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come_sailaway2023-11-05 09:45 pm
not_the_last) wrote in come_sailaway2023-11-05 09:45 pm
are you out there? can you hear this?
Who: Cassandra de Rolo & OTA
When: November
Where: Around the Serena Eterna
What: on all levels but physical/literal, shouting into the void
Warnings: Game-typical angst, canon-typical angst, others to be added as they come up
A. what's the future, who will choose it
She's ... anxious, she decides, is the right word. Anxious about the Voyager plan. What if it gets discovered and stopped, what if it proceeds as planned but fails to break out of the demiplane, what if it reaches the outer world and is discovered by something only interested in taking advantage of whatever it finds --
The anxiety never gets anywhere near the point of making her want to call a halt to it. Not this time.
Still, she does find herself wandering about near the signpost and its accompanying book, to see who's writing in it. Not that it makes any difference, but ... it's something she can keep an eye on.
B. you never know who's still awake
Cassandra is rarely if ever to be seen around the buffet these days. One might spot her in the kitchens, though, usually very late at night, usually making something involving potatoes and/or cheese. Sometimes, similarly late at night, she might carry a snack to eat elsewhere around the ship; usually more cheese, with crackers, or cured meat, or a little jar of jam or relish of some kind. Usually somewhere that doesn't attract a lot of people, as though reluctant to eat in company with anyone.
Are you up very late and avoiding company too? You might run into her.
C. play the madmen poets
She's aware that it's unwise, perhaps now more than ever, to do anything to shut out or dull her awareness of her surroundings. Nonetheless: it may also be something she needs now more than ever.
As a compromise, she's only using her music player when she's got a good view of the rest of her surroundings, or when she's otherwise fairly sure nothing can get close to her without her knowing. So 'while flying' is a good option, as far from the ship as she can get while still able to make it back before her wings fail; another is perched on a high roof or crows' nest, some spot she can only get to by flying. And occasionally, very occasionally, in the library while seated with her back to a wall
There's so much music in this little box, and she still hasn't heard all of it. This month she's working her way through the repertoire of a bard with a rough but compelling voice, and trying to make out what his verses are talking about. (You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows is possibly the first intelligible thing he's said in this song, and she still isn't sure what he means by it.)
D. wildcard
When: November
Where: Around the Serena Eterna
What: on all levels but physical/literal, shouting into the void
Warnings: Game-typical angst, canon-typical angst, others to be added as they come up
A. what's the future, who will choose it
She's ... anxious, she decides, is the right word. Anxious about the Voyager plan. What if it gets discovered and stopped, what if it proceeds as planned but fails to break out of the demiplane, what if it reaches the outer world and is discovered by something only interested in taking advantage of whatever it finds --
The anxiety never gets anywhere near the point of making her want to call a halt to it. Not this time.
Still, she does find herself wandering about near the signpost and its accompanying book, to see who's writing in it. Not that it makes any difference, but ... it's something she can keep an eye on.
B. you never know who's still awake
Cassandra is rarely if ever to be seen around the buffet these days. One might spot her in the kitchens, though, usually very late at night, usually making something involving potatoes and/or cheese. Sometimes, similarly late at night, she might carry a snack to eat elsewhere around the ship; usually more cheese, with crackers, or cured meat, or a little jar of jam or relish of some kind. Usually somewhere that doesn't attract a lot of people, as though reluctant to eat in company with anyone.
Are you up very late and avoiding company too? You might run into her.
C. play the madmen poets
She's aware that it's unwise, perhaps now more than ever, to do anything to shut out or dull her awareness of her surroundings. Nonetheless: it may also be something she needs now more than ever.
As a compromise, she's only using her music player when she's got a good view of the rest of her surroundings, or when she's otherwise fairly sure nothing can get close to her without her knowing. So 'while flying' is a good option, as far from the ship as she can get while still able to make it back before her wings fail; another is perched on a high roof or crows' nest, some spot she can only get to by flying. And occasionally, very occasionally, in the library while seated with her back to a wall
There's so much music in this little box, and she still hasn't heard all of it. This month she's working her way through the repertoire of a bard with a rough but compelling voice, and trying to make out what his verses are talking about. (You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows is possibly the first intelligible thing he's said in this song, and she still isn't sure what he means by it.)
D. wildcard
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"You can if you like," she answers, pitched to carry, "but you needn't."
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"Wanna see what I'm working on?"
They are alone in the theater, but voices carry. Natsuno won't elaborate unless she joins him.
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"I'm trying to come up with simple sigils using Rita's magical ink."
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"What are they meant to do?"
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He draws a simple cat face, and the page grows two paper cat ears. Don't ask where he learned that or what substance he was consuming at the time.
"Ideally it'd be something I can use as distraction without actually breaking reality."
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"Clever. ... Is 'breaking reality' a possibility, then?"
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And hopes, dearly hopes he'll take the hint -- they're not in a cabin, which means anyone could be listening.
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He gets the hint. Natsuno can't detect anyone else in the theatre, but he shouldn't risk their plan. It'd be so awful and stupid if they fail because of something like that.
"Anyway, got any suggestions for what the sigils should do?"
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She's thinking of some distracting magics she's seen performed, or heard of afterwards.
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Finding the right sigil and infusing it with intent is already hard. He doubts that thinking but don't be actually real on top of it is going to help. But sounds...
Natsuno draws an open mouth, with pronounced lips and teeth. He's tries to push all sarcasm and doubt out of his mind, focus his intent with the same uncaring ease he felt when he was high and drew kitty faces on Rita's palm.
A small tear opens on the page. It's screaming.
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