Event Log: Jumpscares

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Who: All characters participating in the event!
What: The event log for the Jumpscares event
Where: All over the city!
When: May 16th-May 20th
Warnings: Some startling jumpscares, interdimensional demon cats, the usual

A dark shadow looms over Hadriel on the morning of May 16th. There's a tension in the air, something palpable, as if everything has gone still and is ready to snap. You've been waiting for the other shoe to drop for hours now, and you're getting to the point where you're starting to wish that it would just happen already so that you can stop feeling this way.

Of course, when it does happen, it's not quite like you expect.

Maybe it's a tiger leaping out of your closet, claws extended. Maybe it's a faceless slenderman, stepping out from around the corner or a monster with beak and claws ripping open your shower curtain when you're most vulnerable- but within seconds, after you've been startled half to death by the monsters, they're gone. They vanish in a puff of smoke, or dissipate into glitter, or become something silly instead for a few brief moments before disappearing entirely.

Weird. But not unendurable, I guess. The bright side is that there will also be a few demon cats that have also made their way through the door. No two cats are ever in the same location, but there seems to be enough of them to go around, though the toothy one can be a bit vicious. Still, they aren't untameable, and might make nice pets, as long as you don't mind a bloody finger or two when it's time for lunch!

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Comments

[souveraine]

They fly? How?

[Anne held her tea cup in her hands but she was watching Maketh with fascination.]

I know of no one who has flown before. Our ships sail on the water with sails and are made of wood.

[mismanagement]

Engineering. It's an old technology by my time.

[Though unheard of in Anne's. Curious. Maketh smiles a little.]

I suspect some of concepts are similar. Your ships harness--wind energy, yes? Ours burn fuel in order to stay aloft and to permit steering.

[souveraine]

Yes, with large sails. My father told me stories of Spanish explorers who were the first to set off in their large ships to explore the New World on the other side of the planet. They brought back gold, spices, natives, and stories.

[Anne reached into her shirt to pull out her small cross to show to Maketh.] The gold is from the New World, it was passed down to me from my grandfather to my father.

[mismanagement]

[Maketh learns forward to examine it.] It's beautiful. Some of our planets have gold as well, though not all. Why do you call it the New World?

[souveraine]

It's unexplored, an entirely different world than Europe. It's a world completely new and foreign to anyone. My home country, Spain, lead the explorations to the New World.

[mismanagement]

[Maketh leans back in her chair.] So there are places on your planet that are still unmapped? I--I admit I have trouble imagining that.

[She pauses.]

This place would have been a great shock, then.

[souveraine]

Many places that we're still discovering. You know where everything is on your planet? [That was so strange, the world seemed so big to know it all.]

Yes, and learning of people who can fly, lanterns powered without flames. It's a lot at times, getting used to this all.

[mismanagement]

[Maketh nods.] Even if no one lives there, we can map it out with GPS. There are hidden places, of course, but we generally know where everything is.

[She smiles a little.]

I can't imagine. But you--seem to be taking it in stride.

[souveraine]

So no one in your galaxy goes on explorations to discover new lands anymore?

[She couldn't imagine anyone knowing everything about Earth, there was something to be said the mystery and thrill of the unknown.]

I try, sometimes it seems as if it's too much but everyone here has been so helpful.

[mismanagement]

Occasionally new parts of space are charted, new planets found, but -- not often. Not by the Empire, at least.

[Sometimes by people fleeing the Empire, but she doesn't say that.]

There are good people here.

[Maketh smiles just a little.]

I don't think I could do it, without the people.

[souveraine]

That seems sad, in a way. I've always liked the possibility that the world continued on beyond the horizon, new possibilities I could never dream of.

[But she had been a Spanish princess trapped in a balance and then a French queen trapped in her station in life by duty. Stories were all she had sometimes.]

Despite our circumstances, I am glad to be here just for the people I've met.

[mismanagement]

I could see how that would be a comfort.

[Dreaming of another place, yet undiscovered. Maketh sips her tea.]

As am I. I -- am better for knowing them. Regardless of how it happened.

[souveraine]

Have you traveled across to different planets? I'm sure you must have seen many fantastic and exotic wonders.

[Anne loved stories, and since she didn't have many of her own she would listen to everyone else's.]

[mismanagement]

A few. Some of them were quite beautiful.

[Maketh gives Anne a little smile.]

I went to Naboo once, on assignment. The capital is surrounded by waterfalls. I had never seen anything like it. So much water. The way the sun shines through the mist...

[souveraine]

That sounds incredible. I wish I could go there myself to see it. What is your home like?

[mismanagement]

[Maketh hesitates.]

It's a desert planet. Very little grows there. My parents made their living gathering drinking water from the mist. But if you go out at sunrise and you went up high enough, you could see for nearly thirty miles. It was beautiful, in its way.

[souveraine]

The entire planet is a desert? [She had never seen a desert, she couldn't imagine it.]

That must have been a difficult life living in such a place. I am glad you were able to explore different worlds.

[mismanagement]

Yes. It happens sometimes.

[Maketh nods slowly.]

I did. I was fortunate in that regard. It was to my great horror that I found myself assigned to Lothal again. But such is -- fate. Or what have you.

[souveraine]

Lothal.

[She repeated, sounding out the strange name.]

Fate is indeed a strange thing but I have faith that everything happens for a reason and only God knows. We are not meant to, but all we can do is live our lives the best we are able to.

[mismanagement]

I suppose that is a good way to think of it. [Maketh pauses, looking thoughtful.] Your religion is monotheistic, then?

guess who didn't pay attention in Sunday School...

[souveraine]

Yes, there is only one God. He sent his son, Jesus Christ, to sacrifice himself for our sins, so we may be saved. [She touched the cross around her neck with a smile.]

And I pray to the mother of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, so that she may grant my wish to have a son, an heir for France.

This is what google was invented for :)

[mismanagement]

[Maketh nods, curious.] I believe Henry follows the same God. The church holds a great deal of power in his world.

[She tips her head to the side.]

Why a son?

:D

[souveraine]

Jesus was a part of God, so thus he was a son. [Not to mention the inferior status of women but that was a subject for another time.]

Even kings bow to the head of the church, the Pope. He is God's representative on earth.

[mismanagement]

Oh, I understand.

[A prophet of sorts. Maketh nods.]

Does this Pope command an army? Or merely direct other leaders?

[souveraine]

He does have some forces at his command but nothing compared to the armies of kings and other rulers. But kings and princes go to him for guidance and blessings because God rules over us all.

The Pope is the only one who can grant dispensations for marriages that would normally be forbidden by scripture- my parents were required to get one as they were cousins.

[Royal inbreeding at it's best.]