[Dual Post]

[autumnswarm]

[Journal]

Greetings Domino~ I'm back! You may or may not remember me, depending on your circumstances, but I am Sullivan Adams. I am currently acting director of OOPARTS, as Onni takes a little break for... personal reasons. Please view me as you would Director Haita as I strive to keep the city safe.

If you're an OOPARTS employee and don't remember me, please report to the director's office for an immediate fix.

If you're my god-children, you're staying with me, unless you've succeeded in your task, in which case it is with whoever is willing to let you stay.

[Event]

Sullivan is in the director's office. They've wasted no time in redecorating in deep purples and blacks, and it's a little... darker in here than it usually is, strange shadows cast from orbs of light on the walls and ceilings rather than anything remotely normal. Perhaps you've been meaning to talk to Onni and have found Sullivan instead. Maybe you don't remember Sullivan and now technically work FOR them and you're up here to scream at this clearly deranged person in Onni's office.

Or maybe, you very unfortunately DO remember Sullivan, and need marching orders.

Comments

[Journal]

[blackmage_linka]

Wait, who--



Ohhhh, wait, I think it's coming back to me now...

... You look really different from my foggy-shaped memories.

Re: [Journal]

[autumnswarm]

Ah! Linka, good, I hope this is a sign I won't have much work to do on catching everyone up to speed.

Yes, it's... a culmination of things, is the most succinct way to put this body. It's a variation on what I had when I first joined, with the hat and the yellow eyes.

Re: [Journal]

[blackmage_linka]

I think living where I've been now makes it easier for my brain to reassert itself, ironically enough. Something something horrors, I dunno.

I think I kinda recall that too! You look more... cleaned up? I guess that's good, too.

Better than the other weird scraggly guy I've seen sneaking around on the days I come in. I mostly take in requests remotely since I've been working on some stuff, but the whole "the entire place I live in is now up in the sky" part's been throwing me off a bunch. So, you know, trying to appreciate solid earth more.

Re: [Journal]

[autumnswarm]

We take what wins we can.

Cleaned up? I suppose. It feels... Hm. Regal, almost? I'm still adjusting and trying VERY hard to not teeter for the duration of my position. And then? Probably directly back into the abyss.

Ah, yes, Da Eiza's castle. I suppose that has taken some adjusting for all of us... Now, what of this weird scraggly character? And... your work? If you don't mind me prying.

Re: [Journal]

[blackmage_linka]

Messy black hair, glasses, looking at him makes my arm itch for some reason. I dunno his name yet, he moves like he thinks no one's detecting him.

Oh, I'm just asserting the alchemy I want to have exist onto the world through sheer belief. It might already exist, or I might've just made it exist. We'll never know now.

[theheadmonarch]

Wut.

[autumnswarm]

Your cousin left me in charge for a little bit is all, Da Eiza.

The PTA look suits you better than I thought it would.

[somanyblownroses]

... why.

I hate it.

i'll admit you kept slipping out of my head like water off of a duck's back...

[autumnswarm]

Because apparently something drove him to insanity, and he snapped, pulled me out of the void, and handed me the keys.

Oh, and the entire Briar clan also disappeared to the void in addition to me and my sister, since you're not sharing the skyline with her castle. I suspect there's others, but I have no concrete proof.

And I have theories about why you and others of your school seem to be more affected than others, who have remembered me and Gina much easier.

[theheadmonarch]

Wasn't me.

Huh. Oh yeah. Gina.

I remembered you fine, it's just. Ducks. Water. Apocalypses. I've been busy.

[Audio Message]

[remarkablerain]

*There is only a sound of incoherent angry screaming, something about tracking down that muscle-head and knocking him flat on his feet, before the audio goes clearer*

I'LL BE THERE SOON, DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!

Re: [Audio Message]

[autumnswarm]

I won't! I look forward to you and your wife joining me.

Please hydrate and eat properly before our meeting.

[Event]

[knowinginthedark]

*Hello! I am a [Kindred Spirit], trying to slip my way through the building. He approves of the change in decor, but feels it's maybe a little early for the Halloween vibe. Whatever!

I keep hoping to catch Onni at a moment where he isn't being bogged down by reality, but gosh darnit, it's so difficult to find the person who's bankrolling you being a Rider when you have shenanigans to get up to.*

Re: [Event]

[autumnswarm]

It’s never too early for Halloween, how dare you.

Sullivan pauses, peering at this scraggly doodle of a man, and thrn breaks out into a big, jovial grin. Well, they think it is at least.

"What do we have here?"

Sullivan feels wrong, in new and interesting ways too! Normal people's skin would crawl and they would want to run. You've done it Tarou. You've found a kindred spirit.

Re: [Event]

[knowinginthedark]

*Oh, no, I've been spotted.

and this definitely isn't Onni so he's a little startled. you DEFINITELY don't look like anyone he'd even vaguely remember! ... but maybe you have a sense of humor.*

Oh, no, don't mind me, I'm just a mouse, scurrying along, trying to find the big cheese here if you will, if you'll excuse me. *he lets out a convincing mouse-like squeak squeak, just to make a point*

Re: [Event]

[autumnswarm]

"That'd be me. Onni's out on.... personal leave." They gesture to a chair.

"Please. Have a seat and we can discuss what you're here for. I'm Sullivan Adams, temporary director of OOPARTS, Onni's maybe literal shadow, and sorcerer."

Re: [Event]

[knowinginthedark]

Mmmm, not sure if I can talk to you about what I needed to bug Onni about, but I guess I can stay for a little chat, sure!

*He slips into the chair, trying to not feel too alerted*

[Event Post]

[magmaheart]

Either ahead of her wife or behind, depending on how things shake out, Gina knocks on the door of the office and doesn't bother to be invited before she comes in.

"Spooky. More light than I expected though. Alright, Sullivan, you're going to be slightly easier to talk to than my little sisters because Helen's moody about something and Eira's so jubilant about their ritual working she's barely solid right now.

What the fuck is going on?"

Re: [Event Post]

[autumnswarm]

Sullivan blinks at Gina, then looks pensive for a second.

"I... I have suspicions. Nothing concrete at the moment." They sigh, slumping a bit, running a hand through their hair. "But, I'm fairly certain I know what happened to us all. I'd prefer to wait for your wife, so I don't have to explain the whole mess twice."

They stand up, waving their hand, the dramatic shifts to the office fading away.

"How're you feeling? Do you have... any memories of your part of our little voyage to the midnight sea?"

Re: [Event Post]

[magmaheart]

"I feel fine. There's like, a lingering dread somewhere in the back of my head, but Suguru's... comforting of me the last few days mostly got rid of all that."

She waves a hand.

"Memories though? Not really. It's like I went to sleep and then woke up months and months later. I've got memories of like, a big blackness, flashes of you and Helen and Eira talking to some guy. Then I'm standing in a parking lot next to Suguru with Eira and Helen chanting about me, with a half-formed deck. Guessing they used all of that to make a beacon for me, essentially?"

Re: [Event Post]

[autumnswarm]

"So you do have SOME flashes, but didn't have a conversation with that thing... Good." Sullivan crosses their arms, looking Gina up and down.

"From what I understood of my third hand information from a very cracked Onni, yes, they essentially lit a beacon using Suguru and then guided the concept of you back to reality.

You seem to be fit and vigorous considering what I suspect of your personal lives, and that's the last I'll say about that before Suguru gets here and I slip up with a glib comment and she hurls me out the window. Which is good. I need you and her both to be fit for quite a few things."

They pause, a grin coming across their face.

"I don't think I saw your body after you came into your own power. It suits you much better than the soft girl look you had going after my initial work."

[Event]

[isdragonlady]

::Peeking her head in.::

Do you think you're going to be in the acting position that long enough that you needed to bother redecorating, or is this all vanity and ego.

Re: [Event]

[autumnswarm]

"Oh, let me indulge a little in my vanity and ego Katie!" They look up from a book that's clearly just the Necronomicon from Evil Dead, coffee cup being held by a Torment Token while another fans them and another mumbles Sullivan's praises in dead languages.

"I've spent YEARS keeping it all under control and under wraps, so I deserve a little treat~ and it's all just shadow trickery. The second Onni comes back full of reason, this all recedes under his light and I go back to my basement."

Re: [Event]

[isdragonlady]

...

Give me an evil secretarial outfit upgrade then.

::Steepling her fingers as her glasses shine.::

Re: [Event]

[autumnswarm]

Sullivan sets their book down, contemplating.

"... Skirt or pantsuit? Leather or latex? Spikes and chains? Unearthly purples and blues or crimsons?"