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Entry tags:
- abigail hobbs; the hanged man,
- alucard; the hierophant,
- amos burton; the lovers,
- bucky barnes; the hanged man,
- cirilla of cintra; the devil,
- coraline finch; the tower,
- emet-selch; the emperor,
- eponine thenardier; the hanged man,
- estinien wyrmblood; the hermit,
- geralt of rivia; the hanged man,
- himeka sui; the fool,
- jaskier; the sun,
- jon sims; the high priestess,
- jordan hennessy; the moon,
- julie lawry; the wheel of fortune,
- kay faraday; the fool,
- kylo ren; the tower,
- martin blackwood; the empress,
- nadine cross; the world,
- nero (drakengard); the devil,
- phoenix wright; the lovers,
- relena peacecraft; death,
- sam wilson; justice,
- the darkling; death
[ OPEN ] i know some places and i've seen some faces
WHO: sam wilson and anyone/everyone.
WHAT: captain america cookout.
WHERE: sam's horizon domain
WHEN: third saturday of september (aka, about 3 weeks after the jailbreak)
NOTES: see below!
HELLO ALL AND WELCOME TO SAM'S CAPTAIN AMERICA COOKOUT!!!!
Over the last week or so, Sam has been going out of his way to contact as many people as he knows to invite them to a cookout at his place in the Horizon. He knows that after the jailbreak, a lot of people were separated, and this was his first thought on how to bring people together. The purpose behind it is simply because Sam thinks that the one thing all of them have in common, opinion on the Singularity and their situations aside, is that they were all brought here and can actually access the Horizon. He sees merit and use in coming together when they can, especially in ways that don't involve the politics of the land they're now living in. So, what better way to do that than around food?
The long and short of it is - this is a peace meal. Leave your issues at the door. Sam has very few rules and there is very little he will give in terms of what this cookout will entail, but three things he will make very clear:
All throughout the party, too, there will be a new friend. Red, as Sam fondly calls him, is a blood-red hunting hawk with silver in between the feathers. He can be found circling around Sam quite often, or perched on his shoulders, but also if you are out and about you can often see him checking up on anyone and everyone. He's a very curious little bird, and also pretty sassy, if you want to interact with him.




If you haven't, or have, been to Sam's domain before, feel free to take a look around. Anywhere is open (save for one locked bedroom) so everyone has open access, but most of the cookout itself will be located in the front yard.
WHAT: captain america cookout.
WHERE: sam's horizon domain
WHEN: third saturday of september (aka, about 3 weeks after the jailbreak)
NOTES: see below!
Over the last week or so, Sam has been going out of his way to contact as many people as he knows to invite them to a cookout at his place in the Horizon. He knows that after the jailbreak, a lot of people were separated, and this was his first thought on how to bring people together. The purpose behind it is simply because Sam thinks that the one thing all of them have in common, opinion on the Singularity and their situations aside, is that they were all brought here and can actually access the Horizon. He sees merit and use in coming together when they can, especially in ways that don't involve the politics of the land they're now living in. So, what better way to do that than around food?
The long and short of it is - this is a peace meal. Leave your issues at the door. Sam has very few rules and there is very little he will give in terms of what this cookout will entail, but three things he will make very clear:
1.) There will be no fighting at his home. You want to duke it out? Take it somewhere else. There will not be warnings or second chances. Don't be an ass.The cookout itself is set up out front, with picnic tables and chairs and fire pits and lights abound. There are tables set up near grilles if anyone wants to do any actual cooking outside, and a table (probably multiple) set up with sides and napkins and utensils. There are a variety of different places to go and sit and hang out while you're eating. Anything and everything you can want is available - food, drinks, yard games, music playing from out in the trees that will remain consistent unless someone tries to find the speakers and hijack the playlists, etc. If you can't find something outside, you're more than welcome to check the house.
2.) There is no meeting or serious reason for this cookout. Literally, he just wants people to come together who may no longer be able to see each other due to the travel constraints. It's meant to be fun. Come have fun. (he knows y'all know what that is, even when some of you pretend you don't). Bring food if you want to! There is also a kitchen (if you know what that is) and places to crash. Hope you like seafood!
3.) Anyone who can come into the Horizon is welcome. He'd love it if everyone came, so spread the word.
All throughout the party, too, there will be a new friend. Red, as Sam fondly calls him, is a blood-red hunting hawk with silver in between the feathers. He can be found circling around Sam quite often, or perched on his shoulders, but also if you are out and about you can often see him checking up on anyone and everyone. He's a very curious little bird, and also pretty sassy, if you want to interact with him.




If you haven't, or have, been to Sam's domain before, feel free to take a look around. Anywhere is open (save for one locked bedroom) so everyone has open access, but most of the cookout itself will be located in the front yard.
OOC: This is mean to be an OPEN LOG, so leave your TLs or closed threads below! This party will last basically as long as people want it to, but the idea is for it to be an afternoon into the evening. Y'all have free reign save for destroying Sam's home, but if you have any questions, hit me up on plurk (disarmingly or disco (dai#3757). Sam's TL is below, and he will be bouncing around like the good host he is, but lets get a little party started.
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Like her, he’s moved past giving a damn what he’s drinking, and if some part of him is subconsciously preventing the cup from ever emptying—he’s only paying half the attention he should. The rest of him is thinking about what it’s like to never leave a place your whole life. To have never set foot near the sea. ]
Not even once? [ He considers. He knows it’s not uncommon. Folk who live and die in the same shit farmland they had for generations. He just can’t imagine it. There are parts of being what he is that’s—complicated. But his ability to roam where his path takes him isn’t one. (So then why had he settled in the Horizon, his first time in, when he could’ve so easily chosen to wander?) ]
Surviving. No one seems to give a fuck yet, who came from where. [ He pauses. It’s been weeks. If no one’s come for them yet, perhaps Thorne has let it go, but…it leaves him uneasy, the thought of the few who chose to hide in plain sight within Nott. ] You should be careful, in Thorne’s territory. Last I heard, they marked the prisoners to track them down.
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[ She nods and wedges the bottle in the space between her calf and thigh, so that she doesn't have to keep holding it, then looks back at him with an almost hopeful smile. ] Actually, the... mayor, maybe? The guy who's in charge of Nott, he's real mad at Thorne and he kind of hates the royals. So we're being protected. But I've been savin' some money to hire a mage if we need to portal out quick.
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[ As many places. He’s not one to play with it, the limitless expanse of this plane, but he can understand the appeal it holds. He wonders if this is even the extent of it. Connected to the Singularity—it must have more to it.
He peers at her. Nadine had said the same. Nott, splintered from the rest of Thorne. She had not mentioned, though, that the man who oversaw the city explicitly defied the royal family. He turns that over in his mind. That level of authority, untouched by Thorne’s influence, is interesting. Especially when even the Duchess seemed unwilling to turn against Thorne, despite her disdain for the High Mage. ]
We. [ He rubs his thumb on the rim of the cup. ] You’ve found people?
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[ Julie had been a dreamer locked in a box in her old life, obsessed with the idea that if she just wanted and visualized hard enough, she would someday get everything she'd wanted, deserved. She'd filled her childhood bedroom with vision boards, covered the walls with even more pictures. And when she had to leave home because she couldn't move her rotting family members out of the house on her own, she'd gone to the local warehouse store and made even more vision boards to surround herself with. If she was going to be alone, at least it would be with the thoughts of wonderful things.
She doesn't really know how to do that in Abraxas, a culture so far removed from everything she's ever known. So she spends a lot of time in the Horizon, making all the things she'd longed for before. But she has the ocean for real now, even if it's not crystal blue waters on white sand beaches.
Nodding, she takes another sip from the bottle, then tucks it back at her side. ]
Well, I kinda always had 'em. We're from the same place, me and Flagg and Nadine and Lloyd. So even when I was down in the dungeon, I wasn't exactly alone. But Nadine dragged these two little bitches along with us, it's the worst. One of 'em is just whatever, but the other one is that French whore I whomped back at the castle. Fuckin' dirty bitch.
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He considers asking what she made instead—in part because he thinks he might like to see it some time, whatever it may be—but saves it. His eyebrow lifts instead. Mm. Several of those remarks, he isn’t getting into. Not his grudges, not his business, even if he tucks the information in the back of his mind for when it becomes relevant. But he does know the names Lloyd and Nadine. ]
I met them. Lloyd and Nadine. [ He gestures around them to indicate the Horizon. ] First time in.
[ He doesn’t know them in any real sense, in other words, aside from the brief conversation he had with Nadine earlier in the day. With all that he’s been drinking, it’s a bit more obvious in his expression that he’s putting something together. Three names, only two he recognizes. Lloyd was a guest, not a prisoner, and Nadine noted Thorne imprisoned the man she married. So the third, Flagg. He realizes who that must be. ]
Flagg is her husband.
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Honestly, it's probably for the best. Who knows what kind of weird drugs and sex toys she might be able to craft if she had a wild imagination? ]
Oh yeah? What was it like, with no one rememberin' themselves? Lloyd brought me, my first time, and he could remember me but I didn't remember anythin'. Not even the Inferno, that's his domain. It's where we lived back home.
[ She scoffs and rolls her eyes. ]
Yeah, Flagg's her husband. Whatever.
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For a minute or so, he’s silent. What curiosities he holds for Nadine, for Flagg, for Julie's apparent distaste over it all, they slip away. Tempting, to brush her question off with a remark of no significance. He doubts Julie would care either way; she seems to be asking just to ask. Maybe if she'd caught him in a different moment, he might've done exactly that. Instead, he finds himself admitting what he has not to anyone else for reasons he can't explain. ]
Like...you lived a life that wasn't yours. [ His answer comes quiet, contemplative. ] We made the only homes we ever knew. Then you wake up and it's gone.
[ The days had expanded strangely in a place with no real sense of time, and though he understands, logically, they were here for only about two weeks, it'd felt more. Days or months or years, it doesn't matter: the entirety of his existence within the Horizon had filled that brief period. And he remembers with far more clarity than he's ever wanted of having only ever had that life and nothing else. ]
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But she remembers the sudden sense of loss, once she was told that she didn't remember. A gnawing desire for memories she hadn't even known existed until the words were spoken. She can't imagine being in a huge group of people that all knew nothing outside of the dreamscape, to have to remember that whatever idyllic, pain-free paradise you'd designed for yourself was fake and all the suffering was real.
Gently, Julie reaches out and touches his hand around the cup. ]
It was still your life, y'know. It was... this place gives us the things we deserve, from what I can tell. The real world is shitty and just wants to hurt everyone in it, but most of us didn't do anything to earn that. Whatever you had here, it was real enough. Everything you felt about it was still real.
[ There's another brief pause, and she sighs. ] Y'know when you asked me before what I was doin' when they brought me here? Well, when I said nothin', I meant it literally. I was dead. This place is all I have now. So it's real. You're still gonna be real to me out there, Geralt. Why does any of the rest of it have to be different?
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He can’t say if it’s true, what this place gives. Maybe it does, maybe that’s what it’s meant to do: to afford all those who enter the chance to live what they deserve. If they are capable of it. He’s not sure he is. He’d built that home, that life, with a girl that existed only as a shadow, and then she’d. Vanished. Before he actually awoke. And for all that he’d felt the hollow in his chest, he remembers after he stopped searching for the girl and simply got back on his horse, alone, that was when it felt as though things finally settled into place. Like he’d found where he was always supposed to end up.
(Why do you do that? Yennefer had asked. Second guess yourself, when you have something nice. He’s realized it holds true what he’d answered in return, whether inside here or out there, with or without his memories: he doesn’t know how to keep it.)
His gaze snaps up. What? He stares at Julie for a second. His brows furrow. Shit. His head is far too stuffed with wool to work out exactly what this means, that she’s. Dead. Was dead. Normally he’d have a question or two: does she bear any marks or effects from what killed her, is anyone else with her supposed to be dead, too. (How the fuck.) As it is, the only coherent thought he has is that he genuinely doesn’t like the notion of her being dead. ]
Perhaps it is. [ She isn’t wrong, that it’s—it feels real. Deep down, that’s the problem he keeps having. He was given a tangible life he was never meant to hold onto. ] It’s faded all the same. But we are still here.
[ She’s here. If she’s died back in her world, she’s alive now. That part, at least, he can say is real. ]
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Though the conversation started as just idle question asking, her voice turns soft and terribly genuine. Not because she's trying to humor him, but because she means it. ]
What was it? Your life? [ Then, so as not to seem prying without giving in kind, she adds, ] Part of my domain, the back half, it's just this big, empty warehouse. I can't figure out why. Maybe that's where the people stay when I ain't here.
[ She smiles and sips from the bottle, raising it to him. ] We're still here. We'll make the best of it.
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He's also already said...more. Than he'd intended to. He lifts his hand vaguely, like he's trying to indicate it wasn't anything special. His life, that was, that he had here. ]
A cabin. Up on the mountains. Quiet. [ Quiet. More than anything, that'd been important. The genuine peaceful quiet. There was a girl. He does not say it. Cirilla might be here now, but that girl, the shadow of her, she'd been something else. Something he still doesn't want to acknowledge.
—Wait. He peers at Julie. ] What people?
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[ One thing Julie had made sure to do, when she was faced with the necessity of walking nearly fifteen hundred miles, was chart her course through the things she'd never seen. Mountains in Colorado, the Grand Canyon -- ironically, walking until her shoes filled with blood was still a high point of her short life.
She looks at him curiously when he reacts that way; she hadn't thought that the people were anything special. Were the domains of others not constantly full of subconsciously manifested extras like a movie? ]
The people, they're usually in my club. There's maybe about a hundred of 'em? They're okay, they just dance and party, but they don't really talk to me. And if I only go in there for a minute, then they ain't around. Bartender's always there, though.
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[ Just not the cabin. Is it an invitation? Maybe. He isn't thinking too carefully about what he's doing at the moment. Between his and Jon's side by side, snow and mountains are aplenty in that piece of the Horizon. Perhaps she'd like to see it.
When she describes the people—so that's what she means. Most haven't kept the people they shaped unawares their first time in. Himself included. Jaskier, too. The lack of real features on their faces, of any real interaction—it was unsettling. And it spoke too much of what was missing for all of them, their time in here.
Geralt studies her. Trying to decide if she doesn't realize those people manifested from her directly or she simply doesn't mind that their presence. Maybe to her, they're necessary to fill the emptiness of a world normally dead. ] And you leave them there? You haven't tried to unmake them?
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[ Julie figures that, as long as she's not entering other people's private dwellings with their domain, she's still free to look at the landscapes they've plunked them down on. After all, you can't tell people that they can't look at nature, right? And either way, she's not exactly someone who's afraid to go snooping where she shouldn't anyway.
Her people have features, albeit terribly blank, forgettable ones. Their faces are unimportant -- they are only present to fill the room. She does knit her brow, demonstrating obvious confusion over this concept. ] But I didn't make 'em. Plus, isn't it kind of like murder? I mean, I know they ain't exactly real, but... they ain't exactly not, either.
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(Who did bring her in? One of the people she'd run to Nott with? Lloyd? Nadine?) ]
Julie. [ Geralt tilts his head. ] You did make them. Intentionally or not. This place—people can't hold form the way an object or an animal can. That's why they don't speak to you. Or vanish now and again.
[ They're not real, but. He gets it. How undoing them might feel. He realizes, he's just fucking glad Ciri had disappeared before he returned. That she wasn't still here, waiting. Because unmaking that. He doesn't even want to think about it. ]
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The stitch between her eyebrows deepens, as this thought has literally never occurred to her. She is, vaguely, aware that they can manifest things without trying, but she did not believe people to be included -- only objects and possibly animals (Lloyd has some weird nightmare bunnies that she turns tame without trying whenever she gets close). There is a long pause where she obviously starts and stops several thoughts before they ever leave her mouth, and then she finally settles on: ]
Well, I don't know what they're doin' there. [ Which is a lie, now that she understands what's happening. She knows damn well that she's terrified to be alone now, that she's not haunted by the pestilence and death that she comes from. Only the loneliness. ] But it don't seem right to just... wish 'em away or whatever. This whole place, it's connected to the Singularity, right? If we hurt part of it, is it the same as hurtin' the Singularity itself?
[ She curls into a tighter ball in her chair, downs a large gulp of vodka as she looks into the distance. They can't see it from here, but she knows that the monolith lurks in the center of it all. Julie doesn't like the Singularity very much. Even if it's all Flagg wants, it still makes her stomach clench to think of it, to know that she's tethered to it. ]
And if these people are right, maybe we shouldn't be hurtin' it.
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He's quiet, eyes on her, considering what she's saying. It's interesting. It's interesting she thinks of it that way, that unmaking something is destroying a part of the Horizon as a whole. Is that true? He does know he feels an uneasiness at the idea of someone else fucking with his domain, uninvited, with the intention to destroy. More so than he should, given his understanding that it can all be recreated in a matter of minutes. ]
It was blank when we arrived. Untouched. We all felt...a desire to make. [ His suspicion, at first, had been that Thorne brought them inside to feed it with their creation. Why grant the prisoners access otherwise? Then he learned what they did to Relena. Now he isn't sure. What would happen if they returned this place to its blank slate? It must be possible for it to exist in that form. That was how they'd found it. But Julie's observation, whether she meant it to or not, is beginning to make him reconsider: what if the Horizon was not born out of the Singularity? What if its existence is owed entirely to their interlinked connection to it instead? If more and more of them are connected, would the expanse within the Horizon grow? ]
I don't know. [ His expression softens for a moment as he watches her stare across their little world, before he takes another drink. Shit. He's had too much to theorize over transcendental creations. Or not enough. One or the other. ] Some believe our connection to the Singularity is vital. That may have been part of Thorne's intention. So we have little choice but to defend it on their behalf.
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Maybe that's it. Something about this place makes it feel like it needs to be protected, cared for. Guarded. Is this what ancient temples and holy places feel like? She hates it. ]
It's been here a long time before we got here. Don't know why we'd need to defend it. Seems pretty capable on its own.
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Thorne believes something's changing that'll collapse the world. [ It's clear, from how he repeats it, that he's skeptical at best. He's heard it all before. World-ending prophecies and omens. (But then, what of the Red Riders, who Ciri believes so firmly is real?) ] Though they appear to have little want of us. For now.
[ Hence, the dungeons. He gives the smallest shrug. As much as he's avoided getting caught up, he also knows he can't in the long run. The question is what he wants to do about that when the time comes. More and more, the longer he stays, the more he talks to people, he finds himself with a reason to do...something. Reasons that aren't all to do with Ciri. ]
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[ She scoffs. Thorne seems to be basing their entire approach to the world on one specific guy who just... decides shit without ever asking a question. It's like letting a toddler run the household. ]
I dunno. I knew a few people upstairs, and they said they weren't told that much more than us in the dungeon. Like, you want people to save you, you're gonna tell 'em what the problem is in the first place, right? But they can't. It's bullshit. I half think they just stumbled on the way to bring us here and they're tryin' to justify it all.
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[ Like her, it's a hell of a thing to be told of another cataclysmic event on the horizon, when his own world's not just ended—it was born out of exactly the event Thorne describes threatens their existence. A collapsing of multiple spheres. If it happened once, perhaps it's only logical it can happen again, but he doesn't believe, either, something of that magnitude can be predicted or stopped. But it does serve as an easy excuse for a kingdom to grasp for power, redirecting an entire nation's fears. What else is new?
A beat, before he finally offers Julie her drink back: a trade for the bottle in her hands. If the cup is still surprisingly full, mm. He's not been paying attention, exactly, to how often he subconsciously refilled the thing. What is certain, though, is the yellow of his eyes has taken on a glassy quality few get to see in him, and that he's giving far less thought into what he chooses to say. ]
People have done worse for less. I've seen a century of the same fucking thing.
[ And now he's crossed entire spheres just for more of it. So. Everything he ever wanted. ]
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[ She trades him back the bottle, taking a final gulp of punch before setting the cup on the ground at the leg of her chair. When she sits back upright, there's a stitch between her eyebrows that wasn't there before. ]
Wait, how old are you?
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Nothing like a war started through hubris. [ He tips back the bottle, appreciating the familiar taste of it again. At least he's not the only one here tired of—this. The Singularity and this sphere's seeming obsession with it. Whether or not it was ever important, it is now. They've all made it so. Julie is not wrong: self-fulfilling prophecies are the only kinds he believes in.
He looks over the bottle. Mm. His gesture is vaguely dismissive, like he doesn't consider the number significant. ]
Hundred. Give or take. [ Older than he looks; not as old as others presume sometimes. Though it doesn't stop Jaskier from calling him ancient. ] I'm youthful at heart.
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[ It's big talk from someone who is, for all practical purposes, also in a cult. Hers doesn't require mass suicide, though, so it's fine. Totally fine.
She arches her eyebrow and laughs a little. ] Shit, that's what hundred year-old people look like where you're from? I gotta move worlds.
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He blinks once, twice. Takes another drink. ] I—hm. [ That's. Different. ] Are these spaceships a myth?
[ He's certain this is not the point of her story, but at the same time, it feels worth noting because the other part of it—needless death for some horseshit belief—is typical enough. And dredges up things he'd rather not delve into. (If Destiny were a spaceship, would his mother have willingly thrown him to the wolves all the same? Likely.)
A brief pause passes before Geralt catches what Julie is insinuating. He shakes his head, a light curl to his lips. ] Not exactly everyone. We're slow to age, my kind.
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