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FEBRUARY 2021 EVENT: PART ONE
CHAPTER TWO, PART 1: A LIGHT LUNCH
Good times, great olives, Uliveto's.
INVITES AND INSISTENCES | BISQUE AND BREADSTICKS | FONTINA AND FOCACCIA | MUNDANITY AND MISHAPS
INVITES AND INSISTENCES
After a fairly low-key January, you start hearing the buzz on February 1st: The Happy Homes Association is inviting you to a luncheon on Friday! Stylishly dressed women in coats and hats are inviting everyone they know in the neighborhood, coming up and knocking on your door to invite you personally to come along. “Noon on Friday at Uliveto’s,” one of them tells you with a bright smile. “There’ll be food and drinks, and the whole community can get together and mingle a bit!”
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BISQUE AND BREADSTICKS
On Friday, February 5th, Uliveto’s is easy to find — just follow the train of cars headed to North Santa Rosita, where the restaurant sits just off of Main Street with a parking lot that’s packed full. Hopefully you’re willing to walk, because it looks like the luncheon is in full swing! But as you get closer, you see that the ladies of the HHA have things down to a science as they welcome neighbors, invite them to join one of the many tables set up in the half of the restaurant they’ve taken over, and integrate newcomers into conversation.
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FONTINA AND FOCACCIA
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As the luncheon continues, you may be able to notice some of the HHA volunteers scurrying back and forth, taking turns manning the doors and the small table where Betty’s taking donations and issuing meal vouchers. Watch long enough and you’ll be able to see that all of them are ultimately reporting to three ladies who confer at a smaller table set back from all the mingling, talking amongst themselves and from time to time making notes in a small ledger. At about half past noon, one of the women stands, calling out, “May I have your attention, please?” She has to repeat it a couple times to be heard, but after a minute or two everybody settles down. The woman nods toward all of the guests, then turns back to the table, allowing one of the women to stand and make herself known. Tall, graceful, and neat, she takes a look around the room as she speaks — does her gaze linger a moment on you?
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MUNDANITY AND MISHAPS
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After the luncheon, things in Santa Rosita continue on as normal. The weekend comes and goes, the work week begins, and the cold February wind blows… But when you wake up on February 10th, some of you are missing. |
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OOC INFO
Welcome to the first part of February’s event! You can use this entry to top-level for the event, but feel free to utilize the log and network communities as well. Sign-ups to have your character abducted are located here; please fill out the form provided along with any other pertinent details.
You may play with the townsfolk NPCs as necessary in your threads; non-Robbied neighbors will be cordial and happy to make small talk and will try to maintain the pleasant atmosphere. Robbies will, as always, be mindlessly optimistic and complimentary about everything—you may find that most of the Robbies have congregated at their own table and are bubbling with excitement over just about anything.
There will be a top-level posted for Rosemary below. If you would like to have your character interact with her, comment with your starter there. The mods will respond to tags for Rosemary until February 15th.
Any questions can go in our FAQ thread below. Try to check and see if your question has already been answered on the plotting thread first here.
Remember — part 2 of this event is coming February 15th!
You may play with the townsfolk NPCs as necessary in your threads; non-Robbied neighbors will be cordial and happy to make small talk and will try to maintain the pleasant atmosphere. Robbies will, as always, be mindlessly optimistic and complimentary about everything—you may find that most of the Robbies have congregated at their own table and are bubbling with excitement over just about anything.
There will be a top-level posted for Rosemary below. If you would like to have your character interact with her, comment with your starter there. The mods will respond to tags for Rosemary until February 15th.
Any questions can go in our FAQ thread below. Try to check and see if your question has already been answered on the plotting thread first here.
Remember — part 2 of this event is coming February 15th!
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Uh huh, [archer grunts non-comittally.] you bitched me out for some glass someone else knocked over.
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I don't remember that. But I think you've caught on to that already. Did anything else strange happen during the evening?
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[ the cogs are turning, but there are still too many questions for him to put anything together. what he does know, however, is that there is definitely something more sinister going on than just a dirty mayor and home association head controlling a small town in northern california... ]
He remembers the children who went missing in October, which tells me there are parts of this town that don't reset, even if the year's restarted itself.
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[archer downs his drink, then squints into the glass.]
Think we should tell them about Kennedy?
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[ he regards archer seriously, without derision. one of the few times that will happen, probably. ]
For me, they do. And it's entirely possible. If I were to guess, I doubt the outside world even exists far beyond this town and that forest.
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[his mind flies back to the contractor work for the CIA. the shrinking tech. they wouldn't, would they? the humiliation of being punked by the CIA aside, surely holly would've retired in the three years he was out and slater-- god only fucking knows what that little rat is up to.]
Mmm. No. Never mind. That's a little defeatist, don't you think?
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[ he looks around at everyone being so... happy. it's a shame that it was a farce. a moment in time when everyone could get together and celebrate was, in time, the exact opposite. ]
We're in a secluded town in the middle of nowhere, our neighbors are smiling facsimiles of people, but there's something they're hiding. We don't know whatever lies beyond the tunnel or the forest, almost like whoever created it couldn't have envisioned a world beyond its borders. What does that seem like to you?
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It reminds me of how a child might see the world. And then I think about those missing children, and the fact that every afternoon, Harding parks his car outside of the school and waits. I think there's something there, but I don't know what to make of it, yet...
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Can't be AJ... [he says quietly to himself, pinching the bridge of his nose.] Trying to atone, maybe. Cops get weird about that kind of stuff.
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[ they've been here for one of the cases of missing children, but how far back could it go? ]
A bus of missing children. A repeating year. If this was someone's dream, is this where time stopped for them? It's only a theory, of course, but... it does remind me of something.
cw vague mention of child death
[he does wonder, though, if one of the kids was harding's-- it certainly gives him motive. but... he doesn't seem like the kind of guy to be in control of all of this.]
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[ he doesn't laugh at the joke, not that he's laughed at any of archer's sarcasm so far. ]
My parents died when I was younger. Up until then, my world revolved around them and the city I grew up in. Imagining anything else, or even that something like that could even happen, was barely comprehensible to me at the time. From then on, it changed the way I looked at the world.
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[he reaches out to flick a shard of glass away from the bread at the table, then takes a bite.]
I mean, good luck? Pretty sure physics doesn't work like that.
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[ he watches him eat the bread and thinks about warning him, but so far he hasn't seen any effect on the others. maybe it was slow release? or maybe he was just being paranoid. ]
Where I come from, I've seen worse than this.
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Like what?
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[ he starts off small. his universe is too ridiculous for most people to even begin to believe, so setting the bar high is a sure way to be considered insane. ]
There's a lot more, but I think the implication of the Greek Pantheon existing is enough of a conversation starter.
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[ good ol' maxie... ]
It doesn't matter what I tell you anyway, you seem like a skeptic. If I didn't know any better, I might be, too.
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[surprisingly candid, considering:] I'm just tryin' to keep myself sane, I guess. To, uh, varying levels of success.
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[ he sighs, pinching his brow for a moment. even his world sounds ridiculous to him, he's not sure why he's trying to get anybody else to believe in it. ]
He's a seven foot tall god dressed in magical armor who can divine weapons at will and conjure flames that can burn souls. He's not your average crackpot. I'm familiar with those too, unfortunately.
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[the slight implication that he's talking about bruce himself hangs there, but archer never confirms it.
suddenly, like a tangent:] What do you do? Cop?
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[ also the guy who the cops call, but he doesn't feel the need to elaborate on that at the moment. ]
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[a beat, then:] Oh, tell me you're working retail here?