[Open] The Mark of the Herald

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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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[voidbug]

[It's not supposed to do that. Something doesn't want them to leave. They think they know what, but, hnn...]

[Just keep going. If they fall behind again it's probably because there was something they had to take care of first.]

[Probably.]

[soft_focus]

Hmmm.

[Well. She has an idea then.] I think you should go first. I'll use my sprites to make little lights, since they glow a bit...um...

Birds, you can go up with them. You're brightest, [they insist to the remaining moth-rabbit things, the yellow one giving a small yawn. They can't obviously possess the other, but since all of them have their own wings it's not exactly hard to hover around while the other jumps.] And then I can follow with!

[Hopefully. Hopefully.]

[voidbug]

[If they had eyelids, they would probably blink in bewilderment right about now. This...this could possibly work.]

[They nodded in agreement, offering to go first deeper into the darkness, which the light from the sprites were doing a good job to repel. Like a thick blanket of fog. They can get a bit further, but finally they could see what was hiding in that fog. Eyes that were staring right back, waiting to impede on their progress.]

[Reira should be careful. These 'look-alikes' can be a little unpredictable. Sometimes they can be harmless but other times, well...]

[Harmless is probably not what they're going to be. But perhaps the light will be enough to keep them away..?]

[soft_focus]

[Boy she sure hopes so. Reira does frown at these things, but otherwise keeps going, occasionally landing to stand with the Knight.]

Ummmm... ...Do you know who those can get stopped..?

[voidbug]

[Not really. They keep coming back. And there's a lot of them. But the light was keeping the shadows away, for now. That was the one thing they didn't have before.]

[Everything in this pit really wants them to stay here. Each time they try to escape one of those get in the way to bring them back down.]

[It didn't make a whole lot of sense. The shadows looked a like them. So...why were they like this??]

[soft_focus]

[This is...concerning. Extremely concerning.]

...Why do they want us to stay so bad..? [she asks after a bit, pausing on a platform and scooping one of the 'free' sprites. It's good to have the glow close, she thinks.]