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CT ([personal profile] liesdontfindyou) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2024-07-14 02:08 am

[OPEN] You always dreamed that there'd more to life than all the lies

Who: CT ([personal profile] 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.
redlightgreenlight: (thinking)

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[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2024-07-14 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Valdis pours over her notes. From the information from Linette, to the more recent information from Miles and Crichton. Her lips twist in disgust as she reads over them, and her brow furrows in frustration as she keeps coming back to the same thing. The whisper from the festival, written in ink and circled twice in her notebook.

There are strange things in the Leeds Estate Basement.
maltesefalcon: (stoicism)

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[personal profile] maltesefalcon 2024-07-14 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Cerrit catches CT in the Enforcer's station, and clears his throat when she walks past his office.

"Care to talk a bit?"

She is, of course, welcome to say no.
mindflayed: (Into Battle)

2 - Library

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-14 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
The cult ritual was clearly only one half of the puzzle of what's happening, or maybe one-tenth. But it's more than he had before.

The logical thing would be to research the name Nyarlathotep or maybe the other cultists whose names they know. But wouldn't it be easier to just ask one of them? So Imbros is at the library, trying to figure out where books on necromancy would be. Is that something they just keep out on shelves or is he going to have to break into some back room? Hmmm...

"You haven't seen any spellbooks here by chance?"
maltesefalcon: (crested)

[personal profile] maltesefalcon 2024-07-14 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hear you've been through it, lately."

Look, he doesn't know where to start, and sort of just wants to chew her mind to see what she'll say, so that's a nice open-ended comment paired with a gesture at the chair on the other side of his desk.
mindflayed: (Reading)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-14 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's almost refreshing that not everyone here is a wizard." He's about 50/50 on magic users to non-magic users he's interacted with.

"They give off a magical aura.... which probably means nothing if you're not attuned to such things. I'd guess they look like regular journals then." Huh, he's never thought about it that way. "I need to tell that to a wizard back in my realm - they're very precious about their books."

As if Imbros here hasn't been throwing tantrums about his lost books for the past weeks.
maltesefalcon: (intimidation check)

[personal profile] maltesefalcon 2024-07-14 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm torn between three reactions to those chances: tearing you a new one for going in without contacting anyone to let them know what's up, praising you for doing something bold and daring, and simply pumping you for all the information you've learned."

He taps his talons, those long sharp dangerous talons on the top of his desk.

"Anywhere you'd like me to begin, CT?"
redlightgreenlight: (thinking)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2024-07-14 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"In a manner of speaking."

She taps her pen against the page and leans back to make eye contact.

"I found her and alerted the rest of the enforcers after talking to her. Now we are just..."

She gestures to the pile of papers.

"Trying to figure out what it all means."
mindflayed: (Thinking)

[personal profile] mindflayed 2024-07-14 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do you record everything? That seems more tedious to search through." But in his opinion it's at least better than places that only have oral history, which by its nature is ever changing.

"I'm hoping to ask more questions of our new acquaintances. And seeing as how they're all likely dead, that will pose some complications." His tone is even like this is a totally normal thing to say.
maltesefalcon: (eagle eyed)

[personal profile] maltesefalcon 2024-07-14 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
He leans in, those steely grey eyes laser-focused on her.

"I'm afraid you've misunderstood me. I am not telling you not to do stupid shit. But you're part of a team now. You have a sending stone, use it before you go off on your own recklessly. Call me, call Alex, call Killbride if you have to. You don't have to take it all on alone, without any support. The rest of the enforcers are here for you."
maltesefalcon: (Default)

[personal profile] maltesefalcon 2024-07-14 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know you weren't. You've never had the support you deserve, have you?" He sighs, leaning back on his...stool? Stool, not chair. Normal chairs are ass for wings.

"And I'll be honest, part of my bad reaction to you going off alone is because of my own bad experiences. Someone trying to seek knowledge without letting others know what she was doing was a direct cause of my death back home. In that case, it was dangerous magical experiments, but still. People thinking they can handle on their own, because the act of reckless discovery is something you do in secret without help, it worries me."
Edited 2024-07-14 22:38 (UTC)
maltesefalcon: (pinch)

[personal profile] maltesefalcon 2024-07-14 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
“If you had called me, you would have been advised not to make it into official enforcer business until you were able to report back.” That is, not to blunder in and be The Cops unnecessarily.
maltesefalcon: (stoicism)

[personal profile] maltesefalcon 2024-07-14 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Alright, now. Tell me everything." This isn't really intended to feel like an interrogation, but Cerrit's as hungry for information as CT had been. She is now the best source of data he has.
redlightgreenlight: (Kinda Happy)

[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2024-07-14 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"The cult meeting?"

Miles and Crichton had told her everything they remembered and she'd written it down, but CT could have information they didn't.

"Perhaps we can work together on it. I have a personal bias against Chaos Gods and people who murder in the name of their religion. It makes all religions looks bad."

And not all of them were.
maltesefalcon: (regal eagle)

[personal profile] maltesefalcon 2024-07-15 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
As Cerrit hears the list of names from the introduction, he immediately gets pen and paper to write them down. A couple times, on hearing a name, he clicks his beak. A few on the list get marks beside them.

"Chloe wasn't wrong about you, but that's beside the point." Don't worry, Cerrit's not mad about it, though. "What else did she say?"

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