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come_sailaway2023-09-04 08:16 am
redlightgreenlight) wrote in come_sailaway2023-09-04 08:16 am
Lights Go Out and I Can’t Be Saved
Who: Valdis and Open with Some Closed
What: Valdis does stuff around the Serena Eterna, feel free to join her
When: September
Where: All over
Warnings: In each starter
Confusion never stops | Crichton | CW: None
Valdis hasn’t seen much of Crichton since she tried to remove Harvey last, but with her and Cassandra’s suspicions, she knows she needs to talk to him. He appears to be in his room on this particular evening, so she gently knocks on his door.
“Crichton?” She calls softly, trying to find the balance between worry and rage.
It’s not his fault that Harvey took over and started targeting people, but if he’s losing time again, she felt that he should have told her. Or at least somebody.
“Are you there?”
Closing walls and ticking clocks | Siffleur | CW: none
The one person she’s been avoiding is also the one person who she needs to see and it was only a matter of time before the two predators ended up in the same room by accident or on purpose. There’s a tightness in her chest when she sees Siffleur at one of the tables in Sand Dollar, anxiety perhaps. She’s been refusing soul energy again for fear of killing someone. She’d managed for awhile last time, but she knows she’s weakening herself by not having any backup.
But she still tries to ignore him, making some coffee and heading to a table with lots of room for escape should it be necessary.
Gonna come back and take you home | Open | CW: none
Valdis is struggling, but trying to keep her schedule as normal as possible. Meditation in the morning sunlight, sword practice in the afternoons. Reading a book from Cassandra in the spare quiet moments. Sometimes she practices what she’s reading, but mostly it seems frustrating for her and she’ll shut the book firmly before grabbing something else.
She’s doing her best to not withdraw from her friends, but she is less outgoing than people are used to, spending hours in the library or drawing people she knows on the ship.
Event Starters | Open | CW: The flowers are dangerous
Red Rose:
A rose by any other name is still as sweet and the red roses growing on vines in the library smell sweet. So sweet that anyone who smells them falls in love with the next person they lay eyes on. Valdis is wearing a makeshift mask and trying very hard to avoid getting too close to the flowers as she searches the shelves for a specific book.
Angels Trumpets:
Valdis sits in Sand Dollar reading, and another of her sits across the table, the one clearly trying to ignore the bookless one as she smirks and says in hushed tones:
“It wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t gotten so weak. Trust is so human.”
Purple Hyacinth:
If her past self following her around hadn’t been bad enough, the purple hyacinths growing outside her door decided to make her day even worse. Faces of the people she’s killed, the ones in the village, keep coming to mind. People she knew. People who didn’t deserve it. People who had once been friends.
She’s back at the bar and drinking as much as she possibly can, making sure it’s not the non-alcoholic stuff. She needs the real stuff and anyone who sees her can clearly see that she has probably had too much, even if they know it doesn’t affect her.
I could not stop that you now know | Wildcard | CW: As Necessary
PM to discuss or just go for it!
What: Valdis does stuff around the Serena Eterna, feel free to join her
When: September
Where: All over
Warnings: In each starter
Confusion never stops | Crichton | CW: None
Valdis hasn’t seen much of Crichton since she tried to remove Harvey last, but with her and Cassandra’s suspicions, she knows she needs to talk to him. He appears to be in his room on this particular evening, so she gently knocks on his door.
“Crichton?” She calls softly, trying to find the balance between worry and rage.
It’s not his fault that Harvey took over and started targeting people, but if he’s losing time again, she felt that he should have told her. Or at least somebody.
“Are you there?”
Closing walls and ticking clocks | Siffleur | CW: none
The one person she’s been avoiding is also the one person who she needs to see and it was only a matter of time before the two predators ended up in the same room by accident or on purpose. There’s a tightness in her chest when she sees Siffleur at one of the tables in Sand Dollar, anxiety perhaps. She’s been refusing soul energy again for fear of killing someone. She’d managed for awhile last time, but she knows she’s weakening herself by not having any backup.
But she still tries to ignore him, making some coffee and heading to a table with lots of room for escape should it be necessary.
Gonna come back and take you home | Open | CW: none
Valdis is struggling, but trying to keep her schedule as normal as possible. Meditation in the morning sunlight, sword practice in the afternoons. Reading a book from Cassandra in the spare quiet moments. Sometimes she practices what she’s reading, but mostly it seems frustrating for her and she’ll shut the book firmly before grabbing something else.
She’s doing her best to not withdraw from her friends, but she is less outgoing than people are used to, spending hours in the library or drawing people she knows on the ship.
Event Starters | Open | CW: The flowers are dangerous
Red Rose:
A rose by any other name is still as sweet and the red roses growing on vines in the library smell sweet. So sweet that anyone who smells them falls in love with the next person they lay eyes on. Valdis is wearing a makeshift mask and trying very hard to avoid getting too close to the flowers as she searches the shelves for a specific book.
Angels Trumpets:
Valdis sits in Sand Dollar reading, and another of her sits across the table, the one clearly trying to ignore the bookless one as she smirks and says in hushed tones:
“It wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t gotten so weak. Trust is so human.”
Purple Hyacinth:
If her past self following her around hadn’t been bad enough, the purple hyacinths growing outside her door decided to make her day even worse. Faces of the people she’s killed, the ones in the village, keep coming to mind. People she knew. People who didn’t deserve it. People who had once been friends.
She’s back at the bar and drinking as much as she possibly can, making sure it’s not the non-alcoholic stuff. She needs the real stuff and anyone who sees her can clearly see that she has probably had too much, even if they know it doesn’t affect her.
I could not stop that you now know | Wildcard | CW: As Necessary
PM to discuss or just go for it!
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I'm sorry that you went through that. It must have been so frightening.
[She's assuming that Valdis found herself physically in the middle of the fighting somehow. An unintentional casualty, or a victim of some particularly bloodthirsty prisoner.]
Who did it? Who murdered you?
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[Either option is painful to think about.]
Ylva helped me by taking me out of the fight, I might have lost it otherwise. I still need to thank her.
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[She frowns, because this has all sorts of unpleasant implications.]
Have you made any enemies here? [She'd always assumed that Valdis was well-liked. More than Tayrey herself, anyway.]
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[She was also under the impression that no one hated her at least. But.]
One. Harvey. But I struggle to imagine him playing this sort of hand when he knows I'll just come after him.
[She doesn't exactly scare easily.]
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[That seems the important reassurance to give. Before the labyrinth, she would likely have turned this, made it all about herself and how awful it'd be if the same thing happened to her.
Now that hardly seems to matter, because Tayrey knows what she'd do. Same as always. So far as she could, refuse to co-operate. Stand there and die, and let the guilt be on her killer's head, and her captor's, and on the one who forced her into the situation.]
It could have been Harvey, although I thought Crichton had much better control of him since he stopped drinking. I haven't seen Harvey in a while. [Little does she know...]
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[her fault or not, she wants to ensure it doesn't happen again.]
But I will be fine, won't fall for the same trick twice.
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[After a moment's thought-] Separating the two of them is way outside my field, but if it ever turns out there's something I can do to help, tell me?
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[Valdis knows that Ari is relying on Crichton to help her get home and she doesn't want to interfere with that, but...]
I will let you know.