Event Ten.

[awashmods]

Little Willie, mean as hell, Pushed his sister in a well. Mother said, while drawing water, "My, it's hard to raise a daughter."

t's pretty dark and miserable down in the well. The cavernous area feels much larger than a well should be, bodies milling about in the darkness and knee deep, frigid water. So you're here -- and you're not alone, and the only way out appears to be the thin circle of sunlight from above, the opening of the well. (And elsewhere, in the Town, everyone's waking up to gifts of various usefulness, but hopefully they remember to check the well today even so!) What now? Welcome to Awash's tenth event log, and the intro log for this month, everyone! All new characters have found themselves waking in the well in the middle of the Town. Hopefully they can get a hand out! For more information, please go here! Meanwhile, the current characters have some new gifts. If there are any questions, please ask them here, and have fun! Thank you!

Comments

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[noholdsbard]

I am deeply sorry, fair maiden. [ Uhh the Ring reference completely flew over his head, but hey, it’s not important when she’s clearly in distress. ]

I have nothing on me but my cloak, which you are more than welcome to use, as well as my assistance, however I can render it.

[scriptive]

[ yeah i'm sorry she like exclusively wears skirts in canon so she's in that and a halter tank top??? combined with thigh-highs and sensible shoes. ]

It's Solid Script! [ her magecraft, she means. and despite the skirt thing, levy nods and heads over. ] I'm pretty sure I won't fall, but...thank you! I'm Levy.

[hamerhead]

[> You are now facing a 14 feet tall fishman. Command? He looks...positively confused, but strangely excited.]

Connor! That is not a name I have heard of before. [He kneels slightly to take a better look at him.] Parts of your clothing is glowing blue! Your ears are clipped! How amazing...what is the jewelry on the side of your head?

[Sorry Connor he's just...not seen many humans before, let alone an android based on humans.]

[osuni]

[a bear could kill a reim!!!]

Are you going to get excited and run into the forest if I do?

[Reim looks like the last person who'd be stupid enough to do that, but Okuni has to ask anyway to cover her bases. And also to poke a little fun at him, that's just a plus.]

[goldenwords]

...a what now.

[She's heard of a lot of things before, but "a Rito" isn't one of them.]

I can definitely get to the top, no problems there, but more importantly - what is this place? And who are you?

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

No, just curious. What's it called?

[It's a cool-sounding power, if a little odd in its execution. Jotaro thinks he could handle it if the girl turns out to be an enemy, but it would at least be an interesting fight. For now he starts drying his other leg.]

[osuni]

[YUU...........]

No, that's definitely weird. [she immediately replies??? YUU!] You were running around without paying any attention, so now you have to ask complete strangers for help... How embarrassing...

[scriptive]

[ LMAO YEAH SHE'S REALLY SHORT IT'S SORT OF RIDICULOUS...people canonically use her as an arm rest >[ ]

I do know how to use magic! I use "Solid Script"...that's like...

[ u know what. she just demonstrates with several words! ]

[swordfucker]

So you're people watching.

[The complete opposite! Guren says it with a bit of a humored air to it, though, and it's clear that he doesn't have any murderous intent, or anything even close. He's more trying to figure out why Sasuke has the weapon in his hand.]

Guren Ichinose. I've been trying to help people get settled in. [Sorta] And you?

[ninjanature]

[He gets perhaps a few feet before being stopped by her again, and he turns just enough to glance back at her.] Did you need something? [There's really no indication in his voice whether she's bothering him or he's enjoying her company. Maybe it doesn't matter either way.

It isn't a bad thing to ask people their names. Hm. She seems awfully young. He's been seeing a lot of Awfully Young today.]

Are you here with someone?

[scriptive]

Solid Script! I'm also pretty handy with languages and runes, but that's not really "magic" unless I rewrite someone else's spell.

[ which she can do! if it uses runes. ]

[deathscyther]

a. there's too many jokes about wells in this damn well

[This had to be some sort of horrible prank gone wrong. Waking up in his PJs (well, a tanktop and shorts) in a well of all things, hair loose and now very unfortunately soaked, darkness ruling over light with the only source of it the circular hole very, very high above his head...

A prank... was not what logic was telling him, as much as he wanted it to be true. No one he knew would even consider doing something like this to him. Not to mention that niggling little fact that he had fallen asleep in his place on L2, which was, well... a space colony. And no space colony ever had old school crumbling stone wells put in.

He wanted to believe it was a joke, sure, but the longer he stood there with the weight of his loose, long hair dragging in the knee deep water the more he knew that wishful thinking wasn't going to explain why he was here or where here even was.

He could hear voices, hushed ones that sounded just as confused and anxious as he felt, but he hesitated to call out to them. He wasn't alone here but that didn't mean he was at all safe, and that put him on edge almost more than the strangeness of the situation itself.

He would have stayed silent for a while, too, puzzling how to get out of this mess if not for the fact that standing still meant no one was likely to know he, or his seriously long hair, were there.]

OW! Hey, watch it!

[So much for stealth...]

b. like a drowned rat

[Well escape, check.

Clothes... starting to dry. Check.

Hair... a tangled, soaking wet mess.

Whatever was going on here was a goddamn joke, but not of the funny ha ha you got me guys sort. A letter stating he was basically trapped here but there was housing, a community board apparently made by those who were also stuck here and had been for a while...

What in the actual hell was going on and why was he chosen for this absolute clusterfuck?!

There was little chance of getting a straight answer, at least not right away, and while he did want to know why no one was beating down the closest authority figure in order to escape, he figured it was easier to focus on the things he could maybe do something about first. Bigger picture later. He can't go off half-cocked without knowing the full situation after all.

He found one of his bags before getting out of the well, but it wasn't entirely helpful. A pistol that was now waterlogged and would have to be repaired, some scraps from his most recent purchases at the scrap yard, his passport...

Of course he wouldn't have thought to put a brush in the bag.

He'll mostly bother girls about this, but a few guys might get a grinning dope with a mess of hip-length hair asking:]

Heeeeeyyy, uh, you wouldn't happen to have a brush or hair tie on ya?

c. back in black, but eventually #00002a (forum)

[Laptop! Actual technology in this anachronistic weirdness! Helpful!

Only it had zero network connectivity save for a forum.

Not so helpful.

So much for hacking his way into information. That was asking for too much, wasn't it?

Well, when in... Roma?]

Okay, I just crawled my way out of that nasty well, and I'd like some answers.

I get that we're all pretty much in the same discolored boat here, but humor me. What do we know? What information can you all give me? What should I expect?

Wildcard

[As always, hit me up with anything else! rubberfaceokumura or Rin.0768 on Discord!]

[scriptive]

Yes! What sort of magic can you use - or do you have a weapon?

[ she automatically goes to "magic" before remembering not everyone here is a mage... ]

[osuni]

That's no fair...! That's just like this town. Not only is the food here colorless and gross and the animals all mutated, but everything else is different from usual too.

[Okuni sounds put out by this new and amazing fact she never knew about laptops. Her eyes naturally go to the phone near Lottie's hand because.. what is it!! She's not even subtle about it -- her big ole magpie eyes are glued right at Lottie's phone like she's thinking of touching it without permission.]

the town!

[noholdsbard]

Oh, it is so very sad…I cannot bear to see a lovely woman in such distress.

[ And well, she’d glanced at him first, but he’s pretty sure he’s offended her somehow, anyway. ]

Might there be some way I can assist you?

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[withwisdom]

Hey!

[ shouts the distant voice of a young lady from below, as she looks up to the top of the church. will he even hear her? she's going to just scream until he does. ]

Get down from there! The church is not for standing atop of!

[ this is a house of god? or so she understands it to be. ]

[parodeity]

[ look................. look ]

He's head of the Defense Force and basically town Dad.

[ so...he's a responsible person in a town full of lackadasical morons... ]

I guess he's kind of in charge as much as anyone is?

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[...what.]

That's a weird name for a Stand.

[He actually looks confused for once, so congratulations on that.]

[goldenwords]

That long? Really?

[...hm. Sadie frowns at that (though just a little) and crosses her arms.]

Did you come out of the well, too, or were the rest of us who were stuck down there just unlucky?

[culpa]

( he has Common Sense. just maybe not the kind of common sense guren was expecting him to have?? like he totally knows what a laptop looks like and knows what he's looking for (ish) even if he's in the wrong spot. that's step one, right.

eyes focus down onto his Knife Hand, lips spreading into a wide, stupid grin as yuu waves that fist around. )

You already have a sword, too. Why do you need the knives? ( excuse, he's wolverine. ) Thought I'd play with them for a minute.

3

[promissum]

[Val has learned he has... unfortunately little to do. No prinnies. No government to overthrow. He at least glanced through all the quests.]

You there, what's your color?

[scriptive]

A "Stand"? Is that a sort of magic where you're from?

[ she looks just as baffled ]

[robitussin]

Did anyone like... decide on that, or did it just kind of happen?

[not that she's too concerned about it either way. it's probably good they have someone who knows what he's doing.]

[averagemedium]

Y-- no.

[He quickly thinks better of being honest, shaking his head. Who's scared of fish, not him, that would be absolutely ridiculous.]

I was just-- worried about accidentally stepping on one or something!

[ninjanature]

[Maybe he is people watching, Guren. The people just come to him is all.]

Sasuke. [Just enough to watch for a reaction, his head turns back so he can peer at the other man from the corner of his eye. The left one, ghastly purple from corner to corner and broken by rings of black, is eerie to say the least. Bottomless and piercing without any discernible reason.] Uchiha.

Have you seen a man named Naruto Uzumaki or a boy named Boruto?