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Ghost ([personal profile] badfeyth) wrote in [community profile] citylogs2024-01-13 03:30 pm

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WHO: Ghost ([personal profile] badfeyth), Reno ([personal profile] astraphilia) , Johanna ([personal profile] keepgodwaiting) , Lestat ([personal profile] perfectdevil) , Alhaitham ([personal profile] justscribing) , and Kaveh ([personal profile] fussiest) .
WHAT: The "Monologue With The Moon" player plot!
WHERE: [emphatic shrug]
WHEN: 1/6/24
WARNINGS: Possible references to murder, violence, related dark themes, medical equipment, Omelas Kidâ„¢ Scenarios, shady institutions and their operations, etc.

You are standing in a nondescript, space-age sort of room; the walls are a silver metal so polished that you can almost see shadows of a reflection in it, and the floor is likewise sturdy and reinforced. There are two Star Trek-style sliding doors leading out of the room, one on the left wall and one on the right. Both are currently in open position, enabling you to see out into the corridor beyond; it looks pretty much the same out there as your surroundings in here. Maybe there are doors; you'd have to look closer to check.

Currently in the room with you is a pretty normal-looking wooden podium that's clearly seen some use (though in what ways, you'd have to look more closely at it to determine), and a very abnormal-looking escape portal that's just kind of floating in midair, definitely big enough for even a very tall human to walk through, but for the fact that it's behind an impenetrable forcefield. You're welcome to hurl yourself at this, hit it, whatever, all that you want, but unfortunately it ain't budging under any method currently available to you or your party.

Really, your circumstances look something like this:

The other thing you might notice is that your clothes have received a slight glam-up, in the sense that clipped to a pocket, lapel, belt loop, or other convenient area of your attire is some sort of ID card. That might be worth having a look at.

Speaking of having a look at things, maybe you ought to look around?
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[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-14 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ kaveh's first thought: how did they get the silver polished to such a sheen?

kaveh's second thought: why would they polish the silver to such a sheen?

there is an expression that traditionally men, who have been known to demolish and reconstruct buildings for the sole purpose of improving the look of the place, take on under duress. kaveh is making that expression right now.

but anyway, also as per tradition, he's going to first look at his ID card.
]
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[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-14 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ yellow, kaveh thinks. it couldn't be hair-colour, could it? but he tucks the little ID card against his lapel before he begins to observe his surroundings. kaveh gravitates towards the left-hand side of the room. he begins to look.

he is paying attention to the walls and the ceiling. is there anything of note - ventilation shafts, convenient top-down hatches, notes written in blood on the ceiling, or any indication of how this place may have been constructed?
]
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[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-14 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh, kaveh thinks, after a moment. this is a reversal - either a scene from a memory or a dream. he still remembers, half-hanging out of a roller coaster car being swung by his ankles, and then later on dangling from a ferris wheel door as he took in the make and construction of the sky-spanning rides there. they had been designs for humans, to be constructed by humans, with all the segmented limitations that come from having to maneuver heavy machinery to put things together into gestalt. this place, kaveh thinks, is more like the lake of blood from vergilius' dream.

it doesn't make him feel any better, but he knows that there isn't a need for ventilation because it's very likely normal rules of living don't apply here. kaveh turns his attention to the hallway of the left-hand side. he heads for the south-west towards door number 2, carefully examining the door and anything that may indicate how it's opened.
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[personal profile] justscribing 2024-01-14 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Just noting that Alhaitham is going along with Kaveh to door #2.]