SHIFTING SANDS: A game of politics

[marsascending]

Who: Imeeji's Very Own Paloma and YOU!
Where: The Game Tower
When: 304

[ When you are brought to the Game Tower, you find it transformed into a truly lavish grand ballroom, with little nooks created for intimate conversations behind screens.

And there, in the middle of the room, is perhaps—a familiar figure? Although the little horns poking up through her hair might be new. That, and she's not wearing her usual headscarf. ]

Oh, it's good to be back! I promised I'd come visit soon, didn't I?

Don't make those faces. This is purely fun educational content. Today we're going to be doing a little bit of acting practice and learn a thing or two about politics. For today, I am Countess Lochaana of BARiTONES, your host at this grand salon, and you are my very important guests from all across this little world.

So let's get the fun started!

Comments

[420blazeit]

Lady Sekhmet! [ and how cute ♥! ] It's been too long! we'll have to catch up sometime, but, yes, let me see! [ lifts her hands and wiggles her fingers at her bag. ] What have you got for me?

[nihilmancy]

[ She looks very cute. She is also holding out an ornate dagger with it's bone handle scrimshawed into a kind of leering demonic skull. She definitely isn't grinning wickedly. ]

We found this buried in some recent land surveys. Take a look.

[420blazeit]

[ DEFINITELY NOT. but, lbr, she thinks sekhmet's grin is super cute. ]

[ she reaches for and takes the dagger, making an audible gasp as she examines the handle. ] ...oh, goodness, this... I never thought I would see another one, let alone get to hold it in my hands! Do you know about the demon daggers? I know it sounds a bit silly, perhaps cliche, but about half a dozen of these have popped up all over the world, and they look almost identical. [ she turns it over in her hands very carefully. ] All of them date back several tens of hundreds of thousands of years, which makes not only finding them incredible, but the fact that they're all so similar... it's such a mystery! But they say these objects have supernatural powers, because... [ her voice dips low. ] they're not actually of this world.

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[nihilmancy]

[ Sekhmet, or rather, Hlasoh P. Langford, struggles to contain a skeptical expression.

In the meantime, the dagger gives off an aura of intense menace, and whispers... something, to Dva. ]

Fascinating.

[420blazeit]

[ holyshitwhatisitwhispering?!?!? ]

[ she brings it close and looks like she's about to burst. ]

Iknowright. [ her eyes flicker to sekhmet reAL QUICK. ]

[nihilmancy]

[ Grinning widely, both as the disheveled explorer character, but also rather amused for real. ]

Quite a find, no?

[420blazeit]

It's incredible. As I said, there's no explanation about how these daggers, all mostly identical, could have suddenly popped up thousands of miles away from each other without... outside influence. [ she passes it back to her. ] Do you go on these sorts of expeditions often? And find all sorts of incredible things?!

[nihilmancy]

I mostly do mapping, but whenever we find something to pass along to the geologists and archaeologists and the like, we bring them along. So you could say I'm something of a jack of all trades.

[420blazeit]

...!

Ah! Me too! [ starts vibrating with excitement. ] Being a jack of all trades, that is, except with science! I love all sorts of science. Biology and chemistry and physics! Some more than others, but it's all just so fascinating!

I truly admire what you do though. Finding these sorts of things... ah, the rush it must give you!

[nihilmancy]

Well, I am a scientist, properly speaking. I have degrees in both surveying and geology.

[420blazeit]

We should collab sometime!

[nihilmancy]

Perhaps, if my patrons allow it.