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☢️ Kaczynski Electricity Co. [IC]

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☢️ Kaczynski Electricity Co. [IC]

Postby Wuchu » Fri Oct 16, 2020 12:30 pm

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Welcome to the IC thread for Kaczynski Electricity Co.!
Just as a reminder, here are the rules for this thread:
> Don’t kill each other without prior permission. As much as drama is going to be a part of this experience, it’s not going to be very enjoyable if you decide to prematurely eject someone else from the RP. So, no murder.
> Write with effort. It’s going to be a whole lot more fun for all of us if we avoid lazy one-liners.
> No godmodding. Although I’ve created a world with some OP things in it (*cough* Cube *cough*), you’re just a guy/gal/gus here.
> Be a decent person. Don’t be a dick to others. Quite simple.
> No retcons. You have no authority over other people here, so unless the user is breaking the above rules, you can’t undo their actions.


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It's a quiet, summer morning. Helios slowly dawns his head over the forested horizon, peaking over the hills and mountains, spreading his rays across these lands. In the air, cold mist, vapour kept like a blanket by the local flora; the air is moist, chilly, crisp, and tasteful to inhale. As they gradually awake, the sounds of dogs, chickens, pen animals and every other critter citizen of this region begins to make themselves heard. Likewise, the human residents have already stirred in their sleep. The night watch is coming back to the centre of the community headquarters, as the day guard relieves them of their duties. Hunting parties likewise pass through the constructed gates, some coming back with fresh meats from their midnight adventures, and others just heading out to catch the morning stream of fish and wild geese and ducks.

The growing village comes to life, as it does each morning. Some didn't catch any sleep, busy enjoying the company of others, either privately or publicly; they are the first ones at the community tables, already preparing their comrades' breakfasts, a few heating up last night's leftovers. Plenty remain in their bunks, in their own homes, enjoying the solitude and silence granted by these far-lands.

There are a few volunteers already working the many permaculture gardens surrounding this area. Mounds of permaculture farmland, built as the German hippies engineered back in the day, dot the landscape, creating interlocking patterns of brightly lit, reflections of sparkling due of the grasses, and shadowed sides, like dark waves on the land. These gardens are where the vast majority of the food originates, and tending to them is almost a divine duty, a task highly respected within this community.

Friends gather around fires, sitting on wooden trunks split into halves. Some of them have been there for a while; mushrooms grow on their sides, feeding off of the moisture deep within the wood and gentle warmth of the distant flames. As is usually the case, one of the comrades takes out their guitar, and begins to play old folk songs of their peoples; The camp is filled with the sounds of many languages, as could be expected of a community constructed by such diverse people.

The year is 2102. Whatever their reasons, these people have come here to be as one family. Today, armed with little more than solidarity and unlawfully gained equipment, a band from within this rather unusual family is uniting once more in pursuit of a new agenda; the revenge against those who have harmed all.
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"What are you going to do with him?" I asked Yaniv.

We were in the Order's Great Hall - an unusually large building as far as our kind goes, removed from the rest of the camp by a good half-kilometre. The place wasn't actually all that special, except in sentimentality - it's where everything began, after all. The camp Yaniv occupied, the base we later turned into the main headquarters, from which all of this just sort of... grew out of, like leaves out of a root.

"I don't know yet," he said. "I'm not going to hand him over to the government, that's for sure. I wouldn't want to give them the satisfaction."

Pentti slowly paced around the room, observing the situation. Yaniv stared at the screen for a few long moments, watching the camerafeed of the room beneath us, and then looked back at me.

"You want to see the prisoner?"

"Can we have a hand in torturing him?" asked Attila. "I've always wanted to see what it's like to torture a man, see the limits of his pain."

"No," said Yaniv. "But maybe he can tell us more. And if it's really true, if he really is... what he claims he is, then we're going to want an edge."
He looked around the room, glancing across all of our faces. "Did Jazmin get caught up in fighting?"

"Reports from the safehouse back in Persia indicate that they should have been back by now, and they haven't," I said. "The bank they were supposed to investigate was also blown up in a terrorist attack. No less than a tank was involved."

He leered at me, as if I had just called his mother a slut.

"Yep..." said Pentti. "So they might be dead. So, yeah. That's just great."

"C'mon," Yaniv told me, pretending he heard nothing, already in the process of repressing the information into the back of his mind. "I'll take you to where he's being held."

We walked through the hallways of the Great Hall, reinforced concrete walls becoming more and more barren as we went deeper underground. Right at the bottom, where the highest security was located, it was a primitive structure, with awful feng-shui. Five armed Macbeths were stationed at the entrance. They were armed with AK-12's; all we could afford to make at the factory we captured a month ago.

"How is he?" Yaniv asked one of the guards.

"I checked just now, and he's just sitting there," the Macbeth responded. "Probably expecting execution. We asked if he wanted anything to eat, anything to drink, but he didn't say anything."

Pentti pushed the door open and went inside. We all followed, except for two guards who remained at the door.

The man was dressed in all black, his face obscured by a balaclava. He was sitting crossed legged on the floor, with his hands on his lap, almost as if he were meditating.

"What's up, my dude?" I said.

The man opened his eyes, and they were the most brilliant shade of green. He looked up at us without the least bit of emotion, much less fear or surprise.

"Kill me, if you want to kill me," he said. He spoke with an Arabic accent, but not a harsh one; he must have learned it in school.

"You heard the man," said Attila.

"Stop," said Yaniv, before turning to the prisoner. "We're not here to execute you. We just want some information."

"You're not getting anything," he said. "You've defeated me, and my body is now at your mercy to destroy. But you will never capture my mind, and never my spirit."

Pentti wandered off to a table pushed against the corner of the room and fell on it. "Dramatic."

"What do you know of the Other Place?" I asked the prisoner.

He was quiet for a moment. "Nothing. Don't waste your time asking me. I won't say anything, even if I knew anything."

"Should we just execute you then, since you won't be much help?" said Attila.

Yaniv was turning a faint shade of red, but his expression didn't change.

"Maybe you should," said the captive.

"No one's executing anybody," barked Yaniv. "We just want information."

"And then what? You're going to let me go?"

No one said anything.

"I know why they're here, why you're here," he continued. "It's the reason we're all here. But if you want it, you look for it, like everybody. You're getting no leads from me."

Yaniv and I found ourselves looking at each other.

"What's 'it'?" I asked the captive.

"Didn't you hear what I just said?"

"I'm not asking for any leads. I just want to know what you mean. I want to know that we're talking about the same thing."

His green eyes stayed on me a long while.

Then, he said, "The Anima Mundi."

"Fuck," Pentti cursed under his breath.

"You're looking for it, too, aren't you?" The captive laughed sardonically to himself. "In the end, I don't even know if the group that finds it will need it, since by the end of this, we will all be destroyed. Maybe no one will find it. Maybe we will all die before then."

"What do you know of the Anima Mundi?" I asked the captive.

He remained quiet for a long while, before saying, "Do what you want with me, but I will never betray my friends."

"I'm telling you guys..." Attila took a deep breath and began looking around the room, acting nonchalant in the face of his suggestion that we break the Geneva Convention.

"We're willing to work with you," Yaniv told the captive. "But if you push us... the stakes are just too high."

"Do what you must." The captive closed his eyes.

"He gave us permission," said Attila. "Might as well."

"Holy shit, dude," Yaniv screamed, as he turned to face him. "Do you ever shut up?"

"Occasionally, he does," I said, putting a hand on Yaniv's chest, and gently pushing him back. "Not now. Not when you're being so high-and-mighty in handling this captive. If you just shoot his knee caps, he'll tell you anything you want."

"You think it's that easy?" said Yaniv. "You just shoot someone's knee caps off, and then they tell you everything they want to know?"

"That's my hypothesis."

"No!" Yaniv was shouting now. "That's not how any of this fucking works. You can't just torture people. That's contrary to everything we stand for! Eradicating that kind of bullshit is exactly why we're here, doing what we're doing!"

"Well, you'd be able to do it better if you just shot the guy," said Pentti with a shrug. He jumped off the table and produced his pistol from the waistband of his pants, and handed it to Attila. "Don't kill him," he said.

Attila nodded as he took the gun into his hand, and pointed it towards the captive.

"Oh my god. What the fuck." Yaniv rubbed his forehead.

The captive's eyes remained closed.

"Unfold your legs for me," said Attila. "That, or tell us what you know about the Anima Mundi."

The prisoner didn't move.

"Attila, stop," Yaniv said in a hushed, angry tone.

Attila looked at me, his pistol still fixed on the captive's general direction. "What do you think?"

I looked at him, and then at Yaniv, then Pentti, and the Macbeths, who were just as confused as me.

With a sigh, I said, "I want that information, boys."

I walked to the table where Pentti sat before, fell back on it like he did, and crossed my arms. Pentti sat back down next to me.

"Work it out," we both said.

Yaniv and Attila looked at each other, and although they didn't talk, it looked from the way they acted that they were measuring one another up. The two, I've found, were an opinionated, value-driven beings: Both of them committed to their fundamental mistakes, from which all their other mistakes derive. But of course, they don't call them mistakes; they call them principles.

They stood quietly for longer than I thought. Attila eventually lowered his gun, and then just stood there, while Yaniv rubbed the bridge of his nose, as if he had a migraine.

The captive sat there in complete serenity.

"You know what..." Attila aimed his gun at the man again. "Whatever."

An explosion. A bang. My ears began to ring.

"What the fuck!" Yaniv screamed.

I looked at the captive, and he was now writhing on the floor, blood streaming from his leg. Attila had missed his knee completely, and had instead hit him in his inner thigh. The blood was pumping periodically.

"You stupid idiot!" Yaniv had both of his hands on his head in panic. "You shot him through the jugular. He's going to die!"

"Fucken whoops," said Attila, handing the gun back to Pentti, who returned it to his waistband.

One of the Macbeths tore off a part of his shirt, and wrapped it around the captive's leg.

"What's wrong with you!" scream Yaniv. "We could've tried other things first!"

"You're taking too long!" Attila raised his voice, but he was still trying to keep his cool. "Now maybe he'll consider being our prisoner more seriously."

"Or he'll be dead!"

"He's losing too much blood," said one of the Macbeths. "We need to get him to an infirmary or we're going to lose him."

"Let's go," hurried Yaniv. "Take him."

"Wait." I stood up and approached, my boots wading into the pool of blood that expanded by the second. I squatted, lowering myself to the level of the prisoner. "Are you going to tell us about the Anima Mundi now?"

The captive was breathing heavily, growing pale. "Never," he said. "You don't need to save me. Unless you send me back, you might as well just kill me. I will be of no use to you."

I sighed and motioned for the Macbeths to take him. Two of them carried him out, while the blood continued to drip on the floor in spurts, and the third followed.

And we were left there. The smell of smoke and blood was thick in the air, and I noticed that I was breathing heavily. I could feel a pulsing in my chest, and a kind of alert calmness. We were just standing in the middle of the room, mesmerised by what had just transpired.

"Well shit," said Pentti.

"You almost killed a man for nothing," said Yaniv, pointing his finger accusatively at Attila.

"For nothing?" Attila turned to face him. "I was trying to get him to talk. And even if he didn't, even if I accidentally shot him in the bloody head, it wouldn't matter, because that man has probably killed many more people than me."

"So? That gives you the right to just do whatever you want with him? You're out of control."

"I'm completely in control. Thanks."

Yaniv looked like he wanted to say something, but instead he turned to the wall and yelled, "Fuck!" He kicked the blood, so that it splashed against the greyconcrete, then began pacing around and leaving red footprints everywhere he went.

"Sorry we weren't able to get it," Yaniv told me. "I didn't know what to do, either."

I shrugged. "Y'all tried."

We made our way back upstairs.

The Great Hall had turned into a shade of orange, as the sun was beginning to rise. Yaniv shuffled past Attila, careful to avoid his gaze, and exited in the building. Attila went upstairs, presumably to his room.

Pentti and I were left alone, both of our feet drenched in blood.

"I should get a new gun," he said.

"You should get a lobotomy," I told him.
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Postby Empirical Switzerland » Fri Oct 16, 2020 1:36 pm

meanwhile...


It was a normal morning for Vigeli, one like any other...

He woke up, with a big groan as he rubbed his eyes to feel more awake. He looked outside to see the sun glaring into his eyes and he immediately jerked away from it.

He sat there for a moment on his cot, wondering what surprises the world had in store for him today. He then stood up and stretched his arms with a loud,

"ahhhh-hhaaaaaa"

More or less, he yawned. He then looked in his mirror, fixed his dark soil-colored hair and put on an old tank-top he had lying around in a faint hue of red.

He slipped on some shoes and stepped outside to the morning dew, the air was smokey, as some of his fellow Macbeths outside were sitting around a campfire.


"Today is gonna be a great day"
,he said to himself in his head.
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Postby Kiu Ghesik » Fri Oct 16, 2020 4:51 pm

It was on his eighth day in this place that Iogu ked-Andu had decided he greatly disliked it.

It wasn't that the people there weren't kind to him- quite the opposite, actually. But that was the problem. He knew none of them. He didn't understand this place at all. He wanted to- knowledge was the greatest weapon, after all- but it all eluded him. It made a morbid sort of sense- there were hunters, and farmers, and builders, all those he would expect a town to need. But they were such a diverse bunch, unexpectedly so, people he'd never imagined to exist, and he had no clue as to the nature of any of it. There were no answers in this place, only questions. He would ask one their name, and why they were here, and he'd be caught for an hour in an explanation of some obscure, outlandish notion about the world he hadn't the time nor patience for, or have to ask what a "Palestine" or "Kiev" or "communism" or "Freud" was, or worse yet, he'd understand everything they said and be forced to reflect on how this place was affecting him. Like a sickness. Or a slime mold.

Or Kapital.

The fact he already understood that reference was cause for concern.

He wasn't even sure how he'd gotten there. Or how he'd learned about it. Or anything, really. He'd had a dream one night about a very large creature unlike any other he knew taunting him, he'd screamed something about engaging it in honored ritual wrestling, and then he'd rounded a corner, tripped on a nonexistent rock, clipped through the ground, somehow, and found himself here.

And then a rather tall, pale fellow in black clothing with a mask and a beanie on had told him that all this was normal, perfectly normal, despite it very clearly not being so, said a few very concerning yet reassuring things about the world that he didn't really understand, promised him he'd get his match eventually, told him to "go for the legs"- how had he known their language?-, and left.

He hadn't seen that man since he'd arrived. Perhaps that was for the best.

Now here he was, stuck under a piss-poor lean-to on the very outskirts of these people's camp, placed just far enough away from the rest so as to minimize his waylaying by unwanted and overly philosophical guests, and had done what he had been asked to do. There was very little they had asked of him, as of yet. They'd promised that he would be given tasks to do then largely left him be- apparently, he was a "Macbeth", a soldier of sorts, and they would call on him when it was time for war. Well, that much made sense. He was etsáhla, such things were no mystery to him. Honestly, having something to fight would be a marked improvement from doing small chores around the camp. At least it would be something he knew, if he wasn't made to strike down the ghost of Pinochet first, whoever that was. He seemed to be a monster of some kind, from the way he'd heard the name mentioned in passing. Surely he would be an interesting challenge to overcome.

Ah, well. No sense worrying about it now. Iogu leaned back against the stump he'd dragged to his little encampment, watching the trees above him, their leaves whispering in the breeze. He inhaled, feeling the sting of cold air in his nose, and sighed, then closed his eyes. To be entirely fair, this place wasn't half bad.

In fact, if he had a rod and a creek to fish in, it'd be nothing but bliss.

But the camp was stirring now. Another day, another round of evading inquisitive campers, another set of chores. Another day waiting for whatever was to come. If only time would bless him with something- anything- to break that rhythm. He was running out of places to hide.
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Postby Empirical Switzerland » Fri Oct 16, 2020 4:57 pm

Vigeli had seen a man laying against a tree, he decided to go check him out...

Vigeli walks up to Logu, and proceeded to ask,

"Hey, do you mind if I sit here next to you?"

The man looked deep in thought, but Vigeli thought he wouldn't mind.
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Postby Kiu Ghesik » Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:28 pm

Empirical Switzerland wrote:Vigeli had seen a man laying against a tree, he decided to go check him out...

Vigeli walks up to Iogu, and proceeded to ask,

"Hey, do you mind if I sit here next to you?"

The man looked deep in thought, but Vigeli thought he wouldn't mind.

Despite his best efforts to achieve freedom from being pestered, one of these people had found him.

Damn. Would he have to bury himself in leaves or something next time? Probably.

Well, this man was here now. Best to entertain him. He seemed, well, he seemed the sort to be overconfident. He walked with a swagger, and he was willing to come here and take a place next to Iogu, who at least in his own mind cut a rather menacing figure, without asking as anything more than a courtesy. Surely he could not be dissuaded.

He opened one eye and turned to look at the man. He seemed the kind to think himself a great warrior.

He was not. From first impressions alone Iogu could tell this man would break at the slightest sign of danger. He did not have a warrior's face- he lacked even a single scar. He seemed determined to make himself seem stronger than he seemed, what with the way he puffed out his chest as he walked and that admittedly rugged bit of stubble on his chin.

He would look better with a curly little mustache, in all honesty. Only Iogu wore that week-old semi-beard well. As he did now. And the mirror in the building's restroom told him he looked good.

"Actually, I do. But you people aren't dissuaded by the word 'no', are you?"

Well, that was rude. But it was no matter. He wasn't happy his little bit of free time was being interrupted by this pretty-boy... Frenchman? No, Swiss. That was the people he hailed from, judging him by his face. There were only a few in this place. In fact, this man might've been the only one.

"I've got to go, so let's get this over with. What do you want?"
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Postby Empirical Switzerland » Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:35 pm

"Oh...uh, well I don't want anything, you just looked like you were worried about something, if you want me to go I can..."

Vigeli tries to act confident when meeting people, but usually once he knows them better he becomes his true self, very unmanly and shy. This man did intimidate him, but Vigeli didn't expect him to act the way he looked, Vigeli never looks to pick fights, he is what he thinks a civil person.
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Postby Socialist Macronesia » Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:38 pm

Chi! Chi Chi!

There Kaz was, flying his helicopter. Oh, this was a dream wasn't it? I mean, the sound of the surface to air missile gaining lock was just, like, I don't know, the wind.

American Stinger missile, can't touch me!

But the blip began getting louder and louder and closer and closer and

"IDI NAHUY! Stupid fucking bird."

The sound stopped, and Kaz was upright in his bed. Well, work time now. As usual, he was up-and-atum in fifteen minutes.

It had been--how long?--since the incident. Kaz had been shot down by a rebel fighter with a Stinger doing a sortie over some godforsaken place he no longer remembered nor cared enough to remember. Put him in the hospital for a month or two. God, that had sucked. Hopefully his new employers wouldn't be asking him to-- ha! Of course they will be, Kaz.

He took a swig of water, and walked out to the campfire. He tucked his obrez in his belt. It had been his grandfather's Mosin Nagant, he'd had the privilege of having it passed down. And cut down.

There were two men sitting by the fire.

"Another day, more of this fucking monotony. I have to get my flight hours in or they'll take my license, cyka."
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Postby Kiu Ghesik » Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:58 pm

Empirical Switzerland wrote:"Oh...uh, well I don't want anything, you just looked like you were worried about something, if you want me to go I can..."

Vigeli tries to act confident when meeting people, but usually once he knows them better he becomes his true self, very unmanly and shy. This man did intimidate him, but Vigeli didn't expect him to act the way he looked, Vigeli never looks to pick fights, he is what he thinks a civil person.

"I don't mean to offend."

For once, Iogu meant that. The man didn't look too arrogant at second glance- if anything, he seemed morose. Dejected. And he thought Iogu looked sad? Maybe that hair in his eyes was making it hard for him to see? Iogu wanted to rest. That was it. And this man's obstinance and admittedly sad expression was preventing that.

But now he felt as if he'd kicked a dog. That was what his hair reminded Iogu of, a shaggy sheepdog. Except black, and long. Very long. Like a bird. This man was a soldierly bird-man. What an odd combination! He fit right in with the rest of these misfits, he did. Perfectly unlike Iogu. He, at least, was normal in all regards. But everyone considered themselves normal, didn't they? What even was normalcy? Was it a real concept? A force of society? Or a product of some error in the human mind?

This place really was affecting him.

"I can spare a few moments. I know you people are fond of asking questions of me. Ask away." He groaned. "It's not like I'll be doing anything else today. They don't trust me yet, I think. But you- you look like you fit right in here."

The man- or rather, child, he seemed quite youthful in expression- perked up at that. Exactly like a dog would when you threw it a bone.

"So, ah, whatever you want, ask away, I suppose. That's what you all do, anyways." Too harsh? Maybe. Probably not. He did want to have a bit of time to himself, anyways, and this man was in the way of that goal.

But he looked so pitiful.
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Postby Empirical Switzerland » Fri Oct 16, 2020 6:06 pm

Kiu Ghesik wrote:
Empirical Switzerland wrote:"Oh...uh, well I don't want anything, you just looked like you were worried about something, if you want me to go I can..."

Vigeli tries to act confident when meeting people, but usually once he knows them better he becomes his true self, very unmanly and shy. This man did intimidate him, but Vigeli didn't expect him to act the way he looked, Vigeli never looks to pick fights, he is what he thinks a civil person.

"I don't mean to offend."

For once, Iogu meant that. The man didn't look too arrogant at second glance- if anything, he seemed morose. Dejected. And he thought Iogu looked sad? Maybe that hair in his eyes was making it hard for him to see? Iogu wanted to rest. That was it. And this man's obstinance and admittedly sad expression was preventing that.

But now he felt as if he'd kicked a dog. That was what his hair reminded Iogu of, a shaggy sheepdog. Except black, and long. Very long. Like a bird. This man was a soldierly bird-man. What an odd combination! He fit right in with the rest of these misfits, he did. Perfectly unlike Iogu. He, at least, was normal in all regards. But everyone considered themselves normal, didn't they? What even was normalcy? Was it a real concept? A force of society? Or a product of some error in the human mind?

This place really was affecting him.

"I can spare a few moments. I know you people are fond of asking questions of me. Ask away." He groaned. "It's not like I'll be doing anything else today. They don't trust me yet, I think. But you- you look like you fit right in here."

The man- or rather, child, he seemed quite youthful in expression- perked up at that. Exactly like a dog would when you threw it a bone.

"So, ah, whatever you want, ask away, I suppose. That's what you all do, anyways." Too harsh? Maybe. Probably not. He did want to have a bit of time to himself, anyways, and this man was in the way of that goal.

But he looked so pitiful.

Lol. Good writing!


Vigeli was a little confused at the man's responses, but nonetheless pleased.

"Great! So uh, first off, nice to meet you... I'm Vigeli!"

He stuck out his hand to shake with Logu after pushing his bangs up and to the side out of his eyes, he did this all in a very...dainty manner to say the least...he felt very intimidated around Logu, and he didn't want to make it seem like that too much, although he didn't care much if he did or not, first impressions are important to a 19 year old, introverted, Secretly Gay, kid.
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Empirical Switzerland wrote:Vigeli was a little confused at the man's responses, but nonetheless pleased.

"Great! So uh, first off, nice to meet you... I'm Vigeli!"

He stuck out his hand to shake with Iogu after pushing his bangs up and to the side out of his eyes, he did this all in a very...dainty manner to say the least...he felt very intimidated around Iogu, and he didn't want to make it seem like that too much, although he didn't care much if he did or not, first impressions are important to a 19 year old, introverted, Secretly Gay, kid.

Shake, yes, that was what these people did. He extended a hand and took Vigeli's. His grip was, to put it kindly, not the strongest. In fact it was rather weak, even if he was beaming as he gave it. Cheery fellow, but clearly not as impressive as he made himself out to be. It was strange, really- he'd walked up with the swagger of a warrior, then sank into... this. Whatever it was.

And he had given his name- even if Iogu did not feel that such a thing was as much a cause for ceremony as those odd horse-folk did, it was still an occasion of greeting.

"I am Iogu. With an "h". I-ho-gu." Hm. Why did everyone that mattered here have three-syllable names? Was there something about three-letter names that made one more distinguished? Iogu certainly thought he was distinguished- it came with the territory for an etsáhla. And there was no doubting that the people in charge here had distinguished themselves. Perhaps this man was distinguished as well? It made sense, really, for such a stupid thing to determine one's importance in this madhouse.

He didn't look distinguished, in all honesty. He seemed intimidated. That was in all likelihood a good thing. It meant he would be leaving soon, and then Iogu could rest once more. If there was still time left.

"Next question, please, that can't be all one of you people would ask."
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Vigeli thought this man was very interesting to say the least...

"Uhm, uh. Nice to meet you, Lho-Gu!"
He was pretty sure he had pronounced it correctly

he was about to ask another question when he thought...

"So, uhm. It seems you uh... don't want me here? Is that right?"

He scratched his head

"I am getting that kinda vibe from you, is that correct?"
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Postby Kiu Ghesik » Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:53 pm

Empirical Switzerland wrote:Vigeli thought this man was very interesting to say the least...

"Uhm, uh. Nice to meet you, Lho-Gu!
He was pretty sure he had pronounced it correctly

"So, uhm. It seems you uh... don't want me here? Is that right?"

He scratched his head

"I am getting that kinda vibe from you, is that correct?"

I have made the joke, as you requested. I think I botched the delivery.

"Lho... it's an I, not an L. How...?"

Well, that was the most unique mispronunciation of his name he'd ever heard. Most people- particularly those Ghesites, their language was horrid about acknowledging that little "h". They always pronounced his name "Yogu." Like he was some bloody woodland creature that liked getting into picnic baskets. That was a reference he rather wished hadn't been pointed out to him on his literal first day here.

By a soft-faced man in a fluffy sweater, nonetheless.

Ugh.

"And not particularly. You're new here, aren't you? I am as well. And, well, it is certainly strange. This peace is all I get before they pester me with questions. So you would be right. I do not. Sleep sounds far better."

He felt a twinge of guilt at that, surprisingly. He'd never met this man- even if he certainly left a, uh, intense impression- and here he was feeling guilty. Perhaps it was his face- Vigeli's skin was incredibly pale. He had a certain femininity about him, and Iogu was far more conscious of that than he wanted to be. Yes, that was it- Vigeli looked like a little girl pouting that she hadn't gotten her way.

Iogu's impression of the man was falling rather rapidly, now that he thought about it. He had gone from seeing a swaggering warrior with a penchant for competition to a rather sad, small figure trying desperately to assert himself. And, well, looking rather more female than he likely wanted to, if that swagger he'd first displayed was any indication.

As strange as the word sounded, the term "femboy" seemed quite apt here. Iogu rolled his eyes and whispered a mocking thank-you to whoever he'd heard that word from- he genuinely wished he could forget it. What sort of fucked-up society would need to come up with such a term? There were certainly such people, Iogu thought, and they needed to be described somehow, but a portmanteau of "feminine" and "boy" just sounded... odd. Maybe it was a sentiment only he felt- after all, he was rather more removed from these people in time than anyone else in this camp was. But it still seemed strange that a society would find a need to create such a word.

Ugh. What a fucking bizarre place this was.
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I am dead from laughter


"Oops, I meant to say Ihogu! Sorry! I'm bad with names at first,"

he laughed a tiny bit, and more uncomfortable than happily, he obviously felt awkward...

"Okay then, I'll leave you be, have a nice one!"

Vigeli began to walk off knowing he had made a fool of himself, he wanted to curl up into a box and hide away...however, he tried to look past this at what other good things could happen today...
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I was relaxing at the balcony, observing the rising sun, while Mikah rummaged around in the room behind me, like a possum digging through garbage. Through the surrounding windows, I could see she was struggling to figure out what a pantyhose was meant for.

Pentti emerged from the corridor and pranced into the room, holding what looked like a brick with an antenna. "No and no," he said, the brick pressed against his face, which looked cherubic in the morning sun.

"This is Great Hall," he said into the phone. "Any sign of them from your end?"

"We should remember to buy some tresse in Syria next time," Mikah, whose upper half was now hanging through an open window, said to me. "And maybe try more of their cuisine."

"I would like some very good hummus," I said. "Is that basic, me wanting hummus in Syria?"

"Why would that be basic dude?"

"I don't know." I scratched Koda behind her ear, her head pushing into my hand, demandingly. "It's like going to Italy to see the leaning tower of Pisa. Going to the Netherlands to see the Anne Frank annex. It's so typical."

"There's a problem at the southern camp," said Pentti. "Apparently something went wrong with the last expedition. Someone's legs have been torn off by a fut-thingy."

"It's like going to Texas and wanting to eat a fried stick of butter," I said. "Surely, you get what I mean."

"People may be dead," Pentti said. "And it looks like we're going to have to go over and sort shit out. But I can do it alone, if you don't want to join me."

I rolled my eyes, and looked at Mikah, mouthing, "Kill me."

She dragged her finger across her neck, as if it were a knife, and after giving me a brief chuckle, went back inside.

I brushed Koda's head, folding her ears as I did. She looked glamorous. Wise - or, wiser, in any case, than all of us in that house.

"What do you think, Koda?" I said.

She looked at me, and blinked twice. She stood up, and walked back into the room behind us.

"Look," said Pentti. "Even the dog knows."

With a sigh, I asked Pentti to wait for me at the front of the building, while I got ready to head out. I decided to bring along Zhuangzitis, my Walther PP, etched on which was an elaborate floral design that lends no tactical advantage whatsoever, but which the previous owner decided was worth the cost. Pentti calls it a "deadly paperweight." That's good enough for me.

When I passed Mikah again on my way down, she was sitting on the railing of the staricase, slowly sliding down, a quiet, continuous "Whee" filling the chamber.

"I'm out to save the world again," I said. "If I find one of those tresse things, I'll try to get some back."

"Try not to die or get anyone killed," she said.

"I can only offer my best," I said. "And that's not saying much."

"Mhm," she murmured, before jumping off the rail and joyfully hopping away, into the depths of the Great Hall. Actually, I think it might have been the kitchen.

Koda was standing guard by the front door, watching me as I left.


Like the majestic knights described in the Book of Arthur, we rode into town on horseback, glaring at the peasant classes surrounding us. Two Macbeths, who were hanging out by the gate, sharing a joint, gave us a wave.

"Good morning Chairman Pentti!" one of them exclaimed. His voice was jolly though deep, almost stereotypically stoner-esque, and with a slight hint of a British accent. Pentti nodded in acknowledgement.

"Oh, wow," I said. "What about me? Don't I deserve a good morning?"

"Mornin' Kotera," the other Macbeth said with a slight chuckle.

"I see how it is," I mumbled, "Pentti is 'chairman' but I'm not good enough for that. Alright. Can't even get a 'comrade' from yall fuckers."

"Relax," Pentti said.

"They do know I'm pretty crucial to this whole operation, right? I'm basically the fucking Caesar, the von Bismarck, the-"

But Pentti raised his hand before I could continue.

"Insulted by amateurs..." I grumbled.

Pentti hopped off his horse, giving him a little pat on the neck. The horse neighed gently, before walking off to drink some water from a nearby stream.

"We're looking for Georgi," he said to one of the stoner Macbeths. "Have either of you seen him recently?"

"...Georgi..." one of them said pensively. "Have you seen Georgi?" he asked his friend.

The second stoner Macbeth pursed his lips in thought, making an exaggerated expression. His eyebrows furrowed suddenly. "Is he the Bulgar one? Weird face? Always wears heeled boots?"

Pentti nodded. "That's the one. Do you know where he is?"

"Yeah," the Macbeth turned to face the rest of the camp. He pointed to one of the larger tents. "Think he's preparing goulash in there."

I likewise hopped off my horse, and walked towards the Macbeths. I gave the helpful one a slap on the shoulder, "Cheers, prophet Jonah," I said, before marching off in the direction.

From behind me, I could hear Pentti utter a "thanks mate."

Inside of the kitchen tent, the aroma of paprika, stewed vegetables, an overwhelming amount of tomatoes, and more pepper than I thought existed on this Earth hit me like a truck. And right by the stove, there he was - a tall brunet with thick lips and a scarred face, wearing a sweater he stole from Yaniv a while ago and never returned - surrounded by Macbeths, some of whom gave simple nods, or waved when they noticed us enter. One even exclaimed a "Wahey!" which got the attention of Georgi.

"Oh, hey guys! Didn't think I'd see you two here today," he said. He wore his badge of the Order of the Sparrow, pinned to the collar of his dress shirt, which he wore underneath the sweater.

"An angel sounded a trumpet, so we're here," I said, sitting down at the wooden bench which doubled as the kitchen crew's main table.

"We're on a tight schedule today," Pentti said.

"Oh, really?" Georgi responded, nodding. "What's wrong?"

"We had an incident with the captive," Pentti continued. "Turns out they know of the Anima Mundi, and are looking for it."

Georgi cursed under his breath, "Shit."

"Yeah," I said. "So, we gotta get going as of yesterday. Get some people, go off running, try to get it before it falls into the wrong hands."

"Right," Georgi nodded. "Luckily, we've gotten a few new arrivals recently - they might be willing to join."

Pentti spoke up. "I'm gonna put up a notice at the main board," he said. "Can you have some of your lads spread the word?"

"Yeah, yeah, of course," Georgi said, nodding once more, stirring the contents of the big pot. He turned to the Macbeths in the back of the tent. "Can you guys help out here?"

Immediatelly, they all stood up, and chatter ceased. "Of course," one of them said. "What do you need, comrade Georgi?"

"Let everyone know the chairmen are looking for volunteers," Georgi ordered, though his tone was more pleasant than authoritative. Maybe that's what they, the Macbeths, liked about him. "Some big adventure in..." he turned to Pentti. "Where exactly are you guys going?"

"Still working on that," I said. "Just get us a few groups ready, and we'll take it from there."

The first Macbeth nodded, and hurried the rest out of the tent. Their chatter resumed as they left.
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Vigelo began walking back to camp, he went to his tent and sat there for a minute, just thinking.

He wondered why the world was the way it is, why he was here, was he meant to be here? And what if God been watching over him?

He shook this thought, and began to pray silently.

"Dear Lord, In the Heavens above. I thank you for letting me live another wonderful day, I love you very much, I ask you to forgive me of my sins, and come into my heart as my Lord and Savior. Thank you very much."


He sat in silence thinking of what else to say.

"Also, please ensure that wherever my parents are, that they are okay, and so is everyone else that I love and care for, and all who deserve it. I ask you to guide me today as you do all days, and keep me safe under your watchful gaze, thank you so much Lord. You are the one true God, And in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen."

He hoped this simple prayer he had just made would help him out for the day.

He would have to see that for himself as the day progressed.

He stepped outside of his tent.
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Iogu leaned back against his log and looked up at the sky. Now that the kid was gone, he could relax, at least for the moment. And relax he intended to do.

The sun was at the moment not yet risen high enough to peek far above the horizon, and the clouds hung low over the ground, like a herd of fat cows pushed along by the wind. If he had been a superstitious man, Iogu would have taken note of their shape, their speed, and other such omens of the great big sky-mum. As it was, though, he was not inclined to do so, and instead contented himself with closing his eyes and feeling the gentle breeze course across his face. He could hear birds, the rustle of leaves, the sounds of a camp coming to life- all things he'd grown used to, but somehow far more serene than he would ever expect them to be.

This was not a township- far from it. There were no children, no sound of carriage or horse-hoof on stone, no gentle ringing of the harbor-bell, nothing he would expect from his home. Rather, it was more like the camps of those nomads, those Ghes-folk, to the west. It was not a war-camp like the ones he was used to. These people lived like this- their dwellings were far from permanent, the complex at the camp's center not of their own making- rather than building a place to live. It was a strange way of living, midway between that of a nomad and that of a city-dweller. But it was a respectable one, a peaceful one. There was no sound of strife in this place, as disparate as its denizens were. And peace was always welcome.

He was beginning to drift off again when a sharp crack, muffled but just loud enough to catch his ear, sounded from the center of the camp. Such things were not irregular- gunshots, that was what they were, the products of those spears that spat flame these people wielded- but still not a normal occurrence. Iogu raised one eyebrow and listened for a moment.

The sound did not see fit to repeat itself.

Sighing, he stood, hands on his knees, and stretched. That was as good a call to start the day as any, damnit. He had just been starting to think he might enjoy this place.
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Pentti and I walked over to the centre of the camp, where around 20 people were already gathered, going about their morning.

One of the Macbeths was singing a very upbeat song, in what I recognised to be Ukrainian.

"My pokazhem im, psam besporodnym,
Chto Anarkhiya materʹ vsego,
Chto voyna tut idyot za narody
I na boy nas vedyot za soboy.
"


The morning sun was getting just tall enough to reach over the surrounding forest, to the point where it was starting to blind my poor little eyes, still not fully adjusted to the brightness of the day.

"Man, I could really go for a shawarma right about now," I commented.

"It's like 6.40 in the morning," Pentti said, as he placed another piece of paper against a flagpole. I brushed a thick layer of DIY glue - made out of a mixture of wheat and water - sticking it to the wooden staff. It looked like a mixture of puss and slime. "And you want to get a shawarma?"

"Don't judge me," I said. "This is a free land. I can eat whatever I want, whenever I want; time isn't my lord."

He shrugged his shoulders.

"Just don't think it'd sit that well with you later in the day," he spoke, as we walked up to another flagpole, bearing three various standards at its very top: the increasingly popular Wuchu triangular banner, commonly called the "Anarkiddie's birthday flag"; the battle flag of the Swamp Gang, with its red and black swamp sparrow; and a third flag, an all-green banner with the words "AGAINST LEVIATHAN" imprinted in bold capitals over a funny-looking skull, which the camp's inhabitants decided was good enough to represent them.

As we glued another poster announcing our next adventure, I looked around the camp. I recognised a lot of the faces surrounding us, having met and introduced many of them to this camp myself. However, as Georgi said, there were indeed plenty of new faces, too.

Closest to us was an emo-looking sadboi, who looked as if he had just come out of a Hot Topic, circa 2012. Very twinkish, and seemed almost out-of-place with his gentle appearance, if we hadn't recently recruited 14 others like him just a month prior.

Farther away was a more mature man, although he was still considerably youthful. He wore a stubble, as if he had stopped shaving the moment he entered Wuchu, and which was just about turning into what one might consider a 'beard.' He was sitting on the ground, warming his hands at a fire camp, along with two others who looked much alike to him.

And in the distance, there was someone I recognised well, having to interact perhaps a bit too much with his familiars - a member of the etsáhla class from the ancient days of nomads. A primitive communist, in more than one sense.
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Vigeli noticed the others in front of him, he rejoiced as he saw what he thought was the leaders of the Swamp Gang as he exited his tent. But what were they doing? He'd wonder...well, he'd be fine, he thought.

He noticed them putting up a poster, and looked over to see what it said, no use, he couldn't exactly read it from that far away, and he was far too shy at the moment from what had happened earlier to just go right up in fron of them and look at it, so his only real option was to wait...
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Iogu watched from his place just removed from the log as two figures he identified as the camp's leaders ran up their flags on the poles which dominated the complex' center. They were curious things, really, especially the green one. It was exactly the same shade as a not-yet-ripe apple.

The tall, masked one, Kotera, was of course still wearing that mask. He probably slept with it on.

Well, Iogu thought, there were no better people to consult in regards to what needed to be done today. And the one who followed Kotera about seemed to be markedly less likely to attempt to wrangle him into a philosophical discussion over the course of inquiring about where the bathroom was than anyone else here. He pulled the blue loaner coat he'd gotten on his second day here over his broad shoulders and made his way to the flagpoles, doing his best not to attract any unwanted attention on the journey.

The sad one, Vigeli, was standing quite close by, eyeing Kotera rather intently. That was certainly a strange thing to be doing. Well, perhaps not- Vigeli didn't seem to be the assertive sort.

On the pole, he could see, was a poster of some kind. There was the face of a man featured rather prominently on it, a man with a dull-looking cross-eyed face, and writing beneath it. It was not written in a script he could read. Whatever cosmic force had deemed that these people would somehow all speak a language he knew and write in a script he did not deserved to be hung from a short rope.

He turned to see the camp's leaders standing some distance away from the flagpoles and looking over the group gathered in the clearing. Clearing his throat, he made to wave one over, and stopped. These people might have made themselves out as equals, but he still felt unease at treating them as such. They had better to do than cater to his idiocy.

Well, they'd said that any question would be answered, after all, and he had a question, reverence be damned. Though it might be best not to reveal precisely why he was asking it.

"What's this meant to be, then?" Iogu asked, in what he hoped was a forceful and assertive tone, pointing at the still-wet poster. "What's with the tired-looking fellow?"
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Postby Wuchu » Sun Oct 25, 2020 4:02 pm

"I don't know why you're so insistent on eating the worst possible thing for breakfast," I said to Kotera.

"I don't know why you're so paternal all of a sudden," he said as he applied another thick layer of the 'glue'. "It's not like you're the one who's gonna be sitting on the toilet later."

While we squabbled about the correct time to eat Middle Eastern food, one of the new arrivals made his way towards us, and, obliviously to Kotera, was now standing tall behind my stubborn co-chairman.

"What's with the tired-looking fellow?"

He spoke in a very exotic accent, still thick. Evidently, the Other Place hadn't yet perfected its universalisation of human languages. His voice was deep, even for his age, and you could tell straight away that he was still adjusting to these surroundings. You can smell the newbies from a mile away - still trying to find their place in the social debt economy, still naively trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

As he spoke, Kotera jumped in his step, startled; a slight smirk surfaced on the Macbeth's face.

His clothes were familiar - in fact, I think I gave away that jacket a few weeks ago - but I couldn't quite place his origin. Sometime ancient, presumably, though you could never be sure in this place. He might just have a knack for fur and leather.

"Oh, hey, bud," I said. I handed him one of the flyers.

"It's Kaczynski," Kotera said. "Sort of a legend, with some based and hot takes about civoids."

The stranger put on an understanding face, but the quiver of his eyebrow revealed confusion.

"He was an eco-terrorist," I clarified. He nodded.

"'Terrorism' is such a prejudiced term, Pentti," Kotera said with crossed arms. He leaned to one side, putting his weight on one foot while he crossed the other at the ankle. One of his tells, like a biblical trumpet announcing the apocalypse. Or, in this case, a debate.

"Don't start," I said, attentively raising one hand.
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Postby Empirical Switzerland » Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:41 am

Vigeli watched from afar at what he assumed to be highly valued members of the Swamp Gang, one of them however, caught his eye.

From what he heard, he thought he could infer that their name was Kotera.
"Hmm...An interesting name." He thought to himself, but he couldn't deny that he already felt something for this 'Kotera'.

Welp, it was now or never to go see if it was meant to be, so he pushed his hair to the side, wiped off some dirt on his jacket, and started making his way over to 'Kotera'. Because, first impressions matter, am I right?

He thought he may have a chance at something for once, so unlike usually, he walked over striding in pride, and not acting embarrassed or belittled.

He was now about 7 feet from Kotera.

Alright, it's now or never now. He approached Kotera, and with a grin said,
"Hi! Uh, I'm Vigeli! I'm kinda new here, thought I'd introduce myself! Y'know?"

He then extended his hand ready to shake it with 'Kotera'.
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