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diademlogs2026-02-04 04:15 pm
marcato) wrote in diademlogs2026-02-04 04:15 pm
february catchall | open
Who: Aunamee and you
Where: Panorama and the fringes
When: Throughout the month!
What: Aunamee is coping with his recent death by watching terrible ghost weddings, crashing his car, and pretending his god still loves him.
Warnings: Sadism, talk of death, more to come (probably)
[He's been here for eight hours.
No. He's been here for eight hours today. The cumulative hours are far greater -- perhaps closer to thirty at this point, not including the six hour drive in each direction. As tempted as he's been to sleep in his car and spare himself the commute, there are certain lines he won't cross, lines that make him look too --
(desperate)
-- imprecise, and so he forces himself to go home now and again. To shower. To sleep in a place with clean sheets.
Otherwise, he watches. Again. And again.
And again.
a. Sometimes, Aunamee observes from the third row with perfect posture, periodically glancing down at the notebook in his lap. He's counting down to something, his white-gloved fingers twitching in a regular rhythm. When the bride throws her champagne glass at 4:32 PM, he doesn’t flinch. Instead, he writes down the time.
b. Other times, you can find him weaving around the specters, sometimes silent, sometimes speaking aloud, predicting calamities with the calm voice of a priest. "You will remove the knife from your bouquet after he calls you a whore," he tells the maid of honor. "You will stop breathing ten minutes from now," he tells the groom. They don't hear him. He doesn't need them to.
c. Sometimes, late in the day, he takes a slice of wedding cake and eats it with a fork while the groom bleeds out six feet away.
d. One day, on the way back to his motel, he falls asleep at the wheel, just enough for the car to drift across the center line, tires catching gravel before he jerks awake with a sharp inhale and overcorrects. Does he hit your car? Do you swerve out of the way? Or do you watch his car go still after it collides with a telephone pole?]
[You see him in a bar, nursing a clear liquid that might be gin or might be water. You see him near the temp worker pickup spots in the Pavilion, where people gather at dawn hoping for day labor. You see him bruised outside of a gambling den after winning one too many poker games, gingerly smoking a cigarette.
He's always wearing white, and he always looks -- not calm, exactly, but emptied out, a husk of a man whose serenity is contingent on maintaining what little control he has.
And right now, he's in control.]
Hello.
[He turns on a smile. It's practiced, this smile, but all the practice in the world can't make his eyes look alive.
He leans forward, conversational. Conspiratorial. Up close, his eyes look as tired as they are empty, his sleeplessness concealed with foundation that doesn't quite match his skin.]
Tell me something true.
[ooc: Aunamee has an enchanted glove that can detect lies, and he'll be using it in this thread! It will only detect intentional lies, however, so if your character thinks something is true, it won't catch it.]
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Where: Panorama and the fringes
When: Throughout the month!
What: Aunamee is coping with his recent death by watching terrible ghost weddings, crashing his car, and pretending his god still loves him.
Warnings: Sadism, talk of death, more to come (probably)
the wedding
[He's been here for eight hours.
No. He's been here for eight hours today. The cumulative hours are far greater -- perhaps closer to thirty at this point, not including the six hour drive in each direction. As tempted as he's been to sleep in his car and spare himself the commute, there are certain lines he won't cross, lines that make him look too --
(desperate)
-- imprecise, and so he forces himself to go home now and again. To shower. To sleep in a place with clean sheets.
Otherwise, he watches. Again. And again.
And again.
a. Sometimes, Aunamee observes from the third row with perfect posture, periodically glancing down at the notebook in his lap. He's counting down to something, his white-gloved fingers twitching in a regular rhythm. When the bride throws her champagne glass at 4:32 PM, he doesn’t flinch. Instead, he writes down the time.
b. Other times, you can find him weaving around the specters, sometimes silent, sometimes speaking aloud, predicting calamities with the calm voice of a priest. "You will remove the knife from your bouquet after he calls you a whore," he tells the maid of honor. "You will stop breathing ten minutes from now," he tells the groom. They don't hear him. He doesn't need them to.
c. Sometimes, late in the day, he takes a slice of wedding cake and eats it with a fork while the groom bleeds out six feet away.
d. One day, on the way back to his motel, he falls asleep at the wheel, just enough for the car to drift across the center line, tires catching gravel before he jerks awake with a sharp inhale and overcorrects. Does he hit your car? Do you swerve out of the way? Or do you watch his car go still after it collides with a telephone pole?]
the truth
[You see him in a bar, nursing a clear liquid that might be gin or might be water. You see him near the temp worker pickup spots in the Pavilion, where people gather at dawn hoping for day labor. You see him bruised outside of a gambling den after winning one too many poker games, gingerly smoking a cigarette.
He's always wearing white, and he always looks -- not calm, exactly, but emptied out, a husk of a man whose serenity is contingent on maintaining what little control he has.
And right now, he's in control.]
Hello.
[He turns on a smile. It's practiced, this smile, but all the practice in the world can't make his eyes look alive.
He leans forward, conversational. Conspiratorial. Up close, his eyes look as tired as they are empty, his sleeplessness concealed with foundation that doesn't quite match his skin.]
Tell me something true.
[ooc: Aunamee has an enchanted glove that can detect lies, and he'll be using it in this thread! It will only detect intentional lies, however, so if your character thinks something is true, it won't catch it.]
wildcard
[Got something else in mind? Give me a ping at
the truth
It's a habit he's slowly trying to break with the growing understanding that people aren't always so easily sorted into those categories, no matter how well it's served him over the past few centuries. But this man he watches, he can tell that there is something off almost instantly. He's too...at ease. Too...flat, almost. That's the only what Astarion can describe it.
Having seen him a few times, Astarion has kept his distance up until now. But the bar is busy and Astarion needs some place to sit with his own glass of a dark red, so he does his best to show that he notices the other man, but is uninterested.
It doesn't work.
Astarion raises the glass to his lips as he raises a brow. He knows the look of someone who is used to performing, forcing a smile no matter how well-practiced. It takes one to know one. ]
Something "true"?
[ He scoffs, choosing to drink before responding. ]
I've heard better opening lines than that. [ That is true. He scans the other man up and down. ] But they're usually better dressed. [ That is not true. Not exactly. ]
no subject
Liar.
[It's nice, catching someone in a lie like this. Aunamee isn't always well dressed -- he doesn't have the money for it, not in the Diadem -- but he took his time tonight, knowing that he'd be putting on a performance of sorts.]
But it's all right, dear stranger. [He taps his fingers along his own glass, practiced and idle all at once.] I've been known to lie myself, now and again. We all do.
[Just as imperceptibly, the glove loosens. A truth for a lie. Too many lies in a row, and the glove will suffocate his hand. He must remain vigilant.]
Would you like to try again?