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Network Prompts
ONE: IT WON'T BE LONG NOW... Well, you made a mistake. You spent too long searching around, or you ran outside near the end of the day for just one more thing, and now you've been locked out. You can search around all you want, but the best shelter you can hope for is pressing against the side of a sealed up building. You do still have your tablet, though. Maybe someone on the network can give you some advice, or at least some comfort while you wait for hypothermia to set in.
TWO: CABIN FEVER Maybe you didn't want that mistake of getting caught outside to happen again, but now you've ended up staying too long in one location, and cabin fever has set in. Maybe you're taking to the network to try and ignore the hallucinations. Maybe you want to tell everyone that you've figured out they're all in on your kidnapping. Maybe you ended up wandering off and now you'd really like to know if anyone can check back in the place you were at for your pants.
Action Prompts
THREE: AN UNEXPECTED MEETING You're going about your business searching what seems like it might be an especially promising house--it's fully intact and there's even a working fireplace with some wood! It looks like someone else has the same idea, though, and you've run into them in the middle of your search. Do you share the potential wealth or try to kick them out? On the other hand, maybe you know who this is, or maybe you're just glad to actually see another person for the first time in ages.
FOUR: GOOD MORGUE-NING You've just woken up in a morgue after dying in one unfortunate way or another. You have no idea where you are beyond that, but your tablet is insisting you can't stay here, so you should probably get out of here pretty quickly. Of course, bringing people back from the dead isn't a perfect science, so you're missing something important to you. Maybe you've lost your voice, maybe you can't remember where you're from, maybe you can't remember where you are right now. It looks like someone else is nearby, though. Maybe they can help you out?
[Bard had thought that ghosts, at the very least, would be something known and accepted among all the different people here, but it seems he was wrong about even that. There's just no beating first-hand experience with the bizarre.
Still, any distraction from Smaug's head in the fireplace is a welcome one, so he tries to explain himself.]
There is, uh, someone [no need to mention that someone being a dragon until he knows just what sort of fellow he's dealing with, right?] I was forced to kill in defense of my home. It seems he's decided to start tormenting me instead of moving on to wherever his sort go when they die.
[Oh well that is -- so not at all reassuring. You have no idea. Considering Paxton also is responsible for somebody's death back home, and it's definitely someone he never, ever wants to see again.]
I would normally say I never believed in ghosts. But there have been more than few things here that border on the...inexplicable, haven't there?
It's not as if this person is physically there, though, from what it sounds like you're saying. So the explanation could be something else.
[This whole place is inexplicable to Bard more often than not, but enough things have been successfully explained to him at this point (and the idea of being stalked by a dragon only he can see until he goes mad is unpleasant enough) that he's willing to entertain possible alternatives.]
He lingers in the fireplace. Whenever I get close enough, he breathes fire in my direction, but the scorch marks vanish if I look elsewhere long enough. Back home, even after I killed him the effects of his lingering malice soured the heart and mind of one who had been by all accounts honorable all his life, so if this isn't truly him someone is providing a very good imitation.
Br-breathes fire? [The faltering incredulity there is not for the reason you might think, Bard.] ...Whoever it is that's haunting you, he sounds like someone I would never like to meet.
[Because damn, son, your ghost sounds too much precisely like the one Paxton is hoping to avoid. Right down to the effect he has on other people.]
I'm sorry. [He's stiffly closed off, yet the sympathy is as close to genuine as he ever gets. Being trapped somewhere with a ghost or something very much like one, of someone you've gotten rid of once and simply don't want to have to deal with ever again. Unpleasant doesn't even begin to cover it.]
I imagine there'd be some other way to handle it. What I was saying before though, about other alternatives. What you're describing sounds like it could just as easily be a hallucination or waking dream. Maybe he isn't an actual spirit, but the result of an environmental effect, or something else that's playing tricks on your mind.
[Even awkward sympathy is better than none at all, or at least it's enough today. Some people don't even have the decency to try for that much, and Bard is used to taking what he can get.
And hey, he's getting options for the head-of-Smaug thing, which is also nice.]
So something strange about the house or the land it's on, rather than something unpleasant specifically seeking me out.
[His scientific knowledge isn't exactly up to date, but "that thing's not right" is an easy enough concept to grasp.]
Right. It probably doesn't seem like much of a difference, since the result is the same either way. But look at it like this...if it's a hallucination caused by something outside of yourself, then you know it has to end eventually. It'll either wear off, or fade whenever you get away from what's causing it.
[Or, of course, he might just be flat-out insane. Paxton's not bringing that up though because pointing that out will serve him absolutely no point. It'll just lead to an argument, among other things.]
A ghost, I imagine, would just keep following you around.
[Never let it be said that people from the distant future lack situational awareness. Explanations of forces he doesn't understand is about in line what he was asking for anyway, even if this one's coming from a strictly magic-free perspective.]
In the stories back home, the particularly nasty dead were sometimes bound to one place. So I suppose the way to learn which of us is right is for me to leave this house for a time and then return.
As much as I enjoy turning the occasional profit, I think I'll leave that little business venture to someone who doesn't see a disembodied head in their fireplace.
But if you ever change your mind, who knows. Look me up again. I could always use a way to pass the time.
[He is about 60% serious. Maybe not an actual realty business, but he anticipates he'll try to get something going on here, sooner or later. He is after all a businessman.
And he could use allies. Ones amenable to reason - even if they do occasionally hallucinate fire-breathing heads.]
[Well you don't sound like someone who'd get everyone killed or run away with all the gold, which is about all Bard requires in a business connection, so why not? Not like they'll have time to worry about it until they've got this place figured out a little better anyway.]
I shall keep you in mind, friend. Thank you for the advice.
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Still, any distraction from Smaug's head in the fireplace is a welcome one, so he tries to explain himself.]
There is, uh, someone [no need to mention that someone being a dragon until he knows just what sort of fellow he's dealing with, right?] I was forced to kill in defense of my home. It seems he's decided to start tormenting me instead of moving on to wherever his sort go when they die.
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I would normally say I never believed in ghosts. But there have been more than few things here that border on the...inexplicable, haven't there?
It's not as if this person is physically there, though, from what it sounds like you're saying. So the explanation could be something else.
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He lingers in the fireplace. Whenever I get close enough, he breathes fire in my direction, but the scorch marks vanish if I look elsewhere long enough. Back home, even after I killed him the effects of his lingering malice soured the heart and mind of one who had been by all accounts honorable all his life, so if this isn't truly him someone is providing a very good imitation.
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[Because damn, son, your ghost sounds too much precisely like the one Paxton is hoping to avoid. Right down to the effect he has on other people.]
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[He really doesn't mean to sound like a stone-cold motherfucker--he's a total marshmallow! honest!--but dragons are super serious business.
And then he heaves a big ol' sigh, and he's just a worn-out middle-aged guy again.] This would be so much easier at home.
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I imagine there'd be some other way to handle it. What I was saying before though, about other alternatives. What you're describing sounds like it could just as easily be a hallucination or waking dream. Maybe he isn't an actual spirit, but the result of an environmental effect, or something else that's playing tricks on your mind.
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And hey, he's getting options for the head-of-Smaug thing, which is also nice.]
So something strange about the house or the land it's on, rather than something unpleasant specifically seeking me out.
[His scientific knowledge isn't exactly up to date, but "that thing's not right" is an easy enough concept to grasp.]
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[Or, of course, he might just be flat-out insane. Paxton's not bringing that up though because pointing that out will serve him absolutely no point. It'll just lead to an argument, among other things.]
A ghost, I imagine, would just keep following you around.
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In the stories back home, the particularly nasty dead were sometimes bound to one place. So I suppose the way to learn which of us is right is for me to leave this house for a time and then return.
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It seems as good a theory as any. I would think by now you'd be ready to try and -- move about, anyway. Get away from...him.
Even if it does mean dealing with the cold.
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[Joking aside, he probably should move on: it's unlikely he'll find his way home by staying in one spot. Siiigh.]
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[Better to joke about it than not, right?]
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[He was going to concede the last word, honest, but humor is a great stress reliever.]
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But if you ever change your mind, who knows. Look me up again. I could always use a way to pass the time.
[He is about 60% serious. Maybe not an actual realty business, but he anticipates he'll try to get something going on here, sooner or later. He is after all a businessman.
And he could use allies. Ones amenable to reason - even if they do occasionally hallucinate fire-breathing heads.]
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soundlike someone who'd get everyone killed or run away with all the gold, which is about all Bard requires in a business connection, so why not? Not like they'll have time to worry about it until they've got this place figured out a little better anyway.]I shall keep you in mind, friend. Thank you for the advice.
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But he's quite good at hiding his greed and ambition until a more opportune moment.]
You're welcome. I do wish you all the best. Hope all goes well, and all that.