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Thorne ([personal profile] thornsofmalkav) wrote in [community profile] synopsychic2015-11-01 11:41 pm

Evening of November 1st, About A Day After The New Travelers Showed Up

Uh, hey. I've got a few things I need to talk to people about, that I've mostly been waiting on until we got a new shift of liminal space so I could share them with all the newbies and returning Travelers too. Uh, I'm Thorne, by the way, if you haven't met me before. Sorry if this gets to be long

Anyway, some of the shit I want to talk about is kinda heavy, so we'll start this out with a rage comic I made with an app on my phone to balance that.

[The voice switches to the viewpoint of someone looking down at a phone screen, in which the follow rage comic has been constructed on:]



[About ten seconds later, the sensory livestreaming switches off and everyone's back to voice.]

Okay. Now the heavy stuff. A lot of you guys know already that the woman I was Infiltrating as during the last Jaunt, Chouko, was killed the fourth week by an inexplicably insectile cyborg known as the Mantis. I came back as an Investigator and ended up 'haunting' my murderer.

What most of you don't know is that Chouko left a corpse behind, which Herr Doktor Blitzkopf found. He replaced her heart with a clockwork one, then used the lightning of the storms to reanimate her body, ala Frankenstein and his monster.

I didn't go back to being Chouko at this time, although she certainly did come back to life. I know, I met her when she came home to the embassy, where I was taking care of her brother, Min.

The people we Infiltrate as, our overlays... they have lives outside of us. Unless there's a Blitzkopf around, when we die as them, they stay dead.

[There's a short silence as Thorne lets that sink in for everyone.]

Uh, next thing! So, there's a secret I've been keeping from everyone, but my spirit animal, Selene, has been going around all doppelgangered and telling people anyway and I figured that if I made this announcement I could control how people found out.

So. Uh. I'm a vampire.

What this basically means is that I'm a talking, thinking, animate dead person. Well, undead person. Technically double-dead person. I got killed again after I got turned into a vampire.

I have to drink blood to survive, but you guys don't have to worry about that because I've already made arrangements with some people already to be regular blood donors and there's enough of them that nobody's should have to do it so often that it make them anemic or anything.

There's a lot of details about my condition, which I don't want to bore people with, but basically it's annoying but manageable. And so far as I know, I'm the only one of my kind here. [If you consider her kind to be Malkavians and now wodpires in general.] I guess you could say I'm a monster, but I'm honestly trying not to act like one.

And, uh, I just wanted to say to any other dead people here, if you need someone to talk to privately about it, I'm here.

Which brings me to the last thing I wanted to tell you guys about! As far as I can tell by the calendars people can agree on, it's gonna be November 2nd tomorrow. I'm gonna hold a Day of the Dead thing at Leo's and, like, build an altar in his yard and stuff and have food. People are welcome to come, living as well as dead.

Uh. That's all, I guess.
runawaystory: HA (hey. you. shut up.)

[personal profile] runawaystory 2015-11-02 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, wait, overlays? Haunting? How did that happen?
willyousee: (Are you certain)

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[personal profile] willyousee 2015-11-02 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
If it would be no trouble, I should like to hear what they had to say.
willyousee: (Secretive Smile)

[personal profile] willyousee 2015-11-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That is kind of you, my lady. I should think that the dead would appreciate that. Do you need assistance in preparing?

[He sees what you did there with the whole inviting both the dead and the living.]
awitchdidit: (been around for a long long year)

[personal profile] awitchdidit 2015-11-02 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like some kind of zero-effort yonkoma.

[Not that Beatrice reads anything so classless as manga. Only fine literature, how dare you imply otherwise.]

Based on the other discussions I've had in this place, though, I think I get the general idea. I'm also just taking it for granted that telepathy is common here. It's convenient, albeit maybe too much so.
amadine: (glance)

[personal profile] amadine 2015-11-02 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you honestly think they didn't exist outside of our forays into living their lives?
awitchdidit: (washed his hands and sealed his fate)

[personal profile] awitchdidit 2015-11-02 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. That could be very useful. My magic seems to be able to affect this space we're in in small ways, but actually affecting other minds directly...that opens up many new possibilities.

At any rate, you covered a lot here. My next question is about "Infiltrating". Am I correct in saying this means "playing a role" in the Fragments the Trumps allegedly send us to? And the news here is that, after our role is ended, the characters we play keep going?
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[personal profile] seventhbullet 2015-11-02 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
You realize making it a mystery just means you have to repeat it a lot more because we're all curious now, right?
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[personal profile] seventhbullet 2015-11-02 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
So that's what that's about. [Darkness, it does a body...something, for sure.]

She's not making this up, for what that's worth. Dollface was sitting up and chatting while she was still talking from liminal.
seventhbullet: (candy in my van)

[personal profile] seventhbullet 2015-11-02 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, something similar. Not surprised the kid caught on. You could start a club.
timelessinventor: ([w13] serious face)

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[personal profile] timelessinventor 2015-11-02 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
My apologies for my reticence to say thing in public, darling, but everyone is just so... fractious lately.

There are three bits of information that came out in my conversation with the Trump I believe is called Hanged Man.

First, at least some of the Trumps consider each other family. I believe, from his words, that at the very least considered the dead ones so.

Second, he acted as if he was mourning his dead family.

Third, he stated that the Travelers cannot understand what the Trumps are and are going through. That makes sense, as the Trumps are powerful beings who by nature would have a much different understanding and perspective on things.
awitchdidit: (and i was 'round when Jesus Christ)

[personal profile] awitchdidit 2015-11-02 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Well of course! In games this complex, the characters are their own people, even if they're sometimes controlled by players. We leave the board to its own devices, it continues on as it would without interference.

...since we're on the subject, though, what happens when one of us "Travelers" dies?
Edited 2015-11-02 21:51 (UTC)
timelessinventor: ([w13] duh)

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[personal profile] timelessinventor 2015-11-02 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but if I do it like this, I will not be immediately stepped upon, and I will be able to speak to people on my own terms.
timelessinventor: ([w13] serious face)

[personal profile] timelessinventor 2015-11-02 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly.

Perhaps we can find somewhere to meet.
protect_and_serve: (pensive)

[personal profile] protect_and_serve 2015-11-02 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I can make pictures. I can't cook so well.
timelessinventor: ([w13] serious face)

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[personal profile] timelessinventor 2015-11-02 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It is absolutely no problem, Alcuin darling. Would you care to meet, or are you better at this mental network than I am?
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[personal profile] professorwolf 2015-11-02 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hajime is a former student of mine. Now he's more of a good friend. We do actually come from the same Jersey, a city named Locke.

I'm guessing we either haven't met in person, or you smell differently from most vampires... I'm usually good at identifying other undead. I would have introduced myself sooner, if that were the case.

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