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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
ruinsprofessor: (calm)

[personal profile] ruinsprofessor 2014-12-15 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Quite frankly, she could have done with less time in that dream, within and without, and it took her a moment to place the sarcasm. But of course Cain would be a little less perturbed by the passing of an entire year; for her, it was still a significant fraction of her life to date.

"I suppose it was too much to hope that any of our old housing would remain both unoccupied and unmolested," Raine said with a little sigh, looking ahead along the road. She'd left things in her suite-- nothing vital, but some of her collated research. Clothes. She'd almost started to settle in again, but that had, in retrospect, been foolish. "I wonder. Have you been to the hospital?"
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[personal profile] insertdadjoke 2014-12-28 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"After a year?" Laughing, Cain shook his head. "Yeah, no. I doubt anything just disappeared into the ether but these people are rebuilding and they never liked us enough to preserve our spaces for an entire year anyway."

"What?" Cain asked, obviously not expecting the question and bemused by it. Aside from taking others or merely dropping them off, Cain had not been to a hospital in several ages. Those laboratories didn't count, obviously. The only times he ever ended up at places of healing, really, were when he was caught out as injured and taken to help before he could protest. "Hospital? No. Frankly, I haven't had a reason to for about twenty-five years now."
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[personal profile] ruinsprofessor 2014-12-29 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Raine smiled a little when he laughed, but it was rueful. "I don't blame them," she said, and shook her head. "Even if the general attitude toward us had been more positive, we vanished, with barely a word, and with no indication of when or if we would return."

Of course he wouldn't have thought of visiting the hospital. "I suppose you wouldn't have," Raine said wryly, acknowledging the relative folly of the question. "I ask only because it's one of the facilities the Foreigners primarily ran, at least at first, and I used to work there. I'll have to see what's become of it."