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[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

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[The voice is small, barely above a whisper. She's hoarse and exhausted from the battle.] Hello everyone. I am Doctor Oenone Zero, of the Green Storm ressurection corps. I want to give my most heartfelt thanks to everyone who just assisted me in the defense of the village of Seahaven and to the crew of this...landship for allowing me to stay here for a bit. I was cut off from any backup. If you hadn't shown up...I, I don't know what would've happened. That town woud have been demolished for materials to build Springwheeled even larger and its people made into slaves to work in the town's guts.

In case you've never seen one before, that was a Mobile City. Most of them survive by catching and "devouring" other mobile cities and static settlements. That was only a middling sized one, not one of the big urbivores, so if you hear of one in the area, be very careful.

My stalker squad is with me as well. Those are the five cyborg-creatures, each around eight feet tall. While they're fearsome in battle and they look rather scary, don't be scared of them. They can't move while they're switched off and even if they weren't, they need an operator to give them commands.

As a surgeon-mechanic of the ressurections corps, I am qualified to install, build and maintain any kind of prosthetic. If you should ever need that kind of help, please don't hesitate to contact me.

[Action:]

The woman who sent the distress signal is small and slight, with dyed green hair. She wears a worn uniform, with a green lightning bolt on one tricep and a grinning death's head with a cyborg eye on the other. You can find her one of several places on the chalice:

1: Right after the mission and transferring Wendell to someone who can help him, rather than merely stabilize his conditions, she stumbles out of her airship, exhausted, tears staining her cheeks. Battle doesn't agree with her, it seems. She'd thought she was dead several times over.

2: Reassuring her birds. Their feathers are mixed with the metallic and their gears whine and click when they move, but they hop and move like living birds and seem to respond to her attention, becoming visibly less agitated.

3: The next day, in the hangar bay, repairing her stalkers. Two of the mechanical men are badly smashed. Their innards show, a grotesque and Gigerian internal diorama of metal and long since mummified insides, commingled and connected. But as she connects one thing, screws something else back in, their eyes glow again, red like demons.

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[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

[[The officers? Not a whole lot of those that actually go by 'an officer' anyway. Even if his girlfriend is a lieutenant, she doesn't address herself like that...]]

The Major? [[Mio said he was good at painting?]] Well... okay... Watcha need? [[He's... totally confused by this whole 'Mio said he was good at painting' thing]]

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

[She says nothing, not suspecting that about Major Sakamoto at all.]

I want my stalkers made more fearsome looking. If we can make enemy infantry flee, we can prevent loss of life. During the defense of Seahaven...[She shudders, remembering the way their hardwired reflexes had kicked in and they'd literally ripped a path through the men trying to swarm them.]

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

Fearsome? [[MarKus only has to ponder this a second.]]

Gold. Gold and some arbitrary tentacles. Makin 'em look like Festum will sure as FUCK mess with some heads.

[[And we've deviated from this Rider viewing with mind-fuckery.]]

you can assume Josh told him all about her and her lack of tokusatsu btw

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

I can do the tentacles then. Are the Festum all gold or are there patterns?

But MarKus is the one who has ALL THESE FILES for the watching.

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

Straight gold. They're kind of translucent too, so you can see their core, but we can fake that too. Point is, most people tend to panic and tense up around Festum unless they're heavily dealt with them before.


Like we have.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

Then we'll paint on fake cores as well.

[She watches him frown.]

Oh. Did I bring up something painful?

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

What? Naaaah. Like... fuckin with Festum is like a cosmic horror thing but, I've actually got good memories of the first time I had to deal with them.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

Good memories? [She cocks her head.]

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's kind of a long story though. Basically it boils down to me getting my girlfriend!

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

Oh really? Another pilot?

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

Sort of. I actually don't know if she could pilot a mobile suit, now that I think about it.

Planes and Strikers, definitely. She's one of the Strike Witches.

here's his chance to talk about henshins

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

Oh! I met two of them. I confess I still don't understand their armor all the way though. It's very maneuverable but I don't see how it protects the torso at all...

Not much of a chance really

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

That's because it's not armor. They've got magic shields to defend themselves.

If they wore anything on their legs, they couldn't fly.

But you know, in the way of people with no mechs, they're on par with the Riders.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

Magic, huh? Oh, that's right. Your friend said you knew all about the riders, and that you had every episode of that documentary...

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

My friend? Which one? [[He has a lot]]

Well... every episode they've put out. If I'm missing a new series, then it's because I'm busy helping out the real life Riders save the world.

But, yes, I do have every episode of the last 9 series to have been around. There's stuff way before that but... that kind of thing was lost in the ages. Can't fuckin find it anywhere.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

Joshua Radcliffe. [She looks at her feet.] W-Well, if you ever wanted to rewatch some of them...Would it be OK if I joined you? Y-Your girlfriend is welcome to come along too, of course.

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

I'm always rewatching them. It's become study material now. But... yeah, you can watch 'em too. You ever seen Kamen Rider before?

[[Josh isn't his friend. Moreso an acquaintance. They've watched "The Thing" together. The original.]]

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

[She shakes her head] The entertainment I grew up with was...tightly regulated.

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

...where did you grow up? [[Cuz that's weird as fuck. Zeon can't even be that much of a TV nazi, right!?]]

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

The Aleutian Islands, in the Green Storm protectorate.

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

Right... No clue where that is, but... sounds like shit if they limit TV.

And you're on a ship with several Riders so... it's high time you get educated.

I warn you now though, it's a kids show geared towards selling toys. Most don't realize that it's based on historical facts.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

Off the coast of the former Alaska. It wasn't so bad. I didn't have to go hungry and was safe...usually. [Her slight frame testifies to "usually" not being as long a time period as that might imply.] Alright then, there's no better time to start than now. Will you show me to the rec hall?

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

What for? I don't keep any of the videos there. I've been keeping at the Hikari Studio. It's basically the Rider Club room when Tsukasa let's me use it for that.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

There then. [Smartass.]

[2hell-weride.livejournal.com]

[[She's almost drug, as MarKus take her by the hand and tugs her along to Hikari Studio.

There is a monitor hooked up to a player, and MarKus is already sorting through tapes and such to pick something out.]]

I usually start people off with my favorite, but, let's try something different. How about... Hibiki.