[ empatheias ] activity log

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All the links to Alvin's activity with brief summaries to also help me remember what the heck he's learned because hell if I can ever remember off the top of my head.

Alvin joined empatheias on August 1, 2014.

Entry Tags: Network | Logs

2014

AUGUST

network

8/07 - Mickey Mouse. After seeing everything he had seen before, a talking mouse was par for the course at this point. Mickey had asked everyone to give the names, where their from, and a favorite thing—basic introductions. Keeping a few things vague (as always), he tried to learn a bit more about the Mickey's world. Turned out to be more of an interesting conversation that he anticipated. Of course not everyone was as "friendly" about it. Alvin tried to help the little guy with Metallia with mixed results. 8/09 - Sabriel. Sabriel had offered her services to make a few magical items as well as showed off her home a bit. Since Alvin knew about her necromatic ways from their initial meeting, he just went straight to teasing her a bit. After a bit of chit-chat, she asks if she could join him in exploring the town, to which he readily agreed to. 8/10 - Prince Hans. After establishing that he is indeed a prince, the two swap info. He does learn that apparently they don't know their own history. 8/10 - Emizel. The little death god had asked if anyone knew where the crystals came from, and Alvin offers that perhaps they're related to the crystals in the cave. Then there was trolling teasing about going back to the ruins and then learning that the kid was Death. He was intrigued, but unfortunately not as...threatened as he probably would have been if Emizel was not a kid. 8/10 - Shun Aoma. In which Alvin engages in talk about conflicts and fighting. 8/13 - Sentinel Prime. After their first meeting, of course he'd chime in to see how the autobot was doing. And kind of make fun of that greeting (seriously, "Bah-weep-graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong" is kind of classic gold right there). Sentinel confirmed Alvin's suspicions that the autobot was more "machine" despite having a "living" persona, and then Alvin pointed out that they were actually speaking different languages. 8/13 - Elsa. He couldn't really help her with her magic question, but he could give her a perception of what it's like to a normal human who encountered magic for the first time. He could tell she was nervous about it, but giving her the "cold" facts and expectations were better than sugar coating it. Although he tried to give her reassurance that it might not be all that bad, he knew it would be up to her to figure it out.

log

8/01-8/05: Introduction log. Everyone wakes up and finds themselves in these strange ruins. Alvin's own "entrance" was less than stellar, as he shortly fell through a broken floor into a library below after leaving the room he had woken up to. Cloud. After a bit of a rough introduction, the two swordsmen teamed up to explore more of the ruins. It was quickly apparent that they were from different worlds, making the whole thing all the more confusing. Elize. Finding Elize there had been a surprise since the last he had seen her was back after they said all separated after defeating Gaius. More surprising was that she didn't remember, or rather didn't even know about the final battle. Diamond Cure. Her appearance had been...definitely not something he expected. But after reassuring her he wasn't hostile, they were able to talk a bit about what was going on. Morrigan. Sarcasm and somewhat dry hostility is always the best way to meet someone. Lute. A young woman who was convinced that Alvin had lost his memory after he fell through, despite his protests otherwise. In the end he just "played along" to try and get some information out of her to try and then prove that whatever "Magvel" or whatever was something he honestly never heard of. Success rate was less than so-so. She also cares way too much about those books. Judai. The teenage boy had heard Alvin's mental swearing when he fell and responded telepathically. Alvin's skeptical at first, but he follows the conversation along. Though what the heck are cellphones? Afterwards, he went around and explored the ruins a bit, meeting other people and discovering a few interesting things. Sabriel. One of the first "other" people he met during his dungeon exploring, though it was a bit of an accident. She had left marks on the wall and he had just followed them, wondering where they led. He then heard her voice in his head talking about dead things. Eventually they meet face to face and after a bit of information swap, they make their way back up to the surface to try and tackle that fog. It didn't go too well, but he was able to witness firsthand magic that wasn't based off spirit artes. She also apparently has a heavy mission on her shoulders, including saving her dad. Jude+Leia. The kids area always in trouble. They were hanging off a ledge and he happened to be below them. A serious trust exercise was had when he tells them to jump down so he could catch them. They would later get separated. Again. Argilla. Turns a corner and has a rifle pointed right at him. Plus side was that it was aimed by a pretty woman, and it wasn't too hard to switch from potential threat to friendly alliances. Yuri Lowell. Yuri had set off a trap on the third level and Alvin was the unfortunate target. He managed to avoid it, but yeesh. Talk about bad luck. Milla. Hearing Milla's thoughts had been strange. Not only because he was still getting used to the concept, but Milla wasn't even supposed to be there. The fact that she was was also disturbing for a variety of reasons. But it was also good to hear her voice again, and they sort-of made plans to try and rendezvous at the bottom level. Malik. While investigating the door at the bottom level, he overhears Malik's thoughts. After some joking talk about the door, they then swap stories about their own worlds. Although Alvin doesn't go into too much of the specifics, they surprisingly have a lot of similarities. Sissel. There was an interesting and rather smart cat roaming through the third level disarming the traps. Since they were heading in the same direction, he decided to "partner up" with the cat. Ryudo. Alvin was fortunately nearby when he heard the kid's calls for help, pulling him up from the ledge. He also discovered that there was a large bird he could apparently talk. Jude. After having gone through the dungeon, including the bottom floor, he meets Jude above ground and for some reason it's really cold. But thinking it's just the weather, he then gives the kid a few souvenirs from the cave. A few elemental cores and crystals. After that, they have a weird conversation about cannibalism. Sentinel Prime. Alvin had been going back into the ruins to explore and help out a bit more when he hears some strange noises and then sees something that reminded him of a cross between the Elympion sentinel machines and the elemental golems. Seeing the huge light saber lance thing didn't help. Thinking that it might be some strange guard, he shoots it first thinking it might be hostile. After hearing it talk, however, he realizes his mistake and in engages in somewhat friendly conversation. He learns that it is an autobot, and not the...friendliest. More like annoying, so any chance he has to bring him down is always a good one. After some time, some researchers appeared. He stayed off on the sidelines to listen in on the questions asked, but he did step in when Sabriel and the angrier archaeologist got a little heated. He asked a few questions regarding the floating island at that time, though direct answers were hard to come by. 8/09 - Wadanohara. He had just come out to the lake's pier to look over it, having been reminded of home a bit, when they met. She basically fell backwards off into the water, which he found surprising considering she still had all her clothes on. At first he thought nothing of it, particularly after she sent him a telepathic message. But then when she stopped sending the messages and insinuated that she might be drowning, he jumped in after her. She had continued the facade until he pulled her up to the surface and brought her surface. When she then revealed she had been joking, rather than be amused, he actually smacked her upside the head. Teenage brat. He had seriously been worried, and for him that was not something he did often. Of course he would have been more worried if it had been someone like Leia or Elize, but even a stranger he would be concerned. Though what really got to him was how careless she seemed to take human life. Especially after it was becoming apparent she wasn't even human. So rather than play with her (what he thought to be) games, he just walked off. 8/13 - Cast. Alvin had been handed the notice that Verens' "esteemed" elder was coming by to speak with them, so they all discuss what they should do.