First Missive: Man of Tanith
Nov. 12th, 2012 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewoodsmansoldier [Corbec sat crouched near the edge of the forest, looking in at the village and frowning. He twirled the wooden aquila he had made in his fingers, thinking to himself. He'd found the village a few days ago, and what he saw of it at first seemed quite out of the ordinary. There were a handful things wandering around the village that clearly weren't human, or natural, but things seemed peaceful. He had decided he would watch from afar for a few days to get a better picture of what was going on here, and so far what he'd seen seemed like life in any peaceful village. The building he was currently looking at had people coming and going from it at regular intervals, and from what he could tell it was a bar of some sort. Again, it seemed like a relatively peaceful place. He looked at the aquila in his hand and pocketed it, standing up. Things here didn't seem harmful, and it was time for a closer look. Quietly, he made his way towards the bar. As he got closer, he managed to get a better look at the sign. The Good Spirits Bar, it read. So it was as he suspected. His guess confirmed, he now only knew one thing. And that was that he could use a drink. He took hold of the handle of the door, and entered, hoping he wasn't making a fool decision.]
Corbec will be in the bar for most of the evening. Do feel free to stop him before he enters if you wish, however.
Corbec will be in the bar for most of the evening. Do feel free to stop him before he enters if you wish, however.
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Date: 2012-11-17 05:28 pm (UTC)Re: [Action]
Date: 2012-11-17 06:01 pm (UTC)Where I'm from people usually refer to eachother by their last names. 'course from what I've seen that's one of the many differences here.
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Date: 2012-11-19 02:07 pm (UTC)After a moment to remember what I'd been talking about, I continued.
"Malnosso. They're a bunch of scientist types. Keep us here under glass. Protect us from the worst this world has to offer, but they also use us as soldiers and guinea pigs. It's kind of a raw deal."
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Date: 2012-11-19 07:45 pm (UTC)...aye, there was something like that back where I'm from. Only, well, take away the protection part and add execution after the experimentation and questioning is done. Well, barring conscription, if you're a psyker. ...this sounds a bit better, honestly. In many aspects.
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Date: 2012-11-23 04:39 pm (UTC)It wasn't often that I encountered a world that sucked more than mine, but hey, expect the unexpected in Luceti, right?
"What, uh, what's a psyker, exactly?"
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Date: 2012-11-23 05:18 pm (UTC)Right, forgot. Different world, different terms. Think someone who can move things by thinking about it. Shoot fire from their hands...small chance of having demons leap out of their head and a large chance of going damned insane, that's why most are cautious around 'em.
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Date: 2012-11-23 05:23 pm (UTC)Awkward.
"Right. Well, awkward confession time, I'm... kind of a wizard myself. Though the insanity and the brain demons aren't really as much of a thing."
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Date: 2012-11-23 05:44 pm (UTC)...a what, lad?
[His tone is suddenly cautious and guarded, as if he's just been cornered]
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Date: 2012-11-25 07:08 am (UTC)I didn't expect this. He looked like he was sizing me up as if he might have to kill me to escape. Maybe kill the whole room.
I leaned back, my hands going up into a posture of surrender.
"Woah! Woah, woah, easy, buddy, easy. I'm not going to hurt you."
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Date: 2012-11-25 07:15 am (UTC)...if you'd said you were a wizard before Buffy had me read the guide I wouldn't have stopped to ask what you said. Different world, so I'm going against my instincts here by not trying to take you out on the possibility that I -may- be wrong...and you don't seem the Chaos sort either.
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Date: 2012-11-25 07:37 am (UTC)Fortunately, my judgment prevailed. For once. Instead, I focused on that thought.
"What precisely is this 'Chaos' you refer to?"
I had heard the way he pronounced it. Definitely a big-C. Definitely something that terrified him.
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Date: 2012-11-25 08:17 am (UTC)...so you don't know about it. I can take that as a sign it's not here. Fething good thing, that. ...Chaos is many things. I don't know all of them. Don't want to know. ...drives men mad though, makes them start worshiping the Warp and the mad gods that reside there. The Warp is also where the daemons come from, and psyker powers...that's why it's not wise to trust psykers. Not a small thing either. Entire planets, entire -galactic sectors- get thrown into madness, death or worse by Chaos. Then it can take centuries to clean up the mess left over, assuming you can...powerful thing, too. Can drive anybody mad...fought in a battle where an entire city had converted to Chaos worship. Children too...
[Corbec takes a drink from his bottle, perhaps a bit longer than is wise]
...fething heretic fleet destroyed my homeworld. Crazy bastards.
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Date: 2012-11-28 11:13 am (UTC)I couldn't really fault them, either. I'd only ever encountered one thing that lived out there. His name was He Who Walks Behind, and to this day, there's a stain on my soul with his name on it.
"... Yeah, trust me, I have nothing to do with that shit."
Not willingly anyway. I tried to suppress a shiver.
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Date: 2012-11-28 01:32 pm (UTC)Alright. Good. ...I know this is a different place altogether than where I'm from, but old worries die hard.
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Date: 2012-12-01 09:50 am (UTC)Re: [Action]
Date: 2012-12-03 10:24 pm (UTC)[Corbec offers Harry a hand]
Sorry for going off on you...
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Date: 2012-12-04 08:08 am (UTC)I shook the hand offered.
"Hey, you need anything around the village, go ahead and let me know, alright? I mean, just about everybody's helpful around here, but still."
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Date: 2012-12-07 03:46 am (UTC)Right, will do. Right now I'm going to need to find a place to stay while I'm here.
[Action] AND THEN I REPLIED SUPER-LATE
Date: 2012-12-14 03:16 am (UTC)I chuckled.
"Gotta have bedding for the lab rats, right?"
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Date: 2012-12-14 10:42 pm (UTC)Well, they still need us alive to study, aye? I'll check the Welcome Center. Thanks for the tip, Dresden.