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Cain Hargreaves ([personal profile] misterblackbird) wrote2011-05-10 12:10 pm

Entry 493; Day 872

There's been more than a little talk on the Network of late of going down into the Underground to see to the Clock itself, whether it's stopped or whether it's silenced, or what might have become of it. I myself mean to go down there, if I can, along with a few others. And I know there's been plans made among some other acquaintances.

But, as I see it, one larger group is better than several smaller ones, especially considering the kinds of creatures known to live in the Underground.

If any of us means to try for it, we'd do well to combine our efforts. We'll be better able to keep one another safe and alive, and certainly more eyes on the Clock itself would be better, when we reach it.

We've always been told that the cessation of the Clock's ticking, the Clock's stopping, will signal the end of all worlds. In the past, the Clock's silence has led to destruction in the City itself. However, there's no destruction in the City and people are still being brought into the City anew, and some of them are even known to others in the City--both of which suggest that, while we can't hear the Clock, our worlds may not have been destroyed.

But, undeniably, something is quite wrong in the City. Creatures I've not seen before have been crawling up out of the Underground. And the Carousel itself has been going mad--and the Carousel, it is said, is tied to the Clock. It's still spinning, so perhaps the Clock still ticks, but something is amiss with both. I don't mean to be so glib about it, but the evidence--'IECENVDE'--is in front of us. So much in the City has gone backwards so quickly and so suddenly.

So it must be the Clock--at least as a starting point. Nothing else seems to loom so large in all of this. We'll have to see for ourselves what's going on with it, whether it still ticks and is silenced or whether it's been stopped. What we'll do then, I don't know. The Clock doesn't take kindly to visitors, I'm told. But we won't be able to decide what to do until we can see for ourselves what's going on. It all hinges on reaching the Clock itself.

So who means to try for the Clock? Speak to me here, and we'll organise ourselves into something that might actually help us to reach the Clock alive.

~C.

[ooc: Clock Expedition get? Seriously, there's been a lot of IC chatter about going to see what's up with the Clock lately, so c'mon, let's talk about it and maybe organize ourselves ICly, hey hey? C'mon, c'mon!]

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[identity profile] waitedforyears.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, good.

[identity profile] sometimes-boe.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll call him and ask him.

[identity profile] whattingawhat.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
But we don't know what sort of shape they're in. If it were a trick or a game...what's the point? If we can restore the clock, couldn't the deities? Or are you thinking trap?

There's usually some truth in things like that.

voice;

[identity profile] coolestsoul.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Not bad at all. Just keep me posted.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I've no idea. I suppose I'm thinking something nearer at trap, but at the same time, the 'deities' didn't do anything to restore the City's walls when those harpies came in.

voice;

[identity profile] reed4context.livejournal.com 2011-05-13 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm Eriol. We may have spoken before.

voice;

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-13 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Cain Hargreaves--I believe we may have, once or twice

[identity profile] knaveswitness.livejournal.com 2011-05-14 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Talk is all well and good, you're quite right.

Action, though, is another matter entirely.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-14 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
That's rather precisely my thinking.

Do you mean to join our little excursion?

[identity profile] knaveswitness.livejournal.com 2011-05-14 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
If it were to be a fruitful one, any gentleman would count himself among the interested.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-14 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I certainly hope it will be fruitful. Or, at the very least, enlightening.

[identity profile] knaveswitness.livejournal.com 2011-05-15 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Enlightening would be the best option for all involved.

If you don't mind an old man, involved is something I'd be interested in~

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-15 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Then we'd be grateful to have someone more involved, I think.

[identity profile] knaveswitness.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
And we've even been introduced before. How fortuitous.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I don't believe we have.

Cain Hargreaves. A pleasure to meet you.

[identity profile] knaveswitness.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaah, my mistake~ It seems I just know you.

Xerxes Break.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
You know me? I'm flattered, I'm sure, unless I've forgotten some other time that we've spoken. In which case, I ought to apologise, Mr Break.

[identity profile] knaveswitness.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You're quite popular on this device, you see.

[And I'm a stalker.]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I am very flattered, indeed.

[Suspicious...]

[identity profile] whattingawhat.livejournal.com 2011-05-17 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe they were thinking 'sink or swim'. After all, they can always get more. [It's a little petulant and bitter]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-17 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose that may be more what they were thinking.

[identity profile] whattingawhat.livejournal.com 2011-05-17 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Not speaking highly for our future.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-17 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Not especially, no.

[identity profile] whattingawhat.livejournal.com 2011-05-17 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Have the residents in the City ever considered an uprising, unsurping...upsurping or turf and surf?

I lol'd |D

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-05-17 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
There was talk of an uprising a year or more ago, but it came to nothing. I'd hoped it might actually work, somehow.

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