week 1

[vicedirector]

seven vices week 1 ♫ monday - thursday Monday morning begins just like the rest, slow and uneasy. At 12pm, every television will go off with its usual bout of static, followed by a calm, albeit disinterested, voice. "Please gather in the hotel lobby within the next hour." That's all that it says before the televisions turn off. Anyone not in their rooms will hear the voice echoing around them as if through a speaker system, although there are (still) no speakers present. Curiously, anyone who has spoken with Miata for any period of time during the past week will notice that the voice coming from the television and her own do not match up. Come Tuesday, the footsteps around the void will begin drifting away from it. The pitter-patter of feet can be heard when standing outside the clinic and chapel as well. On top of the food that was added to the kitchen last week, spaghetti noodles and tomato sauce is now available. You're welcome, Papyrus. >Mingle? This is Week 1's mingle log, covering Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday. Investigations will go up on Friday. When posting toplevels, specify the time and location. If you plan on having any private conversations between characters, remember to let us know in the post linked below. cast setting rulebook profiles private conversations

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[symbologic]

[He follows her lead by moving to a different patch of snow and scooping up a handful so that he can make a sphere of his own as he watches her hands. He nods at the explanation, smiling a little.]

I am familiar the the properties of snow, at least. But it no longer falls on my planet, so I'm afraid I've missed out on the activities it presents. The only time I have ben on a planet with snow, we had little time for such diversions. [Ironic that, in the middle of a murder game, he finally has time for something like that. He holds up his snowball.] Are snowmen normally so...puny?

[aumygoddess]

The snow doesn't fall?

[ eyes wide ]

Um...if you don't mind me asking, why is that?

[ She continues to gather snow from nearby, making her tiny snowball bigger. ]

[symbologic]

I don't mind at all, it's a perfectly reasonable question. Ah--! [He accidentally crushes his snowball and has to start over. Look at him go!! He is the snow master. At least it's easy enough to fix.]

Eldar's sun is very near the end of its life cycle, you see. When a sun becomes a red giant, as ours has, it radically changes the environment of planets within its system. Eldar is close enough that it has long since become too hot for snow to fall.

[aumygoddess]

[ She almost drops the snowball, but scrambles and catches it with her scarf. The sun...got too hot? ]

That sounds very frightening. [ There were a lot of things she picked up in human culture while living for 1000 years, but science stuff not related to medicine wasn't one of them. ]

The sun is able to...die?

[symbologic]

[Faize actually looks a little surprised to hear her ask that, since Hanyuu has lived for thousands of years, supposedly. But...then again, the profiles didn't specify time frames.]

[He nods.]

Yes. Though they are nothing more than balls of burning gas, all stars are born, age, and eventually die, just as living things do. This happens regardless of whether or not they have a planetary system. Though, fortunately for those that do, stars "live" for a very, very long time. Millions or billions of years, depending upon the star's initial mass.

But eventually, a star will run out of energy and be unable to maintain equilibrium between its own gravity and pressure forces. When that happens, it begins to swell in size [He demonstrates with his hands by keeping the snowball in one and moving the other away from it slowly.] in an attempt to compensate, until eventually it-- [Completely forgetting that he still has that snowball, he brings his hands together quickly and sends bits of snow flying everywhere.] ...collapses. I really am quite terrible at this snow thing, aren't I?

[Okay, he's just...going to stoop down and try to regather this snow and probably some new snow and start over AGAIN.]

In any case, the end result depends on the size of the star. Larger stars explode into a supernova as I just ended up demonstrating with a bit more accuracy than intended. Smaller ones become clouds of gas called nebulas.