Initial Arcana Conversations: Death
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indeathputableWhat you can call them: Mortimer
What their conversation space looks like: You find yourself in a triskaidekaphobic's nightmare. But other than that, it's remarkably pleasant.
It is an old-fashioned drawing room, the wooden furniture a little worn and dinged up, but passable. There are chairs and settees galore to sit upon - thirteen, to be exact - all of them comfortable. There is a small table filled with a variety of assorted liquors and sodas to mix them with, placed right next to a (clean) ashtray. Thirteen glasses are stacked carefully next to the bottles. An antique grandfather clock gently ticks away the hours... thirteen of them, if the clock's face is to be believed.
The walls themselves are a pleasant yellow, studded with white thirteen-petaled flowers barely in bloom. On each side of the mantelpiece are bouquets of roses in chipped vases, each one holding thirteen fresh white roses in the center of thirteen dying roses. The mantelpiece itself holds thirteen pieces of art, twelve small, and the one in the center a rather well-known painting. The fire is warm, but does not burn when touched, and does not set fire to the ornamental rug which has been mended a few times, covering worn but cared-for wooden floorboards.
What can you expect from Arcana Chats: Death is always polite and dry, and he always appears wearing the traditional funerary garb of whatever culture the Traveler hails from. He’ll offer Travelers a drink and a seat. He’s more frank about what’s going on than some of the other Arcana, and when he talks about what happens after he wins, he’ll say that he’ll let the Travelers go--the wheres are not really any of his concern. He’s not just about death, but the cycles of life.
For OOC answers to specific questions or actions your Traveler might take during this first meeting, please leave an OOC comment on this entry, checking to make sure it hasn't already been answered.
What their conversation space looks like: You find yourself in a triskaidekaphobic's nightmare. But other than that, it's remarkably pleasant.
It is an old-fashioned drawing room, the wooden furniture a little worn and dinged up, but passable. There are chairs and settees galore to sit upon - thirteen, to be exact - all of them comfortable. There is a small table filled with a variety of assorted liquors and sodas to mix them with, placed right next to a (clean) ashtray. Thirteen glasses are stacked carefully next to the bottles. An antique grandfather clock gently ticks away the hours... thirteen of them, if the clock's face is to be believed.
The walls themselves are a pleasant yellow, studded with white thirteen-petaled flowers barely in bloom. On each side of the mantelpiece are bouquets of roses in chipped vases, each one holding thirteen fresh white roses in the center of thirteen dying roses. The mantelpiece itself holds thirteen pieces of art, twelve small, and the one in the center a rather well-known painting. The fire is warm, but does not burn when touched, and does not set fire to the ornamental rug which has been mended a few times, covering worn but cared-for wooden floorboards.
What can you expect from Arcana Chats: Death is always polite and dry, and he always appears wearing the traditional funerary garb of whatever culture the Traveler hails from. He’ll offer Travelers a drink and a seat. He’s more frank about what’s going on than some of the other Arcana, and when he talks about what happens after he wins, he’ll say that he’ll let the Travelers go--the wheres are not really any of his concern. He’s not just about death, but the cycles of life.
For OOC answers to specific questions or actions your Traveler might take during this first meeting, please leave an OOC comment on this entry, checking to make sure it hasn't already been answered.
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Date: 2019-01-13 07:53 pm (UTC)Mortimer might... actually get an ally here, depending. Which. I was not at all expecting.
But, what would he answer Keith if he asked him who (or what) is making these 'rules' that bind even the Arcana? And what constitutes a "round" of Synodiporia?
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Date: 2019-01-13 11:07 pm (UTC)He will let all Travelers go, but what will he do to the multiverses (including the universe Keith came from)?
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Date: 2019-01-13 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-13 11:50 pm (UTC)Most of them anyway.A round would be enough Jaunts to determine a winner; he'll be open enough about that much.no subject
Date: 2019-01-14 12:42 pm (UTC)Are you one of the honest ones, Mortimer?But last question, I think! After hearing all of his replies, I think Keith might ask, you know, okay, so what does Mortimer wants him to do for him (so it can help him win)?
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Date: 2019-01-17 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-19 09:32 pm (UTC)