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vatheon2012-11-02 02:46 am
thalassino) wrote in vatheon2012-11-02 02:46 am
Monthly Mingle Log
Another month has passed and it is time for another oppertunity to mingle. Knowing of the curse that haunts the foreigners, Station Master has taken extra care to plan this party and the preparations only during the daylight hours. Wouldn't want to cause a giant panic, right?
Today, the little tucked away part of the plaza has been livened up with a host of spooky decorations, black cats and witches, skeletons and tomb stones, they have all been placed amongst the food tables, allowing for a casual halloween-ish mood. There are also a lot of pumpkins there, freshly prepared especially for this feast.
The tables of food are back too, filled to the brim with pumpkin pies, pumpkin squash, pumpkin cups cakes, honestly, you can put a pumpkin in and it is there. There are also large bowls of candy, free for the taking.
Naturally the two booths are there again, the one belonging to the welcoming committee, for any new (or old) character with a burning question, and the one belonging to the host club. Who knows what theme they have this week. Only way to find out is to check it out!
Finally, part of the plaza has been set up to allow for the talent contest that was to be held here, organized by a few of the foreigners themselves. Maybe it is time to check it out and see if there are any cool talents on display? Or maybe you have your own talent to display. If so, feel free to visit the show.
As every month, an invitation had gone out to all the foreigners in the day leading up to the party, reminding them of the party, the date, the times, and this time, attached had been an invitation to come dressed up. They might not be able to celebrate Halloween during the evening hours, but maybe a slightly late Halloween party would lift the spirits anyway? Station Master has certainly joined in himself too. For a day, he has exchanged his trusty cap for the scariest thing he could possible think of: a familiar white nurse's cap. 2spooky.
Today, the little tucked away part of the plaza has been livened up with a host of spooky decorations, black cats and witches, skeletons and tomb stones, they have all been placed amongst the food tables, allowing for a casual halloween-ish mood. There are also a lot of pumpkins there, freshly prepared especially for this feast.
The tables of food are back too, filled to the brim with pumpkin pies, pumpkin squash, pumpkin cups cakes, honestly, you can put a pumpkin in and it is there. There are also large bowls of candy, free for the taking.
Naturally the two booths are there again, the one belonging to the welcoming committee, for any new (or old) character with a burning question, and the one belonging to the host club. Who knows what theme they have this week. Only way to find out is to check it out!
Finally, part of the plaza has been set up to allow for the talent contest that was to be held here, organized by a few of the foreigners themselves. Maybe it is time to check it out and see if there are any cool talents on display? Or maybe you have your own talent to display. If so, feel free to visit the show.
As every month, an invitation had gone out to all the foreigners in the day leading up to the party, reminding them of the party, the date, the times, and this time, attached had been an invitation to come dressed up. They might not be able to celebrate Halloween during the evening hours, but maybe a slightly late Halloween party would lift the spirits anyway? Station Master has certainly joined in himself too. For a day, he has exchanged his trusty cap for the scariest thing he could possible think of: a familiar white nurse's cap. 2spooky.
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She'd expected a lot when she'd allowed Karkat to ramble on about things, but even then this exceeded her expectations.
And she's trying to keep up with all the information! She really is. But damn, there sure is a ton of it, and from just a few lines in a small sense of dread begins to build in the back of her mind. As a Seer, there's a certain viewpoint this scenario automatically makes her lean toward.
Sorry, Karkat.]
So we're all diverged timelines is what you're saying. We're all doomed players used for experimentation.
[It makes the most sense, really.]
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But, if you do go back to your own universe, things continue like nothing happened. You don't remember Vatheon at all. No one says you were 'gone' or 'missing' or anything like that unless it was because of something else in your universe itself. You don't automatically die unless it was scheduled in the main timeline, so to speak. But even people who've died can come here - it's a lot like a second chance. Hell, not even like, it is one for a fair chunk of people. Even if they weren't dead, necessarily, but had shitty lives back home. It's not perfect by a long shot, and that's why a lot of us are trying to find some way to take control from the scientists, but there's plenty of us who would actually stay here given the choice.
[The fondness that has entered his voice is telling. He glances over at her, then back up, towards the dome covering the city.]
If you discount about five days when I was absent, and went back to go through a few more hours of shit on that meteor, I've been living here for almost two years by the human calendar. Nearly a sweep. I'm not the first one from our universe who showed up here, but I am the one who's been around longest.
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[Terezi is still frowning, brows knit. It just doesn't work to say they're still part of the main timeline in this case. Perhaps they're some separated part of their original consciousness? That might allow for re-merging and dividing with their original selves, but...
This is way too confusing.]
Never mind. I'm going to give myself a headache. You've been here longer, so I'm just going to have to take your word for it!
[He's managed to use surprisingly coherent descriptions so far, after all.]
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[Honestly, he's long since given up on understanding the weirder points of this place. Timeline shenanigans seem pretty tame compared to some of it - hell, even something as frequent as curses outdo them on a regular basis.]
Is that all you want to ask for now, though? Because if it is I want a rundown of important stuff that's happened back on the meteor. I've heard a little about it here and there, but I don't think any of the trolls or humans are as far along as you from the looks of it.
[He squints a bit. Just how old is she know?]
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Well, there's only one answer to that problem, of course. Though it's not because she's a seer that she's aware of these future events, she handles revealing them in a similar fashion.
She grins widely.]
Nope! Not telling you that.
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[Suffice it to say that was not the answer he hoped for. He frowns pretty notably at that, and out come the irritable gestures to emphasize it.]
Everyone else here has told me things at one point or another. It's what I do - I tell them things about this place, and I get the info in return. And I'm the leader, aren't I? I need to know this shit so I can keep on top of the situation regarding my own team, and the human team by proxy.
What if there's some important that happened that I don't know about and don't know how to prepare myself for because some cagey broad won't tell me? I tell you what: things get screwed up! Even if I do know, I have long since learned that proper precautions are the line between things being handled and everything hitting the whirling device face-first, and we all get hit with the ugly fallout.
And seriously, unless my memory is that faulty, you look significantly older than I remember. You can't tell me that all that time there's been nothing important going on.
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[She puts a finger to her lips.]
Besides. A sweep of passing through various dream bubbles and talking with other selves can be a lot of confusing information to pass on. Just think of the worst that could happen in preparation for that and you should be set, right?
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But I've never even been in a dream bubble! How am I supposed to have the slightest fraction of a clue what to prepare for? And a sweep worth of that? What about what's happening the rest of the time? What are you all even doing? What's future me doing? I want to keep on top of this shit, not be stuck in an increasingly widening gap of ignorance that grows with time to resemble reality's own heinous asscrack.
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Does it help if I say we're on a three year (in human time) journey to meet up with the rest of the humans we've been talking to all this time? Will this sate your curiosity any?
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And don't you try to bullshit me into thinking nothing big happened, either. It's a long length of time! Shit, as a transuniversal rule, has a tendency to go down. I don't expect a rundown of every five minutes either, but if you could at least have the basic goddamn decency to hit the big points, maybe I'd stop haranguing you for things you should have told me in the first place.
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[She sighs.]
You're really not making this easy on me. People aren't supposed to be aware of their futures, you know! This whole place is really taking a huge shit on the timeline.
But just in case there's some possibility of them showing up, I guess you should know that we ran into our ancestors slash descendants. Our "dancestors" if you will. The pre-scratch versions of our ancestors. Their ghosts are in the dream bubbles too. [You know, the Dirks to our Daves.] We've basically just been spending a lot of time hanging around with them. Or avoiding them, depending.
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What? Pre-scratch versions of our...? Are you saying there's more timeline stuff to keep track of?
And second off, I already said people don't remember anything from Vatheon when they return to their worlds. You telling me all this isn't going to screw things up. If it was, timelines would be doomed a hundred times over by now, and it's not like you keeping me from the info would prevent anyone else from around your point showing up.
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You'll have to excuse me for trying to be careful.
[Luckily this is big enough news that certain other details can be left out for now.]
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[He rubs his hand over his face fully now. Things he'd glad he didn't get saddled with: being the time player. He messed up enough without having to keep that straight.]
But yeah, I guess I can let it pass for that reason. Better than "I'm being a frustrating nookwipe because I can be."
[Which he wouldn't put past her, at least some of the time.]
But if you're calling these other versions pre-scratch, that means there had to be another one before, right? What happened there? Because if there's another thing I have no totally had enough of already, it's dipshits failing to play a game right and fucking people over because of it.
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I don't know if it's entirely their fault? Their world didn't prepare them for the game as well as ours did. It took them something like a couple sweeps.
When they realized they had to scratch their session, one of them decided to kill off the whole group so that their ghosts would continue to 'live' in dream bubbles and they wouldn't be wiped from existence entirely.
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How many of them have you met, though? Because I've spoken to every one of our ancestors at one point or another, but never any version of them before the scratch.
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It's really weird how they all came together just as we came onto the scene, though, considering some of them had been separated in the bubbles for millions of sweeps worth of time.
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[He knows there are weird time-space shenanigans going on there, given the plan about the Green Sun (for however much that went different than planned), but he still raises his eyebrow at something that extreme.]
But if anything the coincidence is probably on purpose by whatever pan-churning rules of reality govern our lives.
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I definitely agree, though. When something is this much of a coincidence, it often isn't really a coincidence at all!
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Shoving the mechanics far, far away, what about the people themselves? Anything I need to know about them specifically in case they show up? And if not, any other events or plans you can think of that would be important to know ahead of time here?
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Well, a few of them are kind of assholes! But pretty harmless assholes. Mostly annoying. I'd avoid engaging Eridan's dancestor in conversation.
And yours, really.
Though a couple are great! Mine (Obviously!), and Kanaya's. Tavros's can be surprisingly adorable.
Other than that, I can't think of anything. Not that something won't come along that I don't know about, I'm sure.
[She's not going to tell him he gets along well with Meenah, with the excuse that she doesn't want to possibly spoil that dynamic. In reality, she's still not sure how to feel about that.]
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Assholery hardly surprises me, but what's wrong with those two? I mean I'm far from besties with Dualscar, but he's at least tolerable; and even if my ancestor can be a whiny dicksneeze when he doesn't want to listen to reason, I'm closest to him out of any of them.
[Sure, the Signless was jarring to meet, and he doesn't agree with everything he says or does. But someone who tried to make things better for their race? Someone whose following, even reduced to obscure secrecy, laid the efforts for him to have a lusus, a sign, and a chance to live? He can't not respect that.]
Your actual ancestor wasn't bad, and the Dolorosa - Kanaya's - was pretty good too. But you'll excuse me if "adorable" is far from the word I think for any version of the Summoner.
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They led different lives!
[Of course her ancestor wasn't bad. Her ancestor was awesome. But they were still different from their counterparts. She knew enough of their history to make that call.
All she can do is shrug.]
I was just giving my opinion. They might never even show up here.
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[Eyeroll!]
But fine, point made. Consider my pan fresh and cleared of preconceived notions beyond "pack of assholes", and my judgements will be made with no mitigation from outside sources.
I wouldn't mark it down as never, though. I never even expected our ancestors to show up, but the scientists mined the annals of history for them anyway. And then Dirk and Roxy from the human's post-scratch session, who I didn't even know to consider in the first place. But if we've actually met them? I'd say chances are high we'll see at least one of them eventually.
[He pauses now to stretch his arms out in front of him.]
But if that's everything on your end, any questions for my side? Or anything else about this place you want to ask?
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But finally, she decides not to ask any of these things, answering him with a firm shake of her head.]
Nope!
that was so not the icon I wanted to use, and nor was the second one
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