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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] eyeinfusion 2018-07-18 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... He relaxes a little at that. It's not like he thought he was seeing Nerrin's past-past, especially given the timeframe Tiaghae had said, but the recognition had rattled him slightly. And at the very least, Nerrin doesn't seem to have reacted negatively to whatever he saw.

"Because you were seeing the place you grew up?" Which may be presumptuous of Judai to say—he doesn't know whether Nerrin grew up here or not. But if he saw Aifaran through the Dreamfolk, then that might have been comforting. ...Probably.

"Must have been rough..."
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[personal profile] eyeinfusion 2018-07-24 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Years, huh..."

He gestures to a crate near enough to the medical area that there's no way that the staff wouldn't notice, and makes to lightly nudge Nerrin toward it.

"...If you don't mind... how many years? It seemed like...a lot."
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[personal profile] eyeinfusion 2018-07-28 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Judai manages to hide a wince. Not because of the bad news, exactly—but if the person Tiaghae was looking for has also aged like this, that's...going to be a thing.

"I heard..."

He pauses there, because he's kind of heard a lot of things.

"Uh—Sentry ships are supposed to..." Y'know, be safe from the weird stuff out there. But he's not entirely sure that saying so is tactful. "Well, they're equipped against stuff...right?"