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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-12-03 12:26 pm

Event | Landfall | Bresilyk | Markutte

Characters: Any and all!
Date: December 3 - 11, 2013
Location: Markutte, Bresilyk (landfall)
Situation: Tu Vishan makes landfall at the winterbound republic of Bresilyk!
Warnings/Rating: Please include warnings in comment subject lines

OOC Post | Approved Items | Special Gifts
Aihsohlow | Phorezton | Markutte | Countryside


The commerce town of the tried. Temperatures within the dome are kept at a lofty 18C (62F) year round and the population of Markutte dresses less in furs and more in linens obtained through trade. Their long hair is frequently shorn short in the current fashion and they are, on the whole, less hardy than their kin in Phorezton and Aihsohlow, but even more friendly as they are currently in the throes of the Harvest Haul, a festival that concludes their rare growing seasons and agricultural bounties.

Trade. That's the foundation of Markutte and there are three town squares that are home to transient stalls and merchandise from the country and all surviving areas of Konryu. Many kedan have made their way here and occupy the occasional stall space, selling their wares and exchanging gifts with the citizens as they grasp the nature of the festival underway. Once again, visitors that make the trek here are expected to donate a gift that will be regifted at random, earning access and a stamp of their tin visa that resembles the oblong crystal coin used as currency in this realm.

Police are on the lookout for financial crimes here and will demand visas of any they suspect to be committed fraud, short-selling merchants, or thieving in any way, shape, or form. There are three vistas, one in each market square, upon which heralds stand and announce the crimes and punishments noted of the previous day. Minor theft is common and the punishment is a brand upon the criminal's neck; major theft results in a loss of a finger for each item stolen; fraud here is punishable by death, but only twice will there be an announcement of an execution during the landfall.

The auctions here are quite lively and characters can expect a minor bidding war to obtain their items, but each item is in pristine condition and provided to them wrapped within a thin set of furs as a thanks for their purchase.


Customs | Settlement | Auctions | Harvest Haul | Other
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[personal profile] iguanasolution 2014-01-18 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[He glances at her, pursing his lips. He doesn't want her to relieve what she saw, but...] How old are you now? Does the time you've seen pass count, or only the time actually spent here?
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[personal profile] sophos 2014-01-19 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.] It's just... watching yourself in a pool, and you come out the same day you jump in, no matter how many days pass in the visions. I don't think it counts.

[A beat.] But with how long I've been here now, I've passed eighteen by this point.
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[personal profile] iguanasolution 2014-01-20 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
So you could watch years in a day? [He frowns to himself, trying to make sense of it. He hasn't ever been tempted to check, but the whole process confused him and he hadn't had someone close to him go through it before.]

And if time stops in this place does that even count?
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[personal profile] sophos 2014-01-21 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Theoretically. The first time for me was only a week. The second - apparently eighteen days. [It was really hard to tell the passage of time in Tartarus, but that's what everyone else said once they got out.]

I'm pretty sure our bodies are growing here. People still need haircuts, they get taller. But if it's just our souls here, do they age, too? Will we even remember this place, when we go back home? [Rhetorical questions, mostly.]
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[personal profile] iguanasolution 2014-01-23 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Why wouldn't we remember? [He hadn't even considered that option, and the idea that since they know the future don't change whatever they do and know about here doesn't change things hadn't crossed his mind.]
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[personal profile] sophos 2014-01-25 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.] No idea. No one's ever left and come back and confirmed we do or don't either way. And with all the weird time crap that happens, with people being pulled from various points in time, that doesn't help us figure it out either.

Like - wouldn't I have talked about this place to you guys if I remembered, assuming we do go back to the point we were taken from? There's still too much up in the air.
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[personal profile] iguanasolution 2014-01-25 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
But what about everything we have lived here? Everything we have faced, everything we have learned? Mrs Reyes has taught me so me so much at the clinic, I'd forget all of it?

It doesn't seem fair.
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[personal profile] sophos 2014-01-26 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Annabeth sighs, though from her expression, it's clear that she agrees with him entirely.] I'd really rather not lose over a year of life experiences in this place either, no. I really hope we do remember, and it's just a variety of circumstances preventing us from knowing that for sure.