a meeting of the minds part 2: lighthouse edition (open)

[lancifolium]

WHO: Everyone! You, you big silly! Get on in here!
WHEN: Feb 3 (giving everyone time for plot roll things to happen ic hopefully)
WHERE: Early evening, on the 5th floor of the Lighthouse
WHAT: Another study group. We Need To Talk Fam.
WARNINGS: None yet


basic prompt: [ A message on the network (moonage daydream, text): ]

We need to discuss this lighthouse, Ellethia, and why it might be we've been brought here. It's clear we've stumbled into something powerful and very precarious, but what isn't clear is the real reason we've been sent on this detour. I'll be on the fifth floor of the lighthouse just after dusk. The space will be magically reinforced so that our conversation remains private.

ooc note: [ Hurrah, study group the second! We'll be doing this like we did here since that seemed to work out. Since IC there will be many people talking, there will be a top-level marked 'ooc info' where you can drop off any information your character would share with the class (please try to keep it bullet-pointed or otherwise organized for easy information parsing).

There's also a top level marked 'open discussion' which you can treat like a network with the idea that things are being said in a round table setting - because group threads after a certain size are ungainly. Branch out, threadjack, have discourse, etc.

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions! ]

Comments

[lancifolium]

[ She sits with her notebook open, printing the letters from some of the signs found about the lighthouse in large tidy print:

IN TI T OF TE N LO and IBRAR O AR S

Apart from the completed phrases 'institute of' and 'library of' the rest remains unsolved, but she's hopeful at least one person attending that evening might have some insight or ideas. ]

[chosenbylight]

[Anduin may be nobility but he's also a big old nerd who loves a puzzle. And those signs -- this lighthouse -- certainly is that.

Anduin offers Lily a smile, both in greeting and in response to the now-familiar notebook laying open in her lap.]

Hard at work?

[lancifolium]

Can you blame me?

[ Looking up at Anduin she tilts her chin towards the seat across from him, wordlessly inviting him to join her if he likes as she turns her notebook around for him to read. ]

Does it look like anything to you?

[chosenbylight]

[Anduin smiles in thanks, moving to take the seat at her invitation, his eyes moving quickly over the letters on the page as he does.]

The signs. A friend and I were having a debate over what they were supposed to spell out. We both agreed the first might be, "Insitute of Technology".

[Anduin wonders whether that has any bearing on his earlier connections between the cycle of life and death on the land and the Blight that he had made. If so, it seems a little too on the nose for his tastes...]

[joker_wild]

[Akira sits across from her, frowning at the letters, head propped up on his hand.
Finally, he sits up a little, rubbing at his eyes under his glasses.]

I feel like I should be able to figure those out, but I also feel like it probably involves places I've never heard of, since I just got here.

[lancifolium]

That's what's stumping me as well.

[ Lily frowned down at the notebook and prodded the page lightly with the tip of her pencil. ]

Does it look like any words? Trying's better than not, right?

[joker_wild]

[Akira shifts again, tilting his head to get a better look.]

You already have 'Institute of' and 'Library of'. That word looks a bit like 'stars', but that doesn't explain the gap. And it's not a big enough gap to be Taravast. Which wouldn't make sense anyway, since we're not there now.

[It's the only place he knows about other than the two halves of Ellethia, though.
He's also just brainstorming.]

[in_theworks]

Okay, but if that first one's Institute of Technology -- [and he's pretty sure that it is] -- then where's all, you know, all the technology?

[he hasn't seen anything that fits the bill, as far as he's concerned, since he got here. (?_?)]