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WHO: Those who have been invited & anyone who would have a reason to visit Maurtia Falls #010! Wondering if you fit into that category? Just contact anyone with an involved character (Andy; Rex; Martin; Cassandra Igarashi; Dio; Archie) and ask!
WHERE: Maurtia Falls #010
WHEN: TONIGHT? TONIGHT.
WHAT: The soldierfam has decided that regular group dinners are good for Martin, and this time they've got a few party crashers!
WARNINGS: None anticipated; will change if necessary!



At a glance, one could easily mistake Maurtia Falls #010 for being entirely uninhabited. Dio rarely returns home and Rex and Marty only have a handful of belongings between the two of them and Rex is meticulously tidy, returning everything to exactly where it ought to be - if anything, it's Andy who makes the biggest mess around the place, and she doesn't even live here.

Despite every sign to the contrary, however, they do live here, and it winds up being a hub of activity whenever one of Martin's guardians - if that's truly what they can call themselves - decides that it's about time to get everyone together for dinner. In Anderson's absence, Rex has taken on the opinion that cooking can't be that hard, which is how they wind up with one window open, a casserole dish burned black soaking in the sink and an assortment of take-out on the table.

(As it turns out, it is that hard - and he found a combination pizza & Chinese food take-out place, whiich means that it can only be better.)

In all, there's not much to do or see here; there's food, Rex the goldfish in his tank, a soccer ball neatly tucked close to the house in the backyard, and a mysterious shelf called "Martin's Things" in the cupboard. Otherwise, you're stuck with nothing more than some potential awkward conversation. Have fun, kids!

Comments

[killtime]

Andy probably knows less than she should. She's done some of her homework, but there's also this attitude a person starts to build after being alive a couple thousand years — that you'll weather whatever, that it doesn't matter because in a century or so, nobody will remember what happened today. Maybe not even you.

"I think it'd be a little more obvious, if someone was from 1700 BC," she responds wryly, deflecting a little. It's not totally dishonest if she's avoidant of the truth, right? And it's not as if she's actually from 1700 BC. She's from earlier. "They'd probably take one fucking look at the place and have an aneurysm."

She plays it off. Doesn't really make eye contact.

[queenofseers]

"I'd say that before I got here...but the way some of the people around here adjust? Maybe human minds actually can weather whatever bullshit gets thrown at them."

Admittedly, most of the cases she's seen are of people from the future- Rex is just one example, if his world counts as something like that. Still, the sheer amount of people who've just started to take all of this in stride eventually fascinates her.

"Frankly? All I get from people around here is that most people can get used to anything, eventually. Even when they really shouldn't."

[killtime]

"Maybe."

Andy's answer is noncommittal. Not that Cassandra is wrong — if anything, the other immortals she's known are absolute evidence that it's a fact: People adapt amazingly well. It's maybe the one thing humans do best. She has spent the past century or so being purposefully resistant, but take Booker for example. Used to serve in Napoleon's army — now a whiz on the computer, and the person she always turns to when she needs her stupid iPhone fixed.

"Not much choice though, is there? Unless you want to live in a cave and wait it out. Which honestly gets pretty fucking boring after a while."

She's tried it.

[queenofseers]

"I guess there isn't. I've known someone who claimed to be at least hundreds of years old before, and she seemed just fine. Not that I'm sure I believed her."

Fucking Ananke. What was the beginning or the end with that lady? Her story seemed so preposterous, but the more weird shit happens to her, the more she wonders if she shouldn't have doubted it. Not that she wants to believe her. She doesn't want to give Ananke anything.

Despite her train of thought, the journalist in her pays close attention to Andy's wording.

"You say that like you've got experience hiding in a cave."

[killtime]

"Listen, sometimes you just need to find a nice cave and be the fuck away from everybody," Andy responds with a little frown. Sometimes you do this for several years at a time. Sometimes you do this repeatedly, to the point where you have multiple caves in remote locations all over the world with all your shit stashed in it. "If that's not a universal feeling, it should be."

She eyes Cassandra for a moment.

"Who was the person you knew who claimed to be hundreds of years old?"

[queenofseers]

"I mean, I get it, but you can also be somewhere with electricity." Andy very much seemed a rugged person, but that's more extreme than Cass thought. "Do you have caves around here? Do those even exist?"

But Andy's curiosity is more interesting than that- it's an unexpected direction for this to take, and it tells her more about Andy herself.

"Her name was Ananke. She's the evil old lady who gave Dio and I powers- along with all the other godly teens you see fooling around. Well, the ones from our world, at least." There's way too many demigods around here. "She turned out to be completely out of her mind, tried to sacrifice a child for some unknown bullshit reason, and got herself killed. So why are you asking?"

[killtime]

"Electricity is overrated. People lived fine for centuries without it," Andy responds dismissively with a wave of her hand. People lived without proper plumbing for centuries too, but it's still nice having a toilet instead of a hole in the ground — she's just being a crotchety grandma about it. "There's also a distinct lack of child-killing old bitches around when you spend the majority of your time in your own private cave. Just saying."

Ananke is a pretentious fucking thing to call yourself too, she thinks. Goddess of inevitability or some shit like that, right? Still inevitably dead, if Cassandra's account is to be believed.

"...What, you don't get curious when someone says they know somebody who lived a couple centuries?" Not that it's very long, honestly. Booker's young by their standards, and he's at least two hundred years old now. "Maybe I just wanna know how she pulled it off. If she even did. Doubt she was all that powerful if she got offed."

[queenofseers]

"Yeah, and then the world could fucking end and you'd barely know it. I get the appeal, but I'd rather stay in the know."

That and she's somewhat addicted to acquiring new information and the pursuit of it, so perhaps being cut off just isn't for her. The topic of Ananke is one she's somewhat tired of discussing at this point, but she is curious as to why Andy is so into it. She seems evasive, in a way that Cassandra always tends to cling to. Who knows what she'll find, after all.

"If anything, she was weaker than the rest of us, and not just because she was old. She didn't have the same powers we have, and she acted like she'd made some great sacrifice giving those up to watch over us." That said, when she thinks of Ananke? She primarily thinks of a killer. "But that didn't mean she wasn't dangerous. She killed people just for her so-very-mysterious plans. Fuck her."