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ph_logs2023-11-22 02:38 pm
theresalwaystheview) wrote in ph_logs2023-11-22 02:38 pm
[November Open] | And so the chain continues!
Who Bart and the village at large!
What Settling in and learning how things work
When November, through the winter months
Where The Oak & Iron, Winterbottom Clinic, the Library etc
Warnings N/A (so far)
1. Oak & Iron
For better or worse, for now, this is home. It's busy and noisy and there always seems to be something going on even if it's just a friendly card game or a group dinner, and all the while, if Bart isn't up in his room, he's down in the main room with a cup of tea, a new joy of his now that it's not synthetic from a machine that would routinely cycle through many flavors and not get cleaned often enough. If he's occupied with the writing that he can regularly be seen doing, it may take a couple of attempts to get his attention. He's gotten very good at tuning out chatter and bickering when he has something to do, and this, writing down as much as he can remember from his life before Marrow Isle, has been what he's dedicated himself to in the time since his arrival here.
When he breaks from that, he instead writes about the things that he's encountered here. The people, the plants that he cross-references from one of a dozen books grabbed from the library, the little spectral creatures that have been following townsfolk around, everything at least gets a brief note.
Accompanying his writings, sketches and diagrams take up full adjacent pages. Portraits with names beside them and brief notes about the people in question, or small things that indicate those people to him personally. A pumpkin from outside of one of the farms. The Mipha's Grace docked near the beach. Yorick's hat. A stuffed rabbit with its ear chewed and wrinkled.
He might be spacing out in your general direction as he tries to put words to a thought. Sorry in advance if he's been staring too long.
2. Clinic
On suggestion from Doctor First Aid, Bart has started helping out at Winterbottom's clinic. He's also offered an extra hand over at Dr Pierce's in those instances when he needs it. He's pleasant and chatty and eager to get to know his patients, and has extensive knowledge at least in both human and xenobiologies. If allowed, he will tangent on whatever line of thought that comes from a conversation that might have been started up over the course of examination or treatment.
During downtimes if he's not cleaning he can be seen drawing people and diagrams to be added to his notes, or reading. He's rather enjoying being at the front desk to meet whoever might be coming in to see one of the doctors, or drop things off as kind gestures.
3. In Vivo
Bart is determined to learn as much as he can about Marrow Isle's native flora so as to learn how best to approach his future farming venture. As such he can be seen out in the woods, out at the beach, out at the farms. He generally has his notebook in hand. He's started carrying more writing utensils in a pouch slung at his waist, and every so often, he will bring out a thin folder into which he's begun pressing the occasional plant for study when he's got better facilities at his disposal.
4. The Library
When he isn't at the Oak & Iron, or getting ready to move himself into a new home, or at the Clinic, or assisting First Aid or Chris Freeman out on a house call, Bart is here. He checks out stacks of books at a time and reads them when he's got time, or else keeps them nearby him as he seemingly does homework there where it's quiet, though bustling with villagers and staff alike. He's still in simple clothes, a small act of rebellion against the clean-cut image that his father always demanded that he present, and looks quite content in his work.
Currently the books arranged in neatly sorted stacks around him are all focused on mycology and related fields of study. Again, it will take a couple of attempts to get his attention if it's needed.
5. Misc
The Wildcard Option. If you want Bart, just sent him a message, give him a call at the end, say hello to him and generally be interested in him and he'll happily follow along and help however he's needed.
What Settling in and learning how things work
When November, through the winter months
Where The Oak & Iron, Winterbottom Clinic, the Library etc
Warnings N/A (so far)
1. Oak & Iron
For better or worse, for now, this is home. It's busy and noisy and there always seems to be something going on even if it's just a friendly card game or a group dinner, and all the while, if Bart isn't up in his room, he's down in the main room with a cup of tea, a new joy of his now that it's not synthetic from a machine that would routinely cycle through many flavors and not get cleaned often enough. If he's occupied with the writing that he can regularly be seen doing, it may take a couple of attempts to get his attention. He's gotten very good at tuning out chatter and bickering when he has something to do, and this, writing down as much as he can remember from his life before Marrow Isle, has been what he's dedicated himself to in the time since his arrival here.
When he breaks from that, he instead writes about the things that he's encountered here. The people, the plants that he cross-references from one of a dozen books grabbed from the library, the little spectral creatures that have been following townsfolk around, everything at least gets a brief note.
Accompanying his writings, sketches and diagrams take up full adjacent pages. Portraits with names beside them and brief notes about the people in question, or small things that indicate those people to him personally. A pumpkin from outside of one of the farms. The Mipha's Grace docked near the beach. Yorick's hat. A stuffed rabbit with its ear chewed and wrinkled.
He might be spacing out in your general direction as he tries to put words to a thought. Sorry in advance if he's been staring too long.
2. Clinic
On suggestion from Doctor First Aid, Bart has started helping out at Winterbottom's clinic. He's also offered an extra hand over at Dr Pierce's in those instances when he needs it. He's pleasant and chatty and eager to get to know his patients, and has extensive knowledge at least in both human and xenobiologies. If allowed, he will tangent on whatever line of thought that comes from a conversation that might have been started up over the course of examination or treatment.
During downtimes if he's not cleaning he can be seen drawing people and diagrams to be added to his notes, or reading. He's rather enjoying being at the front desk to meet whoever might be coming in to see one of the doctors, or drop things off as kind gestures.
3. In Vivo
Bart is determined to learn as much as he can about Marrow Isle's native flora so as to learn how best to approach his future farming venture. As such he can be seen out in the woods, out at the beach, out at the farms. He generally has his notebook in hand. He's started carrying more writing utensils in a pouch slung at his waist, and every so often, he will bring out a thin folder into which he's begun pressing the occasional plant for study when he's got better facilities at his disposal.
4. The Library
When he isn't at the Oak & Iron, or getting ready to move himself into a new home, or at the Clinic, or assisting First Aid or Chris Freeman out on a house call, Bart is here. He checks out stacks of books at a time and reads them when he's got time, or else keeps them nearby him as he seemingly does homework there where it's quiet, though bustling with villagers and staff alike. He's still in simple clothes, a small act of rebellion against the clean-cut image that his father always demanded that he present, and looks quite content in his work.
Currently the books arranged in neatly sorted stacks around him are all focused on mycology and related fields of study. Again, it will take a couple of attempts to get his attention if it's needed.
5. Misc
The Wildcard Option. If you want Bart, just sent him a message, give him a call at the end, say hello to him and generally be interested in him and he'll happily follow along and help however he's needed.
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"Thank you. It's mainly for diagrams and visual references, so accuracy is important."
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"If there's something that I can do for you, please... I'm still learning my way around this place, and people have been extremely kind to me so far. I would like to be able to help however I can."
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As if he doesn’t know what it looks like for himself, not in its entirety.
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There's...nothing. That's even more concerning!
"...are you a corpse?"
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“I am a corpse. Woke up in a shallow ditch about five years back, with no memory. So. Tattoo, here before I was. Whoever this body used to belong to got it. And the instruction about the Temple isn’t me being weird about how doctors treat me, it’s me being weird in how my body mends itself.”
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Bart is still holding gingerly onto Angel's wrist, the other hand coming up to turn it to be able to examine his hand more closely. "I'm sorry, that was an awful way to phrase that, but after everything that I've learned about the way human life is supposed to work, there are very few logical conclusions to be reached with the information at my disposal. You wouldn't have told me to inspect your vital signs if you didn't have something to prove to me, after all. This doesn't mean that I don't intend to try and do as you ask, far from it! It's just, this is a very curious phenomenon, from my point of view! Reading something off of a file or an instrument's readout isn't the same as directly observing it, after all!" Nervous babbling abounds, sorry Angel.
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Angel either isn’t offended, or isn’t bothering to emote sufficiently to show he’s offended. The babbling is sure a reaction, though. He knows he frustrates most of the doctor-folks (except maybe Chris?) with his existence. Confounds them. Challenges all they hold as truth already.
“I don’t mind being called a corpse, by the way. But I don’t like ‘zombie’.”
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The comment that he doesn't like to be called 'zombie' does get a firm nod. "Of course. The connotations being what they are, it would seem doubly insulting to label you in that way. Erm...perhaps, rather than calling you either of those, you could tell me your name. Mine is Bart."
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There's that question mark there, because he isn't sure he hasn't totally managed to fail at social interaction.
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Wait. Pause.
"Neural implant?"
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Future boy doing future things, in other words.
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Did he actually understand all of that? It's very hard to tell. His stare can read as quite blank sometimes.
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"Having the technology in my brain was supposed to make me better at supporting and developing farming in space. It was also supposed to prepare me to inherit Father's company. I personally prefer what I've gotten to do here, though. And, I like the people that I've met here better."
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Bart's nervousness is contagious, but it doesn't manifest in physical fidgeting so much as halting and uncertain speech. He feels stupid, needing things dumbed down for him. But it's not like he's received an education in any meaningful sense of the word.
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"Me neither," he replies quietly, curling his hands around one-another to keep from getting annoying with the restless movement of his fingers. "I'm having to learn and adapt to a new world all over again. It's actually kind of fun."
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He shrugs, looking up to meet Bart's eyes.
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"If...if you would like, I can show you my notes. We can learn about the world together," he offers sheepishly. He gets a little quieter, finally looking back down at his notes instead. "It's only...well. People usually don't care about what I've got to say. But I want to help."
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