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thepull_mods ([personal profile] thepull_mods) wrote in [community profile] sirenspull_logs2012-12-03 12:53 am

December Arrivals- OPEN LOG

Who: December Arrivals, Greeters, NPC recruiters & anyone else who happens to be hanging around the Tower Apartments to 'welcome' newcomers.
When: Throughout December, 2012 (Please Specify Date & Time in Thread Header)
Where: The Sector 4 Baseball Diamond, Parking Lot & Lobby of the Tower Apartments
Summary: This is your catch-all one stop log for arrival interactions! New Newcomers can also meet and mingle in the apartment lobby.
Warnings: Nausea, potential for violence, language- add on any warnings or ratings as they come up.



It feels like a whiplash, like being plucked up into the sky and sucked through a very tight dark space before being deposited rather roughly in the City. You will be disoriented, dizzy, slightly nauseous, and very sore upon arriving in Siren's Port. Every new arrival from another world gets deposited in the dead center of an ill-kept baseball diamond.

The weather is chilly in December, and while new arrivals may be lucky enough to arrive during the safety of the day, the danger of nights are growing steadily longer. Pedestrian traffic is hurried and bustling, particularly in the hour before siren.

Newcomers are thrown from their pull somewhere within the fenced-in baseball field, either in the dirty infield or tossed rolling into the overgrown dirty outfield. Standing on second base and facing home plate, one will see a rotten, old and deteriorating backstop and chain link fencing, much like any little league baseball field. Broken down bleachers made of worn out green painted wood can be seen in disarray behind this, and some old trees line the wall and fencing along the right side.

To the left is a walled in Dugout with a secured door. The dugouts are made of thick concrete and set low into the earth. This one has been outfitted as a safe place to enter during the night to hide and wait out the morning. The dugout interior is lit with a string of Christmas Lights by night, and contains a box of coats, an electric kettle and a box of Hot Cocoa packets, provided courtesy of the Newcomer Community Center. Sometimes Greeters can be found here, waiting for people to show up. The Dugout to the right has also been cemented over and secured with a heavily guarded and armored door.

Some of the fences and signboards have been replaced with information and welcoming signs, posted by Newcomers as encouragement, but from time to time some form of degrading graffiti'd tag might appear here or there, 'Go Home!' or 'Now You're Fucked, Newmeat' 'Welcome to Sirens Port, Population: Too Many to Add One More' and 'Attention Newcomers: Please wait here till sunset sirens to receive your welcoming package!') However, someone has also recently decorated the fence with silver and gold garlands.

The Baseball Diamond is maintained by the city Government, who allow greeters access to the infield to retrieve new arrivals, but preserve the area's neutrality. Everyday citizens and corporate affiliates are not allowed access to the diamond. The small building constructed over the right dugout is still guarded heavily by government-controlled Voids, to block public access to the Core. Those who cooperate with greeters will be treated fairly and be given helpful information, lead to the Tower Apartments and offered a month's lodging. Those who put up a fight will be met with Voids and detained by police.

Just beyond the fence, in the Tower Apartments parking lot and lobby, SERO and AGI recruiters will be passing out informational leaflets presenting company propaganda, including discounted coupon booklets and travel-sized toiletries as a "Newcomer Welcome Package".

Other then the lights around the Core dugout, there is one single electric light above home plate that remains on, even in the Darkness. There is an open walkway near the dugouts that leads into the parking lot of the Tower Apartments. The front doors of Tower One are always kept unlocked, but you had best close them again quickly if you slip inside during the night. The office of the Landlord is well marked near the lobby, and you'll receive keys there.

The second tower is abandoned and boarded up, still scorched in places. Asking around, you might hear about the anti-newcomer movement and an attempt to blow up both towers back in January. You'll be advised not to go wandering in there- it's no doubt structurally unsound, though the first tower still stands tall and (mostly) functioning.

The general atmosphere in the city is tense and full of mood whiplash this month- the darkness is longer and the nights may seem claustrophobic. The Underground Mall is a packed escapist paradise on the weekends, with overnight stays at the many motels popular. Conspiracy theorists and doomsday preachers seem to be found on every streetcorner, and they seem to have more of a presence than charity-collection "Santa's Helpers". Retail stores seem doubly desperate to rake in holiday profits during daylight business hours, and competition between the companies is mounting as the year comes to a raucous close.
psychopath: (psychopathy)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-10 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[jack arrives, plait flying out behind him, looking around just very slightly frantically for a certain blond. he looks worried.]
cruelties: (Subservient face | Betrayal)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-10 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vincent on the other hand looks perfectly serene. He's perched upon a bench, tossing a pair of earrings up and down in his palm.]

You came.
psychopath: what a farce. ([vincent] love)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-10 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course I did, if it was you who called.

[still the one that killed him the last time he was here; jack wondered how much he knew now.]

You- don't actually need to return those, Vincent-love.
cruelties: (Default)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-11 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, how lucky. They are the only thing you've ever given me that I can still hold on to. [He holds them to his breast in a clenched fist. He stands up with them still over his heart. He beams in a wide grin.]

Because with you. nothing lasts forever, does it?
psychopath: (shatter & break)

1/3

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-11 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
psychopath: (pensieve)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-11 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ah, vincent, his cute little friend. jack stops in his tracks and looks down at the ground for a moment.

this is someone he would most likely have to kill to keep quiet, if he so wished to ruin everything.]
psychopath: i even clean the murder scene up. (i'm a gentemanly gentleman)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-11 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[he matches vincent's grin with a shy smile, not looking directly at him.]

What a cruel thing to say.
cruelties: (Rest easy)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-11 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The truth is always cruel. [It's almost nonplussed, and Vincent turns away.] Shall we walk?

[He glances at AGI agent still lingering by her charge.]
psychopath: (trust me i'm a nice guy)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-11 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[as the agent starts to walk away (reluctantly), jack comes up to her, charming as can be:]

Would you kindly tell the management at XXX that 'Jack' won't be in tonight? Thank you!

[he gives vincent an amused look as he turns away from the girl, walking to his side.]

Let's go?
cruelties: (Brother should be looking at me.)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-11 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vincent hides his startle at such familiarity with the agent-- it's a mystery for later. Much less why Jack, who knows of Vincent's debt, was so open about it in front of him. He smiles and lays a hand on Jack's arm.]

I take it you forgive me?
Edited 2012-12-11 17:51 (UTC)
psychopath: i kinda need to get baked. (is that the weed?)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-11 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...for what? You have nothing to apologise for.

[jack's eyes are wide and curious and he tentatively lays a hand over vincent's. lying liars who lie, he needs to know what vincent wants.]
cruelties: (lolololololololol)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-11 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. I thought so.

[He glances back at they entered the tunnel beneath the stands. Seeing they are out of view of the in-field he draws his pistol from beneath his vest. He cocks it with a distinct sound of purpose.]

[Serenely:] I have nothing to be regretful about at all.
Edited 2012-12-11 18:25 (UTC)
psychopath: and everything (i will do anything)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-11 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[jack shoves himself away, taking steps back, not really surprised at the turn of events. he'd know that sound anywhere, gil shot him (oz) after all.]

Are you sure about that, love?

[just as serenely, and he opens his arms as he starts to laugh.




you can't do it. ]
cruelties: (Eyes up front Gil.)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-11 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vincent hand tightens on the still hidden gun. He knows to not draw until he shoots, there's cameras after all. And Jack clearly knows what he's facing. Vincent's jaw clenches at the laugh into a tight grin.]

You sent that witch after me! [He hisses through his bared and smiling teeth.] It was all your fault! All of it-!
psychopath: (here comes the sun)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-12 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I know. You could open the door, thusly-

[Jack takes a step towards him. Vincent couldn't kill him again, could he...?]

What are you waiting for? [he links his hands behind his back, smile turning sad. ah...oswald would be terribly angry.]
cruelties: (Adam dreams in the fever of the clay)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-12 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[What are you waiting for? Regret. Sympathy. Love. Anything but this. This indifference. He hates it so much. It makes him sick! This is what he looks like when he kills people who are unimportant. People who needed to be sacrificed. People with no worth. It's a mirror and a vision at the same time and it makes Vincent's head spin and his stomach sear in agony.

I am nothing to you. I am nothing at all.

He draws the gun and fires.]
psychopath: (world shaking)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-12 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[jack waits, and waits, and when the blessed moment comes there's nothing but pain and-

nothing but pain. vincent didn't aim. the bullet grazed his shoulder, bleeding red down his sleeve, but—]


Come on, what happened to your aim? [he mutters, breathing shallowly.] You're angry, aren't you? I used you and your brother, I killed your master, and I will destroy your world, no matter what it takes. [desperately, almost crazed:] Kill me.
cruelties: (the double pulse of his cheek.)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-12 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vincent's shot missed perhaps only because of the unsteadiness of his arm. At Jack's cajoling however his stomach slowly relaxes though the pain remains in his heart. Vincent steps back, leaning against the cool tunnel wall, only to catch his breath to give a small mocking laugh.]

Ha! Ha! I am no longer your cute little friend! [He chirps before pushing himself away from the wall and Jack's desperation.

How funny! How funny! To think Jack is just like him!

And can never walk into the light.]
psychopath: wow someone forgot to take their meds today. (listen to me my pretty)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-12 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't you walk away from me!

[pain lances through his shoulder and he falls to his knees, clutching at it.]

Don't-

[he made his bed, he has to lie in it. it's a terrifying taste of what would happen once word spread of what kind of person he really was, and here, it would hurt all the much more, because he had learned regret.

jack won't follow him.]


Don't tell anyone. I'll do anything.
cruelties: (Brother should be looking at me.)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-12 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vincent pauses, his back goes rigid and his hands clench as Jack's words hit him. Is that...is that really more important to you? His damned reputation here? His life with the Phantomhive household? Is all of that more important than him?

I am nothing.]


Stay away.

[He continues to walk on and away.]
Edited 2012-12-12 18:45 (UTC)
psychopath: and i will welcome you wholeheartedly. (you welcomed me)

[personal profile] psychopath 2012-12-13 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[thankfully Vincent won't see him break down in tears, grieving for him, and for what love lost between them. He may have not loved Vincent back then, but he is fond of the man here, and he will respect Vincent's wishes.

For now.]
cruelties: (Her voice leaves glass in the wound)

[personal profile] cruelties 2012-12-13 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[SO MUCH MANPAIN.Photobucket]
Edited 2012-12-13 14:46 (UTC)