INTRO LOG
Who: ideograms, disinters, and all new arrivals.
What: The new arrivals get their first experience of their new environment.
Where: Drawing room, the old Dixon house.
When: October 1st 1928, not long after midnight.
Rating and Warnings: PG?
Notes: If you haven’t read the OOC game start info, you can find it here.
( Human bodies are heavy. Never so heavy as when they’re dead weight. )
What: The new arrivals get their first experience of their new environment.
Where: Drawing room, the old Dixon house.
When: October 1st 1928, not long after midnight.
Rating and Warnings: PG?
Notes: If you haven’t read the OOC game start info, you can find it here.
( Human bodies are heavy. Never so heavy as when they’re dead weight. )
No, this one was different, and the fact that he felt lighter, and it's not just because his head is a little hazy (though that's a little panic-inducing, too; a sedative, perhaps?) that he's a little unnerved. While he doesn't normally brag about his skills, it really does take a while to tank a soldier down, especially one who's been highly familiar with the anomaly and its monsters as he have. Bottom line: he shouldn't have been easily kidnapped and disarmed.
Best to be composed, he thought. No sense panicking. A hostage situation with the ( ... )
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These people... They had such fascinating looks to them; Taylor had never seen anything like the kind of clothing this particular man was wearing. That distracted him for at least a couple of seconds, extending the silence before something seemed to remind him that he was actually required to answer the charges ( ... )
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"Not...the date I've just given you? Are you really saying that you were expecting a different time? And you don't look in the least bit surprised by this."
And then an odd little smirk tugged at his lips and a look almost like excitement began to emerge. A glance was thrown at his colleague before back to focus on the man in black once more.
"Which implies that you are familiar with situations like this. Are you...a time-traveller?"
Focus, Taylor, there were other questions to attend to.
"This isn't London, no. Not even England. You're in Arkham, Massachusetts, and we weren't trying to contact you. At least not intentionally if contact was made."
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"The basement. So it's closed?" He's not entirely sure if there are primitive ways of closing an anomaly. Most people don't know what it is -- he remembers the knight and his mistaken 'dragon', for one -- perhaps this is a .... different kind of anomaly? In which case, he's definitely not the right person to help out. But he can definitely observe and learn -- perhaps take notes for later on -- and then send them in to Lester or something when he returns. He won't be entirely useless, then, and he can certainly suffer a minor paycut. "I can offer help," he finally replies, a little after a pause, "but like I said, I'm a soldier, not a scientist. My job is to contain and protect, not necessarily to theorize about these things ( ... )
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Wait.
Hold on.
a) He fights dinosaurs. This makes Becker the man in possession of The Coolest Job Ever.
b) Dinosaurs are extinct. This is besides the point, because the Anomaly has its own .... magical methods of bringing them back to life and wreck havoc on the streets of London, but the fact is that dinosaurs are already extinct and have been so for the past thousand of years ( ... )
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"Then at this stage perhaps it's safe to say it may not your kind of portal," he commented lightly "Which would make sense since the impression we're under is that it's the result of something occult-based. The feeling from you so far seems to be that occultism isn't exactly your area. But we can certainly arrange for an opportunity to go there and take a look. Even if you're not a scientist you may be able to give some insight, just like neither of us practice the occult but we managed to do something.
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Becker tried to remember what he knew about cultists and rituals. There was that one part in his first day where he had to contend with a prehistoric alligator from the Nile, and he was forced to bow down to it (a sign of non-aggression, Cutter had insisted, but he'll take it as an insult anyway), so he supposed that was one of those things. There were, of course, the occasional lunatics heard in the news, but who the hell pays attention to them anyway? It's not like the whole furor about the world ending hasn't been prophesied often enough anyway; in his lifetime alone he's survived more than three predicted, not even counting the others that people have made ( ... )
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Focus, Taylor, focus.
"Ah... Cultists. Rituals. Yes. Yes, even in this day and age there are beliefs in the occult, and plenty who practice as well as believe. But as for what these cultists in particular were trying to summon tonight?" He shook he head "That is something I can't tell you. Neither of us can yet. Unfortunately, we just haven't had enough time or resources to determine many details at all yet. Unhelpful, I realise, but it seems being up-front about these matters is what's needed here."
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He frowns. Well, alright, there's always been that proverb about old habits dying hard. 'Modern' may apply to the technologies coming at around this era but it certainly doesn't apply to the religions and traditions that they still kept. Unfortunately it includes the ones which really should be let go of; but then again, how does one decide when to let go so easily of rituals and faiths? Especially with such a potential threat and ... power, yes, he hesitated to say it, but power. Especially with such power that their beliefs could bring.
"An investigation would be good, yes? Have you asked the cops about this?"
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He clicked his teeth thoughtfully at the question posed before lightly scratching the side of his jaw with the back of a knuckle.
"No. And I don't feel we intend to. Make no mistake, this is not an ordinary occurrence that took place tonight. We are not a town that is welcoming of cultists, or even one that is aware of cultists; we have not had any previous encounters with cultists, for that matter," he gestures briefly to Elias as he mentioned the 'we' "Not these kinds of cultists at any rate, not here.
"Arkham is a pretty quiet town. It certainly has it's petty crime, the odd burglary, issue with street gangs and the likes, but overall this is a respectable town of respectable people," this was said with a rather dry tone and an slightly lofted eyebrow to display the professor's cynicism over such things "The police have enough work going for them that they're ( ... )
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