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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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You don't even know the color that well. I may have an idea.
[ The man waits a bit before revealing the plan. ]
Find the button out on you're own. I don't even know which one it is. If you can find me a shirt, I'll switch jumpsuits with you.
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doesn't matter about this, i know i look best and feel best in orange........
[ It might be typed, but it's clearly intended to be read in a pouty voice. Just for extra impact, Naruto pouts. It soon disappears, though, when Poe offers him the chance of a deal. ]
is that all???
[ He says like it's a particularly easy task. He doesn't even know where to begin, but the possibility alone that Poe will relinquish ownership of his jumpsuit is giving Naruto all the hope he needs ]
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You're right, I won't matter to the guy whose willing to change. I'll be able to pull off the color anyway I'm sure.
[ Poe raises an eyebrow since Naruto didn't pout over the no help. Deal making was something he was used to doing. But he would be smart about them. ]
Yep, that's all. Find a shirt that I can wear and we'll switch jumpsuits.
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you got it yknow!!
make sure you dont go makin any more deals with anyone else for it though
[ Naruto, do you really think orange jumpsuits are in that high a demand...... ]
it might take me a few days, but i'll find somethin
you can count on it!!!
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I don't think you'll have to worry about that. You're the only one to get upset by it.
[ There would be no other deal making on the jumpsuit. ]
I'll hold you to it. Is there anything else you may need while you're out here though? Did you eat already?
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[ He knows what he's about, son.
At Poe's question, though, he pauses. Anything else he needed? Had he eaten? ]
i ate a bit.. an theres lots of stuff i think i need
but i dont think this world can give it to me yknow
[ Oh.. Oh that's a bit sad. He shakes the feeling loose from his head and smiles instead, going back over to pick up the pillows Poe gave him and holding them close. ]
this is all i think ill need!!
just somethin warm to keep me goin
tho if you see any posters or pictures or somethin goin free then grab em for me ok?? the walls here are boring and i want em to look cool
so if theres anythin you want me to get for you in return then let me know!
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[ Yes he's going to state the obvious here and smiles a bit. But then he reads Naruto's message. ]
This world is certainly different from what I'm used to. I just appreciate what we do have.
[ It was nice to see that the other could tell him what else he may need. ]
Being comfortable is good. I know that being out here may not be all that great. If there's a bedroom I would argue to us it. But if you're really set being out here, you can make it into a great room with things.
I'll be on the look out. Some of the pictures that might be around might not be what you want but it'll make the walls less boring.
I don't think I need anything for the moment. I need to look around to see if there's any kind of machinery around though.
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i feel kinda better being able to look at the sky, kinda reminds me of home
[ He looks then to the sky, and even though it's quiet and clearly not the sky he'd looked up to at home, he still seems a little comforted by it. ]
aah anythin will do yknow
even just blank stuff, i can draw my own posters
[ They won't look how he intended since he's got the drawing skill of a plant, but he'll probably think they're cool anyway. ]
machinery huh?? is that what you were into back where you come from?
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Now I'm getting a little jealous of you being out with the stars at night.
I've been among them for a long while. Being on a planet on ground will be different. But not too different any other time.
[ No, he's not going to steal your bedroom. He'll make sure that Naruto was stuff out here though. Do the creatures crawl over the enclosed areas? ]
I'll try to look for blank stuff first.
I'm a pilot back home. Flying is more of my thing. Machinery is another thing I can do and handle. I grew up basically on a farm though.
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flying?? what, you can fly??
[ Naruto looks equal parts amazed and intrigued by this, leaning in to Poe slightly as if doing so will reveal some hidden wings or something. ]
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Ships. Machines that can fly in the air or in space. You don't have anything like that where you're from?
[ Poe leans a bit back with a raised eyebrow. No, no wings here. Just a regular man. ]
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[ His squint should make it clear that he doesn't even know what that means, nor is he capable of imagining any kind of machine that can fly. He looks thoroughly non-plussed, like he might if someone where to assure him the sky was red. His expression clearly reads surely not. ]
nope, nothin like that
i've never heard of anyone who can fly before
the only machines we have are the ones in the hospital yknow
and the radios we use in missions sometimes
[ So... very primitive as far as technology is concerned. Sorry, Poe. ]
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Very little technology from the sound of it. I can only imagine that it'll be less advanced here too. Although the devices seem high tech.
What machines are in the hospital?
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[ He's in no way a medic-nin, so doesn't have a lot of knowledge about the contents of the hospital rooms... but he's been there on many occasions, enough to remember at the very least the machines that helped him out when he needed them, even if he never stuck around for very long. ]
does your world not have stuff like that too?? or is it like that but just better??
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[ There's a lift of his eyebrow because that's the only thing he didn't know. Poe types up his response carefully. ]
My world is used to these kinds of devices. Just as high tech as them if not better. It's hard to gauge since the devices are high tech but not everything else here is. Probably so that it's quieter. Running computers would be noisy.
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[ Not the most eloquent response, so it'll probably end up confusing Poe more than it will shedding any light on the topic, but Naruto hasn't exactly ever had to explain chakra before. ]
ooohhh yeah thats a good point
the hospital machines are super loud
they beep all the time it used to keep me up at night
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How do you use this chakra for ninja stuff?
[ Was that the right question? Poe looks a bit confused at it while hoping that he'll get a simple answer. ]
This place is going to be teaching us how to be quiet. Survival is needed and we have to at least follow that rule. I don't want to know what the threat is quite yet.
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i dunno its just kind of
there inside me??
there's this whole network of chakra runnin around in my body kind of like my blood
and when i wanna use it i make hand signs to channel it in different ways
and then ninja stuff happens
[ That's... also not very eloquent but hopefully it makes a bit more sense? Unfortunately for Poe, Naruto never really enjoyed school or theory or learning anything that wasn't the flashy techniques themselves, so even basic things like Chakra 101 kind of went in one ear and out the other. ]
me either but i know its important
usually im as loud as i can be to make sure people remember me but
i guess im going to have to figure out how to do that without bein loud
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Maybe you should do a demonstration of this. So I have a better understanding of what you're trying to say. If you don't mind.
[ It's particularly giving Naruto a chance to show off his ninja stuff. Poe is curious about how it works exactly. The Force was in everything, everyone, but there were others more in tune with it. Sensitive to it than anyone else. Naruto didn't need to pay attention to school. Poe wanted to see how it works. ]
Well, we both can't be loud right now.
You'll have to find another way to get noticed.
I'm used to being loud myself but it's mostly conversing out loud. Normal human contact.
[ He's going to leave out that there would be stories of heroics back at home. But he was sure they'll end with not as heroic stories when he goes back. Especially with the decisions he made for a reason. ]
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He readies his stance, feet apart, then raises his hands into the sign that comes the easiest for him; the first two fingers on each hand crossed in a kind of T shape. Moments later, after a small puff of smoke, another Naruto appears beside the other. They're wearing the same clothes, have the same expectant expression, the same ridiculously bright hair and even brighter eyes. They're both exactly the same, clearly this apparition is some kind of clone. ]
see?
i think chakra is just in me
its in lots of stuff back home but i havent seen any signs of anyone else havin it here
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His mouth opens a bit in surprise at seeing the other Naruto appear. How? The chakra within the teen really was doing something like this. Poe reaches out to poke at the clone on his shoulder. Was it really real? Could it be touched? With the other he slowly types out a message. ]
Does this other you move as you do? How long does it stay for?
[ He's asking the important questions. ]
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i can move by myself
i aint no mirror
an i stay as long as im needed or until anyone hits me real hard
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How far can the clone move while you stay here?
I guess you need to be careful about getting hit really hard then.