Elias Bouchard (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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apocalypsehowcomm2023-04-15 06:48 pm
hellojon) wrote in apocalypsehowcomm2023-04-15 06:48 pm
new arreyeval [open!]
Who: Elias Bouchard & OPEN!
When: mid-April
Where: ADI and around
Summary: getting settled & visiting a graveyard
Warnings: will edit if needed
around ADI
Elias finds himself fitting right into Administration. There's a part of him that wants to go into Research, of course. That desire to learn, to know, to figure out and explore whatever is going on still lives strong in his mind. But for the moment, Administration fits. After all, the more he learns about this place behind the scenes, the more information he has and he can use to shift things to go his way.
It is very easy to doctor a paper trail if you work in the department involved in paper trails to begin with.
The problem with working in administration is that Elias needs to do busy work. And with people vanishing on a daily basis (something which he tried to Know the cause of and was very put out that the only thing he received in return was a nosebleed), the new guy gets stuck with the busy work: roll call.
So he approaches people, he'll ask, "Pardon me. You're someone from a different world, correct?"
50 steps
Well. This is interesting.
Having seen his demise once already (stabbed, beaten bloody at the hands of the Archivist of all people), Elias lingers around the graveyard anyway. Curiosity wins out: how does this place count a death? Would he see how the body of Jonah Magnus died? What about possible deaths? After all, if he knows about this death, why would he keep things the same and let it come to pass?
That curiosity is driving him. So he lingers in the graveyard, to the point that he's still there when they're rounding up people to leave, walking around as he looks for those steps again.
wildcard
He's around ADI, so hit me up with anything!
When: mid-April
Where: ADI and around
Summary: getting settled & visiting a graveyard
Warnings: will edit if needed
around ADI
Elias finds himself fitting right into Administration. There's a part of him that wants to go into Research, of course. That desire to learn, to know, to figure out and explore whatever is going on still lives strong in his mind. But for the moment, Administration fits. After all, the more he learns about this place behind the scenes, the more information he has and he can use to shift things to go his way.
It is very easy to doctor a paper trail if you work in the department involved in paper trails to begin with.
The problem with working in administration is that Elias needs to do busy work. And with people vanishing on a daily basis (something which he tried to Know the cause of and was very put out that the only thing he received in return was a nosebleed), the new guy gets stuck with the busy work: roll call.
So he approaches people, he'll ask, "Pardon me. You're someone from a different world, correct?"
50 steps
Well. This is interesting.
Having seen his demise once already (stabbed, beaten bloody at the hands of the Archivist of all people), Elias lingers around the graveyard anyway. Curiosity wins out: how does this place count a death? Would he see how the body of Jonah Magnus died? What about possible deaths? After all, if he knows about this death, why would he keep things the same and let it come to pass?
That curiosity is driving him. So he lingers in the graveyard, to the point that he's still there when they're rounding up people to leave, walking around as he looks for those steps again.
wildcard
He's around ADI, so hit me up with anything!
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She takes his hand, smiling. Her skin feels soft, with the correct texture and silicon padding in all the right places to mimic the shape and feel of a real human hand, but it's just a bit cooler than would be considered typical. Her body temperature fluctuates according to activity, and she hasn't done anything particularly strenuous yet today.
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"Have you been here long? I've always found that the older arrivals, but not the oldest, are helpful in getting someone acclimated."
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Elias is lucky Cortana isn't privy to his thoughts, in other words.
"Bit over a year, actually, which I think makes me one of the older residents." She knows there are some who have been here longer, but a lot of people are gone, now.
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Elias shrugs before continuing with, "All in all, I tend to fall in the latter camp. A year is long enough to get used to things, but short enough that you can still be surprised."
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...She's really not a fan of poetry.
"I think you'll find that here at least, a year is a long time compared to our turnover rate." She frowns. "And I'm not sure it ever stops being surprising."
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He's actually interested in that. The more information he can grab, the better.
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"That certainly isn't good. I don't know how many people were brought in, but it can't be more than fifty. To have someone disappear like that, so often...it's worrying. And it makes you worry about ADI as well."
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In general, however... she misses George, Donna, Tony... so many dead or just... gone.
"Unfortunately, there's not much that can be done when trying to fight something like this.
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"After all, how do you fight an enemy that's abstract? That you can't see?"
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"Unfortunately, as long as the entities can control access to advanced technology that's unlikely to work."
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The Web, the Spiral, the Stranger, the Eye...that's the thing about technology. You can always tweak it somehow, you can always adjust it so that it serves your needs.