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ɪ ᴛ ᴇ ʀ ᴜ ᴍ: ᴀ ᴅ ᴍ ɪ ɴ ([personal profile] iterumadmin) wrote in [community profile] iterumrp2023-07-01 12:31 am

Arrival Mingle

Who: Everyone.
What: The Chosen return or arrival in the City.
When: July 1st.
Where: The Districts of the City.
Anything Else? Feel free to make your own arrivals, or throw an arrival starter here! The party is open to all. As a reminder, language barriers are not an issue in the Tower.

The City hadn't changed at all in its time without the chosen. If anything, The City seemed a little dusty. The Chosen would find themselves waking in their assigned homes. Even if they were returning and had other homes. They would wake in their chosen home. For the most part, anyway, a few chosen had special ways of arriving.

The assigned housing varied depending on the district they were assigned according to their sin. However, everyone had a box, a welcome package awaiting them upon waking. Inside the box was an extra invitation inviting them to the tower if they so decided to come visit upon arrival.

The city was once again bustling with life. Cars, demons, and the people of the City moving as if time had never stopped. Business as usual for the returning Chosen.


The Tower

While it was not Aiden's district, he had talked the Duchess into opening up the ballroom, and Skiffell to provide food, that just didn't seem to end. The grand ballroom was filled with many delectable dishes, and a small band of demons playing big band music in the corner.

The doors were propped open with the music drifting out to help lull the chosen who decided to attend. A handwritten poster board outside the open doors displaying 'Welcome Chosen!' with about 10 smiley faces drawn on it. While normally parties at the tower demanded fancy dress, Aiden throwing a party meant that rule would not be abided. He didn't dig out the fancy threads for anyone. This was a different kind of party, put together by the lord of Leisurebrook.

While Aiden didn't plan to reveal himself as a magistrate, he did love to mingle with people and hear their stories. So he was there. He was napping at a round table off in a corner, his messy brown hair spilled over his crossed arms as he napped as if he didn't have a care in the world.
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[personal profile] brandingproblem 2023-07-04 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, maybe. [Vehemently disagrees, actually, because what the actual fuck is this city, even, but he won't say that at this moment.] Might be the nowhere city for kidnapped people might be a little bit worse.
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[personal profile] thegreatexperiment 2023-07-04 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Fewer vampires. But she decides now isn't the time to open that particular Pandora's Box.

Still figuring out the rules. At least, until she breaks them.]


The story I hear is that it's the megaverse nexus of several Einstein-Rosen bridges.
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[personal profile] brandingproblem 2023-07-04 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
Shit, really? Are they perpetually active, or only so far as to rope people in? ['Megaverse' might be the thing that he doesn't really understand, but he knows a Bifrost when he hears it.] The amount of energy that's gotta produce must be off the charts; someone out there has to know where this is. For a given definition of 'where', I s'pose.
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[personal profile] thegreatexperiment 2023-07-04 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey, someone who speaks her language. That's a pleasant surprise.

Something inside of her lights up, just a little bit.]


As far as I can tell, they aren't perpetual. Still working on a pattern other than "activates at random with no discernable target."

[She doesn't really believe in random.]

And some people have experienced them before.
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[personal profile] brandingproblem 2023-07-04 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm getting that impression. [That some people have "returned" or "come back" like they were always here.]

So, what, it's magic? Well, [with a little handwaggle] significantly advanced science indistinguishable from magic, depending. [Because the science behind an Einstein-Rosen bridge is (apparently) sound, but the Bifrost coulda been magic, and the Tesseract sure fucking was something indistinguishable from magic.] Maybe there isn't exactly a pattern as far as timing goes. People ended up here for a reason, right? Someone has to bring them here.

[They can't actually have all just willingly walked here. That's...spooky and crazy, right?]

Guessing nobody's ever actually seen someone arrive? No big rainbow lights in the sky or visible holes where a spaceship's jumped in from outside atmo?
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[personal profile] thegreatexperiment 2023-07-04 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head, easily falling into the conversation like she's known Mr. Potato Head her whole life.]

Everyone arrives alone and asleep. No witnesses.

The closest I can get to anyone being in charge are these "Magistrates." But I'm not sure they're the ones behind whatever is powering the device or devices.
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[personal profile] brandingproblem 2023-07-04 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
If anyone's gonna know anything specific, they're the best place to start. But if there are any independent labs that can detect bursts of energy, or isolate specific energy signatures, could be a start.

[If there's equipment like that here in the city. If there's anyone here eggheaded enough to use that equipment and interpret the results.]

Sounds like you've got some experience.
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[personal profile] thegreatexperiment 2023-07-05 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
With assholes, yes. With Einstein-Rosen bridges...they were pretty much just theoretical to me until a few days ago.

[And it suddenly occurs to her that she has no idea who this guy is.]

Are you a physicist, dude?
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[personal profile] brandingproblem 2023-07-06 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Me? God no, I just work with really smart people around me is all.

[He has no real powers, nothing supernatural or superhuman, but aside from his aim? It's the power of underestimation. Sometimes it's not letting people know how smart you are. Sometimes it's just plain not thinking you're all that smart. He knows he comes at problems from an angle, sees things that others might not or phrases them in surprising ways.]

But bridges are kinda less theoretical. Where I'm from. Just not sure how one goes about punching a hole in spacetime, or folding space, or making a wormhole, or whatever.
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[personal profile] thegreatexperiment 2023-07-06 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Power. Lots and lots and lots of power. More power than would be available...in my world.

[It's getting easier and easier to say "in my world." Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Who the fuck knows?]


I'm not sure if it's these Magistrates pushing the button, though.
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[personal profile] brandingproblem 2023-07-07 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
If it's not them, they've gotten real cozy with whoever is. Shittiest tourism board to ever exist? [When in doubt, say something snarky.

He supposes if he's going to talk shop about the crazy physics of this place with a stranger, they maybe should stop being strangers. Not everyone acts like they're stuck here, or like this is strange, but some do.]
I'm Clint. [No point really in giving an alias if this might not even be the same galaxy as home.] Hey, if this party sucks as much as it looks like, at least it lets some of us assholes who don't appreciate being kidnapped across a bridge meet.
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[personal profile] thegreatexperiment 2023-07-07 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, Sam likes him. Most people she meets are greeted with a sort of "guilty until proven innocent" mentality, these days. Especially vampires. But he's clearly not a vampire. And he speaks snark fluently, which is kind of Sam's native language.

So she offers him a hand.]


Sam. Proud asshole since 1994.
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[personal profile] brandingproblem 2023-07-07 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[He politely shakes her hand because midwestern politeness tends to win out over asshole tendencies sometimes. There's a chuckle with a self-deprecating twinge to it.]

Proud asshole since let's not put numbers on anything. You'll reach that age someday.
thegreatexperiment: (Pleased)

[personal profile] thegreatexperiment 2023-07-08 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[She's older than she looks. However, she's not going to advertise that, right now.

She gives his hand a firm shake, pulling back herself.]


Well. Us assholes need to stick together. Or something.