text; un:mako; with bonus ruby

[arclightning]

Attention Trench:
1. If you need a safe place to go with less pollution, the safehouses are up and running. I put a map here. They have masks to filter the air and most of them have incense.
2. If you have spare incense, the safehouses could use more. Also, non-perishable food.
3. Wear a mask. Seriously. Yes, all the time.
—Mako

4. If you end up encountering any of those weird cultist people. I'm going to teach you my Uncle Qrow's method of escaping an encounter like this. It might not prevent you from getting kidnapped but it'll help you fight them off with weird psych out Mistral violence.

Just chew up one of these mushrooms that I found that makes you foam at the mouth—it'll make them think you have rabies and throw them off their rhythm. Then you grab a telephone book and beat them on the torso with it. Because as any cop will tell you, phonebooks don't leave bruises.
—You're Pal, Ruby Rose

[ Attached at the end of the post is a map with safehouses marked in each district. One is the Raccoon Room, anyone who's volunteered their house will be on there, and several are out in the farmlands beyond Trench itself. One is in the woods.

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Don't listen to Ruby. No cop will tell you that. Phonebooks definitely leave bruises.
—Mako

((ooc: both Mako & Ruby will be responding! action prompt in the comments for anyone interested. ))

Comments

[onekindsoul]

Who's gonna come at someone frothing at the mouth like that? They'd have to be crazy-

And at that point you'd probably be fighting them anyways.

[azurestar]

weeellll the zealots are pretty much the definition of crazy, right?

maybe if you also start speaking in weird languages they'll think you're possessed

[onekindsoul]

That's a good point- They definitely make some of weirdest seem pretty sane here.

Oh! That's a good idea! You'd have to do this before you go but you could try coloured contacts too to really sell the possessed look.

...Or maybe eye drops too.

[azurestar]

oh dude, colored contacts would totally sell it

but get this, what if i just made my eyes glow?

[onekindsoul]

Oh that would be so cool!
WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU COULD DO THIS SOONER!
SHOW ME SHOW ME SHOW ME!

-> video

[azurestar]

alright alright, yeesh. but just a peek.

[With that he switches to video. He looks a bit off in skin tone from corruption, and his canines are sharp when he grins briefly.]

Alright, feast your eyes~

[He makes wiggly motions with his fingers near his face and then focuses. First he starts glowing all over, but then he puts on a look of extra concentration and effort and the glow shifts into just his eyes. They glow bright gold and blue with wisps of energy coming off them like the surface of a star, encompassing his whole eyeballs. Then he lets it go with a shallow, pained breath.]

There… [breath, then a bit of a grin.] cool right?

-> video

[onekindsoul]

[Ruby's shifts to video as well and there is a brief moment where it looks like she's making note of the skin tone and canines but she doesn't let it take priority over the conversation at hand.]

Oh-

[She let's out a surprised little gasp as she watches the glow come and go.]

Woah- Cool doesn't even start to cover that. It's absolutely awesome!

I wish I could that like you- Mine has only ever worked like under really particular circumstances.

I haven't been able to do it since I got to the dream.

[azurestar]

[lance blinks a couple times in rapid succession as he processes what she's implying.]

Wait, your eyes glow too? How? Why? And how long has that been a thing I didn't know??

[He's slightly offended he did not know this, but more than that he's extremely curious and excited to know more.]