Maketh Tua (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mismanagement) wrote2016-01-25 02:02 pm
mismanagement) wrote2016-01-25 02:02 pm
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IC Contact Post [Hadriel]
This is Maketh Tua. State your business.
[Video] /backdated slightly to sometime on the 18th
thechoiceisyours
2016-02-22 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, Maketh?
[He doesn't know if she's going to get this, or if it's going to help, but he promised to contact her if he found anything out so...]
Did you um... Did you see Hope's post?
[He doesn't know if she's going to get this, or if it's going to help, but he promised to contact her if he found anything out so...]
Did you um... Did you see Hope's post?
[Okay. Trying this again.
He uses text this time, both because he's not super up for talking himself and because if she isn't either, then maybe she'll text. It's also less weird to reply to a text message late, if for whatever reason she has to.]
Hey. You doing okay?
He uses text this time, both because he's not super up for talking himself and because if she isn't either, then maybe she'll text. It's also less weird to reply to a text message late, if for whatever reason she has to.]
Hey. You doing okay?
[Way to not share, though he probably would've refused anyway.
He's not totally sure how to respond to that comment, but getting a response at all is a lot better than before, at least.]
Not really. I was just sort of checking in on people.
[Which is true; there's a lot of people he plans to message and see if they're okay. The event was so chaotic there's some people he didn't talk to at all, and more he spoke with at the beginning of it all but not again later.]
He's not totally sure how to respond to that comment, but getting a response at all is a lot better than before, at least.]
Not really. I was just sort of checking in on people.
[Which is true; there's a lot of people he plans to message and see if they're okay. The event was so chaotic there's some people he didn't talk to at all, and more he spoke with at the beginning of it all but not again later.]
good for you
[She doesn't intend that to come off sarcastic, really. Maketh just doesn't have the energy to type anything out properly right now. She also doesn't say whether or not she's okay, because that's not relevant.]
[She doesn't intend that to come off sarcastic, really. Maketh just doesn't have the energy to type anything out properly right now. She also doesn't say whether or not she's okay, because that's not relevant.]
[When he gets a second less-than-friendly response, he's actually a little less deterred. Their first conversation had been in kind of a terrible situation, so it's not a huge surprise she might act differently now, especially if she might have a similar personality to Emily. Which he's thinking might be the case here.
But it's hard to gauge tone through text, so he has to be a little more direct than he usually is.]
It's totally cool if you're pissed off at me or something, but I can't tell for sure so you're going to have to actually say so if you are.
[And he hasn't forgotten about his first question, but he'll wait to ask it again for the moment.]
But it's hard to gauge tone through text, so he has to be a little more direct than he usually is.]
It's totally cool if you're pissed off at me or something, but I can't tell for sure so you're going to have to actually say so if you are.
[And he hasn't forgotten about his first question, but he'll wait to ask it again for the moment.]
[That actually gets Maketh's attention, though probably not for the reasons Chris would think.
Fuck. She's worried the civilian].
do you need something
[There, that's professional.]
Fuck. She's worried the civilian].
do you need something
[There, that's professional.]
Edited 2016-03-01 03:45 (UTC)
You asked me that before. Are you okay?
[Not just in general this time, but specifically now. Who knows if something went wrong with the resurrection, or if she's been injured or something, or maybe simply drunk or possibly just really upset. Whatever it is--if anything--he wants to make sure it isn't something serious.]
[Not just in general this time, but specifically now. Who knows if something went wrong with the resurrection, or if she's been injured or something, or maybe simply drunk or possibly just really upset. Whatever it is--if anything--he wants to make sure it isn't something serious.]
irrelevant
[This conversation should not be happening at all. If Maketh were any closer to sober, she thinks she'd crying. Which is horrible and wrong, she's better than this]
[This conversation should not be happening at all. If Maketh were any closer to sober, she thinks she'd crying. Which is horrible and wrong, she's better than this]
It's not irrelevant.
[He's heard those kinds of comments before and they're always worrying, but even more so right now considering the last conversation he had with Maketh.]
[He's heard those kinds of comments before and they're always worrying, but even more so right now considering the last conversation he had with Maketh.]
am fine
contact me if you need something
[She wants to kick him off, but she can't - this isn't a private com. So.]
contact me if you need something
[She wants to kick him off, but she can't - this isn't a private com. So.]
[Maketh has surely been revived by now, which also means the damage wrought should be examined. Truthfully, Henry cannot judge whether it is right of him to take the choice of contact out of her hands, but deferring just seems pointless. At least there is a practical matter at hand.]
Maketh. One presumes that you have read Rage's message?
Maketh. One presumes that you have read Rage's message?
[She has indeed been revived. And no she hasn't been avoiding you, Henry, why would you think that?]
Correct.
One suspicion has been confirmed. These gods require a certain level of cognition to feed on. The death of an animal gives them nothing.
They consider these monsters to be animals.
Therefore in their best interest to keep us functioning at a certain level.
Correct.
One suspicion has been confirmed. These gods require a certain level of cognition to feed on. The death of an animal gives them nothing.
They consider these monsters to be animals.
Therefore in their best interest to keep us functioning at a certain level.
[A reply is a better start than none.]
Your conclusion is supported by their past behaviour.
What make you of the resurrection choice?
Your conclusion is supported by their past behaviour.
What make you of the resurrection choice?
Unsurprising.
Poor. A clinic would be the best tactical choice, but the risk may not be worth taking. Your opinion?
Poor. A clinic would be the best tactical choice, but the risk may not be worth taking. Your opinion?
[That's still not convincing, but he's getting nowhere and knows when to stop pushing.]
Yeah. You do the same, okay?
Yeah. You do the same, okay?
[Maketh rewrites this about six times before finally just giving up and going for it. This is how you prevent people from talking about their feelings, right?]
are you old enough to drink
[Probably? She can't really tell with civilians]
are you old enough to drink
[Probably? She can't really tell with civilians]
[That's... Not the response he's expecting, and he has to consider for a minute how to answer.]
Yeah.
[He's drank legally before since he's old enough to do so in Canada, though he's a few years off in the United States. Still, he's going to guess the scary monster-ridden cave doesn't have a drinking age anyway, so it's fair to say yes.]
Yeah.
[He's drank legally before since he's old enough to do so in Canada, though he's a few years off in the United States. Still, he's going to guess the scary monster-ridden cave doesn't have a drinking age anyway, so it's fair to say yes.]
Have whiskey. Will share if you stop talking.
[Welcome to the Imperial version of dealing with trauma: get shitfaced and pretend it never happened. Or get the other person so drunk they forget they asked.
Maketh is also currently hungover as hell. So for her this counts as a good idea.]
[Welcome to the Imperial version of dealing with trauma: get shitfaced and pretend it never happened. Or get the other person so drunk they forget they asked.
Maketh is also currently hungover as hell. So for her this counts as a good idea.]
Edited 2016-03-03 03:25 (UTC)
[Huh. Not an entirely unfamiliar offer and so he's not bothered by the slightly harsh way of putting it, but he really isn't sure how to respond.
On one hand, he does drink, and after everything that happened it's really tempting. On the other hand, even though he does drink he doesn't actually get drunk anymore, not after being too inebriated to help when the twins went missing. Knowing what happened to them helps alleviate some guilt in that--even if he'd been able to go after them he would've just been a third casualty that night--but there's still the fear that something like that might happen in the future and he'll be useless.
Not to mention that, despite how much he'd love to forget about everything for awhile, he knows if he starts drinking as a way to cope he won't stop.
But that doesn't mean he's going to refuse. Whiskey is good for things besides drinking and it's fine if he has a little anyway, but more importantly he'll be able to get a better read on Maketh and he doesn't want to refuse an offer of reaching out.]
Deal. Where should I meet you?
On one hand, he does drink, and after everything that happened it's really tempting. On the other hand, even though he does drink he doesn't actually get drunk anymore, not after being too inebriated to help when the twins went missing. Knowing what happened to them helps alleviate some guilt in that--even if he'd been able to go after them he would've just been a third casualty that night--but there's still the fear that something like that might happen in the future and he'll be useless.
Not to mention that, despite how much he'd love to forget about everything for awhile, he knows if he starts drinking as a way to cope he won't stop.
But that doesn't mean he's going to refuse. Whiskey is good for things besides drinking and it's fine if he has a little anyway, but more importantly he'll be able to get a better read on Maketh and he doesn't want to refuse an offer of reaching out.]
Deal. Where should I meet you?
[Maketh spent a good amount of time getting wasted with Amos the previous night, but he's currently out doing something. Therefore she doesn't feel bad inviting a civilian over because it's not bothering anyone.]
Spire 1. Apartment 101.
[It doesn't occur to Maketh that usually asking someone over to your place for drinks is flirting. She's really not. This is just what Imperials do. Drink like mad and pretend shit never happened.]
Spire 1. Apartment 101.
[It doesn't occur to Maketh that usually asking someone over to your place for drinks is flirting. She's really not. This is just what Imperials do. Drink like mad and pretend shit never happened.]
Okay, cool. I'll be over there soon then, if that's cool?
[He has to leave a note so his housemates don't worry, and it'll just take him a little while to get there once he does leave between his bad knee and the injuries he ended up with during the event.]
[He has to leave a note so his housemates don't worry, and it'll just take him a little while to get there once he does leave between his bad knee and the injuries he ended up with during the event.]
[After getting everything in order to make sure his friends won't be concerned about him missing and gathering up a bit of the definitely human-meat-free food they'd collected to bring with him--drinking on an empty stomach isn't the best idea--Chris heads out toward the Spire.
It's nice to be able to go out with only the normal fear of monsters, as opposed to the very immediate and imminent threat of potentially running into a wendigo. Still, he's even more cautious than usual, listening carefully for anything that might be approaching and half-expecting to hear the all too familiar sound of a wendigo scream.
But nothing happens, and after a little while he makes it to the Spire. He's never visited one of these things before, glancing around curiously before finding apartment 101 and knocking on the door.]
It's nice to be able to go out with only the normal fear of monsters, as opposed to the very immediate and imminent threat of potentially running into a wendigo. Still, he's even more cautious than usual, listening carefully for anything that might be approaching and half-expecting to hear the all too familiar sound of a wendigo scream.
But nothing happens, and after a little while he makes it to the Spire. He's never visited one of these things before, glancing around curiously before finding apartment 101 and knocking on the door.]
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