[X] Write-In
-[X] Set an alarm, take a cat nap/refuel, then go hunting for the giant who caused this trouble. Maybe you can get an explanation as well.
[X] Write-In
-[X] Set an alarm, take a cat nap/refuel, then go hunting for the giant who caused this trouble. Maybe you can get an explanation as well.
The idea here is simple: Crash without triggering encounters, then recover some (I suspect that theres some increased recovery speed, even if there isn't, shes a waitress and is obviously capable of pulling back to back hours), before going to get answers and/or retribution, depending on how we feel when we find them.
Also they're a giant. They had to have left a giant trail to follow somehow, plus we can fly.
[X] Take her up on her offer
[1] Call Sherry Matthews
[2] Call Oliver Washington
[3] Back to your search results: dictionary definitions of Tlacatl
[4] Back to your search results: Do Words Sing For You?
[5] Sleep
[X] Take her up on her offer
[1] Back to your search results: dictionary definitions of Tlacatl
[2] Back to your search results: Do Words Sing For You?
[3] Back to your search results: The Addington Institute for Linguistic Manipulation
[4] Sleep
Considered calling people, but that can wait. First some answers, then sleep.
... anyone wondering if whatever is making us attuned to the Aztec word for "slave" (apparently) is also giving people around us some sort of mind whammy? Not impossible that it's something else, given the inconsistency of the effect and the fact that just looking like we do could reasonably have similar consequences, but interesting to think about.
Not sure how to vote – will try to do that tomorrow – but I'll just ask this outright given the last post: @aldersprig, do you have a preference on use or explanation of setting/meta knowledge from your offsite work?
Do you:
[X] Take her up on her offer
[ ] Splurge and spend half your earnings on a hotel room.
[ ] Head back to your normal hide-out. It's not much, but it's free, & no strings attached.
[ ] Wander the city. You might be tired but the night is still young.
While you're coming up with a plan for the night, do you:
(list in priority, please)
[1] Call Bianca
[2] Back to your search results: Do Words Sing For You?
[3] Back to your search results: dictionary definitions of Tlacatl
[4] Sleep
[5] Call Fredianne Riga
[6] Write IN: Giant Hunting (Per Pandemonious Ivy's awesome suggestion, just after a proper sleep)
[7] Back to your search results: The Addington Institute for Linguistic Manipulation
[8] Call Oliver Washington
[9] Call Dodger
[Infinity] Anything Else
[Infinity +1] Call Sherry Matthews
Not sure how to vote – will try to do that tomorrow – but I'll just ask this outright given the last post: @aldersprig, do you have a preference on use or explanation of setting/meta knowledge from your offsite work?
[X] Take her up on her offer
[1] Back to your search results: dictionary definitions of Tlacatl
[2] Back to your search results: Do Words Sing For You?
[3] Call Sherry Matthews
[4] Call Oliver Washington
[5] Sleep
[X] Write-In
-[X] Set an alarm, take a cat nap/refuel, then go hunting for the giant who caused this trouble. Maybe you can get an explanation as well.
[X] Head back to your normal hide-out. It's not much, but it's free, & no strings attached.
[1] Back to your search results: dictionary definitions of Tlacatl
[2] Back to your search results: Do Words Sing For You?
[3] Back to your search results: The Addington Institute for Linguistic Manipulation
[4] Sleep
[5] Call Sherry Matthews
[6] Call Oliver Washington
[7] Call Dodger
The basic outline here is look things up, sleep, call whoever in the morning. I am a vote against seeking out the giant, but agnostic on other phone calls/research. We don't have enough information to know who'll be useful and who won't be, so it's all a guessing game.
okay, plan votes are weird to try to tally, but I think I averaged these out well enough. Then the dice decided Rhiannon was sleeping forever.
You take Bethel up on her offer; it's easier than navigating the streets and cheaper than a hotel. You wash up in the prep sink, mourning, again, the loss of your bag with all your collected things in it.
Once clean and working your way through a scone, you pull out your phone. Tlacatl.
The dictionary-type pages seem to agree on two definitions. Noun
tlācatl (pluraltlācah)
person
slave
It doesn't seem like a lot to go on -- okay, you have a word that feels really good to hear or say that means person, that comes from Mexico. You wonder, for a second, about your birth parents, out there somewhere, but dismiss the idea as silly. You don't like a word just because it's somehow connected to your ancestry - do you?
You think that's going to be all you get until a third page, some off-brand sort of wiki dictionary, mentions a stone text written in Classical Nahuatl. In this text there's a description of The People Who Walk Through the Air. The description, when you dig into the sort of clumsy translation, seems something like the portals you've been reading about in the news.
That's a little freaky, you have to admit. Not the freakiest, but still kinda freaky.
You blink and realize it's been over an hour of reading bad Nahuatl translations and peering at tiny pictures of ancient figures. You stretch everything -- the wings feel amazing to stretch -- and move on to the next page you wanted to check out.
Do Words Sing to You?
(See bottom of post for page in its awfulness)
This page is awful. How does anyone find anything? It starts a pop-up, aren't those things illegal yet? And then another one, and then you try to click on one button and end up on another one and - well, it's a nightmare.
Eventually you get to the page marked "Magical Words" (it's not by clicking the button; it's from the word song. Seriously) and find that it's listed three that they know of, with suggestions that "there must be more, because the proper number of things is always 7.
The other two they list are
Huamu
kipia.
but they have no idea what they are, simply that they "sing."
You plug your phone in to charge and bed down on the longest booth (Bethel keeps a cot in the back for catnaps but the booths are way more comfortable). You're planning on being there for maybe a couple hours, just a little sleep. There's so much to do.
You wake up 7 hours later.
Mama Rhea's closed at 7:30 p.m., you spent two and a half hours working out tlacatl and some awful websites, and it's now five in the morning.
You wash your face, sit down on a stool, and call Sherry Matthews.
She answers - you're kind of surprised by that, but she does.
"Matthews, Tempest."
"This is, ah. This is Rhiannon. I was your waitress at Mama Rhea's yesterday --"
"The woman with wings." Her voice is clipped and professional. "I remember you."
"I guess there aren't that many waitresses with wings around here, hunh?"
"Not very many, no. How long have you had them?"
"Urm... less than a day." You stretch them out.
"Interesting. Did something particular happen that precipitated their appearance?"
Do you:
[ ] Tell the truth
-[ ] and continue to tell the truth about other things regarding your sudden wingage
-[ ] but lie about your invincibility
-[ ] but refuse to answer any other questions.
[ ] Lie. You were just heading to work.
-[ ] keep lying about any follow-up questions
-[ ] refuse to answer any follow-up questions
[ ] "Don't you think that's kinda personal?"
-[ ] Hang up
-[ ] Only answer if she changes track.
[X] "Don't you think that's kinda personal?"
-[X] Only answer if she changes track.
-[X] Tell the truth
-[X] and continue to tell the truth about other things regarding your sudden wingage
-[X] but lie about your invincibility
Is this a possible vote? Since we'd have to decide how to answer if we choose this?
[ ] "Don't you think that's kinda personal?"
-[ ] Only answer if she changes track.
-[ ] Tell the truth
-[ ] and continue to tell the truth about other things regarding your sudden wingage
-[ ] but lie about your invincibility
Is this a possible vote? Since we'd have to decide how to answer if we choose this?
[X] "Don't you think that's kinda personal?"
-[X] Only answer if she changes track.
--[X] Tell the truth
--[X] and continue to tell the truth about other things regarding your sudden wingage
--[X] But don't mention the invincibility
It's not a lie if we just don't mention it, right?
[X] "Don't you think that's kinda personal?"
-[X] Only answer if she changes track.
-[X] Tell the truth
-[X] but lie about your invincibility
I'm a bit leery of a blanket vote to tell the truth about everything regarding our gaining wings just because a stranger decides to be slightly nicer and more polite in their attempt to pump information out of us for completely unknown reasons. It'll be interesting if it passes, though, so not too worried about it.
[X] "Don't you think that's kinda personal?"
-[X] Only answer if she changes track.
-[X] Tell the truth
-[X] but lie about your invincibility
I'm a bit leery of a blanket vote to tell the truth about everything regarding our gaining wings just because a stranger decides to be slightly nicer and more polite in their attempt to pump information out of us for completely unknown reasons. It'll be interesting if it passes, though, so not too worried about it.