[open] some Kenoma come up to Godsblood the other day...

[baltimores]

WHO: Amos, Gen, Eustace, Childe, any Pleroma
WHAT: Amos wants a gun, Eustace wants to make a portal, and in order to make it happen they go to...
WHERE: Godsblood.
WHEN: Towards the end of Visoseri/start of Soviseri
WARNINGS: None, unless you count bullying of various Pleroma; will add as necessary


The content of this entry is intended to be an OOC explanation of what's going on to keep everyone up to speed; any characters who may be in Godsblood during this time period are free to top level or tag out. This is not an event and simply a unique instance that some characters are kinda sorta technically in enemy territory, which opens itself up to thread opportunities that would not otherwise be possible.

Basically: four Kenoma are journeying up to Godsblood, albeit not all together and through different means.

Amos and Gen will be arriving via a boat directly from Achamoth, and accordingly, will be outed as Kenoma Aions right from the get-go — the populace should know who they are, and word of their arrival would likely get around. Amos is there because he wants to build a higher quality gun than what they have in Achamoth and Godsblood is the place to do it; Gen is there to serve as backup/moral support/because they're friends, okay. Story plotting link here for more details.

Eustace and Childe will be sneaking in via carriage from the Artisan shrine/a portal and will therefore not be known as Kenoma Aions upon entry to Godsblood — unless there are characters there who already know who they are, that is. Eustace is setting up a portal to facilitate travel between Achamoth and Godsblood. This is not public knowledge and non-Kenoma Aions/NPCs are unlikely to know about this. Story plotting link here for more details.

The mods have also provided some guidelines for how interactions could go between characters so that any Pleroma wouldn't necessarily have to out themselves as Aions when it comes to interacting with Amos or Gen, who are publicly declared as such. Highlighting what was said further down in Amos' plotting comment:

It wouldn't be unreasonable for a visiting Aion to be chatting up people within Godsblood so sharing a meal ... wouldn't be a dead give away, but it might tie them to the Aions on the rumor network if they do it in public. Whether they are just strangers Gen and Amos are dining with or whether they are connected to Achamoth won't be clear, but it would definitely have implications ... It's definitely a risk, at any rate.

As for meeting in a busy street or a public park the connection is still possible but a lot less likely, since the odds of them chatting up some rando in the park is a lot more likely than sitting down for dinner with them. It'd also be a lot more obvious if someone was spying on them, unlike a closed environment like a pub or eatery, so that'd probably be the safest option without going somewhere deserted or private.

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[salvageable]

[ It's pathetic how Dokja just stands there, motionless, arms limp by his sides as he continues staring at Ernesto, waiting to see what the other man will do. Gen, the patrons of the restaurant, the exchange happening with the waiter, all of it fades away into the background for one horrible moment as the static in his ears becomes deafening. Dokja's been caught in a lie, but more than that, he's shown how much of a liability he is.

"—still taking advantage of the people here nice enough to keep an eye out for you. Wasting their time and energy. Only ever making things worse for'em..."

He's proven every single bit of it true.

It's the clap on his shoulder that yanks him out of his daze, and Dokja turns his head to slowly face Gen, barely registering the words coming out of the boy's mouth, an eerie darkness in his distant gaze before they shift to meet the faces of the people staring at him. Too many eyes. On him. Just like from when they'd haunted him from his earlier days, hands reaching out to grab his frail, bruised arms, pushing cameras into his face, asking him what it was like to have a murderer as a mother and if he missed his wretched father. Instinctively, Dokja tries to curl in on himself, tries to block out the fearful looks, the way people speak in hushed tones and point their fingers at him. But it's too much.

He could kill them all.

It's a thought jostled loose by a mind teetering on the edge, and he thinks about it for longer than he should. He's been revealed as an Aion, and with the way Gen phrases it, these people will think they're on the same side. Would it really be that bad to wipe this restaurant out, then? It'll have a cataclysmic effect on the Kenoma at least, from witnesses looking in from the outside.

... And it would worsen things for the Pleroma who aren't prepared... When Dokja turns back to see if Ernesto is still there and finds the familiar face gone, he makes up his mind. He's done enough damage.

Without a word, without so much of an acknowledgement or indication that he's heard Gen, Dokja shrugs the hand off his shoulder and makes his way out, stumbling as he does so. There's a disturbing quiet surrounding him, like he's shut himself down to prevent this disaster from reaching new heights, and he needs to make himself scarce. ]

[epiprocta]

[ Again, that look. That blank look, staring past him at nothing in particular, like he's lost to the world. A look that makes fury burn cold in the pit of his stomach. Gen's gaze does harden when he sees that stupid, detached expression Dokja wears, he lets his hand be shrugged off without any protest. He slowly withdraws it to hang loose at his side, and even if Dokja doesn't notice it, Gen's stare fixes hard and sharp on the slumped line of his shoulders.

It stays fixed, frigid and focused, even as Dokja beats a pathetic retreat like a dog scampering off with its tail hanging limp, too worn-down to even tuck it between its legs.

Was it a wise decision, declaring Dokja as a Kenoma-aligned Aion in a place like this, potentially drawing attention to himself and risking staining the Kenoma's reputation if Dokja does something stupid? Probably not. But he can't bring himself to think that far ahead at the moment. All Gen wants in this moment is for Dokja -- with all his apparent fear of being talked about by others, of being stared at and seen -- to feel the same unease and fear that he's had directed his way during his entire stay in this city. See how Dokja, with his paper-thin mental fortitude, feels with the entire city's eyes directed his way.

Kim Dokja will never understand what he's been through. Would have never been able to endure what he has since as far back as he can remember. And while Gen knows he's already gone further than he probably should have ... this, he cannot resist. Forcing Dokja to endure even the tiniest fraction of what he's always had to tolerate.

His contemptuous stare remains nailed on Dokja's back for a few moments longer before he drags it away so he can turn to the waiter and offer another apology. A few more jools will smooth this all over for himself, he thinks.

But Kim Dokja can rot and cower before Godsblood contempt for as long as he lives, for all he cares. ]