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3.0 - week three
WEEK THREE
Last night might have been exhausting for any number of reasons - maybe it was the emotional
toll of dealing with those ghosts, or maybe you stayed up too late after watching Jim Shrok. Who knows, but Saturday is over, even if some of you haven’t quite left it behind and half spirits that are still hanging on, tethered to you and weighing you down…
But that’s not going to stop a new week from starting. There’s no breaks in an eight week course.
There’s very little fanfare to the start of your third week of the course, though it does seem like the fog has lifted even more. It’s a bit more of a trek down the abandoned streets of Estelline, but surely a mile is walkable? Or you could grab a bike or try to hotwire one of those cars in the mall parking lot… Whatever you plan to do this week is up to you. All you know is you've got some new locations to explore.
As always, Florence and Lorelei are available.
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
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( OOC Note: Luci, Mutsu, and Mae will each receive a small roomba! Congrats on the successful egg drop. It's a tiny little friend that cleans extra well, though this also means its trash compartment is a little smaller so it'll need to be cleaned more often. )
toll of dealing with those ghosts, or maybe you stayed up too late after watching Jim Shrok. Who knows, but Saturday is over, even if some of you haven’t quite left it behind and half spirits that are still hanging on, tethered to you and weighing you down…
But that’s not going to stop a new week from starting. There’s no breaks in an eight week course.
There’s very little fanfare to the start of your third week of the course, though it does seem like the fog has lifted even more. It’s a bit more of a trek down the abandoned streets of Estelline, but surely a mile is walkable? Or you could grab a bike or try to hotwire one of those cars in the mall parking lot… Whatever you plan to do this week is up to you. All you know is you've got some new locations to explore.
As always, Florence and Lorelei are available.
TASK LIST
( OOC Note: Luci, Mutsu, and Mae will each receive a small roomba! Congrats on the successful egg drop. It's a tiny little friend that cleans extra well, though this also means its trash compartment is a little smaller so it'll need to be cleaned more often. )
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Looks like whatever is going on is too new for this place.
(He snaps a couple more pictures and nods,)
Let's see what we else we can learn here.
(He kind of wishes he had Konnosuke here to help out but oh well. Paleontology and geography, let's go! First things first, how is this exhibit hall laid out? Are there any paleontology displays that might stand out at first glance? Is there anything they can immediately grasp from the geography panels? How's the first look of things when they enter?)
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The paleontology hall is incredibly spacious, mostly to fit in the sweet dinosaur skeletons, and the displays are mostly to show off those skeletons or like. Especially nifty crystals or pictures of scenic landscapes. It has a few displays that are cross-sections of the world, but the actual physical makeup of this world does seem to align with Earth. All the different kinds of rocks are represented, and there's nothing too wild here. Plants, animals... It's all pretty similar to Earth, so at least Mutsu is in his element.
There are a few displays of what seem to be bizarre geographical formations, with plaques talking about how humans have shaped the planet, and if they stop to read they will find out that is actually completely literal. The humans of this world can influence the environment around them through their emotions, which has shaped the geography of some places beyond what nature can do. It does seem to be a trait unique to humans, as animals are incapable of such a thing. Or at least that's what the museum says.
There are - and this is actually relevant hoo boy - mentions of a time each year where emotions are heightened, and as a result have a more significant impact on the world around them.]
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or, well, ""reading"" because even though he has been practicing learning the native language here with the aid of the tablet, he's not perfect. some descriptions escape him and the meaning can be a little weird. you know, where you understand every other word or something like that. nevertheless, those short comings don't stop sabo from immediately waving mutsu over to the plaque. ]
Mu, you better get a picture of this and check the translation for it. I think it's referencing emotions again.
[ give him a moment as he tilts his head to a side. (please be translating it faster than him trying to read this, mutsu.) ]
I think it's describing how emotions can change the environment..? [ squints. ] Or humans can. There's some mention about a time?
[ help. ]
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He's coming over to check the displays with Sabo! Likewise, he's been trying to learn the language but he's pretty basic. He holds up his tablet and has to wiggle it around a bit to get the translation to really line up,)
It says... Emotions can change the environment. Sometimes it even changes the land. Literally.
(I just assume some of these translations are a little awkward and need a wiggle here or there to really make sense so give him a sec,)
And... it says each year, there's a time where emotions are real strong and can have a bigger effect.
(Sabo is welcome to come over and look over Mutsu's shoulder to see for himself! But Mutsu is going to scan some more. Is there any sign that these things happen at the same time each year or is it random/not specified?)
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As far as the timing of this yearly event... There's no specific date, but it happens every year, during the summer.]
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but sabo will definitely be peering over mutsu's shoulder and reading along with the shoddy translations. it's a shame that there isn't a specific date for them to hold onto but the fact that there's the confirmation outside of the newspaper of this event is enough to get sabo gawking for a moment. ]
Every year during the summer?
[ you know, just to put words to it. ]
If it happens every year during the summer then... [ he'll take a moment to mull what over what they saw over on the other side and guess that would explain some things? why all of the ages were named after emotions and so on and so forth. ] I guess it wouldn't be necessarily documented as some big event if it was that routine.
[ it'd be like tracking seasonal hurricanes or something like that. not that big of news. ]
I wonder what else might be written around here.
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(Which is what Mutsu is going to try to scan for. Follow the tablet along as he tries to check out the other descriptions. Were there any incidents out of the ordinary that stood out? )
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This does come up as they follow through - a lot of the changes in the world’s geography occurred as the population began to grow. It’s lucky this past nine centuries have been so peaceful, because with the population larger than ever… who knows how the world would change if something truly unexpected happened? The museum sure doesn’t offer any speculations on that! They just put that question out into the world!]
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[ his eyes will wander around for a moment just to see if there might be any other doors or anything similar that could lead them into a back room. you never know okay!!! that aside, he'll have a thought. ]
The Orbs—they gave those feelings of being able "fix" things. I wonder if they're trying to force some sort of purposeful change.
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(Interesting that the last 9 centuries are so peaceful?)
I wonder how they kept so many people all nice and peaceful for so long, though. (That's such a long time! He kind of expects something to go wrong? But maybe he's just used to more violent times...) Like trying to force everyone to feel a certain way to get something in particular?
(Yeah, mod-chans, is there anything else around to poke at a glance? Extra exhibit doors, any extra funky models, etc.......)
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[ well, sabo's going to wander over towards the other side of the floor taking note of what he ends up passing by. ]
If it's known that emotions can have that big of an effect on an area and the land itself, I imagine that people would start to become cautious about how they feel for certain sized gatherings.
[ but mutsu does bring up a point? if anything, it makes him wonder how things would actually seem like if there were people here. would that all be fake happy just for the sake of peace? ]
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(But okay let's check the other side of the floor just to see what's over here???)
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Most of the exhibit is ancient items ranging from military uniforms to everyday cooking utensils, and there are a few old posters and newspaper articles. Some of them are simple and don't mention emotions much, but it's hard to escape it entirely. At the end of the hall is an exhibit that might be worth taking a closer look at, though. It's titled "A Vision of the Future" and seems out of place in this particular corner of the museum, but maybe whoever donated it was very particular - someone (or something?) known simply as "CAMELLIA".]
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[ i have no idea how timelines work but for the sake of things, i'm gonna say that sabo found his fruit trees and sus flyer before he wandered into here with mutsu so he's going to be frowning at the "CAMELLIA". that moment you know you found something that's both inane but also important all at once.
(to answer the matter of emotions, though? depends on which emotions we are talking about here.)
though before we get there, sabo will take a brief moment to glance at the newspapers to see if anything sticks out about them...you know anything Orb related and the like. but, yeah, when he gets to that corner of the museum, he sure is going to see what that's all about. ]
"A Vision of the Future", huh?
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(But in a situation like this, the whole point would be to keep emotions down.
He reads over the information they can get from the displays. Ah, that piece about if you should embrace or repress your emotions really sticks to him. It's not like he hasn't had to think about this in one way or another since he was summoned but he'll file that away for now. It might be something they'll have to talk about later.
He follows Sabo over to the last exhibit.)
Makes sense. When ya got people that're always being held back in the moment, there's always gonna be people who wanna imagine the future.
(But what's up with this exhibit!!)
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This peaceful time won't last forever.
But what if it could?
In the future, what if we could have life... under control?
This is what we hope for.
And we want you to join us.
It's... more propaganda than exhibit, don't you think?]
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okay, sabo is going to pull out the flyer from his coat pocket and unfold it for mutsu to see. the camellia and then the emphasis of having one's life "under control" really not sitting well with him. how deep does this propaganda take them? is this like 1984 level of nonsense? (sabo does not know what 1984 is but i, naru, do.) ]
I think it's safe to have suspicion about how things have managed to stay peaceful for so long, and to believe that they must have a way to control the way people think.
[ he's going to be advancing deeper into the exhibit. ]
...and if this is how they imagine the future to be, then I'm not sure if I stand by it.
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He looks down at the flyer and there's this initial moment of surprise! And he frowns,)
So something like this is going on...? (He was just wondering but it kind of sucks to maybe be right,) Can't say I agree either.
But the question now is... how d'ya really control how a bunch of people feel? That ain't natural...
(A GLANCE AT THE EXHIBIT TO SEE IF... there are many any signs in the video? Images? Orbs.....)
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It's quite strange. But technology is quite helpful in our day to day lives, isn't it?
(looks at these two canons....................)
That's all they can find in the museum at the moment, overall, but they might get the chance to learn more about Camellia soon... (spooky)]
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I'm sure we'll find out, Mu.
[ sabo will not destroy the propaganda but he will not approve of it. ]
We'll definitely need to tell the others about what we've found, or at least, let them know about what could be lurking.
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