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EVENT LOG: GATHER UP
EVENT LOG:
GATHER UP
characters: everyone.
location: beacon at large.
date/time: september 16-25.
content: a town-wide selfie scavenger hunt!
warnings: unflattering camera angles.
🔎📸😘
It starts with a network post, and then a song begins to play in the Invincible, loud enough to be heard throughout Bonfire Square. Welcome to the scavenger hunt, everyone! You've been tasked with finding 25 "items" in and around Beacon, so hop to it!
Please remember to ICly report your findings on Robin's network post if you want them to count toward a prize! As a further reminder, you're free to interpret the list items however you/your character would like, and you're free to assume your character can find all of these things somewhere in town without running into trouble! Just don't stray too far from town to go gallivanting off into the wilderness, as that might be dangerous. This includes finding forest spirits! You're welcome to NPC your own forest spirit encounters, just like in our last event.
That said, if you would like to search a particular area for a fun surprise, let us know below!
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Lab
The scavenger hunt is silly and he's not sure what the point is in participating in it, but this is as good an excuse as any to meet another one of the people who's been here since the first month, so he steps forward and then gives a knock on the frame to make sure his presence has been noticed -
and then slams the top of his head against said frame on trying to enter, a constant problem for someone both too tall and too clumsy to get in and out easily. It's half the reason he leaves his bangs so long and keeps his hat on. Bruises are all too common. He lets out a short gasp of pain, then shakes it off.]
Hey. Rosalind, right?
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[She says it far less coldly than she might otherwise have, but his little rigmarole routine with the doorway rather did the work for her. It's hard to cut a man down when he's done it himself.]
I assume this is about the sign on the front?
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[So much for fitting names to faces - he should have noted that she prefers a more formal type of address. No big deal though, he'll remember now. He gives his forehead a rub with a slight grimace, because damn that still stings.]
And yeah. I figured at the very least, we'd never spoken before. And I know you've been working on getting this place set up. Do you mind telling me what it is you do?
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[All science, as silly as that sounds. But caught here, bored out of her mind, she studies anything she can, biology and chemistry and geology and physics. Anything to keep her sharp.]
More specifically: a bit of biology right now, but my specialty is quantum physics.
[She turns more fully towards him. She knows him, of course, in the same way he knows her: at a distance, a face vaguely known.]
My price is a certain amount of time spent serving as my laboratory assistant. Is there a number in particular you were interested in?
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Still, her proposal is fair, and maybe he'll learn something, when he's not tripping over lab equipment, dropping vials, and breaking delicate instruments.]
A certain amount of time, huh? I don't mind helping out a bit when I have the chance. I don't remember how the list was numbered, but-
[He raises a hand to gesture to her, and then the room around them.]
Before now we've never spoken, and I've never been here, so those work just fine for me. What kind of assistance do you need?
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[Two vials, one a worrying red, the other a clear liquid. They're both unnaturally warm to hold, but it shan't burn him. The smell is pretty gross, though.]
The list was numbered by what we can potentially fake. I can act as hard-won friend or what have you easily enough.
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[No harm in that, really. It's just a silly scavenger hunt, and for all his positive traits, honesty has never actually been one of them, especially when there's something to be gained with a harmless fabrication. He sets his lantern down to take the vials.]
Well, the ones I suggested are good enough, and true enough too. I'm not desperate to go after every single item. What are these?
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[A beat, and then, vaguely:]
I'm attempting to make artificial blood.
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Artificial blood, huh. Useful if you run out of donors, I guess. It's a shame that's something we have to consider here.
[He's certain they'll be attacked again. If not by forest spirits, then by something else they don't even know about yet, for he's under no illusion that with the recent announcements they now know all the possible threats to their existence. Maybe blood donation is something they should be doing. Maybe Ms. Lutece is already arranging that and he just hasn't heard about it, in fact.]
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[Which isn't meant to be dismissive. He appreciates curiosity. Never thought anyone would get curious about making artificial blood for their own entertainment, but hell. The medically-inclined are strange people.]
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How much do you know about quantum physics?
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I learned some very basic physics once. Don't know what a quantum is.
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That's... Have you done that before?
[Is that how they got here, someone did something quantum or other? Individual people can wield that sort of power?
That strikes him as deeply unsafe in the wrong hands, and questionably responsible here. But also? Awesome. In the truest sense of the word.]