Luceti Valley - The Second Log

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone
What: The second part of the experiment. Things begin to unravel.
When: August 7th - August 10th
Where: Luceti itself
Summary: Check out the mod post for more. This covers Day 6-9!
Rating: Varies with thread. Please move explicit stuff to appointments post with appropriate warnings.

Luceti Valley continued in its own merry little way. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. A new tax hike had ensured increasing animosity between both groups, despite the protests of the every charitable Lord Mayor. But on the sixth day, something happens and people begin to notice things are unusual. Idle thoughts that if thought about too much is bound to get you a visit to the police station for an hour or so. Or worse, it may just get you committed.

Meanwhile, the asylum continues to gain more and more patients. Those that are trapped there will find escaping difficult, but there may be more to this place than they first assumed...

On the tenth, battle breaks out across Luceti Valley. People begin to exhibit powers and abilities they didn't know they had. The police begin rounding up these people to lock up. If they resist, its bound to come to blows. Even though no one has regained their memories of their true self yet, it becomes apparent that some trickery is afoot, even if they might not know the source or why.


Note: This is the second log! There will be a third and final event log for the aftermath. There will also be two separate logs specifically for finding John and defeating Zompano. For those of you that signed up, we'll be randomizing the results and replying to the selected characters later tonight. In the meantime, keep enjoying the event! If you have questions, direct them here.

Comments

[fierybluebird]

About time. I couldn't talk all week, and I haven't been able to switch back to human either. And I'm honestly not sure how much time we have.

There's a shift going on so everyone is acting crazy and they don't remember themselves. Memories got replaced. Maybe identities too. It's happened before, but not like this. [That he knows of.] There's a large presence of haki -- [Oh wait Aang wouldn't recognize that.] Think like strong life force and mental presence. It might have something to do with it, but I don't recognize the person.

I'm a phoenix, so I know strange things. [Fastest rundown he can do. And he's still in word-dump "info" mode just in case he suddenly goes back to speechless. Being stuck having everyone treat you like a pet for a week does things to your desire to talk a lot at once.]

Whatever you do, avoid the police. [This is just normal Marco paranoia advice though. A healthy distrust for authority goes hand in hand with being a pirate from a world where the government is virtually omnipresent and destroys islands and killed some of his family. And proof that it is paranoia:] And the rich royals might be in on it too, I can't tell. I couldn't get close enough to them before I got dragged back here and not enough of them visit the zoo for me to tell, but they seem to be the ones profiting most from this screwiness.

[He is SO suspicious of the rich and royals thanks to the nobility from his own world being the type to buy and own slaves, and you know... Marco being caged and seeing people dragged off makes him think slavery not insanity. Everyone is insane in One Piece, so asylums aren't really a thing.] I don't suppose you have a newspaper on you or anything? It's hard to get one around here that hasn't been peed on.

[lasthairbender]

[He just stares. And stares. This is the freakiest thing he's seen all week.

And he does a quick head shaking at the question.]

No sir. Mister... Phoenix. I don't have any newspapers with me...

[fierybluebird]

[Only all week?! Marco's slipping.]

Pity.

You may call me Marco if you'd prefer. [A head tilt.] Actually I'd prefer it, yoi.

Aang. Are you... Have you been happy in this new life? ["New" might be a bit of a stretch since it wouldn't seem new to anyone else, but Marco is worried. If he's the only miserable, if all his friends prefer it like this, would it be too selfish to demand everything go back to the way he thinks is right? Much like Ace's departure from the crew, the freedom of it is significant. Then again, no one chose this stupid life. At least not that Marco can tell. So fuck that. Still, it'll help isolate out those who are ready to revolt.]

[savedtheworld]

Marco. Right. ...Hi.

[That's a deep question, talking bird. Who knows his name. Give him a moment to think it over.]

I don't know what you mean by 'new'. This was always my life. [Even if everything felt odd, disjointed.] But... I am happy. Good things have been happening. At least... before things got scary.