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knew_anyway) wrote2011-12-28 12:45 pm
knew_anyway) wrote2011-12-28 12:45 pm
Thirteenth Summoning [Accidental Video] || Overworked and Underpaid
[The feed clicks on to show Nat in his study- but unlike his public addresses, he's not sitting calmly at his desk, or even looking at the camera. Instead, he has his back to the device, reaching up to get a book from his top shelf.
His study is nothing short of painfully organized chaos. Stacks of books and loose papers seem to reach the ceiling. His walls are covered with chalk marks, very few of which are English. He has Japanese characters, foreign words, and even a hieroglyph or two- and of course, lots and lots of Latin interspersed, with dark, angry lines connecting words together or crossing sentences out entirely.
It looks very much like he's lost it, especially as he opens the book he'd just gotten, turning slightly so his face is profile to the camera. He hasn't slept in days, his hair is messy from the times he's ran his fingers through it, his shirt is untucked, tie loosened.
With a negative mutter, Nathaniel snaps the book shut and turns to cross out another line of foreign writing, letting the book drop to the floor by his feet in frustration.
He continues working tirelessly, unaware that he'd being recorded, until the feed shuts off.]
[[ooc: SOOOO to anyone who can speak a foreign language, the words he has written are all regarding names- names of deities in that language's culture mostly, but also little scrawls on statistics and probabilities and things relating to alternate worlds, dimension hopping, and Other Places.
I am JUST returning from being internetless as well, so all of Nat's, Rome's, and Regulus' tags will be done shortly <3 <3]]
His study is nothing short of painfully organized chaos. Stacks of books and loose papers seem to reach the ceiling. His walls are covered with chalk marks, very few of which are English. He has Japanese characters, foreign words, and even a hieroglyph or two- and of course, lots and lots of Latin interspersed, with dark, angry lines connecting words together or crossing sentences out entirely.
It looks very much like he's lost it, especially as he opens the book he'd just gotten, turning slightly so his face is profile to the camera. He hasn't slept in days, his hair is messy from the times he's ran his fingers through it, his shirt is untucked, tie loosened.
With a negative mutter, Nathaniel snaps the book shut and turns to cross out another line of foreign writing, letting the book drop to the floor by his feet in frustration.
He continues working tirelessly, unaware that he'd being recorded, until the feed shuts off.]
[[ooc: SOOOO to anyone who can speak a foreign language, the words he has written are all regarding names- names of deities in that language's culture mostly, but also little scrawls on statistics and probabilities and things relating to alternate worlds, dimension hopping, and Other Places.
I am JUST returning from being internetless as well, so all of Nat's, Rome's, and Regulus' tags will be done shortly <3 <3]]
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[Just because that's the kind of answer Castiel would give doesn't mean he lets other people get away with it. 8|]
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Names.
[Running his fingers back through his hair, almost breathless.]
We've spoken about it before. I've made a breakthrough.
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[What sort of breakthrough?]
And your notes pertain to world travel as well.
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[He glances back to his wall, before frowning.]
They all arrived here the same way we did. If I can figure out what sort of worlds they came from- maybe I can... use that to track them down. I have to reverse engineer to unified universe project, but it's one of my biggest leads.
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You're certain they were brought here from other worlds? Were they all from different ones, or the same?
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[HE'S NOT AVOIDING THE QUESTION, OF COURSE NOT.]
Is miss Rei around? I'd like to speak with her.
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She is not. Apparently a group was organized to explore a portion of the city. No one bothered to inform me, and Rei and the others left early this morning.
[Does he sound bitter? HE IS.]
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[He rubs at his eyes, looking down at the PCD, his eyes narrowing.]
She didn't tell me either.
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[For the very reason that Nat's not with her, like Castiel would've been.]
I'm not certain who all went, but I know that Rei, Usagi, and Ami did.
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[A bubble of anger, but he quells it, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath.]
...alright- nevermind that. Thank you.
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[Still bitter. And a little hurt, because he's pretty sure he wasn't wanted along because he's useless like this. Some part of him wants to say screw planning and just absorb his grace right now, but that would cause more problems than it would solve.]
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[He sighs, shaking his head.]
I suppose it's not important.
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So am I.
[But she'd left them both behind. He can't agree that it's 'not important' but he does know there's nothing he can do about it at the moment at least.]
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[Okay fuck the police, Nat needs to commiserate.]
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[Story, Nat. Now.]
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What did you do to prompt such a reaction?
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[He sighs, glancing off toward his wall of scribblings.]
I did something dangerous and blocked her from being able to be there.
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