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Enigma (Edward Nashton) ([personal profile] howisaraven) wrote in [community profile] 4nations2013-06-02 07:47 pm

Enigmatic shadows [OPEN]

Who: Enigma and OPEN
Where: somewhere on Dai Li, trying to find a replacement staff
When: Sunday afternoon

They had given him some tests. They said he could control fire. He wanted nothing of it. He had enough of magic already with the entire Trinity ordeal. He just wanted to resort to his technology and nothing more. To fix things. To finally be happy with his daughter.

And yet he was here somehow. They were telling him things he didn't believe. He'd been mistaken for other people before, often purposefully, but this time, it just felt weird. And so he did what he did best: slipped into the shadows and fled. He'd lost his shadow form. He didn't have his staff. He needed out.

Enigma stuck out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the population. Long green jacket with white piping, green pants, and a metal plate covering the left side of his face. Totally sticking out. He just wanted to blend into the background, observing the people, seeing what they were like, how they ticked or act. He couldn't observe them when they kept looking at him.

So he walked. It was strange. Before he walked everywhere, but when he gained that other form, he simply whisked himself to where he wanted to go. Not the case, so he walked.

First order of business, before anything else, he needed a staff. It was part of him, an extension. Not having it felt strange and weird. The taller the staff the better. Preferably metal, but he would take what he could get.
jokester_not_joker: (Default)

[personal profile] jokester_not_joker 2013-06-04 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh you're one of the fire guys. Apparently I'm a windbag." Another cackling laugh.

"Well we're burning daylight. You should probably pick a branch so we can have a staff cobbled together for you before night time."
jokester_not_joker: (Have no fear)

[personal profile] jokester_not_joker 2013-06-04 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
"You got it." It wasn't hard for Jokester to climb up the small distance it took to get to that tree. He climbed buildings, so this wasn't exactly hard work with no time crunch. Once he got to the branch he looked it over trying to decide how best to go about breaking this branch.

"Look out below!" He grabbed onto the nearest other branch in the case the target branch actually did fall as he started to deliver quick full-bodied kicks to it.
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[personal profile] jokester_not_joker 2013-06-04 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Jokester was able to catch himself on the branch he was holding onto. He laughed a bit looking down. "Well I'm glad that actually worked. My next plan was to see if it was possible for me to create a tornado."

With that he allowed himself to fall down to the next branch where he was able to get a better grip on things and make his way down to the ground.

"So I'm not entirely sure how to make a staff, but I know how to strip the bark off at least."
jokester_not_joker: (Really called the JOKESTER)

[personal profile] jokester_not_joker 2013-06-04 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Jokester assumed they didn't mind since it was a tree and they had only taken one branch. After all it didn't harm the plant.

He shook his head at the question "No, they stripped me of every weapon I had. Even my titanium belt buckle."
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[personal profile] jokester_not_joker 2013-06-04 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
"I figure they took anything that was slightly weird to them since it could be dangerous. Though I'll have to find out which one of them got into my trousers. I have to demand dinner after all." He smiled.

"So what now? Want to start stripping off the bark or get the place ready to sleep for the night?"
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[personal profile] jokester_not_joker 2013-06-04 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Well it's barely a boarding house from what I was told." He frowned "It seems they're suggesting we stay in an abandoned school building or something like that." Jokester wasn't the type to sleep a lot at night either, but today was a rather full one and they didn't really have any villains to deal with here.

Even Jokester wouldn't of tried fighting a bending villain while unequipped anyway. Unless he saw the crime going on.

"Off we go then." Jokester headed in the direction he was told it was at.
jokester_not_joker: (Bloody and happy)

[personal profile] jokester_not_joker 2013-06-04 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
"So have you put much thought into meeting up with the Firebenders on their island?" he said off-handedly.

"I know we're not the guys who usually get handed superpowers, but if its the local fighting style we should at least give it a shot. If nothing else it will give us some perspective on what to expect from the local muggers."
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[personal profile] jokester_not_joker 2013-06-04 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Is it really magic when everybody else can do it too?" Magic didn't bother Jokester, it never really mattered to him either since he couldn't do it.

"Seems to me it wouldn't hurt continuing what we were doing here. We might even be able to make a new team. I have this sneaking suspicion that everyone that showed up today won't be the last."

"Their story about mass amnesia is going to start losing credibility very quickly."
jokester_not_joker: (I got better)

[personal profile] jokester_not_joker 2013-06-04 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
"I figured you might be more worried about the abuse of it, and it's hard to abuse something everyone else has."

"For us it is a bad lie, but it is easy for those who don't know to believe. I mean what's more believable to these village people? That we came from another world or that we took a few too many smacks to the head in a foreign land?"

"We should probably do our best to figure out who our new housemates are. Maybe after I get some work I'll make bacon for everyone and we can get to know everybody over breakfast."