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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 Kid™ 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?
justscribing: (❖ 50)

[personal profile] justscribing 2024-01-14 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Kaveh, look at this.

[Alhaitham is interrupting with two journals, one recognizably in Ghost's handwriting and one in the other.] They're personal study journals. Did Ghost every tell you she was "born" to write?
fussiest: (pic#16494291)

[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-15 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ kaveh looks up from where he'd been picking up an endless stack of books to tip his head alhaitham's way. huh. ]

... in a sense, I suppose. [ he says, slowly, as he skims the writing on the page. ] She'd mentioned that she was made to be different. I thought she was being metaphorical, or was trying to devalue herself again.
justscribing: (❖ 53)

[personal profile] justscribing 2024-01-15 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well, even if it isn't literal it was a career path she dedicated a lot of time and expectations to. She called her career change "undesirable", and it lines up with her having left whatever home it was that these are from.
fussiest: (pic#16494340)

[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-15 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but there's a difference between having a career path that you've chosen for yourself, and having a career path that you feel as though you were literally made for it and having to walk down it anyway. Especially since you've tied your entire identity to it.

I really do feel as if Ghost is the latter. You can enjoy something, and have it weigh around your neck like a proverbial albatross. [ ... ] I wonder who the other person is. The other set of handwriting, that is. Alanei, I think. But I would have expected a third set of handwriting too.
justscribing: (❖ 136)

[personal profile] justscribing 2024-01-15 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[And Kaveh, of course, would know all about that kind of albatross.]

Why a third set?
fussiest: (pic#16494240)

[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-15 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Because Alanei has a sister. I thought there would be signs of three people together in this room, but I've only found signs of two. The fact that Ghost's handwriting and this other person's handwriting consistently go back and forth makes me think it has to be Alanei - he was the Ravekeeper to her Raverobber, or so she says.

So where's the sister?
justscribing: (❖ 06)

[personal profile] justscribing 2024-01-15 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Well, when did Ghost meet Alanei? This must be before her career change to a legal advocate, and that involved a complete move from where she was living before.
fussiest: (pic#16494227)

[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-15 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
It must be, but I'm not certain. If you asked me to lay out the timeline of Ghost's life, I will find it to be more holes than tangible items.

I do know that something happened to her ten years ago. She'd mentioned that that was the day her story died.
justscribing: (❖ 55)

[personal profile] justscribing 2024-01-15 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
That's probably also the day she could no longer write and had to pivot her direction in life. [A beat.] As something significant, it's probably going to be somewhere in here.

[Because that's what these places are. Dissections of their most important parts.]
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[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-15 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
It must be, right? [ kaveh looks. this is the room, kaveh thinks, and shows ghost when she had been happiest, the most complete.

he wonders what the other rooms are like.
] I think I'd like to see what the others have found.