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quietplacelogs2018-01-15 08:09 pm
bequiet) wrote in 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.
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What's your name?
Well, it makes more sense, in his head, to just keep names simple with an animal. An animal... talking to him through some insanely impressive piece of technology. Akira's studying it for a moment, and then... very slowly reaching out.
The dog is acting calm, so Akira's going to reach out and try to gently pet his head, fingertips aiming to scratch behind his ear. It's just for a moment as his eyes rest on the injury. He'd... arrived here, straight out of the Metaverse. He hasn't tried using any of the Personas since he got here, but then he hasn't needed to...
... until now.
After the moment of deliberation, he pulls his hand back, and then types a message to the creature.
Hold still.
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The collar lights up, the glow shifting from faint green to blue before settling on a wavering purpler, and the text following, one letter at a time.
His eyes open in time to see the next set of messages even as his device neurally transmits them to his brain. Confusion settles on tired, uneasy eyes, but Teddy makes no move to try and escape or protest. He watches Akira with an apprehensive hope building. Another human going out of their way to help him, even if he does not fully understand why or how. The makeshift twig and cloth splint did realign his leg, but in the long run would not have been enough.
He wonders why it is that these above ground humans seem interested in helping him, and quickly decides that until his handlers come to collect him, he will ensure they are protected in thanks for their confusing kindness. He turns his head slightly and licks Akira's arm once in gentle appreciation.
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It's typed after those licks... and after he's taken a few more seconds to pet Teddy. He'd seen the tension, initially, and it had caused a little bit of worry -- did he think he was going to be hit? Even just the brief thought of that causes something to twist unpleasantly in his gut.
Akira's offering the animal a gentle, reassuring smile and nod of his head before he slowly moves to stand.
Teddy doesn't have to stay still, technically... and Akira had asked him to, simply due to his leg. Which is precisely why he hopes that the dog continues to lie there as he closes his eyes. He can, in fact, sense the Personas. They're there, waiting... even if he's wearing this jumpsuit. He's in a world that feels like the real world, back home, and yet...
It's all the same...?
He's able to sift through, drawing one to the front of his mind: Kohryu. He has a lot of Personas with Mediarahan, but this particular one has Spell Master, meaning it will cost less mental energy this way.
There's the flash of a translucent mask across his -- briefly red...? -- eyes, and it lasts only as long as a blue, equally translucent creature remains behind Akira. Which isn't long at all, since it will vanish the second the spell is finished being cast...
In almost the same moment that Kohryu appears, there's going to be a warm and comforting, glowing, green light gently spiraling around Teddy's form, silently working to heal him. And if it all goes the way Akira remembers it going, back in the Metaverse, any physical fatigue and pain should be gone... but then this isn't the Metaverse, so he's left hoping for now, until he sees how the animal responds.
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He doesn't even realize the pain is gone initially, searching for the sign of a threat that had, in his mind, appeared scentless behind Akira before vanishing. A Sound Eater? He isn't sure, but the serpentine spectre does not return and Teddy does not make the connection.
His hackles do not fall, but his attention shifts to the now healed leg, still wrapped in the splint of branches and fabric Faith had given him. Nosing at the fabric, he licks his leg, his tail shifting the sand on the path with a soft wag of relief.
He doesn't question how the human has healed him, only stretches his leg out slowly before pulling it back and offers Akira further licks of appreciation. There's still some unease in him about standing on it. He'll work up to that. For now Teddy just pushes his head into Akira's hand in a silent thanks that is followed with a greenish glow from his collar.
you are a good boy
It is the highest praise Teddy can think to offer.
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Akira's giving a warm smile as he begins scratching Teddy behind the ears, suppressing the urge to outright say how good of a boy the dog is.
But... he's the one being told that...??
Suddenly, his expression falters, a totally unguarded look of surprise and... sheepishness? appearing on his face. What...? Him? He was just...
... Well, he was just healing him! He doesn't see himself as being good for doing something that anyone should do, given the chance and ability. But, still... he gives a small smile, fights back the confusing flustered emotions. Dogs are color blind, right? Good thing he can't see that redness to Akira's face.
Quietly, he types up:
Do you know the name of the person who helped you?
He wants to... thank them, maybe. But to definitely let them know Teddy is doing better. With that, he gently begins undoing the splint, gently testing the state of the leg as he does -- if it's not fully healed, he'll re-wrap it.