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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?
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[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2020-02-10 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[The "station" shifts once more... but this time, it doesn't sound like a clean, professional recording, something that could have been taken off any radio. There's a shoddiness to the quality, the kind that indicates a cell phone recording or similarly amateur audio clip, and the faint sound of murmured conversations and clinking glassware in the background. A live performance, perhaps, in some unremarkable little cafe or bar.]

[Perhaps Hector might know. After all... the voice singing in it is his.]


"To be here with you tonight brings me joy, que alegria..."

[Buenos tardes, buenos noches. Time to say goodbye and goodnight, old friend. You won't be staying here. It was time enough, and you almost made her smile.]

[Perhaps it's a mercy that she doesn't use Remember Me instead... or perhaps it's merely practical, for her.]

[After all, she'd rather he didn't.]