[EVENT] A NEW WORLD ORDER

[ironwood]

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.

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

Comments

[theideaguy]

The boy's face brightens up. Certainly he can be useful, doing his good deed for the day. "Sure can! Just... give me a minute to get my bearings. So I can find the closest entrance to it. Now let's see... I came from Water back that way, but turned this way, then that way... then the shortcut and"

Sokka continues working through his mental path before pointing as if having the greatest epiphany ever. "Ah ha! This way!"

[starbinder]

Lucina's smile never faded as she patiently waited for the boy to mentally figure out where he was going. The fact that he had to think out loud about how to get back might have concerned some people, but he was her only guide and she would have to trust that he would get there eventually.

"Lead the way," She said when he pointed triumphantly.

[theideaguy]

Well, in fairness, the city of Keeliai was rather confusing, and realistically, the problem with finding the best way to the Midnight Hotel was that there were so many ways to get there. Sokka was merely figuring out the best route. Not that she knew that, of course.

Sokka marches forward instead of backward along his path; it was actually slightly faster to continue to a different entrance than the one he went out of. It's clear he knows where he's going (or at least he's not making hesitations as to which way to turn at each of the street's intersections), and he keeps the pace brisk.

"It shouldn't be too much further," he says with a conversational grin. "So... am I the first one to meet you here? Or did someone else give you the grand tour?"

[starbinder]

She followed, relieved that he seemed to know where he was going.

"You are the first," Lucina replied, looking around with interest at everything going on.

[theideaguy]

Such the lovely privilege. Sokka himself seems proud of the fact that he managed to get first blood on someone else; how she is feeling about it is something quite else.

"Well, then, allow me to bring you into the Midnight Hotel," he says as he gestures her into the door. "Pretty much it's the hub where all of us are congregating for the time being until we find some more... permanent housing that hasn't been snatched away from us. And you can probably meet most everybody here!"

[starbinder]

The place wasn't what she had expected, but then again, she had no idea what she was supposed to expect in the first place.

"Thank you," She said, her smile fading as she realized she hadn't introduced herself, "My name is Lucina by the way." She said, holding out her hand.

[theideaguy]

"And I'm Sokka, warrior extraordinaire," he says as he enthusiastically takes her hand and gives it a shake. And lest he forget the most important part, he adds, "From this hotel, you can zip across the city in mere seconds! There are five entrances to this place, one in each of the city's five sectors. And plus, it's sort of neutral ground. So in case you get mixed up with the locals, you should come here."

[starbinder]

She smiled when he shook her hand, "Well, Sokka, warrior extraordinaire, thank you for guiding me here."

She looked at the hotel. It didn't look like much, but magic could do many things. She frowned briefly when he mentioned the locals.

"Are we not on the best of terms with the locals then?"

[theideaguy]

Sokka makes a cringing look when she asks her question, and it's obvious exactly what the answer is. "Eeeeeeh, we're... friendly... if you count friendly as occasionally they don't like to sell anything to us, or occasionally give us some rude gestures... or won't really hire many of us to their businesses." He gives a rather sardonic grin to that. "But hey! That's actually a step up in the world. Used to be that they were holding up torches and pitchforks and trying to murder us or throw us off the turtle. So you know, diplomacy really works or something."