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Entry tags:
- *overview log,
- callisto (xena warrior princess),
- doc holliday (wynonna earp),
- dorian pavus (dragon age),
- elena gilbert (the vampire diaries),
- elijah mikaelson (the vampire diaries),
- eliot spencer (leverage),
- ellie (the last of us),
- john carter (er),
- klaus hargreeves (the umbrella academy),
- malcolm bright (prodigal son),
- parker (leverage),
- raylan givens (justified),
- the darkling (grishaverse),
- tim gutterson (justified),
- wynonna earp (wynonna earp),
- ~ bucky barnes (marvel live action),
- ~ daisy johnson (marvel live action),
- ~ jeff calhoun (original),
- ~ neal caffrey (white collar),
- ~ tai (star wars)
065-071 » assign to oblivion / part iii
WHO: Everyone
WHERE: Mathias Township proper
WHEN: Days 065-071
WHAT: The residents of Mathias reunite under unnerving conditions.
WARNINGS: (PM this account to have a warning added!)
NOTES: Plotting post over here!
RECOMMENDED ♫ Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross "Outside"
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WHERE: Mathias Township proper
WHEN: Days 065-071
WHAT: The residents of Mathias reunite under unnerving conditions.
WARNINGS: (PM this account to have a warning added!)
NOTES: Plotting post over here!
RECOMMENDED ♫ Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross "Outside"
DAY 065-071
ASSIGN TO OBLIVION“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes
place in the interim, there are some things we can never
assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”
— Haruki Murakami
Only two days have passed since the town was fractured, leaving residents cut off from those they'd come to know and even care for. A mere two days of wandering the new streets, uncovering more secrets that continue to make little sense of this strange place. Two days with sunrises, sunsets, and nights that seem like any other.
And yet.
When residents wake on this third day, they will find that much has changed. All around them, wherever they may be, there are signs that time has passed without them. Dust covers everything, indoors and out, even areas that were spotlessly clean seemingly hours ago. The residents themselves are covered as well, dust clinging to their hair, skin, and clothing—
Clothing that they may not have been wearing when they went to sleep. Each resident, regardless of the state they were in previously, is now clad in a pair of white pajamas, with long pants and button-up shirts. Those who thoroughly explored Baneberry Hall will easily recognize these articles as identical to those well-stocked in the decaying great house. On top of this, the clothes they wore from home have disappeared, along with anything else they may have brought with them when they arrived or items from home that have been found within the borders of Mathias.
There is no sign that anyone has entered their place of shelter, nor is there any sign of what may have been done with these items or how they came to be wearing these clothes. The dust all around them is undisturbed, almost as if they had been sleeping there for quite some time, though it seems impossible for such a thing to have occurred naturally.THE NEW ARRIVALS
The newest arrivals to Mathias will wake up on the lawn of Town Hall, at the center of the little town square. They, too, are bereft of any items from home and clothed in the identical white pajamas. There are shops all around them, with houses just beyond, and at first glance, everything seems almost picturesque. Except for the silence that is at times so complete as to be maddening... Welcome to Mathias.
SUMMERTIME
— When summer arrives, so too does an outdoor stand in front of the General Store. Sporting a handpainted sign proclaiming Whateley Farm, the stand is overflowing with a variety of produce: berries, plums, carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, green beans, leeks, onions, peppers, potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes, and garlic bulbs. These do not replace the produce offerings normally found inside the market, but they do behave strangely. The stand replenishes sporadically, sometimes every other day or every five days. There is no discernible pattern to when it replenishes, nor is there any sign of how it came to be there at all.
— With the now-complete reverse change of season, much of the autumn debris has cleared from around town. Only a few stray leaves and fallen branches remain, their crisp colors at odds with the warm summer days. The forest has also cleared of much of the fall detritus, making it easier to both follow the paths and potentially spy things that might be out of the ordinary.CONDITIONS UPDATE — THE WEATHER Summer has arrived in Mathias, bringing with it warm days that average 70°F and comfortably cool nights. The skies are clear throughout the week save for Day 68 when a light rain falls from a grey sky throughout the day.
— THE FOG has maintained its new boundaries.— 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 from the western section of town entirely.
— 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.
— DISAPPEARANCES AND DEATHS continue! Max Guevara and Liz Brundy have disappeared, and now that everyone is back together, residents will notice that Yennefer, Number Five, and Tony Stark have also vanished.
— ALCOHOL supplies have run dry, save for any dregs that have been squirreled away by individual residents. Moonshine can still be acquired by those in desperate need.OOC NOTES — UPDATES Don't forget to report updates as they come up! Changes to locations (like toppling a few bookshelves in the library), big plots you have coming up that will affect the game (parties, major property destruction, etc), or exciting discoveries that may tie into the game's mythology (even the things provided by the mod) are very helpful to have in one place so relevant page updates can be made. IC events are also helpful to know about in advance so they can be included in the log write-ups.
— MOD STATUS My non-RP life is busy and chaotic and I continue to ask for your forgiveness and understanding as game things continue to be slower, as I cannot promise timely mod responses beyond weekends and even that is not wholly guaranteed.
— ITEMS FROM HOME All items from home that characters would normally possess have vanished for this log and will return in the next. This includes clothing and possessions they had when they arrived in Mathias, items that were found in the rain, and items that were found in Baneberry Hall and removed from the property. Items from home that were left behind by other characters no longer in the game have also vanished. (All other items and clothing still remain, it is only items from characters' homes that have disappeared.)
— BANEBERRY ITEMS The items from home that were not removed from Baneberry Hall in the last log have vanished from the property. These items will not reappear in the next log. (Please be sure to comment in the appropriate spot on those logs about the state of your character's item for inventory purposes, ie whether they were removed from the property or left behind.)
— ACTIVITY CHECK Beginning with June's AC (posted at the start of July), all tags that consist of only dialogue will count as 0.5 points, not just those that occur in an inbox thread — this applies to both AC and AP totals. This adjustment is an extension of what has been in place since the start of the game: that all dialogue-only inbox tags counted for a half-point. Since such tags have occurred regularly in log threads as well, the half-point status is simply being extended to all tags regardless of location in order to be fairer in point distribution. (Examples will be provided in the AC post to assist with proper counting.)
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"Buy? What, from who? No way, we just took what we fucking needed. No one was using anything in the store or whatever." At least no one was using the kid size clothes. She's a full grown adult, but she's underweight and not very tall, so kids stuff still fits her better. "I just got lucky."
She just stares through that whole creepy bit, but...then she remembers something Raylan told her, about dying and waking up in some other version of the town. Is that what this is? Fuck.
"Wait, did we...did we die? I thought I'd remember if I died."
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"Oh." She looks at Ellie with new respect. "That works too."
But she looks troubled again at Ellie's question, taking a moment to consider it before shaking her head.
"I don't think so. I don't remember it either. If we didn't die the first time we came here...I don't think we died this time either."
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"If whoever brought us here left all this shit, then, might as well use it. Dunno if there's more clothes now or if they thought leaving us in those dumbass pjs was funny or what." She's never figured out the how or the why of this place. No one has, as far as she knows.
"Kinda glad to hear that. I'd wanna remember it if I fucking died." Well...maybe not because it would probably suck, but better to know for sure, isn't it? She lets that train of thought move on, though.
"But I guess...I mean we've woken up places we didn't go to sleep. I never thought there could be another Mathias but who the fuck knows, right? Maybe you're right. Maybe we'll end up back in the first one again or...whatever." Or maybe someplace worse, though it's hard to imagine a worse place.
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She shifts uncomfortably, not thrilled with the reminder of going to sleep in one location only to end up somewhere else. Between arriving in Mathias in the first place, the week of waking up back on the beach and reliving the same day over and over again, and now this, it's happened far too often for her taste lately.
"Maybe it is the same place, and they did just take everything." She doesn't know why anyone would do that, but is it really any less likely than them waking up in a whole parallel town? "Or maybe it's time travel. Again. Everything was dusty. Maybe it's just been a really long time since we were here." Which...actually isn't any more reassuring, either, now that she thinks about it.
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She crosses her arms, closes off because she’s just like that. And this is still so weird, even for Mathias. Something doesn’t add up for her, but…she can’t know how long she’s been gone yet, or what the others went through that she missed.
“Like that time we lived the same day over and over? Jesus. I guess if they can do that, they could do other shit to fuck with time.” She laughs, but not because it’s funny. “This is the kind of bullshit you just read about, you know? Man. Who the fuck would ever think it could happen."
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"Yeah," she agrees, trying it out for herself. "Fuck!"
It doesn't actually fix anything, but it does make her feel a little better. She frowns, something Ellie had said suddenly registering.
"Wait. What do you mean, asleep for weeks?"
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She does manage a smile at Parker’s attempt to use profanity to cope. It works for Ellie, after all. At least somewhat.
She tilts her head at the question.
“Look around. It was, like, fall or some shit before, right? The weather. It’s warm now, right? It was cold as shit before. And everything was covered in dust, at least where I woke up. Was it different for you?”
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"Our house is dusty too. Like no one had been there for a long time." She hesitates.
"But...we weren't asleep. Unless you think the - the big house, and the ruins and everything were a dream?"
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But hang on, something isn’t right here.
“Ruins? What ruins?”
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That's definitely what it had been once. But the ruins had been a ways off from everything else, and she'd only seen not-Jeff exploring them. It's easy to believe Ellie hadn't made her way over there.
"It was in the other Mathias, without the chasm. You know, with the giant house and all the..."
She hesitates, suddenly, averting her eyes and looking uncomfortable.
"The...memories?"
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“Wait, did you say without the chasm? What the fuck? I have no idea what you’re talking about. What memories?” Her tone probably borders on angry, but it’s not that she’s angry at Parker. She’s angry at this horrible nightmare town. How could she not be?
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So she lets Ellie get it out, trying to gather her thoughts and explain as well as she can. Considering she barely understands it herself.
"The chasm disappeared. We tried to dig it up again, but it was all gone. Callisto said...she said the gods took it away. Just because they could."
The memories, though, are more difficult to explain. She pauses, looking briefly up to the sky as she tries to push away the thought of her own memory. How upsetting it had been to hear that Hardison had seen it for himself.
"Then there were...there were things, in the house. Things that belonged to people. To us." Like her bunny. She takes a breath. "And when you picked them up, something that belonged to someone else, you could see...you could remember their memory. A bad one."
She looks uncertainly at Ellie, still unable to adequately explain why she doesn't know any of this. "Maybe you just...didn't pick anything up?" Or go outside, to see the ruins or the solid ground where the chasm had been.
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“If I believed in gods – which I don’t, for the fucking record – I sure as fuck would have stopped after months in this shitty town,” she says. She has no idea who Callisto is, but that’s not the point at the moment. She should maybe find out. Maybe this Callisto person is a magician like John is. Was. Whatever. Maybe she’s another magic user or who the fuck knows what. “But I guess I kind of agree. I think whoever or whatever is doing things here does shit just because they can all the fucking time. They can bring people back from the dead and shit so why the fuck not, right? Get rid of the chasm! Sure! Why the fuck not.”
If she had just gotten here, it would seem impossible, but almost nothing seems impossible anymore. Time could literally start running backwards and she’d just be like, yeah, all right. Guess so.
That memory thing is horrific, she thinks. Most of her memories are terrible ones anyway, at least, the most recent ones. There are good ones in there, most of them about Dina, but she’s not sure she’d want to share them, those moments of intimacy in between the moments of trauma and terror and blood and death.
“No. I didn’t see anything like that, any other house, any…any of that. I don’t know where I was for all of that shit. Maybe I slept through it, I don’t fucking know. Sometimes…sometimes people disappear for a few days here. Sometimes they come back, sometimes they die. Maybe I disappeared and don’t remember. I wouldn’t be the first one. I hate this. I really fucking hate this.”
But she probably would have hated people seeing all of her memories, too, especially the bad ones.
“That memory shit sounds pretty messed up.”
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But Ellie disappearing, even temporarily, sounds even worse to Parker. Disappearing and not even realizing it. Not even knowing she'd missed anything.
What if that had happened to her? Hardison and Eliot would tell her, right?
But when Ellie comments on the memories, she just nods, ducking her head.
"Yeah. It was..." She pauses, biting her lip. "I think it was supposed to be your worst memory. Or...a bad one, anyway." It had certainly been her worst memory. And the last one she ever would have wanted anyone else to see.