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Sep 07, 2010 01:22

[drone-away filter]

Man, it's been really busy around here. First there's that weird date, then Kororo, um, and now I have someone else living with me, and then I got something back from the town. It's my Ikupasuy, and it's really important. Pirika carved it for me before I got pulled into this Mayfield shit. She was crying like a baby the whole ( Read more... )

westport, ikupasuys are totally clue i mean cool, kororo, droning woes, kororo's tears, regain, hugely belated exposition go

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laughedatbygod September 7 2010, 20:34:56 UTC
"An... Ikupasuy, you say?"

[He pronounces the word very slowly and deliberately to avoid getting it wrong.]

"What manner of thing would that be?"

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stay_cool_bro September 7 2010, 20:44:48 UTC
It's a sacred wood carving. You use it to pray to god.

[Horohoro has it on him, so he shows it off. It looks kinda like these.]

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laughedatbygod September 7 2010, 20:47:21 UTC
[Salieri smirks a little at that. After all, look at where all his prayers to God led him - to a life of mediocrity, playing the fool to Mozart's genius. But he is somewhat interested, and looks it over curiously.]

"Hmm. And to what gods do you pray? This is certainly unlike any object of religious devotion I have ever seen."

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stay_cool_bro September 7 2010, 20:54:31 UTC
It's the tradition of the Ainu people in Japan. We offer our prayers to the Kamui. There's a god for pretty much everything in nature.

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laughedatbygod September 7 2010, 20:58:17 UTC
[Nods.]

"Ah, a pagan faith, as I'd thought."

[He's not really trying to sound insulting, though it may come off that way all the same. Product of the times - he's from the late 18th century in Europe, after all.]

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stay_cool_bro September 7 2010, 21:11:21 UTC
Uh, sure, whatever.

[luckily, despite Horohoro having a short fuse, the shaman fights he was in were basically a huge clash of religions, so he's used to it. Besides, all religions end up boiling down to the great spirits anyway.

However, he remembers to change the subject.]

... By the way, a friend of mine gave me some letters she found. They reminded me about something I forgot to tell you.

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laughedatbygod September 7 2010, 21:12:31 UTC
Oh? What might that be?

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stay_cool_bro September 7 2010, 21:23:02 UTC
There's other weird towns besides Mayfield. We can't usually get there because the streets loop around, but once, a road opened up to this place called Westport.

[he gets out the clues as he talks]

It was a ghost town that looked like a battlefield. I think everyone who had been there was killed. A bunch of people got trapped there for a weekwith no food and water, and we were attacked by these.

[he shows the page with the Hazmat]

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laughedatbygod September 7 2010, 21:26:36 UTC
"This... Westport was a warzone, you say? I assume there has been speculation that the same thing may happen to the people living here as well."

[It's not a question so much as a statement. A conclusion he's already quickly reached, just from the tone of the note and the things he's heard about the way this town runs things.]

"...This is very troubling."

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stay_cool_bro September 7 2010, 21:34:23 UTC
Not much of Westport has come up recently, so I don't know about that. There haven't been any freaky suits around.

But it wasn't too long ago that a different town came up. Or maybe the same...but we woke up one week, and it was like we were in Russia. The town was communist, called Maipole, and there was this factory people had to work in. Then one of the Russian people on TV was shot, and all of a sudden we were in Mayfield again.

As if we got double-kidnapped, and they stole us back.

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laughedatbygod September 7 2010, 21:38:02 UTC
...Communist? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the term. The Russia I know is under the rulership of the House of Romanov. Even so, that sounds terrible. The people in charge of this town must truly be monsters.

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stay_cool_bro September 7 2010, 21:44:24 UTC
Romanov, huh. Okay, well. I don't really understand the government either but from what we experienced it involved working really hard and only eating beets.

...Monsters.... [OH GOD THE MONSTERS EVENT.

You know what, that wasn't even the town, just Grady being a dick. So though he makes this fais and goes a little white, he decides to spare Salieri from that one.]

Ahahaha. Yeah, damn right, they are. Bunch of bastards.

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laughedatbygod September 7 2010, 21:46:04 UTC
"Well, it seems I'm in for quite a lot living here."

[Allows himself a defeated sigh.]

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stay_cool_bro September 7 2010, 21:53:20 UTC
...Now I feel bad. Um, look, you'll probably be okay if you just keep your head down and don't act up. Unless you get droned. Ehh, they're not gonna beat you up for playing piano, so you should be fine.

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laughedatbygod September 7 2010, 21:55:12 UTC
No, I certainly appreciate being told all of these things ahead of time. It's just all a bit hopeless sounding. I imagine this is how everyone must feel after coming to this place.

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stay_cool_bro September 7 2010, 22:04:36 UTC
You'd be surprised! Some people like it here anyway and don't want to leave. There's gotta be something they see in it.

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