Accessibility Issues [OPEN!]

[blue_eyed_obsession]

Who: Anyone that wants in!
What: After a conversation with Damien about how inaccessible some locations are, Kaiba decides to take it upon himself to rectify the situation. This is also a catchall for this project!
Where: Cave System all the way to Wall Market
When: Throughout the week
Content Warnings: None that I can think of!

OOC: Since there seemed to be plenty of interest on plurk for helping Damien out, I decided to make this more open. If any of you have other ideas you'd like to put out there feel free to top-level! Then people can just tag around to whatever they wish! Have fun!

Volunteers (will be amended as threads progress or people ask to be added!): Indigo, Exarch, Legion, Turing, Tifa

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[blue_eyed_obsession]

Among other things.

[Not missing a beat. Honestly, he had been putting it off but he actually would like to avail himself of that service as well, but there were other issues with the bathhouse. Mostly stemming from not wanting to be disrobed in any capacity around others.

He didn't have to turn to see who it was, but still he did make the effort to face her. It was a bit awkward running into her after the last time, but it likely wouldn't be repeated.]

A mix of both. [If he's being entirely honest.] Besides, it's not as if I'm the only one who could benefit from this.

[bridge_princess]

[For reasons he well knew, she had her own issues about public baths, though there were ways around that. She just stood there, hands behind her back, rocking on her feet back and forth as she looked over the cavern, not seeming quite as ... perturbed as last time.]

Less sprained ankles since everyone seems bent on exploring now that there's that market down there. At this rate, all we need is people, and you'll have a regular town set up around here.

[blue_eyed_obsession]

[Yes, he was acutely aware of what was likely preventing her from frequenting that establishment, nor did he blame her. There were other sources for water, but they were all questionable- the sea had to have been polluted with all the items it had conveyed to the shore and Mortis Lake- aside from the unfortunate name -was in an area that shifted radically from being teeming with life to a barren wasteland. Could you really trust either source? With her casual stance, you would never know what a tragic existence she'd had.

Mentally he tried to push those thoughts to the back of his mind. Personally, he hated constant reminders to the events that had irreversibly altered his life (In some instances he even had such reminders demolished), so why should she be any different (It might have done her a world of good to blow her bridge to smithereens... but she didn't seen willing or able to take that step yet). As an odd yet silent gesture of courtesy he wouldn't bring up her past again.]

Essentially. [The Market Street was in large part a catalyst for these efforts] A shame those people aren't here now, I could use them to put this thing together.

[bridge_princess]

[Familiarity bred a certain contempt, and contempt when nurtured and cultivated over centuries became an almost casual bitterness towards the object. Her tragedy was as much a weapon as it was just a casual reality that she lived with every day. But unlike him, she clung to the trappings of her pasts that defined her. Her bridge was her bridge, and it served to give her an identifying mark. Part of her hated it, like one hated the anchor that they were tied to as they plunged into the sea. but it was hers, and that somehow mattered to her.

Weird the things you clung to.]

Seems that's the one thing this place is having trouble with. Getting lots of extra people to populate. I'm not sure why. But it doesn't seem able to hold many of us at a time, does it?

Do you think it'll try to create its own people from the paper eventually?

[blue_eyed_obsession]

[There were only a few things he clung to, like the name Kaiba- but it was advantageous to do so. His old surname had long since been lost to obscurity so there could be no doubt that he was the rightful heir to the Kaiba Corporation. Beyond that- he had no qualms about rebranding, redirecting the companies goals, and burying anything that had anything to do with the former president. The other thing he clung to was his bitterness towards those who wronged him and his desire to show them up in every way possible. That was his unhealthy obsession. He saw no benefit to her dependence on the bridge, but he could recognize the inability to move past it.

The civil discourse was bizarre-]

... [Once again she'd stumbled across something interesting. Was there a maximum capacity for this zone? It's true that on occasion someone new would appear as mysteriously as they all had, but others would go missing... possibly at the same relative frequency. Was that significant?] No, now that you mention it. [Then with a shrug] Normally, I'd think that was a good thing... but it also limits what can be accomplished. [Things must be bad if Seto Kaiba is missing the presence of other people]

[To that suggestion he shrugged, looked thoughtful a moment before continuing]

I haven't been able to predict anything that's developed here so far.. [Don't think he won't be trying to rectify this] .. but now that you've said it, I have a feeling it's more likely to happen than if you hadn't.

[bridge_princess]

[She'd yet to really pin down what Seto had. She only distantly knew 2B and hadn't known the others who had disappeared, so the notion of 'new arrivals' hadn't fully sunk in yet. When, however, she found out about Osomatsu's disappearance, there was going to be a reaction and likely not a very good or healthy one. It was an instability of this place that it was probably better if she learned to cope with it sooner, rather than later.

His question got a nod at first.] If there's a limit, then it means that it's drawing even more from each of us and ... you don't seriously think it's actually listening to us enough to suddenly start making people out of nothing because I said something do y...

Wait. I've seen conversations written in the void, on the fringes of things. Maybe it is?

[blue_eyed_obsession]

[Despite his aversion to socializing, he liked keeping tabs on the populace, likely to an unusual degree. Few had slipped past his primitive radar. Actual radar would be a blessing, better yet.. satellite imaging.]

Potentially. [Kaiba reluctantly admitted. Scoff as he might have about the initial theory there did seem to be a correlation between who was here and what developed, further still what they discussed. Hadn't he been one of what was likely several to comment on the absence of wind not long before wind appeared? Etc.] .. but not if we're some sort of controlled experiment. Then whoever is behind this wouldn't want the created people to interfere with ... whatever they are trying to prove.

What sort of conversations?

[bridge_princess]

It was weird. When I was along the edges of the river and the bridge, on the void side, I saw words in the white. Snippets of conversation. They sounded like ones we'd had. Just written out to sheet music.

Saw it in someone's notebook too. It's odd. Like it's trying to understand us?