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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: (Caped confidence)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-11 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Ice cream sandwiches don't count. Waffles and ice cream neither.

"Pop rocks. Like eating fireworks."

He is a five year old with the body and experience of a dirty old man. Somehow.

"How about you?"
pineapplesalmon: (goatee confident stare)

[personal profile] pineapplesalmon 2022-11-12 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm afraid not." César shrugs. "But sometimes you'll get something you like delivered to you in a package. Gal Friday saves them for us."
theweakhavepurpose: (Escape)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2022-11-12 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
"They get sucked into the ship I guess. You know how the restaurants just bring you food? Beds get made? Invisible bartender makes you a drink? That's them. 'Cept I guess they don't even know they're doing it, they're kinda in some sort of uh... stasis? Like a void of being a person." He frowns because he knows he's doing a shit job of explaining it, but that's because he's also done a shit job of understanding it in the first place.

"Probably have to ask someone who had that happen to them. The times I died weren't like that."
konpeito_aji: (huh?)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-12 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Charcuterie." NEW WORD. "What kind of cheese? There is so much of it here. I tried some from the Portuguese once, but I didn't get all the passion about it. Candy is obviously better." He would say that.
konpeito_aji: (Seeing into your future)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-12 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Just a head tilt. "Do they really taste that different? Like ice cream flavors?"
hellonspectacles: (Default)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2022-11-12 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Palamedes should probably be insulted, but all he does is smile faintly. “Noted. Well, far be it for me to stop you from finding other accommodations, but if you are looking for a guaranteed comfortable bed, then follow me.”

And with that he turns on his heels. If she follows, she follows. If she doesn’t, that’s her affair.
theweakhavepurpose: (Red String)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2022-11-12 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Not the ones that are back in the ship. But the people who got possessed basically got swapped with 'em for a month. So they know what it's like in there. Course that whole experience, you know... fucking sucked for them so I dunno if they'll want to talk about it. Maybe in a few months though... I dunno I'm the wrong person to figure out when trauma gets better."

Though admittedly he's gotten significantly better since being here, so maybe he does have some idea about it.

"But you'll deff wanna check out the library, I think that's where the skeleton is keeping the binder. UH.. skull uhm... dig something. Skelling... no wait... Skulduggery. That's the one. He's keeping all the info there."
konpeito_aji: (I'm listening - for now)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-12 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yup, you can't get much more Fool of Owari than this guy.

"Sweet lemon cheese." He closes his eyes trying to imagine it, but truthfully he's at a loss. He'd need Masamune's chef instincts for this. "Have you ever had 'guac' or avocado? Samurai Pratt's very fond of it."
pineapplesalmon: (goatee derpy smile)

[personal profile] pineapplesalmon 2022-11-12 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't think she does. I think she just... knows it's for us, somehow? I haven't asked exactly how she does what she does." César rubs the back of his neck in embarrassment. "She's... creepy, yes, but in a cute sort of way. She does care."
konpeito_aji: (glancing away)

[personal profile] konpeito_aji 2022-11-12 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
"I haven't had cheesecake, or if I did, I know what it was." Because if it's sweet looking? He will try it!

"I think I've had smoothies though. With alcohol. They give brain freeze if you drink too quickly."
astrogator: (pic#15819316)

5. Hurikane

[personal profile] astrogator 2022-11-12 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ari's still sticking to her drinking rules. No more than a few drinks, a few times a week, and not alone, even if it means she ends up sitting with a stranger. They all have something in common, after all. They're all prisoners here.

Other people's drinking habits are usually none of her business, but what she sees as she walks up to the bar at Hurikane is extreme enough to make her protective instincts kick in. Someone drinking far too much, far too fast. She keeps doing this, approaching traumatised people, and it rarely ends well, but so far that hasn't stopped Ari from trying. There she is, a young woman in a blue military uniform. She puts her hands down flat on the bar, trying not to seem like a threat, even though there's a gun clipped to her belt, openly worn.]


That's probably going to hit you all at once. [It's lightly said, but with an edge of concern in her voice.]
hellonspectacles: (his eyes were a perfectly lambent grey)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2022-11-12 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
“I don’t think you will be disappointed. And if they bed doesn’t help, the sundries shop carries a number of minor analgesics.”

Call it confidence or arrogance; the truth is that while Valdis might be the angel of death, she is far from being the most frightening thing on the ship. Besides, they’re going to be sharing a room; if she wants to murder him, she is going to have plenty more opportunities for doing so.

During October’s ghost invasion, Palamedes had painted a ward on the door to Cabin 105 to keep out the angry revenants, but it had been cleaned away at the beginning of the month. He lightly touches the doorframe as he reaches the door, considering the possibility of a more permanent solution. The ghosts might be gone for now, but Pal isn’t letting his guard down.

Inside, the cabin is cleanly divided between controlled chaos on one side and perfect cleanliness on the other. Pal has been without a roommate for a few weeks now, but he has continued to politely keep his messes to himself. His bed is made, but the pile of books on his side table is decidedly unruly; more dramatic still is the murderboard-style collection of post-it notes covering almost every inch of the wall above his bed, charting out every discovery, dead-end, and strange happening aboard the Serena Eterna since he arrived.

“Here we are. Home sweet home.”
astrogator: (pic#16039098)

[personal profile] astrogator 2022-11-12 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[She takes note of that fact. So far, the drinks don't seem to have affected this woman at all. Either that means Ari's right, and it'll all kick in suddenly and possibly leave her under the bar, or something else is going on. A lot of watering down? Ari used to take watered wine at the captain's table back on her starship, when she was still young enough for that to be expected. She doesn't see that there would be a reason for it here, not for someone drinking alone.

Well. Not exactly alone now. Ari signals to a bartender she can't quite see, and asks for a Siduri Surprise. They can mix the cocktails favored in spacer bars. Very unexpected, but given her tendency to cling to anything familiar, very welcome.

Then she looks back to her companion.]


Having a rough time, then. [It's not a question. Everyone on this ship is, one way or another.] It does take the edge off the suffering.

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