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The Revival Project Mods ([personal profile] trpmods) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2020-04-03 09:29 am

Whale Comb Home Party! (Open to all players)

WHO: All He Rows!
WHERE: The Amphitheater (Blue 1)
WHAT: The Agrii have thrown our heroes a Whale Comb Home party; you can also choose to use this as a forum for discussing theories and more.
WHEN: April 2
WARNINGS: Please mark any warnings in individual threads







On April 2, as soon as the light starts rising in the morning, you hear music. It’s loud and odd. The notes don’t actually make a lot of sense together; they slide up and down and alternate wildly. It’s the sort of symphony a child at a piano might make except with a cacophony of instruments. It fills the air with cheery, disjointed music as it floats out from the amphitheater, beckoning you there but, this time, not at all compelling.

On your comm you will see a message from Ga Re:

He Rows,

We whale comb you here a gain. Agrii have food at mew sick home. Go with mew sick. Part tea for all. Also learn time. Agrii need learn storm. Us need learn all he rows learn. Us hear all. Talk at mew sick home. We learn. You learn. All learn and stop storms!

Thank all yous.

- Ga Re


If you choose to enter the amphitheater, heroes who arrived in the first wave might recognize the scene:

Hanging against one crumbling wall is a piece of fabric that has ‘WHALE COMB HOME!’ painted on it in drippy, fluorescent pink letters. The Agrii version of a smiley face that you've come to know and love is painted underneath it right on the wall. ‘US THANK THEY!’ is written beside it. Scattered through the wide space are tables upon tables of food.

There are meats, fruits, root vegetables, and even what might be a sweet dessert of some sort as well. Characters with the Agriculture expertise - and those who have attended one of these parties before - will know that everything is edible and nothing will make you sick. But some of it might have … adverse effects:

- People chomping down on the striped meat all seem to get very drowsy a few minutes later.
- The red fruit that looks like a giant cherry is the equivalent of a few shots - the more consumed, the more drunken this party is getting.
- There is a bowl of weeds that have small, daisy-like flowers all along the stalks. This tastes like chicken and gives the eater a sudden burst of energy that will have them running around the room like they’re being chased.
-There are a collection of drinks, some made from the red fruit, some that are clearly water, some that taste like a less-sweet lemonade with no effects, and then there's a blue one that tastes like an especially dark beer. People drinking this will find themselves incapable of lying for a half hour.

Enjoy your party, heroes. But also heed what Ga Re said: This is an ideal time to talk with one another and compare whatever you’ve managed to learn. Think of it like a town hall where whatever you learned on Risa or in the storm can be spread around and analyzed.

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[personal profile] stabgremlin 2020-04-10 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
So the storm had been able to cut Vector off from the hive. There was more to it then than simple destructiveness. It was something to think on, at least. Aden didn't have anything special to him, wasn't connected to anything, nor did he have any powers. To him, the storm was likely only destructive, but to Vector or any individual with something more to them, it was worse.

He had to wonder if the Agrii themselves had special powers too, if that was why they hadn't managed to figure out of the storms themselves.

The mystery kept getting deeper.

For now though, he was much more worried about Vector, and he was sure it showed.

"I'm sure it is. To lose your connection with the hive... I can't imagine what that was like for you... I should've been here."

He reached up to rest a hand against Vector's cheek, looking up into his eyes. Aden knew he couldn't protect him from every bad thing that happened, but... He worried.

"Even if you wouldn't have known me then. I'm sorry I wasn't there."
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[personal profile] killikambassador 2020-04-11 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
"There was little you could have done," Vector pointed out. "It wasn't pleasant, that feeling of being cut off so suddenly. We can suppress our connection to the hive with enough willpower, but this was different. We had no choice when it happened in the storm."

Vector had thought to broach the subject of cutting himself off from the hive temporarily when they both felt they were ready to be intimate. Much as Aden accepted that he was a Joiner, and part of something big, he still worried that Aden wouldn't wish to make love with millions of sentient insects by proxy.
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[personal profile] stabgremlin 2020-04-11 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"I could have been there for you. Supported you."

It wouldn't have been a lot, but it could have helped a little. He pulled his hand back and sighed softly, "It's something to think about though. That there's more to these storms. Storms on Dromund Kaas were pretty bad, but we weren't exactly stuck there when we went. And lightning storms were just lightning storms."

The storms here, with their ability to cut Vector off from the hive, probably people off from their powers- it made them more dangerous than what he was used to. He was only an ordinary man, there was nothing special about him at all, so to him there was only the one risk. But the future looked dangerous indeed.

He let out a hissing sigh, clenching his toothpick between his teeth, "No use getting worked up about it right now, I suppose."
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[personal profile] killikambassador 2020-04-11 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"We would have appreciated your presence nonetheless," Vector gently rubbed his hands up and down Aden's arms, soothingly.

Aden had never liked it when Vector got hurt, be it at the hands of another or by forces of nature. Sometimes it was scary how protective Aden was towards the Dawn Herald.

"We would not like to see you stressed out, Aden. If something is going on, it would be wise to have a clear head."
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[personal profile] stabgremlin 2020-04-12 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Clear head's going to be difficult, Vector. You know I don't like being jerked around by unseen forces. And the state of this place is honestly..."

He sighed again, and reached up to pinch the bridge of his nose, clenching his eyes shut. Being jerked around, the general state of the place- it was stressing him out, more than what he wanted to say. He didn't want to worry Vector, after all.

Still, he could feel a headache coming on. He been alright when he arrived, aside from his sadness at Vector not knowing him then. He'd been sort of okay on Risa. But here? With the surroundings being what they were? It was getting to be a bit much, and working himself up over the storms and the Agrii wasn't helping.

Opening his eyes again and moving his hands to shove them into his pockets, he shrugged his shoulders, giving a halfhearted smile, "I'll be okay though. You know me- I'm always stressed out anyway."
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[personal profile] killikambassador 2020-04-12 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps," Vector wanted nothing more than for Aden and himself to live a more peaceful life, away from the stress, where they may relax. Aden deserved such a life. He'd been doing better, since they'd met.

"Know that we'll always be here for you, should you need us."