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daybreakacademy2019-06-11 07:05 pm
sauerfacedcyborg) wrote in daybreakacademy2019-06-11 07:05 pm
Spirit Tracks
Who: Ziggy, Nekane, Kisara, Minako, Serena, Bai Lin, Doreen, Keith, Ryuji, Ren Amamiya
What: Trying to calm a train, possibly via suplexing
When: June 10th
Warnings: Death-related stuff, possible stirring of traumatic memories
[Boarding the train is easy, perhaps surprisingly so, given how many of the mission group are fully alive. Once on board, however, they'll find that the cars don't even passingly resemble the outside structure of the train, arranged in a confusing mess of doors and cabins. The ghostly passengers drift about, passing easily through walls as they move through the train, mostly indifferent to the boarding team.
Mostly. Some of the spirits will try to approach the living, wearing the appearance of people they know to have died, and try to convince them to settle down and join them in the ride to the afterlife. Their arguments can be compelling, especially to those who have lost loved ones, but not supernaturally so. Conspicuously, they don't try to touch the targets of their arguments, and move away from attempts by the living to touch them. If someone should make contact, the illusion breaks, and the ghost is revealed to be nothing more than an unfamiliar interloper.
To anyone not immediately distracted by the dead (or the valuable cargo), something is obviously amiss as soon as they board. Sigils are painted on windows, or chalked onto the walls and floors of the cabins. They radiate obvious magic, and those with the knowledge to identify it will recognize it as a form of necromancy.]
What: Trying to calm a train, possibly via suplexing
When: June 10th
Warnings: Death-related stuff, possible stirring of traumatic memories
[Boarding the train is easy, perhaps surprisingly so, given how many of the mission group are fully alive. Once on board, however, they'll find that the cars don't even passingly resemble the outside structure of the train, arranged in a confusing mess of doors and cabins. The ghostly passengers drift about, passing easily through walls as they move through the train, mostly indifferent to the boarding team.
Mostly. Some of the spirits will try to approach the living, wearing the appearance of people they know to have died, and try to convince them to settle down and join them in the ride to the afterlife. Their arguments can be compelling, especially to those who have lost loved ones, but not supernaturally so. Conspicuously, they don't try to touch the targets of their arguments, and move away from attempts by the living to touch them. If someone should make contact, the illusion breaks, and the ghost is revealed to be nothing more than an unfamiliar interloper.
To anyone not immediately distracted by the dead (or the valuable cargo), something is obviously amiss as soon as they board. Sigils are painted on windows, or chalked onto the walls and floors of the cabins. They radiate obvious magic, and those with the knowledge to identify it will recognize it as a form of necromancy.]
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[Oh hell there she goes. Lin took off after her.]
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Sorry, Lin, this isn't going to end well for anyone.
Until he's finally stopping and leaning against the wall of this cabin to watch them. And Kisara's slowing down to stop a few steps in front of him. Just... ignore the speech in a language you probably don't get, Lin.]
You should be part of the passengers, though you're as alive as if nothing ever happened.
[Kisara's quiet for a moment and shifting a little uncomfortably.]
I don't... know what you mean? [Oh, a hand is immediately going over her mouth. That's not Arabic, that's something that doesn't sound right in her ears and yet came out so naturally. What the fuck.]
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Kisara...Nothing good comes from listening to ghosts...
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He knows me. [She sounds just pure confusion at this point and it's very clearly shown in her tone.
And is exactly the reason why this is going to go poorly for everyone involved and the ghost looks anything but bothered by all of this. Just. Stoic.]
Of course I do. Do you not remember me?
[She's taking a deep breath and a step back, this is all starting to get under her skin and she's not sure if she really likes the feeling of panic creeping upward.]
I don't know. I don't remember any of it...
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He's dead, whoever he is. We should be worried about the living.
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And yet, she still absolutely is. There's a funny thing about being dead and in an afterlife that isn't what it's meant to be. You pick up a thing or two.
Which is exactly why things aren't going quite as planned. And evidently someone picked up on another language in this time.]
Perhaps it'd be better if you left her here instead, let her remember who she is instead of whatever nonsense has claimed differently. She died over five millenniums ago.
[Oh. That's. Good. Kisara has kind of shut down for a moment here, let her try and understand what's going on.]
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If you care so much about what is happening in the land of the living, you should hurry to your next life. Reincarnation awaits you.
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And forget everything as she has? [... Oh.]
That seems convenient. [Kisara's back, mostly. And just quickly backing the hell away from all of this again. Mistakes were absolutely made here and she knows it well, just... best to get back to the mission at hand and get out of here as soon as she can manage it.]
Let's... let's just go.
All of us are here, we're only waiting for you. [That's the last bit of English they're going to get out of him, but he's not following at least.] You know what I say is true, tell them the truth once you find it yourself.
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[Lin turned her back on the ghost, all too ready to leave it behind.]
I wouldn't worry about him. Not right now, at least...
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Something... something about what he said rung true with me. That I should know him and he's someone important, but I don't know why. Or who he is. Or anything.
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Is there such a thing as reincarnation?
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She's quiet for a moment and just starting to move again.]
Previously, when I shifted, but I know what that missing time is now. But in my actual past? No.
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That guy may have had some connection with you in your past, or maybe even in a past life. But that doesn't mean he has any control over you or who you are. When you get right down to it, no one can decide who you are but you.
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Is my heart supposed to hurt? Not... in a medical way, but in an aching sort of way? [What does that even mean.]
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[Lin looked at her with concerned eyes.]
Are you going to be okay?
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... I'm fine, I suppose. It should go away, hopefully?
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Well, if you get confused or feel like you need help you can always count on me.
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Thank you, it... might be necessary in this place if there's others like him here. Let's keep going?
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