrophage]

[If you want reckless YOU HAVE FOUND THE RIGHT BEASTMAN, BUDDY.]

Ha - it reached the point that Simon didn't even ask for the likelihood of an outcome anymore. As long as the possibility existed, he had faith that we could pull it off.

[Viral's hand tightens into a fist - not of anger, but of determination.]

I'd be a sorry copilot indeed if I let him down now.

[preconstruction]

I'm sure if anyone can handle this, it's you.

[ don't believe in yourself!!!!!! believe in the me that believes in you!!! ]

[machrophage]

[And that gets something that's more genuine smile than smirk, though it's very bit as toothy as ever.]

Not alone. We're a team here, after all.

[Team Fuck-Fayflower.]

[preconstruction]

A team. I like that idea a lot.

[ he's never been on a team before. and like...being able to trust people and not being afraid of a spy is so much chiller than being alive. ]

[machrophage]

[See, that's why you're a good bud, Connor.]

Just who the hell do they think we are, anyway?

[preconstruction]

They underestimate us. But that will be their biggest mistake.