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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2020-07-19 06:19 am

Final: Red and Orange

Orange: Clustering

Luckily for those in the facility, with help of some Terran friends they have managed to restore the lights inside the laboratory. It gives them reprise at least.

The night of the sixth day (G10) they will notice a large amount of creatures outside. Away from the light of the facility, but as close as they can be. Surrounding the place. More each hour. Some even get closer, clambering up onto the roof.

A few try to break the glass, but whatever this facility is made out of is tough enough to withstand it. They seem to have learned something these last few nights, sneaking through the shadows, avoiding the beam of light. Others go for the lights themselves, trying to smash those. For the most part they are unsuccessful as well, though a few of the roof lights go dark, creating more shadows for monsters to swarm.

A Discovery: Red.

Following the map on their SCA’s takes them to not far from the laboratory where Orange team are currently holed up. Perhaps an hour or two walk away. Provided they make good progress in daylight hours they will come to the place on the map by mid morning of the seventh day (G11). There, in a sand dune, is a giant orb. Larger than any they have seen. About five meters in diameter. Apart from that it seems much the same as the others, silver, eerie and beautiful.

It floats in the air. There are other orbs around it, normal sized. A great cluster. As if they have been drawn here.

Preparations: Orange

The alarm has been sounding more every night and the line growing larger. It seems whatever is approaching is close.

More immediate by the seventh day (G11) perhaps is the now many orbs surrounding the facility and floating just off the roof. Knowing what they do about them they might not want this many close once night falls.

They also may wish to fix the broken lights and maybe find some way to create more light, position some of the spotlights found in the laboratory perhaps. Whatever is coming, whatever Red had found, they will most likely need light to deal with it if it is related to these creatures.

And of course, those that wish to can move towards where red team have found themselves. They may need the help.

Nightfall: Red

Night falls. The orbs melt away, all of them sinking to the floor, monsters rising in their place. In the centre of the monster group the large orb melts away to reveal a large silver creature. Silver limbs push off the floor as it begins to move, slowly and steadily in the direction of the facility. It has, like the smaller creatures black gem-like eyes, four pairs even. But watching the creature for more than a moment will reveal that it has a defence the smaller creatures do not: eyelids. It blinks slowly as it moves.
knifewithnoname: (worry)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-07-19 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
The moment he spoke her eyes opened and she sat up, as if she hadn't dared to try and sleep at all. She watched him warily, worrying that he would judge her. After all she tried her best to keep up and not falter, but it had been a long week.

But she didn't see anyone else resting.

"It do no be being too far away on the map, priest Tidus." It's probably not his correct title, but it's what she knows. She squinted at her SCA, these moving maps were weird, but she sort of understood that they weren't too far away from the facility.
blitzcheer: (the QUEEN)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-19 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a sputter as Tidus connects the priest to his name, head swinging to look at her with wide-eyed bewilderment.

"P-priest?" What? Who? Him? "What makes you think I'm a priest?"

This has to be a her-world thing, right? Were all guys just priests or something where she's from?
knifewithnoname: (yes okay)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-07-19 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"It do be being how we should be addressing a magic-user in my world." She shrugged, "If you do be having a different way to be being called I can be using that instead."

She didn't want to be impolite. It never paid to be impolite to priests. Or magic users who weren't priests, probably.
blitzcheer: (won't get oh so critical)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-19 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, well. ...that was a thing, and honestly not even really odd, though nothing relatable. At least she was pretty okay with him finding it strange, and so Tidus mutters a small 'oh' to himself before laughing lightly, shaking his head.

"Just call me Tidus! I didn't learn it at a temple or anything." But with that said, he asks after a beat: "What do I call you?"
knifewithnoname: (serious)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-07-20 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
"You did no be?" She can't imagine how he would learn it. Maybe one of those schools like Peter had gone to. Other worlds were very strange indeed. But she nodded lightly, she could just call him Tidus. If that's what he wanted.

"You can be calling me whatever you do be wanting. Lots of people do be calling me Buttercup. If you do be needing to be talking to me on those." She pointed at the SCA, "Then I do be being unnamed female human."
blitzcheer: (prince aliii prince aliii)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-20 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
Butter...cup...?

The name earns a quizzical brow from Tidus, trying to figure where someone gives a person a name like that. Was it a fond joke? A reference? But it's brief next to the 'unnamed female human', clicking and reminding Tidus that he's seen that before. Seen her listed there. Oh, no name. ...but he still doesn't want to call her 'Butter Cup'.

"How 'bout I just call you B if I need you? Like 'yo, B, fiend on your left!'" Cue him lightly moving out his arm. "Think you can remember that?"
knifewithnoname: (listening)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-07-20 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
She nodded and wrinkled her nose. It was a bit of a silly name, she knew that. She liked it because she had gotten to chose it and because buttercups were pretty deadly. It was still better than pumpkin or sweet heart.

She grinned though at the suggestion, "I can be remembering that, Tidus." B. That had a good ring to it. It was just a sound, but a sound that could almost be a name.
blitzcheer: (who asked you!!)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-20 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Alright, cool." B, that was fun, and he smiles wide enough to almost be a grin back at her, lifting his SCA.

"I'll see 'bout contacting Miss Webs and getting us a teleport. Think we deserve a good rest before showing the big one and its friends what we think about them!"

And put together something of a plan with Orange hopefully, but rest first, especially for this girl. She was tough, but she'd need rest most out of all of them if she was still a normal kid.
knifewithnoname: (yes okay)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-07-21 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
"That do be being a good idea. It will no be going anywhere until it do be being dark anyways, stupid orb."

And if the monster got to rest inside an orb she saw no reason they shouldn't get to go and rest inside the lab.

Not that she minds being out here, it's warm, the sand isn't uncomfortable.