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deercountry2022-08-09 07:41 am
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silco's bizarre adventures (open catchall)
Who: Silco + anyone
What: Settling in. Open starters indexed behind the cut; closed starters on request.
When After 8/8, throughout August.
Where: All over the place.
Content Warnings: Will be included with comments or in subject lines.
Index:
• OPEN: Trench exploration - Cassandra.
• OPEN: Trench exploration - Lumenwood - Blood Bank.
• OPEN: Trench exploration - Cellar Door - Earworm
• OPEN: "we glow so dim" - Wreckage diving.
What: Settling in. Open starters indexed behind the cut; closed starters on request.
When After 8/8, throughout August.
Where: All over the place.
Content Warnings: Will be included with comments or in subject lines.
Index:
• OPEN: Trench exploration - Cassandra.
• OPEN: Trench exploration - Lumenwood - Blood Bank.
• OPEN: Trench exploration - Cellar Door - Earworm
• OPEN: "we glow so dim" - Wreckage diving.
OPEN - Trench exploration: Cassandra
Content Warnings: Religion.
The city of Trench is a large one, though spread out horizontally rather than Piltover and Zaun's odd stack. Once Silco learns about lamp friends' function, he becomes determined to explore, to visit places he may need to return to later in much more of a hurry. Which is why he's travelled to Cassandra, breathing in the sweet smoke that he will soon come to associate with safety.
Once here, however, the very architecture holds his fascination. Raised in Zaun he'd had very little time for a higher power, and he wasn't unique in that. Here, statues and shrines and effigies seem to be everywhere his gaze rests, like this part of town is in itself a church.
Well, he can't fault them. Typically one to feel he has determined his own fate, the gods are much closer here, provable and, if what he's been told is right, appeasable. So it can't hurt to go around asking about that, can it?
For instance: "And what will you get for that?" he asks some fervent worshipper as she prays.
Or another time he approaches a garden of little statues closely, marking the differences in their creation and carving, asking the names of the deities.
As much as he's made use of science, he is not himself a scientist, but he is prone to asking questions to better understand what he can use as a tool. What better place to seek knowledge of the gods than godly Cassandra? But the more he questions, the more the locals start to look at him askance.
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Relatively speaking, anyway.
At first she doesn't pay much attention to Silco or what he's doing. But it's the looks from the locals that catch Chizuru's eye more than anything, especially when she realises they're all staring at him. It makes her try to pay a little bit more attention to the conversation, trying to catch parts of it from a distance..
.. she can't be sure, but the questions kind of make this person sound like he's new. Which means he might not be realising what he's making himself look like here.
Chizuru hesitates for a moment, kind of meek about jumping into a situation unless it's pressing.. but on the other hand, she doesn't want this poor guy to get into trouble when he's still new. So she sucks in a breath, gathers her courage, and approaches Silco and the local he's talking to.
"Um.. excuse me," the young woman says, trying to draw their attention. It's followed up by a polite bow on her end, mostly aimed at Silco. "Sir, could I maybe have a tiny moment of your time..?"
Look, she just doesn't think it's very tactful to say 'they're all giving you weird looks' right in front of some of the weird-look-givers.
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"Of course," he says in a low rasp, willing to extend the same politeness back to her even though they've never met. And to the man he was interrogating to the point of discomfort: "Excuse us." And he'll step away with her, whether she wants to find somewhere more private or simply away from the other Trenchies here.
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So when he seems to follow her, Chizuru leads him away. Just a little bit, nothing too far - and certainly not anywhere that seems particularly shady, thankfully. They're still very much out in the open, standing in front of one of the many religious buildings in this part of town, just a little distance away from any of the Trenchies.
"Thank you," she says once they're standing there. The relief actually shows on the girl's face, like she wears her feelings right there on her sleeve. "I just wanted you to know.. um, maybe you already noticed it yourself." It's something she only seems to realise now, which is why she's quickly adding this caveat before he thinks she's assuming he's totally stupid. She sure wouldn't want to give off that impression! "But I think the people here were starting to think your questions were a little odd, and since they were very violent last month, I was a little worried they might get riled up.."
And the last thing Silco wants, Chizuru assumes, is having an angry mob coming after him so early on.
"They seem a lot more calm now! But.. still, you never know.."
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Still, it was a restocking day when he happened to be in the vicinity of one of the statues. He was only looking at it idly as the person addressed him. He hadn't exactly been praying, but maybe it was possible to mistake it. Tilting his head, the horned youth glanced in Silco's direction. "Eh? Oh, commonly the practice is performed with the hopes of some manner of blessing from the erstwhile managers of the overarching facility. It likely behooves the local residents to keep the Pthumerian population at least placated if not extremely pleased at their residents. Prayers to the one called Mariana have been particularly pronounced this lunar cycle." He shrugged.