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citylogs2023-10-14 08:20 pm
strongroots) wrote in citylogs2023-10-14 08:20 pm
[OPEN] Let's experiment on the experiment...ers.
WHO: Tsuruno Yui (fanstheflames), (strongroots), and YOU.
WHAT: Spreading word about the experiment
WHERE: Around the City! Outside your apartment, in your face-- But also a portion of it at the Welcome Diner
WHEN: From early October to before the City event on the 19th!
WARNINGS: None!
There's a pair on a mission--and hopefully, a pair capable of wrangling some of their friends to join in on sharing out some fliers they've made for an experiment. But as it is, you may meet this pair when they knock at the door of where you're staying, or while you're out on the streets! Each with a friendly face, from the boy's calm nod and "Hey--you got a minute?" or the girl's [description here].
Or you've escaped meeting them in person, but found their flier slipped under the door of where you're staying. And on it reads...
PLEASE READ! A group of us want to hold an experiment on how the city will react if we don't go to a new location immediately or any event it runs. The newsletter they gave out mentioned a Halloween party, and the report in the office also mentioned a test running from the 19th to 31st of October.
What happens if we run our own party in this timeframe? What happens if we don't take part in their experiments? We should test how they react.
Don't talk about this on the network. Come to the Welcome Diner if you want to find out more. We want to hold a meeting with everyone about this plan on the 14th at the diner.
Let's see how willing they are to act.
If you come to the Welcome Diner, Robby Keene and Tsuruno Yui can be found, especially during the first week and a half of the month; others, too, with the activity taking place there. But the pair are usually behind the counter, or Robby.
Take any of the above locations -- outside your character's apartment, on the streets, or the Welcome Diner -- as a place to bump into them, or to be bumped into.
[ lookie here. ]
[ OOC: Hi this is an IC post on the subject of experimenting with city events. Both Robby and Tsuruno can talk with your character, or if you would prefer one or the other, make a note of it in the subject! ]
fanstheflames), (strongroots), and YOU.WHAT: Spreading word about the experiment
WHERE: Around the City! Outside your apartment, in your face-- But also a portion of it at the Welcome Diner
WHEN: From early October to before the City event on the 19th!
WARNINGS: None!
[ PROMPT 1: FOR BUMPING INTO, BE BUMPED INTO! ]
There's a pair on a mission--and hopefully, a pair capable of wrangling some of their friends to join in on sharing out some fliers they've made for an experiment. But as it is, you may meet this pair when they knock at the door of where you're staying, or while you're out on the streets! Each with a friendly face, from the boy's calm nod and "Hey--you got a minute?" or the girl's [description here].
Or you've escaped meeting them in person, but found their flier slipped under the door of where you're staying. And on it reads...
What happens if we run our own party in this timeframe? What happens if we don't take part in their experiments? We should test how they react.
Don't talk about this on the network. Come to the Welcome Diner if you want to find out more. We want to hold a meeting with everyone about this plan on the 14th at the diner.
Let's see how willing they are to act.
If you come to the Welcome Diner, Robby Keene and Tsuruno Yui can be found, especially during the first week and a half of the month; others, too, with the activity taking place there. But the pair are usually behind the counter, or Robby.
Take any of the above locations -- outside your character's apartment, on the streets, or the Welcome Diner -- as a place to bump into them, or to be bumped into.
[ OPTION 2: THE ARRANGED MEETING ]
[ lookie here. ]
[ OOC: Hi this is an IC post on the subject of experimenting with city events. Both Robby and Tsuruno can talk with your character, or if you would prefer one or the other, make a note of it in the subject! ]
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So. ]
Sure. This got something to do with the state of the places they go?
[ Kind of like entering a shitty, torn up part of the world with the wrong people ready to jump them? ]
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I'd say... Perhaps. Some of the outreach we do extends into places with fairly dangerous environmental factors. The trouble the forward teams have with spiders and slugs alone...
[ Midnight shakes his head. Most of his live combat experiences have revolved around getting rid of those. It's tedious, mildly dangerous work. ]
But when it comes to danger... I'd say the greatest danger humans face in our world are other humans. As far as I can tell from those I've spoken to here, this seems to be a fairly universal concept, no?
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[ He feels like he's being humorous, but also: slugs and spiders?? ]
Slugs and spiders can't ambush you for your gear. [ Unless you're a fly. Or a gardener's cabbage. ]
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The garden variety pests do not, no. You're from Earth, are you not? Stationary metroplexes, one species of human, one moon in the sky? Given your skepticism, I'd assume that there's nothing that can mutate an insect's genetic structure as well.
[ ... Midnight is aware that he's probably dropped a lot on this poor boy's head, but he does like prefacing this with what he had to learn rather early in this city: his threshold for normal has had to expand considerably. ]
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[ Look, he's going to focus on the insect part here, even if 'stationary metroplex' had him ?????????ing inside, like he didn't know what the word metroplex meant.
Especially one that isn't stationary...apparently? ]
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[ Midnight nods! ]
Unlike your Earth, Terra has a bit of a problem with meteorological phenomenon called Catastrophes. Storms that hail down Originium, a black mineral that consumes organic material around it. While Originium is in the body, however, it alters the tissue around it, enabling rapid chemical reactions. Meaning... if anything living comes in contact with it, there's a fair chance said creature is doomed to a rather explosive death.
[ Slugs and spiders included. ]
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... Sounds bad. [ ... and like a simplification, but there's no humour in the remark: it really does sound bad. Even Robby's poor imagination can picture it to some degree. Especially if... ]
How often does it happen?
[ Hopefully not that frequently, right? ]
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Often enough that evacuations are a semi-frequent occasion. Those privileged enough to live in nomadic cities are spared the trouble of having to move every other year. Those who live landbound... They aren't quite as lucky.
... I have heard that Earth is a bit more fortunate with regard to its weather, though. That cities are able to sit on land and simply spread without regard for borders... It's something I can't fathom, although I do try to imagine it every now and then.
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We have our own problems. Water levels are rising, the world is heating up, and we're the ones doing it. [ Not that Robby is really up about the world, and his tone has an edge of humour that sticks to Robby's expression as he looks back at Midnight. ] Your world would hate it, seeing it taken for granted. But whenever I hear about other places, ours all sound self-made.
But a lot more other people sound better at handling what happens here. How a city can just screw with your head.
[ Or maybe that's unfair, but Robby can't help but see that about most others here: how more well-equipped they are to endure the absurdity of their environment. ]
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Perhaps there isn't anything dark and monstrous in the waters of Earth, though... Not that drowning is a palatable fate. (Nor are manmade dooms. Surprisingly, among Terra's problems, the Catastrophes rank somewhere in the middle of the list. Most of the rest come from human nature.) ]
I see... This place isn't the sort one settles into all that easily. It seems to go out of its way to make one feel mildly unwelcome, doesn't it?
[ ... Midnight shakes his head. ]
I think that speaks well of you, though. It means, at some level, you have a strong sense of what and where your home is. It's a gift, you know... To know where you're from.
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[ He wouldn't particularly say he has any amount of pride for it. ]
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You don't have to care for a place to know it's somewhere you belong. It's a shame, but for some, home is a terrible place to be. But being aware of that is a gift as well.
[ He takes in a breath, humming thoughtfully. ]
Let me put it to you this way. Is there a skill you feel confident in? If I were to ask you to demonstrate your ability to fix a car, cook a meal, climb a tree... Is there something you know, without a doubt, you'd be able to do?
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[ He's not going to name it, since it doesn't seem like the skill itself is the point. ]
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That's a home for you in a sense, then. Even if nothing in your life is going quite like you expect, even if you're lost in a sea of unprecedented change... That is something that can't be taken from you.
Some don't have that sort of stability, you know. That's where having a physical or emotional sense of having a home comes in. Having perspective on what you know to be true, in a place where you can feel comfortable... That's something that's quite valuable. It's reassurance in an uncertain world. That's why the defense of one's home tends to be taken so seriously.
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But, in the case of homes... ]
I didn't have anything like it for a long time--a home, [ though the word doesn't sound right, and despite using it, he decides on: ] --a skill. It made me feel grounded, even when everything was going wrong; I thought I could be more than what I always thought I was when I had it. But I made a mess of it, too.
[ Using it, and with the people surrounding it. ]
But here... it's no good. [ He breathes out, remembering: ] Someone once said that knowing karate's good, 'cause then you can get away from what they throw at you here. But it doesn't work that way. I'm still trying to find something that grounds me again.
[ To this place, a purpose. He wants to do more than he can, when there's so little he has to give. Wants to learn more about this city without playing the rules set by them. Not walk into obvious experiments.
An afterthought. ] ...making a home's easier when you have people around to support you. I was planning to run away once.
[ It's added like a joke, with a tip of his head. Not a very homely-home if you plan to ditch it, huh. ]
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Suppose that means you had reason to try, no?
[ It's a rhetorical question. Specifically very rhetorical; Midnight catches the joke and moves on quickly. ]
Karate, huh... So you lot have that, too? I wouldn't give up its virtues that quite yet. I'd say that, after a certain point, this place becomes a mental gauntlet than a physical one. It makes the task of making a home a bit more pressing. It's easier to get through these things as a group rather than individuals, after all.
And the discipline of a martial art facilitates that, I should think. After all, a good part of any relationship is the ability to continue showing up.
[ ... Midnight glances at Robby. ]
Do you still feel as though you need to be any more than that? More than what you always that you were... That's what you said, isn't it?
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But that's a story I don't wanna tell. [ He looks at Midnight then, humour in his voice before he looks away again. ] It doesn't matter here, anyway.
[ Instead of stories, let him nod ahead. ] There, that's the building.
[ Just so Midnight knows to swerve towards the front doors once the small brick wall between the apartment's empty small car park and the pavement comes to an end. ]
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I can see that. The future tends to hold more promise than the past, hmm?
[ Midnight's always been much more concerned about the now, anyway. ]
For example: in your future is dinner, and a well-deserved night of sleep. I'd look forward to that, were I you.
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That doesn't surprise me. You sound like you've got a lotta ideas.
[ There's humour to his tone, nothing more to the observation. ]
Mister LaRusso's got wine, if you ask. If you wanna stay and have a chat with him.
[ And that humour's sticking. Well, you know, if we're all throwing ideas out here tonight... js js. ]
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[ Midnight shakes his head, grinning. Robby has him read, doesn't he? ]
Mister LaRusso, wine, and a chat... Goodness me. My birthday won't be for several months yet, there's no need to go all out on my account.
[ That's a very enthusiastic yes, followed a very enthusiastic gesture for Robby to lead the way. Socialization awaits! ]