MOD LOG #2

[bequiet]

MOD LOG #2
Now we're back to the beginning
Content Warnings: Death, apocalypse, a shit storm generally, pigeon death
Themes: Survival, plot

As noted on the ooc plotting post, this prompt is in the form of a Network Post via the native who runs the Bulletin Board. The post can be found here. Out of the five separate teams, all groups decided to share the footage they found. On the morning of the first, the footage will go live as a compilation in order of oldest to newest. Character's devices will update at the same time. The weather is overcast and sullen, befitting the news, and characters can talk to each other on the network post or play out their reactions on the log here.

Will you stay or will you go
Content Warnings: NONE
Themes: Survival, plot

On the morning of the second, the locals will call a meeting at town hall. All soundproofing and partnering rules apply - find a person and help soundproof the area. This is so that everyone can speak during the meeting. The found footage has unsettled the natives and after the community takes a seat, Constance will share some interesting backstory. As one of the oldest members of the community, Constance wasn't alive when the Sound Eaters first came but she heard stories from her great grandmother. The 'tales' have taken twists and turns over time, leaving the survivors with a watered down version of events that amounts to - they came and everyone had to be quiet.

An elderly native will come forward and admit that they arrived through the Reset Room when they were a teenager and have been living there ever since. They tried to get home and they could never find away. Most interestingly, to those that listen closely to his story, is that he came with a sibling who was killed by a Sound Eater and wasn't Reset. Yet, he's known people to come through the Reset Room, die, and come back. Piping up from the background, another local mentions that those born in the world they're in now (natives) aren't reset when they die. It's not something they have any real understanding of. Arrivals tend to disappear at random times, stay in the community, or leave; those that choose to depart and explore the world never make it very far. Whether this is from Sound Eaters alone or someone or something else, the natives don't know. It's obvious they are frightened and don't go beyond what they know is safe.

The natives will now ask the characters if they will stay as permanent members of the community. If they choose to, they will be given the option to take on an apartment that is completely soundproofed, furnished, and will be accepted completely by the natives. This can open up doors for characters to become important parts of the community. No character has to agree to become permanent members. If a character chooses not to, the arrangement they're in will stay the same until a few months from now when the natives ask again. Arrivals are given the chance to talk to one another so that they can decide and digest the new information. There is also a comment below to ask the natives questions 'in front of' the entire community.

ooc: Players have until apps close this upcoming round to comment to the housing page saying that their character chose to be permanent members and are taking an apartment. The apartment is located closer to the Reset Room and are either one or two bedrooms; please note which one your character is taking.

Therefore I lie with her
Content Warnings: NONE
Themes: Survival, plot

The native Constance, who hands out the devices, has decided to step back from a leadership role and has submitted the names of those that she believes could lead the group better than she has. Please vote responsibly. During dinner, a group meal prepared and served in the town hall, slips of paper will be passed around with a pencil for everyone to vote. They will be anonymous unless the person chooses to share out loud who they voted for. There won't be much time for campaigning, but candidates are allowed to do so if they'd like - either handwaved or through their own posts/top-levels.

THE CANDIDATES:

- Frank Castle
- Erik Lehnsherr
- Teddy Upsilon
- Richie Tozier
- Akira Kurusu
- Merlan O'Keefe

OOC
From your mods:

Please be mindful of content - if something triggery comes up or if it goes up a rating to say, something sexy, mark your threads in the subject line. We're very flexible and allow any material; we just want our players to be respectful of each other. If you have questions, pp the mod account, use the faq or comment to the appropriate post below. Have fun! The OOC Plotting Post.

NAVIGATION

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Comments

[thatsruff]

[Teddy can smell them from the doorway, his nose tilted up and twitching faintly. After a few seconds he approaches, placing a paw on Ren's foot and his chin in the man's hand.]

The natives tell me it is sound proof.

[He still prefers the ease of their ability to seemingly communicate without words or thoughts, but at times words are necessary. Pacing away, he sticks his head out into the hallway, and for the first time since his arrival barks once, soft and low.]

[warfares]

[ Scratching lightly under Teddy's chin, ] Would you prefer that we not speak?

[ His voice is soft, measured; it feels strange to hear it after so long. A voice spoken aloud, without fear—he doesn't like to admit it but he is troubled by what he's seen. ] It tires you.

[thatsruff]

It does. It would be easier.

[Though he likes hearing the sound of a friendly voice. He leans his head into Ren's hand, thankful his handler is such an understanding human, and closes his eyes. It is still so unusual to be asked what he would like or prefer. No one used to show him those kinds of choices. He never even knew they could be his to make.]

[warfares]

Then we will not.

[ Teddy's thoughts are different from a human. Harder to parse, for now, but with time and with practice he will learn to unravel them. ]

( There are many ways to speak. )

[thatsruff]

[Teddy stiffens at first. This method of communication is very different from those he knows. He waits, watching and listening, his eyes on his handler's face, but then he relaxes once more and rests his head again. There is more of an ease to those words for Teddy, than any written or verbal communication. As if the words carried more than just learned meaning with them. Something more instinctive than thought.]

(Thank you. )

[Less words than emotion, Teddy presents the thought as much as he can, closing his eyes again. That would be much better, and simpler, than constantly trying to spell and think with human communication methods.]

[warfares]

[ First comes the tension, that instinctual bristling against something foreign, more pronounced in Teddy's animal mind. He is careful, pulling a sense of calm with him like one might thread a needle; this, paired with the shift of his fines from Teddy's chin, moving to settle at his ears. ]

( You are safe here. )

[ Inasmuch as any of them are ever safe now. Within these four walls, however, it's a promise that he feels he can keep. ]

[thatsruff]

[Relief overtakes the tension, and Teddy gives in to the new method of communication, letting his mind quiet and rest. It is easy to feel safe in his handler's company. Ren is a good man, and he has never shown Teddy ill will or reason to fear. Only help when he needed it, and comfort in the knowledge that this human could protect himself, and did not need to rely so heavily on Teddy as others might.

He was a far better handler than any Teddy had had in the past, and despite the unease the thought tugged at, he was confident that if Ren had been there instead of Simmons, he would not have been abandoned on the dark planet.

Instead of direct words or thoughts, Teddy's mind slips back to emotions of gratitude and exhaustion with a thin line of uneasy contentment. The very notion of being content constantly nudging Teddy back to discontent along a wavering line of uncertainty.

Above it all though was trust in the man, in his words, and in his presence. Trust enough that Teddy begins to fall asleep.]