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awash mods ([personal profile] awashmods) wrote in [community profile] awashlogs2018-11-23 06:51 pm

Event Fourteen.





Roses bloom and cease to be,
But we shall the Christ-child see.





t's very, very cold. It's cold enough that you'll see your breath fog in the air before you, that goosebumps appear on your arms and legs and a chill goes up your spine. You're inside, in a huge palace with sweeping arches and rooms, but it's no real shelter from the cold -- it's just as cold inside as out.

There's a throne room, a kitchen, various rooms and even a dungeon to be explored -- and outside, a frigid, frozen garden, a lake that's naturally frozen over, and miles, and miles of snow as far as the eye can see.

But be careful while you explore. The snowflake soldiers are naturally dangerous, but even more dangerous than that...there's that creeping sensation of numbness going up your arm, a pang through your chest, and the slow, slow freezing from the inside out.

Try not to leave any of your friends behind, okay? Even if they might look a bit too uncannily like some of the statues hanging around for decoration when they're frozen over.




Welcome to Awash's fourteenth event log, everyone! Further information on this event can be found here at the OOC post. You are welcome to make your own logs for this event, but please keep in mind the lack of laptop function during this event when it comes to forum posts!

If there are any questions, please ask them here. Thank you!

hypertoxic: (ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴄᴀʀᴅ ⇒ [blank])

[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Shut up, [ she groans, but it's with a faint, crooked smile. ]

... actually, someone tried to stop me from going out. Said I'd worry people. Which is...

[ still a hard thing to grasp. she shakes her head and moves on. ]

To be honest, I didn't think it would be as hard as it turned out to be. Even for the dead it is fucking cold out there.
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Vriska is left speechless for a moment, which is hard to do. It takes her a moment to remember herself and let go once she's steady. ]

What are you... it's not pointless! [ a pause, and she gives a crooked kind of frown and looks away. ] I mean... I don't know how to help you, but. That doesn't mean no one should try.
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ ....

........

GROAAAAN ]


What do you know about fates worse than death! What does anyone here know. Bleh. Fine.

[ Though she does not stop tugging. Instead she deliberately pulls back harder, in a petty attempt to yank them both to the floor. ]
glaciers: (1)

[personal profile] glaciers 2018-11-28 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[It's kind of hard to believe people care. He thinks is what she wants to say. But those are heavy, difficult words, so he'll let them go. There are other things to focus on for the moment.]

Do you usually not feel much temperature wise? You were cold when you got out of the well too.
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yyyyes? Sort of. That's a complicated question.

[ curious, she gets all up in his face a little bit. ]

You don't sound older than me. Or look it! What's your deal?
asano_san: (Why do I even bother?)

[personal profile] asano_san 2018-11-28 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know! It's not like I get to pick!

[He has his guesses but he's trying not to think about it.]

You're not even going to try to help me, are you?

[He sees that distance.]
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ She shrugs, a careless motion. ]

I did before I died. I think it's a ghost thing. You'd expect a ghost to be cold, right? Which is why I thought I'd be okay out there. How much colder could I get!

[ A pause, and she lowers her hands to tug at her shirt. Frost flakes off it. ]

A lot, it turns out. Go figure.
hypertoxic: (ᴡᴀɴᴛ ɪᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅ ⇒ [neutral])

[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you are carrying my jacket and those keys. So you're doing something!

[ Vriska flashes her a grin, and it doesn't seem to be mean. After a moment's more consideration, she'll lead them out beyond the dungeon, glancing around as they go. ]

More seriously, just stay close. I am not a pro at this rescuing thing, so we might just need to book it at some point. Hey, can you run?
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[personal profile] promissum 2018-11-28 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I have been getting comments like that here. It is true I'm young for a demon, but in human years I'm 2542.

[It's just a fact that demons age incredibly slowly.]
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ For some reason that wins a grin, bright and sunny. ]

Hey, me too! I mean, not that exact age, it wasn't possible for me to keep track. But I know aaaall about looking young but existing for an incredibly long time. Sometimes the humans around here are weird about it.
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[personal profile] glaciers 2018-11-28 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
To be honest, I don't know what ghosts would be like.

[He's only met her in Chroma, and it's not like ghosts have been floating around at home. As far as he knows, anyway.]

It's probably magic or something. Part of the whole ice castle thing.
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[personal profile] neronian 2018-11-28 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ She shakes her head at the first question (it's a little Complicated), but allows them to continue, raising an eyebrow when she hears of their predicament in more detail. That is strange. ]

No, it is not normal. Cold is merely the absence of heat, so as cold as you may be, even the smallest kindling of flame should be able to be felt. To say nothing of the flames of my own work.

[ It has been some time since she's technically had a human body, but she can still feel cold and heat and the sensation of waves lapping at her skin.]
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[personal profile] promissum 2018-11-28 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[His head tilts in interest.]

Oh? What are you?

I don't usually have this much contact with humans. The ones here are much easier to deal with than the ones at home. I can proudly call them my comrades.
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well, now you know what troll ghosts are like, at least! [ ... ] Actually, I had trouble with ghosts when I was alive, too, and they weren't like me. Weird. Whatever!

[ the second thing he says gets a soft frown, and she nods slowly. ] That ... is probably true. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Stupid! [ She bops the heel of a palm against her temple, a less-gentle-than-it-could-be self-chastisement. ] All that risk for totally pointless information. I am so sick of being put in helpless positions! Having to just suffer this bullshit is intolerable.
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
A troll! And also dead. Though even if I hadn't died I would have lived an incredibly long life in comparison to humans.

Anyway, same! I mean, I only ever knew like four humans total before I got here. Sometimes it feels a little weird that so much of the population of Chroma is human. But for whatever it's worth, I like the people here, too.
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[personal profile] glaciers 2018-11-28 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
What were those ghosts like?

[He shrugs at her insult to herself. Maybe he would do more if he was fully back to himself, but as it stands he's fine not commenting on it. It's just going to get filed away for later when he's more capable of being concerned.]

Magic's like that, I think. Puts us in bad positions and then wants us to deal with it for however long it takes.
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[personal profile] scooptimistic 2018-11-28 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
... Oh, so--

[ pardon, she's sneezing now. ]
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[personal profile] promissum 2018-11-28 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[This girl doesn't look like what he imagines trolls to be from all the books. But he does feel like he's talked to somebody about troll aliens before.]

Do you know a boy in sunglasses? We spoke about trolls an aliens a bit.

The majority of humans isn't too strange. They usually populate Earth, and this doesn't seem to be the Netherworld.
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
... creepy, [ she offers, and something in her tone makes it abruptly clear she'd rather not talk about it.

Besides, she's getting kind of animated about this whole "magic" thing. ]
Chroma's like that! This place is bullshit! I never met a set of rules I couldn't break until I got here. Every fucking month there's some new thing, and we just have to put up with it? Why? Who says? [ A soft growl, a surprisingly animalistic sound. Seems like she's coming back to life a little as she defrosts, too... ] What I wouldn't give for a little more luck.
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Dave! Yeah, we're from the same place, in a manner of speaking.

[ a beat. ] That ... cannot be the name of your planet. Are you actually from some kind of underworld? Not that I don't believe it, that's just ....

[ .... decisively: ] Surprisingly kickass.
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[personal profile] unghost 2018-11-28 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ They collect the shards of them that had broken off, if only to give themself something to look at other than their partner's blank expression. Carefully, as carefully as they can manage, they slip their glove off so they can keep the shards in there for safekeeping, away from getting lost in the ice of further chipped against any part of them.

Then, they frown. ]


You're not fine.

[ It's almost like both of them need to hear it. ]

I don't think you can wait any longer. We don't know if she'll come, after all. [ A heavy pause. ] It isn't the queen who reverses things in the story, anyway...

[ No, it's the dearly loved friend of the afflicted character. They guess they fit that description, right? Sort of. They'd wanted the queen to appear for answers, for solid evidence, but they're learning here (and through the continuation of their partnership) that sometimes, they have to throw caution to the wind. ]
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[personal profile] glaciers 2018-11-28 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
You sound better. Less frozen.

[Not that he's ready to extinguish his own fire yet.] The month before this, there was some kind of festival, and the one before that we were randomly sharing memories.

Maybe it's Fs, or it might be the town itself. If we could track down that guy, we might get more answers.

... I'm pretty sure I'm out of luck right now.
promissum: (Listening)

[personal profile] promissum 2018-11-28 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Underworld this, underworld that, it's just the Netherworld to him.]

It's simply called the Netherworld. I instruct dead sinful human souls on how to best earn their way to their reincarnation. You could call it a kind of underworld, if you'd like.
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
.... I feel better, actually. [ thoughtfully. ANYWAY, she's not done ranting yet, so. ]

I am going to find that guy, Shouto, even if it kills me! Again. There must be some way for me to get more luck that doesn't involve stealing it from everyone else. I'm not stealing yours again! Right now you'd probably just get hurt, and that is the last thing I want.

[ There's a moment of irritated stewing, and then--

--an idea seems to hit her, all at once. ]


... the castle. This castle. I could break the castle! It's huge, there's got to be a part no one is occupying, right? [ she's all lit up by this idea, a certain spark coming into her eyes. #uhoh ]
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-11-28 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ what ]

Whoa. Like some kind of lord of the underworld? Or Netherworld. Whatever.