epidemiology | PLAYER EVENT ★ HELIOLOGY

INTRODUCTION.

It's difficult to tell time without the presence of a sun or moon. There are no stars. The world is in constant blackness, the heavens barely visible from below and the only light artificial. It's been like this for months.

Suddenly, those who expressed interest in observing the sun (or lack thereof) will all at once receive a text message on their ALASTAIR jewellery from 82736775:

Get your shit and go look at the sky. Now's the time. If you need me, I'm around.

It's time to get to work.

OBSERVATION.

Find the highest point you can and point the telescopes at the sky. Should be easy, right?

Be mindful that there are still guards patrolling the city, looking for escaped prisoners, and some citizens would be very happy to tip them off to your presence. There are still animals in the forests to contend with, and there are still nosey citizens who may ask you too many questions. There are also your fellow ALASTAIR agents, who may not be very willing to share the spot they already staked out before you just showed up.

People and animals aren't all you need to look out for, either. Seven hours after the observation starts, there is a lightning storm. It lasts for 30 minutes, bolts of electricity arcing across the sky. It might be a good idea to scurry down someplace lower when this happens -- you know what they say about lightning and height.

82736775 doesn't contact anyone after the initial text, so observers are free to give up whenever they decide they've been sitting out in the freezing dark for long enough.

[ note: even if you didn't sign up, feel free to tag in! your character won't have a telescope but that doesn't mean they can't mingle. ]

[ previously: ic info | ooc info ]
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["I'm sure I can figure it out"......well, points for being ballsy, I guess. But Eren's got way too much experience with freeclimbing—and falling—to take that answer. Determination gets you pretty far, yeah. But so does practice. A few extra feet isn't going to help much if he can't keep a grip once he's up there.]

It's not as easy as it looks.

[Supporting your whole body weight for that long without an anchor and without a guarantee of a handhold. Not to mention it's dark as hell.]

That far up, you'll break your neck if you fuck it up.

[He says this with the certainty of someone who's seen it happen before. (He has. Trainees die during training all the time.) That said, he doesn't seem like he's telling Hide to give it up, either. (That serious, determined look. Once he's got his teeth in something, he doesn't quit easy.)]

[certain in his ability to creep along roofs without being detected, but not at all willing to vie for an argument with a complete stranger, Hideyoshi's smile tones down, his shoulders giving a small shrug. maybe I'll fuck up, maybe I won't.]

[not to be taken as him being careless -- he immediately continued with,]

So are you in, or...?

[It's your neck, Hide. He cocks a brow at him in a skeptical way, but far be it from him to tell some stranger what they're capable of. Espeically in a place like this.

To be honest, he's got a way to make this a lot easier—in the stupid steampunk mechanism he keeps strapped to his sides. But if Hide wants to try it cold turkey, then that's up to him. And if Eren's braced underneath him, he could probably make for a rescue in a pinch. (Probably.)

What the hell. Expectantly, he laces his hands together at the base of the tower to give Hide the boost he asked for. Go on, then. He's in.]

[there isn't a swagger or happy, arrogant look shot Eren's way because Hideyoshi wasn't that brand of asshole, but he does hop to it the moment the other kneels and laces his hands in front of him. a quick knock of his boot against the wall to shake off the worst of the slush before setting it onto Eren's hands and taking the boost. he isn't the strongest of guys - nowhere close - but he's damn good at spotting hand-holds and easy pathways; he vaults over the first ledge of the wall without trouble.]

[the wall is silent and bare, though hardly abandoned; a few crates of who-knew-what as well as bundles of rope dot the narrow walkway, the doors of the watchtowers shut and most likely firmly locked.]

[quiet as a mouse, the blond braces his arm against the side and leans over to extend a hand for Eren to take and follow. although damn if those clunky boxes didn't look grossly heavy. whatever! he could take it!]

[Well, let it never be said that boys can't be prone to showing off. The first ledge is an easy one. Eren shakes off the helping hand and takes a step or so back and then takes a running jump and vaults up the side on his own steam—clunky boxes and all. He catches a boot against the parallel wall and then catches his fingers on the edge of the top in trademark anime parkour bullshit style, pulling himself up without so much of a lost breath.

Of course, it only gets harder from here. He pulls up straight and casts a glance over a shoulder to be sure they weren't heard.

So far so good. He cocks his head at the base of the tower proper. You next, buddy.]

[putting him in front because you expect him to be the one to lose his foothold, fall and die, huh. you think you could catch him and maybe stall another death in this quaint high tension town, huh. well, you're probably right, and consider Hide more impressed with Eren's apparent tower-climbing training (especially with all that gear; even if it was hollow, it had to weigh a ton) than insulted over the insinuation that he'd get himself into trouble he couldn't get out of.]

[a small laugh because he knew he looked the part of reckless idiot, fingers stretched briefly over his head in preparation for the climb, and up he started. grabbed onto a window's ledge, futzed with the sides, pinched a few clips and holds --]

[- and swung the window open to reveal the dark room: books lined the interior, a rich mahogany desk piled high with scripts and scrolls, everything still as the grave. Hideyoshi scanned it, judged it to be lifeless, and swung himself in, feet silent on the plush carpet. then he turned and motioned the clunky tall guy to follow, pausing mid-hand gesture to blink, lean far over the window sill and, in a much more respectable whisper, gave Eren a choice.]

There's a window on the top spire I'm planning on opening. You wanna meet me there, or come with me?

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is he seriously wearing his maneuver gear what a nerd

only if it might make a thread more interesting, mostly. also he's literally a fugitive???

what a bad influence on young impressionable minds.......