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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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Yeeeeessss, hello!
And no, no he's going to insist, you first. Mostly because he doesn't want a pissed off brick shithouse with uncertain intentions of a man at his back. ]
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He then fell into silent step behind him because while Frank looks like he could break him in two, Will would still take one potential danger over a thick crowd of people.
Because what is being social. ]
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frank turns back around and allows will to follow him away from the meeting house. it's not like he can't guess why. once they're on the sandpath alone he pulls out his device without looking back at his shadow. ]
you can go now
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There is only one sand trail at the moment. I'm not interested in ending up dead because you don't want to share.
[ It probably is not a good plan to poke at a man who is not only larger than you, but moves with the sort of grace that suggests he can handle himself. But Will's self-preservation instincts have always been squirrel like at best. ]
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Amazingly informative; in that it raised more questions than it gave answers.
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Mutually assured destruction? [ He offered as an answer to the question. ] Their survival seems to mirror our own, if these Sound Eaters really are a thing.
I asked one of the natives how long they'd been living like this and they answered "generations". These people don't know anything else.
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[ not that he really cares what will believes. but frank doesn't believe anything these people say, so. he stops suddenly, spinning to face the other man. it's too... millenial to have a conversation this way. he likes to look people in the eye. which doesn't seem to be will's forte. that gives him something to go on, actually. that helps in some nebulous way. ]
they're never gonna tell us what they know anyway so fuck em
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When the man paused and whirled around to face him, Will fetched up a step, glanced towards his face and then quickly away. Yeah, definitely not a fan of eye to eye contact. At least the device gave him a reason to keep his face tilted towards his screen. ]
I may not be the best person to judge that, given that I was in the process of dying myself when I ended up here.
I will say they did a good job of providing medical aid to the knife wounds I was sporting, so ...
[ Will trailed off with words and looked up at the other man, shrugging. ]
What do they gain by lying?
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not turning us all against them [ clearly these people need them otherwise they wouldn't be here, so. frank thinks it's less that they're lying and more that they're slowgaming everybody so they band together for "the cause." see, all marines aren't dumb after all. ]
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Look. I'm not against the idea of caution and I don't disagree that there are a lot of unknowns here.
But right now is it a good use of our energy and resources to be borrowing trouble, when we don't have enough data points to draw any sort of solid conclusion?
[ Come on Marine. Being reactive has its place, but if you have crap intel, and no resources do you immediately engage the enemy? ]
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[ which isn't to say that he disagrees. frank is going to turn and go the other way now, practically through will. since his house is that way, he was just walking the other way to see if the man would follow. ]
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He also wasn't completely unwise to body language and this man screamed "FUCK OFF" in capital letters. As raw and direct as a snarling dog. Will knew not to corner such an animal, not without good reason and while he wouldn't have mind talking with the man a bit more, he didn't have enough of a reason to keep cornering him.
Instead he'd let Frank get far enough ahead to think he'd left Will behind, then Will would start to make his way home. ]
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