[He can't help but notice that discomfort, but as much as he wants to comment on it or may have things to say on the matter, dropping it probably is for the best.
And so he does, shifting to walk around his own area a bit more as his eyes switch between eyeing Jack on the watch and keeping a look out on his own surroundings.
Things are hardly in control so much as vaguely understood, right now, but he's not going to correct that.]
Wait, someone who knows this place? Was he back in the city too, or was he just here when we showed up? [Relevant questions.] But yeah, I peeked out into the areas we could have access to earlier, and there are these big things along with some other creepy looking creatures. Doesn't seem like they're going to just let us walk by very easily, either, since they've been coming up and thumping on doors.
double the rudeness then tbh!! THAT EDIT DIDN'T COUNT GOSH....
Yeah, he was in the city too. He's technically my roommate, actually--Isaac Clarke? [Jack shrugs slightly, from his end of the feed.] I don't use the rooms much, so we haven't really talked much until now.
[Jack settles a bit more against the wall, frame starting to relax incrementally. This alternative topic isn't exactly sunshine and daisies either, honestly, but compared to the last one...he'll take what he can get.]
[Still doesn't mean he can't grimace somewhat at the actual implications in that last bit there, though.]
Oh, of course there'd be monster aliens too. Can't have a spaceship without them, can we? [It's sarcasm a bit on the worn side, with another sigh to accompany it, though Jack regards the feed with concern starting to creep back again.] There isn't anything banging on our doors yet, but knowing Compass that's...probably not gonna last very long. Guess monsters should be par for the course by now, though. --You guys working on reinforcing those doors anyway? Somehow I get the feeling it'd be harder to fix filters with those running around at the same time.
I /guess/ I'll give you that one because I'm so kind..........
[His roommate is here too. All of them are, actually. It might be a coincidence, but considering his room was the last place he was in-- but that doesn't make any sense, either. Jack hadn't been in his, right? He had to be off on some roof or sitting in some funky place like an overhang to a shop or something like that.
Basic assumptions over here okay.]
We're not. Pretty sure we're going to need access to both areas if we want to fix things around here, if I'm understanding it right. [Being from a JRPG it only makes sense that he'd have logic based around complicated puzzles to solve issues in technology okay. But as far as he considers it, no one else is working on it and why would it all be in one compact area?]
So, I guess I'll just have to clear the way. With some help, of course. If that Isaac guy is over on your side, can't he figure out what's going on for you guys? It's not gonna be great if we're all shut off in sections like this for too long.
yes good /chucks another tag at your face while you aren't looking...!!!
[Basic assumptions that are indeed almost creepily accurate!! Or just a testament to how clockwork some of Jack’s habits actually are…but yes, indeed, he’d been traveling across rooftops around the time the sudden shift in reality had happened. Not exactly one of the best transitions ever, all things considered…]
[Jack doesn’t note the odd parallels here the same way Zelos might, however, as Zelos doesn’t elaborate it himself and Jack finds no particular reason to make the connection anyway at the moment; he really hasn’t spent too much time in the residential building, and hardly really knew who his roommates were, let alone who he might share a floor with…woes of being a weather spirit forever inclined to the outdoors, alas.]
[Anyway.]
[It all ends up being beside the point, in the end, as Jack’s frown towards the feed only intensifies the further Zelos goes on with his explanation of the situation on his end.]
Well--if that's what you guys figure, then. Promise you're gonna at least try to be careful while you're clearing out things on your end, won't you? [Jack shifts to fold a free arm around his knees, in substitute for the arm-crossing that would be happening otherwise if he were actually standing up.] …Guess I shouldn't be talking, though. If stuff goes over the same way in all these areas, then I guess that’s probably what I'll be doing too. Clearing things. I'm not--too great, with technical stuff. [He grimaces a bit, then glances off the camera again to the crowd milling in the actual lounge area on the other side of the feed for a moment.] Pretty sure Isaac's working on something though, yeah. Getting people together…there’s an elevator over here, I think everyone's mostly talking about how to get it open right now?
[Man, but just verbalizing it really emphasizes just how out of his element he feels, both in the figurative and literal sense--alongside how out of the loop he’s been up to now, with all this, preoccupied as he’s been with his own personal problems right now. It’d been a niggling thought anyway, even before Zelos had dropped in his call, a sort of guilt that he should be sitting against a wall like this trying not to feel too nauseous while everyone else around him seems to be picking themselves up just fine--]
[It all parses through as a bit of a pause, and a somewhat chagrined tilt in the way Jack thins his lips a bit, before turning his attention back to the feed properly.]
…I really should be chipping in to help too…
is promptly smacked in the face and falls over!! Alice why do our subjects always end up like this
[It's suddenly solid and attention seeking after all of his quiet listening to Jack. For once he doesn't interrupt for a word in edgewise, no, he waits until the end there at that chipping in comment. But he sees the glances, the shifts in posture, he hears the choice of words, and at a point like this, as easy as it would be to push it aside and focus on current worries, he knows that's the exact reason he should speak up on it.]
No one knows for sure what's going on around here. Not even that Isaac guy, from the sound of things. But we've just got to bring out what we're good at pitching in when things get rough, right? And I'd be willing to bet there are a few sad, worried faces over there you can get to cheer up even before you freeze some enemies in place.
[A verbal nudge of comfort, if you will. The seriousness fades to be less overwhelming, at least, as he smiles with one of his playful, signature Zelos winks.] Come on, I'll be careful, but only if you do the same. Deal? I can call to check up with you later.
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maybe I am!!! watches the ball fly past your racket yet again...
And so he does, shifting to walk around his own area a bit more as his eyes switch between eyeing Jack on the watch and keeping a look out on his own surroundings.
Things are hardly in control so much as vaguely understood, right now, but he's not going to correct that.]
Wait, someone who knows this place? Was he back in the city too, or was he just here when we showed up? [Relevant questions.] But yeah, I peeked out into the areas we could have access to earlier, and there are these big things along with some other creepy looking creatures. Doesn't seem like they're going to just let us walk by very easily, either, since they've been coming up and thumping on doors.
double the rudeness then tbh!! THAT EDIT DIDN'T COUNT GOSH....
[Jack settles a bit more against the wall, frame starting to relax incrementally. This alternative topic isn't exactly sunshine and daisies either, honestly, but compared to the last one...he'll take what he can get.]
[Still doesn't mean he can't grimace somewhat at the actual implications in that last bit there, though.]
Oh, of course there'd be monster aliens too. Can't have a spaceship without them, can we? [It's sarcasm a bit on the worn side, with another sigh to accompany it, though Jack regards the feed with concern starting to creep back again.] There isn't anything banging on our doors yet, but knowing Compass that's...probably not gonna last very long. Guess monsters should be par for the course by now, though. --You guys working on reinforcing those doors anyway? Somehow I get the feeling it'd be harder to fix filters with those running around at the same time.
I /guess/ I'll give you that one because I'm so kind..........
[His roommate is here too. All of them are, actually. It might be a coincidence, but considering his room was the last place he was in-- but that doesn't make any sense, either. Jack hadn't been in his, right? He had to be off on some roof or sitting in some funky place like an overhang to a shop or something like that.
Basic assumptions over here okay.]
We're not. Pretty sure we're going to need access to both areas if we want to fix things around here, if I'm understanding it right. [Being from a JRPG it only makes sense that he'd have logic based around complicated puzzles to solve issues in technology okay. But as far as he considers it, no one else is working on it and why would it all be in one compact area?]
So, I guess I'll just have to clear the way. With some help, of course. If that Isaac guy is over on your side, can't he figure out what's going on for you guys? It's not gonna be great if we're all shut off in sections like this for too long.
yes good /chucks another tag at your face while you aren't looking...!!!
[Jack doesn’t note the odd parallels here the same way Zelos might, however, as Zelos doesn’t elaborate it himself and Jack finds no particular reason to make the connection anyway at the moment; he really hasn’t spent too much time in the residential building, and hardly really knew who his roommates were, let alone who he might share a floor with…woes of being a weather spirit forever inclined to the outdoors, alas.]
[Anyway.]
[It all ends up being beside the point, in the end, as Jack’s frown towards the feed only intensifies the further Zelos goes on with his explanation of the situation on his end.]
Well--if that's what you guys figure, then. Promise you're gonna at least try to be careful while you're clearing out things on your end, won't you? [Jack shifts to fold a free arm around his knees, in substitute for the arm-crossing that would be happening otherwise if he were actually standing up.] …Guess I shouldn't be talking, though. If stuff goes over the same way in all these areas, then I guess that’s probably what I'll be doing too. Clearing things. I'm not--too great, with technical stuff. [He grimaces a bit, then glances off the camera again to the crowd milling in the actual lounge area on the other side of the feed for a moment.] Pretty sure Isaac's working on something though, yeah. Getting people together…there’s an elevator over here, I think everyone's mostly talking about how to get it open right now?
[Man, but just verbalizing it really emphasizes just how out of his element he feels, both in the figurative and literal sense--alongside how out of the loop he’s been up to now, with all this, preoccupied as he’s been with his own personal problems right now. It’d been a niggling thought anyway, even before Zelos had dropped in his call, a sort of guilt that he should be sitting against a wall like this trying not to feel too nauseous while everyone else around him seems to be picking themselves up just fine--]
[It all parses through as a bit of a pause, and a somewhat chagrined tilt in the way Jack thins his lips a bit, before turning his attention back to the feed properly.]
…I really should be chipping in to help too…
is promptly smacked in the face and falls over!! Alice why do our subjects always end up like this
[It's suddenly solid and attention seeking after all of his quiet listening to Jack. For once he doesn't interrupt for a word in edgewise, no, he waits until the end there at that chipping in comment. But he sees the glances, the shifts in posture, he hears the choice of words, and at a point like this, as easy as it would be to push it aside and focus on current worries, he knows that's the exact reason he should speak up on it.]
No one knows for sure what's going on around here. Not even that Isaac guy, from the sound of things. But we've just got to bring out what we're good at pitching in when things get rough, right? And I'd be willing to bet there are a few sad, worried faces over there you can get to cheer up even before you freeze some enemies in place.
[A verbal nudge of comfort, if you will. The seriousness fades to be less overwhelming, at least, as he smiles with one of his playful, signature Zelos winks.] Come on, I'll be careful, but only if you do the same. Deal? I can call to check up with you later.