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justscribing) wrote2023-07-12 12:00 am
justscribing) wrote2023-07-12 12:00 am
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Oh, there's you.
[ because the logical ("logical") thing after playing around with the kamera function long enough to have opinions on ambient lighting and selfie angles is to go through the information on the network, which had led to punching in relevant names into a search bar, which brought him to, well.
kaveh's fingers flit over the keys. ]
I had a feeling that you might have been in some hidey-hole somewhere. This place is too weird for you not to be around in some say, shape or form. Well? Where are you, and what do you have to say for yourself, Alhaitham?
[ because the logical ("logical") thing after playing around with the kamera function long enough to have opinions on ambient lighting and selfie angles is to go through the information on the network, which had led to punching in relevant names into a search bar, which brought him to, well.
kaveh's fingers flit over the keys. ]
I had a feeling that you might have been in some hidey-hole somewhere. This place is too weird for you not to be around in some say, shape or form. Well? Where are you, and what do you have to say for yourself, Alhaitham?
[There's him!
The phone has been a point of interest for Alhaitham, but one that takes a backburner compared to turning over the rest of the city. It reminds him of the Akasha terminal and, like the Akasha, it won't give him the most important answers: the ones he's not supposed to have.
So Kaveh is successful in catching his attention immediately as it starts beeping at him, and he checsk the device out of curiosity to find--oh.
Of course.]
There's nothing to say, since I have done nothing that requires explaining myself to you.
Do you think you'd be able to find me if I did tell you?
The phone has been a point of interest for Alhaitham, but one that takes a backburner compared to turning over the rest of the city. It reminds him of the Akasha terminal and, like the Akasha, it won't give him the most important answers: the ones he's not supposed to have.
So Kaveh is successful in catching his attention immediately as it starts beeping at him, and he checsk the device out of curiosity to find--oh.
Of course.]
There's nothing to say, since I have done nothing that requires explaining myself to you.
Do you think you'd be able to find me if I did tell you?
[ looking through her post... who else did she say she would speak with... ah yes, this one-- ]
GOOD SER
IT IS DON QUIXOTE, THE KNIGHT WHOM STRODE TOWARDS DEATH AND HAS RETURNED AS PROMISED
THOU WISHED TO SPEAK WITH ME AFTER AND THUS HERE I AM
GOOD SER
IT IS DON QUIXOTE, THE KNIGHT WHOM STRODE TOWARDS DEATH AND HAS RETURNED AS PROMISED
THOU WISHED TO SPEAK WITH ME AFTER AND THUS HERE I AM
So you did come back in one piece.
Should I come pick up the report from you?
Should I come pick up the report from you?
What made you think I would try to find a way out of it?
That's fair. We'll use the same planters and soil as well. Did you ask Tighnari for best practices with mint?
That's fair. We'll use the same planters and soil as well. Did you ask Tighnari for best practices with mint?
Hello!!
This is Tsuruno!!
You're not being stalked by any Kavehs, right??
This is Tsuruno!!
You're not being stalked by any Kavehs, right??
Not at present. Now that we've been released from that building all the simulacrums have disappeared.
[ The hairband is now theirs. Something about good aim, something about the rules never stating that one was limited to the darts in one cup, but there it is: their prize, a set of fuzzy cat ears on a cheap plastic band.
Midnight looks at it for a moment, then up at Alhaitham. ]
It matches your hair color. You'd make a fine Feline.
Midnight looks at it for a moment, then up at Alhaitham. ]
It matches your hair color. You'd make a fine Feline.
[One again Alhaitham and Midnight have found themselves and each other in the middle of sticking their noses where things belong. Alhaitham had been here once already with Kaveh it wasn't a date and with the lack of apparent threat he's dared a Round 2 so he can stay past closing and see what happens with this place when he does.
So. He's been here a while and will be here a while yet. At some point he has to cave to boredom because he doesn't have a book to read and he can only play so much Tetris before the little game device runs out of battery. Enter Midnight.
He's standing with his arms folded as Midnight claims his prize, a pair of grey and speckled black fuzzy cat ears.
He raises a brow.] It's your prize. You're saying you don't want it?
So. He's been here a while and will be here a while yet. At some point he has to cave to boredom because he doesn't have a book to read and he can only play so much Tetris before the little game device runs out of battery. Enter Midnight.
He's standing with his arms folded as Midnight claims his prize, a pair of grey and speckled black fuzzy cat ears.
He raises a brow.] It's your prize. You're saying you don't want it?
[Alhaitham looks down at his phone, lips pursing into the frown. Because he knew Kaveh was stepping. He had seen him forcing open the maintenance door to the Tunnel of Love with Midnight and disappear into it. Kaveh is oblivious to his own romantic prospects, Alhaitham knows, but there's no way he can't figure out what "Tunnel of Love" is supposed to be. And to need to sneak in?
The churn in his gut is irrational, for more reasons than Alhaitham needs to remind himself of. But it's there, and for some sort of outlet he glowers at his phone before he tucks it away.
It's probably nothing. Kaveh probably just wants to look at its machinery.]
Fine. I'll wait around the concessions.
[It'll be an opportune time to play some Tetris and work on beating Kaveh's recent scores.]
The churn in his gut is irrational, for more reasons than Alhaitham needs to remind himself of. But it's there, and for some sort of outlet he glowers at his phone before he tucks it away.
It's probably nothing. Kaveh probably just wants to look at its machinery.]
Fine. I'll wait around the concessions.
[It'll be an opportune time to play some Tetris and work on beating Kaveh's recent scores.]
[ pin drop: paella restaurant ]
you're welcome
you're welcome
[ kaveh got the facetime; alhaitham gets the text, only because heine already knows alhaitham is going to listen to his warning, file it away, and then do exactly what he was planning to do anyway. at least this way he might be better informed? ]
yo
this guy
» LINK
be careful of him.
yo
this guy
» LINK
be careful of him.
[Alhaitham truly cannot be contained.
The link is useful. Heine's word can be trusted, so he doesn't disbelieving there's reason to be wary. He is a touch curious.]
Noted. What did he do?
The link is useful. Heine's word can be trusted, so he doesn't disbelieving there's reason to be wary. He is a touch curious.]
Noted. What did he do?
Given the overall lack of reading material I haven't been able to be picky. You have something to offer?
👻👻👻 BOO! 👻👻👻 Did I scare you? Well! It's OCTOBER SO! 🎃 SPOOKY SEASON IS UPON US! 🎃 DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR HALLOWEEN WISH COME TRUE?!?!?! 👻🧟💀 SEND THIS MESSAGE TO 5 OTHER PEOPLE IN HALF AN HOUR AFTER READING THIS...🎃🎃🎃 otherwise something awful will happen on OCTOBER 31! HALLOWEEN! PERHAPS DEATH AWAITS YOU! ☠️☠️☠️ Just kidding you'll just have the bad luck of eternal BODY ODOR!🤢🤢🤢 So better beware!! 👻
( ooc: i am sorry... )
( ooc: i am sorry... )
[What
is this.
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is this.
Read 2:43 PM]
( dj khaled vc another one )
👻👻👻 BOO! 👻👻👻 Did I scare you? Well! It's OCTOBER SO! 🎃 SPOOKY SEASON IS UPON US! 🎃 DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR HALLOWEEN WISH COME TRUE?!?!?! 👻🧟💀 SEND THIS MESSAGE TO 5 OTHER PEOPLE IN HALF AN HOUR AFTER READING THIS...🎃🎃🎃 otherwise something awful will happen on OCTOBER 31! HALLOWEEN! PERHAPS DEATH AWAITS YOU! ☠️☠️☠️ Just kidding you'll just have the bad luck of eternal BODY ODOR!🤢🤢🤢 So better beware!! 👻
👻👻👻 BOO! 👻👻👻 Did I scare you? Well! It's OCTOBER SO! 🎃 SPOOKY SEASON IS UPON US! 🎃 DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR HALLOWEEN WISH COME TRUE?!?!?! 👻🧟💀 SEND THIS MESSAGE TO 5 OTHER PEOPLE IN HALF AN HOUR AFTER READING THIS...🎃🎃🎃 otherwise something awful will happen on OCTOBER 31! HALLOWEEN! PERHAPS DEATH AWAITS YOU! ☠️☠️☠️ Just kidding you'll just have the bad luck of eternal BODY ODOR!🤢🤢🤢 So better beware!! 👻
[Have one more.]
👻👻👻 BOO! 👻👻👻 Did I scare you? Well! It's OCTOBER SO! 🎃 SPOOKY SEASON IS UPON US! 🎃 DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR HALLOWEEN WISH COME TRUE?!?!?! 👻🧟💀 SEND THIS MESSAGE TO 5 OTHER PEOPLE IN HALF AN HOUR AFTER READING THIS...🎃🎃🎃 otherwise something awful will happen on OCTOBER 31! HALLOWEEN! PERHAPS DEATH AWAITS YOU! ☠️☠️☠️ Just kidding you'll just have the bad luck of eternal BODY ODOR!🤢🤢🤢 So better beware!! 👻
👻👻👻 BOO! 👻👻👻 Did I scare you? Well! It's OCTOBER SO! 🎃 SPOOKY SEASON IS UPON US! 🎃 DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR HALLOWEEN WISH COME TRUE?!?!?! 👻🧟💀 SEND THIS MESSAGE TO 5 OTHER PEOPLE IN HALF AN HOUR AFTER READING THIS...🎃🎃🎃 otherwise something awful will happen on OCTOBER 31! HALLOWEEN! PERHAPS DEATH AWAITS YOU! ☠️☠️☠️ Just kidding you'll just have the bad luck of eternal BODY ODOR!🤢🤢🤢 So better beware!! 👻
[ANOTHER???]
What happens if I send it back to you?
What happens if I send it back to you?
Are you coming? It's going to get cold. Found a new game to play.
I'm not coming. [And he couldn't just sAY THAT AHEAD OF TIME.] You three continue without me.
So help me Alhaitham if you do not go and make up with Kaveh I am going hunting with that new bow of mine.
Understand that if you two don't do something, I will.
Understand that if you two don't do something, I will.
If you don't want to hear Kaveh complain about me tell him to stop. I have no control over what he does.
Favourite food.
[That's it, that's the entire message. Context? What's that? ]
[That's it, that's the entire message. Context? What's that? ]
Edited 2023-11-14 21:39 (UTC)
This is an unexpected request. Can I ask why you're curious?
[ Like Alhaitham was going to be spared Tsuruno's presence just because she has to man a food station. Sooner or later, she gets a reprieve, either because she's claimed one or someone has shooed her off to go enjoy the festivities, but either way, he'll be seeing someone running his way in strappy lil heels soon enough, hair flying out behind her. ]
Aaaaaaaal!
[ Hi. Hi hi. Hi hi hi. ]
Aaaaaaaal!
[ Hi. Hi hi. Hi hi hi. ]
[Alhaitham is sitting in his suit and boutonniere at one of the tables, looking up from his book at the sound of Tsuruno's voice carrying closer.
The book is closed and set upon the table. He's aware he won't be getting back to reading it anytime soon.] Tsuruno. Taking a break from serving food?
The book is closed and set upon the table. He's aware he won't be getting back to reading it anytime soon.] Tsuruno. Taking a break from serving food?
hey, this is robby. you brought up about food being an issue in the future. how much do you know about the way it restocks?
The manner it restocks is still an unknown as it always seems to occur when no one is looking even if you attempt to watch it.
The speed of replenishment has been slowing down, but with districts continuing to open up we aren't yet at a point where there are less resources than people. I suspect it's meant to encourage a population spread, but that doesn't mean we'll always have plentiful resources.
This is the most recent speed of restocking I've tracked:
Absolute necessities (water, prepared food): 3 days
Medicine and food in convenience stores: 11 days
Grocers: 20 days
Everything else seems to be longer than a month.
The speed of replenishment has been slowing down, but with districts continuing to open up we aren't yet at a point where there are less resources than people. I suspect it's meant to encourage a population spread, but that doesn't mean we'll always have plentiful resources.
This is the most recent speed of restocking I've tracked:
Absolute necessities (water, prepared food): 3 days
Medicine and food in convenience stores: 11 days
Grocers: 20 days
Everything else seems to be longer than a month.
[ For the fourth time, Midnight pulls his mouth from Alhaitham's arm, presses the alcohol pad down, and waits for the sluggish flow of blood to halt entirely. He gives Alhaitham his arm back, shifts toward the coffee table, and begins setting out the bandages, the gauze. He'll help with his arm in a moment, but the wound will have to be clean and relatively dry first. ]
This arrangement doesn't suit my needs anymore. I don't expect a lecture this time, so please feel free to leave when you're ready, but this should be the last time I feed from you.
[ Notably, Midnight doesn't look at Alhaitham for most of the declaration, but he does stop what he's doing and face him by the end. Alhaitham deserves that much, at least, for fulfilling his part of the arrangement. ]
This arrangement doesn't suit my needs anymore. I don't expect a lecture this time, so please feel free to leave when you're ready, but this should be the last time I feed from you.
[ Notably, Midnight doesn't look at Alhaitham for most of the declaration, but he does stop what he's doing and face him by the end. Alhaitham deserves that much, at least, for fulfilling his part of the arrangement. ]
[For the second time, Alhaitham is stone. The stillness he usually is, but as an unmoving, smooth-faced obelisk. Since the story, Alhaitham hasn't openly regarded Midnight with anger. He hasn't regarded him with anything and deflected all personal and off-topic conversation.
It's a defense. Expressing his anger is a vulnerability, faced with Midnight. It's too much of a sign that Midnight affects Alhaitham, has a perch in him he doesn't want to exist. So he's shaved down all those flashes of humanity in his presence. It works for him, for now.
But it figures it doesn't work for Midnight. Alhaitham doesn't react except the slight, calculating narrow of his eyes. That, too, leaves the moment he's done considering his answer.]
Fine.
It's a defense. Expressing his anger is a vulnerability, faced with Midnight. It's too much of a sign that Midnight affects Alhaitham, has a perch in him he doesn't want to exist. So he's shaved down all those flashes of humanity in his presence. It works for him, for now.
But it figures it doesn't work for Midnight. Alhaitham doesn't react except the slight, calculating narrow of his eyes. That, too, leaves the moment he's done considering his answer.]
Fine.
Merry Christmas and a happy Noel to you! I'm here to announce who you'll be a secret Santa to... Your giftee is: kim!
Congratulations! Here's a few notes to help you pick or make the perfect present for them.
LIKES: cigarettes? snacks? flowers and anything that might remind you of the fey too!
DISLIKES: kisses, i guess
HOBBIES: he got really into dressing up for halloween so maybe that
Remember we'll be having a Christmas party on the 25th, so if you want to give it to them then or just drop it off by the tree for them to find, well, you can do just that! We'll have a lot of traditional Christmas foods, plus smores, and I'm sure it'll be a wonderful little time for us to gather, sing carols, and be merry this cold winter season!
If you've got any questions, comments, concerns, or desires for clarifications... You got one chance to ask them, because I've got a bunch of people to contact and I don't have a bunch of time to entertain conversation! :)
Congratulations! Here's a few notes to help you pick or make the perfect present for them.
LIKES: cigarettes? snacks? flowers and anything that might remind you of the fey too!
DISLIKES: kisses, i guess
HOBBIES: he got really into dressing up for halloween so maybe that
Remember we'll be having a Christmas party on the 25th, so if you want to give it to them then or just drop it off by the tree for them to find, well, you can do just that! We'll have a lot of traditional Christmas foods, plus smores, and I'm sure it'll be a wonderful little time for us to gather, sing carols, and be merry this cold winter season!
If you've got any questions, comments, concerns, or desires for clarifications... You got one chance to ask them, because I've got a bunch of people to contact and I don't have a bunch of time to entertain conversation! :)
[Alhaitham squints at the message.]
I see Kaveh signed me up for this. [Not a question. There could only be one person invested enough in his social life.]
Will the gift drop off be all day or within the hours of the party?
I see Kaveh signed me up for this. [Not a question. There could only be one person invested enough in his social life.]
Will the gift drop off be all day or within the hours of the party?
[ On the evening of December 25, once Alhaitham and Kaveh return to their home, the pair will find two beautifully wrapped giftboxes sitting in front of the door to their apartment. One has been labeled to Kaveh, and one to Alhaitham, but the sender's name isn't written anywhere.
If Alhaitham opens the box addressed to him, he'll find a small plush of Kaveh fashioned in a simple style, as well as a beautiful bookmark with a red ribbon tied to it. There is also a notebook with high quality paper and a fancy ballpoint pen with a few refills wrapped carefully within to protect the items from damage. (Just so you know, that pen's called the Scribe. Heehee I'm funny)
There's nothing in the package that indicates who the sender is. ]
If Alhaitham opens the box addressed to him, he'll find a small plush of Kaveh fashioned in a simple style, as well as a beautiful bookmark with a red ribbon tied to it. There is also a notebook with high quality paper and a fancy ballpoint pen with a few refills wrapped carefully within to protect the items from damage. (Just so you know, that pen's called the Scribe. Heehee I'm funny)
There's nothing in the package that indicates who the sender is. ]
[Unfortunately for literally everyone, Ghost's idea of what makes a good gift is...sometimes. It's. It's really questionable. And often brightly-colored. And almost always ridiculously tacky.
Case in point: the box that Alhaitham receives contains the world's tackiest snap bracelet in whatever hideous pattern you feel is most befittingly atrocious. Assuming that doesn't make Alhaitham immediately chuck the entire thing into the garbage, however, he'll likely discover that there's a note beneath:
There once was a scribe for whom tact
Was regrettably something he lacked;
Hence it took me a while
To discern, with a smile,
You're not nearly as bad as you act.
Merry Christmas! 🎄]
Case in point: the box that Alhaitham receives contains the world's tackiest snap bracelet in whatever hideous pattern you feel is most befittingly atrocious. Assuming that doesn't make Alhaitham immediately chuck the entire thing into the garbage, however, he'll likely discover that there's a note beneath:
Was regrettably something he lacked;
Hence it took me a while
To discern, with a smile,
You're not nearly as bad as you act.
Merry Christmas! 🎄]
[ Honestly, Alhaitham should just expect boxes. Because! There's another one!!
It contains, uh. Well.
A pair of diligently stitched plushies of Alhaitham and Kaveh that nonetheless sure don't look like anything a professional would want to put their name on. Pretty beads stand in for the eyes and it looks like someone tried yarn for the hair at first, realized their hair is pretty stupid for yarn, and cut the general shape and bangs out of felt instead. The Kaveh doll has a simple c-smile and the Alhaitham doll's mouth is a flat line, and their hands (largely shapeless blobs, rather) are attached.
Aww!!
There's no note but hopefully he doesn't think that someone's trying to curse them. ]
It contains, uh. Well.
A pair of diligently stitched plushies of Alhaitham and Kaveh that nonetheless sure don't look like anything a professional would want to put their name on. Pretty beads stand in for the eyes and it looks like someone tried yarn for the hair at first, realized their hair is pretty stupid for yarn, and cut the general shape and bangs out of felt instead. The Kaveh doll has a simple c-smile and the Alhaitham doll's mouth is a flat line, and their hands (largely shapeless blobs, rather) are attached.
Aww!!
There's no note but hopefully he doesn't think that someone's trying to curse them. ]
[WELL. he steered reno from it at first but he was also drinking during their conversation. so. oops!]
hey, i have a question
hey, i have a question
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