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logsinthenight2020-11-05 01:56 pm
nextnightmods) wrote in logsinthenight2020-11-05 01:56 pm
EVENT LOG: GHOST TOWNS
EVENT LOG:
GHOST TOWNS
characters: everyone.
location: around town
date/time: november 5-16.
content: carved vegetables, soothing memories, and spreading the light far and wide.
warnings: n/a, please label threads as needed.
it's the promise of a better place.
It's time to relax a little, and appreciate the people you've loved, the things that bring you comfort, and all the other small joys that have followed you from your life back home to Beacon where you now reside. The spirits, drawing again on past holidays and traditions, and now mostly dedicated to helping, have been busy trying to find ways to lift the mood, let you spread light to the darker corners of town, and find ways to make life (or death, as the case may be) a little more pleasant.
I STILL DREAM OF YOU
All around the bonfire are carved vegetables - radishes, turnips, rutabagas, squash, and so on. And as the days draw on, more arrive. Each has a feeling or brief memory attached to it that belongs to someone in town. Whose pumpkin or potato have you found, and can you reunite it with them? Where are yours?
Off in corners around town, you might also still encounter the spirits hard at work and if you approach, they'll squeak and chitter and offer you something to carve or decorate, in case you want to get crafty and help out! How they add the memories remains very much a mystery, but the decorating they'll certainly share.
THAT TRUTH WE CHASE
A strange post appears on the network. Not a photo, not an audio file, no - this one is a video, for one of the first-ever times since the last reset. A fuzzy hand, and then a masked face, appear much too close in front of the camera, then a squeaky song of delight.
But there's another spirit in the background - larger, covered in feathers, with two large round yellow - orbs? - on its chest. It grunts in frustration and reaches, and the camera goes sprawling and clattering to the floor.
As the smaller spirit bounds over to retrieve it, the larger one scolds it in a series of loud clucks. After a dizzying journey across the engineer's shop downtown, the camera finally settles on the fuzzy spirit's masked face again now somewhere near the ceiling, and it yelps cheerfully, gives a two-fingered victory sign into the camera, then sets the tablet down and waves a torch around.
In vibrant blue and purple, the flames form the shape of the words FIND. YOURS. POTATO!
At which point there's a flash of feathers and the screen goes black.
Feel free to reply to the video (perhaps with frustration, as aren't tablets limited to audio or text only?), to go investigate downtown, or to make your own network posts to coordinate finding yours potatoes! Please use ENGINEER as your header if you and a friend (or you alone) are going to visit this spirit or the engineer so mods can easily find the threads for NPCing purposes.
FROM DARK TO DAWN
But that's not the only spirit who has messed with the torches. In fact, when they're not sneaking around with squash, spirits can be seen running off with torches in mouths and hands (and sometimes other appendages - those are some impressive toes!), much too fast and nimble for the frustrated Clara to chase after them, but then later returning and dumping armfuls back into the bonfire, or waving them around in delight as they conduct impromptu raves complete with flashing nonsensical messages like A HAM FHW ERGANTOOO or more simply, ♥.
Many will run up to you with a torch in hand, wave it around, then mime staring at it with hands pressed to their temples (if they have temples, or hands) - and sure enough, all it takes is thirty seconds or so of concentration and you too can have your own customized torch message! Try it out, delight your friends, prank your neighbors, or even try to act helpful and warn of nearby cautions if that's more your style.
If you take a torch from the bonfire, please let us know here!
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no subject
Are you thinking about it being a different color? Imagine it being blue.
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[Who knows what she was thinking, but apparently now, she's thinking blue. She's thinking so hard about blue that her eyes dimly turn blue, though it's a little hard to tell as the glass bulbs mostly reflect the flames in front of her.
They're still orange-red.]
Four-hundred fifty nanometers! ... Five hundred twelve!
[Nope.]
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[He reasons that it's probably because she's a robot and emotions work different. Or they had for him when he was a robot anyway - that's his basis for robo-knowledge. But there's another possibility..]
I wonder if it has to do with my lantern. Maybe my lantern connects me to the bonfire. Is that possible?
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[She sets the torch back down and leans in a little toward the lantern.]
Yes, it's possible! The lantern-light and the candle-lights are the same, and the torches are also light, and Dr. Solis always said that light is life and we can't let it go out! I think they could all be connected to the same source! Even if I don't understand exactly how that works. Dr. Solis would have!
I miss her.
no subject
[ Oh no. Don't be sad lil' robo buddy.]
Yes, it's a shame, but she would be proud of you taking on new responsibilities. Tending to the bonfire is very important.
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Except that I have an exclusion policy in place that prohibits me from detecting all of you as manageable inventory.
[She pauses and looks at Kuai with a big broad - oh it's always the same smile.]
However! The policy is somewhat unclear as to whether your lanterns are part of you or if they count as manageable inventory!
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[He watches as a small spirit swindles another torch and disappears into the darkness. Clara seems to have her hands full with them right now.]
Good luck with your torch tracking. I'll see if I can convince them to bring it back.
[Kuai the menacing Lin Kuei warrior, and herder of torch stealing spirits.]
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[Then, either an afterthought or a realization:]
Good luck!