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itsjustabaddream ([personal profile] itsjustabaddream) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2024-05-25 03:33 pm

[ NPC Open ] Hands of time will wring my neck.

Who: Dr. Neil West ([personal profile] itsjustabaddream) & YOU!
What: Ocularum recruiting and meeting, his office, hardware store, research
When: Late May, early June
Where: Oh you know, around
Warning(s): Content warnings will be on specific threads!



Moments pass.

[ The doctor is in. ]

As usual, you can easily find Neil in his makeshift office, reading or writing as he awaits his now more abundant appointments. Maybe you're here for yours, or perhaps you'd like to make one. The door chimes as you enter, and the room is filled with the smell of coffee and pastry. Can one of his little enchanted pots offer you a hot beverage? A teapot and a coffee carafe with dopey faces and tiny legs toddle around on the refreshment table, waiting to serve.

"Hello there! How may I help?"

Shattered glass.

[ Recruiting ]

A flyer hangs on a lamp post outside each trolley station in town.

"Interested in esoteric knowledge, demonology, or wizardry education? Looking to discover the truth behind the barrier? Seeking proactive solutions to the problem, rather than biding your time waiting for the goddesses to act? The Ocularum needs sharp, progressive minds to aid in the effort of deciphering this mystery. Come to Northwest Hollow and look for the open eye."

The symbol of the Ocularum marks each one. Perhaps you catch Neil posting them and can ask him about this. But if not, you can always see him at the meeting...

Hands of time.

[ Ocularum Meeting ]

If you follow the instructions on the flyer at the time and date listed below the main text, and find the open eye symbol above the door to West Dream Analytics, you will find that Neil has gathered his people in his office waiting room. Once everyone has gathered and the appointed time chimes, Neil will lead everyone past the threshold of his catty-cornered desks and open door frame, past his treatment office and living space, down into his basement.

Red wallpaper lines the walls and dark hardwood paves the way. The walls of the room are full of arcane artifacts and scientific or magical equipment, as well as shelves and shelves of books on the occult. In the center of the room, there is a table. Grab a seat, Neil will happily share the Ocularum's objectives--- unobstructed truth. A task force to seek a solution to the barrier that relies on people, research, magic and science, not gods. He hands out pamphlets on local demons and leaflets about the local magic system, offers magic lessons. "And for those interested in more hands-on research, or even providing protection to those performing it, I have a few projects lined up..."

Care to study some paranormal life? Learn some magic? Want to ask him a question? Dr. West is an open book--- to an extent.

Where's that chime?

[ Hardware store ]

It's pretty uncommon for Neil to come all the way into town. He's pretty far out and not always a particularly popular person. Besides, he lives near the farmland, so he's able to buy most of his groceries directly rather than go to the store. But today, he has to go to the store because a teenager broke his window with a rock. Again.

In a rare moment of vulnerability, you can find Neil West at the hardware store trying to purchase some supplies to patch the broken glass until his new window is made, looking incredibly lost. Help.

Close your eyes and you'll leave this dream.

[ Wildcard ]

Attend one of Neil's research projects studying the Paradesium ruins, Brutoks, Lake Sal-Co-Penn, the Tristitia, the Whispering Trees, stardust, ghosts, or anything else. Or throw something at me! I'm open to anything. DM me on Discord!
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Shattered glass

[personal profile] astrogator 2024-05-25 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It's on her journey back out to Northwest Hollow that Tayrey notices the new flyer - and the man pasting it up. Curiosity prompts her to stop and read it, and she can't help but nod in approval.

'If everyone just sits and waits, that barrier will never come down,' she remarks, as if it's a simple fact. Tayrey recollects Neil West from their prior meeting, and she has the wariness of someone with good reasons to avoid therapists, but that's a purely impersonal matter. Call it principle. The man himself, she knows little about, and she's going to compliment a good idea when she sees it.
preacher_in_reticence: playby: Waleed Zuaiter (Neutral - Surprised)

Where's that chime

[personal profile] preacher_in_reticence 2024-05-27 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Degas is at the hardware store as well, looking for the best paint for the shelves River's installed in the temple, when he spots Neil down the way. And like, he could cold shoulder the man, pretend he hasn't seen him, but the look on his face is...it's enough.

"Dr. West. You seem...troubled. How can I help?"
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Wildcard -- Research and Therapy

[personal profile] tisnotthehouse 2024-05-28 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Tarantulas is busy this month raising the money he needs to pay off his debt to the demoness Claunthe, but he considers that more reason to keep up with his magical studies, not less. The more skilled he becomes in Practical Magic, the more he can apply it to mercantile means.

"Not to mention," he absently says to Doctor West as the two of them review a large diagram copied from one of the doctor's books, "One mustn't get so caught up in the minutia of daily survival that they forget the overarching goal. Magic is part of the physics of this universe; I need to understand it, if I'm to have any hope of understanding the things that happen here."
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Where's that chime?

[personal profile] be_seeing_you 2024-06-01 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Number 6 happens to be in at the same time to pick up more wood for his carving projects. When he sees the man looking utterly lost, he changes his course, the tap of his cane on the floor preceding him as he makes his way to Niel.

"You look as if you could use some advice, or am I mistaken?"
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Moments Pass

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2024-06-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
It had been some time since their first conversation, and since then she's barely seen the dreamwalker around except at the potluck and perhaps once or twice around town. But now her nightmares are being soothed by a white horse who seems...amused, or perhaps irritated by her, and as Neil is the dream expert she hopes he may know something.

"Well," she replies to his greeting. "I have a dream issue and you claim to be the expert."
spaghettification: (profile)

Shattered Glass

[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-06-07 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Siebren sees Neil in the process of posting flyers and sort of awkwardly lingers while he does. He feels silly; he knows literally nothing of magic, and that would make him less than useful to this "Ocularum", right?

But the approach sounds more familiar than the alternative.

"Hoi, you are involved with this...project? Group?"
preacher_in_reticence: playby: Waleed Zuaiter (Neutral - Thinking)

[personal profile] preacher_in_reticence 2024-06-09 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"In the summertime, with something like cloth so that insects can't get in, or some sort of screen perhaps. Have you already spoken to the glazier about getting a new pane made?"

Degas turns toward the shelf, looking for an appropriate patching material.

"If it's a standard size, they might have one in stock already."
spaghettification: (eyebrow)

[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-06-09 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hardly know where to begin." He lets out a sheepish little laugh, looking down (an inevitability given his floating) at Neil quietly. "I come from a world wholly without magic or demons."
spaghettification: (the thinker)

[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-06-09 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The words 'mental fortitude' diminish Siebren's smile as quickly and surely as being physically slapped would have.

"Ah." The flier is accepted, but he doesn't really look at it, not right away.
preacher_in_reticence: playby: Waleed Zuaiter (Neutral - Eyes Closed)

[personal profile] preacher_in_reticence 2024-06-09 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Degas doesn't seem to know how to respond to that right away. The awkwardness in the room grows for every second of silence.

"Teenagers, again? If you know who, I could talk to their mothers...?"
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[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2024-06-09 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Sensing he's interested, she moves deeper into the room.

"My kind don't dream, there's a reason for that. There's also a reason for why I do, but they are never happy dreams. Lately a horse has been...chasing them away."

Perhaps this sounds crazy, but she's sure it's not the craziest thing he's heard. Dream are a strange landscape, even when they aren't filled with monsters.
spaghettification: (warm)

[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-06-09 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"No! No, not at all. It's a flaw in myself, not in anything you said. I suffered a traumatic brain injury some years back, and could no longer be said to have mental fortitude or willpower. So I am probably not of use to your organization. I'm broken, and you need people with better minds."

And as he says that, he smiles, trying to show it's no harm, no foul.
spaghettification: (regret)

[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-06-09 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not worthless, just...no longer suited to the same types of pursuits."

Siebren shrugs slightly. "Besides, I've dedicated so much of my life to mundane science, I worry that it'll be hard for me to intuit magic and how it works. Are the rules of magic firm and built upon the same fundamentals on the micro and macro levels? You spoke of demons coming from another plane, but what is it that you mean when you use that word?"

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