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Khu Ioduan Mods ([personal profile] khuimods) wrote in [community profile] ioduanlogs2018-07-10 03:56 pm

[EVENT] THE FOG COMES - Ship's Return

Characters: ALL
Date: July 10
Location: Aifaran Harbour
Situation: The Narrakra has returned, but those aboard are not the same as when they left...
Warnings/Rating: Creepy descriptions of things?


The night of the Narrakra's return, fog poured into Aifaran's harbour. It was thick, soupy and cloying in the summer heat, swirling and shifting with every change in the air, but never dissipating. Many Dreamfolk may feel heavy tension in the air, an eerie stillness about the night that seems unnervingly familiar. But beyond the occasional, inexplicable power outage, nothing seems to be otherwise amiss.

The Narrakra limps into the dockyard port on a single engine in the early hours of the 10th, steering itself erratically toward the nearest berth. The dock workers, having not expected to see a Sentry ship sliding out of the pea-soup fog, are quick to raise the alarm, which is hurriedly passed to a runner to bring to the nearest Sentry outpost. Heavy pylons keep the Narrakra from outright running into the dock itself, as the engine sputters and dies, leaving the ship without steering.

The ship itself is in poor condition, metal hull dented and scarred as if it had been in combat with some great sea beast. Deep gouges, like something had hurled sharp points into the metal sides and pulled, some even deep enough that glimpses of the hull's structural support can be seen. In other places on the exterior, what appears to be an advanced stage of corrosion and rust have affected sections of the ship, but not in any uniform way. A handrail might be corroded to the point of the metal disintegrating at a touch, but the stairwell next to it still gleaming as if it had just been put into place.

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OOC Notes: This is the culmination event for the Ships in the Night plot that's been ongoing for the last few months, although the outcome will play into future metaplot. Characters can witness the Narrakra's not-so-triumphant return at the docks, speculate on where it's been and what could have caused its disappearance, question the crew (if they can get past the Sentry), or sneak aboard the ship to do some reconnaissance and potentially find things...

Links: OOC Questions | On The Docks | The Survivors | Sneaking Aboard
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[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2018-07-17 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He seemed beyond tired, not that she could blame him after what he must have seen. His scent wasn't strange for a mechanic, but there were some she didn't recognize, tart and bitter to her senses, ones tinged with an edge she couldn't name.

"I know some of the island," she replied, unwilling to bring up anything that might send Nerrin into a state that would cause her dismissal, "Where do you think you were?"

His perception might be just as important as the truth, whatever the truth actually was.
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[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2018-07-19 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"You thought?"

That meant Nerrin and the others felt as if it wasn't a shunt from another world. Even without the instruments and stars, which could have meant they had been displaced, Nerrin's words did not imply he believed that to be the case.
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[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2018-07-25 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Valdis blinked. She had little knowledge of the shunts, but the normality of that would have been in question even if this hadn't happened.

"How did you get the instruments running again?" she asked, "How did you find your way back after so long?"