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"RYUUZAKI" (L - Death Note) ([personal profile] ryuuzaki) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2009-09-30 05:12 pm

Day 44: Arts and Crafts Room, 4th Shift

The day had been slow for L so far, slower than he required: the events of the previous night were traumatic, but they did not outweigh his need for information and a useful way in which to apply whatever he might learn.

When the nurse shepherded him from the cafeteria, through the Sun Room, and over towards the door of the Arts and Crafts Room, he experienced a small internal wince: this was the room where it had happened the night before. Unpleasant, yes, but likely to be irrelevant in terms of my own welfare, except in terms of what I can learn from it, he reminded himself.

He had the impression that he could avoid the room if he wanted to, but there were several convincing reasons to push past his reluctance: his meeting with Lunge was necessary, the opportunity to see the room in more usual circumstances might be valuable, and he did not want the staff to see that he had been affected. He wasn't sure how they were tied to the events of the previous night, but the buzz of information around the Institute suggested some kind of strong connection.

As he stepped into the room, feet feeling imprisoned in the slippers that the staff kept insisting that he wear, he avoided the area where he had collapsed. Instead, he turned to the right and proceeded as far into the room as he could, then left, then took a seat in the back corner.

If the nurses pressed him to be more creative, he would take up painting. However, he expected to express his creativity in other ways.

[For Lunge.]

[identity profile] catstreetblues.livejournal.com 2009-10-03 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
It certainly hadn't taken very long for them to get back into the swing of things, had it? It had been less than twenty-four hours since Joshua had been "killed" and already he was putting in Psyche requests like normal. Nice little turnaround there - although Sanae could have done without the teasing.

The barista entered the Arts and Crafts room as usual, ready for some more outpouring of Inspiration. Considering the magnitude of what Joshua wanted - a whole Game revolving around facing figurative (or maybe literal, now?) skeletons in the closet - he had to get started on all the designs right now or else it wouldn't be done for years; his production time usually got sapped while working Games and pretending to be nobody super special.

Sanae grabbed a couple sheets of paper and some markers and got to work, mapping out the numerous emblems needed for each specific array in broad, sprawling strokes.

[for Tony Stark]

[identity profile] thebatbutler.livejournal.com 2009-10-03 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Once the intercom signaled the end of lunch shift Alfred's nurse appeared to usher him off to the next "activity".

"Arts and crafts is the last thing on your schedule today, Mr. Quartermain. I'm sure that you'll find the available activities to be quite relaxing." She beamed at him as she led him into the room that he'd collected the glitter from the previous night.

He glanced nonchalantly around the room as the nurse led him in. There were no signs of the corpses that had occupied the room not 20 hours before. There was no blood on the carpet. Nothing. Even the odd drawings that had been all over the inside of the door had been removed. Alfred frowned to himself as his nurse made him sit at one of the tables.

"Is something the matter, Mr. Quartermain?" The nurse gave him a concerned smile as she placed a stack of construction paper in front of him. "I understand that it's difficult sometimes, but there's nothing like exercising your creativity to cheer you up!" She patted him on the shoulder in a manner that she probably assumed would be reassuring before leaving him.

Alfred turned his attention to the colorful paper in front of him, raising an eyebrow at it. He supposed that he should be grateful that he hadn't been given a coloring book and some crayons, although his current predicament wasn't much better. He picked up one of the crayons on the table and tapped it thoughtfully on the paper in hopes that it would make the watching nurses feel as though he were participating. His gaze, however, was not focused on the paper. He glanced around the room, hoping that he might be able to find someone that he might be able to discuss the current situation with.

[Waiting for one family reunion]

[identity profile] gothamnight.livejournal.com 2009-10-08 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[asdkfjs midterms, sorry for fail! ]

His meeting with Lunge during lunch, if nothing else, had left Bruce with a sense that the power balance among the patients against Landel would soon take off in a new direction. Lunge possessed a very similar sort of disposition to another new patient Bruce had met recently: Ryuuzaki. The analytic slant to their observations, the almost pointedly unemotional quality of their speech and facial expressions...while Bruce understood rationally that they were all "part of the same side" and working towards similar goals, the Batman could not help but distrust the way these men seemed to view the patients. As if something about their views was ever-so-subtly...off.

Bruce walked into fourth shift in an intellective mood, acting through the various motions of his billionaire role, noting only important details from his surroundings before sitting down. Faces and figures alike wandered across his field of vision and he took a faux-leisurely look across the room, scanned across one particular face and--

--one particular face and--




[identity profile] thebatbutler.livejournal.com 2009-10-08 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
[That's okay. I thought that was probably it. Everything better? XD]

Alfred continued his search of the room, noticing that the nurses were still filing patients in and... Bruce Wayne was among them. Not Batman, but still... he was the ghost that Alfred had seen in the hall on his first night in this place that was trying to pass itself off as an organization that did good.

He stood, leaving the construction paper and crayon behind, and approached Bruce. This encounter had already been delayed far longer than it should have been, but... Bruce - no Batman - was dead. He shouldn't have posted the signal on the bulletin. Shouldn't have seen that man in the hall, cradling the broken body of a young man in his arms.

This encounter should never have happened.

Or perhaps it shouldn't have happened anywhere inside of sanity. And this place seemed to be anything but sane. Alfred pulled out the chair next to Bruce, seating himself as though it were nothing out of the ordinary - something that he could have been doing everyday for the past...

"I don't suppose that you would care for a coloring book? I understand that finger painting is rather esteemed in the higher circles at the moment. Or perhaps the glitter?"

Not that Alfred actually expected Bruce to reply to that nonsense, but the entire thing was rather nonsensical, and...

Bruce Wayne should not be here.

[identity profile] bprd-fishman.livejournal.com 2009-10-04 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Lunch had been peaceful and Abe intended to keep the next shift that way. He took a pen and a few sheets of white paper and made a home for himself in an isolated corner, intent on doing something creative with his day.

Detailed sketching, and more importantly sketching from memory, was an essential skill for any scholar of the occult. Cameras were a very recent invention and many creatures either moved too fast, didn't show up on film at all, or simply couldn't be fully captured by a visual medium devoid of human thought. It was more important to capture what would be seen with the mortal eye and then transmit that to paper, for those who would see the creatures again.

His first drawing was Kroenen, minus the more elaborate ornamentation on his chest armor. The shapes of his face and body were easy and elegant, with most of the detail given to the mask. He labeled the parts neatly, indicating the clockwork key to his heart and which hand was detachable.

To the side he made a simplified drawing of Kroenen's bare face, mutilated from years of compulsive, self-inflicted surgeries. Abe couldn't replicate every scar from memory but he could give particular attention to the bare eyeballs and grotesque, lipless mouth. He'd been the one to take the pictures when Kroenen's corpse had been brought in and it wasn't a face easily forgotten.

Perhaps Abe hadn't picked the most peaceful of subjects to meditate upon. The assassin had murdered his mentor (even if, Abe had contemplated later, it was a quicker and more peaceful death then the one he'd have suffered in a few months time) and stalked the hallways of this facility as one of its many night monsters. But constraining Kroenen to paper in a brightly lit room kept him safe, and it got the knowledge out of the head of a single, expendable person and out into the world. It was useful, and that made him useful.

Abe's second sketch, if he got through the shift undisturbed, would be a self-portrait. In case anyone saw him again.

[Free]

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