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starlogs2016-12-12 10:50 pm
existentialcrisis) wrote in starlogs2016-12-12 10:50 pm
putting out the fire with gasoline
WHO: Ukoku and Koumyou (at least until this inevitably becomes a catchall)
WHERE: the atrium
WHEN: right after orientation/9 dec (I think)
WHAT: monks being weird, probably bad jokes
WARNINGS: none/will update if needed
[ In the end, Orientation answers none of Ukoku's questions. This is not a failing of the video—it's informative, and his subconscious mind files things away automatically—it's just that there's a fascinating mirage in front of him. This is an extraordinarily vivid hallucination, if that's what it is, but he's forced to acknowledge that brain trauma is more likely than this very specific combination of anomalies. He is, after all, suddenly and conveniently removed from the people who were in the middle of attempting to kill him. He might have given them too little credit.
When it's over, and they're ushering everyone outside, he accepts the duffel bag someone hands him rudely, distracted, without taking his eyes off the ghost.
And then he starts to follow, shamelessly. Koumyou is bright in his white robe ahead; Ukoku melts into the shadows. The halls that might have interested him otherwise give way to trees, and soon they're surrounded by them, alone.
He uses the sutra's power to dart forward, skip spaces and hop once in the grass, and then he's behind Koumyou's back, reaching out to catch the end of the cord in his hair. ]
WHERE: the atrium
WHEN: right after orientation/9 dec (I think)
WHAT: monks being weird, probably bad jokes
WARNINGS: none/will update if needed
[ In the end, Orientation answers none of Ukoku's questions. This is not a failing of the video—it's informative, and his subconscious mind files things away automatically—it's just that there's a fascinating mirage in front of him. This is an extraordinarily vivid hallucination, if that's what it is, but he's forced to acknowledge that brain trauma is more likely than this very specific combination of anomalies. He is, after all, suddenly and conveniently removed from the people who were in the middle of attempting to kill him. He might have given them too little credit.
When it's over, and they're ushering everyone outside, he accepts the duffel bag someone hands him rudely, distracted, without taking his eyes off the ghost.
And then he starts to follow, shamelessly. Koumyou is bright in his white robe ahead; Ukoku melts into the shadows. The halls that might have interested him otherwise give way to trees, and soon they're surrounded by them, alone.
He uses the sutra's power to dart forward, skip spaces and hop once in the grass, and then he's behind Koumyou's back, reaching out to catch the end of the cord in his hair. ]