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Valdis ([personal profile] redlightgreenlight) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2022-11-01 02:32 pm

I Was Looking for a Breath of Life

Who: Valdis and Open!
What: New Arrival tries to cope with being dropped into a new place after a massive bloodbath
When: November
Where: All over
Warnings: Headaches, grumpiness, will warn if it gets worse than that.




1) Arrival: Her head screamed at her, sharp pain cutting into her vision with every breath. Eyes closed tightly, Valdis does her best to breathe. The heavy death in the air, filled with lingering desperation and trauma tightened her chest. Of all the times to fall into a new world, it would be just after a massacre. With her head in her hands, her black hair hiding her face, she leaned against the railing of the walkway, trying to drown out the pain. This was definitely where it all happened. The pain was worse here.
"Haven't felt this bad since the last war," she muttered. "How many people died?"


2) Revelations: Valdis worked her way through the ship, avoiding her cabin as much as possible, seeking to memorize the layout of the ship and maximize her ability to move quickly should it be necessary. The Void is silent, a fact she should be grateful for, and in some ways, very much is. But now the silence is simply silence, and the feeling that the dead are around every corner sits in her gut. She can’t see them, except maybe flitting out of the corner of her eyes from time to time, but she can sense that they aren’t alone. Footsteps sounded from behind her, she’d been so focused on the dead that she hadn’t paid attention to the living. She turns around, hand on the hilt of the rather impressive sword hanging on her hip.

"Hello?"

3)Buffet: Without the ability to draw on the dead, Valdis must find something to soothe the very human feeling of hunger. She’d known the feeling from home, before her memories had begun to return, but now she found it highly annoying.

“What’s the best thing here?”

Second Week of November and Onwards

4) Library: Valdis has finally taken Erin's advice and found the black binder in the library. She is not thrilled with what she's reading and the tension is visible in her usually elegant jawline and the glowing red in her eyes. Fear isn't found anywhere in her demeanor or soul, but rather a thoughtful, yet tense, aura radiates from where she sits. She's so focused that almost anyone not touched by death could approach without her noticing. If they are touched by death, she may react poorly, so tread carefully.

5) Hurikane: She can't get drunk, but she sure is trying her best with pure vodka and whatever else she can find that's strong. She's not even really trying to taste it, just downing it as fast as the invisible bartender can deliver, and exhausting her healing abilities as she goes. It's still not enough to even give her a buzz though. Disappointing.

6)Wildcard round: Your turn!
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2022-11-05 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Erin touches the blindfold as she steps out, relieved that her presence seems welcome despite what she still thinks of as it being... aggravating.

"With this. It's good at picking up people, what they're wearing and holding, the things truly precious to or loathed by them, but not so much...stuff. Most of my world is a badly done watercolor."

It's an explanation she keeps having to give. She can't even muster real annoyance at it any more, honestly.

"And you? Why souls?" A beat. "Wait - did you maybe work as a psychopomp? We've got one aboard already, real chill guy."
konpeito_aji: (fight forever!)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-05 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Both. Though he's actually awful at deception, he just has an ability to confuse himself, and that therefore confuses his enemies (and allies!!!) alike.

"I ate 19 of the ice cream flavors in one day," THAT IS NOT SOMETHING TO BRAG ABOUT. Because he made himself phenomenally sick on it. And didn't even do tiny spoonfuls, just went full throttle. Absolute insanity. But moving on --

"Singing club." It's less a club, and more a bunch of weirdos who sing karaoke, and then Nobunaga uses it as an excuse to mentally collect every musician on board because they're one of his weaknesses(?) kind of. Long story. ANYWAY. "What year are you from? Oh, that's right."

A semi-formal bow, of extremely awkward stiffness, like he knows how it's done, but before being on the ship never once did it, and still is so far from getting the hang of it. "Nobunaga Oda, 1582, Hell Japan Earth." See that's one of hell an introduction. He even pauses and makes it worse. "Demon King of the 6th Heaven. But don't worry if all that is meaningless, there are a lot of aliens from distant worlds or even other universes." A nod! Totally helping. "Though you mentioned an archangel and if I remember right that's Christianity." Both hands up! "But correct me if I'm wrong. My brother is the convert, not me. One's following our father's footsteps to being a Buddhist monk, one's a tea ceremony expert, one's a Christian, Luis Frois was over the moon." An eyeroll. "Then there's me, the Demon King who doesn't want to be purified, and embracing the number of the beast and all that." Yeah. "So my talents are all over the place."

They really are. He is also a random expert in sumo wrestling??? And dance. But mostly war. But since he hates swordfighting, and can't treat it like sport, he doesn't mention that if he can avoid it.

"How about you?" An appraising smirk. "Any other hidden talents beyond swordfighting?"
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2022-11-05 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"...That sounds rough, lass." The sympathy is genuine, even if it doesn't come from a place of true understanding. Erin tucks her hands into her pockets and takes a couple of deep breaths. "I'm afraid you're out of work here either way. We just got a hard lesson in where the dead go here when they don't get back up, and it's just...Nothing. Presence of time, absence of sensation as far as I can tell. The survivors who just returned are dealing with that and it. Very much seems to suck."
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2022-11-05 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
A rueful smile. "The ship is only so big. You might find it hard to sell the idea that your death isn't important once people get to know you. Life's a bitch like that - ah, that door for the theater."

Christ how many people are we gonna hear that from?

(And SecUnit.)

And SecUnit, yeah.
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2022-11-05 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm trying to stay busy. Welcoming a new passenger is the least I can do, and it's a welcome distraction from losing what's left of my mind after...anyway. When you're feeling better, you're gonna want to hit the library. Aside from the otherworldly collection of stories, hit up the Black Binder." Erin pauses. "...Maybe wait a few days even if you're feeling better first. Bring a friend. Bring liquor. You'll want both."

"...And, Valdis? Welcome aboard, again. I won't say it's nice to have you here, given the situation...but it's nice to meet new people."
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[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2022-11-05 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
“Ah! Very pleased to meet you, then.” Palamedes smiles, but there’s a hardness that lingers around his eyes. Valdis wouldn’t strike him as particularly trustworthy under the best of circumstances, and coming off a mont where no one was what they seemed, he has even fewer reasons to let his guard down than he would otherwise.

He puts his hands in his pockets and rocks back on his heels. “And in that case, since we are going to be roommates, after all…what are you Valdis? Because you’re either a walking corpse or something other than human, and if it’s the former, then you are in awfully good shape.”
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[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-06 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Nobunaga can go on forever as long as he has a semi-receptive audience. He's weird and shuts down into silence if he doesn't.

And absolutely he is the first unifier of Japan, and absolute whackadoo. There are things no history textbook can really explain about him, because he's kinda really out there. The red eyes and armor are tough to fake but if someone could be the most dedicated LARPer ever, sure maybe. But then they'd probably try harder to stick to what history said, instead of just living their best life as a colossal weirdo and sugar fiend.

"Yeah?" She's not the only shapeshifter on board. "Be careful in the Tommy Bahamas. It's the closest thing Siffleur could find to forest, and he doesn't get along well with the wolf druid Ylva, I have no idea how he might react to another type. Is it a wolf hound?" Wolves and cats are white and red in Japanese folklore, why are they black in far Western? Who knows? He thought it couldn't be a yin yang thing, but sometimes he wonders.... "What religions are true then?" None of them. Maybe. Well he MET Amaterasu, but still...
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Buffet

[personal profile] pineapplesalmon 2022-11-06 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
A bit of a laugh. "You're going to get a hundred different answers if you ask a hundred different people. Give me an idea of what you're looking for and we can work on that."

César's wearing a Victorian style vest and pants from Tommy Bahama. Over the vest is a thick utility belt, and the pants are tucked into a pair of nice equestrian boots, both a dark brown leather. Steampunk lite. He seems a bit tired but on the upswing.
Edited 2022-11-06 03:04 (UTC)
konpeito_aji: (always on a sugar high)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-06 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Sweet! You should join my army!" Because Siffleur was a cougar, and cougars have to be wild and free. But he will absolutely take a hellhound with a cursed sword into his army, WHY NOT?! Not that he's sure she'd join, but if it helps, this is the first time he's offered that since being on Eterna, with a half exception to Pratt who was kind of more just a samurai as a cop, and then gradually evolved to being one of Nobunaga's, because he also kidnapped Pratt's AU twin. Don't ask.

"Humans are favored?" Another laugh. "I believe you. Amaterasu is very fond of us, for whatever reason. Even if she was having troubles keeping her favorite lands out of slipping into Hell." Metaphorically. ISH.

"Ylva was raised by wolves. She is a druid and can take on forms other than a wolf, but that is her favorite. For obvious reasons. Oh, and Siffleur is a cougar. A talking one. He is just bored and feisty. Like most big human sized cats. So I bring him treats and make a game of hiding them in tricky fun places to hunt." Nobunaga slammed his fist into the opposite palm. "I forgot! Mikabo might be working again! Have you ever had sushi? That's what Mikabo is. It's a giant hibachi grill from my homelands, but also sushi. I can bring him a sushi bento instead of this other stuff!"

Not the desserts, those are for Nobunaga. Sweet tooth monster.
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Re: Buffet

[personal profile] pineapplesalmon 2022-11-06 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah... the fruit, the coffee place, or the sushi restaurant. But this place has some pretty solid curry." César smiles. "Honestly, the food really isn't all that bad. I've sort of eaten everything and nothing's really been unappetizing."
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[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-06 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Nailed it in one. He doesn't keep specific track, just sort of accumulates them all at once into a pentagram symbol (5 is the Sun Tzu number, albeit not Nobunaga's 6th Heaven Luciferian whateverness) but he definitely knows who he values and treasures and any psuedo-contracts (as one space Tradeliner Ari Teryrey would say) and all their terms and conditions. He has a frightening memory. Like a five year old learning the worst curses imaginable after hearing them only once and running around repeating it whether or not they understand.

Is he a silly fool? Well, there's a reason they called him the Fool of Owari, after all.

He's still a damn good leader. If he has to say so himself, but his generals and others would say so too, so it's fine.

"All games, or just not hide and seek with treats?" An absolutely devilish smirk. "I'm sure there must be some kind of treats you enjoy."
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[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2022-11-06 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Those are a lot of words that don't necessarily mean anything to Palamedes, at least not immediately. She could be a kind of necromancer, she could be something closer to the Emperor, who is sometimes called the Kindly Prince of Death. Or, as is the case with so many of the beings on the Serena Eterna, she might have no parallel in his own universe at all.

"Reaper," he says, talking half to himself. "One who harvests grain, usually wheat, a task traditionally done with a scythe. You're either an assassin or some sort of being who plays a role in the act of death itself. Severing the soul from the body, perhaps?"

He blinks, belatedly realizing that she asked a question of her own. "Oh, I'm just a necromancer. Genetic predisposition gives me the aptitude to manipulate thanergy and thalergy, or death energy and life energy." A wry smile. "Frankly, I don't know how I feel about the idea that death is embracing me, but that's probably what you're picking up on."

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