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WHO: Jayden and others
WHAT: Catch-all for May, with OTA and closed starters
WHERE: Cadens, the Horizon, maybe elsewhere idek
WHEN: All month
WARNINGS: TBD

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[Jayden's domain is overcast at the moment, threatening a little rain, but not quite committing to it. However, thunder rumbles in the distance and the sky looks like it might open up at any moment though, so the hotel might be inviting shelter.

If the visitor hears a piano, Jayden's in the lounge; he's at the piano but doesn't bother playing full songs, just playing for about thirty seconds at a time before getting bored or distracted and stopping, then starting again shortly. He's lost in thought and doesn't immediately notice the visitor, but after another brief round of playing he'll look up, offering a hello that's surprised but welcoming to someone he knows, and friendly but cautious to a stranger.

If it's silent, the lobby is deserted. The lobby's bar is stocked for anyone who wants to help themselves, and the unlocked door is also free to explore.]

[He doesn't really want to be out wandering around, but here he is anyway, meandering through the streets of Cadens half-heartedly looking for a library. His thoughts keep going back to the Horizon, and although he has several reasons to be out in the real world at the moment, it's difficult to keep those reasons in mind and maintain any real motivation.

So Jayden is very distracted, and that combined with only barely looking for something he doesn't know where is, leads to the inevitable. Realizing something suddenly, he stops on the side street he's wandered down, glances around for a moment, and then remarks incredulously to himself--]

Am I lost?

[Jayden is definitely not sulking. He's just taking a break, sitting outside a cafe with a drink, disinterestedly flipping through a brochure he'd been given by someone trying to draw attention to one of the museums. It does look like an interesting enough place, but he doesn't care to focus on reading at the moment, so his concentration keeps drifting.

It's one of those moments when a flash of movement catches his attention, only noteworthy because it's higher up than he would expect to see normal activity from the people out and about in the city. But it's definitely a person, just one on a rooftop, and a conversation Jayden had on the network weeks ago suddenly comes to mind.

So he raises a hand in greeting, unsure if Altair will see him--or, if he does, if he would come down off the roof, which Jayden isn't actually expecting him to do--but it seems rude to just ignore him. He supposes, anyway. What's the etiquette for a situation like this? Does it even matter?]

[Although Jayden has spent most of the time he's been in the Horizon keeping to his own domain, he has ventured near others on occasion. But it always felt a bit like showing up at someone's door unannounced, and he also hadn't felt much like a lot of social interaction, so he's kept his exploration limited.

But at this point he's started getting a little bored, as well as more sure of himself when it comes to the Horizon itself, and so he's begun to be a little more daring. So when he wanders into a forest he decides to look around a bit, and stumbles upon two buildings that are so different from each other that incongruity is almost funny, he's far more curious than cautious.

The diner is much more inviting than the church, and so after only a momentary hesitation, he decides to step inside.]

[ When the call for help had gone out from the Secretary of Agriculture, she had thought it would be a brilliant excuse to drag Jayden out of his room. How could he deny the good people of Cadens and her insistent doe eyes and pouting?

She had even been considerate enough to politely sign them up for something that didn't have anything to do with the mushrooms leaving them choice of heavy lifting or something to do with driving some kind of device. Heavy lifting had quickly been vetoed which left the driving task. What could possibly go wrong? She's even got a cute little outfit on suitable for some (light) work and sensible boots for the task ahead.

Hilda all but drags Jayden the last couple of metres towards the small transportation devices. ]

These are so cute! So much easier than lugging heavy buckets up from the river, right?

[Jayden would've had zero interest in the beach party even had the events of a few months earlier hadn't happened; the beach is just not something that appeals to him, and he's never liked parties, so mixing the two is just not his thing. But recent events did occur, and so the entire thing is even less appealing, because he's not sure he wants to see seawater ever again.

So he fully intends to avoid the beach, but does that mean he's going to pass up a free trip to Aquila? Absolutely not. He's curious about the city in several respects, and even more so after hearing from Blake that apparently there had been a string of crimes there. The empathetic part of him hopes that whatever was going on has been taken care of and that there's no longer some murderer running around, but there's still another sizable part of him that wants to investigate. To do something he's good at, something with a sense of normalcy.

But that's not exactly the point of this outing, and he puts it out of his mind as he reaches the location of the portal a little early, mostly to scope out the setup. He also puts out of his mind the desire to suddenly cancel, to go back to the Inn, to return to the Horizon and just spend time there instead, and also ignores the spike of anxiety caused by having that feeling at all. It's fine. If there's a problem, it's a problem for later.

Right now, he's just waiting, fiddling with his sleeve to be sure it covers the bandage still on his arm--he'd only figured out recently that the downside to not having to eat or sleep while in the Horizon is that he also doesn't heal--and keeping a watch for anyone else approaching.]

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Horizon - OTA!

Cadens - OTA!