What their Eyes See: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

The End?

The Voidtreckers make their way through the circles. Some pressing forwards, others gathering civilians and evacuating them back to the city. Some get lost, stuck among dreams or nightmares.

Those voidtreckers who manage to press on through the third circle will find themselves surrounded by colours, the same colourful almost-lightning that had crackled overhead as they made their way through the maze. Here the colours are thick, swirling. Getting close is almost like getting close to a bonfire. It is not heat but power, something no Voidtrecker can withstand.

Something no creature could withstand yet for those that risk the blinding colouful light they will see a shape. A person? Perhaps. It shifts shape, never still. Thick multicoloured veins run over it. It is hard to focus on, just trying to look into the colours is difficult.

"Fine. Fine. Fine."

It is not just those in the centre who hear the voice but everyone. As if it is speaking directly into their minds.

Indeed for any Voidtreckers who are with civilians, those in the city do not seem to react, as if they cannot hear it at all.

"I know where I'm not wanted. I'll go. I'll go. But know this. KNOW THIS."

For those in the centre the colours seem to pulsate, enough to cause anyone looking at them a headache if they don't avert their eyes.

"I know you now. I will find a place. I WILL FIND A HOME and you will pay. YOU WILL NOT STOP ME. I know you all. I know your souls and you will WEEP BEFORE MY MAJESTY."

The colours seem to erupt, dazzling anyone close enough to see and then they vanish. It all vanishes. The maze, the circles, the illusions. Those inside the maze or the circles still will find themselves stood in the smog, outside the city. Those in the centre of the circle will find themselves in fog, unconscious citizens scattered around them.

Clean Up

It takes a few hours for the last of the civilians to be found and returned to the city, once again the hospitals are full but it seems the quick action of the Voidtreckers prevented any fatalities.

The city bounces back quickly, the people shaken but not broken, not bowed. Any help the Voidtreckers offer will be accepted but it quickly becomes clear that the illusions are gone. No more creatures, no more strange images. The fighting rings have paused for now, as they take stock and try and understand what had happened.

But after a couple of hours all Voidtreckers get a message on their SCA. All teams to return to the Voidtrecker Express.

Their maps will pin point the station, which is luckily a lot quieter with everyone still coming to terms with what has happened. The Voidtrecker Express is there and once all passengers have boarded it flies off, into the void once more.

Comments

Return- Garden car

[motherofresistance]

The garden car at least tended to be peaceful, even with people passing through it, and today was no exception. Which was why Leia wasn't surprised to see the young man who'd been fighting off the illusion of that horrible old archmage there, just watching the water flow. "Hello again," she said. "I hope I'm not intruding?"

[katzenpfote]

He looked up and shook his head. "Oh, not at all. I was just relaxing a little bit. ... As much as someone can relax in a place like this, anyway."

It was still a lot of people and i twas still very enclosed for him.

Sorry for lateness.

[motherofresistance]

Leia smiled slightly. "It is a bit crowded," she said. "Which has its good points and its bad points, but it does make it difficult to find peace and quiet, even with most of the train more subdued than usual."

"Though I wouldn't blame anyone for just going straight to their bunks after all that. I know that's where I'd like to be, but I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't get any rest if I didn't check up on things first."

[katzenpfote]

"I know that I am not going to be able to sleep well after all of that, so I thought I would try to calm myself a bit. ... There were no injuries on your end, hopefully?"

She seems nice enough to care about...

[motherofresistance]

"Nothing that a little time and maybe a hot bath won't cure," Leia said. "Though that may not have been the case if I hadn't had a few of those healing potions on me. Yourself?"

[katzenpfote]

"Much of the same. I used a fair amount of arcane power, but a good night's rest will solve that easily. I am not all that concerned... I've run myself lower than I did there."

[motherofresistance]

She nodded. "Good to hear," she said. "Most of the train seems to be in a similar state, at least physically." Mentally and emotionally was somewhat of a different story, but that would take time to deal with. "We even managed to avoid any civilian casualties, by all reports, which I for one am counting as a minor miracle given both the atmosphere there and some of the illusions we ran into. Even discounting the last set of them, there were plenty of things running around that maze that could give some of us a hard time, never mind someone unarmed and lacking in unusual abilities."