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etrayalogs2024-12-21 05:15 pm
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Entry tags:
- !mingle log,
- arcane: caitlyn kiramman,
- arcane: jayce talis,
- batman beyond: bruce wayne,
- batman wfa: jason todd,
- dimension 20: gorgug thistlespring,
- fe3h: yuri leclerc,
- have you seen my brother: chu wenshan,
- ice age: manny,
- jl gods and monsters: kirk langstrom,
- penny dreadful: vanessa ives,
- person of interest: sameen shaw,
- remnant 2: the custodian,
- the walking dead: brandon carver,
- ✘ blade of the immortal: asano rin
DECEMBER MINGLE
WHO: Everyone!
WHEN: December 21st - Early January
WHERE: Etraya
WHAT: Newcomers, a surprise gift from Tatianna, and a visitor!
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WHEN: December 21st - Early January
WHERE: Etraya
WHAT: Newcomers, a surprise gift from Tatianna, and a visitor!
NOTES\WARNINGS:
 ⏵ arrival ⏴ Welcome to Etraya! Arrival goes as expected - characters awaken on hospital beds and are offered an explanation of their situation: that they have arrived in the city of Etraya, and they are their world's only hope. They are welcome to wander the hospital if they would like to - the upper floors are mostly empty, full of pristine hallways and numerous rooms filled with supplies, cots, and things one would expect from a relatively average 21st-century hospital. The lobby is filled to the brim with tables of freshly baked goods. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" banners are taped to the walls, and several other typical birthday decorations can be found in this area. A few of the baked goods tables are lined with massive cakes covered in unlit candles, just waiting for someone to grab a lighter and sing off-key. Is it anyone's birthday? Who knows! The companion bots seem to believe it's every new arrival's birthday and will greet them as such - with friendly waves and cheers as they make their way to the lobby. A coat rack is situated by the doors leading out of the hospital, covered in warm clothing that fits the new arrivals just right - whether it's to their preferred style or not is something else entirely. Some of them appear normal enough. Others? Well. They can't all be perfect, now can they? Outside the windows, the grass is covered in a couple of inches of loosely packed snow. We hope you enjoy your stay.  ⏵ an unexpected gift ⏴ Out by the hospital stands a tall, decorated tree covered in candles and golden pinecones with a handsome, red velveteen tree skirt. In front of it are a few oversized wrapped gifts for show- and atop one of those sits a familiar woman. Or unfamiliar, if this is your first time. It's Tatianna in a slutty Santa outfit with a big ol’ burlap sack. “Hey, I got something for you,” she says, digging into the bag and rummaging for a moment. She produces a painted egg and holds it aloft. “It’s your Winter Solstice Egg! This is the egg holiday, right? Wait, shit. I’m mixing them up, aren’t I? ...Well. It’s a little late to change it. Here you go!” How one treats their egg is fully up to themselves. They can choose to ignore it entirely, or destroy it and leave the yolk and innards to rot on the ground. They can hand it over to someone else or care for it as if it were something precious. No one will prevent them from doing whatever they please with it!  ⏵ naughty or nice ⏴ Those who keep the egg and tend to it will get the benefit of being able to watch it hatch seven days after they are handed the egg. Eggs that are treated with attention and love may yield a loyal companion, or a weapon of choice that always returns to its owner, while neglected eggs may yield a curious, cursed trinket or an animal who treats its new owner very much the same way its owner had treated it before it was born. Please submit an egg request below for what items you would like your character's eggs to hatch into! Please note that these cannot be things that would be applicable in the game. Those whose eggs are destroyed or forgotten will simply get the gift of... nothing!  ⏵ free your spirit ⏴ With the winter chill gripping the air, a mysterious figure makes their presence known in Etraya - a towering, horned creature dragging a massive sack behind them. Regardless of a character's strengths or weaknesses, they will find that when Krampus raises his massive sack over their head, they are powerless to stop him from catching them. Those capable of great magical feats or other supernatural abilities will sense something... otherworldly about Krampus, but will not be able to place the source of that sensation. Once within Krampus' sack, they are welcome to fight, but escape is impossible. It will feel as if Krampus is dragging them over every rock possible, dragging the sack in through the rivers to the point it soaks through and drenches them - potentially almost drowning them. When the sack opens, they will find themselves in an impossibly dark space. Around them are others who have also been captured and dragged here by Krampus, trapped in small cages hanging from a massive, wiry tree. Krampus will return often, banging clawed hands and birch rods on the walls of the cages and knocking them into one another. The whisper resonates through the darkened area, regardless of Krampus' presence. Confess your secrets, and be freed. Otherwise? You'd better hope someone figures out where Krampus has set up base; those who refuse to confess may find themselves stuck here forever. Krampus' base is under Etraya! Deep within the catacombs, he has set up multiple cages to capture those who inhabit Etraya to punish them for their naughty habits. Fighting him is possible! Defeating him by means of combat is not, however, possible. Think of it like fighting a god: Krampus creates the rules in the space around him, including who can use what ability. For all questions relating to this log, please refer to the mod queries comment. All other questions can be directed to the FAQ. |
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[ How did this guy end up on the council again? Seriously?
Sevika pushes a clean beer mug under the tap and pulls it, pouring the guy what she's since figured out is a fairly mild ale. She'll slide it over to him once it's topped off. ]
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So what deal do you want?
[That's why she wanted him in here and served him a drink, right?]
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[ Which is funny since neither of them is friendly to the other by any stretch of the imagination, and yet? She settles back down on the barstool behind the bar and picks up her beer. ]
Look, we got off to a bad start. I don't want to leave it there.
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Okay.
[That's it, that's all it took.]
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Good. Now, I spent a lot of time blaming you for not knowing anything about Zaun. I can't imagine there's a lot in Piltover to help anyone learn about us down there, so, how about this? You ask whatever you want. I'll do what I can to answer.
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I don’t know what I don’t know. I’ll ask what I can think of right now, but there’ll be gaps no matter what.
[It probably would be a surprise to no one that The Man Of Progress’ worst subject in school was “history.”]
If you understand that, we can start. What’s a realistic play-by-play of what would happen if Zaun was given Hextech? Not just access to the Hexgates.
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If Zaun was given Hextech? What, was that even being considered?
[ It's a very good question if so. She has to think it over for a minute, filling that time with a long sip of beer. Hm. ]
I'd say it depends on how we were given Hextech. If it were the gems directly, there'd only be so many people capable of making anything with them. [ Like Jinx. ] But if you mean the weapons, well, they're going to be used as weapons. That's kind of a given. Although, I can't say those mittens you gave Vi were that much better than my chemtech arm.
[ Because apart from the gates? Sevika's only seen Jayce's inventions as that. Weapons. ]
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[Not that he expects her to know that. He fucked that one up. If he had made that announcement during Progress Day…
How different things could have been. He takes an equally long sip of his beer, to fight longer contemplation.]
It wouldn’t have been the gems themselves. We had been developing devices with the intent of making manual labor less taxing and exhaustive. And before you get angry about that too- yes, I understand now, how that could be seen as a bad thing.
[His free hand picks at a splinter of wood on the counter.]
I didn’t make the Atlas Gauntlets to be weapons. They were my prototype for safer mining tools.
[Not mittens.]
What chemtech arm?
[He never saw it, and also the way he says it sounds much worse than he intended.]
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...you have a really funny idea of how mining tools should look.
[ Just saying. Admittedly, if she thinks about it long enough, she can see how they could be useful for that, and yet? ]
Well, then, you've already experienced how we'll turn anything into a weapon. I was able to disable one of the gauntlets, but the shield took me off-guard. She tore my arm out while I tried to recover.
[ Yeah, she doesn't appreciate how he said that. What chemtech arm? What chemtech arm?! ]
Did you think I never had a left arm or some shit? I had a prosthetic. One I really liked. The hydraulics were too fucked for me to fix after that mess.
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[He brightens up immensely, remembering adding that feature. Somehow Vi had managed to activate it without any instruction? She really just had an intuitive way of understanding his devices, didn’t she?]
I added that to ensure the user wouldn’t be caught by falling debris. Three foot radius on all sides, about five second duration.
[Oh wait, this is about Sevika’s arm right now. And about them being used as a weapon.]
Disable it? How?
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Forget about the arm. [ Sevika won't linger on the topic. It's not like she's incapable without it. ] Putting a sword through the thing did a pretty good job of wrecking it. Pity I couldn't get both.
[ Not that it needed to happen. Jinx took care of the rest, unfortunately. ]
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[Horrified. His babies.]
There's a power down button! You didn't need to destroy it!
[He's been completely sidetracked.]
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Did you forget she was trying to beat me to death with them?
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[He says, full of confidence for no good reason.]
But I see what you're saying- this is what my Professor had warmed me about. He told me I needed to refine the design to ensure they couldn't be used unsafely...
[He sighs, and takes another long sip from his beer again.]
I guess it's lucky for you Vi didn't steal the Hexclaw instead.
1/who even knows
2/???
3/4 probably tbh
done
She finally finishes going through the immense struggle not to rattle him like the empty-headed fool he is and simply asks, with somewhat growing dread, ]
...what's the Hexclaw?
so she's switching to vodka now right
A portable laser.
[That's the one that would have killed you, Sevika.]
carver was right about the vodka doing the job quick
[ He was going to give Zaun portable lasers. She isn't a believer in Janna, but wow, Janna, please help her. Lacking in benevolent wind spirits, though, she'll have to settle for finishing off her beer and turning to grab a bottle of vodka off the rack behind her.
Bottle, two shot glasses, she's pouring one of herself and
another for herselfone of Jayce. His gets pushed towards him. ]For... mining. Got it. Here. [ Yeah, let the lightweight mix alcohols; it'll go well. ] Alright, we've covered the whole "yes, we would use Hextech as weapons" thing. Got anything else?
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I haven't done shots since college.
[It seems like a refusal at first, as he folds his hands again to think.
So Zaun would have used them as weapons- as Heimerdinger predicted- and they wouldn't have had enough time to "refine" them, with Viktor able to see the fruits of their labors. So maybe that wasn't... as much of a screw up as he thought, to refrain from announcing them on Progress Day? He doesn't know right now if that's reassuring or not. It was almost getting easier to just believe everything that had been going wrong had been because of his own bad choices, but this seems like it was inevitable.]
Fine. Yeah, I do.
[This one's going to be a harder conversation. He looks to Sevika, lips pulled into a thin line. She doesn't like it when refuses what she considers a kindness- takes it as an intentional insult to her pride, even. And he wants these answers more than he cares about whatever potential hangover he's going to get.
Jayce reaches for the shot glass, holding it up.]
Cheers.
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[ Sevika knows that isn't true, but she can't let him slide by entirely unprovoked. She's stamped the worst of it down, leaving what is, at best, a light-hearted prod. He's getting off way easier compared to their last chat so far.
But he raises the shot glass, and she'll follow suit. She won't say the word back, but she'll incline her head to him in a little nod — cheers indeed — and then throw the shot back. Click goes the glass against the bartop as she sets it down again. For a mercy, she won't move to refill the shot glasses immediately. ]
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Did you pick the cheapest one on purpose?
[Ugh, it's still on his tongue. He'll finish the rest of his beer to try and settle the taste.
He's only getting off easier for now- he did the shot to ease his nerves enough for what he's about to get into. One of the very topics Sevika vehemently defended when they last spoke like this. With glass empty and on the counter, he can feel the warmth already spreading to his face and stomach. Better go for it now, before it actually gets to his brain.]
Shimmer. You said it was your largest source of defense and income- I checked the shipping manifests for half a year prior to the Progress Day attack. Silco planned on shipping Shimmer outside of Piltover using the Hexgates that day.
[That much isn’t a question, but a statement of fact.]
But for how much of Shimmer Silco was producing, it was disproportionately being used more by your own people than by topsiders. Was Piltover really the target demographic for profits sake, or was it about exerting control over a populace that had nothing to lose? And when you say defense- you mean the shimmer-infused soldiers that I saw, don't you? Were they even conscious people anymore? Or just mindless slaves?
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She's left fiddling with the once more emptied shot glass as she considers what approach to take. It doesn't take long, though. Jayce isn't getting answers without first answering a question of her own. ]
Tell me what you know about Shimmer first.
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cw: mentions of drug, alcohol abuse
cw: mentions of drug, alcohol abuse cont (oops should have added this a few tags ago)
zaun mentioned, all content warnings activated tbh
yeah basically
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