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Solus zos Galvus ([personal profile] emet_sulk) wrote in [community profile] expiationlogs2023-08-05 12:13 pm
Entry tags:

August catch-all (open)

Who: Emet-Selch and anyone!
Where: Aldrip and nearby outskirts
What:
- Emet-Selch attempts to do some actual work for once at the clinic, healing people's hurts (shock, horror).
- He takes the device he found around for walkies, finds other hot new single users in his area!
- Encounters a morbol in the wild and it tries to follow him home. Or take him home. Hard to tell with these smelly things.

Warnings: None, will update or list in comment headers if necessary

(Will match tag format, action brackets are fine)


1. The Ascian will see you now
Having returned from the desert, it's business as usual at the clinic. Emet-Selch doesn't really like working but he did make a deal with that young woman to put in the time here. Besides, the pay is going towards the weapon he is commissioning from a local blacksmith - one eager enough for the challenge of an unfamiliar weapon and understanding enough to accept payment in installations.

So the Ascian puts aside his ennui and dons the more agreeable veneer of Solus zos Galvus as he attends to those still recovering from the hurts of the past two months. Being one of the Chosen, he's usually also first to be called on to look at other Chosen who walk in.

a) Greeting walk-in patients:
The smile on his face almost resembles a smirk as he walks up to you. "And what trouble have you gotten yourself into, hmm?"

b) Interrupting him whilst he's busy:
He glances up, from whatever or whoever he's working on with a frown. "Do you need something?" he asks, tempering his impatience with effort.
2. Tindr? More like Findr
After putting out a request for help and cobbling together some semblance of a working device, Emet-Selch can be found trying to access some of its other features - to not so very great success. Having noticed that it seems to randomly react to something, he takes the thing outside and tries to locate the source.

Which is how he comes across someone else with another device.

Emet-Selch looks at you, looks at the device in his hands. Frowns.

"Why is this reacting to you?" he asks irritably.
3. Friends Forevermor-bol
Further afield, outside of town - or even perhaps closer to the forest's edge - Emet-Selch has come across a familiar creature.

Or perhaps, rather, it finds him.

The creature in question is a towering mass of thick, vine-like tentacles and a gaping, putrid maw. Like an upright land octopus that is at least as tall as a man. Emet-Selch, surprised to come across something from his homestar, is too stunned to move before the seedkin notices him and starts to undulate over.

"No," he says emphatically, jabbing a finger at it. "Stay."

As if this creature can be trained like a dog. He remembers that gift sent by one of the provinces and how it terrorised the imperial gardens before somehow escaping out into the snowy tundra. Morbols and their ilk simply do as they please.

--and this one attempts to reach out and grab him.

He vanishes into a rift, materialising a distance away. But the morbol advances relentlessly, vines reaching for him.

"Of all the creatures to make their way here from our star, why this one?!"
4. Wildcard
For closed threads or custom scenarios etc., feel free to hit me up on the CR meme to plot.

likethestars: (5)

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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-08 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Injuries are not uncommon to Yuja, she's been injured more times than she can possibly count. But this is the first time the injury couldn't heal by magical means and was taking its sweet time about healing. She's perfectly happy to ignore it, push through the pain, and be active, but others keep telling her to rest.

In fact, she's been dragged to the infirmary and forced to stay in a bed until her injury heals. So there she is, unable to sit still, huffing and sighing in boredom.

She could be doing anything else! She could be helping build new housing or exploring the area or gathering supplies! But no, she's stuck here being bored out of her mind.

Emet-Selch is sure to feel her gaze boring into the back of his skull at some point even if she doesn't directly address him.
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[personal profile] grappler 2023-08-09 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vi's not usually one for tech, but she can be found once or twice tapping away at the tablets. it usually doesn't take her long to get fed up enough to toss the tablet (sometimes breaking it further), but she's noticing that it starts to beep.

she thinks she might actually... be getting somewhere?

but then she looks up and sees that guy, and she frowns a little before she tosses her head and puts a smirk on her face intead.]


I dunno, maybe it's attracted to my charm. You worried about it?
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-10 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm bored." Sure, it makes her sound like a petulant child, but it's the truth. She's bored out of her mind without anything to do in this damned bed. "And you don't seem too busy right now."
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-10 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
"And how does that medical knowledge hold up to what you could do long ago?" Elidibus told her Emet-Selch was aware of his fate so she doesn't see a reason to not act if she's aware.
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-10 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
She can't help herself.

"But only the greatest healers, I take it?" Not that she's saying Elidibus and Erichthonios are lacking in that department, they know a great deal more than her. But if they couldn't heal her then could 'greatest healers' of their age?

Her tail thumps against the bed in response to the touch. "It could be worse, I could be the one doing the healing."
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-11 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
She doesn't respond but the look on her face is all the answer he needs. Guilty as charged, as they say. She doesn't want to be here; she wants to be moving about but has already aggravated her injury one too many times.

"Is it time for that again?" She huffs a little before pushing herself more upright with a wince. She adjusts her top so the bandages can be easily accessed. He'll find a long slash beneath the bandages, cutting through both skin and scales along the ribs on her right side.
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-11 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
Modesty is barely a word in her vocabulary, but she's not going to tell him what to do when it comes to handling her. He's the expert here, after all, not her.

She remains quiet aside from a small 'hmph' as she watches him work. It's interesting how his demeanor changes while he's focused on redressing her wound. It's only when he's almost done that she says something, "You're not all bad despite how you act."
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[personal profile] grappler 2023-08-11 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno. I'm not a techy person.

[she holds the tablet out a little bit, and then suddenly... they stop. huffing, she looks back down at the tablet and taps around on it.]

Oh hey, it's letting me get into the texting function.

[and then suddenly his tablet may or may not be getting:]

is this thing on
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-12 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
There's something satisfying about catching him with his guard down and having him quickly put it back up. There's a soft sound from here that might be mistaken for a scoff or the start of a laugh.

"Erichthonios did mention that." He and Elidibus had been quite worried about one of their creations because of it.

The tightened bandages certainly does make her wince but she doesn't give much of a reaction besides. "I see. Well, thank you, nonetheless." She smiles, remembering how he was when she met him in Elpis, he hasn't changed much in that regard she supposes.
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-12 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
She hums thoughtfully, following his gaze.

"I don't know. Do you have anything better to do that isn't a nap?"
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[personal profile] heartofsalvation 2023-08-13 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
[He'd only been here to see Yuja -- to make sure she was still resting, first of all, and second, to make sure her injury is healing properly, though he doesn't have the proper experience healing people to treat her himself. But as he turns the corner to her room, he sees a familiar face coming out of her room and stops.

Elidibus does not initially approach Emet-Selch. Instead, he follows him down the hallway, only addressing him when they're out of earshot of Yuja, assuming she's in her room like she's supposed to be.]


Emet-Selch. Is she well?

[Pause.]

...Are you?
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-13 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh." She frowns. She supposes if she were in his shoes she would be less inclined to care about anything here.

"How much do you want to know?" A dangerous question, probably. Knowing one's fate isn't for everyone, but perhaps she can give him some comfort if he knows that he won't be alone in the Aetherial Sea.
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-13 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
She doesn't flinch in response to his tone. Her gaze remains fixed on him.

"I can't answer that for you." It's for him to decide if everything he did was for naught. "All I can do is tell you all that I've experienced that also concerns your fate."
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[personal profile] likethestars 2023-08-14 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
She remains quiet while he decides if he wants to hear or not. She suspects he'll say yes and she's sure he won't react well to what she has to say. She's not really thinking about how the future could change if he knows.

"Alright, first thing first, what was the last thing that happened before you arrived here?" It would be pretty redundant to start with her arrival on the First if he's already experienced all of that.

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