[ARTS AND CRAFTS IT IS because Wei Wuxian is just going to be in here pondering the stack of postcards and the little mailbox for their dead. He'll need to apologize to Giyuu and Shinobu for their absolute failure in figuring out a diggitydamn thing about their deaths, yeehaw...
He'll look up when 45 enters, though, and give her a little wave and a smile. Seems he's in a decent enough mood, despite the Everything that's happened.]
Another week coming to a close, mm? Strange feeling.
[He's been away from home for ten weeks and he is Tired.]
[THEY ARE SO DUMB GOOD LORD but he just laughs and waves a hand.]
Hunting ghosts is only part of the job description! You're plenty safe, of course. I do communicate with them and solve their problems, too. Consider me something of a secretary for you!
["Ghost buster" and "ghost customer service" are like the two comparisons other people have drawn, terrible.]
[SOMETIMES YOU'RE GONE FROM HOME FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND AGE TEN THOUSAND MORE...
That has him laughing a little, though. He doesn't seem too fussed about the timing of the topic.]
It is indeed! Shall I start from the top, then, or do you want what's relevant to the camp on a whole only? If it's the latter, I only have one or two.
Ah - but alright. Well! We walked in and it was quite like an old cave I lived in. We were ambushed pretty quickly by fierce corpses - false ones, I'd assume. Ones that took the form of people we knew, though not necessarily people we liked.
[He kicked his in the head and that's how his dumb ass got ankle bitten...]
Mm... We breathed in a little too much of the miasma in the air after that and hallucinated for a bit, and by the time we broke free there was quite a large creature formed of resentful energy there. That's what we needed to seal, and where most of our injuries came from... It had a lot of arms and some of those arms were holding weapons.
[ just because she's stealth chaotic doesn't mean that she isn't ]
Oh, good, I could always do with another liaison or two. Communicating with people without a proxy involved gets to be a little difficult at times when you're not supposed to exist otherwise.
I said earlier that all of us are supposed to have masters and employers, didn't I? It's ... tied to our being in a way, connected to our identities.
[ it's directly tied into their network id codes, but lmao, ye oldes. ]
Being without one makes us illegal. We shouldn't exist, but we do. We don't have access to anything that requires network verification, and people don't necessarily go out of their way to harass an illegal doll just because she's illegal, but that's because they would have to care enough to do so in the first place. They're ignored because they have no one who has reason to care what does or doesn't happen to them.
[ they're the beggars and the strays, the unwanted and the dismissed. ]
In a way, all illegal dolls are ghosts. We're just what happens when you take that to its logical end.
[ something something taking advantage of not having any solid footprint in society. ]
[ she stands by what she said: you're all morons. but anyway. ]
What are the differences about the mist? Is it close enough to think it was just a remnant that got twisted, somehow, or do you think it was something a little more innate to this place?
[ ... oh, big yike if a residual managed to manifest collapse fluid contamination here, now that she thinks about it, hm. ]
[Majima just sort of dunked his arms into it IT'S FINE. She's not wrong. They are all morons.]
I think it was probably closer to a remnant - though I'd talk to Black Shadows about it if you're curious, since they could probably answer better than I could. It was their cabin, after all.
[He'd also mentioned something once that grated at Wei Wuxian. Something about how it was routine procedure to just - reset a personality? Erase memories, when owners were switched?
Well - he's a ye olde, so of course he doesn't get the idea of owning a machine. Machines don't even exist where he comes from, and to him, the difference between say a toaster and 45 is stark.]
--But I suppose you can get things done that way that you'd have trouble getting done in any other situation, mm? And I guess groups like that exist in any world.
You aren't wrong. As inconvenient and restricting as it can be, sometimes, there are other things it opens up. And it seems there will always be a need for those who operate in the shadows, much as some would rather it be otherwise.
[A little quirk of a grin. BUT RIGHT, right, the rest of their stupid venture.]
Beau was able to get around it to find a book that talked of how to seal it. Finish the sealing circle - though I will say, I couldn't recognize it when I first arrived, but after looking at the book it made sense. The more I drew, the more familiar it was to me. Majima and I were able to draw it over there after the circle was complete, and after we trapped it, the room returned to its original state. [...] Which was still the cave, but without all of the messy undead.
[That just has him huffing out a little laugh, half-amused and half-wry.]
I suppose there truly are some things that all worlds and times share.
[Fortunate as it sometimes is, unfortunate as it sometimes is. Then, looping back around to her first question:]
Nothing, really. It's just hard to imagine anyone being treated the way the two of you are, you know? Even the servants of the worst sects are spoken to in a kinder way, it seems.
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Date: 2020-07-05 02:41 am (UTC)Well ... then you wouldn't be cooking for your own tastes anyway?
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Date: 2020-07-05 08:08 pm (UTC)[ she's still not 100% on what a cultivator is so learning via context clues sure is uh, something. ]
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Date: 2020-07-05 08:11 pm (UTC)He'll look up when 45 enters, though, and give her a little wave and a smile. Seems he's in a decent enough mood, despite the Everything that's happened.]
Another week coming to a close, mm? Strange feeling.
[He's been away from home for ten weeks and he is Tired.]
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Date: 2020-07-05 08:31 pm (UTC)It certainly is.
Anyway ... Not to make light of what happens every Sunday, but it is later now.
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Date: 2020-07-06 01:24 am (UTC)Hunting ghosts is only part of the job description! You're plenty safe, of course. I do communicate with them and solve their problems, too. Consider me something of a secretary for you!
["Ghost buster" and "ghost customer service" are like the two comparisons other people have drawn, terrible.]
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Date: 2020-07-06 01:25 am (UTC)That has him laughing a little, though. He doesn't seem too fussed about the timing of the topic.]
It is indeed! Shall I start from the top, then, or do you want what's relevant to the camp on a whole only? If it's the latter, I only have one or two.
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Date: 2020-07-06 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-07 03:10 am (UTC)[WHAT THE HECKITY IS THIS...]
Ah - but alright. Well! We walked in and it was quite like an old cave I lived in. We were ambushed pretty quickly by fierce corpses - false ones, I'd assume. Ones that took the form of people we knew, though not necessarily people we liked.
[He kicked his in the head and that's how his dumb ass got ankle bitten...]
Mm... We breathed in a little too much of the miasma in the air after that and hallucinated for a bit, and by the time we broke free there was quite a large creature formed of resentful energy there. That's what we needed to seal, and where most of our injuries came from... It had a lot of arms and some of those arms were holding weapons.
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Date: 2020-07-07 04:12 am (UTC)Is that specific to the cave, if you found it so familiar, or is that something that shouldn't have belonged?
[ she'll explain ELID if he asks, but like. hm. ]
I thought that Majima said that most of what was covering you wasn't blood.
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Date: 2020-07-07 04:15 am (UTC)Oh, good, I could always do with another liaison or two. Communicating with people without a proxy involved gets to be a little difficult at times when you're not supposed to exist otherwise.
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Date: 2020-07-07 04:36 am (UTC)Mm, it's not entirely unfamiliar, but the mist I'm used to doesn't behave like that or exist in quite the same way.
[As for THAT, he just laughs a little.]
Some of the blood is from our injuries. For Beau and Majima, they fell into the pool the creature came from. A pool of blood and water.
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Date: 2020-07-07 04:50 am (UTC)[Hehe medium jokes. ANYWAY--]
Why is it that you don't exist, if you don't mind my asking?
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Date: 2020-07-08 12:16 am (UTC)[ it's directly tied into their network id codes, but lmao, ye oldes. ]
Being without one makes us illegal. We shouldn't exist, but we do. We don't have access to anything that requires network verification, and people don't necessarily go out of their way to harass an illegal doll just because she's illegal, but that's because they would have to care enough to do so in the first place. They're ignored because they have no one who has reason to care what does or doesn't happen to them.
[ they're the beggars and the strays, the unwanted and the dismissed. ]
In a way, all illegal dolls are ghosts. We're just what happens when you take that to its logical end.
[ something something taking advantage of not having any solid footprint in society. ]
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Date: 2020-07-08 12:20 am (UTC)[ she stands by what she said: you're all morons. but anyway. ]
What are the differences about the mist? Is it close enough to think it was just a remnant that got twisted, somehow, or do you think it was something a little more innate to this place?
[ ... oh, big yike if a residual managed to manifest collapse fluid contamination here, now that she thinks about it, hm. ]
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Date: 2020-07-08 07:21 am (UTC)[Majima just sort of dunked his arms into it IT'S FINE. She's not wrong. They are all morons.]
I think it was probably closer to a remnant - though I'd talk to Black Shadows about it if you're curious, since they could probably answer better than I could. It was their cabin, after all.
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Date: 2020-07-08 07:43 am (UTC)[He'd also mentioned something once that grated at Wei Wuxian. Something about how it was routine procedure to just - reset a personality? Erase memories, when owners were switched?
Well - he's a ye olde, so of course he doesn't get the idea of owning a machine. Machines don't even exist where he comes from, and to him, the difference between say a toaster and 45 is stark.]
--But I suppose you can get things done that way that you'd have trouble getting done in any other situation, mm? And I guess groups like that exist in any world.
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Date: 2020-07-09 06:41 am (UTC)[ ... ]
I think I interrupted you, though. You weren't done, right?
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Date: 2020-07-09 06:46 am (UTC)[ i mean, if wwx asked 45 about that...
but she shrugs, regarding his last comment. ]
You aren't wrong. As inconvenient and restricting as it can be, sometimes, there are other things it opens up. And it seems there will always be a need for those who operate in the shadows, much as some would rather it be otherwise.
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Date: 2020-07-09 07:51 am (UTC)[A little quirk of a grin. BUT RIGHT, right, the rest of their stupid venture.]
Beau was able to get around it to find a book that talked of how to seal it. Finish the sealing circle - though I will say, I couldn't recognize it when I first arrived, but after looking at the book it made sense. The more I drew, the more familiar it was to me. Majima and I were able to draw it over there after the circle was complete, and after we trapped it, the room returned to its original state. [...] Which was still the cave, but without all of the messy undead.
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Date: 2020-07-09 07:55 am (UTC)I suppose there truly are some things that all worlds and times share.
[Fortunate as it sometimes is, unfortunate as it sometimes is. Then, looping back around to her first question:]
Nothing, really. It's just hard to imagine anyone being treated the way the two of you are, you know? Even the servants of the worst sects are spoken to in a kinder way, it seems.
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Date: 2020-07-09 08:35 am (UTC)How much of that do you believe was the work of residuals, and how much of it do you believe was innate?
[ since well, every other broken into place has retained parts of what they were. ]
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Date: 2020-07-09 08:43 am (UTC)I believe more of it was innate than residual. A good deal more.
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Date: 2020-07-09 08:56 am (UTC)[ hm. ]
Anyway, you said something about a few things that might be relevant to the camp as a whole?
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Date: 2020-07-09 09:08 am (UTC)To the people who treat us that way, we're not 'anyone.' We're anything.
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Date: 2020-07-09 09:20 am (UTC)[A nod! Apparently that's all he has to say about that, one way or another. As for the rest:]
We know that the bodies are being kept quite safe in Black Shadows' cabin, too. For all of our dead - victims and the executed.