amonglions: (✞ate the bread that once was stone)
Booker DeWitt ([personal profile] amonglions) wrote2013-07-26 06:35 pm

first baptism (video+action)

[Booker DeWitt has found the bar and he is not leaving.

Okay that's only...mostly true (20% tops) but he's seriously in awe of the sheer variety of ways to get yourself drunk here. He's used to beer and whiskey - gin maybe but that was only if he didn't have either of the first.

Right now he's familiarizing himself with beer. Also incredibly varied now. He's not complaining but he's going to try one of everything before he does anything else.

It's beer three or four that motivates him to crack open the journal and flip to a blank page to fiddle with it until he manages to get the video feed working.]


So I've heard that if folks keep an eye out, things from their world can appear in the Item's Shop. That being said I'm missing a few things but right now I wanted to ask if anyone'd spotted a Sky-hook there recently.

It's a.... [How to explain a Sky-hook beyond it's name?] It works like -- See there are these, uh, hook things that...oh fuck it

[Booker gives up on trying to describe it, and vanishes off camera for a few seconds. There's a sound like scratching in the background and when he reappears Booker turns the journal to face the bar and there's something scribbled on a cocktail napkin that looks like this:]



[He's not an artist, folks.]

That's what it looks like.

If you seen anything like that pop up in one of those shops...give me a holler.

[10% Filtered from Elizabeth: Hackable.]

Also, I've been hearing a bit of talk about these Drafts we're meant to be going on.

There something for the non-combatants to do or are they just handed a weapon and wished good luck?

[It's a bit sad that the idea is not that strange nor unlikely to him.]
notyourutopian: (Reaching Out)

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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-07-27 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Here Booker have a thin, pale girl frowning at her book, her face slightly scrunched up as she tries to figure out what in the world that is.]

It looks rather like a fan? What's it for?
notyourutopian: (Frightened and Surprised)

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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-07-30 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You...ride on a hook...through the sky.

[Don't mind her horrified look, Booker. She's dealing with some agoraphobia issues right now.]
notyourutopian: (Big Sister is Watching)

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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-07-31 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
It sounds like one of the most horrifying things I've ever heard of. [She sighs.] But I have trouble walking through a clearing without feeling nervous so maybe it's not so for other people.
notyourutopian: (Reaching Out)

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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-07-31 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. I've never heard about them though and I've read everything I could find about the rest of the world. Where do people fly around on hooks?
notyourutopian: (Voice from the Radio)

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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-08-04 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Well there's a country called Columbia, but I've never heard of rails in the sky there. And I'd rather like to think that would've been worth knowing about.

[A shrug.]

So no, but I'm from a place no one should ever hear of either so we're probably even.
notyourutopian: (Voice from the Radio)

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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-08-04 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
...Is it hidden? [Well now she's curious again, and not above prying it seems!]
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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-08-05 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Well that sort of explains the hooks, I...[Still, a whole city in the sky...]

I'm sure it was probably lovely but I can't actually imagine going near a place like that.
notyourutopian: (Restless Nights)

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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-08-15 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Eleanor is quiet for a moment.]

So a civil war. There was one of those in Rapture too, but I don't remember it.

I wonder if they happen everywhere...
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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-08-20 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Eleanor frowns.]

I suppose. The war in Rapture wasn't about that, it was two power-hungry men tearing the city down because they didn't want the other one to have it.
notyourutopian: (Always in mother's shadow)

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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-08-25 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Eleanor is quiet for a moment, her gaze distant as she thinks that question over.]

Initially? I don't know. I was...incapacitated for years after the war ended, it was four or five before mother was able to...well.

[She draws in a breath and frowns.]

But the city never recovered. It couldn't recover. The people that survived the war, most of them were splicers gone mad with their ADAM addiction, roving the city preying on anyone foolish enough to be caught alone. Ryan's son took the little sisters and escaped with Doctor Tenenbaum, so they couldn't make more...they began destroying each other...

Mother took advantage, took over. [Eleanor's voice is quiet, as if she hasn't ever really let herself play the events over in her head the way she was right then.]

She tried to establish an order, but...the city was still a ruin. Even using me to make more Little Sisters, to try and bring the populace back into some semblance of sanity, she couldn't save it. Whole sections had to be abandoned to the sea.

The war killed Rapture. [Finally her gaze shifted back to Booker.] It just took a long time to notice.
notyourutopian: (Restless Nights)

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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-08-25 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
[She makes a soft, bitter sound that might be a laugh and shrugs.]

If it wasn't, I can hardly imagine what would qualify as a nightmare. I certainly have nightmares about it.
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[personal profile] notyourutopian 2013-09-04 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[The teen shrugs.]

I think about it all the time. It hardly requires prompting.