isocelesmonster: (GSV HSZWLDH OVMTGSVM)
◬ ([personal profile] isocelesmonster) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-06-22 04:37 am

the devil in the details

Who: Bill Cipher
Broadcast: none
Action: Anywhere in the fleet
When: The night of the 22nd, and ongoing.

Although ostensibly the Golden has a new crew member, there's no new person in attendance at any meals. No new faces in the hall, nothing additional in the laundry. One of the standard crew cabins has been sealed up as tight as a tomb, the brass nameplate on the door unhelpfully scratched out with something sharp. No noises at all come from inside.

It'd take a careful eye to notice the only other change: the same sharp instrument has been used to carve little eyes of providence, no bigger than a fingernail, in strategic public places around the ship. They're shallow markings, not deep enough to interfere with any of the working parts of the craft, and no great works of art - each little scrap of graffiti is a matter of five lines at most. But they're there - and if sometimes the way the gold of the metal hull glints in the pupil is strangely canny, it's probably nothing to be worried about.

(It's not that Bill doesn't care about the flesh puppets that make up his new crew - oh, he does, they're all going to get very careful scrutiny over the coming days - but more important is finding out what his new playground looks like.)

When the fleet sleeps, their minds open and blossom like night-blooming flowers, each one illuminating a new section of the shared dreaming plane. For all of their poetry, few humans realize that the state of dreaming is as real an exploration as whatever meaningless actions they take while awake. It's irrelevant to their survival, most days, so evolution has never sought to provide that particular revelation. They're a young species. Five senses, auditory languages, limited psychic potential, and as far as they know when they dream they're just watching random electrical impulses fire in their brains. Ha!

(There's an expression about a one-eyed man's status in a land of the blind, and Bill intends to make it a reality.)

He steps sideways out of the material world into the closest dream as easily as a three-dimensional being can move along any of their limited axes. He makes himself invisible, at first, just to get his bearings.

[Bill is visiting dreams, as a way of saying hello! His permissions post for this ability is here. I am treating this ability on an opt-in basis. If you didn't give me the okay, he won't be spying on your character at all tonight ~but where's the fun in that~?]
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axiomed: (I thought again of driving by)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-06-26 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Except now all the doors are closing shut. There's a quiet hum in the air and all the students have mysteriously vanished.

Instead there's a man standing in the corridor, not looking pleased. ]


You should not be here.
axiomed: (To be senseless for you)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-06-27 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ His expression flickers. ]

. . . No. I suppose you can't.

Who are you?
axiomed: (By the end of the day)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-06-27 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I can imagine.

[ He shrugs loosely. ]

What exactly does an astral oracle do?
axiomed: (This town has got the youth of me)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-06-30 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Probably more than accounted for. Not every genius is famous for their work. Why?
axiomed: (What turns we missed)

no worries!

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-06 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps in your world.

[ Something about this seems . . . off. ] So you're saying you're a Faustian creature. You make deals.
axiomed: (The weeks and months)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-07 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
No, we did. But we don't have any magical creatures to aid us in our development.

[ That much he's sure of. Charles' universe is bereft of magic and he's quite happy about that. ]

Details have been known to get lost in translation.
axiomed: (Remind me of how I used to feel)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-08 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
I would know.

[ His lips curve into a wintry smile. ] Thank you, but no thank you. I've done enough deals to know I rather get by under my own power. Which I have a lot of.
axiomed: (Why am I supposed to excuse you?)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-13 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ He blinks, thrown off. ]

I -- What? What do you need me for?
axiomed: (Nothing could come between us)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-14 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ He frowns. ]

I won't hurt you provided you don't do anything to sleeping people's minds.
axiomed: (You're a victim of like a meaning)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-14 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
But you must have a physical form in the Fleet.
axiomed: (You mean nothing to me anymore)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-15 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ He has half a mind to correct that supposition and decides not to. ]

So you exist only on the mental plane?
axiomed: (That thought would never leave us)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-15 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ He nods slowly. ]

All right.

[ The scene changes to Charles' study. There's a chess set sitting on the table. Sunlight streams through the window, casting shadows across the board. ]
axiomed: (I'll go through it all with you)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-17 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Charles' answering expression is wry, but no less wary. ]

IT's in the mind. You know how rich in detail it can be.

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