012-014 » even the air itself was grey

[villagemod]

WHO: Everyone.
WHERE: Eastern/Central Mathias.
WHEN: Days 012-014
WHAT: The weather is behaving strangely. Again.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary. PM this account to have a warning added!
NOTES: Plotting post over here!

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DAYS 012-014
“The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usual, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes.”
—Simona Panova, “Nightmarish Sacrifice”

Rain has returned to Mathias. While those who remember the storms from nearly two weeks ago may fear reprisal of such tumultuous weather, this rain is far tamer. The cloudy grey skies let loose a steady drizzle that remains constant from start to finish, which is in itself, perhaps, a bit unusual. The patter of droplets against windows, small streams forming in the roads and on grass as the ground becomes saturated, all of it may seem normal to some, but a little too normal to others.

What is without question abnormal, however, is the sun. Though it cannot be seen distinctly behind the thick grey clouds, its light remains as constant as the rain throughout these three days. Hour after hour, regardless of the time of day, there is light in the sky. Unchanging, an inescapable reminder that Mathias is not home, and none who are brought here have any control over what will occur in this place.


NEW ARRIVALS
Once again, more unfortunate souls have been brought to Mathias by unknown means, deposited at the edge of the forest near the empty houses that tell of those who once lived in this strange little town. They may find themselves wandering through the trees until they encounter the strange fog that envelops the town, or stumbling upon the rotting remains of houses that have felt the passage of time more than others.

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LOCATIONS
LIGHTHOUSE Residents will notice the lighthouse to the north of Mathias, situated on a cliff that is above the town level. Even the most observant individuals will not have noticed it before now, which might be quite unsettling to some. There is no path available to reach the lighthouse at this time, though residents are welcome to try — they will be blocked by fog in the forest and a sense of unease that becomes debilitating if they walk too far along the beach.

NO NEW LOCATIONS are available for exploration at this time. Residents are welcome to further explore available locations, including utilizing AP rewards at locations they may have previously explored.

CONDITIONS UPDATES

— CLOCKS continue to be unreliable. Some may keep irregular time at different rates, while others have ceased to work at all, each having stopped at a different time.

— VOICES are not openly haunting our residents, though they may still be occasionally encountered in the more heavily decayed buildings where some rooms seem to almost swallow whatever light tries to enter them.

— WEATHER conditions are both typical and atypical for late fall. Temperatures consist of chilly "sweater weather" days and nights that can dip below freezing — you don't want to be outside without a coat when the sun goes down. A constant light rain continues for all three days, only stopping on the night of the third day. And for all three days, there is constant cloudy grey sunlight, with the sun unable to be seen and tracked from behind the cloud cover. Darkness will return to Mathias on the third night when the rain stops.

— FOG continues to block the way of those wishing to travel further than the Town Hall, and all who venture into the forest will be met by its impenetrable wall after a few hundred yards. The fog will allow none to pass; those who try will find themselves overcome by fear and panic so intense, they can physically do nothing but flee back the way they came.

OOC UPDATES

— HOUSING LISTINGS now have a permanent home! A few of these may have been missed or information might have changed, so please do submit updates as needed, including if your character moves into a new location or if there are rooms still available at said location.

— NEW PLAYERS are still arriving with each new log, so make sure to keep an eye on our ooc intro post. (An easy way to do this is to track the post — click the bell icon, select More Options, and track when someone makes a new top-level.)

— INFORMATION may publicly be shared between characters at the bulletin board in the town hall. This is meant to be a permanent place for pieces of the Mathias puzzle to be shared and archived to both help information be shared ICly and to allow new players to easily dive into the mystery.

— THE CALENDAR has been updated through the end of the year. With the approaching holiday season, we will continue a lighter log schedule, but as always, players are welcome to create their own logs, conduct intensive investigators, and make more terrible decisions. (The mod is always happy to enable these shenanigans, never hesitate to reach out with ideas.)

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Comments

[endlessflask]

If you need help sleeping, you should see the cowboys with the moonshine. A couple hits of that and you'll be out like a light.

[ But he gets it. The constant presence of the sun, even if it's hidden behind clouds, is unsettling. Maybe they should all take a page out of her book and deal with it by eating pie in cardigans. ]

I'm sure it'll set. Eventually.

[reydacted]

Moonshine?

[ she quirks an eye at that. clearly not a term she's familiar with but given the name and the context she can only assume it lays among other potent potables or other altering substances like jet fuel or star dust.

(it's cowboy that is really the term she's more boggled by.) ]

What kind of rotational axis and solar orbit would make them vary so widely?

[ the physics of planetary orbit is probably the same here... right? ]

[endlessflask]

You're really asking the wrong guy.

[ Yes, Eliot understands the significance of planetary positioning. To do magic, it's all about circumstances, and one has to adjust their casting to make up for shifts and orbits. And given that he recently had to literally move the moon to save the world, maybe he should have more knowledge when it comes to this sort of thing.

It's definitely more Quentin's area of potential expertise than his own. ]

It's just, you know. Different worlds have different things, right? This one world I lived in, it had two suns and two moons and I never really did understand how it all worked.

[reydacted]

Are you not from Earth?

[ she's honestly more excited than alarmed at that prospect. finally, finally! she knew that there had to be more people not from this backwater planet. ]

[endlessflask]

Oh. No, I'm from Earth.

[ He almost feels bad saying it, because he can see how excited she is by the prospect. Eliot actually frowns a little in apology. ]

I sort of ruled another world for a while. I guess you could say I've split my last few years between there and Earth. Are you not from Earth?

[reydacted]

[ well. it was worth a shot. ]

No. I actually had never heard of it before I ended up here. If that is where we are.

[ her new housemate had painted a pretty bleak picture of the planet, leaving her thinking the planet wasn't exactly habitable despite everyone claiming this was likely where they were... ]

[endlessflask]

It looks like Earth, but it doesn't really act like Earth. There are places where the sun doesn't set or rise for days, but I don't get the vibes that we're that far north or south.

[ Having spent a horrible semester in Antarctica, Eliot likes to think he'd know if he was there again. ]

You're not really missing much. Except for hamburgers, really.

[reydacted]

[ huh. well. that's interesting. it doesn't seem to be consistent either. maybe this isn't earth after all. ]

Food's still better than what I get most of the time. Polystarch bread and vegloaf keep you alive but that's about it.

[endlessflask]

Vegloaf sounds ... Just terrible. Really fucking awful.

[ Eliot gives her a sympathetic look. She really deserves that pie if she has to eat shit like vegloaf - whatever the hell that is. ]

If you ever get the chance to visit America, the food will blow your mind.