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expiationlogs2024-11-03 12:45 pm
chimericalclaw) wrote in expiationlogs2024-11-03 12:45 pm
open 🌌 the crime of the day is: loitering
Who: One Zekarion Altius & hopefully YOU
Where: The inn, medical-related businesses (clinic, apothecary, NPC locations), bar lupin, (around the) courthouse
What: Totally normal businessman gets familiar with the surroundings and people, including staring at the ominous phantom courthouse.
Warnings: nothing yet?
⬬ the countless feasts laid at my feet | inn
[In some ways, it's safer in a crowd than on his own, so for now he remains at the Inn. Even he isn't so spoiled as to refuse free food until he properly gets his foot in the door.
Anyone around the inn can find one tall businessman in the public areas, talking with others, reading something on his tablet with a coffee, or simply watching the passersby. Somehow, he seems to get some actual conversation out of the locals, even if it's not the friendliest... but he might greet Chosen, too:]
Are you new as well, or do you just enjoy the company? [There might be the slightest hint of sarcasm in the latter, but for the most part it's meant as a pleasantry.]
⬬ keep the same appointments I kept | medical businesses
[Part of getting his foot in the door, so to speak, is familiarizing himself with the Aldrip version of the industry he's involved in back home. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel, he thinks—so he heads anywhere medical services and goods are provided.
He's obviously not looking for anything in particular, nor is he apparently injured. The way he's looking around speaks more to evaluation than anything.]
I've heard this world can be dangerous. [There's some concern in his tone, certainly, but it's more a statement of something he's apparently accepted.] I suppose that makes places like this even more important.
⬬ my intentions couldn't have been purer | bar lupin
[As the quieter of the Chosen-own bars in town, Lupin is the one Altius heads to. Anywhere with alcohol tends to be a good place to gather information. Plus, the locals have required some extra effort on his part, so he won't be unhappy if he finds a few easier routes via his fellow accused.
As long as someone isn't giving him the same side-eye as the "native" citizens, he'll strike up a quiet conversation:]
With how disagreeable the locals are acting, it's fortunate they allow us places like this, hm?
⬬ I'm not looking for absolution | courthouse
[There is a man frowning with some consternation at the courthouse.
It might be more accurate to call it the image of the courthouse, however; even though his suit and tie makes him look like he'd fit right in with the atmosphere, the building doesn't even deign to solidify to allow him to try the door. Rude??
The first time he comes to see it, he does a proper walk around, investigating from most angles and even passing straight through it to see if there's some trick. But no. It's basically a mirage.
In subsequent times, he'll find a bench to place himself, still watching with sharp eyes to see if anything changes. For at least his first few weeks in Aldrip, he makes this part of his routine.]
⬬ try walking in my shoes | wildcard
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As a note: if your character has any supernatural sense, it will react as if Zekarion isn't there. You can read more about that and him here!]
Where: The inn, medical-related businesses (clinic, apothecary, NPC locations), bar lupin, (around the) courthouse
What: Totally normal businessman gets familiar with the surroundings and people, including staring at the ominous phantom courthouse.
Warnings: nothing yet?
⬬ the countless feasts laid at my feet | inn
[In some ways, it's safer in a crowd than on his own, so for now he remains at the Inn. Even he isn't so spoiled as to refuse free food until he properly gets his foot in the door.
Anyone around the inn can find one tall businessman in the public areas, talking with others, reading something on his tablet with a coffee, or simply watching the passersby. Somehow, he seems to get some actual conversation out of the locals, even if it's not the friendliest... but he might greet Chosen, too:]
Are you new as well, or do you just enjoy the company? [There might be the slightest hint of sarcasm in the latter, but for the most part it's meant as a pleasantry.]
⬬ keep the same appointments I kept | medical businesses
[Part of getting his foot in the door, so to speak, is familiarizing himself with the Aldrip version of the industry he's involved in back home. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel, he thinks—so he heads anywhere medical services and goods are provided.
He's obviously not looking for anything in particular, nor is he apparently injured. The way he's looking around speaks more to evaluation than anything.]
I've heard this world can be dangerous. [There's some concern in his tone, certainly, but it's more a statement of something he's apparently accepted.] I suppose that makes places like this even more important.
⬬ my intentions couldn't have been purer | bar lupin
[As the quieter of the Chosen-own bars in town, Lupin is the one Altius heads to. Anywhere with alcohol tends to be a good place to gather information. Plus, the locals have required some extra effort on his part, so he won't be unhappy if he finds a few easier routes via his fellow accused.
As long as someone isn't giving him the same side-eye as the "native" citizens, he'll strike up a quiet conversation:]
With how disagreeable the locals are acting, it's fortunate they allow us places like this, hm?
⬬ I'm not looking for absolution | courthouse
[There is a man frowning with some consternation at the courthouse.
It might be more accurate to call it the image of the courthouse, however; even though his suit and tie makes him look like he'd fit right in with the atmosphere, the building doesn't even deign to solidify to allow him to try the door. Rude??
The first time he comes to see it, he does a proper walk around, investigating from most angles and even passing straight through it to see if there's some trick. But no. It's basically a mirage.
In subsequent times, he'll find a bench to place himself, still watching with sharp eyes to see if anything changes. For at least his first few weeks in Aldrip, he makes this part of his routine.]
⬬ try walking in my shoes | wildcard
[Another idea? Hit me up via plotting post, PM or
As a note: if your character has any supernatural sense, it will react as if Zekarion isn't there. You can read more about that and him here!]
Courthouse
Have you noticed anything?
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[Altius's fingers are threaded together, forearms resting across his legs. He's not even remotely trying to hide that he's watching the place; perhaps that by itself might catch their captor's attention. The potential benefits outweigh the risks.]
I've yet to see anyone entering or leaving.
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[He knew of two times, at least.]
I guess they've got some sort of...I don't know. Spell or effect or something on it to keep us from doing it again.
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But if they are so determined to protect this location, why have anything here at all?
It's intangible; it disappears as soon as we approach. If they can remove our ability to make contact with it, could they not make it disappear entirely?
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Something along those lines. Perhaps it's essential to the system that there's something here. Like a beam supporting the weight of a house... or a castle in a story about a knight and a princess.
[Altius turns his eyes towards Levi.]
Was there anything remarkable about the park?
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[He's pretty sure this goes into 'computer stuff' that he's not even close to understanding.]
Um, I'm not sure. It wasn't like that for very long, just between the last time it blew up and when we reset everything and it turned into the court house. At the time it seemed like it had always been there, though.
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A default state to the coding underneath, like a foundation? Or a temporary replacement, like a patch taken from elsewhere? There are a number of possibilities.]
So your memories of it were rewritten the same way the locals' have been? For that period.
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Well, except getting out of here, but beggars can't be choosers.]
If damaging the buildings here affected not only the surroundings, but even the idea of the location... That only makes me more certain there's something vital to this particular place.
[Perhaps he could liken it to... a leyline, in magical terms. Or some kind of database or memory in digital ones.]
I wonder if other places have similar significance... and simply haven't been discovered because they haven't drawn nearly as much ire.
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But he'll do it.]
More to investigate. [He takes a small notebook out of his coat, jotting down a few notes from the young man's words—terminals, caves in the mountains, desert/island. Once he's done, he looks back up, attention squarely on Levi.]
What's your name?
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O-oh, sorry. I'm Levi.
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I assume you've been here for some time?
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[Not that he has any conception of how long someone would "typically" stay in a simulated prison world, but. He looks thoughtful, a little troubled; there's a faint furrow to his brow.]
You must know a number of the "Chosen," then? Who do you think would know about the terminals you mentioned?