WEEK 1

[umbralant]

WEEK 1

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Your hosts have come and gone, and have left you with nothing but more questions and a key. Regardless of how you reacted or what you decided to do soon after that, it’s a fact that the day must end eventually.

And so it does, with the striking of the clock. As the twelve gongs reverberate and disappear into the night, the rest of the city is left silent save for a chilly wind that skims the streets. Those who have retired to their assigned rooms will find that the furnishings are decent enough to get a good night’s sleep, while those who wander the city will only continue to see empty streets and fog. But regardless of how you spend the night, eventually it will become readily apparent that dawn will not be coming any time soon as the waxing moon continues to hang in the sky even as the clock strikes six or seven or eight.

No one’s stopping you from wallowing in bed or holing up in a building during this perpetual night, but there’s a whole city out there to check out and some interesting additions to the Opera House decor; don’t forget though, a cage is a cage and every good cage needs its bars. While a portion of the streets and buildings are clear, any intrepid explorers won’t find themselves able to get very far through the fog that surrounds them; anyone who tries to venture through will end up getting turned around and end up right back where they started. Still, there’s plenty of other places to check, even if the fog-shrouded buildings are more or less off limits. Fortune favors the bold, after all.

[[Welcome to Week 1! Feel free to make top levels at your discretion, and remember to note it in your header if you plan on investigating any locations. You can also now privately contact The Lady or Rembrandt at your leisure!]]

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[pr159]

[ JUST... STOPS AND GLARES AT THAT TOMATO STEW........

...He'll take a cookie, though. And then stand back against a wall somewhere. ]

I'll second the obvious fact that we shouldn't take anything they tell us at face value. Images like what they showed us could be easily faked with the technology available in some worlds, mine included.

...And, since I imagine some of you are probably wondering, I'll go ahead and confirm that yes, my profile is accurate.

[apothecares]

I'm hopin' it doesn't come to needin' it, but we should compare notes for medicine. Two healers working together is better than one, right?

lmfao jinx

[pr159]

I wouldn't be opposed to that.

LOL hi5

[apothecares]

I haven't looked at the library yet for any books on the plants here, but I imagine the basics of making medicines with them hasn't changed too much.

[pr159]

I'd be curious to learn about those myself. The opportunities to work with plants in Elympios were rather limited.

[apothecares]

If we can get a book and some samples, I wouldn't mind showing ya. The more people with the knowledge the better.

[inordertobelieve]

I was going to bring up the same point. Image manipulation is very advanced in many places. The Lady making such a point out of being previously unfamiliar with a simple camera could have been to dissuade us from considering it.

It's not a foolproof reassurance by any means, but it is worth consideration.

[baitless]

[...even if it doesn't prevent Seteth from looking sad and tired, he does... mull that over...]

Are there ways to conceal those... cameras? It would definitely attract attention if she were to try and use it in my world, I think.

[pr159]

[ shrug ]

The same way you'd conceal any solid object of that size and shape. Put it on a shelf behind some books or stick it in a planter or something.

[ It doesn't dissolve into magical particles on command or anything...?? ]

It is possible to set it up on a timer, so the person taking the picture doesn't have to be standing there with the camera at the time the picture is taken. There's usually a flashing light to accompany that, which would make it a lot more obvious, but it's not like it's impossible to remove it.

[baitless]

...oh. I see.

[...]

We are in the midst of a war back home, so I would hope that everyone is being vigilant, but I do not know if anyone would be looking for something like this.

[p_q]

You are making the assumption that the type of camera she provided is accurate. There are many, many cameras and recording devices that are impossible to perceive with the naked eye or without prior knowledge.

[Not that he has firsthand knowledge or anything. Nothing like that, obviously.]

[pr159]

[ Look, his world's commercially available cameras are still relatively clunky for the most part, and I love that I was actually able to find a picture of that without having to take a screenshot myself. ]

We haven't made those types available to consumers where I'm from, but if they did manage to get access to them, or if they were readily available in some other world, then yes, that's possible.

[ which will definitely make seteth feel even better ]

[reanbeans]

[ It sits there. Watching. Waiting.

Jokes aside, he'll nod at his words with a small smile—he appreciates Rideaux saying that, honestly. ]

I'll confirm mine is too. But, I'm not surprised they're able to gather information on us like that.