AUGUST RIFTER ARRIVAL

[faderifting]

WHO: New rifters, rescuers, and anyone else
WHAT: New arrivals are collected and transported to Kirkwall
WHEN: Mid-August
WHERE: Southern Tevinter, then the Gallows
NOTES: This log contains prompts for the ARRIVAL and RECOVERY of new rifters, which are closed to new rifters and to the characters involved in the catacombs escape/rescue team in the Tevinter plot. It also contains a new QUARANTINE prompt that is open to everyone.

Comments

[youwonscience]

I mean, it's made up, so it's really nothing. I came to it because how magic looks, from the outside, I people doing things that need huge amounts of energy and it's not clear where the energy comes from.

Like, at home, you can build a machine that shoots lighting bolts, effectively. It's not that it's a thing I can't imagine. It's just that here's it's coming out of a metal or wood staff. No batteries, no engine, not even much visible effort on the person holding it's part. But, like, magic's not real, so I told myself I'd say "magic" and what I'd really mean is "however they can manipulate that much energy at once, a mechanism I don't understand yet."

[Cosima shrugs, a helpless gesture.]

It doesn't matter, it just made me feel better about saying "magic." I got used to it, eventually.

[pyrazine]

[She stares, baldly.]

Do you.

Always talk like this?

[What what what.]

[youwonscience]

...a little bit, yeah. Sorry.

[She look sheepish, but offers a hand.]

I'm Cosima. From California, if you're from someplace with a California.

[pyrazine]

Disney?

[Her eyes perk up a little.]

I'm from Rio!

[youwonscience]

Golden Gate, [she corrects, but grinning.]

Oh man, I've never been been to Rio. I hear it's beautiful, though. Were you there your whole life, or did you move around?

[pyrazine]

Until a couple of years ago.

Then I moved to the interior.

[She means the country.]

Have you been to Disney? I want to go.

[youwonscience]

I have, yeah, though it's been years. My parents took me when I was a kid. I had a good time, though I definitely barfed after the teacups, which was very embarrassing.