Holes and Patches [OPEN FREE FOR ALL]

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After the battle, the warriors' task was over. Their job, for now, was to rest and recover for the time being.

The healers' job, on the other hand, was far from over. Some exhausted from the battle, others rotating in, they took to their bay and continued the process of treating the wounded. Some patients were free to leave in a few minutes, while others would have some time (or quite some time) on the cots. Their mission: relax. Stay as still as possible.

Unfortunately, the temptation of so many familiar faces alive and about would ultimately prove to be too great. Keeping track of this group was going to be a third task all its own.

[this is a free for all for all your injured! Have them socialize, be thorns in the medics' side, try to escape, or bring the medics together for some action. Just note in your post if you'd like a medic to visit your character---if not, it's time for a chat!]

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Shoutarou peeks out from under his hat, then chuckles. "I'll be up and about again in no time, don't you worry." He pulls the hat off his face completely, laying it on his chest. "And thanks."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"No problem. So, what happened to you? Blood loss? Broken bones?"

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"Mostly just exhaustion, though I've probably sprained up my legs pretty good. Got out pretty well, just gonna be feeling it for a good while."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi nodded. "That doesn't sound too bad. Were you out on the ground? I might have missed you, anyway, with all the fighting going on at the time."

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A nod back. "Yeah, with the Rangers and the other Riders."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"Riders?" This earned Shoutarou a faint look of confusion. "Riders of what?" He was vaguely familiar with the Rangers as some sort of crimefighting group that showed up every now and again to help out, but that was it.

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Whoops, guess that's what he gets for assuming. "Er. Kamen Riders - should've specified, sorry."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"Kamen Riders?" That rang a very faint bell, but Zouichi still looked a little lost. He was, after all, from about a thousand years in the future. "Are you a kind of... superhero team?"

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"Something to that effect, yes. Usually less in a group than the Rangers, if a group at all."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"Hmm. I thought costumed heroes usually kept their identity secret." Or at least that was what Red Robin was wont to do. For whatever reason. Secret identities pretty much didn't exist on Zouichi's world.

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"We generally did back home, though if there was a need to do things in a public area, we didn't hold back on transforming there." A light shrug. "I figured that here, given what we're here to do, no sense in hiding things."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"Maybe you should talk to some of the other superheroes," Zouichi said, giving him a slightly puzzled look. "It's kind of bizarre to have to call someone Red Robin."

If he'd known about the restaurant chain, it would have been even weirder. "So, what kind of opponents do you usually fight?"

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Unfortunately, Shoutarou doesn't know of it either - so no jokes from him.

"Well, there's good reasons for hiding it - to protect those you care abount. Someone who doesn't like you ever finds out, they can use them as a bargaining chip against you--or worse."

"Usually Philip and I deal with misguided people who've been tempted into trying to solve their problems with power they're not used to controlling."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi considered the idea, but...

"Where I come from, I think a secret identity would have been unfeasible. Very few companies would have access to the kind of armaments that I do, and all Synthetic Humans of my generation have their identities registered for security access..." And identification databases were extensive enough that it was very difficult to avoid being recognized, anyway.

Shoutarou's explanation was a little vague. "Corporate power? Psychic power?"

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"Differences between worlds, I guess," Shoutarou answers with a shrug. He doesn't seem too fazed by the idea of a synthetic human, though.

"Superpower. They get ahold of devices that can turn them into superhumans."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"So it's your job to make sure people don't abuse their powers? What if it's the other way around? What if it's the Rider misusing their abilities?"

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"Well - most people shouldn't have the powers. The people peddling the devices put toxin in them to get them physically addicted. It's like drug-dealing gone wrong."

The other questions, though - those get a sigh. "Then we'll stop them, too. We've done so before, and we'll do it again if needed."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"...well, I suppose yours isn't the only world where people try to manufacture chemicals and other agents to gain unusual abilities."

He frowned a little. "So there are evil Riders? Have you fought one personally?"

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"Yeah. We've only dealt with one so far..." Shoutarou shakes his head. "Not something I want to repeat anytime soon."

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Zouichi looked thoughtful. "I can imagine it might be a little difficult, fighting one of your own."

Although in his book, pretty much any enemy was fair game.

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"Well, he seemed to be evil from the get-go, not a former good Rider. Just out there for his own devices and dragging the term 'Kamen Rider' through the mud. Rider or not, though, he put the people of our city at risk, so he needed to be stopped."

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"Ah. I assumed there was some sort of... screening process. To make sure those that became Riders would use their powers judiciously. So he gave all of you a bad name?"

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"...a screening process would be useful, but... I don't know how it would be implemented. Philip and myself kind of just happened upon the gear thanks to some coincidence. Or fate. I never really thought much about questioning it." Not every universe can have sapient henshin devices who pick their owners. "Just those of us in Fuuto City, though not for very long."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"...People on your world gain their powers by random chance?"

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Well, Shoutarou doesn't know the lengths that someone went to to get revenge, so as far as he knows... "Well. It seems to all go back to those people making the devices that give people power. I don't know where my previous boss got our gear for certain, but it seemed like a chance of fate that we encountered Philip, then he and I were able to become a Rider..."