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ʀɪᴄᴋ ғᴏʀᴅ ([personal profile] intenserer) wrote in [community profile] thearena2015-06-25 10:12 am

[OPEN] what kind of fuckery is this

Who| Ford and YOU.
What| One vaguely-disoriented spy arrives in medieval hell, proceeds to heck shit up.
Where| The castle + village
When| Week 5
Warnings/Notes| Language, ridic spy antics.



He'd never admit it, never in a million years, but Rick Ford is fucking disoriented. Sure, he'd woken up on that bullshit cot with men in white coats holding him down and injecting some hellishly large tracking device in his arm. They'd told him some cock-and-bull bloody story about being part of some game, but Ford knows better than that.

Obviously, this is all some elaborate kidnapping plot by the KGB. They're trying to crack him. Trying to gain intel. But that's impossible, because he's Rick Fucking Ford, not some silly girly wanker like Fine or Wright or one of those other vaginas back at the CIA. He's a real spy. He can handle this. And above all, he can play along.

Of course, nobody's seen fit to give him a gun. Just an alarmingly stylish Louis Vuitton keyfob that's attached to the hem of his idiotic fucking costume. Ford isn't really sure what he's supposed to be, exactly; some sort of medieval cobbler with a stupid little hat that reminds him of a goddamn wimple. But his clothes are sturdy, anyway, and he's thankful for that fact. And he makes them look downright sexy, he does.

Ford spends some time scoping out the village, kicking down doors and going through each miserable little hovel like he's on a search-and-destroy mission. At some junctures, he may be humming the Mission: Impossible theme under his breath without even realizing it. Without a proper weapon, he's taken up a hunk of brick, which he's found is a good substitute for a bludgeon when necessary. The rats, while tenacious, aren't a threat in his eyes. Ford crushes their skulls under his boot heels without hesitation, and if necessary rips their heads from their bodies where they come leaping at him. He works at the Bureau, he knows how to deal with pests.

After seeing what there is to see in the village, Ford heads for the castle, hoping to score food or weapons. He spends some time perusing the feast, picking out a few crusts of bread that aren't moldering, giving the Avoxes suspicious looks, and even spending some time telling one of them exactly who these people are fucking dealing with. He can't resist a captive audience, and he has no idea that the nervous look on the Avox's face has nothing to do with Ford telling him exactly how many ways he's killed a man.

Once he has some food in his stomach (he's not really worried about paltry things like food poisoning), Ford heads upstairs to do some exploring. He spends quite a bit of time trying to wrench a decorative spear off the wall, finds it impossible, and gives up, barging in on bedchambers and trying to ignore the wretched smell that seems to pervade this entire hellhole of an Arena. If you were trying to sleep, good luck. Ford will likely barge in on you and talk your ear off. Or threaten you. Or both.
yoknapatawpha: (Basic - Naw Son)

The Castle

[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-07-01 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Bayard is, in fact, asleep in one of the bedchambers of the castle, wrapped up in the bed as if he doesn't have a care in the world, one hand resting in the palm of the other and his supplies sitting in a pile next to the headboard. He might even appear to be part of the scenery, so removed from the fear inherent to the Arena. He's taking a quick nap between collecting supplies for his allies, and has tended towards the castle more than usual lately since that will keep him far away from the forest where those awful voices try to convince him his father is in need of help.

He looks peaceful, but he's both alert and racking his way through the tangled memories of those voices in the woods, and so as soon as he hears feet in the hallway he kicks off the blanket and sits up, grabbing his knife and shoving his supplies under the bed. He grabs the handle to the door and holds it, not about to block it like a scared biddy at a barricade but not lunging out to investigate yet.

"This room," Bayard says, in the deepest voice he can manage, which still can't help but sound childish, "is occupied."
yoknapatawpha: (Angry - B<)

[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-07-10 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not about to get hurt," Bayard says, mulish, his voice still with that affected and phoney scratchy depth even though he knows the jig is up. "There ain't nothing in this room and I'm willing to defend it, so you best watch out."

Bayard's not really the type to make threats, and so it sounds disorganized and limp atop of childish. He takes a deep breath, hand still on the knob.

"Who are you?"
yoknapatawpha: (Basic - Naw Son)

[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-07-29 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
The door opens to Bayard, all well-under-five-feet of him, frowning at Rick as if there were no difference in size or power at all. He's stubborn and unwilling to relinquish to the clear reality here.

"Maybe I just like privacy like any decent person. And you sound like an Englishman," Bayard says bluntly. "I won't hurt you either. Promise."

Really, Bayard talks a good game for very obviously being a scared kid with not much in the way of muscle mass or combat skill.
yoknapatawpha: (Angry - B<)

[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-08-05 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
"You should be," Bayard says, although not because he believes it so much as just in some futile attempt to keep up the tough act, to seem manly and capable. But he does as Ford says and locks the door. He can't help but continue glancing at where he hid the supplies, though.

"We're independent from the English." Bayard puts his hands on his hips, as if he were announcing this in front of the court of the king himself. "Just so you know."
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[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-08-18 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh." Bayard frowns and sighs, having found someone else who seems to be from far flung into his future. In fact, he outright scowls. "I suppose you're going to tell me the Confederates lost, too, because I ain't heard those lies enough yet."

He guards the door as if now he's afraid Ford will walk out it instead of barging in. "I reckon you'll tell me I don't know nothing like everyone else does."
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[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-08-26 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
"I ain't deluded," Bayard says, stubborn and dredging up from a well of pride that goes deeper than his humble, earnest demeanor usually suggests. "Where I come from we wouldn't even hire a foreigner, though, much less for the government. How would we know to trust you? You'd still be allegiant to the queen or king or whatever you still have over there."

And clearly, that's the way it should be. Bayard has his voice lowered just in case anyone else comes looking for them.

"You seen the ghosts around here?"
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[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-09-05 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"That don't seem very virtuous. My granny says to keep cash in your hand too long is sinful." Bayard has no way of recognizing that that's absolutely his privilege talking; it's easy not to care about cash when you're basically landed gentry on a plantation, and when even the poverty of war cannot be remotely alleviated by a few dollars in hand.

"There are ghosts in the castle. They come out most at night."
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[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-09-23 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Bayard blinks, wondering why the hell Ford's talking about ghosts having donkeys.

"That so? I'd like to see you do it," Bayard says, squaring his shoulders like he's boasting that he could even if Ford couldn't.