The Watchers of Night ([personal profile] thewatchers) wrote in [community profile] daybreakacademy2020-08-03 03:47 pm

[Open] The Mark of the Herald


Mark of the Herald Part I
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Despite certain disruptive events and ominous visions in the preceding month, August is seemingly still free of any problems.

That’s quick to change, however. Starting from the third of the month, strange, circular marks begin to appear on human students around the school - and, indeed, humans around the world. Those affected begin to feel incurably drowsy, something that no magical or mundane solution can seem to cure or relieve; eventually, they’ll fall asleep entirely, whether they want to or not, and enter a state of magical stasis. Not even nonhumans are immune, though whether they’re marked seems to be much more erratic.

Those who remain awake or are otherwise spared by the mark are free to do as they wish - the Academy won’t ask them to do more than keep themselves safe. But where each marked person falls in slumber, a portal will form; a strange tear in reality, offering glimpses of a surreal, nightmarish plane that differs vastly from individual to individual. One thing is certain; the cause of a victim’s seemingly endless sleep and these portals are linked somehow, and the only way to find out exactly how is to go through...and the only ones capable of doing so are those who are still awake.

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improbablenotimpossible: (Default)

[personal profile] improbablenotimpossible 2020-08-05 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[As she pulls a book - the shelf suddenly slides over with a loud creak.

Da-da-dum, it's a secret room!

Inside was what looked to be a victorian-era lounge, largely untouched by whatever was ravaging the library, a violin lays carelessly in a high-back chair, and on the couch was a basset hound, snoring only in the way a dog sleeping where he's not supposed to can]
stavros: Kokoro beside Strarf. ([a] in a new dream)

[personal profile] stavros 2020-08-06 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Makes as much sense as anything. She walks in very carefully, looking around and trying not to disturb the dog.]

Something always lies in rooms that don't match the rest...

[Kokoro goes to look over the chair with the violin. Anything hidden in there?]
improbablenotimpossible: (Default)

[personal profile] improbablenotimpossible 2020-08-07 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[She'll find what looks to be a photo album next to the violin!]
stavros: Kokoro about to use her whip. ([a] ready to go)

[personal profile] stavros 2020-08-07 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmm. Well, Kokoro will flip through that and see if there's anything to find, keeping an eye on the way out just in case anything follows her in.]
improbablenotimpossible: (Regretful moments)

[personal profile] improbablenotimpossible 2020-08-07 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[There are no words, but combinations of sketches, photographs and something not quite either on the pages, the first few pages had mostly unfamiliar men and women, one of them did look like a much more heavyset version of Sherlock himself, but as she flips, more familiar faces come - Moriarty, Vivi, herself, and there's gaps in the recent pages as if something's been... erased or ripped away leaving a lonely vacancy]
stavros: Kokoro with her ancestor. ([a] truer to form)

[personal profile] stavros 2020-08-07 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Kokoro reads, nodding along, and frowns near the end. She traces a finger down an emptied-out page, carefully shuts it, and lays it back down on the chair. Time to head out, then, and close the door behind her. If nothing stops her, she'll head up the stairs.]