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Héctor ([personal profile] unpocoloco) wrote in [community profile] 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?
stavros: Kokoro facing the castle. ([a] destiny)

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[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Kokoro steps back with a frown.]

What do you mean, where?
buddinghopes: ([angry tirade here])

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-11-13 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Lia's expression is just this side of a snarl, but her lip twitches a bit at the question. She throws her arms out to gesture to the landscape around them, and her fangs are plainly visible when she speaks.]

This. Nooooot exactly in New York City here, are we? I want to know where this is and how I can get back to my city.
stavros: Kokoro holding her regular whip. ([a] no tripping)

[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Lia, what's gotten into you? Is this possession?
buddinghopes: (WHAT was that?)

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-11-13 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
What do you mean what's gotten into me? And who are you, anyway?!
stavros: Kokoro about to use her whip. ([a] ready to go)

[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Kokoro's hand goes to her bag. Her stance shifts.]

I see. So fate has brought us to this. How is it that you don't remember anything of the school?
buddinghopes: (are you SERIOUS)

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-11-13 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
What school? I can't exactly turn up at my old high school all dead girl walking after my obituary's already been in the papers.
stavros: Kokoro posing with her whip. ([a] woosh)

[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Something is wrong.

Kokoro's eyes narrow and she makes one swift movement, producing a bottle of holy water and throwing it in an arc.]


A poor impersonation, daemon! Where is the real one?
buddinghopes: (WHAT was that?)

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-11-13 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, first of all? Not a daemon, fuck off.

[Just. Moving out of the way of that holy water anyway.]

Second? I don't even know why the hell you're talking like you know me, I've never seen you before in my life. I'm just trying to find my way home where I have things to do and here you are babbling crazy at me and acting like we're friends. Which, for the record, I don't have, not since I got turned.

Third? Maybe don't throw holy water at people if they're not attacking you? Seriously. That's rude.
stavros: Indignant. ([a] could you not)

[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[The water bursts into flames when the bottle breaks, though they quickly go out.]

Lia has plenty of friends, goes to this school, and the last that I saw, isn't dead or a vampire. You, on the other hand, are convinced you are she. Forgive me if I have my suspicions!
buddinghopes: ([angry tirade here])

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-11-13 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh, this is pointless. Whatever. I'm out of here since you're not even remotely helpful.

[And with that, she's... well, not exactly turning to walk into the fog, because she's keeping an eye on Kokoro as she does, but she is getting out of here.]
stavros: Kokoro starting up Stavros. ([a] i know how to drive)

[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Kokoro picks up the pace as she follows.]

Oh, no, you don't, fiend!
buddinghopes: ([angry tirade here])

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-11-13 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Leave me alone!
stavros: Kokoro smiling and blushing as she looks over her shoulder. ([a] hope i can do it)

[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Not until I get to the bottom of this. If I leave you alone, what if you steal someone else's face too? You're not Lia Brooks, so she has to be somewhere!
buddinghopes: (WHAT was that?)

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-11-13 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, sorry, Kokoro, you're getting the silent treatment now.]
stavros: Kokoro ready to fight. ([a] beside you)

[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[And you're still getting followed.]

What is wrong with you?
buddinghopes: ([angry tirade here])

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-11-13 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I don't know, I'm lost in a foggy wasteland instead of Manhattan, I don't have any apparent way to get back, I got interrogated by some crazy hunter who thinks she knows me and she is still following me after I told her I wanted to be left alone!
stavros: Nearly tripping and crying out in shock. ([c] no way)

[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
This isn't a wasteland, it's a perfectly normal town! I don't know how you would go to Manhattan from here, but I can't let you go because, again, the person you're supposed to be is not you, and if you didn't simply assume that I must have something wrong with me, you'd understand that that's a problem I can't simply let go!
buddinghopes: (are you SERIOUS)

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-11-13 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
[... Ugh.

This Lia wordlessly transforms, taking several more steps... before teleporting away.]
stavros: Kokoro blushing indignantly. ([c] failtastic trainee)

[personal profile] stavros 2019-11-13 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
...........why does this always happen.