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pavosystem · 5 years

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its been a very long time since we did a system roll call. we’ve been kind of distanced from the whole concept of it lately, but even so, i think it’s undeniable that all of these aspects of our collective self hold significance, and are worth tending to. this is callon as guide today.

on a first impression, the grass is much yellower in headspace than usual. maybe because it’s fall in the meatspace, maybe because i’ve been neglecting my internal world.

in the main house, gabbi greets me tiredly. it feels like 2:30am. gabbi implies that ne has a duty to stay awake and take care of everyone, but i wonder if it wouldn’t be better for them to get some rest as well. floret and amelia are sleeping on the couch, curled up into each other. perien, also asleep, is in an armchair nearby, sleeptalking softly.

echo, in her usual chair, blinks at me and goes back to sleep. cilla, in their small form, curled up with echo, does not wake up.

nitexx, surprisingly, seems fairly animated and excited to see me. ze starts speaking quickly, but i can’t quite make out the words.

it’s difficult to know where rayn is, but i don’t think it’s missing. i get the impression that cyrren is tending to it from aer ship at sea. although i can’t quite get to the ship, i can vaguely project in that direction, and cyrren, like gabbi, is tiredly awake, tending to a duty that i don’t fully understand. ae assures me that all is well, that ae hasn’t let anything happen.

while i’m towards the sea, i pass by the vent that leads to ooze ocean’s domain, but it seems to be entirely dormant. i get the sense that vaccine has inherited much of void’s mission, and that gail’s continued worship of void is.. sufficient. void no longer needs to have presence here.

it troubles me to say that i have to check back with our directory to make sure i’m checking in on everyone, and not missing people.

ethan isn’t in the main house, but it’s possible that they’re sleeping, or that they’re visiting the tree house. haze is sitting up in er bed, clutching a fairly intimidating looking sword. e seems like e is preparing for something. staying awake through the long night so that daybreak doesn’t catch em by surprise.

the attic door in nessie’s room is open, and as i climb through it, i can see her, riley, and ceren sleeping on the floor, like high schoolers at a slumber party. they give off the impression that they don’t wish to be disturbed.

at the end of the hallway, remm’s door is glowing in its usual psychadelic ominous way. i’m acutely aware that ve is kin with lotus now. that lotus has always been a manifestation of vir and vir alone.

raliel seems to have gone to the mansion.

all the buildings’ basements seem to be connected now, like burrows of hibernating animals. where the main house used to have a rather unpleasant cellar below the kitchen, it now has a door through vex’s room, which leads to a long corridor, which eventually comes out to vaccine’s office. vaccine greets me with formal displeasure. i apologize for my absence.

vex is hunched over eir desk, and just when i start to think ey’s deeply sleeping, ey complains to me that i had better not write eir off. ey has been very busy, ey says.and i suppose that’s true. it’s unlikely that i could have drawn so much with just my own power.

jace and ginger seem to be one and the same, curled up catlike in their pile of pillows and electronics.

the room behind vex’s room, where venic often stays, is off-limits to me at the moment, but i trust that kye is still there.

back to azdien’s basement. (vector), who refuses to go by xyr previous name but has yet to decide on a new one, huffs at me indignantly, arms crossed. xe makes some rude gestures and flies just high enough to look down at me.

someone, and i’m not sure i can make out who it is, tells xyr it’s not worth the effort of taunting me. kazen, perhaps. yeah, kazen, in a shadowed back corner of the room, sitting down in such a position that i could easily imagine him with a gun, but he doesn’t have one at the moment. i get the vague impression that he doesn’t need one any more.

while i’m not in the treehouse, i can feel excitement emanating from it even here. grimnir has arrived some time ago, and is eager to make my acquaintance. giving in to their(?) excitement, tyto gives me a lift to the treehouse. nero immediately starts complaining that i’m late. the wolfdog on the worn-out couch seems to be more kitt than kaire today, but they’re different phases of the same creature, like phases of the moon. kayden, like grimnir, is excited to greet me. i’m a bit surprised to see kei again, in their usual corner, glaring at me but not seeming as angry as their face might make it seem.

i ask after ethan, and someone tells me that they’re changing right now. coccoon-like, unavailable. there is some confusion regarding the matter, interference from raliel or trysten.. raliel. vite is very much engaged with a racing game, and doesn’t turn around to greet me, but doesn’t seem unhappy about my presence either. it seems like the house has been teaching casey to play a card game, but it’s hard to tell if they’re still on ygo or if they’ve moved on to frogjuice and other party games. casey is pretty miffed at me for missing the most recent con. i promise ill get photos for her soon.

i head back to the mansion, on foot, but the time lapses and i arrive within what feels like seconds. percy opens the door for me. him and jochen stand back to back, both telling me off for neglect and jumping to conclusions. it seems like they’ve become two people, properly, but twins. tobias, as well, is like a brother to them, but doesn’t bother to greet me. instead, he stays in the library, reading about strategy.

azdien gives me a grand welcome when i enter the dining room, the effect of which is somewhat undercut by raliel, now kinning lorenz, babbling at me before azdien can even finish vaer greeting. drohen watches on in a way that could almost read as fond, holding a rather elaborate teapot.

i can hear darion snoring from two rooms away.

trysten seems to be sulking, a bit put out that raliel got a new kintype and ailecent did too, but it doesn’t seem like there’s anything new for sier. i reassure sier, and sie quickly bounces back, saying that of course sie knows im right, sie is fantasic regardless.

vivianne is in another room.. or perhaps more like a. patio/sunroom, which has just recently been constructed off the kitchen. there are butterflies in it. vae is seated, wearing a sweeping ballgown, and greets me with serenity. i get the impression that vae was waiting for someone else, and i ask who. i can’t hear vaer response, but i wonder if it might be kestrel.

kestrel, i realize when i think about it, had been in the library with tobias, just out of my sight beyond the bookcases. ae expresses some reluctance to leave, saying that vivianne’s greenhouse is terribly humid, but ae does head in that direction.

kisoquine, very much the same as neist now, is in the kitchen, as seems to be xyr habit. there are copper pots and pans hanging from a ceiling rack, and xe is fascinated with them, and xyr reflections in them.

micah is in their room, dark except for the blue lights on many of their computers. they’re tinkering with something, and don’t seem to appreciate my presence. when i ask what it is, i get the impression that they’re collaborating with aren.

aren, upstairs in his room, is in some sort of technological tank or pod, unconscious, waiting.

when i query after reik, im told that he was in the treehouse. did i not see him in there? surely it was him giving vite such trouble in that racing game. i suppose i was distracted.

next is the cabin. corian is sitting in one of their elaborate chairs, holding a cup of tea on their lap but sound asleep. nine, lying on the back of their chair, wakes up when i walk into the room, and compliments tyto on bringing me here. i thank tyto as well, and ey transitions into a more human form before heading into the basement to pick up some research materials.

i ask after nika. there’s some confusion. was sie not in the greenhouse with vivianne? no, sie wasn’t. maybe sie’s upstairs. i head up, and i don’t see sier, at first, just a stack of magazines on sier table. after a couple minutes of further confusion, i realize that the pile of white fluff on the couch is not a blanket, but rather, nika in the form of a ninetails, sleeping quite soundly.

downstairs, nine laughs at me. im a bit miffed that they didn’t say anything until i realized.

when i ask about ailecent, i’m told that ae is in the main house, having found a bedroom there, or perhaps a section of the attic. ae is struggling to find a new outfit that ae likes, now that red is perhaps part of aer colour palette. ae has striking silver horns, now, which suit aer quite well.

i head back down to the main room of the cabin. while i had been aware of people other than corain in the room, it had taken me a few minutes to recognize them. now that i’m not distracted by other questions, i can see elster, also asleep, sitting upright on the couch.

aether is curled up in a corner, seeming somewhat distressed. i’m not entirely sure what’s bothering cir. somehow, ce seems more gemlike than i had expected.

tyto finishes collecting eir books and comes upstairs. we walk together up the mountain to skye’s cabin, since it’s difficult for eir to fly with too much cargo. ey makes idle chatter about what’s been happening in headspace while i’ve been away, but i can’t make out the words.

before we reach the cabin, gail crosses our path. it seems to have some sort of warning for us, but i can’t decipher this either.

skye greets us warmly at the door, but doesn’t allow us to enter the building. or doesn’t allow me at least. tyto slips past, apologetically saying goodbye before ey disappears into the building.

aloe is hissing at me from a table inside, and skye explains that aloe isn’t alright with outsiders at the moment, and that includes me. i apologize for intruding, and skye apologizes for not being able to invite me in.

i head back down the mountain. up here, there is thick, crunchy snow up to my ankles. it disperses by the time i get back to corian’s cabin, but i keep going past that as well. the tree on which the treehouse is built is just starting to turn yellow for the year.

it’s my intention to round up percy and grimnir and bother them about names.

#[roll call]

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pavosystem · 6 years

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system roll call hours?

kita is napping in her soft forest spot not too far away from corian’s cabin.

inside the cabin, corian is kind of stressed about the new chapter. they’re messing with their hair and pacing, and nika is trying to talk some sense into them. nine is only watching, vaguely amused.

kestrel has gone off to play chess with tobias in the mansion. ailecent may have retaken the attic in the main house, but it seems like a temporary placement.

ceren and gabbi are just at the edge of merging in headspace. they’re still occupying separate metaphysical forms, but they’ve been taking on more of each other’s habits. ceren helping out in the kitchen, gabbi whistling and dancing while ne bakes. it feels like eventually they might do like some kind of su-style fusion, but it doesn’t seem to have happened yet.

kitt and yacinthe definitely have merged. we’re getting a more solid mental image of its current look and aesthetic sensibilities today than we did the last time we were asking about it. it might be a werewolf, or it might be full-time furry. it needs a new name. kyre has come up, but since some of us use kye/kyr pronouns, we worry it would be confusing. spelling it kaire is too soft, though.

we haven’t looked around in a while, so we’re not going in any kind of sensible order, apologies for that. it’s just whoever we’re having mental clarity on in whatever order.

kei doesn’t seem to be around. they might have folded into kayden. i don’t think they’ve just left completely. their quiet, desperate fondness is still present, i just can’t locate them.

ethan is still here. somewhat surprisingly, since they always seem to have a tenuous connection to the rest of us. they’re excitedly explaining something to nitexx, who honestly seems a bit bored.

riley is upstairs writing, seeming pretty unbothered by ailecent’s large and inhuman sleeping form.

haze is sharpening er sword, which is worrying.

nessie is in remm’s room. they also seem kind of bored, but they’re chatting and idly doing their nails.

amelia is out in the garden, just looking at the sea. floret is watering the rosebushes. perien is leaning against the house, watching them.

cilla is kind of confusingly in between forms. they seem a bit distressed, and echo is patiently grooming them.

cyrren is out closer to the cliffside, talking to raliel about life at sea. raliel isn’t quite sure whether to be excited or jaded about it, and is settling for being neutrally a bit impressed.

azdien has a lot of presence today, but i’m not entirely sure what vae’s doing. vae seems well, in any case.

kazen is in a corner of the dining room, as opposed to seated at the table. he’s cleaning his rifle. he has a necklace on today.

darion is just leaving the table, about to join cyrren by the cliffside. it seems like they’re on reasonably good terms, despite whatever might have happened in canon. darion is on fair terms with gabbi these days as well.

jody is seated at the table, but making no pretense of hiding the fact that they’re staring at kazen’s actions.

drohen seems like it might be sleeping standing up.

micah may actually have gone over to the treehouse.

trysten says sie’s getting sier beauty rest, but doesn’t seem to actually be sleeping. sie might be brooding about something, but i’m not particularly pressed to find out what.

aren doesn’t seem to be around.

rayn is dreaming about moray eels.

kayden is definitely around, but i can’t quite find him right now.

vite is having a frustrating time trying to duel nero, who doesn’t quite remember the rules.

kaire (?) is out in the forest, slowing stalking closer to gail. i’m not sure what will happen when (if?) they meet, but it seems like it might be a big deal. skye is keeping an eye on them through faer window. aloe seems a bit concerned, but not excessively so.

tyto has been helping me find everyone. me being callon, i would assume.

casey seems to be working on a pretty large and complicated puzzle, over by where kei normally hangs out. their knife isn’t there.

kayden has the knife? they did fuse? maybe??

micah is watching casey work on the puzzle, and being a bit rude about it, but she doesn’t seem to mind.

kisoquine is in the basement clown chamber, and seems to be in a bit of a frenzy about something, but i have no idea what. vyrn is nearby, working xyr up further.

#[roll call]

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