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Viktor ([personal profile] techmaturgy) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs2025-01-29 08:44 pm

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Who: Viktor and special guests and YOU
When: end of January/February pre-event
Where: Cadens, the Horizon
What: it’s canon update time baybe and things have become…weird…
Warnings: potential references to suicidal ideation, and also a manslaughter. arcane season 2 spoilers through episode 6.

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[open and closed starters in comments! If you want a custom starter or something specific, just hit me up. Details on the canon update, including new powers are here. I’m on plurk at [plurk.com profile] whitticus and on discord also at whitticus.]
cryptsleeper: <user name="malagraphic"> (NO??? NO!!!)

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[personal profile] cryptsleeper 2025-01-31 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Alucard has been managing his time in Thorne through extensive use of the Horizon and the knowledge that his friends are there for him. He visits Hilda almost every other day, and Jaskier twice a week or thereabouts. Viktor on a weekly basis at a set time, because there's something to be said for the frequency. All Alucard asks for is workshop updates and any important information about what is going on in Cadens. A window into normality and a way to keep abreast of any changes to things that impact Alucard's work.

Alucard expects the same Horizon as ever. To see Rio and give her a few gentle pats before they both amble off to find Viktor.

Except there's no Rio.

There's no ground.

There's no gravity.

There's....]


...Viktor?

[The wonder and confusion in Alucard's voice is soft and awed in the most true sense of the term. His friend's shape is celestial. Beautiful. And so deeply confusing.]
cryptsleeper: <user name="malagraphic"> (NO??? NO!!!)

[personal profile] cryptsleeper 2025-02-02 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
............?!

[Alucard would like to hope that Viktor will give him a few moments to process everything happening here. It isn't that a change to someone's Horizon space is a surprise or even unusual, but this level of dramatic change means that something else has happened. What, Alucard cannot even begin to process.

But all in due time. His mouth is still agape, and in all of it, he extends his hand to Viktor's.]


Lead on.
cryptsleeper: <user name="malagraphic"> (thinkin for a sec here)

[personal profile] cryptsleeper 2025-02-02 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Alucard nods faintly. The context explains how such a dramatic shift could happen overnight. He remembers it happening to Jaskier and Geralt but never to this scale.

There's a faint ponderance of what happened in Alucard's head, but the vastness of this space holds his tongue. In truth, he can't remember the last time he was this genuinely awestruck by well, anything.

This all seems impossible, and yet the dhampir has zero doubt that this and more is plausible back home for Viktor.]


Only part...

[He exhales, drifting along the cosmos as easily as someone might swim. The weightlessness is so different here. It glides effortlessly. Almost happily, ignoring the rules of the rest of the universe.]

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[personal profile] wiedzminka 2025-02-01 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ As much as Ciri likes a change of pace, she has been experiencing something like a homesickness the longer she's been stuck in Solvunn, everyone scattered. It's a relief that Jaskier and Mog are here, but most of the people she's used to -- not to mention her horse -- are scattered elsewhere. The novelty is beginning to wear off.

She's grown soft and spoiled, used to living in one place for so long. Is this what having a home feels like, after so long without? She'd nearly forgotten.

Ciri takes Viktor's invitation to visit him in his domain without hesitation. If she catches anything odd about his explanation that there's something they should discuss, it doesn't really linger.

It's not until she steps into his domain that something feels different. Rio appears, as usual, and Ciri gives her the usual treatment of petting and cooing and a little treat, then follows her through Viktor's altered space to a greenhouse overflowing with strange and colorful foliage.

Her eyes follow the leaves up, lingering on the holes in the dome that reveal a sky above. ]


You've taken up gardening.
wiedzminka: (one hundred & seventy-two.)

[personal profile] wiedzminka 2025-02-08 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's never happened to her, but Ciri is quite familiar with what he means. She saw each other member of her family experience it, more than once; changes had appeared in their domains afterward, too. She knows what a difference it can make.

A dream that isn't a dream -- she does have context for it now, after their shared experience as gods.

Ciri steps closer, tips her head curiously. Her eyes meet his as if searching for a difference there. ]


What else did you see, besides weird ferns?

[ She knows enough from their conversations over the years regarding his work back home, what he'd chosen to share about the hexcore. The pieces of memories lingering from their godhood in another life. And the very real consequences his work had led to in Abraxas.

The question is careful, kept intentionally light. ]
wiedzminka: (thirty-nine.)

[personal profile] wiedzminka 2025-02-16 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sorry, buddy. They're very nice weird ferns?

She's been looking around curiously, considering touching one of the plants while she listens. But when Viktor casually drops that he nearly died, her head snaps back up. ]


To save your--

Wait, what happened?

[ Ciri looks him over more intently now. Of course, in the Horizon, their appearance can change with only an effort of concentration, but Ciri knows these 'dreams of home' can leave very real marks of their own. ]

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i

[personal profile] magicalarchaeologist 2025-02-04 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Istredd rarely leaves his own domain because everything he could want or need is there, but he's feeling restless in Solvunn and that energy translates inside the Horizon too. He planned on walking to Lucifer's domain to see Dersti and sit there for a time, but ends up walking through what he knows to be Viktor's, and decides to let a detour happen instead. He's not been there frequently enough to know many differences, but he admires everything he sees as he goes. He does find other people's domains fascinating, he just doesn't get out much.

The lizard creature Rio does end up enthusiastically leading him in a direction and he assumes it's like his own creatures do within his library, they often lead people to him or to his private areas when he's distracted. He gamely goes along, glancing around as he walks, until he's in the greenhouse and spots Viktor. This must be new, he gleans. ]


Yes, it's very bright.

[ Istredd isn't personally big on gardens or plantlife but he thinks he might mention this to Lucifer. Lucifer's own domain is often a scenic and beautiful place too, it seems they'd have that in common. It's very nice. He wonders if Viktor would like the gardens at Thorne; maybe, if he didn't dislike the rest of the castle, which he thinks he would. ]

Bio-magical, hmm? When did you start becoming interested in that?

[ He's never heard of Viktor being so interested in magic in the first place, let alone in blending it with something like this. He loves everything magical so of course he's interested. ]
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[personal profile] magicalarchaeologist 2025-02-15 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose you haven't had much time to use that in the desert.

[ Istredd doesn't know much about the Free Cities outside of that. There may be plants that do thrive in the desert as far as he knows, but probably not something like this. Solvunn could, it was very beautiful, although he's there during winter and not in full bloom. This reminds him a little bit of court gardens, he's seen a few in his time while wandering between libraries.

His eyebrows raise at that and he nods. ]


Ah, I see. One of those experiences. It happened to me too.

[ He woke up one day to something truly terrible and it shook him to his core for weeks afterwards. Sometimes, it still comes to him now. It seems that Viktor may have gotten something good out of it instead though. He's made this beautiful garden and he seems calm, comfortable. It's good that people can find beauty in their futures. ]

I didn't know that magic was prevalent in your sphere.
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[personal profile] magicalarchaeologist 2025-02-17 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds like New Magic, right? Using technology and magic together. I'll admit we have no real technology in our sphere, but I've learned a great deal about it here.

[ Many of Istredd's friends are from places with technology so they've explained or showed him more about it. He doubts it'll ever come naturally for him the way it does for them, but at least he has some grounding of knowledge. This plant room though makes sense to him. If there's technology in there he wouldn't understand, it's hidden from view. He can see why this would be more magic-based, he's seen plenty of magic mixed with earth. ]

Ah, runes. That's a type of magic we are taught from the start. It can be very useful. Simple, quick spells, once you learn what they are.

[ That's more about memorization. Magic for him is a mix of that and also natural skill and experience. It flows in and out of him like breathing would be. It looks like perhaps Viktor's starting to go through the same thing. ]

What did you experience, if I can ask?

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ii. 600 years later...

[personal profile] judgmentbolts 2025-02-16 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Cid hasn't really visited Viktor's domain before, though he's seen it when walking through the Horizon. When they worked in such close quarters, there had never really been a need to enter, but now that they're in separate territories, he doesn't have much of a choice if he'd like to 'see' the man.

He could send a message of course — he had done so briefly, when all of the switching around had happened — but it's been a while since they've chatted, and he figures he might as well take a walk and see if Viktor is in his domain and willing to be roused. He's got an equation or two he can wave about as an excuse.

Something is odd from the moment he gets into the general vicinity of Viktor's domain. Cid barely has time to place it before he takes a step, and the world about him is enveloped in the soft blackness of the night sky, glittering with stars. It would be beautiful — if he was looking up at it. A wave of inertia sends him to his knees and he makes a somewhat embarrassing sound. Before he can make any sense of it, he hears Viktor's voice. ]


What makes you think I'm alarmed? [ He says, sounding alarmed. ] What's all this about? Something tells me you're not just having a laugh at my expense.

[ As Cid adjusts to his surroundings, he finds that he doesn't like them one bit. This isn't like Viktor. This isn't right. ]
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[personal profile] judgmentbolts 2025-02-17 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Just about pissed myself walking in here. That might be why. [ Cid grumbles. He wrestles with his pride for a half-second, but he takes the proffered hand up. He needn't worry about putting a strain on Viktor; he's not entirely certain that he weighs much of anything in this strange domain.

He does his best to keep track of Viktor, if nothing else. ]
You dreamed it?

[ Now that he thinks of it, this reminds him a touch of The Doctor's domain, in that dream they had all shared as gods.

Viktor seems nonplussed by the whole situation. Cid tries to keep the concern out of his voice — but it's there, pinched into his expression. ]
How — what happened to you?
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[personal profile] judgmentbolts 2025-02-24 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It takes him a moment to adjust, but still less time than he would like to become acclimated. Ramuh, too, floats instead of walking — this was true of his Eikon, and of the god he had become in that dream. ]

I remember now, yes. [ He can't recall who spoke of it to him, but he knows of it — the way some rare Summoned dream vividly of home. He hasn't thought much of it, not for himself. There's nothing for him to get back to. But even so... he had never thought that it would cause such a drastic change, not in someone as stubborn and headstrong as Viktor. ]

So that's what brought this about... Well I'm glad you've found the means to live, even there, but you'll have to forgive me for wondering what it cost. And before you accuse me of some nonsense, I'm not talking about your new look or whatever 'abilities' you've gotten yourself — I'm talking about all of this. [ He gestures at the... space around them. ] This isn't like you.

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[personal profile] theidlemaiden 2025-03-10 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ A literal galaxy is the very last thing Hilda expects when she arrives in Viktor's horizon. So caught off guard by this new change she begins to float, the hem of her dress floating up so that she has to pull a slow motion Marilyn Monroe to stop it from rising too far.

So enchanted and bewildered with her surroundings she doesn't notice Viktor's approach and his voice startles her making her yelp in surprise. Eyes wide she takes in the appearance of her friend who is now very incorporeal and ethereal all at once and after a beat her cheeks puff up. ]


...Yeah I'd say! I can literally see through you!
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[personal profile] theidlemaiden 2025-03-13 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Distressing isn't quite the word that she'd use. What would be more apt is confused. And maybe a little bit concerned that this is somehow permanent. Not that she's seen him in other less than organic states before but that had been a dream. This definitely isn't.

Even in her confusion though she reaches for him, taking a hold of his hands so that he acts as an anchor of sorts. ]


Did it involve you being see through? Vikky, what's going on?

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