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Communications Officer Doug Eiffel ([personal profile] littletonoidea) wrote in [community profile] thegalley_tlv2022-08-17 01:22 pm

Mission Mishaps: Oh Captain my Captain [Backdated to Sunday]

[The video is taken from behind a giant pile of rope, just visible on the camera's edge before it zooms in on Flint and Levitt. The cameraman is silent, as Levitt shoves Flint against the railing.]

--lace to run. If you try, I'll gun you down in the back. But if you cooperate and face your execution like a man, I'll allow you a few final words.

[The scene zooms in on Flint, who very pointedly doesn't look at the camera. He just breathes deep, and bellows from the chest.]

DESTROY THE GAVEL. DON'T FUCKING ST--

[And he's interrupted by the deafening explosions from the machine gun tearing him to pieces and shoving him over the edge.

Not that the camera catches most of it, because there's a sharp yelp as Eiffel flails back with a sharp yelp of-
]

Holy fuck--!

[-and the camera drops to hit the deck, bouncing and landing upright, and Eiffel's hand is back in view instantly, scrambling to grab the phone, and some errant swipe from fumbling fingers-

--cuts the feed.
]


Spam

[Well, at least it wasn't a hand?

On the other hand, getting his left eye removed is way more painful than Eiffel would have ever anticipated, and he ends up spending most of a full day in the infirmary, getting his empty fucking socket cleaned and bandaged and taken care of, until he stops having a dizzy spell every time he moves his head.

But after that? Straight onto the oars. For three. Days. It's not so bad at first, until the realisation hits on the shift change when he's exhausted after the regular eight hours and his manacles don't come undone.

He learns in the second shift that a hastily scarfed meal, dense as it is to make up for the energy losses, makes him vomit. He learns in the third that bandages have a finite amount of sweat they can absorb before it starts seeping into his newly made facial cavity. He stops keeping track after that.
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[personal profile] lealte 2022-08-17 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Behind the helmet, Levitt raises an eyebrow at Eiffel's babbling. But he can't convey any expressions through the armor and it's just a flat and unchanging metallic gaze that's fixed on Eiffel.

And then he runs. And Levitt's not entirely sure yet what he's done aside from being a Prisoner and watching Flint's execution, but if he's running then he probably did something and that's enough for Levitt to give chase.
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[personal profile] lealte 2022-08-17 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Levitt tears after him at full speed, Advocate baton out and ready to (painfully) stun Eiffel as soon as he's within range, find out what he was up to. The minigun could also stop him from running, but in a way that's a little too permanent.
notsoblackbeard: (ew gross)

Video

[personal profile] notsoblackbeard 2022-08-17 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Well. That fucking sucks.
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[personal profile] lealte 2022-08-18 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Levitt gives Eiffel another sharp jab of the baton on the same shoulder. To keep Eiffel down, he tells himself. The satisfaction at Eiffel's pain is incidental.

"What were you doing there?"
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[personal profile] lealte 2022-08-18 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Levitt glances at the advocate band on Eiffel's wrist.

"Do you honestly think I don't keep track of who's a Prisoner and who's an Advocate? First charge: theft. So, that crime established, who were you helping?"
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[personal profile] lealte 2022-08-19 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
"There'll likely be a number of executions coming. There may not be many revolutionaries left after that."

Levitt stuns Eiffel again. Because...well...he moved, didn't he.

"Adding a charge of aiding and abetting a riot. And a charge of inciting further insurrection."
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[personal profile] lealte 2022-08-19 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
From behind the helmet, Levitt smiles thinly. He knows from his fight with Gonou that the shields protect from direct contact but they don't stop a person from being grabbed and they don't stop momentum.

"I'll add a charge of resisting arrest."

And then he reaches down with the intent to grab hold of Eiffel, fling him up over his shoulder and haul him to judgement.
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[personal profile] tarakan 2022-08-20 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's longer than expected before Hilbert can find Eiffel by himself. The man's at the oars for an exceedingly long time, probably due to that post he made. Hilbert is very quickly coming to the conclusion that he's one of...what, less than five now, Barge people who haven't been mauled or mutilated in some form. He'd like to keep it that way.

And yet.

Immediately after the third shift, Hilbert's there, waiting outside, ready to grab Eiffel's hand and forcibly drag that man back to his room if necessary.
]

Come with me, [ he growls under his breath. ] Bandages soaked through, gauze needs to be replaced. Supply is dwindling, but I have enough to manage you
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[personal profile] reformedsinner 2022-08-20 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gonou isn't in much shape to go looking for his friends, but after he'd heard from Xie Lian that Eiffel was captured after his video--

He's been worrying. And Eiffel is someone whose gait he does know well enough to have a shot at recognizing his footsteps. He's listening for them. He still almost lets the person with the dragging, exhausted steps go past unremarked in the hallway as he's heading to the mess hall several days after the revolution, his good hand on the wall to avoid walking into anything.

But there's something familiar-- he turns his head, ears rising.]


Who is that...?
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[personal profile] lealte 2022-08-20 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Inside the power armor, Captain Levitt is six and a half feet and a couple hundred pounds of fuck up your day. Outside the power armor, he's almost a foot shorter, wiry and watchful, eyes always flicking about taking note of his surroundings. He'll still fuck up people's day if he can, but it's a lot more difficult.

He strolls down the bank of oars, hands clasped behind his back, and pauses at Eiffel's seat.]


Regrets?
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[personal profile] lealte 2022-08-20 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you appreciate the design of the West Tek X-01 Mark IV after having a close up view of it. I agree it's an impressive piece of equipment.
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[personal profile] reformedsinner 2022-08-20 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Eiffel?" Gonou hasn't started his own stint on the oars yet; the stump of his left hand needs to heal enough to bear a prosthetic before he can be sent to row with it. He's doing his best to keep his injuries clean and bandaged, but the gauze wrapped around his head and over both eyes is crooked and the bandages over his wrist are bloodstained and awkwardly secured.

Still, he smiles at the sound of the other man's voice. Eiffel's alive and on his feet, no matter how much his feet are dragging. That's -- something.

"Are you all right?"
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[personal profile] reformedsinner 2022-08-20 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I'm okay," Gonou says, smile tugging up at a wry angle; now that he's closer, Eiffel smells of sweat, blood -- a little of vomit, too. But his hand is light and sure enough (and present, of course, another point of relief.)

"Thank you for the warning," he adds, turning his head towards where Eiffel must be. "You were--" Sweat and vomit. "On the oars?"

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