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awash mods ([personal profile] awashmods) wrote in [community profile] awashlogs2018-05-26 09:00 pm

Event Five.





So here I’ve stood for forty years
In dark and dust and creaky sounds,
Waiting for her to say, “Turn around.”
This might not be just what she meant,
But me – I’m so obedient.





t first, it seems a little too simple for a true test of morals. Don't eat, don't take, don't look? The most basic of requirements. And with guides, it isn't too difficult at all to avoid those obvious pitfalls.

At least, until the Town's suddenly far, far too empty, almost eerily so -- until there's nobody there but your fellow reds, or blues or yellows, in a town that is far too big for just a portion of the people there.

And that's when the true test starts. Good luck.




Welcome to Awash's fifth event log, everyone! Further information on this event can be found here at the OOC post. This log can be used for either phase of the event; please just mark clearly when it is happening and which colors can respond to the prompt.

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[personal profile] nascere 2018-05-29 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ No, no. This isn't right.

Did he mess up? Did he somehow send everyone else away by breaking the rules of not eating? Prompto, his best, most earnest friend who is just about constantly attuned to his moods -- seems to pick up on it right away, rushing to comfort. It is Prompto's kindness that brings warm comfort, so very optimistic beside him like they're not seeing the same thing, an empty house save for the both of them.

He takes a breath, glad for Prompto's presence, glad for the way his best, best friend is so generous even if he's only just recovered from his sojourn alone. Prompto's certainty is what he needs right now, and Noctis leans into it wordlessly, grateful and gleaning hope from it. If Prompto thinks so, if they believe in it hard enough, then maybe Ignis and the others will come back and they won't be messed up again. ]


Yeah. I think he keeps some of the food around in storage.

[ He smiles; it's easier when he's not alone, Prompto ever by his side, and he heads onwards into the kitchen, spotting a delicious whole roast chicken right on the counter. He pauses, reminded of something. ]

Hey, Prompto?
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[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-29 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Prompto follows in step, too busy wracking his brain for recipes he's more or less certain he can't ruin to pay much attention to the kitchen himself.

Noct has to eat. He and Ignis have been starving, that was the problem for the blue group, right? That's the first order of business, Ignis would agree, and as long as Ignis isn't here, Prompto's gotta step up to take care of Noct.

That's what's important.]


Yeah, bud?
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[personal profile] nascere 2018-05-31 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ They got food, buddy, it's okay. Perhaps the only good thing to come out of it is that Noctis failed, anyway, so might as well make the best of it, even if it bothers him that none of the others are here, especially Ignis.

Ignis would never be gone from the house, not at this time and not without letting him know, considering how Prompto had gone missing without warning. Noctis pauses -- he's not good with words most of the time, but he's earnest, blunt, and Prompto has to know this, if nothing else. ]


You know that I won't leave you behind, right? I'll always come looking for you, no matter what.
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[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-06-01 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Earlier, too, his friend the witch brought him close to tears. Her offer was more complicated than this and smaller, too, shorn of "always" and "ever." Practical. Comprehensible for its bite-size promise.

Like always, Noctis gives him what he wants and needs and more, so much more, a night sky that's never the same but endlessly deep and forgiving. He nods, blinking quickly.]


I know. I... That's why. Why you'll always find me. I'll always believe, dude.

[To alleviate the weight of that, Prompto bumps Noct's arm with his fist.]

It kept me going before. It's not gonna stop me now.
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[personal profile] nascere 2018-06-02 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Something bad happened to him -- something beyond the capture that Prompto isn't talking about. Noctis is aware of this, especially when Prompto definitely isn't as good as hiding his feelings as he thinks he is. It's there, if you look, and Noctis definitely looked (how can he not?); it's there in the tiniest little ways, it's there in the split second of bone-deep sadness and loneliness that echoes in Noctis' heart before that smile appears, bright like the sun.

Prompto didn't have to come with him on this trip -- for that matter; Prompto didn't have to do anything Gladio or Ignis did; but he'd come along anyway, and Noctis loves him all the more for it, even if he causes his best friend so much grief.

And then he gets hurt, and Noctis' heart clenches. It kept me going before. He says, and he dreads the idea of Prompto, left all on his own with nothing but that belief. There are so many things he wants to ask about, so much he wants to know -- but Prompto will tell him when he's ready to, right? ]


Yeah. [ He says quickly, embarrassed by that raw, unbridled sentiment. ]

I mean -- you gotta. Okay? I'm not letting you go that easy.
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[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-06-02 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, I know. You fought through a whole Imperial fortress to get to me. How many best friends can say that?

[It's more than that, of course. It's the way he absorbed Prompto's most horrifying secret without blinking, without stepping back even half an inch. Prompto opens his mouth to say that, too, and hesitates. Should he? Should he not? It doesn't change anything if he doesn't, does it?

So he hesitates, and he lets the chance go again, like he did for twenty years. He'll tell him, someday. But it doesn't matter now. 'Since when does where you come from matter to you?'

Prompto checks Noct with his hip. Come on, shake those blues, bro.]


You'd do it for me, you'd do it for Iggy. You'd do it for Gladio, if Gladio ever needed it. [He nods firmly.] We'll all be together again soon enough, buddy, you'll see.
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[personal profile] nascere 2018-06-03 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He can't shake it when all he thinks about is Prompto captured and alone in some cold dungeon whenever he sees him! What is he supposed to go, 'oh, yeah that's great' and then pretend stuff is hunky dory?

Maybe. But it's really not great and it's... not something Noctis knows what to do with, especially when he can't shake the feeling that there's something Prompto isn't quite telling him. Is it his imagination? Is he thinking too much? He does tend to do that. Because, see, now, Prompto is cheerful and optimistic and he looks happier than when they'd had that talk so it should mean something, right?

Just as importantly, though. Where is Gladio? Is any of them missing in his timeline -- are all of them missing? Different timelines and all, unlikely; but still. The dude's going to be pissed if he turns up here and finds all three of them already here, waiting for him. Noctis lightens up, just a little -- it's hard not to, when you have the human equivalent of the sun being your own personal cheerleader. ]


Yeah. 's not like him to be late. Where'd you think he's at, anyway?
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[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-06-03 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably chatting up girls somewhere. Don't you think?

[Huff!]