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abraxaslogs2023-09-09 11:42 am
- !player event,
- abby littman; the lovers,
- altaïr ibn-la'ahad; the magician,
- bay kennish; the star,
- claire fraser; the empress,
- dante; the devil,
- geralt of rivia; the hanged man,
- istredd; the high priestess,
- james t. kirk; the tower,
- jaskier; the sun,
- jesper fahey; the wheel of fortune,
- jonathan crane; the magician,
- linhardt von hevring; the high priestess,
- lucifer; the devil,
- nanaue; the fool,
- prince wilhelm; the tower,
- rocket; the chariot,
- sam wilson; justice,
- thancred waters; strength,
- wanda maximoff; the hanged man,
- wrench; the hanged man
OPEN MINGLE: Time to Talk, Summoned!
What: Istredd and Wanda called people to the meeting to give an info dump, let people ask questions or share their own information, and then a hang out after with refreshments so people can chat after and make new CR or check in with old CR.
Where: Istredd's Horizon
When: Saturday, September 9th, at midnight so less attention given to them.
Warnings: Discussion of the game plots including all content warnings up to now like psychological thriller, horror, the cult kidnapping, gods being trouble. Abraxas is a wild place, friends.
HORIZON AND SET UP
The Lighthouse was described by Istredd in detail so people would know where to go. During this mingle, it will continue to shine and circle around like a normal lighthouse so people know where to go. His domain is unique for being essentially a tower of books. Shelves upon shelves of books and multiple floors. The only other detail before the talk starts is that there are five ravens who will be curiously watching everyone from a perch nearby. Your character may end up with a lapful of one of the two leosylphs who live here, one baby blue colored and the other one black with red eyes.
The main floor has been turned into a large meeting hall of a sort, although mostly in terms of having a large space full of chairs and a few tables if people wish to sit there. Your character can perch anywhere they want including up a floor. A key note about Istredd's domain is that people can easily morph chairs or create them in whatever form they'd want, so if you want them to have their childhood chair, go ahead. If they want a gaming chair, it'll show up automatically for them. His space is very intuitive. People can choose to speak either from the back of the room, as Istredd will do, or from where they sit/stand.
If your character wants to attend but not be noticed, they can intuitively use his Horizon to mask themselves/go invisible. Istredd will not call you out, Henry Creel.
After the initial formal talk and information gathering, Istredd will ease up the more formal atmosphere of the large hall and create a food and drink section against the walls. Wanda assists him in making this look nicer and homier. There will be extensive offerings but people can add any type of food or drink to this, it's up to them to modify it.
If your character would like to explore the library or get a beat to themselves/talk privately with someone, they can do that by wandering the floors. People will find that if they open a book it will appear to be empty at first, but if they think about their favorite book, the pages will fill in. It is entirely based on their recollection of the book so may not be entirely complete, but if their subconscious mind has memorized much of it, they will see what they need to in there.
They may also find that as they move through the floors, a 'reading nook' may appear in the corner that will instinctively know what they would feel comfortable sitting to read with. They can also 'lock' this room if they want to discuss something with another person and need privacy.
ISTREDD'S SPEECH
[Istredd will wait until it appears everyone has arrived or most people have and he will clear his throat to get their attention if they are already chatting with other people. He appears as he often does in Thorne, with very plain clothes in a dark shade of blue, serious and calm. He stands straight-backed, hands clasped behind his back. Istredd speaks in a very clear and calm way.]
Please sit or stand as you feel comfortable. If you want, you can create any chair you wish to sit in. After the initial conversation, food and drinks will be provided and you are free to add your own favorite dishes. This is intended as an information-gathering conversation. Last year, Sam Wilson hosted something similar to keep the Summoned informed, and a great many things have happened since. Wanda and I thought to do the same this year.
We posted on the network a breakdown of what happened with the kidnapping earlier this year. If you missed it, the general idea was that a cult from Solvunn took half of the Summoned and held us in a pit, where they were experimented on. The cult's intention was to try and take the connection the Summoned have to the Singularity, and what they believed to also be a connection to their gods.
It should be noted that Thorne tried something similar early on in the Summonings. Their experimentation also did not work, as far as we know. We thought it prudent to keep every Summoned informed of what happened in case something like this happens again. We have put forward from the Solvunn and Thorne conclave a request to our factions to allow us to have access to the island. We'll let people know what we hear.
I also put together a history timeline of the Summoned.
[He pulls out a blackboard with this list written down over it in clear readable words. He points to the February 20,078 section where the details about the kidnapping are written out in particular.]
If anyone would like to add notes or months I missed, please either write it yourself or let me know and I will add it. I am hoping to keep this an active timeline for us. This will always be available in my library here to anyone who wants it. We have also been given a pantheon of the gods from our friends in Solvunn that is also available in here.
I have been taking notes since I got here about general information that may be of interest to people when they arrive, including details about magic, the Singularity, and the factions. They're very broad but you can read it on this.
[He creates another blackboard to the side, also able for other people to make notes upon.]
I don't want to be talking this entire time, so instead I would like to invite people to share any findings or information they have that they think the whole group should be aware of, and also ask questions that could be answered or talked about. Please be polite with one another and understand there are some things we simply do not have the answers for as of now.
There are less than a hundred of us, and I believe it is important that we stay on the same team. Thank you. Feel free to eat and talk, or wander in the library.
OOC NOTES
Hey everyone, it's Dee! I am so sorry for the tl;dr. I have the headers below: Speeches (information sharing/tl;dr like mine), Questions (you can specify what exactly they have questions about), adding to the info dumps I have, and whatever else you think of.
If you want your character to speak/offer information but don't want follow-up questions, you can put 'OTA' or 'no follow-up' to indicate what your preference is here. If you put OTA people can reply with a sort of Q&A option, but the no follow-up idea is so that people can share information but not need to commit to that unless they feel like it.
And from there, mingle to your heart's content! Your characters can talk afterward, before, go explore the library, whatever you want, I support it. You can plan closed or open starters, follow your heart.
If nothing else, I want people to take from this mingle that their character can hear any of this information or see it in the library and have it from now on for your RP purposes, and take this opportunity to maybe make new CR/discuss all of this. Do as much or as little as you want! If you have any comments/concerns, please message me on plurk.
Lucifer | Thorne | OTA, will match style
[Anyone with a good eye doing the level of people-watching that is the only reason Lucifer is here will notice that at no time are Lucifer, Kyle, and Kell all in the space. Usually there's two of the three. Sometimes just one. Staggered, coming and going, not on any set schedule.
They did the same thing when there was the Thorne-only meeting in this same domain.
Lucifer was not here for the beginning of the meeting, coming in sometime after Istredd's speech.
He is spending the majority of his time roosting up on a very high shelving of books that doesn't have any natural access to it. He is not hiding the fact that he's keeping a very close eye on all the attendants, one of the ravens occasionally flitting to him, acting like a pest, and then taking off again.
He'll act cordial (probably) if anyone tries to engage him in conversation, though he is more stand-offish than usual to those he's close to. He won't (unless you're family) try to kick you off the shelf.]
B.
For the Thorne stragglers that decided to skip the meeting for whatever reason (sleep, politics, anti-social), they'll see Lucifer around the castle. It's not completely abnormal. He'd usually take sleep instead of midnight jaunts, but he does this every so often just for when this sort of large meeting occurs he has the pretext.
When he's on his "shift" he'll hit the library and then the dining hall, books propped open to various magic symbols as he drinks some tea, and sketches across different sheets of paper layered sigils, eventually to return to his room for a bit (enough time to hop back into the Horizon), and then back out again with a book and paper.
A
It's not really anything about disappointment in other people or the anxiety of betrayal. This situation is already so complicated and tedious, he just wants a few things to be simple around here. Is that too much to ask?
Anyway, what Finn does notice is a man perched on a too-high shelf later in the night. At first, he just blinks up at him and continues doing whatever he was doing. But then Finn pauses later and does it again. And again.
He knows the other man is intentionally staying away from people, and he's pretty sure his newbie syndrome isn't very wanted, but-... ]
How did you get up there?
[ The question was probably seen coming a mile away. Finn himself certainly was as he finally approached the shelving. But sue him, he's curious, especially about the Horizon and all of this magic stuff.
But if the other man says he just climbed it, Finn's going to bow his head and walk away in embarrassment. ]
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The sad fact is that while they might all 'be on the same side' how they go about that and what costs they're all willing to make is very, very different. How much blood are they willing to spill for the things they all desire?]
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I'm Finn. New around here. Thought maybe you used magic or... something.
[ As for blood, Finn's willing to spill however much is necessary. He just isn't a man who desires much beyond freedom and security. But given their current situation, the political tension, the goals of the other summoned, everything- Finn will probably spill more than his fair share by the time things are said and done.
He just hopes it doesn't come to that. Hence, trying to make friends. ]
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Ugh he hates the niceties behind social gatherings, but he always acts differently outside of Thorne. Masks and charm, 'smidgen' less of an asshole.] Lucifer.
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I'll be honest, feels a little rude to try something like that in someone else's domain when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Finn would be the guy to accidentally unravel space and time in a pocket dimension or whatever the hell is the worst case scenario. ]
But does this planet's magic let us teleport? Or is it just... illegal?
[ That last word could be replaced with "unseemly" and still sound the same. ]
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Lucifer has some partial claim over this domain.
He hums, actually considering the question, drumming his fingers against the shelf.] It's... well, at least in Thorne, it's the warding preventing us much range, or ability. I've felt similar weights in other locations but... I think it's a little of a mix. Not illegal but certainly the factions preventing things. And likely a touch from the Singularity. [A shrug.] I don't know, the Singularity does tend to get blamed for any and everything.
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[ The Singularity getting blamed, that is. Finn wouldn't doubt it is the culprit behind most things, but it's awfully convenient excuse if someone wanted to do something crazy and get away with it. ]
If it's people trying to prevent things, then there should be a way for other people to get around it.
[ It's not lost on him that he's new, that this probably isn't a new idea, but it's something to do in his spare time. ]
I think you just gave me something to fill my extra time with.
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... They probably have more in Thorne given what I've heard about the security over there, but they must have some in the Free Cities, too. We have a little more range to our movements there. I'll take a look. See what I can find.
[ The borders will be his first (several) stops. Won't be suspicious at all! ]
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