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

[howkickassiam]

York watches as Wangji flips through the pictures on the screen.

"I haven't thought much about it, myself, but that kind of makes sense. Why isn't it hitting the mark, you say?"

He looks at Wangji with curiosity. Hopefully they're not altering history just by being here.

[inquiryguqin]

Hopefully not! It does raise questions of this place when they crossed over through the portal.

"Because I'm not sure where are we. The language, the culture, and the people aren't familiar when I did my research by looking through the history books back home, I couldn't find the place or year. So this makes me wonder what kind of world it is."

[howkickassiam]

"There's a lot we don't know about the past," York muses. "But yeah, I hope you're wrong, no offense. I don't want to screw anything up at home."

[inquiryguqin]

"That's why this city is a worth a study." With a cheerful upbeat. "So far, I don't think we screwed anything up. I haven't noticed any more anomalies as of late."

[howkickassiam]

"True. Who knows how any anomalies might spread, though." That the word they used in time travel movies, right? 'Anomaly'?

[inquiryguqin]

Quite correct.

With a nod, "Mn. Anyway, I'm going to explore more of this city. Do you want to accompany me? If there is any place that caught your eye, we can go."

[howkickassiam]

"Oh, that would be great. Safety in numbers, right?"

As far as places that had caught his eye...

"There was an apothecary down the road there, I was thinking about going in later. You want to see?"

[inquiryguqin]

"Mn. Safety in numbers."

He follows him down the block, through the narrow of the alleyway.

"The apothecary shop? Sure, we can check that out. What do you want from there though?"

[howkickassiam]

York shrugs.

"Anywhere. Did anything catch your eye that you haven't checked out yet?"

[inquiryguqin]

"Other than the library and temples, there's a lot of things I haven't discovered yet." He answered. "I'll try to see everything in this world."

"But now that you mentioned it, I could study what kind of medicine they sell in the apothecary shop."

[howkickassiam]

"Lots of herbs and stuff, I bet."

He leads the way to the doorway and ducks inside. The atmosphere inside is immediately different—quieter, darker, and curiously scented. York is immediately drawn to a basket full of different types of crystals, and he wanders over to examine it.

[inquiryguqin]

He is quite right in that regard. The moment they stepped into the shop, there are rows of strong smelling flowers and herbs stored in jars. It's difficult to tell if they are selling plants by how strange and rudimentary the medicine looks like. Some items in shop look rather crude, but it's homemade.

Wangji decided to not to buy anything when York went over to look at the basket of crystals.

"York, what did you find?"

[howkickassiam]

"Basket full a' rocks," he says, though they obviously have more significance than that to the shopkeeper here.

[inquiryguqin]

"It seems to be the stones that we're gathering." Either way, he decides to buy those and barter with the merchant in exchanged for three water bottles.

To York, he shows him the basket. "Here, you can have it. It's on me."

[howkickassiam]

York raises his eyebrows, accepting the basket.

"Whoa, dude, you didn't have to do that. Thanks."