|Open| The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it

WHO: Martin and anyone who's interested!
WHAT: Life, the universe, mostly daily life. More toplevels as required
WHEN: October catch-all
WHERE: Primary settlement, also Horizon

Outskirts of the Primary Settlement
Martin has a gun.

Martin K. Blackwood has a gun.

It's not like it's been suddenly thrust upon him right now, at least, he's been doing some training with Roland in and out of Horizon (ammo didn't run out there, after all; and until his hands had stopped shaking after every time he fired it, he was much happier knowing he couldn't misfire and legitimately hurt someone, though hiding the practice from Jon had been... difficult. Nearly as bad as the kids).

No, it's mostly still something he's just existentially baffled by. He never thought he'd reach the point in his life where he'd have a gun on him as a permanent accessory. So, at the very least, since that's a thing now, he'd like to at least make sure he can use it properly.

He's taken about a half dozen pieces of firewood to use as target practice, and lined them up on a fence at the very edge of the commune, so his firing disturbs as few people as possible - but a gun in a country town made of wide open spaces isn't subtle, still - and the field is out of rotation right now so the only targets he has are the wood, and he'll see people coming from a long way off.

So. Here he goes. Christ.


HorizonHis library may be small, but these days Martin keeps its doors wide open, and a little 'shrine' made of pebbles, sticks and already strung through with spider's silk next to the entrance, less than six inches tall.

The library itself is the same as ever: a huge, modern public library with rows upon stacks of shelves, arranged as per the Dewey decimal system; but at the front of the library, nearest the doors to Martin's office, a new shelf has been set up, filled (sparsely, at the moment, but neatly) with labelled tapes, and on the nearest table is a player-recorder for them, with a note taped to the table next to it in a neat hand: "Please don't tape over anything, thanks! ~Martin"

Once or twice a day, it's pretty easy to overhear Martin talking to himself in his office, with the door shut to keep unwanted noise out.


Wildcard
Martin's daily routine is otherwise remarkably consistent. Mornings spent with the kids he lives with, lunch through til the afternoon working on his own projects and interests, evenings helping the family with dinner, and nights to himself. So far he's yet to travel past the primary settlement, despite his curiosity.

(no subject)

WHO: Emet-Selch and open!
WHAT: Local Ascian hangs around and only sometimes looks out of place
WHERE: First settlement of Solvunn/Horizon
WHEN: Any time after about the middle of September.


In dreams and in reality )

[Closed] nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced

WHO: Martin, Phoenix and Jon Sims
WHAT: First time Horizon time
WHEN: Start of September
WHERE: Horizon!

For Phoenix
Martin, despite the meditation, is still incredibly nervous when he feels that final tug, like he's falling asleep and snapping awake into a dream all at once.

But when he wakes up, of course, he doesn't worry about any of that. He just finds himself on the ground in a surprisingly comfortable outfit, with the Empress symbol in a repeating pattern on his tie - though at the same time, he can't help but wonder what he's comparing it to - and pushes himself to his feet with a visible air of confusion, in the sparce patch of open farmland he's found himself in. With a companion, even, and he frowns slightly.

"Uhm... hello, there?"


For Jon
The building Martin feels compelled to make, in the end, is singular: a long, flat building with only a ground floor, with the almost stereotypical classical architecture of a university. Inside is warm, and comforting; not just because it's literally a pleasant few degrees warmer inside than out, invoking memories of stepping in from the brisk winter wind, but the wooden floor and wall panels are a homey brown, the upper walls and ceiling lined with a creamy-gold wallpaper that's peeling in spots, but somehow charmingly so. There are people here, too, kind of - literally faceless mannequins in modern, casual fashion, that only change position when not being observed, but they don't mind Jon any as he explores.

There's a few different rooms, most of them classrooms, but there's a pair of offices next to each other, one labelled Prof. Blackwood, the other blank - but the wood grain had made a perfect eye shape where the matching bronze plaque would have gone. The largest room, though, taking up most of the entire side of the building is a library, filled with piles upon piles of books, the majority of them on poetry but a few random ones on other, non-fiction subjects.

That is where Martin is currently located, in animated conversation with a pair of mannequins that pose like they're genuinely interested in what he has to say.
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