There's another place I've got to be (semi-open)

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Who: Ky Kiske and semi-open (Jade Curtiss, Zelda, Sol Badguy, Mao Lu-Shen)
Where: Around and about
When: The week of November 26th
What: Event. Getting stuck to people.
Style: Use what you're comfortable with.
Status: I'm posting starters for the people listed above, but if anyone else wants in feel free to post your own starter for getting stuck to Ky

Comments

FOR JADE CURTISS

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[At first Ky hadn't taken particular care not to touch anyone. After all, he wasn't someone who went for hugs or touch as a form of affection, but that didn't mean that he was super cautious about casual contact. Jade joining the Defense Force was certainly something to be pleased about. Ky beamed brightly as he gave him where he'd be patrolling, and offered out his hand.]

I look forward to being able to work with you in a more official capacity.

Whoops here I am

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[Jade was almost surprised to see Ky. He wasn't expecting much to happen on the patrols, but at the offered hand, Jade seemed amused and pulled a hand from his pocket to shake Ky's.]

Thank you, as am I.

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[ They might not be eventful, but that was good, and Ky was used to leading an army. He poured all the same energy into the Defense Force as he was used to pouring into his other endeavors. It pleased him, therefore, when he could convince someone else to spend some time on it as well. It almost, but not quite, made up for his inability to convince Sol.

Ky shook Jade's hand, then moved to withdraw his own, only to find Jade's coming with when he tugged. ]

Aah?

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[Jade blinked, simply thinking Ky had forgotten to release his hand for... some odd reason. However, he tugged at his own, finding it stuck. He couldn't even uncurl his fingers. Frowning and tugging a bit more, Jade looked rather confused and concerned.]

I don't recall putting superglue on my hands.

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[Ky tried to pull his back as well, but still no luck.]

I don't know what that is, but my hands were clean as well.

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[Jade puts a hand on Ky's wrist and tugs at his own again. Not too hard to hurt, but a decent amount more of pressure. After a moment, though, he lets go of Ky's wrist.]

I'm entirely unsure of the cause..

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It has to be from the scientists, and the coral.

I suppose we can hope that the fact that it didn't start Sunday night means that it won't last all week.

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Hopefully. Though I can't say being attached to someone by the hand is my favorite thought.

FOR ZELDA

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[Ky isn't on patrol, so his pace is a little more relaxed and his hand isn't resting on his sword as he walks through Vatheon. His eyes are as alert as ever, trying to be aware of everything, but that's only so much help against people he sort of shunts away as neither being a threat nor someone he's going to make an effort to speak to as they pass. Which is pretty much his exact set of feelings on Zelda.]

[zelda_hylia]

[Zelda's been avoiding going out as much as she can, but with Zelos unconscious now, shopping for food is up to her. She's attempting to use her bag like a barrier to avoid being touched by anyone. It's worked so far. Unfortunately for her, she really shouldn't have left the house in heels - the same heels she arrived in Vatheon wearing an entire year ago no less. They're getting quite worn out.

As is promptly evidenced by the fact that one of them snaps out from underneath her just as she's passing Ky. It's pure instinct to reach out towards him to grab, but the moment she does it she realizes what's likely to happen. Hopefully he'll just let her crash face first into the pavement.]

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[The curse hardly seems a concern compared to the necessity of preventing Zelda from falling all the way. His hand goes to her waist to catch her, to steady her back on her feet.]

There, I...

[And then he remembers the curse, when she's stable enough, and tries to pull his hand back. Which doesn't work.]

[zelda_hylia]

[Zelda does not seem surprised by this outcome in the least, just resolved to it.]

Thank you.

[He meant well, after all. She should thank him. Sadly, his arm is definitely not the pavement. Of course it's just her luck that they get stuck together. Zelda closes her eyes and sighs, shifting around awkwardly to check on her shoes and attempt to break off her other heel, doubling over Ky's arm to accomplish it.]

It seems one of my heels broke. It shouldn't take long to fix.

[Then... well, one of them will just have to walk backwards.]

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[A shrug, as he makes and then breaks eye contact. The contact has already become awkward.]

Where were you headed?

[Beyond the opposite direction as him...]

[zelda_hylia]

[She holds up the small bag she got at the grocery store.]

Back home. I have been attempting to not leave the house whenever possible this week, but we were out of perishable items. I am the only one currently capable of shopping properly, so...

[She has perishable items Ky, obviously they should go where she was going.]

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They need to be refrigerated, I take it? We can go to your place.

[ Ky had, after all, just been taking a walk. No reason he can't do that backwards in the direction of Zelda's place, even if the idea of being in contact all the time is uncomfortable. ]

Is everyone who lives with you going to be alright?

[ Ky's not certain how many people do live with her -- the only one he's certain of is Zelos -- but it had seemed like a lot when he had been there. ]

FOR SOL BADGUY

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Ky hadn't been planning on seeing Sol -- and he usually only sees the man when he's planning to, and then tracks him down and makes sure that Sol doesn't just walk away -- but there the man is anyway. Ky doesn't smile at him -- Sol is hardly a man to evoke smiling, and he wouldn't appreciate politeness even if Ky were capable of mustering it -- but he doesn't immediately launch into requesting things from the man either. Instead he nods, formally, and says, "Sol, if you have a moment..."

[immoralflame]

Nope.

Sol doesn't even peer down at Ky upon deciding that he doesn't really care to be around the kid at the moment. Especially not when he starts off a conversation with "if you have a moment"--no, that just isn't going to end well and Sol's already acutely aware of the fact. That means a long conversation, and one of those plus Ky is about equivocal to torture. On and on and on...

And so the immediate response is to walk past Ky heading in the direction the boy'd just come from, dismissive hands-in-pockets hunch and mindless shoulder collision and...

...all?

Or not.

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Personally, Ky finds conversations quite an effective way to sort out differences between people, and he hasn't remotely said that it has to be a long moment. (It will, but that's Sol's fault, for ignoring Ky so much. If they could talk more often, then Ky wouldn't have so much that he needs to talk to Sol about.)

He's opening his mouth to spit out a complaint, to call after Sol, only to feel himself being tugged, and Sol stopping, just a step past where Ky had been.

"This again." Ky huffs a little, taking care to make sure he was standing solidly on the ground. "Please don't make any sudden movements until this wears off."

[immoralflame]

Sure. If no one involved is named "Ky Kiske" or "Sol Badguy", conversations are probably all kinds of effective. The problem is when either participant is Ky or Sol, someone's going to ignore something. Ky'll have his fingers in his ears and Sol just doesn't give a shit more often than not. "If they could talk more often" meant dealing more with Ky with his fingers in his ears than Sol considered healthy, on that note.

As for their current predicament, Sol mentally meanders through chemical and biological explanations for it. Then gives up because no matter how many he can come up with to explain the phenomenon (and he can come up with quite a few off the top of his head without putting forth much effort), it's Vatheon and it's probably going to stay like this as long as it damn well pleases.

"Again?" he parrots instead, tone flat. And then Ky confirms the fact that Vatheon is run by a bag of dicks, probably. "Tch."

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Ky maintains that communication could be effective between the two of them, if Sol would just agree to participate in the conversation. It isn't as though Ky has a problem with the concept, after all, and just because Sol would nearly always rather grunt than talk doesn't mean that he should always get away with that. Sol's interpretation of Ky having his fingers in his ears is clearly false, given that Sol mostly seems to speak to antagonize Ky, as much as anything else. Certainly, he doesn't try to actually explain things.

"Yes, again. This appears to be what's happening this week." Ky swallows the rest of the explanation that he so badly wants to give, the detailed summary of who Ky was stuck to, the circumstances, and how long it took to become unstuck.

"It seems like it will wear off, sometime between two and six hours, from personal experience so far. It's activated by touching, any sort of contact, and the particular time that it wears off doesn't seem to be connected to anything. It's not like it's always midnight or something." Oh, wait, that's not a very good job of swallowing his explanation. Whoops.

[immoralflame]

That reliance ain't gonna work. Sol's never been all that inclined to participate in conversation to any great extent. Definitely not the extent the kid'd prefer. And that impression is still pretty accurate, since it's kind of a thing that people who do that whole "fingers in ears" thing always miss the logical parts but never the antagonizing. And Sol shouldn't have to explain anything; Ky's got a brain so he can use it. Pretty sure it's still in one general piece, right?

Yeah, the explanation really isn't needed, but thanks anyway. Sarcasm. Sol cocks his head towards the shoulder farther from Ky, same hand on his hip.

"'Course it ain't." A little too fairytale there with that sort of estimation, princess. So now the goal is how to make this as painless as possible.

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Ky miffs, uses his hands to straighten the uniform a little. It's just a way to do something, to exercise the fact that he still has control of his hands and doesn't need to get Sol's permission for that much, at least.

Ky's brain might be in one piece -- certainly is, even as war-influenced as his circumstances have been -- but that doesn't mean that he is exempt from needing other input in order to come to other conclusions than the ones that he has come to before. If he always knows what he's always known... The point is that Sol could clear things up, could with not very much effort make a rather big difference to how Ky thinks about things, so if he's doing them wrong Sol should let him know. That's just common sense.

"Curses often last until midnight, even for ones that don't last the whole day." It's not fairytale if it's what actually happens, and there's no reason for Sol not to acknowledge that Ky has greater experience with this, and tends to pay a lot more attention to what's going on over the network.

FOR MAO LU-SHEN

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Ky's hands are full of a bag of groceries that he's carefully supporting from the bottom. He's going to try this cooking thing again, and this time he has the vegetables ready for it. Perhaps a stew, he thinks, something he can have cooking without needing too much attention as he works on paperwork. He's trying to support the bag while taking out his keys when he drops them somewhere in front of him. He steps back to spot where they went, half-turning until his shoulder hits something -- someone -- solid.

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He's used to navigating narrow hallways, and so he's moving with his head down towards his apartment, a bag containing a few household necessities in his hand at his side, glancing at his SFC as he moves.

Being used to navigating narrow hallways, he's also used to the occasional touch in them, brushing against others, and so it makes little difference to him when he feels a solid body brush into his shoulder. He lifts his head, at first with a slight smile, seeing who it is. He opens his mouth to say hello and to apologize for the bump, but the words fall silent as he realizes that his shoulder isn't detaching from Ky's. He tugs at it slightly, brows furrowing for a moment.

He sighs.

"Well, what's this then?"

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Ky's eyes widen a little when he sees who he'd collided with -- not someone he'd expected to see in the hall, but then the halls of his building are usually fairly empty.

"I'm sorry," Ky apologizes, twisting so he can look at Lu-Shen, at least. "It appears that what the coral is making us do now is that sometimes, when people touch, they get stuck. The amount of time it lasts hasn't been too bad in my experience so far, but there isn't anything specifically that can be done to make if stop.

"If you'd like, I can make you some tea in my apartment while we wait."