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Audio + Log Option
Who; Shalimar + OTA
What; Audio post and tavern option
Where; Network + Tavern in the Market
When; 4-11
Warnings; None at the moment
A. Audio Network
Dunno if anyone's looking into this fog shit, but I've followed a few people who have been taken. They take them to the water and drag them under. I tried to follow further but the fog's too thick and I'm not stupid enough to challenge that many of them in their own territory. [ She pauses and when she speaks again there's a hint of tired amusement in her voice. ] I am stupid enough to follow them on land though. There were footprints that lead off into one of the thickest areas of the fog. Followed those for a bit. Fog gets worse the further north you go but there's something new there.
There's undead everywhere and... one of them looked exactly like someone that got caught a few days ago. [ That'd caught her off guard to see someone that looked like the person she'd tried to help. It also really hammered in the idea that they probably needed to do something about whatever this shit was. ] I made it pretty far without them noticing, seems like they're stereotypical undead, just more bloated and wet. Further you get, more there are and then there's the crab men. [ She'd run into more problems with those, but she's not going to actually admit that. ] There's a lighthouse and something there. Those crab things are protecting it and there's, I don't know. There was a sound? It almost sounded like something singing up on the cliffs. Maybe from the lighthouse. Couldn't really go any further alone. If anyone has anything else to ask, I can tell you what I know. Or you can find me at the Tavern.
[ And that's all she's got to say really. She's not good at ending things like this so she just ends. ]
B. Log Tavern
Bad decisions and Shalimar went together like peanut butter and jelly. It wasn't like she tried to make the worst choice possible, it was just that she didn't think things through. Instincts lead most of the decisions she made and not the potential consequences of those decisions. That'd been the case with her choices over the last week. It'd all started with her stumbling onto one of those crab things taking someone towards the sea. She hadn't been stupid enough to go after it directly, but she couldn't help trying to help. A mistake that resulted in nothing but frustration and obsession.
That's what it'd become. An obsession. The whispering kept her from getting too close but that didn't stop her from trying to track where they were going. Eventually she'd been able to figure a few things out. Unfortunately, she'd run into a few problems when she'd found the undead and the Lighthouse. Somehow she'd managed to keep quiet and avoid being spotted for a while. All good things come to an end though and she'd made a misstep that caught the attention of a few of them. She'd gotten out, but not without a few regrets and more than a few scrapes and bruises to show for it.
And that's how she'd ended up in the Tavern on her second drink. She'd cleaned up some by the time she'd made her Network post but it was still obvious she'd been in some sort of fight. She'd counted herself lucky that there weren't many people in the tavern. Couldn't blame them there with how many people were going missing.
She ran a hand through her hair and then waved someone over to order a third drink. "One more when you get the chance," she said with a tone that betrayed her exhaustion. Maybe she shouldn't have mentioned she'd be here.
What; Audio post and tavern option
Where; Network + Tavern in the Market
When; 4-11
Warnings; None at the moment
A. Audio Network
Dunno if anyone's looking into this fog shit, but I've followed a few people who have been taken. They take them to the water and drag them under. I tried to follow further but the fog's too thick and I'm not stupid enough to challenge that many of them in their own territory. [ She pauses and when she speaks again there's a hint of tired amusement in her voice. ] I am stupid enough to follow them on land though. There were footprints that lead off into one of the thickest areas of the fog. Followed those for a bit. Fog gets worse the further north you go but there's something new there.
There's undead everywhere and... one of them looked exactly like someone that got caught a few days ago. [ That'd caught her off guard to see someone that looked like the person she'd tried to help. It also really hammered in the idea that they probably needed to do something about whatever this shit was. ] I made it pretty far without them noticing, seems like they're stereotypical undead, just more bloated and wet. Further you get, more there are and then there's the crab men. [ She'd run into more problems with those, but she's not going to actually admit that. ] There's a lighthouse and something there. Those crab things are protecting it and there's, I don't know. There was a sound? It almost sounded like something singing up on the cliffs. Maybe from the lighthouse. Couldn't really go any further alone. If anyone has anything else to ask, I can tell you what I know. Or you can find me at the Tavern.
[ And that's all she's got to say really. She's not good at ending things like this so she just ends. ]
B. Log Tavern
Bad decisions and Shalimar went together like peanut butter and jelly. It wasn't like she tried to make the worst choice possible, it was just that she didn't think things through. Instincts lead most of the decisions she made and not the potential consequences of those decisions. That'd been the case with her choices over the last week. It'd all started with her stumbling onto one of those crab things taking someone towards the sea. She hadn't been stupid enough to go after it directly, but she couldn't help trying to help. A mistake that resulted in nothing but frustration and obsession.
That's what it'd become. An obsession. The whispering kept her from getting too close but that didn't stop her from trying to track where they were going. Eventually she'd been able to figure a few things out. Unfortunately, she'd run into a few problems when she'd found the undead and the Lighthouse. Somehow she'd managed to keep quiet and avoid being spotted for a while. All good things come to an end though and she'd made a misstep that caught the attention of a few of them. She'd gotten out, but not without a few regrets and more than a few scrapes and bruises to show for it.
And that's how she'd ended up in the Tavern on her second drink. She'd cleaned up some by the time she'd made her Network post but it was still obvious she'd been in some sort of fight. She'd counted herself lucky that there weren't many people in the tavern. Couldn't blame them there with how many people were going missing.
She ran a hand through her hair and then waved someone over to order a third drink. "One more when you get the chance," she said with a tone that betrayed her exhaustion. Maybe she shouldn't have mentioned she'd be here.
a; network
So in that respect, it's nice to know someone had. He had plenty of questions. May of them revolved round that lighthouse, but she couldn't answer those, at least not all of them.]
You followed footprints along the beach? I didn't know we had a lighthouse...it makes since, given the harbor, but...undead? More undead...you do mean zombies, don't you?
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Nah, the other undead. [ Someone needed to make a joke here. ] They're pretty gross looking, like drowned bodies.
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[The implication that something other than the ship came in with the fog made his skin crawl. The last time something had come it had been relatively benign, but this?]
And I take it this lighthouse looks as though it's always been there, yeah?
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Yeah. Not really sure how that works.
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b; tavern
He did his best to keep downwind, which wasn't too hard given the design of the tavern, and he heard the exhaustion in her voice as he approached the bar. He slid a few coins across the counter as he took the seat next to her. "I'll have what she's having."
He looked over to her. "So, we didn't learn anything, did we?"
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"Lot of trust you're putting in me having good taste in drinks," she said with a weak smile in greeting. She had shit taste in everything else. She immediately looked away and into her empty glass at his next statement though. "What can I say? I'm a slow learner."
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Underneath her tough exterior was a fragile person, though. He knew that about her, and he had the sneaking suspicion it was that fragility that left her so vulnerable to really bad decisions. That or he was reading too much into it and she had the same self-destructive tendencies he did.
"We could have gotten further if you'd come to me."
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"Not like I realized I'd find the dead swarming a lighthouse." Or that she'd even thought about contacting someone else. She'd just followed the trails without thinking much through. "Besides, they were alerted by sound. Would've been harder to stay quiet with another person." She turned to look at him and gave him a stronger looking smile that bordered on a smirk. "And the undead aren't a pretty sight. Didn't really want to risk anyone complaining about getting wet."
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"Sounds like we need a sword or two before we try it again."
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"We, huh?" sounded like something Brennan would say to her and she wasn't sure how she felt like that. Other than confused and sad for reasons she couldn't fully understand.
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it might be worth having someone look, maybe see if there's anyway to see where they're coming from. might be dangerous though
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can't really stop you if you want to check it out. can you move quietly? if you can keep far enough back they might not hear you. if you're really that against fighting.
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B
"You are the one who spoke of the fog on the Tellphones. On the things you saw and found. Is that correct?"
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"Correct," she said turning to offer a small smile. "What can I do for you?"
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"You said you saw a lighthouse. That bad things were happening there. I could attempt to escort you further."
IT was an offer, because really she didn't think she could manage it on her own, and felt that it was likely not her business to try and take charge in the conflict here. But helping others, that she can do.
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"Never had an escort before," she chuckled. "It'd be dangerous, maybe even for two people. There's a lot of undead."
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"It may not be dangerous when one of those people can generate a force field, yes?"
It is an offer, and that's all she can do. Offer and hope it works.
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