[Log] My life is a dark room...one big, dark, room.

[deadlyvu]

Who: Lydia Deetz deadlyvu and Open
Where: Aquares Ixen, House B-13
When: Month of June
What: Lydia's turning the basement into a dark-room, and hunting for supplies.
Warnings: None yet?



Lydia had planned for a while to adapt the basement into a dark room, but with the murders happening (and her offer to help by photographing scenes if needed) meant she was finally moving to look into it. As in, find chemicals and things she could use to develop her film, as well as the supplies for a dark-room. Glad now that she'd learned to do it herself, as none of the convenient pre-mixed blends of developing fluid and rinse were available.

Not that there was much time before the 'curfew', but Lydia was making the most of her time after school. Out on her bicycle shopping, or sending BP on errands. Definitely a month-long project.





Sorry housemates in B13, Lydia is cleaning out the last of anything Henry had left (after working with Nanami before to clear out the dangerous stuff). She's also taking down tables, and installing some long lines to hang photos from, and playing around with lighting. Sorry for the noise, but the curfew is at least giving her a lot of time to spend at home.

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[21stcenturyguy]

Santa really shouldn't be surprised that the weird noises in the basement were from the Creepy Child. Santa saunters down to check it out. He's still wearing the thick scarf he adopted after waking up from his broken neck, but otherwise, he acts like he was never dead for a week.

"Yo. Whatcha up to, C-C?" He doesn't move to help yet, but he sits on the stairs and watches her progress on the dark room.

[deadlyvu]

"What does it look like, Creep-Kringle?" Lydia shoots back gamely. Currently she's busy sealing up and blackening out any windows or openings, along with shifting some shelves around.

"Guess this means things'll be annoying around here again, huh?" But honestly, she was glad he was back and safe. If only because he wasn't that bad, and his sister was really nice too.

[derplander]

Curfews suck. Martial law was worse, but fortunately the town hadn't devolved to that state.

Either way, Meteor was hurrying back at the end of the day, a stack of books in his arms. He had gone to protest loudly at the suspicion of his friends at the station but on the way in, he noticed Lydia. "Lydia!" He called out with a relieved smile. "I thought you were still around."

It could be said that Meteor was out of his armor this time, and he was dressed casually with surprisingly Earth-modern clothing from Fairy Drop, and he was wearing glasses since he needed them for reading.

[deadlyvu]

Lydia hadn't bothered to change from her school uniform, and her cloak was currently holding down various bottles in her front-basket of her bicycle. "Mr. Meteor!" Called back, and diverting over to meet him, moving to walk her bicycle alongside since they were heading the same way.

"Yeah, just been lost in my own things, so not out of the house or the city much. You?" Really now, Lydia's tougher than most give her credit for.

[derplander]

"I've been studying in between all the madness. I think I have a good handle on magic now," said Meteor with a smile.

"I've also been reading up on tactics too, in case I ever want to sub into Tactician. I see you have things for home."

[21stcenturyguy]

"Looks like you've gone full dark side and you're making yourself a lair." Nah, he knows what she's up to, but that is no reason not to tease the little gothling.

"But, did the level of annoyance around this freakin' place drop while I was gone? Let's be honest here..." Because he doubts everything was sunshine and roses while he was down for the week.

[deadlyvu]

"Of course...I'll recruit you to help me get my throne of skulls down here in a bit." Lydia replied, only mildly amused by the teasing. Since talking to his sister, she can see why he uses it as a defense. It had confirmed some suspicions for her.

"Define annoyance. I'm kind of used to the roller coaster this place can seem like." It takes her putting all her tiny-self into it, but she's moved a shelf closer to the wall she wants now, and then she huffs once done. "Things in the house were quieter at least."

[deadlyvu]

"Sort of. I'd enjoy it more if I had the actual things I need from home, but I'm making do." She'd learned how to do that well enough in Crystallis. "Studying magic practically, or theory?"

[21stcenturyguy]

Next time Lydia goes out of the room, she's totally going to find a sign tacked to the door reading, 'Baby's First Lair'. They grow up so fast...

"Skull thrones are terrible for your posture. We should get you something sleek and modern. Don't wanna stunt your growth."

He watches her moving around the furniture. The shorty has spunk. Santa's lips quirk into a smile.

"Quiet? How boring. C'mon, you should get some henchmen on that. That's Evil Overlording 101." He stands and finally steps down the last stair, in case she needs to move anything else around. He's not gonna let the kid topple a shelf over on herself and get hurt.

[deadlyvu]

The sign will be removed post-haste, and she'll be trying hard to not smile. Not sure whether she's annoyed or amused yet. "Ooh we've devolved to short jokes now? Besides, gotta go with that style and pizzazz, since no one would take me seriously otherwise."

Waving her hand at him, smirking back. "Henchmen are annoying. You have to feed and care for them, and they're always whining..." She's surveying the space remaining, trying to lay it out and lay out what she wants. If he IS going to help, she might get his help with installing the 'laundry' line for her to hang her pics from.

[derplander]

"Admittedly a little of both," said Meteor, hefting his books and adjusting them in his arms. "I've never been good at magic."

[deadlyvu]

"Where I'm from, no one really believes magic exists or works, except for in strange and rare cases." Lydia commented, shrugging as she walked with him. "I'm a bit different, because I've seen it, much like how I travel to the Neitherworld and back. My best friend has magic too."

[derplander]

"That's a strange concept, not believing in magic. It's a part of the smallfolk's lives back home. There's always been magic, especially inside of everyone." He said with a thoughtful expression.

[nomorecowbell]

"What is all this stuff anyway?" Nanami is from a time before digital photography caught on, but she never delved too deeply into photography. On the other hand, it couldn't hurt to know how it worked. In case she needed it.

[deadlyvu]

"Since no one's using the basement, I figured I'd build a dark room." Lydia was taking a break, sitting against the wall by the basement door after hauling some shelving down there. "For my photography. I'm hoping to get more film soon, and I need a way to develop the pictures."

[deadlyvu]

"Some religions still deal with it, but it's not the same as the way we're used to thinking of magic here." Lydia explained. "It's become much less common and everything blamed on it, so finding real examples of it are rare. At least from what I've seen, outside of my going to the Neitherworld."

[derplander]

"Ah, I see. Religion is a common concept back in Eorzea, although people worship different gods depending on their race, tribe and whatever. I myself pray to Halone, the Fury. Not that I am part of the culture who reveres Halone to the point of crusading for her teachings, but as a warrior born it feels natural." said Meteor.

"How do your people deal with your god or gods?" asked Meteor curiously.

[21stcenturyguy]

Santa shakes his head. "Wow, C-C, that's pretty ruthless. And limiting, too. You're never gonna expand past 'local terror' to the big-league evil unless you learn to delegate, and you're never gonna have anyone trustworthy enough to delegate to if you don't have evil benefits and stuff."

He takes the line from her and ties it a little higher than she would have been able to. See, this is why you need evil teamwork and the line will have less chance of strangling anyone who isn't watching when they walk down here .

[deadlyvu]

Lydia is just gonna roll her eyes at him, and cross her arms. "That assumes I wanna go the whole 'evil overlord' route to begin with. Kind of seems pointless." Not to mention she'd had a 'taste' of that, in a way, in a bad vision-future-whatever-it-was already on Crystallis. Not an experience she was eager to repeat.

She will walk closer though as he hangs up the line. Stretching just to be sure she can reach it, if she hangs clothespins on it. Her voice is much quieter. "Thank you. Are you alright?"

[deadlyvu]

"It depends on which region of the world you're in. There are different beliefs all over, but no one has any proof as to which is 'correct'." Pausing as she tried to think how to explain it. "It's...compared to a lot of other worlds, I think if the gods exist, they must be very distant from us where I'm from. Or we're not listening in the right ways, or something."

Honestly it didn't bother her too much; she'd never been very religious.

[derplander]

"Ah I see." Well, that was interesting. Not that Meteor had any experience with gods other than the Mother Crystal talking to him.

"I guess worlds are similar and different wherever you go. Well, it's not like we need to dwell too much about it."

[deadlyvu]

A small smile and laugh from Lydia. "I'm very likely also NOT the best person to discuss this with. Most people ignore the strange and unusual. Not only am I myself, strange and unusual, but I actively went seeking it out. That's how I found out how to travel to the Neitherworld, and met Beetlejuice--besides that he was haunting my house."

Definitely not a typical teenager over here.

[derplander]

"People who ignore the strange and unusual tend to find out that the strange and unusual tries to find them," said Meteor with a little chuckle.

"At least, you seem to love it after all. Being involved in everything."

[deadlyvu]

Ok, her bike is being leaned against something for a moment in favor of Lydia leaning over and giving him a hug. Most people just do not get that about her, and it's so nice to find people who do! People who aren't from the Neitherworld that is.

[derplander]

Meteor blinked for a moment and then returned the hug, letting her give him a big of a hug as she wanted. "I mean it, you're really great."