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Aug. 26th, 2015 12:12 am The Moises Arc
It starts out with an inconspicuous echo. Cesar unexpectedly regains a goatee in the middle of a meeting at work. He laughs it off.
Unfortunately, he works at ThunderCorp, and ThunderCorp has negative history with the numbered. Cesar puts it from his mind, but his employers do not.
Moises goes missing. Lazarus (and Arthur) volunteer to help find him.
Lazarus and Cesar speak a couple of times times. Tension and suspense continued to build:
Cesar asked the network prying questions while he tried to distract himself. Lazarus pried back.
Near the beginning of June, Moises' captors notice that someone (Lazarus) is investigating them.
Sometime shortly after June 11th, Cesar is allowed a one minute call with his brother.
The city underwent a series of unrelated blackouts that were blamed on Thunder Corp. Lazarus called Cesar to ask about it..
Moises' captors discover close to June 20th that the investigations are related to Moises' captivity. Cesar gets a phonecall demanding that he call off the investigation, and threatening to torture his brother.
Cesar immediately orders Lazarus (again) to stop investigating. Lazarus is unmoved.
Elsewhere, the Numbered defeated a mishap that made them and Geoff look capable in the public eye. (See alien Car incident.) The mafia decided to assert their authority by striking fear into the hearts of the Numbered, and began a low-level campaign of property damage and attacks, all with warnings that Locke belongs to Albero or 'The family'. The specific Numbered that they attack are, curiously enough, the people whose information Cesar has leaked.
Cesar and Lazarus talk about innocuous things. Cesar tries to persuade him that something is amiss without giving himself away.
Chuck, a young man caught up with the mafia and also Cesar's Numbered brother, alerts the mafia that the Numbered are readying for a major activity.
Tony disappears on the same day that Lazarus plans to infiltrate the mafia. Cesar throws his lot in with Lazarus and picks up the slack so he can leave.
Lazarus gets into the mafia's HQ by posing as a torture specialist. He discovers Tony is being held captive with Moises.
Lazarus is discovered and held prisoner. Moises dies.
Richard sounds the alarm that Lazarus is missing.
Lazarus calls for help. They are both tortured, and Tony's demon side awakens. He breaks them out.
They are admitted to a hospital. People visit the patients, (adopted) family hovers, and one guilty Cesar Sanches-Ortiz goes to see them both. It doesn't go particularly well.
Tony doesn't cope well.
Natalie (a detective) announces the existence of a leak to the mafia. To a select few, she reveals that the culprit is none other than Jesus Reyes, or Chuck. Cesar and Chuck both believe themselves to be the sole culprits, and are understandably alarmed.
Cesar copes by pretending everything is alright. He and Lazarus talk in the aftermath of everything that's happened. It's the last time they'll ever speak again.
After his brother's death, Cesar (for obvious reasons) stopped feeding the mafia information. He was kidnapped and released with a small, vital difference: his vocal cords had been removed. If he wasn't going to speak to them, then he wasn't going to speak to anyone else, either. Cesar loses his echoes.
Lazarus visits him in the hospital.
End of Moises Arc.
Intermission (Start of Exterminator Misadventures Arc):
This arc centers primarily around the aftermath of the Moises arc, and the beginning of Cesar and Lazarus' relationship.
Cesar regains his memories and returns to the network. Hajime and Lazarus both inform him of Chuck's fate, and Cesar is dismayed. Lazarus' announcement was especially unkind, and he calls later to apologize. Meanwhile, Cesar and Tony bond over science, Lazarus, and things lost.
Cesar invites Lazarus to coffee with ulterior motives. He asks him to investigate an alarming local observation, and they have awkward conversations.
They investigate Cesar's neighbor. It goes stupidly dumb, and they drown their sorrows in drinks afterwards. Somehow, somewhere along the way, they bond, and in the weeks after they keep in closer contact.
The next time they go out for drinks they land drunk at Cesar's apartment to watch Star Battles. Neither of them wind up actually watching the movie. (Note: This link is rated 18+, and is locked to members of this musebox. PM me for access.)
The morning after. Lazarus tries to make breakfast and finds the notebook Cesar used to record the names he leaked to the mafia, as well as Chuck's diary from his last known months of life. Cesar takes both away, distracting Lazarus with affection. Lazarus decides to trust him.
Epilogue: Cesar and Lazarus make the time to have lunch. Lazarus and Richard talk about relationships and sex. Lazarus later buys condoms.
End of Exterminator's Misadventures Arc.
Start of Doppelganger Arc.
As part of the Earth's natural defenses in Germany, the land invokes on the old legends of Doppelgangers. Doppelgangers begin to appear, and they are visually identical copies to certain Numbered individuals that otherwise behave as their complete opposites. (They are NPCs played by the original characters' players.)
Lazarus' doppelganger appears, and he's here to screw people and eat bacon. Cesar recruits Tony to help him retrieve what he thinks is a sick Lazarus and return him to his home.
Cesar's doppelganger first appears, and he's out to fix everything that he thinks Cesar is doing wrong by being open and honest.
Tony's doppelganger appears, and he's only out for himself. Lazarus' doppelganger (D!Lazarus) recruits him to keep Lazarus out of the way for a few days while he poses as him.
Cesar's doppelganger (D!Cesar) rescues Lazarus from where D!Tony stashed him. They stay in a hotel for a couple of weeks while Lazarus recovers. (Rating +18.) While they stay there, Cesar is overbearing, and becomes progressively more possessive, and alarmingly protective. Meanwhile, with Lazarus effectively out of the way and busy with D!Cesar, D!Lazarus moves in on Cesar. (Also +18.) It's distracting and intense, but not very fulfilling, and Cesar retreats more and more into his work. Because of this he misses certain key going-ons over the network, including the real Lazarus' announcement of is doppelganger's existence. Cesar is also deleting his own doppelganger's work where he can, and otherwise trying to ignore him.
Since he blames any incarnation of Tony for Lazarus' imprisonment, D!Cesar lures Tony away and catches him in a vicious ambush. Tony disappears afterwards as he takes time to recover, and Cesar's car is left ruined by these events. Cesar is not pleased.
Lazarus eventually calls Tony, and they jointly discover that Cesar's doppelganger exists. Lazarus leaves his shared hotel room and calls the real Cesar soon after, and they speak for the first time in the two weeks.
D!Cesar calls Lazarus and persuades him to meet. It doesn't go well.
Lazarus returns home. While he is there, D!Nathan and D!Lazarus agree to meet up, unwittingly tipping D!Tony off as to their whereabouts. D!Tony attacks D!Lazarus and leaves him tied up for Lazarus to find. Lazarus keeps him under house arrest to prevent him from tarnishing his reputation further. D!Lazarus slips sleeping pills into Lazarus' food and calls Cesar over. There is a struggle, and D!Lazarus escapes.
D!Cesar does not approach Lazarus again, deciding instead to take care of the 'Tony' situation on his own. He scopes out the Willow Ridge Academy, trying to plant a virus. While there he meets Nathan and sees opportunity. Nathan calls Lazarus afterwards with a warning. Lazarus asks Tony to watch out for Nathan.
D!Cesar kidnaps Nathan, and Tony and Misa immediately find out. Misa contacts L , and Lazarus and Shou arrive.. After D!Cesar has secured himself a strong ambush location, he sends Tony a message with nothing but his new hideout's address.
Tony goes to the location. D!Cesar attacks him while Nathan is held hostage. Tony kills the doppelganger, but is injured in the process. Nathan calls Lazarus for assistance after the fact.
There is an aftermath among the rescuers.
Unknown to most of the rescuers, D!Cesar had timing that was unfortunate for Cesar and Lazarus. This was the same night where Cesar and Lazarus met to talk over their recent experiences. It had gone well. (Rating 18+) Cesar called Lazarus when he noticed something was amiss, and was present for at least part of the proceedings.
Cesar and Tony talked about things after the fact. Nathan will find it difficult to trust Cesar.
It starts out with an inconspicuous echo. Cesar unexpectedly regains a goatee in the middle of a meeting at work. He laughs it off.
Unfortunately, he works at ThunderCorp, and ThunderCorp has negative history with the numbered. Cesar puts it from his mind, but his employers do not.
Moises goes missing. Lazarus (and Arthur) volunteer to help find him.
Cesar received an unexpected phonecall late one night. It initially began with his brother asking for him and saying he didn't know where he was, and that he'd been taken by someone. The phone was taken away before they could talk further, and a different voice, feminine, laid out the basics: "'we' have your brother. If you ever want to see or hear from him again, you'll spy on the Numbered and report back to us periodically. Give us names and descriptions -- of themselves, their jobs, their abilities-- everything."
All he knows about his brother's captors is that they exist, and that the woman's name is Ruby. With no other choice, Cesar immediately begins, and meanwhile calls off Lazarus' investigation for his brother's sake.
Lazarus and Cesar speak a couple of times times. Tension and suspense continued to build:
Cesar asked the network prying questions while he tried to distract himself. Lazarus pried back.
Near the beginning of June, Moises' captors notice that someone (Lazarus) is investigating them.
Sometime shortly after June 11th, Cesar is allowed a one minute call with his brother.
The city underwent a series of unrelated blackouts that were blamed on Thunder Corp. Lazarus called Cesar to ask about it..
Moises' captors discover close to June 20th that the investigations are related to Moises' captivity. Cesar gets a phonecall demanding that he call off the investigation, and threatening to torture his brother.
Cesar immediately orders Lazarus (again) to stop investigating. Lazarus is unmoved.
Elsewhere, the Numbered defeated a mishap that made them and Geoff look capable in the public eye. (See alien Car incident.) The mafia decided to assert their authority by striking fear into the hearts of the Numbered, and began a low-level campaign of property damage and attacks, all with warnings that Locke belongs to Albero or 'The family'. The specific Numbered that they attack are, curiously enough, the people whose information Cesar has leaked.
Espresso Yourself is vandalized. Tony, Lazarus, and Misato are present. (Lazarus announces its vandalization the next day.) Alexander's apartment is trashed as he is moving out. He loses his deposit without knowing why until after the fact. Shou is harassed. (Details missing.) Xander, Fred, Modrin, and Arthur are assaulted.
Cesar and Lazarus talk about innocuous things. Cesar tries to persuade him that something is amiss without giving himself away.
Chuck, a young man caught up with the mafia and also Cesar's Numbered brother, alerts the mafia that the Numbered are readying for a major activity.
Tony disappears on the same day that Lazarus plans to infiltrate the mafia. Cesar throws his lot in with Lazarus and picks up the slack so he can leave.
Lazarus gets into the mafia's HQ by posing as a torture specialist. He discovers Tony is being held captive with Moises.
Lazarus is discovered and held prisoner. Moises dies.
Richard sounds the alarm that Lazarus is missing.
Lazarus calls for help. They are both tortured, and Tony's demon side awakens. He breaks them out.
They are admitted to a hospital. People visit the patients, (adopted) family hovers, and one guilty Cesar Sanches-Ortiz goes to see them both. It doesn't go particularly well.
Tony doesn't cope well.
Natalie (a detective) announces the existence of a leak to the mafia. To a select few, she reveals that the culprit is none other than Jesus Reyes, or Chuck. Cesar and Chuck both believe themselves to be the sole culprits, and are understandably alarmed.
Cesar copes by pretending everything is alright. He and Lazarus talk in the aftermath of everything that's happened. It's the last time they'll ever speak again.
After his brother's death, Cesar (for obvious reasons) stopped feeding the mafia information. He was kidnapped and released with a small, vital difference: his vocal cords had been removed. If he wasn't going to speak to them, then he wasn't going to speak to anyone else, either. Cesar loses his echoes.
Lazarus visits him in the hospital.
End of Moises Arc.
Intermission (Start of Exterminator Misadventures Arc):
This arc centers primarily around the aftermath of the Moises arc, and the beginning of Cesar and Lazarus' relationship.
Cesar regains his memories and returns to the network. Hajime and Lazarus both inform him of Chuck's fate, and Cesar is dismayed. Lazarus' announcement was especially unkind, and he calls later to apologize. Meanwhile, Cesar and Tony bond over science, Lazarus, and things lost.
Cesar invites Lazarus to coffee with ulterior motives. He asks him to investigate an alarming local observation, and they have awkward conversations.
They investigate Cesar's neighbor. It goes stupidly dumb, and they drown their sorrows in drinks afterwards. Somehow, somewhere along the way, they bond, and in the weeks after they keep in closer contact.
The next time they go out for drinks they land drunk at Cesar's apartment to watch Star Battles. Neither of them wind up actually watching the movie. (Note: This link is rated 18+, and is locked to members of this musebox. PM me for access.)
The morning after. Lazarus tries to make breakfast and finds the notebook Cesar used to record the names he leaked to the mafia, as well as Chuck's diary from his last known months of life. Cesar takes both away, distracting Lazarus with affection. Lazarus decides to trust him.
Epilogue: Cesar and Lazarus make the time to have lunch. Lazarus and Richard talk about relationships and sex. Lazarus later buys condoms.
End of Exterminator's Misadventures Arc.
Start of Doppelganger Arc.
As part of the Earth's natural defenses in Germany, the land invokes on the old legends of Doppelgangers. Doppelgangers begin to appear, and they are visually identical copies to certain Numbered individuals that otherwise behave as their complete opposites. (They are NPCs played by the original characters' players.)
Lazarus' doppelganger appears, and he's here to screw people and eat bacon. Cesar recruits Tony to help him retrieve what he thinks is a sick Lazarus and return him to his home.
Cesar's doppelganger first appears, and he's out to fix everything that he thinks Cesar is doing wrong by being open and honest.
Tony's doppelganger appears, and he's only out for himself. Lazarus' doppelganger (D!Lazarus) recruits him to keep Lazarus out of the way for a few days while he poses as him.
Cesar's doppelganger (D!Cesar) rescues Lazarus from where D!Tony stashed him. They stay in a hotel for a couple of weeks while Lazarus recovers. (Rating +18.) While they stay there, Cesar is overbearing, and becomes progressively more possessive, and alarmingly protective. Meanwhile, with Lazarus effectively out of the way and busy with D!Cesar, D!Lazarus moves in on Cesar. (Also +18.) It's distracting and intense, but not very fulfilling, and Cesar retreats more and more into his work. Because of this he misses certain key going-ons over the network, including the real Lazarus' announcement of is doppelganger's existence. Cesar is also deleting his own doppelganger's work where he can, and otherwise trying to ignore him.
Since he blames any incarnation of Tony for Lazarus' imprisonment, D!Cesar lures Tony away and catches him in a vicious ambush. Tony disappears afterwards as he takes time to recover, and Cesar's car is left ruined by these events. Cesar is not pleased.
Lazarus eventually calls Tony, and they jointly discover that Cesar's doppelganger exists. Lazarus leaves his shared hotel room and calls the real Cesar soon after, and they speak for the first time in the two weeks.
D!Cesar calls Lazarus and persuades him to meet. It doesn't go well.
Lazarus returns home. While he is there, D!Nathan and D!Lazarus agree to meet up, unwittingly tipping D!Tony off as to their whereabouts. D!Tony attacks D!Lazarus and leaves him tied up for Lazarus to find. Lazarus keeps him under house arrest to prevent him from tarnishing his reputation further. D!Lazarus slips sleeping pills into Lazarus' food and calls Cesar over. There is a struggle, and D!Lazarus escapes.
D!Cesar does not approach Lazarus again, deciding instead to take care of the 'Tony' situation on his own. He scopes out the Willow Ridge Academy, trying to plant a virus. While there he meets Nathan and sees opportunity. Nathan calls Lazarus afterwards with a warning. Lazarus asks Tony to watch out for Nathan.
D!Cesar kidnaps Nathan, and Tony and Misa immediately find out. Misa contacts L , and Lazarus and Shou arrive.. After D!Cesar has secured himself a strong ambush location, he sends Tony a message with nothing but his new hideout's address.
Tony goes to the location. D!Cesar attacks him while Nathan is held hostage. Tony kills the doppelganger, but is injured in the process. Nathan calls Lazarus for assistance after the fact.
There is an aftermath among the rescuers.
Unknown to most of the rescuers, D!Cesar had timing that was unfortunate for Cesar and Lazarus. This was the same night where Cesar and Lazarus met to talk over their recent experiences. It had gone well. (Rating 18+) Cesar called Lazarus when he noticed something was amiss, and was present for at least part of the proceedings.
Cesar and Tony talked about things after the fact. Nathan will find it difficult to trust Cesar.
