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singillatim2025-06-15 08:01 am
brushoff) wrote in singillatim2025-06-15 08:01 am
consequences pt. 2
Who: Dorian Gray, Thomas Jopson & ota!
What: somebody's in trouble~. also, lore drop about the Darkwalker powers!
When: mid-June
Where: Milton, the church
Content Warnings: talk about murder.
One day, a note is tacked up to the Milton bulletin board.
Tomorrow evening
Milton church
Murder confession
Blunt? Yeah. But look, he doesn't want to have to tell everybody. Might as well cast a wide net, see who shows up, get this all done at once, never talk about it ever again. Because honestly, Dorian would rather not talk about this. In fact, he's done a damn good job not talking about this for the past month and a half! But one lovely visit from Thomas Jopson and one broken nose later and urgh, fine, alright, he'll be a good boy and confess to a murder. If he gets this done quickly, there will be fewer questions asked. And though he loves talking about himself, he only enjoys it on his terms. And these? Absolutely not his terms.
When enough people have gathered, Dorian (who's sporting a visibly broken nose), gives the assembled group a once-over.
"Right. Might as well get this started. We've all been changed by the Aurora, no need to rehash that nonsense. But during the last change...for mine, the Darkwalker showed up. I don't know what it did, I don't know the entirety of how it changed me, but it did. I suppose the closest thing you can call me now is a vampire. I can't stand the sunlight. I skulk around in the shadows. And I hunger. There's something inside me, a driving hunger that food and drink can't satiate. Only...I don't know what to call it. Energy? The soul? There's something in us, in people that are changed, that I yearn for."
Dorian's voice is very matter of fact. But as he talks, it's obvious this is a man used to spinning a story to get what he wants. His voice softens a bit when he talks about the hunger, he puts a little sadness and yearning in there. For the more naieve interlopers, he really is sad about all this. For the more worldly interlopers, hot damn is this guy trying to actively manipulate people.
"I can satiate that hunger by touching people and...draining them, for lack of a better word. But sometimes, the hunger gets too strong. It's easier to make rash decisions then. Like when I killed a woman in Lakeside, around a month and a half ago."
Dorian lets that bombshell sit for a moment before tiredly musing, "Any questions?"
( feel free to start threads directly responding to Dorian in front of everybody, lingering around to chat with him later, or just talk among yourselves—treat this like an open post! Start your own threads! I'm game! )
What: somebody's in trouble~. also, lore drop about the Darkwalker powers!
When: mid-June
Where: Milton, the church
Content Warnings: talk about murder.
One day, a note is tacked up to the Milton bulletin board.
Tomorrow evening
Milton church
Murder confession
Blunt? Yeah. But look, he doesn't want to have to tell everybody. Might as well cast a wide net, see who shows up, get this all done at once, never talk about it ever again. Because honestly, Dorian would rather not talk about this. In fact, he's done a damn good job not talking about this for the past month and a half! But one lovely visit from Thomas Jopson and one broken nose later and urgh, fine, alright, he'll be a good boy and confess to a murder. If he gets this done quickly, there will be fewer questions asked. And though he loves talking about himself, he only enjoys it on his terms. And these? Absolutely not his terms.
When enough people have gathered, Dorian (who's sporting a visibly broken nose), gives the assembled group a once-over.
"Right. Might as well get this started. We've all been changed by the Aurora, no need to rehash that nonsense. But during the last change...for mine, the Darkwalker showed up. I don't know what it did, I don't know the entirety of how it changed me, but it did. I suppose the closest thing you can call me now is a vampire. I can't stand the sunlight. I skulk around in the shadows. And I hunger. There's something inside me, a driving hunger that food and drink can't satiate. Only...I don't know what to call it. Energy? The soul? There's something in us, in people that are changed, that I yearn for."
Dorian's voice is very matter of fact. But as he talks, it's obvious this is a man used to spinning a story to get what he wants. His voice softens a bit when he talks about the hunger, he puts a little sadness and yearning in there. For the more naieve interlopers, he really is sad about all this. For the more worldly interlopers, hot damn is this guy trying to actively manipulate people.
"I can satiate that hunger by touching people and...draining them, for lack of a better word. But sometimes, the hunger gets too strong. It's easier to make rash decisions then. Like when I killed a woman in Lakeside, around a month and a half ago."
Dorian lets that bombshell sit for a moment before tiredly musing, "Any questions?"
( feel free to start threads directly responding to Dorian in front of everybody, lingering around to chat with him later, or just talk among yourselves—treat this like an open post! Start your own threads! I'm game! )
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That's not how the power I was given here by Enola works. I can project my own thoughts into other people's heads but I can't see what they're thinking. But I've seen his kind before and I've been protecting innocent people from them all my life. If he was truly sorry, that'd be one thing. He'd be willing to accept whatever punishment came his way But he's just making excuses for himself with this whole 'woe is me' pity act.
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[ His understanding of all of this is a little muddied by how rarely he sleeps, by the fact that in his own world, he'd never slept but once, ever, in an endlessly long existence... and that this is all very different from his own cosmology. ]
I agree with you, though. I don't think he's very sorry. She didn't even seem real to him. Everything he said was more about him than her.
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[He remembers seeing John when he'd come back from traveling with Methuselah a few months ago. Being sick as a dog, he hadn't really had time to register what he was looking at beyond the obvious, but now there's a bit more time to get into that. At least later on when they can talk in a more private setting.]
I can explain it as best I can later on. I've been here since the first group of Interlopers arrived, so I know more than most given I've been around every time that these so-called 'gifts' are handed out.
Where I'm from, I protect innocent people from those like him. I learned a long time ago the hard way there's only one permanent solution to people who kill others. Generally, I'd just kill him and be done with it. But it's not as easy to do that here.....unless you're smart about it.
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[ Yeah, being eight feet tall and clearly inhuman is certainly An Experience after having been completely invisible inside of Arthur. Regardless. ]
...what're you planning?
[ John is, well, not opposed to helping someone redeem themselves. It would be a bit hypocritical. But Dorian doesn't seem like he wants to change. He doesn't seem to care, and you can't save everyone. You can only help people who realize the mistake they're making, who understand that the damage they're causing isn't okay.
He hasn't seen that from Dorian. He heard it. He gets that Dorian feels some sort of way about it. But he also doesn't seem to care enough to do something. And to him, that feels like he's going to hurt someone before anything gets solved.
So yeah, he's going to listen. Something needs to be done, after all. ]
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[It's cold logic but that's to be expected given Rorschach's pragmatic and uncompromising nature. He wouldn't allow this rot to grow and keep infecting the rest of the community.
Despite his eccentricities, Rorschach is smart and observant. He's paid attention to all the deaths here, writing them all down in his journal, and knows there's a variety of ways one might die in this frozen northland. While it would be nice if the Darkwalker just so happened to take Dorian out, he can't rely on that being an option given the capricious and unpredictable nature of the beast. So instead he'll just have to arrange something to take out Dorian that doesn't lead back to him. Or to his potential new ally.]
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...do you know of any of them that have happened since Dorian showed up?
[ He's concerned that Dorian's done more damage than he's admitting to. ]
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[Rorschach pulls out a battered leather journal. It's chock full of notes, drawing, and scribbles. He flips to the page where he keeps records of the deaths that have occurred in Milton. Even if John looks over his shoulder, he'll be hard pressed trying to be able to read the handwriting. His finger runs down the page until he finds what he's looking for.]
Some were animal and creature attacks. [Then he realizes he is in fact talking to someone who might be considered a creature himself.] No offense meant. Two were from a fire. But these two... It's possible he had a hand here. Seems like they died of 'suffocation.' Easy enough to disguise strangulation, don't you think?