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faderift2015-12-22 01:35 pm
wontforgetyou) wrote in faderift2015-12-22 01:35 pm
[Open] The World It Learns
WHO: Jamie McCrimmon and you!
WHAT: Rifter reflections and various other things
WHEN: Mid-to-late Haring unless otherwise specified
WHERE: Various places in Skyhold
NOTES: Either brackets or prose is fine with me, so feel free to use either and I will match your style. I'm also happy to set threads prior to the Abomination appearing, so if you would prefer one of those, just say so in the header. Will update warnings as needed.
WHAT: Rifter reflections and various other things
WHEN: Mid-to-late Haring unless otherwise specified
WHERE: Various places in Skyhold
NOTES: Either brackets or prose is fine with me, so feel free to use either and I will match your style. I'm also happy to set threads prior to the Abomination appearing, so if you would prefer one of those, just say so in the header. Will update warnings as needed.
Battlements
[Monsters. It seems no matter where he goes, there's monsters. It's something that's been a part of his life for so long now that he normally he doesn't even think twice about the fact they're here, too, just falls into the habits he's developed over the past few years when they turn up.
The night the Abomination shows up is one of those nights, although he doesn't wind up facing it directly. Instead, he helps others get out of its path and tries to keep the fires from spreading, and when all is said and done the night becomes a bit of a blur. It's not until a few days later that he finds himself up on the battlements, staring down at the Courtyard below.
It's entirely not because of what's happened, although it is part of it. Losing people is never easy, and there's a part of him that regrets they couldn't do more to save them, especially that poor mage lass who'd never stood a chance. However, what happened also reminds him all too much of the way life used to be, before he'd fallen through the rift. Only a few months ago he'd still been with the Doctor and Zoe, fighting beasties and helping the people wherever they'd wound up. Sometimes they'd died, too, but they'd done their best to stop things from getting worse. Maybe he's doing the same here now, in a way, but now he's doing it alone. As much as he likes to think that he can handle what this world is throwing at him, deep down he misses his friends - and he winds up caught up in those thoughts, making it all too easy to sneak up on him at the moment and catch him unawares.]
Library
[Jamie's not normally the sort to be found in the library. He's neither a mage or a scholar, and much prefers trying to see about getting something to eat rather than nosing around old books. But the longer he's here, the more he's starting to realize that the books here can be useful, too. The main problem with that - or with reading anything that's being written down around here - is that he has no idea how to make heads or tales out of the runes people seem to be using for writing. Having to learn to read all over again in the space of only a few years isn't something he's particularly keen on doing, but given that it could be something that would be handy to know, he's determined to figure it out.
The problem, in his case, is getting started. There were books the Doctor used to when he first taught him to read. Simple children's books, ones where it was easy enough to take the letters he'd been taught and string them into words, and from there, start to puzzle out sentences. He hasn't seen all that many children about, but the library here has a lot of different books. Surely there's something her that'd work. On the days he's trying to find these books anyone who happens to come by the library can find him pulling tomes off the shelves, leafing through them (often while the book is upside down), and putting them back again, although not necessarily the right way around. Sometimes he finds a couple that look almost promising, and settles in a nearby chair, slowly tracing the symbols with a finger as if trying to make some sort of sense out of them. More often than not, though, he simply winds up looking frustrated with the whole exercise and winds up grumbling to himself. He tries to keep that part of things quiet...but he's also not particularly good at always being quiet. If it means he gets glared at, well, that's only to be expected.]
Out and about
[Being at Skyhold for the moment means that he can be found just about anywhere: having a drink at the tavern, trying to sneak a bit of food from the kitchens, or hanging out with the horses in the stables. Occasionally he can be found carving a piece of wood. It's a longer piece, about the length of someone's forearm, and to those who can recognize such it's slowly starting to resemble something rather akin to a recorder, although still very roughly formed. He seems to be taking his time with it, although it's hard to say if it's because he wants it to be perfect or if he just needs the practice. Either way, if you need him for something, you should be able to track him down one way or another.]
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Don't ask me, I don't know any more about magic than you do. You'd be better off asking one of the rifters who knows about that sort of thing. Or one of the mages here, although I don't know how much they want to go into right now, given everything.
[He shrugs as well, although it's more because of the last part of what's said rather than anything else.]
Think that's more a matter of all those demons turning up when you fall through. I don't know about you, but if that's going to happen every time one of us turns up we're going to have to figure out some way to say hello that's not 'Look out!' Don't worry, though, you've not interrupted anything. I was just...thinking, that's all.
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I've kiiiind of been learning about some of the magical demon stuff here. I mean...I dunno, I can't say I buy it. A lot of things were magic in Earth's history before we learned better and figured stuff out. Okay, yeah, granted that nobody was shooting lightning out of sticks, but still...
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Wait, you're from Earth, too?
[He's met a fair amount of the other rifters since arriving here, but they've all been from other worlds. While that part of things isn't all that unusual for him (at least nowadays), he's wondered a bit if anyone else would turn up from Earth. Finding that someone has gets him to smile quite broadly, even as he offers out a hand.]
You might be the first one I've met out of the rifters besides me that has been, to tell you the truth. Everyone's from other worlds, I think. I'm Jamie, though. Jamie McCrimmon.
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[Most people would find that statement strange. He'll be pleasantly surprised that it won't necessarily be to Jamie.] Church. Leonard Church, but, y'know, just Church is fine. I'm pretty sure there might be another one or two from Earth, but you're right. There are a lot of other worlds in the multiverse out there, I guess.
sorry for the delay!
[That's a little disappointing to hear, but at least Church knows about Earth, which is something. And aliens as well, but he's right that that's no longer strange to Jamie (even if a part of him deep down keeps wanting to call the lot of them 'beasties'). So while a flicker of that disappointment does cross his face briefly, it's soon replaced with a rather more wry expression - and a vaguely amused sounding snort, as well.]
Och, well, it's probably not from lack of trying, though. Unless it's the sort of aliens that just want to take over. Most times I've found that sort don't try and blow up too much. It's good to meet you, Church. Take it you're more familiar with space travel and those sorts of things in that case? Especially since you think this place is a bit, ah, old-timey.
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Yes, Church, he gets the point.
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Think the only thing you're missing there is space robots and that space food that comes in those wee cubes and doesn't taste a thing like roast beef even if it's supposed to. I've not tried to explain any of that to most of the people here, to tell you the truth. Think most of them would think I'd gone mad if I'd tried.
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[Although he's beginning to think that maybe Church isn't quite from the same place he is, just somewhere similar, and he lifts his chin slightly in order to give Church a thoughtful look.]
What're they called, anyway? Those aliens that you're fighting?
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Oh, fuck if I know. They're just...aliens. Um, I think they're...uhhhh... [Maybe it's in there somewhere, but hey, there are a lot of holes. Besides, far as he knows, it's just the one alien race, so just saying aliens is...kind of okay.] Nope, couldn't tell you what they're called. Big mean suckers though. Weird jaws. Too many teeth.
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Can't say as I'd heard of any aliens that look like that. Suppose that's probably not a bad thing, though, if they're that nasty. At least here you've only got to worry about the demons, and the undead if you go back to the Mire. Maybe some bears, too.
...that's probably not helping, is it.