WEEK 2

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WEEK 2

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The first week is over, and two of your number are gone. Everything related to the case has been cleaned up, with nary a knife left at the Main Square nor a trace of the mud shapes that once painted the clock tower walls, although some stray graffiti still dots some storefronts.

However you may feel about the entire debacle on Friday, there’s no doubt that something has changed about the atmosphere, although whether it’s something tangible or just a trick of the mind is hard to say. Maybe it’s nothing. Either way, there are more palpable changes to the city, with some of the fog retreating away from a few of the surrounding areas, uncovering new buildings and streets along the way. The night, however, remains unchanged as always save for the slow waxing of the moon, leaving it bright and full as early as Thursday night. Regardless of if you take it as an omen or not, at least that means the streets will be lit up fairly well for the week, provided some inconvenient cloud cover doesn’t slide right in.

[[Welcome to Week 2! Note that new areas have been added, and can be found under the Week 2 tab on our Locations page. Once again, 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 privately contact The Lady or Rembrandt.]]

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[psychophant]

[i don't know what you expected, cumore. he's a nerd.]

I am, yes. Look at all of this, there's so much to study here!

[is any of it actually important to his conquest of nohr? nnnnno, but like hell if he's going home without a thorough understanding of dinosaurs!!!]

[drydrown]

...It's a bunch of dead things.

[just saying...???]

[psychophant]

Yes...?

[...and you don't find this fascinating??]

You can learn so much from dead things, and they're all on display here. It's so morbid, it's wonderful.

[iago no]

[drydrown]

...I don't see the point in displaying a bunch of dead monsters, I suppose.

[Like, yeah, okay, they're old or something? But that's still kind of...]

I doubt anyone is going to make some odd shrine to the Lord of the Plains when that thing finally dies, so I don't see why these people felt the need to memorialize whatever these things are.

[psychophant]

Most of our monsters are entirely made of magic, so seeing the physical remains of something like this is incredibly interesting. I've never seen a wyvern's bones before, but I'd find that just as fascinating even though they're fairly common in Nohr.

[it's because he's a nerd.]

[drydrown]

...What do you mean, "they're entirely made of magic"?

[He's not even sure he really wants to know, he just. Why.]

Do people have to make them, or...

[psychophant]

Technically, yes. They're essentially shaped with dark magic and occasionally other materials.

[sometimes he just makes monsters, nbd.]

[drydrown]

[...but why.]

The world I'm from is overrun with them, they're pests. Very large, very dangerous pests. Great fun to hunt, mind you, but largely an annoyance.

[psychophant]

I imagine they'd pose a problem to... well, everything. People and crops and other wildlife...?

[How exactly are y'all still alive????]

Or am I mistaken in believing that they're vicious, rampaging beasts?

[drydrown]

Oh, you're not mistaken at all. We have barriers that keep them out of the cities, however, using those blastia I told you about. Not many of us leave the cities without either military escort or enough skill to keep ourselves in one piece.

[psychophant]

Ah, I see. That certainly would pose quite a bit of a problem... It sounds as though they're quite powerful too.

[drydrown]

They are.

[Mm.]

I would say that this world probably doesn't have such a thing, but...

[Vague gesturing at the...whatever we're looking at... Like yes, these things may have died out, but he's sure there are plenty of others that haven't? It's sort of counterintuitive to think otherwise.]

I wonder what's keeping them out of the cities, though.

[psychophant]

If your blastia are capable of it, then I imagine there's technology that could be comparable here. The Lady certainly doesn't have much interest in magic, though Rembrandt does. It's certainly likely that they're keeping the city secure; they want us to kill one another, not monsters.

[drydrown]

Perhaps, though I'd imagine we would know if there was something spanning the city like that. Blastia devoted to such a task aren't particularly subtle, and according to Dist the lack of electricity here isn't subtle either.

[we'd probably know about it if tech that large were around??]

[psychophant]

That's a fair point. It's possible that there's another explanation for it, but I sincerely doubt either of them will be willing to share.

[drydrown]

It does seem unlikely...

[Mm.]

...Everything looks so odd to me. We have a few similar animals to these sorts of things, but not many.

[Like, so many of the normal weird taxidermy things look so plain?]

[psychophant]

Really? I imagine the monsters look quite a bit different, but there are differences with these as well?

[drydrown]

Well, we simply don't...have many of these, and if we do some of them have interbred with the monsters. Some units use war dogs in combat, for example, and they've very obviously bred with wolves. But our wolves also look nothing like anything here.

[God help us if there is anything depicting horses in this museum, he'll be so confused.]

[psychophant]

Ah, I see. That makes sense; I hadn't considered that the monsters would be close enough to the animals for interbreeding to happen. I imagine that would change quite a few of these...

[drydrown]

[We have some very anime dogs.]

It does, yes. So while I admit there are several things here that are strange to me, it...might just be that there was less interbreeding here, or those specific crossbreeds can't exist for some reason or another. Or their monsters are just different - it's not as though we have wyverns.

[psychophant]

It seems this world doesn't either; I can't imagine why one wouldn't be on display otherwise.

[It's still disappointing, though.]

[drydrown]

...It really is morbid that they do this sort of thing here. Just...keeping them around on display like that.

[Ew.]

[psychophant]

Oh, it's dreadfully morbid. Anyone can come see these at any time! What a wonderful idea, I'll have to see if I can set something similar up when I get home.

[oh my god]

[drydrown]

[WHY.]

...Have fun, I suppose.

[psychophant]

I'm sure I will.

[oh my god.]

Anyway, are you just here to see what this place has to offer?

[cumore isn't a nerd.......]