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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stavros: Kokoro blushing, tearing up. ([c] b-but...)

[personal profile] stavros 2020-08-31 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[You could have just poured it on the stone, Coco, you didn't have to chuck it. Still, it breaks and spills out onto the stone, and a door emerges from the wall and opens up. Coco can run in there in time to get away from the recovering monster.

Inside the formerly sealed-off room, Kokoro appears to be asleep, flopped over on a stone slab. She shivers and rubs her eyes.]


What...?
kept_his_letters: (Eesh)

[personal profile] kept_his_letters 2020-08-31 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Go hard or go home and she's not going home.

She makes that last dash for the door and stops to see another girl there, asleep. For a moment she stiffens, wondering if this girl will turn into a monster too.]


Um... hi. Sorry to wake you.
stavros: Kokoro posing dramatically. ([a] just like any other)

[personal profile] stavros 2020-08-31 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I...

[She drags herself to a sitting position and rubs her eyes, then climbs off the slab.]

The portals. I must be asleep on the outside... You came to retrieve me, then? You have my thanks.

[Light is starting to come in from above, and the white bat outside has either disappeared or just stopped bothering them. Looks like we're at the end of the line.]

Are you new...?
kept_his_letters: (Eesh)

[personal profile] kept_his_letters 2020-09-02 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Yeah. That's what I was doing.

[Not just stumbling in completely unaware. She colors a little.]

De nada. And... something like that. Are you alright?
stavros: Kokoro eating takoyaki. ([c] everyone needs to eat)

[personal profile] stavros 2020-09-02 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Kokoro adjusts her headband and smooths out her hair. Her eyes go to Coco's inventory.]

Well enough. I see the dream supplied you with protection. To tell you the truth, I never fully got the hang of throwing those. I could never get them to come back.
kept_his_letters: (Nuetral)

[personal profile] kept_his_letters 2020-09-02 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
[She blinks and brightens.]

R-really? [She pulls one out, looking at it with some awe.] I've never done anything like it before.

[She pauses.]

Er, there was also... a chicken. Do you know what that was about?
stavros: Kokoro cheering and fistpumping. ([c] go go go!)

[personal profile] stavros 2020-09-02 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Hunger, perhaps? I know not.

[Looks like the portal's here, though. Good job, you completed this!]

Greetings, then, and let us make haste. I know not how many around the school were affected, but it seems to be a great deal. My name is Kokoro Belmont. And yourself?
kept_his_letters: (Smile)

[personal profile] kept_his_letters 2020-09-02 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[She opens her mouth but finds she doesn't have anything to say to it. Dreams were strange.

The greeting immediately has her beaming.]


Socorro Rivera. But everyone calls me Coco. Mucho gusto, Kokoro.

[And with that, she's ready to head through.]
stavros: Kokoro with her ancestor. ([a] truer to form)

[personal profile] stavros 2020-09-02 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kokoro pauses. Hasn't she heard that before...? No, definitely not. Shaking her head, she goes through.]