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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!
konpeito_aji: (mufufu)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-06 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"So not sushi," he taps a finger to his chin. "Have you ever played Go?" He also has about a million bad jokes about bones, but even HE has enough class not to stoop that low. For now. Belly rubs though, beware.

Honestly he's more amused trying to figure it too. This too, is a game, after all.
theweakhavepurpose: (Passive)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2022-11-06 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"All good. Don't need to be sorry." He scratches the deep scar down the side of his jaw, "He thinks it made me stronger, probably cuz I told him the guy who tortured me said that. Which.. if that was actually the case I'd be a super powered killing machine instead of you know... me. I should be able to levitate and throw lightning bolts or something at this point."

He doesn't seem put out at all being told he's a disaster, he knows. "Thanks. I'll be fine I think. Just need some time ya know. Which we got tons of here, so it'll be all good. You uh.. already gotten the tour? Seen the buffet?"

theweakhavepurpose: (Stare)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2022-11-07 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Who's your roommate? You didn't get stuck with like... Eridan did you? Though he might be better than mine who I think is probably a serial killer." He juts his jaw out thinking about that, because he has no room to talk.

"I dunno who Erin is. Or well I've probably met them and forgot." A shrug, "I do that. So sorry in advance if I see you in three hours and introduce myself again. But I've been here like six months so I've met most of 'em."
konpeito_aji: (arrogant bastard)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-07 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes," a plain nod. Not a boast, just a warning. "I have never lost a game." He hasn't played experts -- other than Mitsunari Ishida, and Mitsunari is more his chief strategist (other than himself) so they rarely sat around playing go. Especially since the airhead was happier in the library reading, and Nobunaga himself was more likely working or hunting or doing something physical.

"If you prefer to stand a chance of winning," SO ARROGANT. Demon King of 6th Heaven means being the most arrogant, stubborn, proud bastard of all time, after all. "I am unfamiliar with European card games, things at the casino, and most sports after the 16th century."
theweakhavepurpose: (Everything goes to hell)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2022-11-07 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
He tries to recall if he knows who's in 105, fails, and shakes his head, "Dunno. I'm at the other end in 141. One of my neighbors is a dog, so pretty much lucked out there."

And he means that literally.

"There's a difference between being a murderer or killing people and being a serial killer. Also pretty sure he's the pentagram of blood and candles sort of dude. Fucking weirdo." Considering all their conversations end in fights he legitimately has no idea if that guy is a killer, or even what his name is. They're real good at communication.

"I don't think the Captain gives a shit if we kill each other honestly. He needs emotions and you don't really feel emotions when you're dead. So like... probably better ways to get that. We only had the one deathmatch, before my time, and he didn't do it again. So I dunno."
hellonspectacles: (The greatest necromancer of a generation)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2022-11-07 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
“Well, pardon me,” Palamedes says under his breath when the woman clearly takes umbrage. Then he sighs. Every time, people misunderstand what he means by necromancy. Where do these stories in other universes even come from?

“Not exactly. Well, I have the ability to reanimate dead bodies, though skeletons are much more useful than full corpses. Flesh gets…mucky. As I’m sure you know, being the Angel of Death and all.” Honestly, that’s a hell of a title, not that anyone in the Nine Houses should go around making fun of other people’s titles, given some of the weird ones they’ve come up with. “But servitor skeletons are quite useful, actually. Perfect for conducting routine station maintenance in the vacuum of space, for example. Children of the Sixth House love watching them on the Library’s viewscreens. It’s very entertaining.”

(Spoiler alert: it isn’t actually that entertaining, except when the cords attaching the servitors to the station get tangled or, better yet, when one breaks and they go floating out into the blackness.)

“But as it happens, my abilities are a bit more expansive than that.”
Edited 2022-11-07 02:44 (UTC)
saltwaterlungs: (Bering Sea)

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[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2022-11-07 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
What a coincidence, Darcy also happens to have a sword. She also happens to be dead. Animate, but dead, and full of deathly energy which seems to be the reason she's upright. The feeling of something more powerful than herself spurs the same reaction that Bash got; a feeling like staring into the maw of one of the Kerberoi.

"Uh," Darcy stammers after a moment, "hi. You're new?"
konpeito_aji: (fight forever!)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-07 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
"A wise strategy," a somber nod. And sometimes it's no fun to fight someone too much like himself. "Sports then? I do not mind being bested there, though usually I do not get to participate myself." Rulership stuff.
saltwaterlungs: (Pretending to be invisible)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2022-11-07 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Both of her hands go up in a gesture of surrender and a look of panic crosses her face.

"Honest to God swear on my grave, the relevant authorities of my world know and are cool with it. I'm not doing anything wrong."

saltwaterlungs: (Bering Sea)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2022-11-07 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well it's good to know that her heart can sometimes still beat in panic. They're both probably grateful that Valdis doesn't press any further, Darcy's hand stops white-knuckling on the hilt of her rapier- but she doesn't remove it entirely.

"No, we aren't. What are you?"

Nice and blunt straight out the gate.
saltwaterlungs: (Doubting)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2022-11-07 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"...huh."

That could just be a translation of the Kerberoi, or a concept slightly to the left of it.

"Hellhound like a... church grim?"

She's a bit human shaped for that, but it's possible.
saltwaterlungs: (Pensive)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2022-11-07 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
A thin shadowed line appears on Darcy's face as her jaw clenches.

"Darcy. I'm a Sin-Eater. That probably doesn't mean anything to you, but what it means is that I have a duty to the living and the dead of this ship."

So don't make trouble with reaping souls, left unsaid.

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