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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2020-08-18 12:14 pm

The Mountain Top: Grasshopper 25

After the strangeness of their second day on the island for some, with memories and conversations in a cave, the third day goes calmly.

At least until mid afternoon. As the day winds on into evening all of those who have been sharing memories with others will feel a pull.

A pull to climb the mountain in the north. It is a good feeling, that mountain is where you need to be. A sense of belonging, friendship, camaraderie. You don't need to be alone, just climb the mountain.

For those that climb they will find worn wooden benches spaced around the lip of the caldera in concentric circles, the centre set up like an amphitheatre. The Jema syrup spills from crevices around the edges, running down from the peak in well-worn grooves and channels.

The sun sets slowly on Jema’grethy, slowly sinking into the ocean over a period of a couple of hours. During that time pairs of Voidtreckers will feel drawn towards the syrup, to touch the surface.

When they do they will receive a memory and find themselves back in that cave once more. For those watching it is as if they are in a trance, lasting a few moments.

People feel moved at different times and so there are always people aware, sat around the mountain top. It might be that there are other friends they wish to speak to about what they see. It might be that they wish to sit silently and avoid everything, if only their friends will allow it.

But it is a place to be together nonetheless.
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[personal profile] nocawsforconcern 2020-08-20 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Caawww...

I hope not. There's not enough room on the train.
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[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-08-20 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we did see the train much longer than it is now...

[But she doesn't mean it, or if she does not all that much.]

It probably won't go the same way twice, between two realities. Life's never that simple.
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[personal profile] nocawsforconcern 2020-08-20 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno. I think it's more likely to go the same way twice. If something happened once, why wouldn't it happen twice?
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[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-08-20 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Because it's way too easy to be wrong genre savvy- Nita, no.]

I've been in more situations where experience turned out to be relevant than those where it's not - but wouldn't it be really weird if all worlds worked the same way?

[Some places don't have gravity, some don't have a third dimension - why should saving the worlds be any different?]
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[personal profile] nocawsforconcern 2020-08-20 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would it be weird? Wouldn't it make more sense for worlds to just be worlds?

[.... says the one from a flat world of ocean that dies every 4000 years and people have to move off to the next world, etc]
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[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-08-20 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nita... does not know how to respond to that.

Time to move on!]

We'd probably have a lot less confusion on the Network if worlds had more in common with each other.

But for now... we might want to let everyone know what we've seen.

[Y'know. 'Might.']
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[personal profile] nocawsforconcern 2020-08-20 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Cawwww...

Right. I'll get everyone's attention and share what we know.