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Max Caulfield ([personal profile] mypartnerintime) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2018-04-14 10:21 am

Like classics, play aces

Who: Max and OPEN!
Where: The pool, the roof, the youth center, the destruction room, the music room
When: Last two weeks of April
Rating: Probably like G? PG?
Summary: Max does a bunch of stuff all by her lonesome, but all over, so you might just run into her!
The Story:

[The Pool]

It's around midnight that you might wander into the indoor pool area. Glowing blue patterns flow across the walls and ceiling as the underwater lights project the pool's ripples into the room, which is otherwise dim.

For now, Max is content to sit at the edge of the pool, hair soaked from her quick dip. Her legs move slowly beneath the surface, feet now and then breaking water, the soft splash upsetting the silence of the room. She's clearly lost in thought- staring at the pool, but obviously not seeing it, shoulders slumped into a relaxed (if not lazy) pose. Anyone entering the room is unlikely to rouse her, unless they're making a lot of noise.


[The Roof]

The night is quiet and dark, and cold, but Max is undeterred. Not only is she up on the roof at around eleven, but she somehow managed to lug up a telescope as well- no small feat given how sore she is (almost daily training does that to you, especially with Peggy as the instructor. Max swears what that woman wants is impossible sometimes). She's currently using the thing to look up at the sky. There's a small book next to her on constellations, and another booklet on how to use the telescope. She's not likely to find any use out of the former, however: the constellations are that of Earth.

Resting some way away is a messenger bag, a gray Polaroid camera peeking out from its open cover.


[The Youth Center]

In one corner of the Youth Center's arcade area, Max is frantically banging at the controls of an extremely old game. She looks like she's thoroughly enjoying herself, despite the fact that she leads her character to death several times.

"Oh come on!" she yelps as a floating green anvil slams into her character's stomach and flings him through a stone wall, leaving a person-shaped hole. Max gives the machine a little bang with her foot. At the same time she jabs impatiently at the buttons, restarting the game. "It was left that time?!"

These games were deliberately made to eat your time and money. Fortunately neither is a concern in Wonderland.


[The Destruction Room]

Along the hallway on the first floor, near room four, can be heard the sound of breaking plates. Max is inside what Mae once told her is the "destruction room". If someone were actually to open the door and peek inside, they'd find Max lazily pushing plates off the table so they shatter against the ground. Or even just pushing shards of broken china around with her foot. Or even just sitting in one of the chairs, listening to a bit of softly playing music.

In any situation, she starts as someone enters, turning quickly to look at them in surprise.

"H-hey," she stutters in greeting automatically, regardless of who she sees.


[The Music Room]

While Max tends to play guitar inside her own room, the better acoustics in the music room tempt her out now and then, so today she ends up practicing in there. Her own guitar is set to one side, replaced for now by an acoustic one hooked up to an amp- another benefit of the music room. (She'd be willing to have an amp in her own room, but she always worries it would bother the rooms near room seven on the third floor, who... well she barely even knows them. It's a little sad. Chloe used to live in room eight, and now there's a guy there that she's never really made the effort to talk to.)

She plays (quite proficiently) one of her favorite songs. And, more hesitantly, she sings quietly under her breath [not as good as the girl in the video, but it's in the same ballpark].

She stops singing if anyone enters, though they might catch the tail end of a note. In any case she nods at them with a smile, continuing to play, though more quietly.
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-04-28 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
She wouldn't be the first to do just that and R has learned not to take offence. He takes his time with new people, making sure they get used to him and making sure, just as much, that they aren't going to pose any kind of danger. Back home there is still so much ill-will towards the recently Living.

"I'm... yeah, I'm okay." He smiles awkwardly, giving a little half-shrug. "I was Dead, but... I'm getting better."

Maybe she hadn't seen it, when he'd told the mansion at large exactly what he was. It doesn't matter now, since it ceased being true not long after, but being honest about his state of being has served him well enough so far.
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-05-07 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"... Zombie Dead."

This, really, could be where the conversation goes south. R knows how he looks. He knows that even those first few breaths of life into a body that had gone for years without a heartbeat haven't done much to improve his appearance, but he's trying his best.

"It's... a long story."
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-05-09 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
A grimace. "I know."

God, how he knows. There's nothing like your own grinning semi-mortality staring you in the face to make you realise just how you appear to other people. As if he didn't know it already.

"Was here for A... Alexandria." R shrugs awkwardly, beginning to fidget his hands together in front of himself. "But I haven't h-hurt anyone. Not... since I got here. I swear."
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-05-20 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe she wasn't here for that. Could be. R doesn't get out enough to notice new people arriving very often. It does have him giving her a slightly closer look, but nothing about her really rings a bell.

"A town. The zombies got in an... and..." A shrug. Well, she can probably guess what happened next. "Arrived in the middle."

Probably the worst moment for a sentient zombie to arrive in Wonderland, but he'd actually managed not to end up decapitated, so he'd chalked it up as a win for himself. Take the victories were you can find them.

"Didn't tell anyone... for a while."
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-06-08 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It had been the only good thing about being a zombie himself in that rash of zombie events. They acted like he wasn't there, like he didn't exist, and that suited him just fine.

"E-eventually? Everyone who was l... listening." And before that? Anyone who noticed. It's hard not to notice, even now, and it was harder still when he was still actually dead.

"... It's okay... I-if you're scared. Used to it."