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The Quiet Place Mods ([personal profile] bequiet) wrote in [community profile] quietplacelogs2018-01-15 08:09 pm

INTRO LOG #1



INTRO LOG #1

Muzzle and Mute
Content Warnings: Disorientation, memory loss, confusion
Themes: Arrival, survival, exploration, horror

You wake, standing. A thick, muddy red dust coats your skin and clothes - it sticks to your tongue and blocks your vision. Inhale and it chokes you, exhale and your breath puffs out in front of your face in a transparent maroon cloud. It tastes of copper, tangy and harsh. Movement is difficult, every limb tingles and aches. Look to your left, your right. Evenly spaced in each direction stands another person indistinguishable in every way from the next. You're disoriented and lethargic, unable to grasp onto a single thought. A pinprick of light blooms ahead and grows steadily larger; a door has opened.

Hands grip your wrists, push at the small of your back and guide you out of the darkness into a room with four walls and a thin, sagging ceiling. The plaster is peeling, the air is musty, and the floor is slick. White plastic piping juts up from the center and curves into multiple spouts, clean water flowing in uneven streams. Those hands pull your clothes off and clear the dust from your body, redress you in handsewn jumpsuits. By the time they’re through, you will have begun to come back to yourself.

A finger is pressed to your lips. Kind eyes meet your own and a single word is whispered - hush.

Led out of the room in a line, you’re taken down a short hallway and into another, much larger room. There’s a woman waiting for you there, a child hugging her leg, and a cloth bag in her hands. She reaches in and pulls out a device, passes one to each of you. Once finished, she begins to move both hands in graceful gestures, a language. One of the people who helped you lifts their device and the screen lights up, tracks the woman’s hands. Letters appear on the screen and you understand the device’s purpose. She tells you what she knows and it’s not much.

This world is haunted. Noise attracts them, so it is not allowed. Communication is through body language, soundless writing, and the device. She tells you that your feet must be light and your mouth never used. There is a community outside these doors, where you can survive together, but only if you agree to one thing: complete and total silence. You'll have time to talk it over. You may ask one question and receive one answer.

Acceptance allows you to journey outside. The ground is marked in pathways of sand, lining the paths to each building and everywhere in-between. You notice that the locals hold their devices always, aloft and glance to it often. It will not vibrate or make a sound to signal a message. Notices appear. Rules. Guidelines. Feet on the sand and never anywhere else. To open a door you brush your fingers along the hinges - oiled and you may enter. If not, take the brush from the can sitting nearby and coat the metal with the dark liquid.

Now, you're to settle into your new home.

The Man in the Hat
Content Warnings: Heavy lifting, following the rules, alcoholism
Themes: Moving in, survival, exploration, horror

Once you’ve claimed a room for yourself, it’s time to acclimate to the community. Natives will ask what you need and take you along the sandpaths to different areas in the city to gather supplies - furniture and the like. Heavier items will require assistance and will take longer. Houses are mostly empty so if you and your housemates need something, you’ll have to carry it and put it inside the home. Do not make any noise or the natives will refuse to help you. Getting to know your housemates is key to a smooth transition. They are going through what you are right now; take the time to get to know them. Make house rules.

As the first day gives way to night, the natives can be seen moving at a faster pace outside. They’re hurried, though not frightened. Some even smile at you. When the sun sets behind the ruins of what was once picturesque Reims, your device will signal that it’s time to meet at the center of the community. There, natives will stop each person and give them a small gift - a trinket, a token to show that they are trying their best to make all the new arrivals feel at home. These are all items from the character’s home or from another character's home (they will not be anything that belongs to anyone else). Small, soundless and either something taken during the application process or something brand new. They will have no powers to speak of and are meant to be a momento. If asked, the natives found them the same way they found each of you.

Then the party starts. Sort of. A soundless, stitled kind of celebration. Fun is meant to be had, but it’s not an overly joyous occasion. The natives simply don’t know how to cut loose. There will be extra food in the form of one and two; Phillipa even brought some of her homemade bread. If you stumble across a man wearing a hat, the only man in town who does, and agree to go with him when he offers to show you his house - he’ll gift you with a jar of hooch; it’ll burn on the way down.

Sound Eaters
Content Warnings: Threat, danger
Themes: Survival, exploration, horror, game plot

It’s the second day of your stay, and the natives call for an emergency meeting at the Town Hall. Everyone is paired off (see below) and are asked to walk the perimeter looking for anything out of place and patching any areas that might have been affected by weather. Once finished, the same is done on the inside, and when the community leader is satisfied, the main hall is opened up so that everyone can congregate. Characters, during this time only, are allowed to make sound. This is so that the natives can explain why silence is so necessary...

The Sound Eaters.

In an effort not to frighten everyone, the natives won’t go into the history just yet, but they will warn that when someone makes a sound, it attracts them. They don’t know what they look like because they are so fast. If you’re too loud, then in the blink of an eye, you’ll go through a room reset. This is because either the natives ‘silenced’ you or the Sound Eaters have. They will explain that the room came at the same time the Sound Eaters did and that it doesn’t work for the natives. Sometimes, it doesn’t work on new arrivals. Death, for those born in this world, is permanent. If you attract them, you’ll get someone killed. Hence the need for no noise. During the meeting, the natives will tell each character of their own experiences. Their losses. The families they have left and how they’d do anything to keep them alive. They don’t know if you’ll be reset, but is that a risk you’re willing to take? The meeting will last a few hours and will end on a somber, ominous note - at the end of the month, they are taking everyone to meet them.

OOC
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NAVIGATION



xochipilli_cursed: (Wuuuuhhh?)

[personal profile] xochipilli_cursed 2018-01-20 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aaron hops up upon seeing the smoke. This has got to be mirrors right? There's three of them, all in unison moving. He steps forward and carefully pokes one in the chest. Then another. Then the third if they let him.

He then backs up and types quickly.]


That's some serious David Copperfield stuff.
rockypath: (flawed)

[personal profile] rockypath 2018-01-20 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I appreciate that. It would be nice to feel useful here. And I'm in lucky number seven. Which house are you in? [She was sure she would have met him by now if they lived in the same house. Although, she hasn't met everyone yet.]
thinhammer: (high fiiiive)

[personal profile] thinhammer 2018-01-20 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The first is Naruto Classic, the original, who just laughs at Aaron's dumbfounded expression. The second also laughs as if the poke tickled somehow.. but the third catches Aaron's finger with it's very real hand, then promptly disappears in another puff of smoke, leaving only two Naruto's standing there. ]

whats a david copperfield?

[ Naruto's copy types on his device, identical to the one his original is holding. ]
xochipilli_cursed: (Heh)

[personal profile] xochipilli_cursed 2018-01-20 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, no, this is strange. It'd take a lot of work to set this up. This is something else entirely.]

He's a magician! He can make buildings disappear in moments. This is actually cooler though!
thinhammer: (027)

[personal profile] thinhammer 2018-01-20 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's definitely big praise being told he's cooler than a guy who can make buildings disappear - Naruto can't do that, wouldn't even know where to start, but he's not going to tell Aaron that - so the original gives a goofy grin while his copy scratches his cheek bashfully. ]

this aint even the best thing i can do
this is just two little clones
i can make hundreds at the same time yknow
thousands even

an i can make em look like anything i want


[ Hint hint. ]
Edited 2018-01-20 17:15 (UTC)
thinhammer: (whaaat? no that wasnt me)

[personal profile] thinhammer 2018-01-20 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Naruto can understand the want to panic - has experienced it himself in the past too, he can't deny that - but when Yuuri speaks up again, his words make Naruto smile. ]

That's all anyone can expect, y'know.

[ A pause, then he sticks out his hand. ]

I'm Naruto. [ Yeah, that's his name. He's named after a ramen topping, don't think about it too hard. ] If ya ever need someone to talk to when ya panic, you can come find me, okay?
xochipilli_cursed: (So I was saying)

[personal profile] xochipilli_cursed 2018-01-20 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[He can't imagine what it'd take to create and maintain 100 clones. Or do they take maintaining? What little he knows of the supernatural outside his purview tells him that's got to be a real big deal though.]

That's pretty awesome. That's got to come in handy in so many ways.

[If Aaron had 100's of clones, life would be a living hell for whatever city he visited back home. Considering his current go to method to dealing with problems.]

I don't have many tricks like that but I can show you one cool one if you want.
warfares: <user name="recadreuse"> (Default)

[personal profile] warfares 2018-01-20 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
House ten.

[ The username attached is Socorro — from the Olys Corellisi word for "scorched earth". It also happens to be the name of a miserable little planetoid in the Outer Rim known for its doonium mines. ]

And you? [ asked out of habit rather than a particular interest. Hux hasn't been placed in his housing or they would have run into each other sooner. ]
Edited 2018-01-21 18:26 (UTC)
kiljoy: (aka send nudes)

[personal profile] kiljoy 2018-01-20 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
House ten.

[He pauses, considering her. He has no idea if this will work, but she reminds him of Jessica too much not to try it. Her looks, strength as a super power, even a little of the attitude though she's far nicer than Jessica ever was. And the memory of his last encounter with Jessica – he's pushed it away but he hasn't forgotten. It sits there still, at the back of his skull.]

Come pay me a visit later. I'll show you around.
clarius: (052. ❀ LIABILITY.)

[personal profile] clarius 2018-01-20 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ if there is any deity out there who really does exist - be it the all-mother, the everlasting light, or whoever exists in the infinite expanse of the cosmos - lorem can only hope that they would be kind enough to help her in this increasingly awkward situation she finds herself in. the last few days has thrown her off her game and it shows right here while she (mentally) scrambles to compose herself to try and salvage this accidental faux pas of hers. oh dear.

she first offers him a smile, one apologetic and nervous, while she shifts her hold of the jar to one hand so she can pull out her device and type a message for him to read: ]


I'm sorry about that. I was distracted and wasn't mindful of my manners. Would you like this jar of alcohol as an apology? [ honestly the jar would be better off with anyone than her, given her dislike for spirits. if it can also help her smooth possible whoopsies on her parts than all the better. ]
thinhammer: (let's go already!!!)

[personal profile] thinhammer 2018-01-20 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh? Aaron has tricks too?? He looks like a civillian, so Naruto kind of just blanket assumed that he wouldn't have any powers. He's incredibly interested, therefore, to find out that he might. He leans forward, both of him actually, their twin bright blue eyes wide and attentive as the clone holds up his response. ]

hell yeah!! show me what you got, im ready!!
xochipilli_cursed: (smirk)

[personal profile] xochipilli_cursed 2018-01-20 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aaron has to think on how to do this right. He waves for Naruto to follow him away from the general party and preferably out of line of sight of others. He then types up his message, starting this off.]

First, make ten of you, link arms and form a circle facing away from me. When you do so, count to ten then turn around.
No peeking early.


[Aaron's totally unaware what he's about to do is a standard trick for the likes of Naruto, but he likes his tricks.]
thinhammer: (HELL YEEEAH!)

[personal profile] thinhammer 2018-01-20 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
i dunno
teachers have never made sense before so i dunno why theyd start making sense now


[ He just had to slip that in there. He has a problem with authority, can you tell? He might be a bit dumb sometimes but at the very least Naruto likes to feel a little on top of a situation before being thrown into it.

At Akira's second message, though, Naruto feels a smile creeping onto his face. He even lets out a little hiss of laughter, the whole situation suddenly seeming a little brighter now it's been shown in a different light. ]


yeah, you're right. we're gonna show them an' all the other teams that we're the best ones out here, even when we don't know what we're doing!!!

[ He physically clenches his fist as he shows Akira the message, and then he's off parading down the perimeter and peering at the boundary and the space around it like he's actually capable of being an effective member of patrol. At least his hearts in the right place. ]
lowkeycrazy: (neutral)

[personal profile] lowkeycrazy 2018-01-20 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, he's being sniffed... should he... offer a hand? He hesitates for a moment before deciding to lift his arm slightly towards the dog, palm up.

Oh— his gaze softens a bit at the screen. He's worried about people...]

Not especially.

[Though there's something off about the way he says it. He isn't frightened, no, nor is he upset about this situation in particular, but recent events that have happened to him have exhausted him down to his soul, and it will be awhile before he recovers.

What he's reluctant to admit aloud is apparent through his body language: weariness and depression.]

I apologize for distracting you.
clarius: (115. ❀ PALE RAPTURE.)

[personal profile] clarius 2018-01-20 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the attempt at comfort is an appreciated one with how lorem’s face starts to lose some of its anxiety and stress, her nervous and uneasy smile flitting away, just for a second, to offer a smile full of gratitude and thanks. in fact, lorem has to restrain herself from leaning into the touch. the gesture reminds her something familiar and comforting with images of aesculapius or heartline coming to mind. ]

Thank you so much. I owe you.

I think it was over there. By that crowd near the table.


[ it’ll be hard for her to get through there by herself. tall as lore maybe, its obvious she does not have a built that allows her to get through a group with sheer strength and force. ]
rockypath: (sorry)

[personal profile] rockypath 2018-01-20 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Slayers were impressive and capable of a great deal of things beyond that of a normal person, man or woman. But they were not immune to the power of suggestion. Buffy had fallen prey to a thrall before and Faith was no different.

Without really knowing why, she opened her mouth to answer him quickly, as though eager to please him. ]


I will. I'd love to.

[That was fucking weird, right?

When the hell had she been eager to please? She did, perhaps not so secretly, want to be liked, but she wasn't going lose her mind over it. He brow was clearly furrowed as though trying to work out what was wrong with her. She didn't suspect him of anything yet. It was just a bit odd.]
iisupergirlii: (i just... that is so... unbelievable!)

[personal profile] iisupergirlii 2018-01-20 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kara's hands are to her face removing her glasses before she really has time to process what he's said. She slides them off, folding them closed, and brings them down, holding them in one hand with her device.

Her brow wrinkles in confusion, and she looks up at him.]


Why did I... do that? [she laughs, once, quickly, shaking her head. her left hand goes up to the corner of her eye.] Sorry, I guess I had something in my eye.

[after a moment, she puts her glasses back on. hey, he didn't say keep them off. she knows they don't look great, all big-rimmed and blocky and covering half her face, but she has to keep them on. they help her. she gives him a still slightly confused smile.] Anyway, what were you saying? Oh, right. Well, I guess since we're here, we have nothing but time to get to know each other.
thinhammer: (do these things come off)

[personal profile] thinhammer 2018-01-20 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ten of him? Naruto and his clone give each other a confused look, but nevertheless they nod and back away a little so Naruto can form another hand sign and summon eight more copies of himself. He hasn't got a clue what Aaron might want with ten of him, or why they're forming a circle, or why they're not allowed to watch the transformation-- but he's curious, so he'll be obedient, signalling the start of his count with a thumbs up.

....Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!

At the last moment they all turn round, the eyes of every one of them turning to look where Aaron had been standing before. ]
rou_gui: (Ardisia japonica)

[personal profile] rou_gui 2018-01-20 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She snorts, derisively. She is not an altruist to begin with, of course her own life is more important. Hers and her kind, all of whom are dead, which leaves only she. ]

It isn't, but your choices are the ones you can control.

[ To think he could stop anyone else from living or dying was foolish. ]
rou_gui: (Wikstroemia indica)

[personal profile] rou_gui 2018-01-20 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She gives him a heavy-lidded look, darkly contemplative. If he doesn't know to be frightened of her, well... More's the pity. ]

Not so well, here. In my homeland, yes.

[ She raises an eyebrow. ]

And what is it you think you know of magic?
saltsplash: (Dakimakura)

[personal profile] saltsplash 2018-01-20 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[The latter is a good point.]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to get someone else killed just for a smoke, you're right.
rou_gui: (Gleditsia sinensis)

[personal profile] rou_gui 2018-01-20 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
You speak as if you know all these strangers around you and can vouch for their behavior.

[ He can't. ]

You will be in for a rude awakening when they disappoint your hopes.

[ Is that the underlying message? That people suck and you can't trust them... Probably. Sounds like Qetzi. ]
warfares: <user name="recadreuse"> (Default)

[personal profile] warfares 2018-01-20 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His attention slides from the built-in closet (empty, he's since learned, though large enough to be of use at some later stage) to Kilgrave hovering in the doorway.

Another housemate that doesn't grasp the concept of personal space. Fantastic. ]


Do you need something?
saltsplash: (Did he find me out...?)

[personal profile] saltsplash 2018-01-20 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure they're crunchy so we should figure out some way to prepare them quietly.
laytheghost: (not a soul up ahead & nothing behind)

[personal profile] laytheghost 2018-01-20 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's not the first time she's felt eyes on her as she moves around a space. Jan can't help but smile a little, remembering her unfortunate roommate situation at home, just a few months ago. Rosa's ghostly insubstantial glare had started out downright hostile until she'd eventually gotten resigned to an intruder's presence. it had taken a while -- and a few scuffles -- before the atmosphere of the apartment had gone baffled and quiet instead.

Jan thinks about what she yelled at Rosa back then: "Whatever! I'm not that INTERESTING!" and smiles a little wider. she's still not. whatever, weirdo dude. watch away.

she can get over to the sink without making a lot of noise easily enough. the problem now is everything else about getting water... hm. Jan finds a glass in one of the appalling filthy cupboards and uses one of the towels she and Poe brought back to wipe it off. so far, so good. turning on the faucet is a lot more fraught, but she holds the towel up to it to catch any drips and eases the cold-water handle just a fraction clockwise, holding her breath as if that'll prevent any squeaking.

there's a flutter of noise somewhere in the house, but it's no more than their movements so far have been-- and yes! it's probably still gross and mineralized, but she can feel the slightest damp on the towel! success!

(this is all very gripping and dramatic to Jan, but probably not to watch.)]