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logsinthenight2019-12-09 01:08 pm
pure_havoc) wrote in logsinthenight2019-12-09 01:08 pm
Round 2 [open]
characters: Cao Pi and everyone who wants to show up
location: town hall
date/time: Dec. 8, starting at moonrise
content: Community meeting, take 2! After the Dreamer/Defender incident, there's a lot to talk about and Cao Pi has encouraged everyone to come and publicly share what they learned while asleep or what ideas they have to make the next massacre less massacre-y. Feel free to handwave catching his post or hearing about it from a friend.
warnings: none likely but lmk if that changes. Threadjacking likely; if you don't want to be threadjacked, make some sort of indication.
As before, Cao Pi arrives ahead of time to ensure the town hall is ready for a session, righting any chairs that might have been thrown about in recent melees and checking the logbook for recent information. When a fair amount of people have arrived and he can see the waxing moon rising through the leafless trees outside, he rises to begin with a short intro.
"By now we know that those who succumbed to the food at the feast had a strange experience - they shared dreams with each other, in which they found themselves seeing Beacon as it was in the past. I encourage all those who dreamed, and remember it well, please tell us all what you saw. There may be considerable clues to our purpose and progress in even the smallest detail.
"The rest of us, well. We managed to make it through and I believe those who were killed are whole again, but for our part we can go over what worked and what didn't. Defending ourselves isn't merely a matter of being trained to use weapons. The spirits which attacked were formidable, powerful. We will need more than just our strength to outlast another attack. Ideas are welcome, as is any new information we have on everything from communications to threats."
That's all he'll ramble about this time, he'll take a seat and allow others to have the floor before he makes any more grandiose speeches.
location: town hall
date/time: Dec. 8, starting at moonrise
content: Community meeting, take 2! After the Dreamer/Defender incident, there's a lot to talk about and Cao Pi has encouraged everyone to come and publicly share what they learned while asleep or what ideas they have to make the next massacre less massacre-y. Feel free to handwave catching his post or hearing about it from a friend.
warnings: none likely but lmk if that changes. Threadjacking likely; if you don't want to be threadjacked, make some sort of indication.
As before, Cao Pi arrives ahead of time to ensure the town hall is ready for a session, righting any chairs that might have been thrown about in recent melees and checking the logbook for recent information. When a fair amount of people have arrived and he can see the waxing moon rising through the leafless trees outside, he rises to begin with a short intro.
"By now we know that those who succumbed to the food at the feast had a strange experience - they shared dreams with each other, in which they found themselves seeing Beacon as it was in the past. I encourage all those who dreamed, and remember it well, please tell us all what you saw. There may be considerable clues to our purpose and progress in even the smallest detail.
"The rest of us, well. We managed to make it through and I believe those who were killed are whole again, but for our part we can go over what worked and what didn't. Defending ourselves isn't merely a matter of being trained to use weapons. The spirits which attacked were formidable, powerful. We will need more than just our strength to outlast another attack. Ideas are welcome, as is any new information we have on everything from communications to threats."
That's all he'll ramble about this time, he'll take a seat and allow others to have the floor before he makes any more grandiose speeches.
/casually jumps in
despite the fact that transmission's content had taken him back to new orleans and way, way back to the viking age, kol shrugs rather casually. conceal, don't feel. ]
Souls being rehomed into another host was almost a commonplace for me. [ he hasn't been too quiet about his second resurrection in the body of kaleb westphall—although, that had always been in talk with witches. post-dream, kol hadn't realised how traumatising that had been for him.
again, conceal, don't feel. perhaps he can somehow help with this... ]
I doubt anyone from this world was a practicing witch to achieve that. But the actual act itself is not an impossibility.
gosh how very dare
But given that a doctor's involved—. [ he lifts a shoulder in a loose shrug. ] I knew of a guy back home that swapped his consciousness into a new body before his old one [ a beat and peter's expression flickers momentarily in discomfort ], died. The same guy also transferred a copy of his consciousness into an entirely different, clone body via means that were definitely not magical because he's staunchly dedicated to the scientific method and ensuring everyone knows it. [ another pause because honestly, what is his life? he's still slightly sore about the fact that it took so long for anyone to notice that overnight, he managed to sound like he'd swallowed a dictionary.
anyway, details. ] Neither body was meant as a temporary home, unless we're talking in the sense that all bodies are technically only temporary... And I mean, soul versus consciousness is probably just a matter of semantics, but that's not really my wheelhouse.
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I don't think it means a body.
[ Some time spent listening has seen his voice recover a little. He points to his own lantern. ]
These lanterns are our lives. They can be broken. Sounds pretty temporary to me.
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—I mean, I always knew I wasn't going to live forever, but reminders of my own mortality aren't really my favourite thing.