multiversallogs | adventures in monsterland

Who: Rex, Shrieky, Ana, Odessa and ~open~
What: Various things. Killing time, doing science, running away from murlocs, etc.
Where: Rex's lab in Brock Marsh, then open to anywhere
When: Various; any time during the plot
Notes: This is just a catch-all for Rex-things! If you want to run into Rex somewher ein the city after he's had to escape his lab, feel free to get in touch with me or toss in a new thread! Ana, Odessa and Shrieky can tag into the super detailed, lengthy threads I've established in the post :V
Warnings: Violence

This city's going to be leveled to the ground. If the monsters don't destroy it, then he certainly will. This is Dr. Rex Lewis's new resolution, after the all-too-familiar numbness of another loss, another case of his lover vanishing into thin air. As if Wichita's constant departures hadn't been bad enough, now Iago had to be taken from him, too?

Rex spent the first day after Iago's disappearance uselessly inert, half-heartedly going over schematics for new projects. More often than not, he would simply stare at one spot of paper and think about nothing.

And then, as usual, the quiet sadness passed, replaced with seething rage. Anger. Hatred. These were far more comfortable feelings for him. He took apart two of his personal projects, gathered what extra scraps he had lying around, and began to work on a new nanomite prototype. Larger, of course, than it should be-- hardly nano-- but right now, size wasn't as important as destructive capability. And this, after all, would be little more than a semi-functional model.

A preview of what he could accomplish if everything else fell into place. If he could ramp his work up to mass production levels. If he got a few like-minded magic users on board to help shrink and replicate his machines into a full-blown army.

Maybe this is just an elaborate revenge fantasy. Maybe it'll never get off the ground. Maybe he'll calm down and realize that attempting to blow up yet another prison will only end badly for him.

For now, though, Rex doesn't think about these things. Instead, he focuses on channeling his rage into his new project. Ana, Shrieky, or any intruders who manage to get in will find Rex in the basement, hunched over one of his work tables, lovingly installing saws onto the pincers of his large-scale "nanomite."

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The nice part about the city being filled with monsters was that it was an excellent way to go about relieving some stress. It'd been a while since she'd gotten into a full-on fight, and an even longer time since she'd done it when she wasn't either escaping or attempting to escape from an awkward situation. There was something the smallest bit amusing about how she could kill these things and destroy a block of the city and people wouldn't be angry with her.

At least she wasn't legally liable for it. And this was a great way to make contacts.

However, too long couldn't go on without her checking in on her brother for her own mental wellbeing. All too well Ana remembered the sensation of 'losing' him in a different warzone, and she'd no intention of doing it again, not when she could save him if she needed too. (The idea of could or could nots when it came to saving him wasn't something that Ana even considered. She would save him, full stop.)

Seeing him toy with claws, Ana watched him for a moment, and then inclined her head. "That looks familiar." Like a non-nano-nanomite in fact.

"It's just a model," he answered sullenly, tightening a little screw. "If I'm going to be trapped here for the foreseeable future, then..." He shrugged. "I need to pass the time somehow."

Mostly true. He just left out the part about Iago disappearing, leading to his loneliness and anger, which tended to push Rex to do things that were, well, extremely dangerous for everybody around him. Like building dangerous robots with the intent to take over and/or destroy the city.

"How's the gun working out?"

Ana watched her brother for a moment, when he was so sullen. In her experience, sullenness was never a good look on him. It tended to mean that things were bad. This situation was completely awful, she knew, but that was beside the point.

She looked around and realized that she hadn't seen or heard from Iago and that he still wasn't there.

Well, what the hell?

"It's working well. You should see what it does to a zombie." Deciding that his assistant was a safer question, "where's your little merman?"

He smiled a little, half-heartedly, at the thought of his gun totally messing up a zombie. Well, that was good to know. It was a very brief distraction from the elephant in the room-- or the elephant that wasn't in the room. The cat sauntered around Rex's legs, rubbing up against his jeans, and he nudged it back with his foot. At least Iago had managed to bring the animal over before he... vanished.

"He's upstairs, raiding the fridge." Rex frowned. "We'll probably have to get more food soon. Or hope that this ends before we run out."

Ana wasn't at all sure of that hope; she had decided that this was going to be happening for a while. If it was going to be something like a flood, it would have stopped already.

It seemed like it was only getting worse.

"I've got some supplies at my place I can grab, and there's always other options." Looting and stealing; when it came to her and her brother, Ana had even fewer scruples than normal.

But, the elephant not in the room was worrying her, and she asked. "How many am I feeding?" Easing into the conversation, hopefully.

Rex paused, then set his tools down. "Three if you and the mermaid are staying. Four if you count the cat." No Iago. "That's it."

For a moment Ana just pursed her lips, and then she moved closer to her brother, watching him. In someways, they were alike, and Ana thought that how they reacted to people in their life leaving was one of them.

Making a mental note to find the little Shakespeare villain and drag his ass back here, Ana finally asked the question that had been on her mind. "Iago?"

Rex sucked in a breath, fingers clenching against his palm. "Gone," he said, trying to keep his voice even. "He just... Vanished." He clicked his tongue against his teeth, scowling, and glanced away. "As people do."

Ana didn't know what to say for a moment. She didn't know that the whole vanishing act was something that could be done here. A part of her wanted to find out if he was still here and hiding, and then Ana would personally feed him to one of the monsters who were out and about.

A part of her wanted to believe that Iago wouldn't have done that to Rex. After all, he'd come back to the Barge for him, hadn't he?

And then without even thinking about it, and the distance between when the two of them had been kids, teens against the world and now, Ana Lewis just reached out and hugged her brother tightly.

Rex, for his part, hated himself for saying it. The moment those words left his mouth, everything became more... real. Iago was gone. Truly gone, just like Wichita, Harper, and everybody else he made the mistake of allowing near him. Ana was the only person he could ever count on, just as it had been when they were children. He kept still as his sister reached out to hug him, not protesting or pushing her away. After a moment, he shifted, relaxed, and began to reciprocate the hug.

"This is exhausting," he murmured. "I don't want to deal with... this... again."

No more dating for Rex Lewis. Now he remembered why he'd avoided it for the first 28 years of his life.

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sorry for the short crappy tag. I CANNOT THINK OF ANYTHING TO ADD FOR SOME REASON

No worries, my friend.

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