MISSION 004 (NPC INTERACTIONS)

[etrayanpcs]

WHO: Everyone!
WHEN: July 19th-August 9th.
WHERE: Moorecroft Village
WHAT: NPC interactions throughout the mission.
NOTES\WARNINGS: Potential death.

Please use this log for any NPC interactions occurring during the mission! In your tag-in, please include which NPC you want to speak to (if there's one specifically), and let us know if there's any information you're looking for in particular.

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Raz (also Clarke is tagging along with him)

[neverleave]

["Raz," they called him, the person who's been here for six years. Natsuno doesn't want to out himself as the person who sent the morse code to Moorecroft, but surely just asking around about veteran residents isn't weird. Their mission is to blend in, so it makes sense to ask for advice, right?

So there he is, with Clarke in tow, inclining his head politely.]

Hi, Raz? We heard you've been here for a while. Mind if we ask some questions?

[etrayanpcs]

[ Raz, they had called him, given it is his name. The person who had been speaking to Natsuno hadn't been lying when they'd said he'd been around longest: Raz has been on Moorecroft for a while. It's aged him, too: Raz may be barely hitting his 30s, but he looks ten years older. A massive scar goes from the corner of his mouth up to the top of his right ear, which Natsuno will be told to look for when asking after him. He works at the shop as a mechanic, maintaining vehicles within the city bubble, which is the easiest place to find him during the day. When Natsuno and Clarke approach him, he takes his head out from under the hood of the vehicle he had been working on, hands covered in grease and brows furrowed at the unwanted intrusion, but he doesn't tell the kid off. Yet. ]

The welcoming committee's better for that. They've got a whole spiel and everything.

[skaikru]

( natsuno had pioneered the morse code communication with moorecroft in the first place, and clarke allows him to pioneer this approach. she follows a step behind and hovers at his left shoulder as, but when faced with that feels like the beginning of an attempt to divert them: )

We're not really interested in a spiel. Especially not one that's been well practiced and is probably meant to put people at ease, you know?

[etrayanpcs]

[ A girl steps out from behind the kid, but Raz's eyes don't stray from Natsuno. ]

I can't give you anything better. But if you want to ask, ask.

[neverleave]

[Natsuno returns the look, calm as ever. No point in beating around the bush with this guy, which is fine by him. As long as Raz doesn't tell them off, he'll ask directly.

(And if he does tell them off, Natsuno's sure Clarke Griffin will have captial-O Opinions about it)]

Is this how the set's always been? With the fake families and jobs between fighting each other? [They've heard the gossip about "Theo" and the murder game. It was disgusting.] We heard the curfew was caused by an "incident." So we're wondering how it was before. What else could be coming.

[Raz has been here for six years. Last of his batch, if they understood correctly. Maybe he knows something the others don't.]

[etrayanpcs]

[ Raz gives a low grunt, eyes returning to the engine even if there isn't anything to do with it currently. ]

No, it was different 'fore. There weren't rules, or jobs, or shit to do. But people got restless. Thought if they got outta here, they'd be able to get home. Someone found a way through the barrier, an' it took out most've us. Not'n the same way that happens in the town proper. Never saw any of the floaters again. 's when curfew started.

[skaikru]

( with raz's eyes diverted elsewhere, clarke doesn't fight the urge to give natsuno A Look. through the barrier, he'd just said. floaters, he'd said. and she's suddenly got a very vivid mental image of what that historical bubble-prison break must have looked like, sucked into the vacuum of space. quick and relatively quiet. most've us, he'd said. )

And you were here when all that happened? How'd you survive, when the ( barrier fell ) bubble popped.

( ... )

How long have you been under this curfew?

[etrayanpcs]

I was inside the hospital. While a lot of other shit got sucked out, that building was protected. Those've us inside could see 'em all out there, struggling to find shit to hold onto but we couldn't do nothing about it.

[ The second part of her question gets answered with a shrug, but nothing firm. It's been a while, and while he could answer, Raz opts not to. It doesn't matter much regardless. ]

[neverleave]

[He returns Clarke's look. She thinks about floaters and airlocks, while Natsuno thinks these barriers sound surprisingly flimsy. Maybe an oversight on Eos' part; he wonders what else she and Aurora are missing.

The hospital seems to have extra protection. Is the one on Etraya the same? It'd make sense, since this is where people are first brought to. The core of the bubble, equipped while the rest of the city was still under construction.

He nods at Raz's answer, and doesn't push the topic of curfew. He just thought about something more urget.]

So the jobs are to keep everyone too busy to mess things up. But that doesn't explain why the curfew. I hear noises and scratches during the night... did something get in when the bubble popped?

[etrayanpcs]

Something is out there.

[ That is certain enough. Although what it is, is something Raz himself isn't quite sure of. He lets that sit for a moment, before continuing, ]

Don't know if it came from outside, but it showed up just after the barrier broke.