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[WORLD ONE | AUGUST INTRO LOG]

Who: The new coven members, old blood & Palai people
Where: In and around the city land of Aimintas
When: Day 30
Open/Closed: Open to All

The initial setting information found here should be utilized for threads here.

There's no official OOC account for the Palai people. You're free to roleplay their actions and reactions on your own, as in depth as you want -- asking questions, hand-waved interactions, becoming best friends. The new world is your oyster!

This setting may be familiar to you -- maybe you caught a glimpse of it when you first visited. Maybe this is your first time experiencing this weird world and the panic is setting in. If you're totally lost, a tall human woman with a long scroll of paper will stop by to give you the run down. She'll also give you a letter, which may give you more questions than answers since the information is a wee out of date. (Maybe someone else can fill in some gaps for you).

One piece of information that you'll be given is the information related to your new magic -- yup, you do have that. While Genette may not know your magic's full limitations or details, you will have some idea about this new power of yours.

On a less positive note, the air around Aimintas is buzzing with the hum of hurried planning. Tomorrow the Palai will retreat into their houses, which means they'll be running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

The Palai are interested in any useful items that you might have that they can use for their 48 hour hiding session, from something to pass the time to something they can use for protection. No matter where you are in Aimintas, you'll be subject to some severe bartering pressure.

Alternatively, some Palai are worried about the safety of the coven and are willing to give up whatever they can to help the coven out. Some of these items may be helpful for protecting them against the Uvi, while others only have things to offer for further bartering.

You might also notice that while this place is inundated with lizard creatures clammoring all over you, there's also a lot of loud human chatter all around you -- or is there? With an influx of newbies, the telepathy network is again a bit chaotic, and if you aren't used to hearing voices in your head, you better start getting acclimated.

E ▢ It's very easy for characters to accidentally broadcast their feelings if they aren't used to telepathy. Some characters may be a bit more intuitive and try to feel out the telepathic network on their own. Will your character accidentally send an image or their voice? Or will your character try to get the hang of this new power on their own?

As you may known by now, the Palai are preparing for an attack coming up in the next couple of days. The Palai and their busy body ways aren't the only indication of this upcoming ordeal. There are fish continually falling from the sky, their heads ripped off, and some have large scratches carved into their flesh.

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[ jude is ducking his head and shielding himself with his hands, squeezing his eyes shut. he should have quicker reflexes than this, and in most cases he does, but he isn't exactly well versed in what to do when a giant fish is falling from the sky.

so, he's cowering. and then someone steps in, and when jude opens his eyes to confirm that, yes, he's safe, he recognizes her in an instant. the blindfold. ]

I-It's you again... !

[ should he tell her that fish is another potential breakfast food... ? well, it's more suited for lunch and dinner. no, never mind that. not important right now. ]

Sorry, I mean. I'm alright. Thanks, for that. I should have been able to handle it myself, but.

[ he gestures vaguely to the sky. things like this are not supposed to happen? ]

[Fish is one thing she knows for sure is edible as a meal!! For better or worse, but that's another story...]

Hello, Jude. [2B this is not how greetings usually go!! But she nods slightly.] It's fine. This is what I was made for.

[LITERALLY TBH aside from not being a Defender model. Getting to serve humanity in such a direct way honestly feels... fulfilling, in a way.]

You were made to swoop in and save humans from extraordinarily large, dead fish?

[ ... ]

Hello to you, too, 2B. I didn't think we'd bump into each other again quite like this.

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Something like that.

[She was made to swoop in and save humans from extraordinarily large, deadly machines, so. Close enough?]

I didn't think so either. Although I don't think anyone could've predicted the raining fish.

Well, despite the odd circumstances, I'm glad I ran into you. I was hoping I'd see you again. Earlier, I met your friend. Nines.

He explained the blindfold to me. Goggles.

[ jude offers her a rather cheerful smile. he's already made a friend in 9s, and there's no real reason why, but he's determined to make another in 2b. ]

Maybe we should go and find some shelter before another shark comes right at us. What do you say?

You met Ni—9S?

[It barely sounds like a break, but there's a pause if you listen for it. Even if she has nothing to hide from him, it... still feels difficult to call him by that name. It used to come easier in the past, but not anymore. She's not sure she even really deserves to be called his friend.]

... That certainly sounds like him. [It's in his nature to investigate of course, but she thinks it's also in his nature to explain. She can't say she's surprised he made a friend out of someone like Jude. Regardless, she nods.] There's one not too far from here. Let's get going.

I did! Turns out we have a lot in common — it seemed like we were talking for hours. He's a good guy.

[ jude can sense the slightest change in mood, but he doesn't stop smiling, hoping to distract her and keep things light. whatever it is, he isn't going to dig into it. all jude can guess is that something must have happened between them, based on 9s' similar reaction upon hearing 2b's name.

he can tell they're important to one another, though, above all else. call it a gut feeling. jude can relate, after all, to having an irreplaceable support system. ]

I'll just go ahead and follow you.

[ 2b was right — there's an awning big enough for the both of them just a short walk away. his shoulders sag and he sighs with relief as soon as they're safe and sound underneath. ]

I told him a little bit about our meeting. He seemed... surprised. A good kind of surprised.

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... He's very good at what he does.

[There isn't really a reason to keep up distant appearances anymore, yet it's what she defaults to regardless. She recognizes that, but it's somehow difficult to be honest. Maybe it's because she never could.

She's not sure what to make of Jude telling him about them meeting, but 9S's reaction definitely catches her attention. Even if she's not the Scanner model, she can't help but be curious.]

How so?

Well, when I told 9S we were kind of playing twenty questions back there — it's a game, by the way — he was smiling. He also seemed a little thrown off by the whole breakfast thing. And here I was thinking I'd have to explain it a second time.

[ he's teasing; he wouldn't have minded. ]

There are still so many things I don't understand about you both. YoRHa, the Old World... but we both like to bury ourselves in research, books and history and such. He seemed concerned about my sleep schedule, when I mentioned I have a hard time prying myself away from it all.

[ a pause. his smile falters, just the barest hint of a frown pulling at his lips. ]

There was one other thing I was curious about, though. I guess I was hoping I could get your input. You know him better than I do, after all.

I was only curious about what I saw...

[That counts as "playing" "twenty questions"? Then again, maybe it's the fact that she was even curious enough to ask that made 9S smile. As he continues to describe their conversation though, her lips just barely curve into a smile. They could make good friends, she thinks. She's glad for that.

At his question, she tilts her head slightly. There's a bit of confusion as to why Jude couldn't ask him himself, but she'll hear him out first.]

Alright. What did you want to know?

9S seemed skeptical of the fact that a human like me was interested in him at all. Interested in his company, in his friendship. It was an entirely foreign concept to him, and he wasn't all too open-minded about understanding otherwise. When I told him we're equals, I knew he didn't believe me. I just couldn't get a straight answer as to why. Why humans and androids are on such a different level in his eyes.

... Is it really that strange? I wish I could help, somehow, but it's like no matter what I say, he sees me as an unreachable step above him.

That's because you are.

[SAID AS FRANKLY AS POSSIBLE, but don't worry she actually has something of an explanation for once.]

We androids were made by humans to serve them. In order to restore glory to mankind.

[Despite the words, there's no resentment in her voice. Having seen more than her share of horrors during the long course of the endless war against machines, she can't say she's the most devoted to the cause. But still, even if she doesn't realize it, she was built to love humanity. They were everything androids strove to be, even if they all knew they never could. It was impossible from the start.

She never even thought she'd meet a human in her life, yet the impossible happened. There's a part of her that's awed and overjoyed beyond words, at the chance to meet someone human. Yet it also served to highlight how different she was from true humanity. In a way, it's almost uncomfortable. She can't blame 9S for how he seemed to treat Jude since she feels very similarly.]

While you had no personal hand in our creation, it doesn't change that you're human. It's only natural that you'll always be above us. [If Jude expected a more reasonable reaction, WELP.]

Edited 2017-08-10 07:14 (UTC)

[ jude absorbs every word she says, struggling to wrap his head around it. she's so matter-of-fact. is that really it? is that really their sole and singular purpose? ]

... That doesn't seem right. Not to me.

[ a frown tugs at jude's lips as he crosses his arms. it bothers him quite a bit. the fact that it does is written plain on his face. jude was never the type to attempt to hide how he feels. ]

Regardles of what you may have been designed to do, don't you have dreams of your own, 2B? Hopes? Fears?

[ jude knows she does; he knows 9s does. she has to. they have to. maybe he's naive, but they look like humans, talk like humans, think like humans; there's no reason they can't share dreams with humans, too, right? ]

... I do.

[She wonders if she should phrase that as she did. To be free from the endless spiral of life and death as an Executioner model in the endless and futile war against machines is all she ever really wanted and, well. She got that. 9S is here and alive and safe. Without doing much of anything, she has the one thing she's always wanted.

And that unsettles her in a way. It's not like she could've ever done anything to earn this either, but maybe if she had, this happiness she's suddenly found wouldn't feel like it could slip away at any moment.]

I don't see what that has to do with our status below you though. [It's clear that this bothers him for some reason, but she doesn't have any idea why.]

It has to do with it because we can relate to each other. We all have something in common; something important, something crucial. And you still can't see the fact that, deep down, we're not so different after all?

But we are still different.

[Did those differences even amount to much? Maybe yes, maybe no, depending on who you asked. But they still existed. Just like the differences between androids and machines.]

We were made to be different, after all.

Sure, but...

[ he sighs, defeated. is this logic versus logic, emotions versus logic, or emotions versus emotions? he guesses 2b would go with the middle choice. jude doesn't know. he thinks he's being logical, but he also knows that his emotions are a powerful thing, a force to be reckoned with. ]

What I'm trying to say is that regardless of their existence, I don't think those differences matter so much. Why solely focus on those technical differences when you can focus on all the things humans and androids have in common?

[She can see the logic of his argument, but it's still... difficult, to really see it that way. After all, she was literally built to serve humanity, and any likeness she shares with them was built into her on purpose. The fact that they'd have anything in common seems almost superficial because of that.

(It doesn't help that she doesn't even realize how far it goes, the need to love and serve humanity. Being programmed to love humans unconditionally doesn't leave her much room to argue against it.)]

I don't have a problem with examining what we have in common and focusing on those things rather than our differences, but it doesn't change humanity's place in regards to us.

I... I suppose I don't have much more room to argue. It's been made clear that we come from entirely different worlds. It's too hard a concept for me to grasp, but I realize that the same goes for you and 9S. As much as I hate to admit it, but we might just never understand each other on this level.

That doesn't mean I agree with it or accept it, but... I accept you. Both of you. That's what matters most.

And... I really hope we can be friends.

[ jude tries a smile. it's weak, but it's there. ]

Thanks, 2B. For listening to what I had to say. You had no obligation to; I'm grateful you took the time to hear me out.

Of course.

[It's only natural that she'd hear him out when he's human. But... It's clear that he doesn't like that reasoning, so she refrains from mentioning it. He seems so conflicted on a matter that seems so simple to her. She feels bad that she can't think of anything to say that would make him happier without it being a lie.]

Thank you for... [His interest in them? That sounds so cold and detached, even if she really is surprised by his curiosity regarding them.] For wanting to be friends with us. [And that alone is a novel concept she can barely even begin to fathom.] I can't promise we'll ever see eye to eye on this either, but I'll try to keep an open mind.

[That much she can promise. Pascal and his village were all very different from what YoRHa had come to expect out of machines, and she kept an open mind about it. This could be very similar.]

Keeping an open mind is more than enough for me.

[ his smile is radiant and just a little shy when he reaches out a hand for 2b to grasp. to shake on it and seal it with a promise. ]

To being friends?

... To being friends. [Although she's still absolutely baffled by the idea of actually being friends with him.

Right now though, she's a little more baffled by him sticking out his hand. She has no idea what a handshake is, and with no way of knowing how to respond, she defaults to a salute. At least she doesn't actually attach "Glory to Mankind" to it.]

[ jude just laughs, realizing that he probably should have known better. ]

... 9S did the same thing. It's called a handshake. All you have to do is grab my hand and squeeze it. It's like a greeting or a goodbye, or, in this case, a nice to meet you.

I grab your hand and squeeze it. \

[This sounds so utterly bizarre to her, but if he's saying that's how humans greet each other, who is she to deny that?? Although she'll have to make sure she doesn't accidentally crush his hand or anything. Treating things gently is hard when you're a robot built to destroy things!!

But after looking almost puzzled at her own hand, she reaches out to gingerly grab Jude's hand and squeeze lightly, just like he instructed. She almost feels like she's doing something out of line, having the audacity to touch a human and greet one like they would when she's only an android, but here she is all the same.

He's warm, as she supposes all humans would be. It still seems like a wonder to her.]

Right. Just like that.

[ he nods his head once, eyes softening with approval. he squeezes her hand in return, always gentle. ]

Well, now it's official. You're stuck with me.

Edited 2017-08-19 05:50 (UTC)

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she's so cute...

what is making friends...

let him teach you