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CROW
Occupation: unofficial leader of The Nest
Age: late 40s
Gemstone: "a pure black gemstone, highly polished and slightly tapered towards one end not unlike an egg" (first mentioned here)
Description: Crow has sandy blond hair and dark brown eyes, and can typically be found at home or around the train station. Reportedly, he holds a lot of influence over the town, and is a good person to talk to when troubled. While many npcs have been losing memories, Crow reportedly has not. He is the one who gave named npcs their bird names, as well as the one who named the town The Nest.
Age: late 40s
Gemstone: "a pure black gemstone, highly polished and slightly tapered towards one end not unlike an egg" (first mentioned here)
Description: Crow has sandy blond hair and dark brown eyes, and can typically be found at home or around the train station. Reportedly, he holds a lot of influence over the town, and is a good person to talk to when troubled. While many npcs have been losing memories, Crow reportedly has not. He is the one who gave named npcs their bird names, as well as the one who named the town The Nest.
SWAN
Occupation: ferryman
Age: mid 30s
Description: Swan has dark brown hair and dark green eyes, and can typically be seen out in the water on a boat during good weather, or couch hopping during bad weather and at nights. Six silver coins are used as a passage fee and conduit for her to take a person across the water; according to Lark, those who leave with her never return.
Age: mid 30s
Description: Swan has dark brown hair and dark green eyes, and can typically be seen out in the water on a boat during good weather, or couch hopping during bad weather and at nights. Six silver coins are used as a passage fee and conduit for her to take a person across the water; according to Lark, those who leave with her never return.
ROBIN
Occupation: rail attendant
Age: early 30s
Gemstone: "fragile light blue shards encased in clear gem" (first mentioned here)
Description: Robin has black hair and light brown eyes, and can typically be found around the train station or cafes in town. She was married to Jay, the train conductor who was murdered early in the game, and has picked up enough from him to operate the train if we ever get it working again. While she has lost a considerable amount of her memories, she claims to be content living in the present. An unknown individual stole her uniform and faked her death via the train's furnace at the start of the game.
Age: early 30s
Gemstone: "fragile light blue shards encased in clear gem" (first mentioned here)
Description: Robin has black hair and light brown eyes, and can typically be found around the train station or cafes in town. She was married to Jay, the train conductor who was murdered early in the game, and has picked up enough from him to operate the train if we ever get it working again. While she has lost a considerable amount of her memories, she claims to be content living in the present. An unknown individual stole her uniform and faked her death via the train's furnace at the start of the game.
LARK
Occupation: postman
Age: mid 20s
Description: Lark has ashy hair and golden eyes, and can typically be seen around town with his mail bag doing deliveries, or hanging out in the graveyard talking to the dead underground. As a postman, Lark prides himself in knowing people and places, but has trouble speaking and reportedly cannot read aside from names he's learned to recognize. It is not widely known, but Lark is able to speak with and, to a certain extent, control the dead.
Age: mid 20s
Description: Lark has ashy hair and golden eyes, and can typically be seen around town with his mail bag doing deliveries, or hanging out in the graveyard talking to the dead underground. As a postman, Lark prides himself in knowing people and places, but has trouble speaking and reportedly cannot read aside from names he's learned to recognize. It is not widely known, but Lark is able to speak with and, to a certain extent, control the dead.
RAVEN (née HAMTARO)
Age: pre teen
Gemstone: "completely clear, like a diamond, aside from a tiny red spot in the center: a gemstone trapped within a gemstone" (first mentioned here)
Description: Raven has black hair and grey eyes, and can occasionally be seen wandering around town but is most reliably found at Poppy Hall after dark. Following the "sacrifice" of several characters, he awoke without any memories of his identity or past life, and was given the temporary name Hamtaro before learning his true name. His family is dead, and according to the note he had written on the back of a photograph discovered in a burning house, he had sworn to bring them back no matter what the cost. According to the townspeople npcs, according to Crow, a boy named Raven died in a house fire many years ago.
Gemstone: "completely clear, like a diamond, aside from a tiny red spot in the center: a gemstone trapped within a gemstone" (first mentioned here)
Description: Raven has black hair and grey eyes, and can occasionally be seen wandering around town but is most reliably found at Poppy Hall after dark. Following the "sacrifice" of several characters, he awoke without any memories of his identity or past life, and was given the temporary name Hamtaro before learning his true name. His family is dead, and according to the note he had written on the back of a photograph discovered in a burning house, he had sworn to bring them back no matter what the cost. According to the townspeople npcs, according to Crow, a boy named Raven died in a house fire many years ago.
MAGPIE
Age: early teens
Gemstone: "blue and yellow, splotched like flowers run through a photoshop distort filter" (first mentioned here)
Description: Princess Stephanie Astrapia (aka Paradise Magpie, aka Magpie, aka Maggie) has sandy blond hair and golden eyes. While not related by blood, Crow and Maggie consider themselves father and daughter. An unknown individual has been using her name and reputation to communicate with the characters, and has stolen six silver coins.
Gemstone: "blue and yellow, splotched like flowers run through a photoshop distort filter" (first mentioned here)
Description: Princess Stephanie Astrapia (aka Paradise Magpie, aka Magpie, aka Maggie) has sandy blond hair and golden eyes. While not related by blood, Crow and Maggie consider themselves father and daughter. An unknown individual has been using her name and reputation to communicate with the characters, and has stolen six silver coins.
SPARROW
Age: mid teens
Gemstone: "like a fire opal: bright yellow and red that dance like flames when turned" (first mentioned here)
Description: Sparrow has black hair and bright blue eyes, and is difficult to get ahold of; the most reliable way to meet her is to wait for her to come home, which she does some nights. She has an interest in the supernatural and the occult, and reportedly is the person who gave other npcs their gemstones. She is Maggie's best/only friend at the start of the game.
Gemstone: "like a fire opal: bright yellow and red that dance like flames when turned" (first mentioned here)
Description: Sparrow has black hair and bright blue eyes, and is difficult to get ahold of; the most reliable way to meet her is to wait for her to come home, which she does some nights. She has an interest in the supernatural and the occult, and reportedly is the person who gave other npcs their gemstones. She is Maggie's best/only friend at the start of the game.
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At least it's not too far, if only thanks to the size of the town to begin with.
... ]
What made you change your mind?
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[ the truth, or a lie? he finds it's not terrifically fun to lie to Lark when not for an explicit goal; could be his lack of outward reaction, could be that he does so much servile work to start with that jerking him around on a string feels too pathetic... it's the same way pulling wicked tricks on all those Mister Number-Something's from the Black Mage Village made him feel weird and empty, after a while.
maybe it's even a little bit Kuja's own growing desperation to be actually seen, in some parts, by others in general.
(plenty of people it IS a sheer joy to take on a ruse cruise, though, so this is perhaps.. not all that much growth.) ]
I was sig in bed, and eben with eberything here, I thought I might just keep getting worse and-- ugh. Ab least with being able to call for somebody...
[ it's because of the same feelings he'd shown during their last proper talk: clinginess to being witnessed. ]
Eben if I just waited it out this time, it'll habben soon enough. --Could habben, I mean.
[ if it's unclear if he's talking about dying or just being sick, well... he doesn't know either. but there's refuge in ambiguity!
Anyway, he's powered by sheer force of thanatophobia right now, Lark, he can do anything! Anything including losing his breath and lagging behind enough to make things conversationally awkward. Maybe. Maybe he will be wasteful and use some magic to get the rest of the way there. ]
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So you want one for emergency use.
[ Makes sense. If he were sick, he'd also want a quick and easy way to call the doctor. Though... as he looks behind him and slows to give Kuja the opportunity to catch up, he can't help but wonder how sickness-addled Kuja's brain is to spend the time and effort seeking him out as a first priority so he can get a phone to call a doctor, instead of just directly going to a doctor himself.
... ]
You are not contagious, are you?
[ speeding up a little ]
i want to see... the forbidden lark icons.....
[ ...vivi's not human, either, but not being human didn't keep Kuja from getting sick! so, like, jury's out on the contagiousness question.
he doesn't close the gap back when Lark slows down, instead taking a moment to sigh and for once, take the time to cast Float properly instead of expending his usual extraneous power to take off like it's effortless. couple beams of yellow light and a cheery, bubbly magic sound later, and he's no longer having to move leaden limbs. he'll absolutely pay for that later, but that's true of this entire misadventure! ]
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You are not contagious, though?
[ He looks over his shoulder in time to see Kuja float himself. Damn... would be real useful during those deliveries where people ask for like an entire case of wine or something. ]
MISSED THIS NOTIF
[ maybe ♥️. he's covering his face, what more do you want. ]
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[ Hm!!!
He'll have to take Kuja's word for it, he supposes. With Kuja following along, Lark ducks into the train station for the unregistered phone and the blood jar. Kuja's going to have to supply his own knife or other bloodletting tool. ]
Just a drop will do. ...Please do not cut a major artery.
[ this has happened before ]
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...it takes a sec for the gears to turn in his head over how to do this. He, uh actually DID expect Lark to have something to do this with, you know, FOR SOME REASON. Kuja does not own any weapons. He has never owned any weapons. He will not ever own any weapons, if he has his way.
This wouldn't be a problem if everybody hadn't TAKEN ALL OF THE SPEARS, not that Kuja knows that.Oh he does NOT want to have to leave and come back. He fishes in his pockets, eyes a little wide but playing it cool, playing it cool--
oh thank fuck he left a little travel sewing kit in one of his pockets. ]
One moment.
[ Sterilize the needle with a flick of flame, check (one more bit of magic gone that he won't be getting back until he actually gets some restful sleep, whoop dee do), swipe away the char left behind, check -- slip the needlepoint in between the ridges on a fingertip, squeeze gently toward the puncture to make it well up faster. Just a bit's enough. He uses more than this to make his Bloodstones. ]
..There.
[ and with a flick of his hand over the open top of the jar -- it's done.
.....so does
Lark just
leave the jar here,
unattended???? ]
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And here is your phone. You have to register a name for it to work. You cannot change it.
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damn. lark's got enough sense not to trust any of them like that. good for him. bad for kuja.Much like with his packages, Kuja puzzles over his new toy like it's the first novelty he's gotten in an age. Rectangle shaped mirror that turns into something else when woken up, three buttons... something that looks a little like bead eye off of a stuffed animal set into its back and front... a couple of indents of unidentifiable purpose. Looked like nearly every other phone he'd seen someone with. ]
Always forgib how cold these things are.
[ install genshin, you'll solve that problem. ]
Is that.. something I tell you, or tell it to the phonb? [ did lark have to sit there and listen to the words AMAGIBIGDICK69 in person. ]
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You type it into the phone.
[ It should be one of the first screens to pop up when the phone is turned on. Despite better judgement, Lark pulls his scarf up over his nose and mouth and moves to stand beside Kuja so he can also see the screen. ]
The symbols on those buttons are called "letters," and when you combine multiple letters together, you create a "word."