Right now it's pretty crazy

[relentlessness]

WHO: Jacob Frye
WHERE: South village, Inn, Altair's house, Rundown village
WHEN: The first part of January before One Man Show
OPEN TO: Open to All, locked post for Altair. Rundown village trip is open for anyone that might tag along, multiple threads welcome
WARNINGS: Rated PG for Jacob being a reckless idiot?

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Desperately keeping busy - South Village

The events of New Year's Eve helped Jacob to try and ignore the changes that have left him unsettled in this place. Sadly that event was only one night, and now he's back to dealing with everything going on in his own head.

Or doing everything he can to ignore it all.

It's why he spends a lot of time in the Inn. Not only are there others around, but there's maps and notes about the surrounding area, what is out there to be wary of, and where he might continue to look for any signs of Evie, Connor, or the others that have disappeared. Certainly there's the stories of them being returned home, but he needs to know, not just rely on stories.

He spends a lot of the day in or around the Inn, though much of that is perched atop one roof or another. Not merely the nature of the assassin, but because the house is much emptier than he is used to, and spending his time watching over the village - or falling asleep late into the night after doing so without going inside - is less wearing on his nerves. It takes a bit, mapping things for himself and planning out what he might do without wandering too far in case the weather changes, but eventually he has a plan and a course of action.

Planning - Locked to Altair

Since even before Evie vanished, since Jacob had found Altair hurting from the images he had seen, Jacob has made a point of stopping by Altair's home from time to time. Now, having come to a conclusion of at least one more place to check, both for those missing as well as supplies that might help them in the village.

So used to having Evie there to talk out plans with, it actually does occur to him that maybe heading out for a few days might not be the best of ideas. Not without telling someone where he's going. So he heads over to Altair's, looking a bit worse for wear if the dark circles under his eyes are any indication.

Adventure awaits - Hike to the Rundown village, scouting there

Packing the sack his clothes were in when he arrived, Jacob sets out to the rundown village he saw on the map at the inn. Evie had mentioned other areas there might have been people when he first arrived, and he can't help but want to see them himself. Just to be certain his sister hadn't wandered there alone.

He might be used to cities, but he spends his days racing along rooftops and has a stamina to show for it. Taking his time to make the hike, planning to make it there with only a short rest overnight, and then see what he might find there and judge his return on that. No more than a handful of days, at most.

Comments

[relentlessness]

"One has to wonder as well, given the changes they've made to us and the things about our wrists and all that there may be a way those behind all of this might well be doing something to keep such creatures away," he points out. "Lord knows they've done things I never imagined were possible to people, after all." And it would explain why the villages seem relatively safe, though why not tell them that to begin with? "Perhaps I can find someone with the experience and get them to do it. Save myself risking capsizing a boat with me in it," Jacob says with a chuckle.

[fishingfortrouble]

"It's certainly not impossible?"

Improbable, perhaps, at least by the standards of Phryne's era. But it's been made abundantly clear on more than one occasion that even so much the technology present in the village itself is well beyond that of Phryne's era. To say nothing of what the 'Observers' themselves might be using, although that has generally seemed to be something that can only really be guessed at, given their current lack of ability to actually make it to wherever the individual or individuals responsible for their presence in the village should happen to be.

"And I'm certain there has to be someone in the village capable of sailing a boat, to some degree or another."

Who that person might be is another question, of course. But even with the village being comparatively small she can't imagine there isn't someone who knows even just the basics of sailing.