A slumbering desolation (Open)

[Lena Wright]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,400,true][atrb=cellSpacing,10,true][atrb=style, background: url(http://i56.tinypic.com/jqjdld.jpg), bTable][style=float: left; border: 5px solid #1c191a;] [/style] [style=font: 12px mistral; color: #1c191a;letter-spacing: 2px; text-align: center; margin-top: 30px;]running through my circuits,[/style][style=padding: 10px, 3px, 10px, 10px; spacing: 5px; font: 18px bradley hand itc tt; color: #e2e2e2; text-align: center; letter-spacing: -1px; background-color: #1c191a; text-transform: uppercase;]ELECTRIC EMOTION[/style] [style=float: left; background: url(http://i.imgur.com/5STKF.png); height: 300px; width: 320px; overflow: auto; font: 10px Georgia; color: #e2e2e2; text-align: justify; padding: 10px;]Texi slowly stepped out of the building into the light of the courtyard. His sensors indicated that it was a cold day out, but it was nothing he wouldn't be able to handle. He wandered along, looking around. It wasn't often that he was allowed to wander around outside the labs, but it seemed as though the organization's scientists were satisfied with his current fine-tunings, and had decided to let the creation roam free... within the compound, at least. Glancing around, he spotted a dry fountain, which was drained in preparation for the coming winter, and the bare beds that would house numerous flowers come the spring. To add to the desolate surroundings of the courtyard, it was completely devoid of activity. It showed almost no signs of life, except for a few trees that somehow managed to hold onto a few leaves, but for how long, he wondered. Approaching one such tree, Texi stared up at its few leaves as one fell, lightly drifting down into the robot's hand. He stared down at the leaf curiously before he let it drop, joining the rest on the ground. It really did look dreary in the courtyard, but almost in a sleepy sort of way, he supposed. After all, if his data proved accurate, it would spring back to life as soon as spring arrived. He would have to witness this for himself, he decided, and then he sat down under the tree to watch the clouds drift by, analyzing the shapes. It wasn't as if he had anything better to do, and it wasn't as if there was anyone around to interact with, either. Who knew that a robot such as him could get bored?[/style]

[style=font: 9px courier new; text-align: center; margin-top: -10px;]♥ lucie from btn[/style]

[Meiko Hayashihara]

[cs=2][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,5px,true][atrb=style, background:#E9F1FB; vertical-align:top;width:500px;height:450px; border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px; bTable][tr][atrb=style, background:#C8DDFB; width:30px] [tr] It's so easy to make believe, it seems you're livin' in a dream Don't you see that what you need is standing in front of you? [tr][atrb=style, background:#E9F1FB; padding: 4px; opacity: 0.7] Meiko was one of the few Chairs who left the scientific things alone entirely - she read updates on them, certainly, and she understood the words being used, if not entirely how everything fit together. It worked out alright, since she was the main financial support for the organization and much more heavily involved in handling general operations. Still, she was kept up-to-date on everything that went on within Transcendere Fatum, and therefore, she was slightly surprised to find their android/AI wandering in the courtyard. They didn't generally let...him? leave the labs, did they? However...it wasn't like they were presently using him (she'd go with that unless informed otherwise, or told of a preference or something) for any operations. He might as well be allowed to enjoy the cold (if he found it enjoyable...did he even enjoy things? That hadn't shown up in any of her reports, and now she could feel her curiosity building). Clearly, there was only one thing to do in this situation, and that was to interact with him. Personal experience was always so much more interesting than dull, jargon-filled lab reports, anyhow. Who knew- maybe her humanities-oriented mind would ferret out things his scientifically-minded creators hadn't. Maybe. She left the spot at the exit doors of the main building to enter the courtyard as well, tightening the scarf she had wrapped around her head as she did so. While it might not be too cold for the android, it was cold enough for Meiko to need a few layers. The years of being heavily underweight were still effecting her, and she recognized that they would be for the rest of her life. No matter - what was done was done. "Hello," she said, announcing herself while still quite a few feet away from him, though he'd probably been aware of her for longer than that. "Are you enjoying the weather?" She smiled at him, and awaited a response.

[cs=2][atrb=style, background:#E9F1FB; padding: 4px; opacity: 0.7; height: 100px; font: 10px; width: 500 px; width:100px; margin-bottom: -50px; vertical-align:bottom; bTable][tr] [tr] Notes; whee? Tags; Texi, open Word count; 323

[Lena Wright]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,400,true][atrb=cellSpacing,10,true][atrb=style, background: url(http://i56.tinypic.com/jqjdld.jpg), bTable][style=float: left; border: 5px solid #1c191a;] [/style] [style=font: 12px mistral; color: #1c191a;letter-spacing: 2px; text-align: center; margin-top: 30px;]running through my circuits,[/style][style=padding: 10px, 3px, 10px, 10px; spacing: 5px; font: 18px bradley hand itc tt; color: #e2e2e2; text-align: center; letter-spacing: -1px; background-color: #1c191a; text-transform: uppercase;]ELECTRIC EMOTION[/style] [style=float: left; background: url(http://i.imgur.com/5STKF.png); height: 300px; width: 320px; overflow: auto; font: 10px Georgia; color: #e2e2e2; text-align: justify; padding: 10px;]Suddenly, footsteps broke the silence, and the android turned his head to look at her. She was dressed against the cold, but a quick analysis of her face showed her to be Meiko Hayashihara, the Wind Chair of the organization. He had never met her face to face before, but his database had been programmed to contain every influential member of the organization, just in case they did appear before him. It was always good to know who your superiors were, after all. Slowly, he got up from his sitting position and bowed politely in greeting to her. "You are Hayashihara-sama, correct? I did not expect to see you in a place like this," he said politely, greeting her in return to her "hello". It was then that she asked him something strange. It wasn't something he had been asked before, and he found he had to think about it for a moment. Contemplatively, he looked up at the sky, as if it held some form of answer for him. Then, he turned his attention back down to her. "I do not feel cold, but I find myself wishing that the clouds would part a little for a moment so that I could see something aside from grey. Is that sufficient enough for an answer?" he asked. It really wasn't any sort of query he was used to, but it felt like something that needed to be answered, still the same.[/style]

[style=font: 9px courier new; text-align: center; margin-top: -10px;]♥ lucie from btn[/style]

[Meiko Hayashihara]

[cs=2][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,5px,true][atrb=style, background:#E9F1FB; vertical-align:top;width:500px;height:450px; border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px; bTable][tr][atrb=style, background:#C8DDFB; width:30px] [tr] It's so easy to make believe, it seems you're livin' in a dream Don't you see that what you need is standing in front of you? [tr][atrb=style, background:#E9F1FB; padding: 4px; opacity: 0.7] Meiko hadn't wasted too much time on curiousity about the AI before now, with more pressing concerns constantly on her mind. With him there now, though, her mind was bubbling with questions and thoughts and ideas. She had to check herself, though - any topic of conversation she started needed to be kept within decent parameters. He hadn't yet had the opportunity to visit the world outside Transcendere Fatum (and that made her feel slightly ill, as she'd always hated the idea of things being caged to the whims of others...but she couldn't jeopardize their work just because she was uncomfortable with this aspect of what was going on...they had to eradicate Septimal Moon's disgusting philosophies first, then she could quibble with the questionable people this organization had somehow founded itself on, oh she'd never meant to be a crusader...) and she couldn't say or do anything that would have the potential to stir him up. Not that he seemed very...stirrable, other than the fact he recognized her. She bowed in response to him, and smiled. "I am. This courtyard is between the area where many of us who work here live and our actual workspace. You go by Texi, correct?" She mirrored her phrasing after him a bit, mostly consciously. It wasn't certain if androids responded to the conversational tactic the way humans did, but most humans tended to react well to those who sounded like them, and she might be just a tad curious about how that applied here, if it applied at all. Why not, after all? He'd clearly never been asked a question about such a mundane thing as enjoyment before. Not really something a scientist would think about, especially not scientists concerned with espionage. Even she had to admit that enjoyment wasn't particularly important when there was a war ranging - well, it hadn't really broken out yet, but it was one - even she, who had given up everything to do what made her happy, had to admit that as fact. Still, she hoped they wouldn't completely neglect that... His answer provoked a slightly crooked smile. "Indeed, that is a sufficient answer. I think that's a feeling most of us share. Grey skies are so...dull, especially when compared with the multitude of different things that they can be. Storms are my favorite time to be outdoors." Of course they were. Such a restrained woman, she seemed more the type for sunsets or sunrises, but she rather enjoyed the way everything became more...intense in a storm. He probably hadn't been outside during a storm yet - he probably hadn't been outside all that often overall, really. That would hopefully and presumably change as his makers came to their conclusions on what exactly they actually wanted to use him for. The question, to her, though, was whether that would match with what he wanted to do by the time they had finalized their decision. She hoped it would, but that as an idea was worth keeping in her mind - that could be important in the future, she supposed.

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[Arashi Arca]

[atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign, top][atrb=style,background-color:6C2811;][atrb=width,100,true] [STYLE=background-color: C3C3C3; width: 114px; padding: 5px; color: 312C18; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 9px; text-align: justify; text-transform: lowercase; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 120px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 30px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 30px;]TAGGED:: xxx[/style] [STYLE=background-color: C3C3C3; width: 114px; padding: 5px; color: 312C18; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 9px; text-align: justify; text-transform: lowercase; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: -10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 30px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 30px;]WORDS:: 347[/style] [STYLE=background-color: C3C3C3; width: 114px; padding: 5px; color: 312C18; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 9px; text-align: justify; text-transform: lowercase; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: -10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 30px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 30px;]MUSE:: Derp [/style] [STYLE=background-color: C3C3C3; width: 114px; padding: 5px; color: 312C18; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 9px; text-align: justify; text-transform: lowercase; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: -10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 30px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 30px;]NOTES::HEY LOOK. Arashi's already creepin' on the 'bot.[/style] [STYLE=background-color: C3C3C3; width: 114px; padding: 5px; color: 312C18; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 9px; text-align: justify; letter-spacing: -1px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: -10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 30px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 30px;]BY ROTOSCOPE of BTN[/style]

[STYLE=width: 100px; height: 100px; border: 5px solid #C3C3C3; float: left; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: -65px; background-image: url(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e37/Chandrisa/Arashi-1-1.jpg); -moz-border-radius: 60px;] [/style][STYLE=text-shadow: #efefef -1px -1px 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 9pt; color: #C3C3C3; text-align: justify; letter-spacing: 2px; margin-top: 33px;]you're in a place for fear[/style][atrb=style,background-color:C3C3C3; border-bottom: 6px solid #6C2811;][atrb=width,456,true][STYLE=line-height: 17px; border-bottom: 2px solid #6D110A; padding-right: 4px; font-family: georgia; font-weight:bolder; text-style:italic; font-size: 19pt; color: #6D110A; text-align: center; letter-spacing: -2px; margin-bottom: -16px; text-shadow: #efefef -1px -1px 0px; margin-right: 5px;]Lips are for biting here[/style][STYLE=margin-top: -7px; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 9px; margin: 10px; padding: 7px; text-align: justify; color: #312C18;border-bottom: 2px solid #6C2811;] To be honest, he was starting to get bored with everything that was going on at the moment. They hadn't really done anything with the other organization much besides some little things here and there. He wanted to do something fun and as of yet, that hadn't appeared. Oh, there was some of the newer members he...acquainted himself with and they well knew the guardian for their second-in-command and some of his rather unnatural habits - including his habits of being a creep on them. They were utterly terrified of him. What to do. What to do. Arashi was definitely bored as he stepped out into the cold court yard, wearing a jacket with the hood of it furred over his head and his hands shoved idly into his pocket. He thought about venturing out into the city to see what he could find to do - it was coming to Christmas time and while he didn't honestly celebrate the holiday himself, he enjoyed the general festivities of the holiday...from carrying around mistletoe and forcing the most awkward-looking people into a mistletoe kiss...but that grew boring after awhile. He needed something to do. Noticing his superior and...the android, robot...thing. He didn't really much pay attention to the scientific part of things as much as he should; however, he was in the loop about a lot of things within the organization. Be it either from his own snooping or actually being let in, Arashi always seemed to know more than what he was told. His name...Texi, right? Probably one of his first ventures out into the real world. Hhmn...there was so much he could do concerning Texi... Approaching the two easily, his arms were suddenly resting on top of Meiko's head casually. "Meiko~ I'm surprised, you're not working for once," he commented lightly. "Instead you're conversing with the resident android...they did a /fine/ job with him, might I add," he drawled finally taking the time to inspect Texi curiously. As far as he could tell from this initial inspection, he was human...wondered what else was human about him? [/style]