ϡ - Chapter ThirtySix; The switch up [action|voice]

[folklorist]

[ You can find Helios this week at his usual haunts. The library, tea shop, bakery and oddly enough at Cloud Nine. He might actually even have a drink or too.

He'll also be carrying around a very strange device with him as well. For all of you unawares of the latest 21st century technologies this is what we call a laptop. Helios loves his dearly and if he knows you well enough he might even let you touch her. But he's a bit clingly when it comes to his dear laptop so don't expect any free games of Spider Solitaire or what have you. HE HAS WORK TO DO. Okay, not really, but no one needs to know that. With tons of illegally downloaded material on his laptop it's hard to say that he's actually gotten bored. But two years and only having the same things to watch over and over again...well safe to say he is bored.

On one of the days he'll be found in the shops cataloging and taking inventory checking to see if anything new has cropped up or in general to see if the influx of items has changed at all. He has to keep busy somehow okay?

On Friday morning Helios will send out message to the entire village. The voice should be noticeable and clear enough. There aren't too many people with slight Romanian accents after all. And yet there's something fundamentally different about it too. No stuttering or uncertain questions. Just an underlying cordial and confident tone of voice. ] So, this is quite the strange week we're having, isn't it? People claiming others to be acting odd and all. Not really unexpected of Luceti though, I suppose calling it a shift would be proper now, given the information collected. [ Looking through the journals again...Helios has noticed some very big differences. ] Then there's the battledome. I don't know the details on that but if anyone would be so kind as to oblige me with them I'd be sincerely grateful for that. Oh, and if anyone would like a simulation created for them I'd be more than grateful to help you out with that. It's a bit finicky and I'm not sure if the controls were damaged in the process either. But there's only one way to really find out. I hope not though it really is an exquisite piece of technology...

[ He'll pause the tapping of a pen against against a desk the only sound. ] But onto something a little less business and a bit more...casual. [ All work and no play makes Helios a dull boy. ]

I've been thinking of having a game night. You know the usual. Poker, Black Jack, Solitaire, whatever ones you have in your world. Everything is welcome mind that you have the necessary materials to play it. And for the hell of it I think I'll hold a little session of Dungeons and Dragons too. [ A laugh on his end. ] But, yes, it'll be at House forty-four just behind the town square. And lets...make it for around eightish on Saturday. I think that should be suitable for everyone. You don't have to bring refreshments, we can provide, just bring yourselves your friends if you want and the insatiable appetite to vanquish demons, slay dragons- [ Oh right. Not getting into it, nope. He'll clear his throat. ] -and have fun, we'll hopefully being seeing you all on Saturday.

((ooc; Due to my own fail with this event the action in this post is for whatever day you want. Basically the same thing as an Any Day thread in the mass log. You can put what day and where if you want to but it's not needed. The voice part only takes place on Friday though! And Helios' AU info can be found here.))

Comments

[Action, Friday]

[fleurdesel]

Sunny darling!

[Adele calls for a moment before poking her head into his room. No sense of boundaries on this woman. At all. Ever. She grins and walks over to loop her arms around his shoulders in a loose, easy hug. Yes, they were both shifted. She was more affectionate, and he didn't flinch at. Everything. She may as well take advantage.]

What is this about a party- you didn't say anything about Sabacc. I thought I'd taught you how to play that last month. Or was that Poker?

[Voice] | Friday, Friday, gotta tag posts on Friday~

[semper_cogitans]

[Even if Robert is quite aware that their understandings of each other differ (a laptop, huh? He's not sure if he can get over that part just yet)... Helios is still his friend. No Shift is going to get in the way of spending time with him.

As for details on the Battle Dome? He'd be glad to talk about them... if it wasn't over the journals.]

I would be glad to attend... [Though there's still nervousness in his voice, it's significantly less than usual. This version of Robert actually had to learn to interact with people to a degree.]

[voice]

[redjacketthief]

I'll get you the info on the Battle Dome when I get it, Helios. No worries--the droids went there for a reason, after all. And...I figure any data we can collect will be useful in the long term.

...I'd also be interested in joining you on your game night on Friday. Is that a bunch of card games you're suggesting? I feel like I read about them somewhere...

And your Dungeons and Dragons does sound interesting. Count me in.

[Voice] Friday

[daisy023]

[Ah, card games. She sucks at them by the standards of Spartans (not that the memory of her group might be available for now), but they are games she is familiar with.

The Dome is something she would discuss as well off-journals, but for one thing--]

Dungeons and Dragons? What do you mean?

[voice]

[truthin_bones]

[But business is so much more interesting.]

Given my more recent arrival, I have not been here long enough to be able to fully determine whether people are indeed acting strangely or not. Would this be characteristic of one of the Malnosso's experiments then?

[Written]

[shadedsunlight]

Game night? I think I can crawl out of bed for that.

[Voice]

[mistlegacy]

[The changes to his voice are of course noticed, but by this point, Rydia will just go with it and assume he's been changed somehow, too.]

Game night, huh? I don't know if I'll be a regular, but I might need the distraction this time. Realizing that almost everyone remembers the past differently is getting to be a bit of a headache.

action

[ex_restoring6]

[The library, you say? Well, Naoki is around there on Thursday, getting out a couple of books and bringing back more than a few more. He already has his nose buried in one, reading as he walks through the shelves. He's just, uh. Deciding if he wants to take this one out.

Yes.

So if he turns around a shelf and ends up bumping into you, Helios, sorry!]

[Voice]

[justicereigns]

Poker works for me. What the hell is Dungeons & Dragons?

Any day, Friday aside. Going with your bar suggestion!

[relictusdeus]

[After having his drink sampled for poison and then sipping it cautiously and swirling it around his mouth, he deemed his tuica fit for consumption (thus not needing to spit it out) and sat himself at the table tucked into the back corner of Good Spirits. Leaning deeply into his chair and with his legs apart, he seems to project a sense of ease and relaxation. But his nerves tingle with awareness, his pale, wary eyes appraising and analyzing every passerby over the rim of his tall glass.

Another glass - this one a shot glass full of that clear firewater - sits upon the table before him, seemingly in invitation.]

written; OMG I'm sorry I have no idea how I screwed up this comment twice.

[wigglesfate]

Dungeons and Dragons?

[ Sounds ominous. ]

[Voice] 1/2 Go ahead and mock my lateness. D:

[lostinmyway]

[...There's something really different about Helios today, although she can't quite put her finger on what it is....]