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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.
OOC
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[It may be a roundabout way of saying it, but Carpet gets what he means all the same. And hey, who doesn't like being special? Carpet offers Naruto a tassel to shake; may as well make his first rug meeting him back official, right?]
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It's then he remembers the question Carpet had asked - apparently he isn't that oblivious - and scrambles to type a reply. ]
but yeah i am gonna sleep out here
i'm used to sleeping outside yknow and so i figured that since im used to it then itd be better for me to sleep out here rather than make someone who wants a room to themselves do it??
[ Does that make sense........ ]
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Won't it be cold though? What if you get frostbite?
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[ Energy demons will do that to you? Probably? ]
an if i get cold i'll just get some more blankets
[ It's pretty surreal to have a carpet apparently so interested in his wellbeing, but Naruto isn't going to sniff at it. He is curious about something though... ]
can you feel the cold??
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Not really. I still freeze if it's too wet and cold though.
[Like that time he'd gone to save Aladdin and Abu from the frozen wastes Jafar had sent them to..... Aladdin had had to find and rescue him first, while he was frozen solid and trapped under that tower. How embarrassing!]
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ohhh thats gotta be weird
ya cant feel anythin but its like someones got a hold of you so you cant move??
[ Like when Shikamaru catches his shadow. Naruto can relate. ]
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[At least ice is easily visible..... Shikamaru's shadow snaring you sounds much, much/i> more confusing.]
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[ Naruto has played with fire - literally - enough to understand that things made out of the same stuff Carpet's body is made from don't really mix well when it comes to extreme heat. ]
ah well
least youre safe from that here
[ As safe as they can be, that is. ]
where are you sleepin?
or... resting... i guess...
[ He's gonna take a wild guess and assume Carpet doesn't really sleep, exactly. ]
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The dining room I guess? Nobody else seems to be using it.
[That's a pretty good guess, Naruto. Luckily for all of them, that fact means he actually furnished the dining room to look like a normal dining room that people can use, with table and chairs and everything.]
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[ Carpet didn't seem to need a bed or food (how would he eat if he did, without any visible mouth, Naruto wonders) so Naruto guesses that, similar to his decision to take the deck - he had decided to sleep in a place that didn't hog a bedroom someone else might want to use. What a kindhearted Carpet. ]
i'll add you an your room to the map i'm gonna make of this house then!!!
[ He pauses, takes the device back, types something else, holds it out again. ]
......when i eventually find somethin to write on
what if ms paint app doodle map tho
I wonder if there's a way to write on these?
oh my GOD i wish........
on the thing??
[ He types, but then takes it back to start clicking every option he can. If left unattended he'll probably end up ruining the settings so badly that the entire device will be unusable, but...... if there is such an app, he'll find it. He just might not be able to do anything with it. This is the first time Naruto has experienced technology like this, after all. ]
somebody bribe a tech savvy character to make this
[As someone equally (if not moreso) unused to technology like this, Carpet can't do much more than caution Naruto not to break the device as he fiddles with things. Still, he circles around to lean over Naruto's shoulder and watch his search. He might not be able to help, but at least he can offer moral support?]
naruto is going to demand it's named after him, sorry carpet
i cant find anythin
maybe ill ask one of the locals later on
[ He shrugs. ]
but if not, im sure ill find something eventually
im gonna go exploring one day when im not working
ive gotta find something then!
he wouldn't mind~
What are you going to look for? You can't go beyond the sand paths right?
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ahhh i'll figure somethin out
i wanna find somethin to write on and somethin to decorate my room with yknow
[ It's not really a room, which Naruto seems to realise as he looks around. ]
back home i put posters up all over where i lived
i wanted to see if i could find somethin like that so i can do the same here
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I'm sure you'll be able to find something! Jan helped me find a painting. Poe and I got some things for the house together too!
[Blame Poe if the decor is odd, basically. They both like the sky and stars though, so any pictures/paintings like that hanging in the house are probably both of their faults.]