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Gabriel "Gabe" Rodriguez ([personal profile] minuteofangle) wrote in [community profile] villagememes 2020-11-30 04:26 am (UTC)

Gabe Rodriguez | Original

Into The Endless

[ So. This is a new one. Gabe wakes up quick like he always had, adrenaline kicking in before his conscious brain kicks in with the program and realizes something's very off here. For one thing, he can't hear the hum of Contrix's security system through the walls. For another, the air tastes strange. Too clear, too cold to be recycled.

For another, there are no walls at all. He's outside. He smells trees. There’s snow crunching underfoot. And he’s been dressed in what Gabe’s come to call his work uniform, the clothes that Contrix graciously allows him to don whenever they want him out in the field. Dark BDUs, a combat vest, stomper boots. Holster at his side with nothing in it, not even his combat knife. And just for the fun of it—or maybe just to fuck with him—a jangling set of cuffs hanging off his left wrist.

No rifle, either. Not even a pistol. Because fuck him.

Gabe exhales, then toggles on his nanotech. Scans reveal that yes indeed, there are a fuckton of trees around.

Well, thank fuck. At least that’s working. He scans the area carefully, trying to pick up movement, but there’s nothing. Or at least nothing his tech can pick up, which is a real fun thought.

He tips his head back and whistles out his team’s find me signal, a piercing two-tone note.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. ]


Fuck me.

[ Guess he’s walking. ]

The End Approaches

[ Apparently somebody’s playing mind games. Whole lot of empty-seeming buildings around, zero pings on his comms, zero responses to his whistling. Whole lot of snow and weird vibes.

There’s probably something written on all the bulletin board flyers. Might even be important. Some of the papers felt old, and caked with something suspicious and flaky. Without help, Gabe’s got no way of reading the damn things.

So, he’s planted himself on the ground and is currently folding an origami cat out of a piece of paper he snagged.

Suck on that, mind games. ]


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