"What a dismal place." Vin said as he moved over to the lined up tables set up about the labs and ran a skeletal hand about the surface before moving to the wall and started to flick off a few lights. "Much better."
A skeletal foot tapped the tiles below him and he grumbled. There was nothing he could do about the rest of the place and what sand was littered on his person or stuck in various boney crevices just wasn't enough to make a difference in the grand scheme of this room.
Still, it was labeled outside as a lab, and that was something.
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 11:43 am
Nothing exhaled audibly as he moved into the familiar lab as if he lived there which he more or less did. He didn't need to bother to announce himself to Vin, the looming presence of Butch was always more effective for that than words were.
"Conquest have such terrible taste." he said.
"This memory thing is bothering me simply in that I am concerned that if I added anything to my projects yesterday I will have forgotten what I added."
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 12:42 pm
"Notes." Vin stated, smiling as he went to sort through the paperwork they kept to see where they last left their binders.
"We keep notes." It wasn't right for them to not keep their workings of the day without some sort of scribble, and Vin went to recover their binders before setting them atop the table, opening his and........
Now he was concerned.
There was nothing written.
Now he was VERY concerned.
"Nothing Noth?" He asked, looking over to see if his was the same as his binder.
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 1:28 pm
There was a scuffling of papers on the other side of the room as Noth went through his own notes, meticulously laid out in a daily record of his every working and action. He expected there to be something on the previous page because never in hundreds of years had he ever had a blank page.
And yet there it was, as blank and defiant as Vin had said.
"I /never/ leave blank pages!" he said, raising his voice in a rare exclamation. "But there is nothing! Nothing!"
It might have been his name but he was not at all fine with this notes being blank.
"What do we do? We cannot go back!"
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 2:00 pm
He held onto the ratty binder in his arms, chewing on one corner as he thought. "If we miss a day without following our precise routine, then we can't say with 100% accuracy what our results were without the variable of a missed day. Our research would be put into question. We would need to start over..." He could feel the weight of the binder feel like a useless stone now. So much time spent.
He looked over his notes, then back up. "We did not do this for nothing. We....we continue, but we also think. We think about yesterday...." And he sat up atop a table and closed his eyes hard, thinking.
Think.
Think.
"We're smart. We can figure this out."
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 2:14 pm
Noth still looked very alarmed at the situation they found themselves in, looking at the blank page as if it was an aberration. "Start over." he said quietly, looking over at the tanks of strange dead things and sometimes living things within and on which he kept his brood of parasites alive. "We can't." He couldn't start over again, it would mean setting himself back entire bloodlines of creatures.
"How about." and he said his words slowly and thoughtfully. "How about we just tear these blank pages out of the books and continue on as if it didn't happen. How about we just...wave it off as a null day and assume we did nothing at all?"
He felt like he was proposing some grand conspiracy.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Pale and short with transcluscent skin and draped in strange tapeworms, Nothing looks like he should be slow and ponderous an much of the time he is, but he is capable of quick snaps of movement which is startling.
He is missing his left hand and is almost always accompanied by a frazzled wild eyed famine companion who functions in many ways as his Igor.
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 3:54 pm
His eyes popped open and he had to press a hand quickly to one to keep it from falling out as the sudden motion. Turning, he looked about quickly before slipping off the table. "That.....is an idea."
He moved a bit more closer now, sliding beside the other. There was no one else here, but he knew what little things could find themselves taking messages from the air and repeating. Another clansmen would just adore rubbing another member's research into the dirt for valuable lab space and to boost themselves up atop a corpse - well, a figurative one.
Well, maybe literally too.
"We could.....state equipment trouble that day......or .....state we are upright enough to do our work that day." He slid a little closer now, and narrowed his eyes. "It's not like we're fabricating. If anyone asks, we will say what you say and you say what we say." And this was far more reassuring than staring at such a depressing page.
He held the binder up with a smile. "So...our day was only lost in a forced delay due to malfunctions. We were good in not progressing that day else we would have jeopardized our research."
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:31 am
"Exactly so." Noth said with a smile that curved across his slender features. "We simply took responsible preventative steps to avoid contaminating our work with non-functional equipment." After all they did sometimes take days off, there was that one day a good few decades back when they had been forced to put ongoing projects on hold due to external circumstances.
"Equipment trouble sounds like the best option." and to make his point he set his long spidery pen to the page and wrote the words equipment trouble in a swooping elegant hand.
"It was very clever of us both to skip yesterday, it means that we can proceed forward with impunity."
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Pale and short with transcluscent skin and draped in strange tapeworms, Nothing looks like he should be slow and ponderous an much of the time he is, but he is capable of quick snaps of movement which is startling.
He is missing his left hand and is almost always accompanied by a frazzled wild eyed famine companion who functions in many ways as his Igor.
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 7:44 am
With more rigid script, Vin scrawled out - malfunctioning equipment - could not execute testing" on a page and dated it. While everyone else didn't know what was happening, he wasn't about to go the way of saying he did nothing because he had never done just nothing in decades.
"If anyone asks, we can say we know more than then about yesterday. Small memory. We did not work that day. No one can question us." He said, trying to prepare their story and make sure no one dared tell them they had to toss out their work.
Still....
"What do you think it means? No day. No memory. Red gem?" Noth was one of the few people he would ask these things two and care to hear what they said.
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 3:02 pm
Noth finished his notes and made his way over to Vin, getting in his personal space to read past his shoulder. "Yes! I am glad we have such good ideas." he said in approval.
"The meaning?" he looked thoughtful. "I'm not sure. It could be something to do with the priestesses, most truly strange things are. There seem to be more of them these days than I have ever seen. They never tell us anything."
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:14 pm
The small legs alongside his side tapped against his ribs as Noth drew nearer, clicking in response to his presence.
"We could loose more days. We would like answers, but everyone seems untouched, uneaten, unaffected, so what would be gained by a day no one can remember and a gem turned red?" He stared at the fabrication he wrote on his binder entry and frowned deeply.
"That time is ours. We could have missed something amazing....or even just time here." He liked spending time in the labs with Noth. "All time is precious." And he looked up. "We lost time with you."
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:41 am
“Yes, losing more days is not at all an acceptable outcome of all of this. We should redirect our research somewhat towards gathering a survey of those affected by the missing day, collating what they lost and what they remember. We should help to control this. If this is Death clan’s doing, we shall take this to their leaders and demand an answer for this missing time.” Because Noth’s indignation knew no fear at all.
His cold expression softened once more at his companion’s words. “Indeed though, I would not lose more time in your company for any reason.” And he seemed resolute. “We should go out from here and find those who are willing to answer our questions.”
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:39 am
"Yes. If this affecting us then we can't have control or actions for prevention for another clans screwup. This has beem already unsettling for us."
He liked the idea. "We have a friend in war and can go into Death woth supplies. Keep ears open and listen for any whispers. But..."
There was a concern.
"We should be thorough. Noth...can you inspect us for any abnormalities?"
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 3:48 pm
"Indeed, and if one of the clans is pushing their luck then they will need to be addressed. Our power balance is important, and I know Death have always been a little pushy about this, their leader is dangerous. All of them need to be watched carefully."
He moved even closer to his companion. "Absolutely." he said, running his hand across the other horseman's shoulder and down his arm, leaning in close to sniff faintly at him. Personal space was not something that Noth particularly respected when he was invited in and he set about very carefully checking every inch of his companion with gentle yet thorough palpating fingers. "Seems so far to be normal."
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Vin moved his limbs up and lifted any robes in the way, and waited as Noth moved around, watching him keenly and with interest. Whenever Noth moved his hands, a few of the tiny legs alongside his side would tap against his bones. In the end the results were that there was no signs of tampering.
"Ah. How disappointing there were no abnormalities on us. Something is better than nothing at all." He then looked to Noth, and gestured to his form.
