logsinthenight | EVENT LOG: LIGHT UP THE NIGHT

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EVENT LOG: LIGHT UP THE NIGHT

characters: everyone.
location: around town.
date/time: november 5-7.
content: use that bonfire!
warnings: n/a. please cw tags appropriately.

maybe we can bring back the light

Shortly after Robin's network post, a magnificent display of fireworks will start to launch from the lighthouse! They're odd-looking, though, given that they glow but don't cast light. But still cool to watch! The best place to view the show is at the beach, but some of the bigger explosions can be seen just over the treetops from town, and they can certainly be heard from all over Beacon. Exciting! Maybe! Robin sure thinks so! The fireworks will continue for a couple of hours before a very colorful grand finale, after which the lighthouse beam will shine red again for the duration of the event.

Meanwhile, back in town, Rastus has set up a magnificent display of his own. Torches are set up in a wide circle around the bonfire (which looks a bit less bright, given how many torches he's pulled from it), ready for the taking. You don't even have to talk to him first! He's lingering nearby, though, and... has looked more excited about things in the past. This is gonna be a bookkeeping nightmare, he can tell.

In any case, the torches are free for the taking, but do remember to report any torch movement to the event header on the item requests page. Don't let Rastus's fears become reality!

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"Sounds like you did the right thing, though," he assures Stone, nodding along. Yeah, losses like that are regrettable. But more regrettable? Mass extinctions, genocides, that sort of thing. Of course, Stone didn't say they were intelligent species, but at this point it seems out of place to ask. Maybe for them the distinction doesn't matter.

"Maybe by some stroke of luck we'll be able to see something like that here some day. Flying in space, I mean. If not through Doctor Ingram's technology, then by some of the magic some people have here."

"Well, we've got a little less than two years to see what we can come up with," Stone says with half a smile. "Though we probably ought to work on actually finding a way to deal with the world-ending monsters during that time, too."

"Of course. World Eaters first. If we succeed with them, then we might have unlimited time for whatever else we want to achieve."

Though he's less sure of that every day. This isn't really an afterlife like he'd thought when he first arrived. Some sort of technology seems to capture their souls on death and send them here through the portal Robin mentioned. He doesn't understand it, but it means that they might not stay here forever - maybe there's a limit to how long a soul can last after death. Maybe they'll be sent elsewhere to solve some other problem. Who knows, really. One step at a time.

Stone would be okay with dying again, really. He was ready for it when it happened. He's lived so much longer than anyone should have to, watched too many people he loved die of shitting old age while he kept living on. But this isn't too bad, either.

"I don't suppose you have any insight into stopping the world eater things, do you?" he asks, without much hope. "It seems like we should be making plans and trying things. Besides me just planning to diving on their heads or something." Which he will certainly try if it becomes necessary.

"They cause the stars to go out. They destroy light. I'm not sure what hurts a thing like that. Not bullets, not swords. Starvation, maybe."

But that would mean no light and no life and that's what they're trying to avoid, themselves.

"Best I can do is keep seeing if there's a pattern in their movements. But it's true, we're running out of time."

"Maybe they can be poisoned," Stone hazards. "Given the wrong kind of light to eat."

Not that he'd have any idea what the wrong kind of light would be, he's just making guesses.

Wow, now there's a thought. Rosinante thinks on it for a moment, with a hand on his chin. "Wrong kind of light, huh. Like what?"

Sorry, Stone, but it's the obvious question to ask in case he does know. Because Rosinante has no idea either, but he clearly appreciates the idea. It's awfully creative.

It's how the colony defeated their own enemies, the Fell... if diving and tearing out throats isn't possible, poison is a viable option. "I don't know. How many kinds of light are there? Sunlight, firelight, moonlight-- we still have moonlight here, they didn't eat that their first time through." Stone also doesn't know that moonlight is technically reflected sunlight... but if that were true in Beacon, they wouldn't have moonlight, eight. "Maybe the bonfire, since I hear it's magical somehow."

"Worth trying. Might be a hard thing to achieve, though, with no guarantees it works." What would they do, anyway, throw torches into open mouths? If it doesn't work, it's a good way to lose their only reliable light source. But if the World Eaters are close enough to try feeding them bonfire flame, they're probably not going to make it much longer anyway.

"I like the idea of poison in general. It's just a shame we know so little about them."

"There has to be a way to learn more, doesn't there? We have people who know some things about them, even if they're flighty difficult people," Stone muses. "And your the stars thing. Maybe there's a reason why they eat some stars and not others that isn't just distance."

"That's a good point. Maybe," he says, nodding. "If there's no obvious pattern based on distance, maybe knowing what kinds of stars those are is a good thing to investigate."

Though that seems even harder to do from here. But there are some awfully smart people around who might just have an idea of how to try.

"And that's the end of my wisdom for the night," Stone decides, only about half-seriously, leaning back on his hands to tilt his head back up at the fireworks. "You'll have to figure out how to run with that yourself. Though if you want me to try flying up as high as I can and see if Raksura can reach stars, after all, I wouldn't be against it. Later, though."

"Later, if at all," he agrees with a nod. "The stars themselves are so far that it sounds like you might never reach them, but maybe the space between. I'm not sure it's safe, though. Probably the sort of thing you shouldn't just do without asking the people here who have been out there before."

And ultimately it seems kind of frivolous anyway, for now. It would take a long time, a lot of energy, probably would require packing some food and water, and what would it achieve? He's curious, for sure, but flying out over the forest would probably be more practical right now.

And flying over the forest is hard. Stone has done a little of it, and can't seem to get enough lift to actually clear the tallest trees, not for long. So he hasn't gone far enough to even count as an exploration. Flying up towards the stars might be harder, but he's willing to give it a shot.

"We have other fliers around here, right? Aziraphale has wings, and that fluffy bird-girl. And I read that someone else can just kind of hover." None of them are Stone, but they still have them.

"Jason, too," he adds. "One of them, anyway. The blonde. Haven't met a fluffy bird-girl." Not that it matters much. The place is small, he'll run into her eventually.

"And from what Jason told me, flying too high gets tricky mostly because it's too hard to see. Weather hasn't helped lately either, with all the fog and rain. Maybe if you get high enough though, you can get clear of the darkness."

Right? Or maybe this is just what space is like. Dark everywhere except for the stars. The thought makes him suddenly wonder what this world would look like from above. A dark orb, with a tiny pinpoint of light at the lighthouse? What a strange idea.

"Hmm. I've been pretty high before on my world," Stone says thoughtfully. "It didn't really change the quality of light any. But this isn't my world. If there's some kind of blanket of darkness, somehow, that doesn't go all the way up to the stars, that would be something to find out, wouldn't it."

"No way to know without trying." Risky, sure, probably, but what's life without a few calculated risks? Especially here, where just existing becomes more dangerous with each passing day. They'll have to try new things just to test what works and what doesn't, because here, who knows what to expect? They've made very little progress in the past few months and if they sit around and poke at the tablets, that won't change.

"Well, I guess I know what my next goal is," Stone says. "Maybe once the dock is done I'll see just how high over this little town I can get."

"Let me know when you do. Not much I can do but wish you luck, but still." At least that way someone will know when Stone goes out in case he doesn't return. Hopefully with the lighthouse to guide him back, that won't be too big a problem.

"You know, the other thing that flight might help with is to follow the next ferry back to wherever it goes after dropping everyone off. Robin said something about a portal. Might be worth having a look at."

"Hmm. I wouldn't be able to tell much about it. Someone would have to come with me, who knows a damn thing about technology or magic or whatever the portal's made of," Stone points out. "But I'd be willing to give that a try, the next time it comes back."

"There are a lot of people here who might know a thing or two about it," he says, nodding. "If I had to guess, it's something technological, not magic. With how Robin talks about the instruments she has, it doesn't sound magical."

Just seeing it might not mean much to anyone anyway, he supposes. In his mind it's something like a whirlpool - and whatever mechanism creates it is likely below the water, as well as whatever is in the lighthouse itself. But any information is more than what they have right now.

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