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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-12-03 12:27 pm

Event | Landfall | Bresilyk | Phorezton

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

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Aihsohlow | Phorezton | Markutte | Countryside


The smokey, warm home of the wood miners guild. This is a thriving secondary industry, with the center of town being devoted to an elevator that descends into a large cavern in which a strange form of fungus grows that possesses many of the same traits of wood. The majority of the town works at some job related to the Rhook fungus, either in the mining or the processing of it. They build and sell beautiful Rhook furniture, carts, and other wood-based paraphernalia here. A number of auctions are held here, with the items often bearing a smokey scent or bit of ash - explained as having been recovered from the ashes of a recent fire.

All visitors must report to their customs entry, an easy diversion given that it is the only entry into the town. Provision of an adequate gift will result in their tin visa being stamped with a series of lines that looks like the rings of a tree. The police here are marginally more relaxed about proof of identification, but they are sharply on the lookout for arson and any property-related crimes. There is a smokey scent hanging in the air and a whole section of the city is little more than a warm, charred cinder. Questions about this earn the explanation of a dark mindset overcoming half the residents of that area only two months back and it worsened quickly into strife. One night, the area went up in flames and many of the residents perished with their homes and nearly the whole town was lost. Since then, they have been careful about fires and changes in personality both, with many residents currently residing in jail until their foul tempers dissipate.


Customs | Settlement | Auctions | Harvest Haul | Other
cmdreffingshepard: (what's that you say?)

[personal profile] cmdreffingshepard 2013-12-11 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Shepard shakes her head a little.] I did wonder if I was imagining things. It's not like we know what this place is usually like, so we don't have anything to compare it to. But - this fire they're talking about.

And I've had some chats with some of the locals. There's something they're not saying. Wonder if it has anything to do with our evil spirit. [that last bit, she lowers her voice for slightly - she doesn't want anyone Nearby to overhear and get upset.]
andaway: ([No])

[personal profile] andaway 2013-12-20 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods, that had been pretty much his first thought about the whole thing as well. He hates that they know so little of what they are facing, and what they know is that he could be anywhere, anytime, any person and they wouldn't know.]

It's hard to investigate without raising suspicion or getting people on edge. [A beat.] More on edge, anyway. And nervous, suspicious people never tell everything they know.
cmdreffingshepard: (leave me alone)

[personal profile] cmdreffingshepard 2013-12-21 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Back home, I would've had the authority to conduct whatever investigations I saw fit, but that's not the case here, and it seems like doing anything like that would probably just make things worse, anyway.

[Shepard frowns. Maybe they should just let it go? She's not good at that, though. She's used to making everything her business.]
andaway: ([Sneak])

[personal profile] andaway 2013-12-27 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? What kind of authority, if you don't mind me asking? [As a journalist he never really had any official authority, but the press card did open some doors even if it closed others.

He's also curious what she will tell Clark, since the time they talked about their line of job she talked to Superman.
]
cmdreffingshepard: (side-eyeing you rn)

[personal profile] cmdreffingshepard 2013-12-29 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a Spectre - it's tough to explain to someone who isn't familiar with the system of government in my universe, but we have a lot of freedom to act outside the law if we believe it's necessary.

[She looks a little uncomfortable - she's never been a huge fan of the kinds of things other Spectres sometimes do, and even when she does them herself, she frequently questions herself about it.]