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Date: 2019-09-10 01:10 am (UTC)
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[Tossed out would be the nicest thing that could happen to him, really. Jon would expect to get gutted before that.]

I...

[What is he planning to do? Mostly, he just wants to know and that's the sum total of this endeavor. The lack of forward planning is likely clear on his features as he stares blankly at Ava for several seconds.]

Well, I mean, I could ask them their darkest secret and just sort of... blackmail them into keeping quiet and letting us out once we have what we need?

Date: 2019-09-11 04:43 am (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=jaegerfker420 site=tumblr.com> (confused | nervous)
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They might be... limited like we are? Four hours on our side. That's hardly enough time to find me in a city as big as Duplicity.

[These are all perfectly sensible things to think about, but they're delaying what he wants, which is to be downstairs and looking around.

As for the cameras... he really wishes he had Elias' powers at the moment.]


I don't suppose you could sort of just break any cameras?

Date: 2019-09-13 05:54 pm (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=switalia site=plurk.com> (annoyed | side down)
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They didn't know my name until you said it. [And there might not be any cameras up here, but still. Jon huffs as he jabs the button to call the lift. It opens almost immediately. He'd like to see someone try to hurt Alessandro. That wouldn't end well for the other party. Lyall, though...] I'll be careful in what I ask them. And if they start to get agitated we can leave. I can just pretend I'm making a donation still and back out, if I need to. I can't even chop off my own fingers. I doubt they'll get very far.

[This is, surely, comforting information.]

Date: 2019-09-13 09:49 pm (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=jaegerfker420 site=tumblr.com> (confused | wary)
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[Jon sighs.]

I needed an anchor to get Daisy out of the coffin. My own body seemed... good enough. I'm rather attached to it. [Hahah! Dismemberment humor.] But I couldn't cut off my finger, no matter how hard I tried. It was healed as soon as I pulled the knife out. It's why I'm fine with stabbing myself if I get... hungry. It's not going to do any lasting damage.

Date: 2019-09-14 04:17 am (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=everchased site=tumblr.com> (embarrassed | huff)
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Someone put tape recorders outside the coffin. They helped bring me back. I think it was Martin.

[He shrugs his shoulders uncomfortably as the bell dings at the doors open on the basement level.

It's a morgue. Charming. Jon's silent as they step out and he looks to Ava. He can hear someone working behind a curtain nearby. She might be able to sense there are two people over there. Only one of them is moving.]

Date: 2019-09-14 06:17 pm (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=switalia site=plurk.com> (srs | suspicious)
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[He holds back, notices the... odd reaction Ava's having, and creeps after her. As he does, Jon hits the record button on his tape recorder again without even thinking about it. It's only a soft click and very quiet whir from the tape, but in the relative quiet of the morgue, it's practically deafening. The sounds of movements pause and a man's voice calls, "Tom, is that you? Five minutes, man. I've gotta close up."]

Close up what?

[Jon can't help himself. He really can't. Static crackles across the tape. A melanistic man pokes his head out from behind the curtain looking confused.

And then he freezes. "I'm closing up the donor. I've got the piece of lung we needed." He blinks. "What the... who are you?!"]

Date: 2019-09-14 07:00 pm (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=jaegerfker420 site=tumblr.com> (avatar | blaze)
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[Jon doesn't hurry after Ava, letting her take point and looking around for 'Tom.' But there's no one else down here for the moment. His tape recorder crackles when Ava presses into the surgeon with her Dominate. Jon does approach after a few seconds, trying to get around the curtain to see what exactly is going on. There's definitely a man with his chest cracked open. And there's a cooler of some sort nearby. He can only assume the lung is in here.]

Rodney Fischer. [The name comes to him as he stares at the patient.] Gambling debts. He's been donating parts of his body for years to try to pay them off, but this is the biggest, yet.

[His gaze flicks up to the surgeon then over to Ava.] Can he answer questions while he's working like that?

Date: 2019-09-14 07:38 pm (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=everchased site=tumblr.com> (avatar | eyes wide)
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[Patience. Right. Jon purses his lips and focuses on the patient. He doesn't even need the Eye's knowledge. If Ava is paying close attention, she'll see a faint sheen of multi-colored static flicker across the Archivist's eyes.]

Oh, god. I can- I can See it, Ava. Everything that was cut out. One of his kidneys, part of his liver, spleen, appendix, gallbladder, testes, two strips of muscle and fat from the backs of his thighs. Christ...

Date: 2019-09-14 09:05 pm (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=everchased site=tumblr.com> (avatar | eye 2)
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[The Archivist's attention turns sharply to the surgeon, and the man will have to endure a silent, heated stare that causes his whole body to start shaking.

"C-can you- make him look away if you want me to finish this right." He seems to be imploring Ava.]

Date: 2019-09-14 10:07 pm (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=switalia site=plurk.com> (srs | suspicious)
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I'm not doing anything. [It's a grouse, but Jon does keep his eyes turned away from the surgeon who seems to be working as slowly as humanly possible. Perhaps because he doesn't want to deal with what comes after. He looks up sharply after a few minutes, though, looking to the lift. There's another crackle of static on the tape recorder.]

Tom's coming for the lung.

["Thank fuck," the surgeon mutters.]

Date: 2019-09-14 10:46 pm (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=jaegerfker420 site=tumblr.com> (neutral | judgement)
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[Jon does as he's told. Though he finds a place to crouch so that he can peer through a gap in the curtain hopefully without being seen. He wants to watch Ava and their surgeon. When he hears her threaten him, thought, there's a part of the Archivist that's... well, when she's directing it at other people, seeing Ava do that makes his heart beat a little faster with something other than fear. Maybe the danger of it is what's attractive? That's probably it.

Ava comes over and manages to get to her cover just as the doors ding and a portly looking melanistic man strolls out.

"Hey, Aamir. You got the goods, man?" He sounds far too jovial.

"Yeah. Um... I'm finished." Aamir grabs a cooler and plasters a smile onto his face as he offers it over. "Everything went smoothly. You should send Wes and Jules down here to take Mr. Fischer back upstairs. Soon. Really soon."

Tom huffs. "I'll let 'em know. Might be 20, though. Mrs. Kelso's acting up again."

Aamir's all but sweating as he nods. "Okay. See you on break."

And just like that Tom heads back over to the lift. As soon as the doors close, Jon is up and breaking from cover is Ava doesn't stop him. His eyes are fixed on Aamir. He does, at least, check with her.]


Can I ask him now?

cw: vomiting blood

Date: 2019-09-15 03:00 am (UTC)
compellingstatement: art by <user name=everchased site=tumblr.com> (avatar | eye 2)
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[There's no mistaking the hunger in the Archivist's gaze for what it is. He's not thinking about consequences right now, just the knowledge, just being able to sort out if this is the Flesh at work and if they can stop it. Save people like Mr. Fischer from trading more and more of themselves away. There's a louder crackle of static over the recorder.]

What is this place and how did you get- [Oh, no. No. He needs this. This is important. Jon can feel his stomach turning, can taste the iron building at the back of his throat. He needs to get it out quickly.] How did you get involved with it?

[He then proceeds to vomit fresh blood all over the floor in front of him as he doubles over in pain.]

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