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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.]
blindwatchersees: (Default)

Poison Your Mind

[personal profile] blindwatchersees 2024-07-14 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Seems we can never meet when we're both having a good day," the old man mutters, as he pulls up a chair, plonks down a glass, sits down, and crosses his legs.

"I'm here to listen, not reprimand. Talk, or don't. But you've found me in that bottle and I'm not leaving anytime soon."
mindflayed: (You frustrate me)

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[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-14 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello fellow cult sacrifice who's name he doesn't remember. Imbros has been none the worse following that experience, not that it's easy to tell his mood without many facial expressions. But he's in a decent mood when he approaches the man shelving books.

"Do you happen to know if the library contains any spellbooks?"
mindflayed: (Ominous)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-14 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"It was a longshot at best, but I figured I'd try. Wizards tend to keep things intensely private, though I haven't interacted with many necromancers. Maybe they're more forthcoming since they're planning to kill almost everyone they meet anyway."

He's not deterred though, confident that he can figure it out on his own. How complicated could bringing someone back from the dead be? He's over 300 years old and part of a race that time travels through realms. He's got this.

"Meditation? What... What for?"
liesdontfindyou: (pb; head tilt)

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[personal profile] liesdontfindyou 2024-07-14 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)

Just as she said she would, CT comes by the library as soon as she's got the time to do so. She's going to be spending a fair amount of her free time here soon anyway, she thinks, but today is specifically for the sake of coming to see Sigma.

She wanders up to him at the reference desk. "Hey. How're you feeling?"

liesdontfindyou: (pb; slight brow furrow)

[personal profile] liesdontfindyou 2024-07-14 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)

CT chews the inside of her cheek. "...no worse than I was before, I think," is what she says, after a moment's thought. It's deliberately ambiguous as to if she means before they revived or before the cult situation entirely. "Unsettled, definitely. But, frankly, I'm used to that."

The background radiation of paranoia is pretty much her normal, these days. At least it hasn't got her hiding away.

"I don't know how you 'should' be feeling, but... any worse?"

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?"
liesdontfindyou: (pb; so then)

[personal profile] liesdontfindyou 2024-07-14 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)

"Well. Hopefully it will prove to be just nervous thoughts." She's not sure what else to do about it in the meantime. Is there a way to check or protect against something like that? She certainly doesn't know it, if so. "I'm sorry, Si—"

Beat. Right. "—was that actually your name you used, before?"

liesdontfindyou: (pb; worried)

[personal profile] liesdontfindyou 2024-07-15 12:37 am (UTC)(link)

She can't help the way it draws her mind back to the Sigma at home—AI Designated Sigma, outcome of an experiment that should never have happened. Odd, how things echo. "...which I assume has something to do with the assurance you wanted, about locking you up."

That paints the start of an ugly picture.

"What's your name?"

blindwatchersees: (Default)

[personal profile] blindwatchersees 2024-07-15 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Mijn vriend, I'm in your head whether either of us likes it or not." A rare concession for him, as he likes to pretend he has more control over his existence than he actually does, but Siebren deserves to know How Things Work.

"I'm rarely safe. Have I ever told you about the time I fought a war as a one-person army, more or less? Terrible sense of self-preservation..."
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?"
pineapplesalmon: (friendly smile)

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[personal profile] pineapplesalmon 2024-07-15 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Good morning, Siebren!" Look at César taking a day off, because it's not only a weekday but late morning, as he walks up to him in the library.

Remember you're going to ask about a recipe book, remember you're going to ask about a recipe book, remember... César gets distracted talking to Siebren quite easily, but also wants to have at least a short conversation before asking.
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."

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