Catch-All Log (Open and Closed TLs)

[nadine_he_loves]

WHO: Nadine Cross, Others
WHAT: Various, including care package assembly, search and rescue quest, open prompts
WHERE: Cadens and Libertas
WHEN: September
WARNINGS: Potential gore/other aftermath stuff in quest thread, drug use, will add as needed



[General catch-all for September, specific starters in top-levels below!]

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[doubledead]

What better to welcome in the season than a man made entirely out of bones. And with his clothes on this time! Jack had been wandering across the shifting landscape with his eyesockets wide and a smile that was even wider. The Horizon was like something from a dream--or perhaps it was a dream, one they all shared.

He had to see every inch of it. And in such a big place he didn't expect to find a familiar face so soon--and one that seemed a bit long. Nadine was sat on the wooden steps and didn't look like she was having a great time. Jack wasn't sure how that was possible because it was a wonderfully gloomy day out and the leaves were changing!

"Nadine, I've found you again, looks like." Jack lifted a long arm to wave to her from across the way.

[nadine_he_loves]

It's impossible to mistake Jack for anyone else. There is only one skeleton man in the world. Somehow, it looks even weirder to see him in clothes. But Nadine lifts her own hand to wave in greeting, and stands up from the steps. Sure, he's weird and also literally a skeleton, but Nadine likes Jack. There's something very sweet and earnest about him.

"Hey. Welcome to my little piece of New Hampshire. Or my idea of New Hampshire, anyway, this isn't a real place. Just little bits of a bunch of real places." And her own idealization. But it's familiar and comfortable and helps to recharge her.

She sorely needs the recharge right now.

[doubledead]

"You made all this? That's incredible!" Jack grinned widely at her. He turned in a small circle to gesture at the New Hampshire that Nadine had made and it was then that he caught sight of the carousel. "Oh!"

And he left her there to stride over to it. The skeletal horses called to him.

[nadine_he_loves]

"Oh, thanks. It's just different places I've seen or sort of remember. Compared to a lot of people's parts of the Horizon, it's really not impressive."

Nadine has seen epic vistas, fantastical realms, and even space. Small town New England doesn't quite compare. But she likes it, and it's hers.

"And then there's that. It was part of what I made when I couldn't remember anything. I kept it. I don't know, something about it..."

It's sentimental, really.

[doubledead]

"Well I would certainly leave it the same," Jack said as he stepped up onto the platform, holding onto one of the many poles around the carousel's canopy. It almost looks like he was meant to go with the ride. He leans down to look in the eyes of one of the horses, grinning like an excited child. "Does it work? Why don't we ride it?"

[nadine_he_loves]

"Uh, yeah, it works."

Nadine stands and crosses to her little carousel. It's morbid, she knows it is, but she likes it. Can still remember Geralt riding it, when neither of them had known who they were. And for whatever reason, it's a part of her. She'd made it, it came from her. Anyway, she doubts the giant skeleton man is going to be bothered. Unless he found it personally offensive in some way, but clearly he doesn't.

"It doesn't go that fast, but it goes. Here." She hops up and moves to the middle, to where the switch is. She gives it a flip and the gears inside begin to move, light circus-esque music beginning to pour out of the speakers.

The horses all have saddles on their skeletal backs, with stirrups to make climbing up easy. With a practiced ease, Nadine grabs a bit of bone and hauls herself up onto one of the mounts.

Carousel horses are much easier to get on than real horses.

[doubledead]

"Well it is called a merry-go-round. If it went fast, it would be a scary-go-round. Which does sound fun, I'll have to put one of those in my Domain!"

Jack has to crouch a little under the carousel's canopy and he stalks up to one of the horses with a silver theme to its tack. He seats himself and tries to angle his knees in a way that won't interfere with the other horses.

"Will we be competing for a ring? I warn you, I'm very good at snatching it." He gives Nadine a playful grin.

[nadine_he_loves]

"No, no competing, it's just the kind you ride around in a circle." At least most of the time. It's a little different when she has the summer carnival in the square, but the time for the fair has gone by. Everything is at its 'default', for lack of a better word. Her domain rarely changes, other than with the seasons.

"I find it relaxing, honestly." Even with the skeletal horses. She likes them. It's not like they're real skeletons, just...decorative. "That's probably a little weird, but...I don't know."

Of course, Jack the literal skeleton probably doesn't think it's weird at all.

[doubledead]

Still smiling, Jack grips the pole. "Okay then! A leisure ride sounds good, things have been so busy in the outside world."

If only he knew how busy they would become.

"Let's go!"