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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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That's quite a compliment. [ Alderic and Grimm are not the same person, and Alderic, at least for this moment, appears younger. He doesn't think it will be the same when Grimm passes on, but still.
It's sweet, though, in its own way. ]
Confess...?
[ He shakes his head. He knows what this is about, but... ] He needs to stay out of things that don't concern him.
...It will happen when it happens. No need to rush.
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[He's missing context of course, but Ekkehardt should remember Grimm's question in a dream. Was he happy?
And would there be more in the future? Because he knows what it's like to be alone for an eternity.]
But yeah! You shouldn't rush it. It probably wouldn't be nice if you rushed it and--
[Alderic shakes his head and laughs a little.]
Maybe I should ask just how he got so weird.
[Which feels like a question Ekkehardt won't be able to answer.]
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Not that I want to. Some things, it doesn't matter where they came from, only that they exist.
[ "Did you find happiness?" It's not that long ago, from his perspective, that Grimm said that to him.
Such an unusual amount of care, for someone in his circumstances. ]
Well, he has his reasons for thinking that...I suppose. [ Not that he's going to go into it unless he's asked, but still. ]
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Bright like a flame, Grimm had written. All of them.]
A nice kind of weirdo. I would have liked to meet him a little longer.
[Because Alderic belongs here. He's the past and the future and once Grimm agrees to the terms of leaving, he'll vanish. But that's okay. They'll meet again.]
You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. It's your choice.
[As always.]
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I was alive, the first time I met him. Our second meeting was quite some time later, and I was no longer alive by then. [ It's a casual admission. ] He didn't know, at first, and he was rather concerned with my mental state when he found out.
[ He shrugs. ] So he has his reasons to be worried about my continued happiness, though I'd rather he'd have worried about himself a little more.
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Yeah, I guess I can see why he'd be worried. [Finding out a friend died at some point would make him worried too.] Maybe I should tell him you're okay when we talk again.
[Because they're going to have to. Grimm gave Alderic time for reasons unknown, but with what he's learning about the guy he can guess why. Just to let him exist a little longer.]