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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2014-12-07 07:23 pm

[EVENT] A NEW WORLD ORDER

Characters: ALL!
Date: December 8, 2015 (with some starters for the following weeks)
Location: Keeliai, the Midnight Hotel, others
Situation: The Foreigners have awakened.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.

They've been in the Dreaming for so long that when they wake up their bodies feel more like automatons, alien and ill-fitting. They haven’t atrophied, thanks to Milyn, but they’re stiff and a little bedsore, and the solidity of the Life Plane is jarring. Here, the surroundings don’t move on a whim. Here the world is more stable, almost harsh and unyielding in spite of the homey surrounds.

It’s been a year, says the clock on the mantle and on the second floor. Says Milyn, too, when she’s able to stop hugging them long enough to speak.

Nothing much has changed in the Midnight Hotel. There are dishes out of place, objects belonging to either Milyn or Eva in evidence, the diorama exactly where it had been but now brightly-painted thanks to Milyn's boredom. Milyn and Eva took a room each, in the time the Foreigners were sleeping, though neither used them much.

Eva’s upstairs, Milyn will tell anyone who asks. In her room.

Eva hasn't left that room in three days. She hasn't spoken in three days, either, or walked, or moved, or breathed. Her effects are neatly arranged around her bed, and the sheet has been pulled up. There is heavy incense in the room and Milyn has managed to preserve the body enough to remove the risk of too much mess (and other things). In a way, that makes it worse: as though Eva is sleeping. It’s difficult to tell whether Milyn is in denial or whether spending three days with no one to talk to other than sleeping Foreigners and a corpse has had its influence.



LINKS
Dreaming log | Foreigner's Awakening (Hotel) | Milyn’s Relief | Exploring Keeliai | Old & New Faces (Canon Updates/New Arrivals) | OOC: State of the Shell
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra waving and smiling (happy)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2014-12-08 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah. That is what you said. A year by the calendar here?" Which Tazendra thought was more like five seasons of days, not four, but the days were shorter, too. "Well, that is a long time to have slept, but not so long to be absent if one has traveled far."
cherrywood: (Default)

[personal profile] cherrywood 2014-12-11 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Milyn smiled gently at Tazendra. "It must seem like you journeyed a long ways," she agreed. "But I promise, you never left my sight."
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra (Default)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2014-12-17 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"That is to day, my body has remained within your sight," Tazendra said. "As for my soul, who could say?"
cherrywood: (06. FROWN)

[personal profile] cherrywood 2014-12-18 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
Milyn's smile dimmed a little. "That'd have been Evastelei's purview to answer, not mine," she said quietly. "I only wish she could give you that information."
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra waving and smiling (wave)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2014-12-19 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
"It is not important," Tazendra said. "My soul has returned to one of two places I expected it to."
cherrywood: (Default)

[personal profile] cherrywood 2014-12-20 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah," Milyn said wisely. "But is it the one you preferred between the two, that's the real question."
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra, a hand on the side of her face, looking intent (interested)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2014-12-20 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, I can always return to the Paths of the Dead later," Tazendra said.
cherrywood: (Default)

[personal profile] cherrywood 2014-12-22 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd rather you didn't," Milyn said frankly. "There's only so much I can fix, you know."
fearlessherosheart: Confused Tazendra (skeptical)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2014-12-22 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Tazendra raised her eyebrows. "Everyone enters the Paths -- or their species' equivalent -- eventually."
cherrywood: (Default)

[personal profile] cherrywood 2014-12-22 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Eventually," Milyn replied primly. "Though I've been patching you all up for the last year and a half months, and I daresay some of you seem to be in a bigger hurry to get there than you should be!"
fearlessherosheart: Confused Tazendra (skeptical)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2014-12-23 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
"So the injuries we took in dreams became real?" Tazendra glanced at her hands, particularly the one she knew had been hurt in the fight against Malicant.
cherrywood: (07. THINKING)

[personal profile] cherrywood 2014-12-25 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Some certainly did," Milyn affirmed. "As for all of them? I'm afraid I don't know, I wasn't there and everyone thus far has been, hm, rather tightlipped about what happened. I suppose it's none of my business, it just makes things easier for me."
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra waving and smiling (happy)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2014-12-26 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"I would be happy to enlighten you, at least the part I observed," Tazendra said.
cherrywood: (Default)

[personal profile] cherrywood 2014-12-27 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Let's get you all settled back on your feet before we worry about that," Milyn replied, patting Tazendra on her arm like the woman wasn't two feet taller than her.
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra (Default)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2014-12-27 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"YEs, well, consider it an open offer," Tazendra said. "One does not find oneself facing a great evil every day."