06 \ video but kinda not

[onlysurvivor]

[Video switches on but shows nothing but darkness. The sounds of rocks sliding and settling comes in loud and clear, however. There's labored breathing a short distance away then the sounds of something moving, rather, dragging toward the comm.

From the light of the comm, a scarred hand is lit up briefly before it closes over the device. Some shuffling follows then a barely audible groan. The feed stays open for several minutes before anything more happens.]

There's been a cave in.

[Kelsier's voice is tight and very much not like him. There's more silence for a long while before some shuffling then a hiss of pain.]

My vials shattered.

(ooc: forward dated to this evening. rescue log to come later)

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[iswatching]

[Oh Kel. Oh Kel, why. But when he responds, it's tight calm, not anger.]

Which direction from the main cave people have been congregating in, and how badly are you hurt?

[onlysurvivor]

...South? [Depressingly not sure at the moment.]

[And again a long silence.]


My hands are bleeding.

[iswatching]

We're going to get you out.

[This is not a reassurance. This is a fact about the universe, with all the force of Marsh's stubbornness behind it.]

Keeping talking to me. How much blood? Do you have other supplies with you?

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[indispensible]

You destroyed the Pits.

I've got an extra vial. For when you get out.

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[indispensible]

I'm checking south. If I find him--

If you find him, I have metals. Pewter. For him.

[onlysurvivor]

[Again, it takes him a long time to respond, like he almost didn't hear him.]

Not... enough to be worried about.

[There's some slight digging sounds.] The torch is out...

[Now he's muttering something to himself about hearing screaming.]

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[onlysurvivor]

[That voice seems familiar, he frowns slightly to himself. Why doesn't this seem right? He shifts, feeling for something lost in the floor of the cave.]

...Vin?

Maybe an hour or two after the post

[godsays]

Have you found him? I'm - I need pewter, I'm out. And I burned through the atium outside.

[ He sounds exasperated. And exhausted. ]

There were people who needed rescuing.

[godsays]

Kelsier?

[onlysurvivor]

[resigned] They will kill me tonight.

[godsays]

No. They won't. You survive.

[onlysurvivor]

I didn't find any atium. [This is logic. It makes perfect sense, right?]

[godsays]

Remember? You're the Survivor.

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[indispensible]

It's me.

[Her voice is solid steel. Unflappable.]

Are you smiling?

[onlysurvivor]

[That term is distantly familiar. Some movement is heard, mostly dragging. He either can't walk or he's in tight space. He laughs, distantly.]

No one survives this.

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[onlysurvivor]

[Smiling? The question does actually make him smile at the absurdity.]

...because you asked.

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[indispensible]

Good. Keep it up. Smile and it can't break you.

They're gone now. The Pits. You destroyed them, and they're gone forever. Where you are, it's not them, and you won't be there for long.

[godsays]

Except you.

[permutates]

Hey. You'll be okay.

[iswatching]

[He holds his own torch - a magic one he borrowed off stark, a warm yellow flame that isn't smoking and won't go out - right up next to his communicator, so that the light shines through Kelsier's.]

Just keep your communicator on, okay? You have that.

Don't listen to them, listen to me. But do you ever? No. Now would be a great time to try it.

[It's barely even a lecture, a thin veneer of pissiness over his worry just so Kelsier knows it's him.]

[iswatching]

Not yet. We're combing the tunnels as meticulously as we can, but he can't give us good directions and there's a lot to cover.

I have more, come find me.

[Brief directions to the tunnel branch he's searching.]

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[iswatching]

I have some too. A few of the fires in the main entry have burned down to charcoal. Take a piece and mark each branching when you're sure it's clear.

[onlysurvivor]

[A long silence before he responds again, voice stronger.]

Zane?

[onlysurvivor]

[The light from the comes through to show that Kelsier is trapped in a crawl space with two to three feet clearance in some places. He's banged up but nothing looks broken.

Strangely the pissiness helps.]

I'm... going to look for the metal beads from my vials.

[Now that he has some light to work by. He turns the comm to better illuminate the area.]

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[onlysurvivor]

I...

My hands are bleeding. [As if that explains his confusion. It kind of does.]