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thepull_mods ([personal profile] thepull_mods) wrote in [community profile] sirenspull_logs2013-01-01 01:12 am

[Anniversary Event Starting Log] I Awaken To Another Day...

Who: Open Log! This means everybody!
When: September 1st, 1918. Dawn.
Where: Farmer Whitty's Squash Patch, City of Missionworth (Ye Olde... Baseball Diamond?)
Summary: Midnight on New Years Eve finds the entire Newcomer Community thrust backwards in time...oh, 95 years or so?
Warnings: A lot of potentially drunk people are about to land facefirst in a field. Once word is out that a small horde of strangers have mysteriously arrived on the island, Military Forces will be rounding them up for questioning. You be the judge of how badly this goes.



Whether right in the middle of a rowdy parties as toasts are raised with complementary champagne, or having a quiet evening at home on the couch, watching GloTV's annual Auld Lang Syne Countdown Extravaganza, a sickeningly familiar tug of a feeling suddenly wrenches in the gut of every Newcomer on the island who has been brought here by Pull in the past three years.

As fireworks sound over AGI tower and the clock finishes striking twelve, the world spins. For a dazzling colorful moment, flashing scenes from their stay in Port roll backwards like rewound film before their eyes. It becomes a blur, the Pull drawing tighter and tighter, ears might pop and there's a very good chance the contents of their stomachs might be turned out.

And then there is coolness, a brisk breeze, morning dew and damp earth beneath them all.

The newcomers are scattered across a planted field of winding vines and colorful gourds, which won't be ready for harvesting for another month or so. Several startled crows are circling overhead, screaming. There are no tall towers on the skyline, and there are more surrounding trees, particularly toward the western horizon- golds and oranges of early autumn.

To the east, a picturesque early 20th century settlement stretches to the island shoreline, already bustling with traffic and construction in the early dawn's light. There is no putrid, sick-sweet rotting smell which normally lingers for awhile in the morning fog, after the lifting of darkness.

Two young boys stand agape at the edge of the field for several moment, leaning over a fencepost, then turn and tear off towards a homestead not far away, shouting for their papa.

Welcome to the City of Missionworth. Look's like The Core's decided to give you all a history lesson for the New Year.
debtor: (LISTEN ★ i still don't get it)

[personal profile] debtor 2013-01-04 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't bother confirming (or denying) it.

It's not the first time he's encountered someone he's forgotten. It's a bit unnerving, but there's nothing to be done about it. And all he knows about Vincent is that he's apparently a bit troublesome...]


He said you'd gone. When did you come back?
cruelties: (Default)

[personal profile] cruelties 2013-01-04 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
A while ago. [He can be ambiguous too Allen. He sits back.]

My! But at least I have my memory. Though I imagine it's apparent to anyone we're in for some trouble again.
debtor: (LISTEN ★ there will be trouble)

[personal profile] debtor 2013-01-04 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's certain it couldn't have been too long ago, but he doesn't press the matter. He turns his attention back to the field instead.]

Where in Port are we?

[This doesn't look like the city at all...!]
cruelties: (Default)

[personal profile] cruelties 2013-01-05 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vincent glances around.] It looks like a squash field. I hazard a guess we're in the farmlands.
debtor: (WIDE ★ cake or death?)

[personal profile] debtor 2013-01-05 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Squints into the distance, towards the west, and then the east. Port has some pretty tall buildings, but none are visible right now.

So he takes a few steps towards the settlement, gesturing at it.]


That's not the city, is it...?
cruelties: (hahaohwow)

[personal profile] cruelties 2013-01-06 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vincent follows his line of sight. He strokes his chin, musing over the conundrum at hand. No tall buildings, but no immediate signs of destruction either. The smoke rising over the city is a familiar sight-- cooking fires. He slowly smiles.]

Well. We are very far away that's for sure. Either we are somewhere where they still cook their meals over an open flame or...we are in the past.
Edited 2013-01-06 21:50 (UTC)
debtor: (ABACK ★ hot damn)

[personal profile] debtor 2013-01-07 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
The past? [How can you say it so nonchalantly!!]

Has it done this before??
cruelties: (Hurry | the sleep of that child)

[personal profile] cruelties 2013-01-08 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Not that I know of, no. [Vincent is indeed so relaxed it's almost ridiculous, but this is what you're like when you've spent years burying your emotions until they explode in a violent torrent of rage.

Just don't give him a point of ignition Allen.

Though despite his calm he is considering the situation, carefully, even if he's never inclined to let anyone know what he's really thinking.]


My! I suppose we shall have to start investigating!
Edited 2013-01-08 14:38 (UTC)