THICK AS THIEVULS

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Who: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
Where: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
When: JUNE 26TH TO 28TH
Summary: GET IN HERE AND MINGLE
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[seacub]

Right! Then...

[He takes her hand- or wrist, if that's easier-

And steps into a space that seems to fold out from the wreckage.]

Here...we...go!

[And quite abruptly instead of walking over ashen wood, they're somewhere Else, with decorations of Brass rather than Tin.]

Woah...

...

...It... ...looks a lot like the other tower, I guess...

[fearinahandfulof]

That makes sense.

[As far as she can tell, anyway.]

The metals are different, though.

[seacub]

Yeah. [He moves toward one of the statues, poking it.] I don't know what kind of metal it is but...it looks more like something decorative? The statues in the Bell Tower almost look like silverware- not 'silver', but the kind of metal that matters for lasting a while...

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra frowns.]

It looks decorative, but... maybe it's stronger than it looks? Not enough to withstand what happened, but... [And now she looks uncertain.] I don't know.

There's probably meaning to the metals they picked. There must be, mustn't there?

[seacub]

Maybe...

It could be that they wanted it to last through normal weather conditions- the sort of thing that you'd see happening over lots of years of time. The Bell Tower still looks nice after hundreds of years right..? ....so if it hadn't been for the fire...maybe this would still be what it looked like.

[fearinahandfulof]

Maybe.

[She looks around some more.]

Can we explore it like this?

[seacub]

We should be able to, yeah- everything that was here once before, will be here now. I spent most of my life in a ghost room- so this place definitely won't give out before we're done.

[fearinahandfulof]

[Why is every other thing you tell her so worrying, Emporio?]

You did?

[seacub]

[Look you're trust shaped Cass, you're trust shaped,

This comes with consequences.] Yeah. It was pretty nice actually- there was a lot more stuff than in here...there was a piano, a shelf full of books...there was even a computer!

...And some food I guess, but you can't eat ghost food. It just goes through you.

[fearinahandfulof]

[Why do people here keep trusting her? She's a total stranger to most of them.

...Although it is admittedly preferable to being hated and feared all the time. But that doesn't make it any less strange to her.]

How did you sustain yourself?

[seacub]

Huh?

[Oh, he must not have been very clear...] Oh. I didn't stay inside the ghost room all the time- I just went outside to get food from elsewhere, that's all. It was pretty easy.

[Naturally, it's here that he grows vague again.}

[fearinahandfulof]

[And now she's concerned for entirely different reasons.]

Was it safer in the ghost room?

[seacub]

[Well. On the one hand yes, but.

Hm.] It was more comfortable, [he answers vaguely.] Before I knew how, my mom would bring me there...and after she was gone, I just kept using it.

[fearinahandfulof]

...Oh.

[That honestly worries her even more, but a lot of the questions she wants to ask are uncomfortably close to prying, if not actually over that line, and they've only just met.]

Can they be detected by other people? [Are people outside seeing the ghost tower too?]

[seacub]

Ghost rooms?

Not really. I have to show them first- after that it's not hard to find where you can slip into it, but otherwise it's easy to miss.

[fearinahandfulof]

Does that mean people can find one if you show it to them first, or do you or someone else who can normally detect them have to be there?

[seacub]

The first one- once you know exactly where to look, where to go, [he adds more seriously,] You can find it. At least while it's there?

...I don't think it'll work after the weekend is over...I think my stand still has to be active and...well...

[None of the powers are on, most of the time.]

[fearinahandfulof]

...Our powers will stop working once the weekend is over.

What's a stand?

[She assumes it's not the same thing as the mundane object she's picturing, based on the way he emphasizes the word.]

[seacub]

Huh? Oh, it's...sort of like a superpower? I don't actually know why they're called that...if they all looked like Weather Report maybe it would make sense- since Weather, and stands like them, they can 'stand' with you...

But Burning Down the House just sort of...works?

[fearinahandfulof]

Weather Report?

[And... Burning Down the House. Those are very odd names for powers.]

Burning Down the House is the one you're using now? The one that lets you see ghost objects. [She considers for a moment.] The name implies fire, but... it's the House part that's important, isn't it? If it's every object or place whose ghosts you can see, and not just ones that have been affected by fire somehow.

[seacub]

Ahh...Hang on.

[He closes his eyes- and with a moment of focus, the stand appears beside him. Tall, white, and flanked with clouds.] Weather Report. He um...controls the weather.

I don't really know where my first stand's name came from though. My...mom was the one who named it, [he says quietly, not saying much more on that.] I think that was because of the ghost room having burned down once though? I know it's more than fire, but I don't think she did...

[fearinahandfulof]

Controls the weather?

[That's... powerful.

She wants to ask more about his mother, but the way he speaks of her in the past tense sticks out to her. Parent deaths are all too common among her kind, and she'd seen (and felt, though her memories of her own family remain out of her reach) how the pain had lingered.]

I see. [And her own voice is quiet as well.]

So you inherited it from her?

[seacub]

Yeah. Umm...I don't really know exactly how it works though, [he admits, rubbing his head.] He.... ...I haven't really had Weather that long...

[Ah. But Burning Down the House....]

...I don't know. I... ...I must have, I think? It was a long time ago, and she didn't know a lot about stands either...

[fearinahandfulof]

Oh.

[There's an awkward pause.]

I'm asking about things you don't want to talk about, aren't I?

[seacub]

Huh? Oh!

No, it's okay! ...I just...don't really have a lot of answers I guess, [he admits somewhat sheepishly.] Things I don't remember, or...just don't know.