Pulpit, Dais, and Rostrum

"Damned if we do, damned if we don't." - An independent narrative blog / ask blog Ran by Dughckit THIS BLOG HANDLES MATURE THEMES- READER BEWARE

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Welcome to Dais!

Hello and welcome! It's a pleasure to have you here- This is a non-fandom based askblog ran by @dughckit ! Our story follows Astor James Crawley, recent survivor of the world's WORST workplace related incident, being sent down into the depths of Trithys... Down and deep into a horrid chasm in the ocean that is host to a lot of unknown creatures and unimaginable horrors You can learn more about Trithys and it's setting from it's community CH/\SM The community (and this blog) are open world and open collaboration! I encourage you to check it out-- the folks working on it have been putting in the HOURS on this!!

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Anyhow! As the story develops-- So will this intro post For now though, Here are some links to click! (hopefully....)

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"Tell me something nice about you..." CW: The linked video has flashing images

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PDnR Chapter 1 "Welcome to the Citadel" {Part 1} {Part 2} {Part 3} vvvv

"Oh-- we still have to go over your job..."

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I got sidetracked 8,000 times while working on 12,000 things Anyways a lot of PDnR Posts coming: Sometime For NOW!!! Astor and Leo posting <3 First comic is ft. Archie from @inthedepthsoftrithys :] (Idk if the wifi connection in the ocean is good but like-- if it is Astor one hundred percent tries to get these two to meet) CW FORRR A RAUNCHY JOKE! (it's nothing egregious <3, still warning just in case <3) And also some Button and Leo doodles I've been sitting on-- ENJOY!!! :]

They're a slow burn but like-- Idk I'm impatient

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PDnR Chapter 1 "Suit-pplemental" vvvv

BUTTON - "So-- what happened, exactly?" CLICK - "I found him passed out in his office, smiling from ear to ear-- Tachy and a phenomenally high blood pressure." BUTTON - "God-- Is he okay? Shouldn't he be in intensive care or the emergency--" CLICK - "This shit's happened before." "It's just the first time he hasn't woke up immediately after." BUTTON - "What?" CLICK - "I gave you his file for his psych eval, right?" "Incident Report 12120?" BUTTON - "Yeah..." "Is he still smiling in there?" CLICK - "If you stop thinking about it, it stops being so eerie--" "But, back to my point... He's contained here." BUTTON - "Contained?" "Isn't he HR?" CLICK - "James has Terrence on a leash." "And like any good dog sitters, we follow rules." "Use his code name while speaking with him, don't let him outside of the rig unattended, and..." BUTTON - "And?" CLICK - "..." "Above your pay grade." "Maybe in another year or two, yeah?" BUTTON - "Jesus... okay." "..." "...So we're all just-- we're all trapped here in our own ways, then?" CLICK - "How do you mean?" BUTTON - "Suit's nanny-cammed apparently, we're the only two medical professionals on this entire campus, Astor's.... Astor's a prisoner now, and... and Leopoldo's..." CLICK - "...." "How is he holding up?" "Leo, I mean." BUTTON - "Good." "Uhm-- I told him about Astor, he uh..." "He wanted to be alone, so I left him." CLICK - "..." "I don't understand why James keeps him there." BUTTON - "Well--" "Hm." "That-- actually isn't my place to speak." CLICK - "But you have theories?" BUTTON - "Kinda?" CLICK - "Shoot." BUTTON - "Well--" "I'd say-- Leo's in that cell for the same reason Astor got sent down." "Mr.Crawley knows the sons he raised... their uhm... 'crimes' aside... he knows out of the two of them who has the louder voice, and who has the more uhm... dangerous voice." CLICK - "..." "Guess that makes sense." BUTTON - "You uhm..." "You should visit him." "Mack-- Leopoldo." CLICK - "..." "I'll think on it."

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Ainett and Hector doodles,,,, Plus some angst bc I can't help myself ever

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"s- Didnt mean to yell sorry" Marcos spoke, calming down from the outburst, he knew one wrong move and it was back to his cell or to another rig...or the muzzle.

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general thing, Astor is rushing somewhere. Marcos is cleaning, he gets bumped into to. snaps a bit, before remembering the muzzle as he calms down to avoid punishment.. also quality is based on what time I drew it lmao @drifting-tides-qna

"Perhaps we got off on the wrong foot, uhm-- I'm Astor, Doctor Astor James Crawley! I... I work here as well... uh-- Paramarinebiology... it's a pleasure to meet you...?"

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“I’ll be here till they transfer me again, say what was it you said you did again?”

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"SO ANYWAYS! Wh-why'd you get brought over?" "i've never actually engaged with experimentation-- I'm a fresh transfer-- they more so like to send me down in subs to the surface level to stare at plants and fish for a few hours and take notes, y'know?"

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“Yup, ten years like ten different rigs… the norm ya know?”

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"It... it sounds like a lot, at least... for a person to go through."

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PDnR Chapter 1 "Welcome to The Citadel" {Part 1} {Part 2} vvvv

OTHELLO - "Wh-- On what?" "Why are you asking?" ASTOR - "Othello- look at me." OTHELLO "And?" ASTOR - "I looked like this prior to diving." "Prior to coming down." OTHELLO - "..." "So- You're an experiment--" ASTOR - "No. No I'm not." "Well- I don't think so at least." OTHELLO - "The fuck does that mean?" ASTOR - "Just fucking-" "Level with me, please." "I looked like this prior to coming down." "I have been here more then a day at this point." "I should be mutating, yes?" "Why am I not?" OTHELLO - "..." "That..." "Hm." "This place is confusing and fickle-- it may just be taking you a while..." ASTOR - "Sure- But--" OTHELLO - "You are not special, Astor." "There are divine beings down here that have been warped by this place." ASTOR - "That's not what I'm implying-" "I'm trying to ask-" "-If the change isn't external- perhaps it's internal- perhaps something is going on with my innards that I don't know about--" OTHELLO - "Dwelling like this is just going to make you paranoid--" "You're up and moving- Do you feel like a tour of the grounds?" ASTOR - "Grounds?" OTHELLO - "Mhmm-" "It's well worth it, trust." ASTOR - "I--" "You never told me the name of this place..." OTHELLO - "Ah- forgive me." "Astor Crawley- Welcome to The Citadel."

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PDnR Chapter 1 "Welcome to the Citadel" {Part 1} out of ??? CW for Blood and Medical Things (Needles and what have you) vvvv

ASTOR - "Wh-- where-- Why am I breathing air?" OTHELLO - "I can explain everything in just a moment." "Please just-- lay back so I can finish stitchin' you up, yeah?" ASTOR - "... Okay." OTHELLO - "Thank you." ASTOR - "Where are we?" "We're not on the surface, are we?" OTHELLO - "No..." "Afraid not, sorry...." "You are about...." "I'd venture to guess maybe 10 leagues deeper then what you were..." ASTOR - "T-Ten? What?" OTHELLO - "We're in what used to be a 'habitation dome' for some org called... oh..." "Ros..trum?" "Dunno what they did-- but they left behind plants and a lot of building materials- So I have to be grateful to some extent, I suppose." ASTOR - "We're 600,000 feet under." OTHELLO - "Mhmm." ASTOR - "How did I--"

OTHELLO - "Y'alright, darling?" ASTOR - "Peaches." OTHELLO - "....Alright." "If you're sure." ASTOR - "What uhm--" "What's your name?" OTHELLO - "Ah-" "M'Othello..." "Groundskeeper, mechanic, engineer, housekeeping, pest control-- so on, so forth..." ASTOR - "Ah... housekeeping?" "This a hotel?" OTHELLO - "Something like that." ASTOR - "...Right." "Well-- I'm As-" OTHELLO - "Oh- I know you."

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PDnR Chapter 1 "Terrence and The Tether" CW: Body horror and (light) gore vvv

SUIT - "...." "I just wanna know what happened." ???? - "Oh you do know though, don't you, Ter-bear?" "You sent him down in that sub-- and now you've sent him down in that death box." "HA-" SUIT - "Y-you sent him." "You sent him down." "You made me." ???? - "Excuse me?" SUIT - "Y-You-- you heard me."

??? - "I am affording you this chance. This second go around." "If it weren't for my... divine and sanctimonious blessing-- you would be 6 feet under with the rest of those mélange'd marquis of botched evolution." SUIT - "I'm-- I'm sorry--" ??? - "ARE YOU NOW?" "Terrence, my dear-- let's set the record straight before you try any more...." "Funny business."

??? - "Keep your mouth S H U T."

??? - "Do as I tell you, if you wanna plan on keeping that puny and putrid life of yours-- and most importantly, lamb--"

??? - "Give them that award winning s m i l e."

??? - "Sound fair?" SUIT - "Mm-- Mmhmmm" ??? - "Very good." "Now-- about that Crawley boy..."

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Random little doodles <3 I love all these little freaks god bless

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"Come on.... where's the door......"

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"Who-- what-- what the fuck are you?"

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"But uh-... where's the rest of it??"

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"KNOCKING YOU UNCONCIOUS-- YOU'RE CLEARLY HERE FOR NEFARIOUS REASONS--" "Nefarious? What? Put the extinguisher down." "Why should I? You're the one breaking into my bell--" "Well-- to be fair: You let me in." "AFTER YOU TRIED BREAKING AND ENTERING." "Look-- I think we're getting off on the wrong foot, here." "Wrong foo--AUGH-- Fine..."

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"You're gonna be just fine, dead man..."

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"It- changes the things down here."

"That's what I am... I thought that's what you were. 'Cuz of the-... glowing pink eyes, but I've never seen it do something like this before..."

"..."

"I thought whoever sent you down wanted to get rid of you before you're mutations finished... but you're not screaming in pain so- this doesn't seem like a normal mutation..."

"It's that or you did something really awful-"

"What?! Why would you think that?"

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"There's no retrieval cord attached to your bell. Not cut either. Like..."

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"Th-they sent me down here for a reason, right? I-I must've done-- done something-- I must-- I must've-- I must be-- be wrong somehow, right? I-I-- They wouldn't leave me down here with no rhyme or reason-- they wouldn't do that--"

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"...I'm- fucking blue, Astor. And I know the words of a deep sea stranger probably don't matter but,-... from where I'm sitting, there's nothing wrong about you."

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"Wh-- why?" "Why say that to me? When we both well and know you-- //ACK, COUGH// were about to rob me blind? Presumably worse-- Why try and make a connection with me? What's-- //WHEEZE// Your game?"

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TW!!: Needles/Injections

"You were sent down in a diving bell without a retrieval cord. I assumed you were either a criminal or a mutant."

"Your eyes were pink and you were defending yourself from me. A scared mutant."

"You were probably confused was another assumption I made. I doubted you knew what the ocean does to people..."

"Robbing you was the smallest action I could take now. I didn't want to hurt you but it would've been suspicious if I said I just wanted to talk, no?"

"You talked back when I spoke. Still sane."

"You tried to attack me. That was reasonable. I told you I was robbing you. You still have fight in you. You seemed-... good.. to me."

"I've been alone down here for the past four years. People come and go- often altered to be much more aggressive because of their mutations."

"//huff// It's pathetic I know. But every time one of those damn tin cans come down I PRAY It's someone like you do I don't have to-... nevermind. Moral if the story is I think too much."

"I know because you probably wouldn't be down here if you weren't. You'd be running one of those damn Rigs that sent you down."

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ARCHIE - "What?" ASTOR - "It's what I studied." "I worked with mutants that had survived the-- that had been pulled from the depths." "I measured growth of plant life in areas of 'noteable activity'-- all to one day 'hopefully' take my father's position. As my brother had failed to acquiesce it." ARCHIE - "I'm-- I'm not following."

ASTOR - "That submersible and all other submersibles--"

ASTOR - "--are property to James Isaac Crawley. Founder of DAIS, current CEO to the company and president to its board."

ASTOR - "I am-- or I suppose-- was the only son he hadn't disowned yet." "He had been preparing to train me to take up the mantle." "Mostly through my position, through my tasks mentioned earlier, through shoddy marketing campaigns, through-- through seedy fucking means..." "But-- I got involved in-- in an accident. Rendering me incapable of aquatic based work. Till today." "That's-- that's not the point of my tangent, though." "I was his son. I was his heir."

"Is more then enough blood on my hands for me to securely say 'I do not, and cannot take your words in good faith-- as kind and as touching as they are. I do... I do have some trust for you though. I understand if that isn't returned, given the proverbial bomb I've just handed you."

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Actor AU infects me once more,,, <33 Archie/Rafa belongs to @inthedepthsoftrithys

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PDnR Chapter 1 "Hey Man, Nice Shot" {Part 1} , {Part 2}

CW: Gore and Violence vvvv

MISCHA - "Look at what you did." ASTOR - "Mischa..." MISCHA - "Take it fuckin' in, toots." "You got anything you maybe wanna say before I gut you clean?" ASTOR - "..." "I'm-- I'm so sorry, I--"

"SORRY AIN'T FIXIN' SHIT OF WHAT HAPPENED, CRAWLEY."

ASTOR- "..." MISCHA - "I confided in you." "During my /worst/ moment, I confided in you." "And what did you do?" ASTOR - "I didn't want to tell anyone what you said to me-- but father has--" MISCHA - "I heard you and your old man talking outside my cell before my final interrogation." "I couldn't help but remember what you'd said to me a little earlier that year." "You liked working with me." "...I liked getting to see you too, yeah?" ASTOR - "Mischa, please-- I know nothing can be done for it now but, I really am--"

MISCHA - "I woke up down here, thinking I'd died shot and drowning." "Thinking that my family was dead too." "Thinking that I was in hell for whatever wrongs I had committed." "I woke up here, scared. Alone. Cold. Hungry. Confused. BLIND." "I HAD TO RELEARN HOW TO OPERATE MY OWN FUCKING BODY." "AND I HAD TO DO IT ALONE." "..." "I smelled your little buddy." "You got..." "You got real fucking lucky." "You always have." "And I hate you for it." "Universe serving itself to you on a god damn silver spoon-- well, Tori.." "As long as you're down here, I'm gonna make sure that luck never fucking finds you." "...You can save me the fucking sob story." "You got sent down here-- scared? helpless? unaware of the danger that you're in?" "Oh how horrible that must be." "How many did you let meet the same fucking fate, huh?" "How many?" "..."

"Neither of us are leaving here till you feel the 'mercy' of your company."

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PDnR Chapter 1 "Hey man, Nice Shot" {Part 1} , {Part 2} Archie belongs to @inthedepthsoftrithys vvvv

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PDnR Chapter 1 "Folly" vvvv

MISCHA - "Jesus... they look more fat and more stupid every time I come over here." ASTOR - "Be nice... we're the ones who plunged them god knows how many feet under when we came here... how many years ago?" MISCHA - "A century at this point." ASTOR - "Mm..." "...How's work for you recently?" MISCHA - "Same as always..." "Fix this jeep, inspect that boat engine, untangle some poor intern from a net--" ASTOR - "Pft--" MISCHA - "Hey! Don't laugh... it's a very serious issue." ASTOR - "Oh, I'm sure it is." MISCHA - "How's your day been, Tori?" ASTOR - "Fine." "Father wants to promote me to a more corporate setting..." "Says its safer." "But I don't know... I rather like working this job." "I... like working... with you." MISCHA - "Yeah?" "Well uhm... I like working with you, too." ASTOR - "Happy to hear." MISCHA - "So... uhm..." "You going to that... that club with Sam again this weekend, or are you free?" ASTOR - "I... I can be free, why?" MISCHA - "No reason." "Just uhm... y'know... I got paid. And... maybe I dunno... I wanted to take you to the commissary, on me?" ASTOR - "The Commissary? Oh Mr.Lovett... you truly know how to spoil a man, don't you? Food that I already get for free?" "If we're going there-- I'll 'pay' yeah?" MISCHA - "Well-- I-- I wanna treat you, yeah?" "You uhm... you've been nice. Nice to be around." "Nice to get to know, and-- and well... yeah, I dunno, I'm rambling, this is dumb." ASTOR - "Hardly." "You're fine, Mischa." MISCHA - "Yeah." ASTOR - "...." MISCHA - "....." "Move back a bit." ASTOR - "Oh?"

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PDnR Chapter 1 "Wear your heart on your sleeve" vvvv

BUTTON - "Click tells me that he's concerned for your behavior toward your wards and peers." SUIT - "Really?" "What's that old bag of bones have to say about me now?" "We've done this song and dance before, I pass every time-- what's the difference this go around?" BUTTON - "You sent the CEO's son into the twilight zone. Maybe deeper." SUIT - "..." BUTTON - "You had good rapport with Astor, right?" SUIT - "Some what." "Kid could take a joke... I liked him for that reason." BUTTON - "So what changed between you two?" SUIT - "Nothing." "Job's a job." "He... he wasn't fit for surface life any more, so I followed procedure." BUTTON - "And what deemed him unworthy of surface life?" SUIT - "is this a psych evaluation, or an interrogation, Doc?" "I might venture to bite... that you may be a little too close to be dishing this one out." BUTTON - "Mm." "Well, I'm the only one approved to do evaluations on this rig, so..." "..maybe you should have thought about that one, before you sent my best friend down in a prison pod." SUIT - "Pardon?" BUTTON - "Nothing." "What's your life outside of work looking like for you, Te--" SUIT - "Suit." BUTTON - "...." "Right." "Suit." SUIT - "...." "It's fine." "I wake up, I clean up, I go to work, I go back home, I sleep, rinse and repeat." "Like every other poor schmuck down here." "The Rig Worker's Gospel." BUTTON - "And your days off?" "You have more then most with a position like yours, right?" SUIT - "..."

SUIT - "They're fine." BUTTON - "Right." "Uhm..." "Do you enjoy your work?" SUIT - "I mean-- that's a loaded question, Doc..." "...I don't think anyone does." BUTTON - "Well... do you enjoy anything about your place of work?" SUIT - "..." "I liked working in the submarines, being a proper mariner and all that." BUTTON - "Yeah-- you were a diver, I always forget that." SUIT - "Everyone does." "Even me." "I'm a far cry from whoever the hell that was." BUTTON - "Oh?" SUIT - "I used to... to lay in bed at night, excited for breakfast with my shift mates... used to dick around in the compression chamber... used to be... I dunno... alive." BUTTON - "HR's really sucked the life out of you, then?" SUIT - "Among other things." BUTTON - "You..." "We don't... we don't have to talk about... about your accident, but..." SUIT - "But what?" BUTTON - "Well... if you want too..." SUIT - "..." "No." "No-- I know why you're egging me on-- You think-- you think I'm playing some sick revenge fantasy out, huh?" BUTTON - "Wh--what?" SUIT - "You think that-- just because I'm angry, just because I'm upset, and scared and hurt about what happened-- about all--" "--all those dead men." "--about how I'm the only one who gets to live--" "That-- that I sent the one son James Crawley still loves and respects 800,000 leagues under?" "You think I'm that petty?" "You think I'm that much of-- of a monster?" BUTTON - "Terrence." SUIT - "..." "I didn't want to send Astor down." "I'm-- I'm doing everything I can to make sure that he's still alive. That-- that he's safe-- but..."

BUTTON - "You still sent him." SUIT - "I can't help but think about--" "Think about when Yuri was resurfacing, and-- and how we finally made it to clear waters, warm temps... the works... and..." "...and how that all got ripped away so fast." "We all got-- ripped away from each other so fast." "..." "...I'm scared that-- that's what Astor's going through." "I'm scared because I know that that's what he's going through." "..." "Being ripped apart from it all... thrown sideways into a new hell..." "He's a good kid, Samson." BUTTON - "We both better start praying then, huh?" SUIT - //scoff, laugh// "..." "Yeah."