Islander meeting!

[savedbyasong]

Who: Everyone!
What: An information gathering meeting, mingle log style!
When: 13th as advertised Here!
Where: Big tent, islet 4 (sorry Ardyn!)
Warnings: Keep an eye on subject lines for warnings!

[The tent is a good place to have this. It's sheltered at least. Shion has collected strawberries and also water. He hopes that people will turn up, there's a lot to discuss. About this place, how they are here and how to leave. But also surviving here. Helping each other make the most of being here.

They had done such things in the Tower and it was a good way to get things organised. He knows he has questions and he thinks other people probably do as well. If it's anything like the Tower then people all have different bits of information that will fit together eventually.

He greats people as they enter and will encourage anyone who looks less than certain to enter and offer them strawberries.]

((OOC: So I'll put up a subthread for mingling before the meeting, then discussion points can be posted as a reply to this main thread. I'll do a few for things Shion will bring up but feel free to post your own points as well! Tag around, do breakout threads, discuss all the things. Don't worry if things go off topic. Have fun!)

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[hyperlit]

[Hm. They may as well. They withdraw the stone from where it’s sequestered in their cloak and hold it out, as if to reaffirm to all parties that it is, indeed, there. Then their eyes slit shut as they focus on projecting one single word toward Muffet, blazing out from the texture of their thoughts:]

Hello.

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet smiles cheerfully as she responds, her voice coming through over the stone at the same time it's audible simply from standing near her when she replies.]

Hello, dearie. You're coming through quite clearly.

[hyperlit]

How do you hear it.

[Does it sound? Or is it more...an impression? They've never used these Stones before, despite the fact that the elves were kind enough to bestow them upon them slightly before everyone else, in part because they were unsure as to how someone who lacks a voice, such as they, would be channeled - if it would be at all.]

[prettypurpleparlor]

Hm...

[She gives the question due consideration, taking a moment to put her thoughts clearly into words.]

I seem to parse it instinctively as a voice, but when I try to think carefully about how it sounded- high pitched or low, soft or loud- I can't remember any kind of actual noise. There's only the distinct impression that it came from you.

[hyperlit]

[Hm. It seems, even with this mechanism, they cannot truly possess a voice. They don't dwell on the disappointment. Instead, they attempt something else: communication by impression, the same way they would with she of the pale skin and wild mane of dark hair.]

[And so they organize a loose mental picture of her, the size of her green eyes, her pointed teeth, her spear, and issue it at the Stone.]

Let me know if this is okay interpretation-wise? It said the stones only do audio, so...

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet blinks and tilts her head, listening- as much as one can be said to be listening to a voice that needs no sound- as she "hears" her stone give her a vivid description of a wild-haired, sharp-toothed woman, in clear detail.]

Were you trying to tell me about someone you've met before? The not-quite-voice just spoke about a woman with a spear. It said that she had very green eyes...

Yeah it probably wouldn’t actually work FYI

[hyperlit]

[Not good enough. They’ll have to contact her some other way, and attempt to communicate in the way they have both tentatively established in the space between their minds. The Drifter shakes their head, sliding the stone away into a pocket somewhere behind their cloak.]

unclear

[prettypurpleparlor]

[ooc: To clarify, I'm thinking of it as basically the magic version of when you try to text a phone that doesn't do texting, so instead the phone reads out the entire message letter by letter. Trying to send a mental image definitely didn't work.]

[Muffet gives a slight shrug, casual but sympathetic.]

It's a place to start, at least.

[hyperlit]

[They'll have to discern some alternate means, for ease of communication. They return to the tried-and-true method of their sprite.]

she does not speak and does not read
she does not understand the language of hands

[prettypurpleparlor]

Is she one of the other people here with us, or someone you know from your own world?

[Muffet hasn't seen her before, but there's a lot of castaways by now, she could have easily just never run into this woman.]

[hyperlit]

elsewhere
new arrival

[Relatively, anyway, compared to everyone else. At the beginning of the month, naturally, which is around when everyone else "new" shows up, at least until the next wave.]

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet smiles cheerfully, intrigued by the woman's description.]

She sounds lovely, I'd enjoy meeting her.

[hyperlit]

[The Drifter points to their own temple by way of explanation.]

speaks only in mind

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet tilts her head, fascinated by this idea.]

You mean she can communicate directly into your thoughts, somehow?

[hyperlit]

images in ones mind

[So that would be a yes. Schooling their thoughts into something they can issue forth and be interpreted by another is as much an acquired skill as anything, they’ve learned.]

[prettypurpleparlor]

My, how interesting. I don't think I've ever met someone with that ability.

[hyperlit]

nor i

[But it does present an interesting problem in terms of how best to interact with her. They're not very well-versed in communicating via impression, and her frustration is often palpable.]

will learn another way

[prettypurpleparlor]

Then for the sake of your learning and my curiosity, I'll keep an eye out for anyone who knows about this sort of thing, shall I? Hopefully, it will help us both.

[hyperlit]

[That seems fair to them. The Drifter nods. Perhaps it is difficult to tell, but they are grateful for the assist.]

ok