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daybreakacademy2019-11-12 12:20 am
unpocoloco) wrote in daybreakacademy2019-11-12 12:20 am
What You Take With You part II: Reflections In The Fog
Who: All those on the What You Take With You mission and everyone else (who OOCly wishes to join in)
What: An important artifact is brought back only to immedaitely activate. Further details are here.
When: November 10th
Where: Daybreak Campus and around Soliel
Warning: Warn in headers as appropriate
On November 10th the recovery team sent into the Outlands makes their return with the obsidian mirror. Thus far it hasn't seemed any different than any other obsidian mirror, nothing spectacular about it beyond its age and where it came from. But Daybreak was only called to retrieve it, not anything more. The spell is worked to open the path between the Outlands and Daybreak, allowing them back. But as this happens, the mists rise up as they often do when the two worlds intersect. The team might even see it ghosting over the mirror before catching their own reflections in it. A light flashes over its surface and in that instant, the mirror activates.
Just one look in any reflective surface throughout Soliel-- a mirror, a window, a bit still water-- and people will be struck with sudden dizziness, a feeling of being knocked back, and then darkness. You'll find, on waking, a dark and desolate landscape full of smoke and fog. It'll be hard to tell where one is going. You won't be alone. People all over the academy have been brought into this vision. You may run into them, but even more likely, you'll run into the spots of color that cut through the fog.
And dwelling with this color? Why it's you. But better. Or maybe, much, much worse. It seems the mirror has something to show you. But is that something a promise? Or a threat...? Learn its lesson and you may escape both the shadowy realm and a terrible fate in your future. What image will you leave on the world?
What: An important artifact is brought back only to immedaitely activate. Further details are here.
When: November 10th
Where: Daybreak Campus and around Soliel
Warning: Warn in headers as appropriate
On November 10th the recovery team sent into the Outlands makes their return with the obsidian mirror. Thus far it hasn't seemed any different than any other obsidian mirror, nothing spectacular about it beyond its age and where it came from. But Daybreak was only called to retrieve it, not anything more. The spell is worked to open the path between the Outlands and Daybreak, allowing them back. But as this happens, the mists rise up as they often do when the two worlds intersect. The team might even see it ghosting over the mirror before catching their own reflections in it. A light flashes over its surface and in that instant, the mirror activates.
Just one look in any reflective surface throughout Soliel-- a mirror, a window, a bit still water-- and people will be struck with sudden dizziness, a feeling of being knocked back, and then darkness. You'll find, on waking, a dark and desolate landscape full of smoke and fog. It'll be hard to tell where one is going. You won't be alone. People all over the academy have been brought into this vision. You may run into them, but even more likely, you'll run into the spots of color that cut through the fog.
And dwelling with this color? Why it's you. But better. Or maybe, much, much worse. It seems the mirror has something to show you. But is that something a promise? Or a threat...? Learn its lesson and you may escape both the shadowy realm and a terrible fate in your future. What image will you leave on the world?
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So Maverick stumbles out of the fog, bleeding, and is greeted by a horned, cloaked girl. ]
That arm will hinder you unless you treat it. Do you have bandages or cloth to slow the bleeding?
[ Excellent first greeting, A+ ]
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I have, uh... I have a shirt.
[Underneath his hoodie, which was under his jacket. The shirt can probably be sacrificed for this cause? He doesn't move to remove it, though, instead stuck staring at her. Spooky girl...]
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Oh, it's not under her cloak, it's right there on her back!As much as she looks like she might be a threat, she's certainly not acting hostile.She hmphs a little, like it's Maverick's fault personally that he doesn't carry bandages in the event that he might be suddenly assaulted by a tiny version of himself. ]
Hold out your arm. I can bandage it.
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He still doesn't move, except to hug his arm closer to himself, but at least he manages to find his voice again.]
What the fuck are you?
[...just to say something rude, but to be fair to him, his distrust of nonhumans was reinforced quite recently.]
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A spider. Or, as others have called my people, a beast.
[ There's the other half of her heritage, but she doesn't care enough about that to mention it. Her father is of no interest to her. ]
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[spider girls...wait a second]
You're not gonna, like...fuckin'...trap me and eat me, are you? All "'come into my parlor,' said the spider to the fly" on my ass?
[mav you're still bleeding, you have gashes in your arm meats]
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He's still bleeding. He's not even bothering to put pressure on it. Why. ]
Do you intend to bleed to death while making pointless conversation?
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That's all very true.
The spider makes a good fucking point.
He exhales shakily, like that might give the him in his head that's screaming for him to stop being a dumbasses opportunity to take over. He doesn't, but at least his stupid self complies, offering out his arm. That's about the extent of what he can ask of himself, for the time being.]
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She wraps Maverick's arm with it, over and over, until his blood stops staining it pink and she's determined it's tight enough to satisfy her. ]
There. Treat it as a normal bandage. Cut it free when you're certain the bleeding has stopped.
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So I know this is probably fucking rude as fuck to ask, but since you're a spider and also kinda a person, is your spinneret, like, your ass?
[Hornet probably should have just eaten him.]
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No. [ She turns her hand over to reveal the underside of her arm, where three nearly-indistinguishable slits in her natural armor mark where her silk can be spun out. ] Other spiders can do that, but not I.
[ To her credit, she doesn't seem remotely fazed by the question. ]
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Maverick is visibly both relieved and weirded out. Extremely grateful he's not covered in ass silk, that's definitely great, but confirmation on this coming from inside Hornet at all is kinda gross. Necessary, but gross. Oh well. His fault for asking.]
Uh. Th...thanks. I can heal other people, but not -- not myself. This shut doesn't happen. I don't really...know what the fuck happened, is happening.
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Actually no that's possibly more gross.]I remember seeing my reflection in a window. Then fog came down, and I woke in this place.
Was it the same for you?
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Huh?
[When she says that, he frowns and thinks back. He'd been so focused on the vampiric child situation, he'd forgotten all about...]
I, uh... We were bringing this fucking mirror back from the Outlands, but it started acting weird from the Mist, I guess... I think I passed out. [It's a similar enough circumstance. Just a little more literal.] I haven't seen anyone else from the team that went, though. Just...something that shouldn't fucking exist.
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Something that shouldn't exist? [ Worrying! She sounds a bit more intense now. ]
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Maverick grimaces, glaring down at the bandage. Everything was a mess of negative emotions, and trying to find words... It was tough. He's not going to let those things take his voice again though, not if he can do anything about it. Fuck that. So.
...So.
...]
I dunno. It fucking looked like me, but a kid. That's what bit me.