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twelveheart2013-04-07 11:58 am
12npcs) wrote in twelveheart2013-04-07 11:58 am
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Day 1 Night
[ Over the murmur of conversations, explorations and violent attempts at escape, there comes a sound tick tick tick tick tick.............. CLICK.... The sky above snaps across the dome from blue to black... and everything goes dark.
A glow comes from the front door of each of the inns and one by one, you can see street lanterns begin to light up steadily past each of the gates.
The only flickering, organic light comes from above in the tower, spluttering high, high above everyone, through the slats of the closed shutters. After a moment, it's gone. ]
A glow comes from the front door of each of the inns and one by one, you can see street lanterns begin to light up steadily past each of the gates.
The only flickering, organic light comes from above in the tower, spluttering high, high above everyone, through the slats of the closed shutters. After a moment, it's gone. ]
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........
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WRAPS IT AROUND HIS FOREARM AND HAND
makeshift glove get ]
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LET GO AND PULL HAND OUT ]
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...nngh. Better not risk that further while he's on his own out here. Gets to his feet and eyes the guttersweeper again... ]
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[ you came here to do a job. Do it, Chrysos.
...sets the broom over the drain and against the wall, and sets to work removing the sweep's jacket and shirt. ]
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The chest and neck exposed have been carved with a good eye for detail, following human musculature and bone structure. The sweep neither has nipples or bellybutton, the area just smooth where either should be.
You do find faint lines, almost hidden by lines and indentations of the body itself, they make a long rectangle around the chest and abdomen.]
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...there's a start.
[ Mumbled around the candle in his mouth. Takes out his lone screwdriver-- flatheaded, and a good thing too. If there's no screws to be undone on this, maybe he can just carefully pry it open.
...taking care not to strain any other components. (Another almost-guilty glance at the bent fingers.) ]
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Dazzling, complex, this simple figure has a lifeswork of automation arts in it, rivaling easily some of the Pavionian works you've dissembled.... except... pegs and screws on the inside, here and there, stand empty. Here and there, a gear wheel sits with noting connecting it to push or power in turn.]
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...wouldn't put it past a Pavo's hand at all. And it would explain some things about this whole place, in fact.
... ]
"Decored"....? Or at least missing a few...
[ reaches in to carefully feel at the pegs and screws surrounding one of the empty spaces, feeling for any traces of a forced removal-- rough edges, or flakes of metal... ]
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Above you, you begin to hear a loud ticking, and the first plucked notes of a music box.]
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