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mehanizovati) wrote in deercountry2022-03-31 12:24 pm
april catch - all
Who: viktor and others, open to all with some closed prompts
What: some late march/early april logs, including some tdm stuff. i'm happy to attach something else on if anyone's interest in doing something specific
When: late march through april
Where: various
content warning; terminal illness, arcane season 1 spoilers, likely game typical beast gore/body horror, potentially ableism mentioned, claustrophobic imagery
open prompts.
fishers of dreams - the lighthouse, early april (tdm)
a. while awake
[if you've been roped into this lighthouse business too you may enter to find a man already there. he seems vaguely disgruntled by the business, offers vague greetings but otherwise sticks to scribbling in his notebook. it looks like schematics and formulae, but anyone with an eye for either might notice they tend to trail off and start in odd bursts.
viktor will offer to cook when evening falls (or whatever seems to be the right mealtime in this place) so maybe that is a better time to strike up conversation. the smell coming from the kitchen is heavy on whatever spices the place stocks, promising pain to anyone who doesn't have the stomach for that sort of thing. worse if he finds the rotgut liquor tucked away, which he will pull out and offer despite smelling more like turpentine than anything edible.
these tricks of the eye though, flashes of people vaguely recognizable, he chalks it up more hallucinations. last month was mushrooms, so this? irritating, far more distracting, but it followed the pattern.
it isn't until later in all this he'll track whoever is with him down.] Did you see someone else come through? There, just up the stairs.
b. nightmare
[trying to reach the odd lighthouses is fruitless, the shadows converge and when the dark clears the area seems more closed in than before. it shouldn't be, he was just outside on the shore, yet now the dark sky seems to hang too low, lower still, suffocating.]
What now? This is another illusion of sorts, is it not? One this place is so fond of. [viktor sounds more irritated than anything, maybe defensive since the grip his has on his crutch is white-knuckle tight. in the distance seems to be a lighthouse, though the light is far and the area is so stifling, promising a tunnel that will close and snuff out the light entirely.
it's ridiculous of course, the walls are not that close, certainly not enough for this suffocating grip on the lungs and throat. there's no real explanation, less so when a few steps forward and the ground begins to dot with great metal cables, the distinct, sickly sweet smell of chemicals in the air. there are pools between them where the ocean should have been, this time shallow spills of what could be gasoline or something similar, slick rainbow puddles, oily and difficult to walk through without slipping or sinking.]
(ooc; for this one please, feel free to add your own character's nightmare in any flavor at any point!)
odds and ends - willful machine, early april
[viktor can be found around the vendors often enough, especially those specializing in scrap metal, tools or small machinery. for the most part he doesn't stick out, except for the fact often his massive omen often accompanies him, some sort of huge pink salamander/axolotl that he'll lean against or ask rather politely to help carry larger purchases.
he doesn't seem to notice or care about any attention, though the creature will blink curiously around. feel free to approach or find him haggling rather intently for such a stick of a man, accent thickening when it gets heated enough. maybe you want the same scrap? or are looking for something and he's standing nearby enough to notice a lost look and offers assistance?]
[one might also find him about by the sound of a nasty coughing fit. he stands with his back curled, a rag to his mouth as a makeshift handkerchief. it's a wet cough that shakes his entire frame, and when it's over his sniffs and clears his throat, straightening.
the cloth is stained in a pale color that catches the perpetual moonlight of april. paleblood, that he regards for a moment before folding the cloth in on itself with a small frown.]
closed prompts.
jinx - willful machine, late march
[viktor doesn't stay by the lamp exactly. he would usually but he hardly sees the point when this person he's meeting knows him by sight as far as he can tell. it leaves him feeling comfortable to wander within eyeshot mostly of the lantern, strolling down the canal docks to find a place to stand and watch the boats cut slowly through the water.
he likes it here, he thinks, in this district. the noise and foot traffic, the winding canals and dirty water, the boats bobbing to and fro - it wouldn't be a bad place to set up. a lab that will double as his home because he doesn't see the point in separating the two any longer, even if he can practically hear heimendinger's tutting about his work-life balance in his ear. it will be closer to the vendors, less of a hike to acquire what he'll need to start fresh. first a new brace for his leg and back, then some basic experiments into lunar energy to get a feel for it.
his lungs flare and burn, minor enough he manages to swallow it down without reaching for the rag in his pocket. he makes a note of the severity and timing, adds it to his growing mental list that seems to indicate his illness does indeed remain but is diminished. promising, if he's being optimistic, but at the moment he feels only a sense of irritation that now he doesn't know the timeline of his own life. one he might be shortening drastically with this ridiculous stunt.
a sigh and viktor goes back to watching the boats, trying to clear his head. he considers trying to message vi and ask her opinion of this but... no, he doubts he'll get anything. he's not sure if he disgusts her as a class traitor or amuses her in truth. better to just see for himself what he's gotten himself into like a fool.]
allen - willful machine, early april
[the 'grand tour' doesn't amount to much yet, the lab area just a large, empty space dotted with a few tables and a couple of desks, not even a chalkboard he's been keeping an eye out for or something that could do the same. one of the desks at least is littered with junk, at the moment tools and the starts of a knee brace, a table nearby with all the scrap he's managed to grab that could be useful in the future. one corner has a cot, maybe he'll clear out whatever other small rooms the place has later for a bedroom proper. maybe not.
viktor seems satisfied with it as he gestures around, and rio has commandeered one of the tables for her own to lie across.] A solid start, I think. I like this area, this eh... Willful Machine, that is.
[he'll never admit part of it is the boats. everyone's allowed a sort of childish interest, right? they're soothing, even if they lack the motors that fascinated him.] Have a seat, if you'd like. How have you been since the tombs?
wildcard.
[as i said, feel free to ask for anything else, including other tdm prompts, i am more interested in seeing the worlds built by others for the archway prompts so i didn't include any here. my plurk is![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
dichotomy or you can dm me here!]
What: some late march/early april logs, including some tdm stuff. i'm happy to attach something else on if anyone's interest in doing something specific
When: late march through april
Where: various
content warning; terminal illness, arcane season 1 spoilers, likely game typical beast gore/body horror, potentially ableism mentioned, claustrophobic imagery
open prompts.
fishers of dreams - the lighthouse, early april (tdm)
a. while awake
[if you've been roped into this lighthouse business too you may enter to find a man already there. he seems vaguely disgruntled by the business, offers vague greetings but otherwise sticks to scribbling in his notebook. it looks like schematics and formulae, but anyone with an eye for either might notice they tend to trail off and start in odd bursts.
viktor will offer to cook when evening falls (or whatever seems to be the right mealtime in this place) so maybe that is a better time to strike up conversation. the smell coming from the kitchen is heavy on whatever spices the place stocks, promising pain to anyone who doesn't have the stomach for that sort of thing. worse if he finds the rotgut liquor tucked away, which he will pull out and offer despite smelling more like turpentine than anything edible.
these tricks of the eye though, flashes of people vaguely recognizable, he chalks it up more hallucinations. last month was mushrooms, so this? irritating, far more distracting, but it followed the pattern.
it isn't until later in all this he'll track whoever is with him down.] Did you see someone else come through? There, just up the stairs.
b. nightmare
[trying to reach the odd lighthouses is fruitless, the shadows converge and when the dark clears the area seems more closed in than before. it shouldn't be, he was just outside on the shore, yet now the dark sky seems to hang too low, lower still, suffocating.]
What now? This is another illusion of sorts, is it not? One this place is so fond of. [viktor sounds more irritated than anything, maybe defensive since the grip his has on his crutch is white-knuckle tight. in the distance seems to be a lighthouse, though the light is far and the area is so stifling, promising a tunnel that will close and snuff out the light entirely.
it's ridiculous of course, the walls are not that close, certainly not enough for this suffocating grip on the lungs and throat. there's no real explanation, less so when a few steps forward and the ground begins to dot with great metal cables, the distinct, sickly sweet smell of chemicals in the air. there are pools between them where the ocean should have been, this time shallow spills of what could be gasoline or something similar, slick rainbow puddles, oily and difficult to walk through without slipping or sinking.]
(ooc; for this one please, feel free to add your own character's nightmare in any flavor at any point!)
odds and ends - willful machine, early april
[viktor can be found around the vendors often enough, especially those specializing in scrap metal, tools or small machinery. for the most part he doesn't stick out, except for the fact often his massive omen often accompanies him, some sort of huge pink salamander/axolotl that he'll lean against or ask rather politely to help carry larger purchases.
he doesn't seem to notice or care about any attention, though the creature will blink curiously around. feel free to approach or find him haggling rather intently for such a stick of a man, accent thickening when it gets heated enough. maybe you want the same scrap? or are looking for something and he's standing nearby enough to notice a lost look and offers assistance?]
[one might also find him about by the sound of a nasty coughing fit. he stands with his back curled, a rag to his mouth as a makeshift handkerchief. it's a wet cough that shakes his entire frame, and when it's over his sniffs and clears his throat, straightening.
the cloth is stained in a pale color that catches the perpetual moonlight of april. paleblood, that he regards for a moment before folding the cloth in on itself with a small frown.]
closed prompts.
jinx - willful machine, late march
[viktor doesn't stay by the lamp exactly. he would usually but he hardly sees the point when this person he's meeting knows him by sight as far as he can tell. it leaves him feeling comfortable to wander within eyeshot mostly of the lantern, strolling down the canal docks to find a place to stand and watch the boats cut slowly through the water.
he likes it here, he thinks, in this district. the noise and foot traffic, the winding canals and dirty water, the boats bobbing to and fro - it wouldn't be a bad place to set up. a lab that will double as his home because he doesn't see the point in separating the two any longer, even if he can practically hear heimendinger's tutting about his work-life balance in his ear. it will be closer to the vendors, less of a hike to acquire what he'll need to start fresh. first a new brace for his leg and back, then some basic experiments into lunar energy to get a feel for it.
his lungs flare and burn, minor enough he manages to swallow it down without reaching for the rag in his pocket. he makes a note of the severity and timing, adds it to his growing mental list that seems to indicate his illness does indeed remain but is diminished. promising, if he's being optimistic, but at the moment he feels only a sense of irritation that now he doesn't know the timeline of his own life. one he might be shortening drastically with this ridiculous stunt.
a sigh and viktor goes back to watching the boats, trying to clear his head. he considers trying to message vi and ask her opinion of this but... no, he doubts he'll get anything. he's not sure if he disgusts her as a class traitor or amuses her in truth. better to just see for himself what he's gotten himself into like a fool.]
allen - willful machine, early april
[the 'grand tour' doesn't amount to much yet, the lab area just a large, empty space dotted with a few tables and a couple of desks, not even a chalkboard he's been keeping an eye out for or something that could do the same. one of the desks at least is littered with junk, at the moment tools and the starts of a knee brace, a table nearby with all the scrap he's managed to grab that could be useful in the future. one corner has a cot, maybe he'll clear out whatever other small rooms the place has later for a bedroom proper. maybe not.
viktor seems satisfied with it as he gestures around, and rio has commandeered one of the tables for her own to lie across.] A solid start, I think. I like this area, this eh... Willful Machine, that is.
[he'll never admit part of it is the boats. everyone's allowed a sort of childish interest, right? they're soothing, even if they lack the motors that fascinated him.] Have a seat, if you'd like. How have you been since the tombs?
wildcard.
[as i said, feel free to ask for anything else, including other tdm prompts, i am more interested in seeing the worlds built by others for the archway prompts so i didn't include any here. my plurk is
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enough to say confidently,] She's merely passed out. Everything seems fine otherwise, her breathing and heart rate are good, her responses are consistent. I think... you really did manage to cure her.
[which is everything they want. to see it done is remarkable, it means they can do this if they can just push to figure out a better, easier way, a more wide spread way-
his attention turns back to allen, putting that aside for now.] Help me get her into the lab? She can rest on my cot while I take a look at you.
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Thank goodness... [ Breathing out first, he raises his eyes to meet Viktor's and gives a small nod. You don't have to look at him, please look at her, is left unsaid, but he isn't going to argue. He feels too feverish to.
He's tired, he still needs to do something about his own corruption that spiked, but -- he dips down to scoop the woman up into his arms. Very carefully, mindful that he has to keep his left hand turned away to keep the bladed fingers away from her, but he is quite used to having to do so and using his wrist more than his palm.
He rises back to his feet, if a touch unsteadily. ]
If you can get the door...? [ He'll follow inside with her then, and lay her out gently on the cot. ]
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then heading inside.] Should we call into Lumenwood about this? I haven't a clue what she might need. Ah, water-
[he goes to pour some into one of his dented cups, the first shoved in allen's direction pointedly.]
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My sword only cuts the corruption in people. [ The "evil". It's a bit broader than that. ] There shouldn't be any problem from that, but... it's a big shock, certainly. Becoming a beast, and then that. Everyone seems to react differently. [ Which is to say... he doesn't really know.
He sways slightly for a moment though, putting the cup of water aside and resting his good hand against his skull. Aaa... it's hammering. The trails of his cloak are still twisting as well, restless, and his eye hasn't calmed down. ]
Just a... moment. [ Concentrating is hard. But he presses his right hand against his chest then, closing his eyes. It looks peaceable, like someone might look when they're praying -- except there's a small pulse of light that radiates throughout him. Gentle-feeling and peaceable. A wave that blows his hair for a moment like a sudden breeze -- and his eye calms. Returning once again to its normal pale grey, and the rustling of his cloak settles down, though he drops his invocation a moment later as well. The entirety of the glimmering cloak -- it winks out like someone switched off the light, dissipating in a faint shimmering of snowflake-like shards of light. ]
Whatever kind of beast she became... [ he breathes out, rubbing for a moment at the skin by where he was bitten ] ...doing something like that, it's gross.
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[he hopes she didn't hurt someone she loved in that form. that she didn't hurt anyone. that if she did she can't remember it and will never know.
he doesn't say it, instead glancing over to watch allen do... that. purification, he thinks, something like it. really it looked more like a prayer, and he watches in fascination as it all fades to a more familiar allen.
but he has something else to focus on.] How is that bite? Let's clean it out. [First Aid First, always. still.] That- what did you just do? It looked like you were praying.
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What if they killed someone they loved, and would they remember it. All he can truly do is hope for neither. ]
-- oh. Ah... [ He considers where to sit for a moment so Viktor can more easily reach the bite on his cheek, and taking either a seat or hopping back to sit up on one of the tabletops. Whatever is closer and looks easier. ] It's part of my ability.
Since it's a part of me, I can purge the corruption from my own body as well. [ The same way he would have before with the akuma virus if he was infected with it, having a parasite-type Innocence. Not that he can really recall those specific details. ] We're one and the same.
[ The sword is him and he is the sword? Yeah. ]
It comes in handy in a place like this.
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Oh, so no chance of becoming a beast yourself then? [unless it's too rapid, viktor imagines, but it's a bit of a relief to know this isn't something allen needs to worry about quite as intently as other hunters. the next time he dabs at the bite it stings just a little, some antiseptic rather than water.] Or little chance, at least.
Allen... [he lowers his hand, a beat and then a furrow in his brow as he solemnly offers,] Thank you, for saving me.
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Mm... very little. [ Did he hedge his answer? A bit. It's cut off though with a small ch and a wince when he uses the antiseptic though. Ow, stings...
His eyes flicker back up to Viktor at the apology though. A little surprised for a moment, before he just smiles. ]
It's okay, Viktor. [ It's bright-eyed, full of some kind of certainty and assurance. Happy?
Happy. ]
This is the sort of thing comrades do for each other, isn't it?
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he clicks his tongue at the state of the bite when it's clean, nasty little thing, really. it gets a bandage carefully placed over it, and it's also the first time viktor's gotten a good look at allen's eye. apparently what made him see that soul for himself, stomach twisting at the memory of it.
his attention turns back to allen properly. 'comrades,' it makes his lips quirk as he nudges allen lightly on the shoulder, easing slightly.] I suppose so. You are too good at these sort of uplifting little speeches you know.
And comrades is why you come to me when you think I can help, yes? [he gets pointed at with that, a stern look before he's putting the rest of the kit away.]
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Ah... right, yes. [ Viktor you can be a little scary when you're being direct. Hahaha, ouch. You got him there, and he ruffles a hand through his growingly longish hair. ]
-- speaking of that. [ master of the convenient segue, he scoots off the table ] There's someone else I met I wanted to tell you about.
I encountered him when someone else turned into a beast... when he realized it could be reversed, he really wanted to help. He seems a lot more inclined to thinking scientifically about things and wants to help, so I hope you don't mind that I told him about you.
His name was, ah... [ Blast, his memory sometimes. ] Kokichi Ona, I think. He used to run a place for orphaned kids.
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He has a good heart. He didn't want to run away, even when he thought he might be killed. He didn't even want me to fight, when he thought I would just kill her.
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gotta keep an eye over their new patient, after all. and he needs to sit down, talk about a Lot happening.] I do not mind at all. The more help the better, there is so much data to be collected alone.
[orphaned kids hits something in him too, the idea of how children grow up here- well great, now he needs to see if there's some service he can offer this guy on that front.]