reincarnesiac: (consider | the air is thin)
Won Xiuying | Alexandra "Alex" Won ([personal profile] reincarnesiac) wrote in [community profile] etraya2025-09-01 12:56 am

un: plushiewarrior | VIDEO (in which alex sends a really powerful radio signal into the night)

( The wind's too loud to hear anything at first, catching the earpiece at exactly the wrong angle. Then Alex waves, smiling with that glassy eyed look that significantly tipsy people can end up wearing. It's dark behind her, but anyone very, very familiar with the skyscraper rooftops in Nova City will recognize she's on one of them. )

Hiii! Oh, it is... so not as cold up here as I expected!

( She laughs a little, throwing her hands up into the air and stumbling forward to likewise toss her arms around part of a metal structure, possibly a radio tower. Alex rests her head on it, her laughter trailing off as she smiles, a little bittersweet. )

I wanted to send a message. A big one! A big... message. So I thought, what if you had a lot... I mean a lot of power behind a radio signal? Won't that do something? We just want to be heard...

( Her eyes close, and it doesn't seem like she's doing anything. Then the tower starts to hum, lighting up with a soft sort of glow under her hands. Anyone tuned into its frequency will hear a humming too, almost like static feedback, that starts to sound more like a heartbeat. Hers. Then a clearer message with that beating in the background: Echo. Come in, Echo.

Then it really starts to glow, until the whole radio tower is a beacon of light. There is no way for the tower to handle that much energy for long. Alex's brow furrows as she's swallowed by the light, the overpowered radio signal shooting up a moment later, all the light abruptly going out as it fizzles upward, a misleading manifestation of what went without being visible to most eyes. Alex is left clinging to a partially melted structure, pushing herself away to stand, swaying.
)

... Did that... oh. I don't... feel so good...

( Which is when she goes boneless, dropping out of frame to hit the rooftop in a muffled thud, close to passing out. Luckily her earpiece is still recording! ... About four feet higher than her current head level. Enjoy your scene of a warped radio tower and the otherwise unremarkable rooftop, Etraya. )
krtaps: (Staring at the walls.)

[personal profile] krtaps 2025-09-19 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah sure, I can totally do that. [If she's at the ER or on her way that's good news. In fact it sounds like there's something going on, but...] What's all that noise? It doesn't sound like ambulance sirens.
krtaps: (Cool it off before you burn it out.)

[personal profile] krtaps 2025-09-28 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Great! On the dragbulance. [WHY THE HELL NOT MAKES AS MUCH SENSE AS ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S GOING ON.] Kera can follow a dragon easy.

[Which is exactly what they will be doing! Julie's not going to feel comfortable until she sees Alex for herself to make sure she's okay.]
krtaps: (It won't be misunderstood.)

[personal profile] krtaps 2025-10-04 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[It takes Julie some sneaking around to get to Alex's hospital room. Fortunately, she's pretty good at navigating medical facilities, and you can be surprisingly subtle when you have a giant flying pile of hair at your disposal.

The stable readings on the monitor are reassuring. Julie had no idea what to think from the strange disembodied audio messages. Actually seeing Alex for herself helps a lot.]


Psst... Are you awake?