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[glowing_skye]

[Things in Mayfield have been weird since Ema's return to it.

Much of her free time has been spent experimenting with/taking down empirical data concerning the apparent lack of stability of the town's stasis functions. When the respawn system was destroyed, the death-and-rebirth cycle had been irreparably damaged. There's no reason for her not to hypothesize that something similar is in play here.

The arrival of a certain letter has increased her level of concern, so to the phones she goes.]



[Phone]
This is Ema. Ema Skye. For those of you who don't already know: I'm back. I don't have any of my things from back home, but I have my sense again. It's enough.

[A pause.]

I'm curious what observations everyone has about recent events here, scientifically speaking. That letter especially.

Does anyone who works in the library want to talk about the librarian? I don't really know anything about her except for what's in the letter. If I'm going to seriously consider jumping through a portal to assist her, I feel like I should be better informed as to her current state.


[Action A - around town]

[Seeing as Ema currently had no form of employment, she's spending her day as she's spent most of her days since things in town started becoming strange: camping out in various parts of town and taking notes on what she sees. Already, she has a notebook full.]


[Action B - 462 Stone Street]

[Ema is gathering scientific data on the loss of structural integrity of physical structures around town. While she doesn't have a clear grasp on why the walls sometimes allow objects to pass through them, she's doing her best to at least attempt to establish data on its frequency.

As such, she is currently walking into her front door. Repeatedly.

Sometimes, she passes through. Just as often, however, she ends up hitting it full-force with an unpleasant whack. She just keeps reminding herself that this is for science. Sometimes, science looks silly to an outside party. And sometimes, science hurts.

She seems to have recruited her drone children to help with the experiment. They're walking smack into the door as well, thanks to mommy convincing them that this is a game. Whereas she yelps every time she hits the door, they're giggling.

At least someone's having fun with this.]

Comments

[Action A - around town]

[captainofthe10th]

Analyzing the situation? Good idea. [ Have an enormous warrior in armor standing over you, Ema. He looks friendly enough, and Garviel's voice may be familiar, as well. ]

[glowing_skye]

[Friendly or not, Ema's eyes go a bit wide when she looks up at him. The voice is familiar, but she can't recall having any sort of prolonged contact with him before.]

Thanks.

It's what I'm best at, and we need empirical data on what's happening as opposed to anecdotes about what so-and-so saw last week. For once, the sexism of the town works in my favor.

[Beat.]

I've seen you around, but I don't think we've actually met. Have we...?

[Phone] <filtered back to Ema>

[ooeeooahah]

Hey, Ema. I thought I learned the pattern to the instability going with the floor of my kitchen the other day, but now it's changed. It seems to be random as to the location and size.

Now that we have the letter, I'm wondering if this was the testing for the portals, or is Grey taking advantage of the instability.

<filtered>

[glowing_skye]

I haven't been able to establish a pattern, either, so I'm focusing on variables like frequency.

That's a good question. It doesn't seem to me like Grey has the resources to do test runs, though. Or he's misleading us about what he can and cannot do, but that doesn't make any sense.

[Action B - 462 Stone]

[questionauthority]

[At some point in the middle of Ema's experiment, she'll hear a series of loud noises from inside. A thick smack against the other side of the door, a quick tumble of footsteps rearing back into the house, and a string of hushed curses.

Care to find out what's behind the Mystery Door?

Hint: He's wearing green and just gave himself a bruised nose.]

[glowing_skye]

[The noises from inside cause Ema to put the experiment on hold long enough to open the door. The drone children seem oblivious to it, playing some sort of hand game amongst themselves.]

Edward? You okay?

What were you doing?

[Like she hasn't spent her afternoon doing the exact same thing he just did.]

B

[shallbeavenged]

[Hanging out with her. Mostly watching her walk into a door.

Yup, science at work.]

[glowing_skye]

[It's telling that Ema hasn't tried to recruit Ai in the same way that she's recruited the drones.

After a bit, she decides to take a break and ice the arm she's been using to brace herself and prevent facial injury.]

You don't have to keep me company during this, you know. I can't imagine it's very interesting to watch.

A

[atailoftwoworlds]

Hey, cutie. Whatcha up to? [He hasn't seen her before but he's pretty sure that she's not a drone. Also - is she doing some sort of investigation work? He's rather curious]

[glowing_skye]

Science.

[The flirtation is either completely missed or simply unacknowledged; it's hard to say which. She doesn't look up from her notebook, seemingly content to blow whoever this is off.]

You're standing in my light.

Action A

[hintcoinplz]

[Right as Ema passes by the general store, Luke will leap through the door, skidding to a stop before he ends up crashing into her. Looks like someone didn't learn his lesson why being stuck inside of a tree.]

Whoa!

[glowing_skye]

[Through a bit of ungraceful flailing, Ema manages to keep her and Luke vertical. But just barely.]

Careful, there! You're going to hurt yourself!

phone; 1 of 3

[freakinblur]

[!!!!]

[freakinblur]

[!!!!]

Action B

[noluckduck]

[A neighbour is watching this, looking pretty amused.

Damn, she's bored. She can only guess Ema is, too.]

Havin' fun there?

[glowing_skye]

As much fun as any other experiment can be.

[She rubs her arm, which is red and a bit bruised from the regularity of impact. At the very least, she's thought to brace herself enough that she doesn't go face-first into the door.]

I'm testing the frequency of failure in the structural integrity of solid objects in Mayfield. Scientifically.

b)

[endlesswitch]

[ Hearing that, Beato will just... step out of the way as she opens the door n_n ]

[glowing_skye]

Opening the door defeats the purpose of the experiment, you know.

phone;

[stabbywheelfeet]

You're back?

[glowing_skye]

I am! For better or worse.

How have you been? How's Jolt?

[action]

[demonhunting]

[She's not the only one. Sam's been filling up a notebook with notes as well, though it's mostly on things that's common knowledge in Mayfield already. It's only the last few pages that have been dedicated to recording the strange events going on around town.

One of them being, having to check if the park bench is solid first before sitting down in it. And then, moments later, falling straight through with a surprised yelp.

There goes his notebook.]

[glowing_skye]

[Because data is more important than people, Ema jumps in to save the notebook before she realizes that the poor guy who was holding it has fallen through the bench.

To her credit, however, she does eventually realize the social slip, tuck the notebook under her arm, and offer a hand to help him up.]

You know things are bad when you can't even sit on a park bench without an incident.

Action B

[pursuitofcappiness]

[ Steve walks by when THUNK--!!

And he stops at the front of their lawn. ]

Need help?

[glowing_skye]

[Ema turns to look at the man when she hears his voice. It's not a face she recognizes, but he seems lucid. Probably not a drone, then. Just a guy who is likely wondering what the hell she's doing, since even Ema herself is somewhat aware that the scientific process behind this isn't entirely obvious.

She almost dismisses him, but then a thought occurs to her.]

That depends.

How good are you at recording clear data?

B

[little_thief]

...Ema, what are you doing?

[glowing_skye]

Science. I'm testing the frequency in which--

[Wait.

Wait.]

Kay?!

[Phone]

[wolfishsurvivalist]

While I can't say I know anything about the librarian, I've been taking notes of the strange occurrences around town and I've been trying to catalogue them. Admittedly I don't have much, but it's a start. I've also asked some of the others to help keep track of it all so we can have something cohesive.

I hate to say this but it's...nice to have you back, Ema. We need more detective types right now.

[glowing_skye]

We should sit down and compare notes sometime. I'm especially interested in what I missed while I was gone. And if we go through different portals or... whatever it is Grey is talking about here, we can compare notes on that as well.

I understand the sentiment. Thank you.

[There's a pause, then.]

Are you still a nurse? I'm currently unemployed thanks to the town reshuffling my assigned place.