Hanna Falk Cross (
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Good morning, welcome to the world, Sunshine!
Who: Hanna Falk Cross - open
When: June 15th and forward
Where: Around the barge, Hanna likes to wander
What: Hanna enters the chat! He's going to be irritated and looking for information, but mostly pleasant if annoying. He doesn't want to rock the boat too hard when he's got not a lot to protect himself with.
Warnings: Will add as needed
Wandering the halls
It's a strange thing to be nursing bruised knuckles after punching someone in the jaw, but the thing that actually killed him isn't presenting itself as a problem. He'll have to get used to that, he guesses, not that he's complaining. He'd rather not get thrown into an alien space ship thing bleeding out, and what kind of ammo did you use for obnoxious pirate-ass looking guns anyways? The size of the bullet would have just gone straight through, he's sure, it didn't have much to get through anyways. The close range probably didn't help either, but man what an asshole. He'd been thinking he was going to aim for Tobias instead with how he was going on, but you never could figure out crazy unless you had a little yourself.
"I think I hate palindromes now. 12:21 is my unlucky fucking number." He grumbles at himself, rolling up a sleeve to start doing a self check, the arrays and runes that he could see without undressing in the hallway perfectly in place. Kind of weird to think that in death it mattered, but for some strange reason it was still a requirement to keep him chugging along. Ah well, he was used to it.
His hand goes to reach behind him for his hammer that he swore was in his belt loop, and grabs air, turning half around to double check because yeah, no dice. "Are you kidding me? Gotta at least have-" He pats at his pockets, the address slip still in there, and cool, just what he was looking for. He feels like he's gotten away with something, uncapping his marker to start drawing on his hand, and yet, when he finishes its just black ink, nothing happening. There goes his idea of prepared self-defense.
"I am so screwed."
Some time later in the library
Not to be deterred entirely by his sudden nerfing, Hanna has found himself in the library, which is probably for the best because he's going to be working in here soon enough. He's actually kind of excited about it, and even seems to enjoy sifting through the card catalogue. His own local library had shifted over to digital recently but the new system worked like dog shit and he could find something easily this way, was entirely used to it. He'd been looking to see if this place had anything on runic magic, because sometimes you could find good reference in the weirdest places even if most of them were duds, but soon got distracted by the media section.
He'd been flipping through to see if there was anything he recognized when he got to the L's and suddenly there is this sound that comes out, definitely not in his library voice, "Holy shit! No way..."
Pulling the cd case from it's place Hanna holds it up like it was made of fucking gold, flipping it over to check the back. Ludo's "Prepare the Preperations" Album clearly states that it's release date was 2010, and Hanna feels both elated and fucking cheated, "Of course they waited till after I died to release another one. Figures." He's just going to save that for later and continue searching. Maybe some of his other favorites are hidden in here and he can just drown out all his feelings with some new good music.
Because he's curious and wants to bitch about something
He was still salty about the bathroom thing, not like his apartment could get any shittier. It wouldn't hurt to just take a peak though, right? See what he's supposed to be using like everyone else, and it wasn't like he wasn't ever going to shower. That was fucking gross.
He'd never been to college but he figures this is probably what a hall bathroom looks like in some kind of dorm space, thankful that the stalls were at least stalls and no one was required to just shower out in the open like the locker rooms back in high school. That had been a fucking nightmare and a half even before his body had gotten it's 'E for everyone' rating removed. Trying not to think about how he probably still could be shoved into a locker and how long he might have to wait to be let out if that happened, he walks over to the weird future-shower and starts inspecting it. Fucking weird alien thing, he's sure.
Home sweet home
He hasn't made the full rounds, but coming back to his room, staring at the door with it's fucked up numbers, he's going to open the door again and just take it in. It was dark in there, like usual, the hanging singular lightbulb one of the only light fixtures in the whole studio. It was what he was used to, but having peaked into some of the other unused rooms that all had similar doors, he can admit that maybe it'd be nice for a change. And yet, he doesn't think he'll ask. The tiny window he can't even reach still has the marks in the dust on the sill that he can see when he's standing this far away where his Zombie partner had put his hands to peak out.
His work name tag is still sitting on the kitchen island, tiny thing that it was, and everything that connected him to home was right here. It didn't matter that it was messy, he could probably actually find the time to clean it now that he wasn't going to be working so much, but that could come later.
"At least it doesn't come with Mrs. Blaney." He reminds himself, wishing that somewhere in the clutter of the entirely all too small space was his hammer, but he's pretty sure that thing didn't come with the room. He wonders if the knives in the kitchen drawer are also gone, not that he had anything especially sharp, maybe a couple butter knives? But that was fine. He had to set to the real work now anyways and figure out what actually worked and what didn't. It'd be a bunch of trial and error he was sure, and maybe he could figure out if the multi-use sick and popcorn bowl he kept in the cabinet was still there for the long haul if it got a little rough in the testing stages.
When: June 15th and forward
Where: Around the barge, Hanna likes to wander
What: Hanna enters the chat! He's going to be irritated and looking for information, but mostly pleasant if annoying. He doesn't want to rock the boat too hard when he's got not a lot to protect himself with.
Warnings: Will add as needed
Wandering the halls
It's a strange thing to be nursing bruised knuckles after punching someone in the jaw, but the thing that actually killed him isn't presenting itself as a problem. He'll have to get used to that, he guesses, not that he's complaining. He'd rather not get thrown into an alien space ship thing bleeding out, and what kind of ammo did you use for obnoxious pirate-ass looking guns anyways? The size of the bullet would have just gone straight through, he's sure, it didn't have much to get through anyways. The close range probably didn't help either, but man what an asshole. He'd been thinking he was going to aim for Tobias instead with how he was going on, but you never could figure out crazy unless you had a little yourself.
"I think I hate palindromes now. 12:21 is my unlucky fucking number." He grumbles at himself, rolling up a sleeve to start doing a self check, the arrays and runes that he could see without undressing in the hallway perfectly in place. Kind of weird to think that in death it mattered, but for some strange reason it was still a requirement to keep him chugging along. Ah well, he was used to it.
His hand goes to reach behind him for his hammer that he swore was in his belt loop, and grabs air, turning half around to double check because yeah, no dice. "Are you kidding me? Gotta at least have-" He pats at his pockets, the address slip still in there, and cool, just what he was looking for. He feels like he's gotten away with something, uncapping his marker to start drawing on his hand, and yet, when he finishes its just black ink, nothing happening. There goes his idea of prepared self-defense.
"I am so screwed."
Some time later in the library
Not to be deterred entirely by his sudden nerfing, Hanna has found himself in the library, which is probably for the best because he's going to be working in here soon enough. He's actually kind of excited about it, and even seems to enjoy sifting through the card catalogue. His own local library had shifted over to digital recently but the new system worked like dog shit and he could find something easily this way, was entirely used to it. He'd been looking to see if this place had anything on runic magic, because sometimes you could find good reference in the weirdest places even if most of them were duds, but soon got distracted by the media section.
He'd been flipping through to see if there was anything he recognized when he got to the L's and suddenly there is this sound that comes out, definitely not in his library voice, "Holy shit! No way..."
Pulling the cd case from it's place Hanna holds it up like it was made of fucking gold, flipping it over to check the back. Ludo's "Prepare the Preperations" Album clearly states that it's release date was 2010, and Hanna feels both elated and fucking cheated, "Of course they waited till after I died to release another one. Figures." He's just going to save that for later and continue searching. Maybe some of his other favorites are hidden in here and he can just drown out all his feelings with some new good music.
Because he's curious and wants to bitch about something
He was still salty about the bathroom thing, not like his apartment could get any shittier. It wouldn't hurt to just take a peak though, right? See what he's supposed to be using like everyone else, and it wasn't like he wasn't ever going to shower. That was fucking gross.
He'd never been to college but he figures this is probably what a hall bathroom looks like in some kind of dorm space, thankful that the stalls were at least stalls and no one was required to just shower out in the open like the locker rooms back in high school. That had been a fucking nightmare and a half even before his body had gotten it's 'E for everyone' rating removed. Trying not to think about how he probably still could be shoved into a locker and how long he might have to wait to be let out if that happened, he walks over to the weird future-shower and starts inspecting it. Fucking weird alien thing, he's sure.
Home sweet home
He hasn't made the full rounds, but coming back to his room, staring at the door with it's fucked up numbers, he's going to open the door again and just take it in. It was dark in there, like usual, the hanging singular lightbulb one of the only light fixtures in the whole studio. It was what he was used to, but having peaked into some of the other unused rooms that all had similar doors, he can admit that maybe it'd be nice for a change. And yet, he doesn't think he'll ask. The tiny window he can't even reach still has the marks in the dust on the sill that he can see when he's standing this far away where his Zombie partner had put his hands to peak out.
His work name tag is still sitting on the kitchen island, tiny thing that it was, and everything that connected him to home was right here. It didn't matter that it was messy, he could probably actually find the time to clean it now that he wasn't going to be working so much, but that could come later.
"At least it doesn't come with Mrs. Blaney." He reminds himself, wishing that somewhere in the clutter of the entirely all too small space was his hammer, but he's pretty sure that thing didn't come with the room. He wonders if the knives in the kitchen drawer are also gone, not that he had anything especially sharp, maybe a couple butter knives? But that was fine. He had to set to the real work now anyways and figure out what actually worked and what didn't. It'd be a bunch of trial and error he was sure, and maybe he could figure out if the multi-use sick and popcorn bowl he kept in the cabinet was still there for the long haul if it got a little rough in the testing stages.

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"I think the Admiral's grown stricter since I arrived. A temporary warden was able to ask for my magic back, but now I think he only honors those requests from permanent wardens."
As for how her magic works, she says, "Musical language, not words. If you want to do something new magically, you have to do something new musically. The more complex a spell you want to perform, the more complex a song you need to compose. All sildroher are singers, but some of them aren't particularly good composers, so they can only learn spells by rote. I'm very good. That was the only thing I had in my favor, once upon a time. Which is why I'm never going back."
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He is curious though, listening to her talk about her magic. It was always interesting, magical creatures who naturally had the talent seemed to create in such beautiful ways. His own magic kind of paled in comparison, but still. It worked and that's all he could ask for. "They abuse your talent back home?" Because he's pretty sure that's what she meant, but he could be wrong. "You'll have to demonstrate for me some time, I've worked with Selkies before, beautiful singing voices, but not a lot of mer people. That's some cool old world kinda magic though."
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"By the time it changed, I had Warren. He promised me the day we were paired that he'd never take my magic from me, no matter what I did. I didn't trust him, of course. But he meant it." Ulla loves her former warden with every fiber of her being. But she spent two years torn between the urges to stab him or trust him. (She trusts him without reservation now and sometimes still laments that she can't stab him; he's very irritating and almost always right.)
Hjerte sprawls across Ulla and wraps a tentacle around her wrist, knowing how frank her answer about the rest of her people tends to be. "I was good enough to win a sixth son the throne. All he had to do was convince my duet partner to join him in betraying me and leaving me for dead so they could take credit for my work. I miss... the music. Whole choirs of sildroher song. And I miss what I thought I had with my partner. But I have Hjerte now, and he can't very well betray me."
Hjerte laughs softly, interjecting, just in case Hanna's inclined to think he's being held in thrall, "I'm not quite a separate person. I'm a part of Ulla, given a separate body and voice. She couldn't betray me either. We're too deeply connected for that. I was her deal, when her inmate graduated. She'd met me before, during one of the strange magics that affects people on board, and she wanted me back."
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"Sounds like the kind of thing a sixth son would do. Give a stepped on guy like that a bit of power, add a little dash of deep seated issues of inadequacy and he'll let it go to straight to his head, drag a shit ton of people down with him. What an asshole." He's got no sympathy for people like that. Especially if she had helped him and gotten burned for it. "Your partner also sounds like a bit of a bitch too, no offense. I'm sorry you had to pay for it."
Her octopus is talking again and while it's weird he can roll with it, resisting the temptation to just touch because what did an octopus even feel like? Probably squishy. "So you're like a shoulder angel or her little cricket buddy, huh? Just, out in the flesh for everyone to see. That's cool. It'd be nice to have someone to constantly roll your ideas off of."
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"No, he's gone. I visit sometimes; I'm planning to live with him, at least some of the time, when I leave the Barge. You don't get to pick your warden, and the temporary ones are random, but permanent wardens are usually people who fit with you somehow or are best suited to help you." Warren was pretty much a platonic soulmate, a better partner than Signy ever was, albeit without the singing component. Missing him is a constant ache. But she's not ready to leave Taylor or Sweeney yet, especially with one of them still an inmate.
"I don't need telling that Signy treated me terribly." She's well aware of that, and talked all of it through with Warren several times over, from different angles. "Hjerte is a proper sildroher duet partner. A collaborator, whose magic amplifies mine. And he's someone I won't outlive by centuries. That was the thing I hated most about planning to spend the rest of my life among humans and werewolves. There's a lot of loss waiting for me."
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shower
"Myself, I think soaking is the best part of a shower, but I understand there's a whole range."
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"Oh, that's cool." A pause, "Yeah, Witches can't get that wet or we'll melt. No indulgent soaking for me." This is a much better lie than the one he'd told Ulla about having some kind of contagious rash that meant public showers were unsanitary. He really hopes she doesn't spread that one around.
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"I've known a few sorcerers like that." He thinks it's a prime example of the dangers of overspecialization, but some people have no patience. "I imagine it must be rather a burden at times, to have to make sure you don't soak too much. It would ruin the relaxation for me, I know that. So, at least here you could have a shower involving no water at all, which at least doesn't add tension."
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He finds Hanna in the library, eventually, and lifts a hand to wave him down. "Hey- Hanna, right?"
Hunter himself is a fairly distinct person, with pointed ears and scars covering a good third of his face, and a thick brown cape with a fur collar over a vest and slacks. The overall impression is of a baby vampire, though Hanna might not even recognise him: it's not like he goes by the infirmary, and Hunter basically lives here.
"I'm Hunter." He smiles broadly, and there's even a hint of fangs. "I'm your Warden for the month."
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His expression falls a little bit as he takes in features following the 'I'm your Warden', and this person he's never met seemed pleasant enough, but...what the fuck, dude? He's going to be baby sat by a baby.
"How old are you?" Usually he's the one getting asked that question, but this seems like some kind of joke. Prank the new guy, right? Hilarious.
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"I'm nineteen. I've been on the Barge for three years and I've graduated two Inmates in that time," he rattles off with a slightly imperious air. He's put up with being accused of being too young for a long fucking time.
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He's not discrediting him, but he just wanted to point out that the Admiral should be heavily fined or something. He shrugs it off, "What ever. I guess you get to tell me what that means then? I got here like yesterday, so maybe you have the Cliffs Notes version I can copy off?"
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But no, apparently. Or--
Very carefully, he inquires:]
I haven't seen you around before...?
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Yeah? Well good. It'd be weird if you had cause I literally just got here.
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[Hakkai looks incredibly relieved at that, although he's keeping the reaction contained and subtle: a lessening of tension all through his body all at once. Even the bones of his face look less sharp.]
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[He pauses a moment, curious.] There something wrong with visitors? Like, the vibe is totally weird and I was trying to figure it out. Not that weird Alien space ships should have good vibes, just. I'm getting the impression that I'm not going to have a good time if it's like this all the time.
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Not a soul for about five seconds, anyway. Then a Belgian Malinois dog trots up to him, sniffing at his shoes.
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He'd just been thinking about how he'd gotten a little lecture about being reckless just the other day when suddenly there is a dog. "Oh! Uh, hey buddy. You smell Toni? She's kind of a dog, I guess."
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As if reading the dog's mind, a small red ball suddenly flies through the air. It comes up and over the deck railing from the other side, as if thrown upwards by someone who's off the ship and floating in space.
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"Any fucked up eldritch space clowns down here?" He's not intending on floating any time soon.
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shower - have a sad damp woman
Crouching fully clothed in one of the shower stalls, she lets cold water beat down on her head. She's been in here a while; the bathroom smells faintly of something not entirely unlike a wet dog. Eying the gap under the curtain, she idly watches the feet of strangers come and go, playing a little game with herself as she tries to guess whether any of them belong to people she's met.
The tears have been coming and going, but the water washes them away. 'You broke Ma's heart.' Tynan was here; after lonely years he was fucking here and not only didn't she get to see him (not that she wanted to see him, the bastard that he is), but that was all he had to say to her when he had a chance?
Her breath catches in what's unmistakably a sob before she shoves it back down into stilted silence.
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"Hello?" He talks to the closed stall, not trying to peak behind the curtain, that would be creepy, "Are you okay?"
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It takes too long and too many sniffles before she manages a, "Yeah--yeah, I'm fine--" that's entirely too wobbly to be believable.
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He's also noticing that there is no steam coming from the shower stall. Cold water. Huh, really bad day, must be.
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