spaghettification: (eyebrow)
Siebren De Kuiper (Sigma) ([personal profile] spaghettification) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2024-07-13 11:30 am

[OPEN] And so I'm having a wonderful time

Who: Siebren and You
What: Post-Cult Recovery, Information Dissemination and general Siebrenity
When:Mid-July
Where: Places and also locations
Warning(s): Discussion of mental health and trauma likely, along with cult event CWs. Also, heavy alcohol use.

1. A woman came up to me and said [Library]
Regardless of what's in Siebren's head, he still shows up to work. Sometimes, he focuses on simple matters; reshelving, cleaning, dealing with things that need him to be tol (or rather, to be not-grounded). Other times, he'll be at the reference desk, nose-deep into some sort of book. He's doing a very good job at presenting himself as stable and pushing himself to be useful. He's making a point of not isolating himself from his community.

Those who know him more than passingly, though, can tell he's distracted and a bit absent. Moments when he hangs like a bad internet connection. Perhaps it's time to check in on your local sad science grandpa.


2. I'd like to poison your mind [Oak and Iron]
If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.

Siebren is drinking. Heavily. He's alone at a table at the Oak and Iron, a bottle of wine and a single glass in front of him, and he is getting himself thoroughly shitfaced. For better or worse, he seems a quiet, depressive sort of drunk rather than a disruptive one (though his bottle occasionally floats over the table instead of sitting neatly on it). But this is clearly not a celebratory sort of drinking.

Still, if you acquire a glass from the staff, he might be encouraged to share, just so he's not drinking that whole bottle alone.


3. With wrong ideas that appeal to you [Empty Pockets Open Mic]
There's a song stuck in his head. Oh, it has been there for a while now, but now, it's stuck deeper than usual, running around the edges of his mind at all hours. Luckily, there are appropriate times and places to pass an earworm along. Like open mic night.

While he warms up with some Phillip Glass, some Satie, he jumps into the main event quickly, a look of concentration on his face as he draws down the music of the universe and plays it back.

Catch him after his performance, before he slips out the back door?


4. Though I am not unkind [Wildcard]
[As usual, darkersolstice on discord to plot. Or throw yourself at me, I'm easy.]
mindflayed: (Thinking)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-14 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"There's no magic whatsoever, or you're not someone who manipulates magic?"
mindflayed: (Waiting)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-15 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Odd and unfortunate. I've heard of realms like that but haven't been to one. At least not in recent memory."

It takes a second...

"How are you floating if it's not magic?"
mindflayed: (Unimpressed)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-15 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Likewise." He says as he also floats a few inches off the ground. "Though more specifically I'm maneuvering the world around myself which I wouldn't consider science in my case."

mindflayed: (You frustrate me)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-15 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
"You were irreparably changed by what you were working with? You sound just like a wizard, despite not being one."
mindflayed: (Caster)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-17 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's neither a compliment nor an insult, just a statement. There's similarities."

He reaches out to grab a book about local fauna off the shelf with one of his tentacles, idly flipping through it.

"What were you back in your world then? A scientist?"
mindflayed: (Fear me)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-22 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Gravity yes, black holes - vaguely.

"You mean spatial distortion? You specialized in extra-dimensional spaces?" Oh this is exciting, because he had a bag of holding back home and he'd like another one here.
mindflayed: (Thinking)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-24 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"How not quite? Because if you could apply those properties to items, that would be most useful."
mindflayed: (Into Battle)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-24 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Brief disappointment and then renewed hope as a new avenue towards his goal of carting around 10,000 books is provided.

"Dr. Salazar. I haven't met them as yet, but thank you for the advice."