2020 June Summer Solstice Plot - Catch All!

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Who: Anyone and everyone in Trames - Please use this as a catach all for all your Summer Solstice Plot fun!
What: Exploring a whole knew world
When: Anytime between June 20 - July 4
Where: Around Krajina Božstiev
Rating/Warnings: Please add warnings to your top-levels/threads as needed


The streets of Krajina Božstiev are dusty and crowded. So many people on their way to live their lives. Markets, taverns, the Temple, the Palace. What do you look at first? What do you buy? Where to do you find yourself exploring?

Take a moment to appreciate the shine of the Temple. The beauty of the Palace gardens. The quiet serenity of the Library. The simplistic, but filling food in the taverns. Or the peaceful quaintness of the hills. A new world has opened up and somehow it all just seems simpler over here. People seem happy (mostly) in this existence.

Maybe...

Watch out for the occasional person going into a rage on the other side of the street or tavern. That can't mean anything...

Comments

[serpentinthegarden]

"Nah, I think..."

He was interrupted as one of the friendly ladies of the evening brought over a glass of water. She had a kind heart and who wants to see a poor stranger collapsed in the road?

"On the house, sugar," she said with a tempting wink before she sauntered back to the group of girls standing around in front of their bordello. Mm. This was a strange world! But Anthony sipped at the water, even splashed a little on his face to deal with that odd tingling sensation.

"Are you any good with exorcisms? Cause that big guy, he's going to need one! You really didn't feel anything from him?"

[bearshermark]

Elliott blinked after the woman with raised brows, but decided that wasn't important.

Exorcisms?

"Uh, I don't think so." He tried to think if he'd felt something. "Maybe I was a little uneasy? But nothing specific like... you think he's possessed?"

[serpentinthegarden]

"Definitely!"

His head bounced which made it difficult to drink down that water.

"Possessed as Hell! That's why he started attacking everybody in there! It wasn't even his idea! There was this wrathful presence and he just gave into it and started swinging!"

Anthony frowned and for the briefest of moments rubbed the snake tattoo that graced the side of his face as if he could tap more firmly into those demonic instincts of his and get a firmer grasp on what he had felt.

"It was by something powerful too. A very strong demon or God-like something...
I hate to say it but maybe the creepy Bureau guy had a point. This place is actually dangerous."

[bearshermark]

That unease returned, threatening to upset his stomach.

"You know, the palace guard said something a rumor about the king being possessed. He kind of laughed about it, and I haven't heard it anywhere else so I didn't put a lot of stock into it, but it seems a little more believable if you could sense something like that..."

[serpentinthegarden]

"Are you serious??"

Elliott was given an incredulous look.

"You think that rumor is real??"

[bearshermark]

He shrugged.

"I haven't seen the king, and I haven't heard the rumor other than that, so it's hard to say for sure. But after that, I'm a little more worried about it."

Elliott crossed his arms, weight shifting and turning thoughtful. "What was it he said? Possessed by... Sark? Something like that? An old deity. Worth looking into, I guess."

[serpentinthegarden]

"Sark?"

He leaned forward and said again...

"Sark???"

And he couldn't help but burst into a laugh.

"What kind of name is that for an evil entity!"

[bearshermark]

Elliott grinned, a touch rueful.

"Well, I don't think that's actually what he said, but it sounded something like it, anyway."

[serpentinthegarden]

"It would be better if you could remember exactly what he said."

Feeling more revived Anthony stood but leaned back against the Tavern's wall just to make sure he wasn't going to be taking another odd turn.

"I suppose it doesn't really matter. Whatever is going on here is their problem... All I have to do is grab Fell and get out of here."

[bearshermark]

Elliott huffed a short sigh.

"He said the King was sick, but that there was a rumor he was really just possessed by an old deity, Sark or Sarch or something that sounds like that."

Still, the idea of just leaving the city to it didn't sit well with him.

"Shouldn't we- if there's something we can do about it, shouldn't we at least try to help?"

[serpentinthegarden]

"I wonder if I could tell if he was actually possessed or not."

This altruistic thought was set aside as a harmless looking grandma type walked by with her cane. Anthony stopped and stared at her, hard, until she had proceeded on down the road and was well out of sight.

"You can, go knock yourself out! Help all you want. With even little old ladies possessed I think it's too dangerous to stick around. I'm going to find Aziraphale. He has to be some where."

Not really thinking he pulled out his phone to text the guy but oddly enough there was no signal.

[bearshermark]

Elliott followed Anthony's intent line of sight with a frown. He definitely hadn't felt anything, and it made him nervous.

"Even she was...? But.. we can't just ignore it. What if they start coming over into ours?"

[serpentinthegarden]

"Yeah, granny timebomb..."

He frowned after the woman but picked a way through the crowd in the opposite direction.

"You worry too much, that's never going to happen."