@yennefer.vengerberg

[angerberg]

Those of you who went to the ruins in New Cairo, New Oslo, New Rio de Janeiro, and Mount Everest — what did you find there?

I'm interested in the history of the blue light in this world. Obviously these sites were designed to utilitize it in a fashion, to activate the gates. I'll be going out to explore it myself before long. I'd like to know what we already know.

It's alright if you haven't drawn any conclusions. Descriptions of the artifacts you've seen, anything you know about the history of those sites in this world. Anything could be important.

And it could spare me from more time spent digging around in the dirt.

[ ooc; post is slightly forward-dated to when newbies get their IDs ]

Comments

@loki.odinson

[selfimage]

And here I thought digging in the dirt built characters.
Though I would say going for yourself is an experience that no others could replicate.

Something about divinity? Blah blah blah......

[angerberg]

I have all the character I need, and little interest in divinity besides.

[selfimage]

Then the thrilling history and deets behind the blue glowy chest thingy are going to be dull.

[angerberg]

Yes, I've heard about the cult.
While their beliefs are interesting, I don't believe we can take for granted that they're accurate, let alone that they are the ones who built these ruins. That's why I'd like to examine the facts of their history and the artifacts themselves.

@goro.akechi

[impede]

This sounds like the type of information that you'd prefer to receive from a book.

[angerberg]

Oh, I've no need of your assistance in acquiring information anymore, Goro. Don't trouble yourself.

[impede]

Oh, I see! You've discovered that I was right about the internet.

[This is how Yen gets hit with double Loki. Sort of.]

I was in New Cairo, by the by.

[angerberg]

You're an unpleasant child, aren't you?

[ she's not going to bother explaining that, yes, she knew conceptually about the internet, and she'd only wanted the information earlier to help her adjust what credentials she asked el to fabricate. there's no point to it now. the issue at hand is, instead, goro's continued presence. ]

Re: @goro.akechi

[kill7]

watching you two talk is always so damn interesting haha

[impede]

Oh? Are you learning?

[kill7]

no thanks i like sounding my age

which is 21 and yours is...?

@xuanyu.mo hi yen sorry for him already

[laozu]

I went to Mt. Everest with several others! We spoke with our guides about their faith, since they had a lot of beautiful tattoos associated with their god. They believed their god, Pehar, was particularly associated with the mountain -- I was wondering if maybe this was the name of one of the gods.

Miss Silena and I had brunch and chatted about gods and godhood and some of the things she and I were noticing. I've been wondering about reaching out to the "gods" that might have come before us, through dreams. She's noticed that there are particular colors associated with the gates -- like, blue is our color, but the Everest gate was blue and white. Let me see...

The gates ended up shining predominantly blue when we neared them, but the other colors associated with them were red, blue, black, gold, orange, red, and white. Cairo's ruins featured black and gold strongly, Mt Everest had blue and white lights, I think she got confirmation that red and orange were a majority color at New Oslo... which means that, along those lines -- I don't believe we've received confirmation about the colors for New Rio, but they'll likely be among those seven!

yen is not prepared

[angerberg]

Interesting that the gates signaled different cities.
Am I understanding correctly that your hypothesis is that the different colors are linked to different gods in their religion?

liuqi.wu

[kill7]

you've been busy.

[angerberg]

No rest for the wicked.

[kill7]

find out anything as to why we're here?

@marian.hawke

[championofsnark]

We found ruins, relics, traps, walls that moved when you did something a certain way, and eventually had to hold hands and do some type of connecting to release the portals. I don't understand the latter in the least, so can't really help on that front.

[angerberg]

And which site were you at?

[championofsnark]

New Oslo. The group that was supposed to be out there looking for trouble, not the two that were kidnapped.

@nathan.drake

[nonscriptum]

i was at everest.

we found a beyul - a sacred valley pitted with the ruins of an old city. lots of material goods, no human remains. mechanisms that couldn't be used until puzzles were solved, weird yaks, ancient stone carvings.

that kind of thing. i have drawings, if you want to see them.

[angerberg]

Yes, I would. By the look of it, Everest is an exacting climate. I'd prefer to avoid making the trip myself if I can. Go ahead and send them over.
No human remains is interesting. Any ancient structures surely suggest that people lived there once. If they didn't die there, or weren't buried there at least, I wonder if they were all capable of activating the gates themselves.

[nonscriptum]

i can take pictures of it, but it won't be the same as seeing them in person. i didn't draw them in the system, i have a sketchbook.

[ Please don't ask how he got it. ]

@noah.smith

[hardbody]

I am but newly arrived myself. However, I spoke with someone who saw some of these ruins, and she showed me one of the recovered artifacts. An engraved ring, depicting a religious figure. Nothing familiar to me, but intriguing nevertheless.

[angerberg]

A religion you or the ring's owner recognized, by chance?

[hardbody]

No, neither of us. I am not of this realm, and neither was she. Nevertheless, I consider myself a student of history, and I'm eager to learn.