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ioduanlogs2018-07-10 03:56 pm
khuimods) wrote in 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
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.
---
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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Her head shot up and she would have been on the defensive immediately, but Judai just carried on about...
...printing?
"If you haven't noticed, I don't exactly have a printing press on me," she said sharply, in the tone she normally took with the misbehaving children back at Houndsditch.
"And I meant the carcass, not the ship. I don't think anyone in the city has any idea what happened here. I doubt the crew would either, given their confusion."
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He gives his yimo a confused look, then shrugs. He can try taking pictures for now and figure it out later.
As he continues moving forward, he glances at the carcass again, and looks away just as quickly. "In my visions...there were things that attacked. Maybe it was that." But really, he'd wanted to find out what happened to the ship. "Oily shadows...did you see anything like that?"
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"...Something like that," she finally said, giving the desk a disappointed look.
"Something was in our minds," she said. "Or linking them. I've had quite enough of people fishing around in my brain. Can you help me move this?"
She gestured to the desk. She wasn't weak, but her strength was that of an average human and the desk was big, bulky and solid wood.
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And, of course, there's also the fact that that's the easier thing to think about. 'People fishing around' in brains doesn't sound...pleasant, even if she doesn't mean it literally, which, considering the linked-mind thing...probably is.
"Good thing there was no blowback on us, I guess!" Which he's only guessing there hasn't been any blowback, but no one's mentioned it if there has been.
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"For now, I suppose," she said. "It always starts like that - things seem normal at first glance, but then you realize when someone or something's been playing with your mind, then they can just twist your perspective all up to make it seem so, when really, everything has gone to hell in a teapot."
She may have been a mite paranoid on that front. But she knew what it was like to have your own thoughts turned against you.
"Just a little ways back," she said. "There's a bit of paper caught behind, I just want to pull it out without tearing it."