059-061 » the place where you stop the story

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WHO: Everyone.
WHERE: Eastern/Central/Southern Mathias
WHEN: Day 059-061
WHAT: Time returns to "normal" and Mathias grants a reprieve.
WARNINGS: (PM this account to have a warning added!)
NOTES: Plotting post over here! The next log will be posted the weekend of May 15th May 22nd.

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DAY 059-061
A BRIEF REPRIEVE
“There is no real ending. It’s just
the place where you stop the story.”
— Frank Herbert
Residents awake to a peaceful morning with the sun shining and earth remaining still. There is no unsettling shaking to rouse them at dawn, and time has continued moving onward as they slept. Whatever state they were in the night before, they remain that way now, for good or for bad.

On the surface, there seems to be little lasting effect on the tiny town from that strange series of days, save for the memories of any traumatic experiences residents may have faced — but there are always consequences within Mathias. The perpetrators of acts against the town are tormented by nightmares of those acts being used against them, and those who did not raise a hand to stop those acts of destruction may yet face consequences of their own. For now, however, the unwilling townspeople should do their best to rest and recover from the disturbing ordeals of late, for this reprieve from the madness shall surely be shortlived.




THE NEW ARRIVALS
The newest arrivals to Mathias will wake up on the beach near The Grey Gull. It's a bit chilly out with their wet clothes, but surely there's something to help warm them inside the restaurant. They may even find some alcohol within — and not just the cowboys' homemade moonshine.

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CONDITIONS UPDATE

— THE HISTORY MUSEUM has not fared well with the return of "normal" time. The once esteemed wooden building is now a charred ruin, the recent fire leaving behind little of the contents within for study. The structure is unstable and it is not wise to venture into the ruins for long.

— THE WEATHER conditions remain fairly typical for early fall: warm days and cool nights. It feels almost like spring arriving except that there fewer red and orange leaves on the ground and more of them oddly returning to the trees and slowly fading to green. It's like watching one of those nature documentaries that have a timelapse of the seasons, only it's going in reverse.

— THE FOG has retreated from some areas!

— Residents may now wander the southern stretch of the forest surrounding Mathias Township — it is possible to leave the paths but potentially unwise to do so.
— The fog has also retreated farther into the western section of town, now stretching across town between Stine Road and Shelley Drive. This has revealed the Chasm in the earth that stretches from one side of town to the other between Stine and Hill Lane.
— Access to the northern section of the forest is still blocked beginning a few dozen yards past the treeline; this section of fog will urge residents to stay huddled within the town proper by inducing a physical reaction of panic and fear.

— DEATHS & DISAPPEARANCES continue! Max Guevara has vanished into the fog. Claire Novak's body can be spotted on Day 059 facedown at the bottom of the Chasm between Hill and Stine, near Phillips Drive; by the morning of Day 060, her body will be gone. (Attempts may be made to reach her body but will likely not end well for those involved. Such attempts should be reported under Exploration.)

— ALCOHOL is still in Mathias! Just barely. (Supply is running very low after recent town events.) A small stock of beer and cheap wine may be found at the General Store, and some homes may have a small store of alcohol in the fridge or pantry. The Grey Gull was also restocked with its lower-end offerings of a variety of alcohol types. (Alcohol does not replenish as food does.)

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[bestfuneralever]

He nods. "Yup... and he's a lot older than he looks." He laughs a little, he knows it's a point of contention for Five, but it's never not at least a little funny.

[trigeminalheadache]

He doesn't even skip a beat in answering her question. Doesn't even ask how she guesses what 'spatial-timeline fuckery' means. So either he's guessed that she's a scientist (probably not likely, it's not as if she's asked anything that's particularly science-y) or that she has experience with people with powers. The latter seems most likely.

Caitlin raises an eyebrow. "How old does he look, and how old is he really?" And how did it happen, she wonders silently.

[bestfuneralever]

She'll learn pretty quick that Klaus is an absolute open-book about these things. They were just part of his every day normal growing up, even if he did grow to try and run from it all as he got older and more fearful of what he could do. He did a lot to try to escape it, for a long time, but eventually he came into his own with it.

"Fourteen, and fifty-eight, respectively." He doesn't even wait for her to ask how before barreling into the explanation of his own accord. "When we were kids, he got into a fight with our Dad about how he wasn't ready for time travel. He tried to prove him wrong, and got stuck in the bad-end-future. He spent all that time trying to get home, and when he finally did, something went wrong in his calculations and he just... got thrown back into his fourteen year old body because...something-something, science stuff I never really followed. But...y-yeeaahh...?" He holds both hands up in a wide shrug. "Welcome to being a Hargreeves?"

[trigeminalheadache]

The way he's just so casual about all of it is oddly refreshing. People could get so defensive when discussing their powers and how they worked. Some held back and kept things secrets. (That never ended well, and she could speak from experience about that. Sometimes she might wonder how or if things would have turned out differently if she hadn't kept her powers a secret.) But Klaus is just... open. Here you are, here's how it goes, etc etc. She likes it.

The vague description of his brother's powers intrigue Caitlin. Not ready for time travel. Something going wrong in the calculations. Ending up in his previous body. It's a bit foreign-sounding. "Could be something like two versions of himself aren't able to exist at the same point in the timeline," she muses. "My friend who can travel through time, it doesn't seem so complicated for him."

[bestfuneralever]

"Something like that." That sounded kind of like what Five had said before. That was three years ago for him, though, he could be wrong. "Ohhh, so you know someone who can timejump? That's so weird, I've never seen anyone else besides Five who could--"

His eyes go wide for a moment. "Wait. There's others out there like us..." Lila... the other forty-something they'd just realized existed before they ended up here. "The name Reginald Hargreeves mean anything to you?" What if she, or at least her friend, is one of the others like Klaus and his siblings?

[abrightboy]

“I don’t have any super powers,” Malcolm adds helpfully. “Like. At all.” He offers her the plate of cookies again.

[bestfuneralever]

"You have the power of deduction on your side," he points out, one finger pointing in his friend's direction. "And at the level you do it, it's basically a superpower."

[abrightboy]

Malcolm laughs, ducking his head. “Okay, well... I mean. My boss does call me Sherlock Freud.”

[bestfuneralever]

He grins at the reaction he earned from him-- he's cute when he's trying to be modest. "Seriously?" He can't help the laugh that comes with that information. "Amazing."