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ph_logs2024-07-14 02:08 am
liesdontfindyou) wrote in ph_logs2024-07-14 02:08 am
[OPEN] You always dreamed that there'd more to life than all the lies
Who: CT (liesdontfindyou) & you!
What: Catch-All for CT; work, investigation, and just hanging out
When: July
Where: Various places, in headers
Warnings: Cult discussion, death discussion, etc.
1. A place you'd find where you weren't all alone [around town, O&I]
CT is back to work immediately after her return to life. To sit idle would only invite her to dwell on it and that's not something she wants to do at all. Not that routine patrol shifts do much to occupy her mind, but just the act of working helps her to focus her mind on things besides cults and sacrifices and experiences thereof.
She's relatively easy to find around town whilst out on patrol, whether because you just want a chat or because you're having some kind of issue that she might be able to help with.
Most days, after she's done with work, she stops by the O&I for a drink and a meal that she doesn't have to make herself. That and maybe the bustle of real living people is good for her in controlled doses. She's generally sitting alone, with plenty of space to join her if asked, or may occasionally have to ask if a seat is free herself.
2. But now you look around at what you've learned and face the truth [library, enforcers office, other]
When she's not working on actual assigned duties, CT's still working on her own investigative angles. Following some initial discussions with other attendees of the cult gathering, she has multiple little bits and pieces she plans to follow-up on with or without help. These include: verifying the reported deaths of each cult member via official records at the office; cross referencing missing persons reports to see if it's possible to find out who they replaced in the past; searching through old newspapers and photos and the like among library records to narrow down the year it took place; and so on.
Those who attended the cult gathering may find themselves invited or sought out for further discussion or to help her with what she's doing. Other Enforcers may also find her seeking them out for discussion or to get properly acquainted for the sake of future endeavours.
3. That you may never find a home [northwest hollow residental]
Even in CT's downtime, it's hard to say she's relaxing. Pieces of her old routine adapt well enough to the town and that old routine was built around keeping herself as busy as possible during long days travelling or holed up in bases. So, for example, she can be found going on a daily jog to keep herself fit, weaving through the streets of Northwest Hollow on a route she figured out for herself.
Around her home at 517 Meadowlark Lane, she can also be heard or seen practising knife throwing with a makeshift target attached to a tree in her yard. Her gate is cracked open, because she prefers the easy exit and is very aware of her surroundings—anyone who peeks in will soon find her looking back at them, holding a throwing knife between her fingers. "You can watch. Promise I'm only aiming at the tree."
Sometimes she's even sat on the porch, appreciating once again living under real sunlight whilst she reads through a book checked out from the library—all, invariably, some kind of non-fiction about the town or world as a whole. Research.
4. Wildcard
Hit me or find me in the discord to plot. Happy to write custom starters and the like.
liesdontfindyou) & you!What: Catch-All for CT; work, investigation, and just hanging out
When: July
Where: Various places, in headers
Warnings: Cult discussion, death discussion, etc.
1. A place you'd find where you weren't all alone [around town, O&I]
CT is back to work immediately after her return to life. To sit idle would only invite her to dwell on it and that's not something she wants to do at all. Not that routine patrol shifts do much to occupy her mind, but just the act of working helps her to focus her mind on things besides cults and sacrifices and experiences thereof.
She's relatively easy to find around town whilst out on patrol, whether because you just want a chat or because you're having some kind of issue that she might be able to help with.
Most days, after she's done with work, she stops by the O&I for a drink and a meal that she doesn't have to make herself. That and maybe the bustle of real living people is good for her in controlled doses. She's generally sitting alone, with plenty of space to join her if asked, or may occasionally have to ask if a seat is free herself.
2. But now you look around at what you've learned and face the truth [library, enforcers office, other]
When she's not working on actual assigned duties, CT's still working on her own investigative angles. Following some initial discussions with other attendees of the cult gathering, she has multiple little bits and pieces she plans to follow-up on with or without help. These include: verifying the reported deaths of each cult member via official records at the office; cross referencing missing persons reports to see if it's possible to find out who they replaced in the past; searching through old newspapers and photos and the like among library records to narrow down the year it took place; and so on.
Those who attended the cult gathering may find themselves invited or sought out for further discussion or to help her with what she's doing. Other Enforcers may also find her seeking them out for discussion or to get properly acquainted for the sake of future endeavours.
3. That you may never find a home [northwest hollow residental]
Even in CT's downtime, it's hard to say she's relaxing. Pieces of her old routine adapt well enough to the town and that old routine was built around keeping herself as busy as possible during long days travelling or holed up in bases. So, for example, she can be found going on a daily jog to keep herself fit, weaving through the streets of Northwest Hollow on a route she figured out for herself.
Around her home at 517 Meadowlark Lane, she can also be heard or seen practising knife throwing with a makeshift target attached to a tree in her yard. Her gate is cracked open, because she prefers the easy exit and is very aware of her surroundings—anyone who peeks in will soon find her looking back at them, holding a throwing knife between her fingers. "You can watch. Promise I'm only aiming at the tree."
Sometimes she's even sat on the porch, appreciating once again living under real sunlight whilst she reads through a book checked out from the library—all, invariably, some kind of non-fiction about the town or world as a whole. Research.
4. Wildcard
Hit me or find me in the discord to plot. Happy to write custom starters and the like.
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CT's head tilts. "What everyone knows, I assume. That they all died except Dahlia Leeds. The rumours of some kind of curse causing it. That Linnette was married to one of the family."
And the implications that came up at the meeting that others attendees uncovered, that she's yet to talk about with anyone because of the lack of verification.
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Linnette had been sacrificed to a chaos god by a cult that no longer existed.
Her voice drops low.
"Is there a possibility that the Leeds were involved in the same cult? It wouldn't explain why Dahlia survived, but...it would explain why the rest of them are dead."
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CT hesitates for a moment before lowering her own voice. "...not the same, I don't think. At least not directly. There was talk of choosing Linnette in part because of her ties to the Leeds, though. About a deal of some kind. And... other things, about the Leeds."
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"A deal? Or perhaps the rumors of the curse are true and they wanted to make use of that curse. Linette wasn't a Leeds by blood though, so she wouldn't be affected."
She hums softly.
"What other things?"
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"Things I'm not sure I should talk about here." She looks around furtively, can never quite help her distrust even if she wilfully signed up for the enforcers herself. "The person who heard it first hand was planning to try and follow-up on it, I think, but I haven't heard anything since."
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"Is there another person I should talk to?"
But in CT's head, quietly and gently.
Don't panic, it's just me. Hopefully you can multitask, because I heard something very interesting that might be of use if I have more than just a whisper to go on.
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There's the subtlest of jolts as the voice sounds in her mind. Her first association is actually the AI, something she never even experienced and yet she knows well enough meant talking to them inside your own mind. It isn't that, of course, she knows that, but the mind makes it leaps.
Telepathy. Everyone around here seems to have an interesting trick or two up their sleeves. Except her. Sometimes she misses her armour and her unit. I can multitask.
"I believe her name was Cassandra."
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Or two...What was the unconfirmed rumor you are afraid to speak in public.
"I know Cassandra, she's a friend. "
no subject
Something about a deal between the Leeds' patriarch and Aster. Cassandra didn't seem ready to risk it being a lie told by people who had a grudge against Japhet, hence wanting to corroborate it.
Meanwhile CT can't imagine how you can easily corroborate it, when surely anyone still alive involved in such a deal would just as readily lie their asses off about its truth or lack thereof.
"Then you might be able to find out what she has, or hasn't, learned since. I didn't really know most of the people who attended."
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"I see."
Would you be interested in proving or disproving that for certain?
no subject
CT answers: Absolutely, so firmly and immediately in her mind that she almost forgets she's meant to be maintaining the audible conversation.
"I'm fairly new around here. You could say this had made for an interesting introductory period."
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CT may be new, but Valdis believes she will be a valuable ally.
"I'd say so. Hopefully the rest of your time here goes better."
I'll get back to you when I have a plan.
no subject
"Hopefully. For whatever definition of better." She'd throw herself into the maw again if it meant finding out more information that might solve the puzzle.
I look forward to it.
no subject
Valdis starts gathering up her notes to put them away.
"Try not to answer any more strange summons from complete strangers."
no subject
"No promises."
She's joking, but is she really?
end