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[not_the_philistine]

Artificial night fell on the City, and Goliath and Bronx both awoke with their usual roars. The gargoyles bursting out of their stone skin were a familiar sound at sunset, and their roars carried over the darkening City.

Goliath dropped from his turret and glided towards the wall that surrounded the castle, landing before the gate that would open it to the rest of the crew. Elisa must have still been asleep or otherwise occupying herself in the castle, because the gate was closed. Goliath considered the gates, and the high, newly repaired wall that kept most visitors out of the castle. His instincts to keep the castle fortified against entry during his sleep were still strong, but he considered them as objectively as possible while examining the gate.

In times of conflict, this castle COULD still be used as a fortress. But if he was to open it to the crew formally, perhaps it was time to leave them open, and trust to the crew that he sought to protect.

Or perhaps that was still a step that could wait until he had met more of the crew, and trusted them a little better.

[ooc: a few players have expressed an interest in having their characters sneak into the castle to explore while Goliath is asleep during the day. If you have a character who would snoop around an old castle uninvited, feel free to tag in!]

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[tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com]

Hey, neat! A castle. Atom had passed it once or twice, but had never come across it at night. In fact, it looked downright spooky now that it was dark.

He came in for a landing on one of the turrets, cutting off the rocket boosters in his boots as he set down on the cool stone. Then he started snooping around.

[newyorkbynight.livejournal.com]

Elisa had no way of knowing if her body clock was still set for the night shift, since it was difficult to measure day and night on a ship were everything was controlled and artificial. Not that it mattered. She was used to operating on relatively little sleep - she'd often heard that crime didn't sleep, which meant that it was the job of the NYPD to do the same - and that was something that hadn't changed since she'd woken up Stacy.

She did try and make sure that she was awake at the same time as Goliath, though. There was a lot that she didn't know about what she'd missed during her long sleep in the pods, but she intended to make sure that they made the most of every moment now that she was awake. Just in case it didn't last.

She climbed up to the top of the turret after the false sunset, pausing momentarily to stare out at the skyline.

"It's not exactly New York," she noted to herself, before gazing around the parapets in search of her friend. "Goliath?"

[carrieswar.livejournal.com]

Jr. wasn't exactly sneaking around per se. He just hadn't noticed Goliath in stone sleep up on the castle ledges there. He'd seen the castle enough in the city - especially since he lived in it now. But he never acted on his impulses until tonight, when he wandered close enough to it to really make out the castle. Jr., having a huge thing for the ancient, especially Earth ancient (though he wasn't sure this thing was from Earth) wanted to get a better look at the structure itself.

He had managed to slip in and gaze around in an awe. And he had begun exploring the specific rooms and nooks and crannies of the place. But he never finished. That was because Jr. came across the library, promptly went wide-eyed, and then went to town on checking out what it had stored.

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Normally, Howard has a rule about salvaging in buildings he knows to be occupied. But a castle, and a castle this easy to sneak into (comparatively)? He can't resist. All it took was a little climbing and some lockpicking and a little bit of greasing some hinges with those shampoo bottles he stole from Galilee.

He hasn't taken anything yet, but he's eyed some of the nicer things in some of the rooms, and his empty backpack is open in case something really catches his eye. At the sound of footsteps, he slips behind a door, hoping not to have been caught.

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

With the gates open, not long passed before Lupin appeared in front of the gate, venturing on in with the look of one quite deep in thought.

These days he practically lived in the castle, delving into the depths of its library in search of some possible treatment for a gargoyle's condition that he could use or adapt.

[alastirra.livejournal.com]

Normally, a castle would be of little interest to Alastirra; what drew her, really, was the fact that a friend lived there. That and the rumors of the library therein.

So it was the unfamiliar sound of hooves that clicked through the halls, announcing the shaman's presence, even as she looked around in wonder. It wasn't much like the king's castle in Stormwind. Nor was it much like the Exodar, either, though the fallen ship was much like a castle to wander through.

Unlike Atom, she could appreciate the aesthetics of it all, and kept her hands quite carefully tucked behind her, the jingling of her mail and hoofsteps aside.

[rancorgem.livejournal.com]

It wasn't any particular desire to snoop that had brought Tenel Ka to the castle. The tall curved shape of its walls and towers had just been too tempting to a young woman itching for a good climb.

She had found the Jedi Temple within a few days of arriving and eagerly scaled it several times, but its insides were unfamiliar to her, the appointments of rooms and decor from another time in the buildings history well before her own. She could not quite find herself comfortable there and so sought out other places to linger, finally lighting upon Wyvern and it's walls riddled with cracks perfect for slipping fingers into.

Pulling herself up the tower wall with only grappling hook, rope and muscle power was a satisfying task, invigorating and distracting from her thoughts and worries, and it provided a lovely view of the city's artificial sunset.

She hadn't expected echoing roars and a shower of fragmented stone that came from the balcony above her when she stopped to watch it however. Pulling herself further up the slope of the balcony Tenel Ka peered over the railing's edge, her grappling hook and one of her feet wedged between its posts, red-gold braids pulled into a tangle by the breeze.

"Hello?"

[handpuppeeet.livejournal.com]

Getting past the walls, regardless of the gate being open, was easy. One jump to the top of the wall and he was in. Ankh had no intention of stealing or plundering or anything of the sort, but the Hawk candroid that had been safely tucked away in his jacket had drawn attention to the place, for whatever reason.

It was nice and tall and it was definitely better than any place where he could feel the ship pulsing, and so for lack of anything better to do, here he was, jumping and climbing up the walls of the castle, for whatever reason determined to get to the top.