week 0 - arrival

[vicedirector]

seven vices arrival ♫ saturday & sunday 36 players remaining You remember happening upon something awful and nauseating. What it was, precisely, is lost to you, but you have the instinctive feeling that by escaping from it, you've avoided something terrible. When you open your eyes, you find yourself laying in bed in a dark, dusty room, facing a digital alarm clock. Its face, reading 12:01, is one of the only sources of light in the room. The other comes from the window, shadows flickering about. Opening the blinds will reveal that it is nighttime, and what looks to be a massive bonfire has been lit in the street at the front of the building. A wooden talisman hangs around your neck, with one of seven symbols carved on the back. Attempting to take off the talisman will result in a wave of intense dread, and the all-too-familiar nausea. A brass key engraved with a unique room number lays on the bedside table beside the clock, as well. But you won't get any answers just sitting in your room all night. >Investigate? This is an open mingle for arrival in the town. Waking up just after midnight on Saturday, characters will have the weekend to explore and socialize before the plot begins. The profiles and IC rulebooks (both the personal ones and the public one at the chapel) have not been revealed/given out yet. The kitchen will still 'prepare' breakfast on these days, and the bonfire will burn continuously into the daytime. Per items: smaller items that a character could easily carry with them will be in their rooms. Animals and larger objects will either be waiting outside or in the hotel lobby. cast setting

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[mothercat]

No, perhaps not. But even so, fewer words than those have sparked conflict between races. I expect since you said what you did, you know that as well as I.

Oh. And of course, you don't really have to listen my advice. I'm not going to impose my opinion on you or try to change your views. I'm just of the opinion that discretion is a better tool than enmity. [ He supposes he can see how his chiding could be seen as as unwelcome as what the man said, not that it seemed to rile the man up. Maybe Ike is rubbing off on him a little.

Ranulf sighs as he puts his hand on hip. ] At the very least, you might be right about magic's part in this.

[dhaosu]

Hn.

Whatever the case, it remains to be seen.

[ The chiding is definitely unwelcome, but somewhere in there he recognizes Ranulf has a point. He would never say that aloud, considering his ire towards humans currently, however. ]

Yes, I would not know of any other medium possible other than Magic or Magitech that could cause ourselves to put somewhere we cannot appear to leave. It would require magic to be involved, even if it was just at the minimum level used.

[ Or science, but for him science = magitech, so... ]

[mothercat]

[ He's content to leave the bulk of their discussion at that. This sort of talk isn't his specialty and there are far more pressing concerns to attend to. Like how they got here.

He shifts his weight from one foot to the other. After that, he takes a look at their surroundings. ] Nor do I. Then again, there are many things in this world that I have little knowledge of. Someone like me can scarcely guess what might have transpired here.

[ A pause before he looks back to the man he's speaking to. ] But you don't seem to be as at a loss as I am when it comes to things magical or technological, or at least that's the impression I'm getting. As such, you may have a keener eye than I when it comes to spotting traces of magic. Have you had any luck finding anything?

[dhaosu]

[ He folds his arms.

... ]

... Yes, I have. Alongside the edges of town there is a darkness that eclipses into nothing. Once I walked into there and was able to faintly detect traces of magic. Elsewhere, it is not present in the town.

I surmise that it will be the only clue available for now, since I have not found anything else of note.

[mothercat]

Huh. That's an interesting piece of information, my thanks for sharing it with me. Unfortunately, I have no real intelligence to give to you in return. As I said before, I'm not as well-tuned to magic as you seem to be.

Although... [ Here, he pauses. There might be something, he supposes...? He looks down at his chest. Shortly after, he tugs the talisman forward enough to be visible. The hand holding it is gloved and, strangely, there appears to be a strip of green cloth wrapped around his wrist that overlaps a white bandage. ] I don't claim to know what this is, but I've felt something similar to it before.

I have no doubts that the root cause isn't the same, but maybe you can find a better clue after hearing what I have to say. Before, whenever I had a feeling like the one I get from trying to take this thing off, the cause was chaotic energy. It's possible there's something like that in this place and this pendant is keeping it at bay.

[dhaosu]

[ Dhaos' eyes flickered to the talisman that Ranulf pulled forth. It's possible what Ranulf says is true. ]

Then, I shall look into it, and hopefully something will come of it. That said, you mentioned it was chaotic energy and you had experienced something similar to it before. Were there any adverse effects in particular that differed from, or were in addition to, the ones given from the talisman we have now?

[ Because Dhaos believed if such an intense effect occurred from just trying to take it off, who is to say it couldn't be used to control them or make them lose it entirely? ]

[mothercat]

[ Ranulf shifts his weight from one foot to the other as he thinks. Other effects... other effects...

Aside from the obvious "all that negative energy came from a medallion and was going to wake a dark god then spoilers," he's not too sure. Negative energy wasn't something he liked thinking about or feeling. Shudder. ]

I'd say it was a lot more intense than whatever this is. [ Enlightening, eh? Ranulf drops the medallion back onto his chest. ]