in the woods dark and deep I offer you eternal sleep

[aarnethompson]

Who: Alba, Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna, Bruce Wayne, Cliona Donovan, Data, Don Draper, Ilde Decima, Irene Adler, Jae-hyun Kim, Jaime Lannister, Kalinda Sharma, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent, Martel, Nuray Amedi, Penelope Lane, Odessa Wander, Pepper Potts, Rex Lewis, Seoraj, Shrieky, Sunny, Wolfgang Einhorn, Xas
What: Something bad is afoot, and you must help.
Where: Abrogate Green, Badside, Barrackham, Chnum, Echomire, Flag Hill, Gallmarch, Ketch Heath, Pelorus Fields, Raven's Gate, Sangwine, Serpolet, Sobek Croix, Stoneshell, and the northern woods
When: July 22nd to the 30th
Notes: People are slow right now and a few are on hiatus, so slow-tagging and back-tagging are totally fine. Please check the accompanying OOC post for info and to coordinate.
Warnings: Disturbing content, will include violence, choking, drowning, body horror, and animal death.

Strange events tend to go unnoticed in Baedal, compared to the much stranger things happening around them. People don't tend to be noticed when they go missing, either. The city takes these things in stride. After all, people get called back to their homeworld all the time, or they die. Everyone knows this.

Still, rumors start cropping up around the city about the sudden appearance of twelve identical towers positioned around the city like the face of a clock...

ALBA ♞ Cliona Donovan
DON DRAPER ♞ Pepper Potts, Kalinda Sharma
ILDE DECIMA ♞ Irene Adler, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent
JAE-HYUN KIM ♞ Sunny
MARTEL ♞ Data, Jaime Lannister
NURAY AMEDI ♞ Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna
ODESSA WANDER ♞ Rex Lewis
SEORAJ ♞ Bruce Wayne
SHRIEKY ♞ Xas
WOLFGANG EINHORN ♞ Penelope Lane

Comments

[caballero]

For all his great care for humanity and life, Bruce doesn't know how to show it in ways that aren't beating the shit out of people who'd trespass on those things. It took him ages to be able to navigate his whatever-it-is between he and Seoraj to begin with, and now they have this - thing, this incident, and Bruce isn't sure if he should be offering hugs or sutures.

Ultimately, he decides that if Seoraj wants a hug, he'll just say so.

Bruce is out of the gear they don't speak of by the time Seoraj is out of the washroom, carrying two mugs of tea. He hands one to the taller man.

"If they're anything beyond what they look like now, at least they won't be able to do anything here." Bonetown has its uses.

[serjeant]

The face Seoraj pulls has more to do with why don't I live in Bonetown, what is wrong with me than anything else, but the answer is-- because he likes living out near the farmlands, because he doesn't want to get closer into the city, because his work and the house he's been working on are all there and he will go back, and it'll be fine, inasmuch as things here are. Here there's tea, which is getting closer to 'all right', and he salutes Bruce's observation with his mug.

“Won't be the first time I take something strange her way.” A beat later, reflectively, “Won't be the last, either.”

Funny place to find something like normalcy. He grimaces, drinks his tea.

[caballero]

A monosyllabic noise of agreement with the consistent state of crazy in Baedal, then: "Do you want a sandwich?"

He's also herding Seoraj towards his bedroom, because he needs to take a damn nap. (They both do, really, but Bruce is going to do some long-range investigation into the towers over his CiD for a while anyway.)