ORION OPEN LOG 2: NOW WITH DUDE

[thanksoptimus]

Who: Orion Pax and YOU
Where: Around the city.
When: Late March, basically whenever.
What: Having recent discovered that he has a holomatter avatar, Orion is now roaming the city like someone's confused dad.
Warnings: shrrruuuuggot. perhaps gay.

Exploring the city would have been a lot easier had Orion known how to do this earlier, but he supposes there is no point regretting wasted time now. Unlocking his holomatter avatar has given him a pleasant alternative to sitting in a parking lot and boredly zoning out into a haze of stress and confusion, and so he is happy to use this human shaped form to explore all the places he hasn't been able to previously.

While he technically does look like a middle aged man (who is not Charlie Swan), everywhere he goes he is followed by a constant air of curious bafflement, like a parent is when going to places they don't understand purely for the sake following their kid around. There is a lot of squinting and fondling going on in every one of these options.

A) Various book stores:

The most notable feature of this man's bookstore experience is that he appears to mostly be reading entire books whole while standing in front of shelves - very quickly, at that. The subject matter varies wildly, but he doesn't seem to be at risk of getting bored any time soon, nor do his legs ever appear to get tired.

Perhaps he has yet to catch on to the fact that reading whole books in bookstores is generally considered to be bad etiquette.

B) In which he goes AFK:

And here is that same man, standing in the middle of the street doing nothing. It isn't the busiest of streets, but he sure as fuck is just standing there while the world continues to go on around him, ostensibly while he stares into space and ignores the thread of oncoming vehicles.

This is actually happening because something distracting is happening wherever Orion's actual body is. Perhaps a sudden carjacking. Perhaps animals. It is a mystery.

C) In which Team Magma happens:

Team Magma can frequently be found doing something stupid, and in this case the stupid thing is trying to steal a bunch of lorries from a truck stop for unknown reasons. The rush the parking lot in a group of about twelve. Most of them are firebending.

Orion is just kind of standing around in the parking lot when this happens, not fully realizing what's going on until there are like a dozen costumed people throwing fire around aimlessly and yelling things about being TEAM MAGMA. Even after a moment of letting it sink in his expression is still more incredulous than anything.

He can not even believe this.

Comments

A

[rememberyousoon]

At some point while Nilin was still in the early stages of rebuilding an identity (an awkward time, don't ask about it), she discovered that she had kind of an affinity for classic literature. It just so happens she's in today for a specific book, and when she finds the place where it is supposed to be there is a man there. Reading the only copy.

Nilin mills around for about a minute, pretending to look at other books, but finally she gets impatient and just asks him, "excuse me, are you going to buy that?"

C

[chapterfiveversenine]

CONDOR engineers were nice enough to build quick-release catches into Legion's clothes, ensuring that they don't need to incinerate their pants and jacket whenever they need to deploy quickly, and so Legion is able to move from the identity of unassuming man with lowered hood to superhero fairly quickly.

They begin by tripling the weight of a Magma goon in one of the driver seats, and walk up to Orion's avatar as he tumbles out of it. "You are advised to move to cover," they note calmly.

Then the consensus really looks at Not-Charlie-Swan. "Correction: you are a separate identity projecting an avatar. Species and identity?"

A

[scribes]

It's not a very big surprise to find Di in a bookstore. Now that she was getting out and doing more her earnest love for them was returning fully.

A look at the table she was commandeered would prove this. It was stacked with a number of books, most belonging to her and of recent Alternian history, and several from the store itself dedicated to Earth history. Several notebooks lay open with her careful and precise handwriting.

At the moment she was looking to put back a couple of the store's books back on the shelf Orion happened to be at.

"Pardon me, may I get by?" She offered him a smile, glad to see someone so engrossed.

B

[cyborged]

Raiden's in a hurry. He's always in a hurry, he is a very busy man. Or rather He is a man with ample free time who treats everything he does like it is Very Important because what else is he going to do with his life.

He doesn't pay any mind to Orion on his first trip down the street beyond registering him as 'some asshole taking up space on a crowded street,' but on his way back it kind of gives him pause to see that same asshole just standing there. Staring at nothing.

It takes him a moment - mostly to get over how inconvenienced he feels - before he pushes through the undulating mass of Very Busy People to move to stand in front of Orion and try to get his attention. Mostly by waving a hand in his face and saying, "excuse me," impatiently.

B

[teamsad]

The blaring car horns catch Jess' attention, more than anything else. She turns to see one car swerve around a man standing right in the street, the driver shouting curses out his window as he passes by. The man... doesn't react, at all, and Jess purses her lips. Is he having a stroke or something?

Right. She's a very public, high-profile hero these days. She should maybe... intervene before someone hits him. She sighs and jogs into the street, only a little reluctantly. Helping random civilians is a lot harder for her than punching bad guys.

"Hello? Sir?"