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middleofsomewhere2021-07-14 07:28 am
voidtreckermods) wrote in middleofsomewhere2021-07-14 07:28 am
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So Familiar a Gleam: Ongoing
JUST Ā̸̛͇̹̈́͌͐͛̐̋͝Ǹ̵̠͍̲̘͈̮͈̺͔̤͙̳̓̔͑͌̒̓̃́̄̚͘Ớ̶̻̱̄̓͆͂̈́̄̔͋͌̽̀̕͘T̵͙͍͓̻̩͙̻͙̹͎̫̘͇̱̈́̌̓͝ͅH̶̭̻͇̰͈̯̦̹̦̗͐̒́Ẽ̵̡̡̘̳͉͇͚̼̗̣̩͎̞̏͒̈́̏͂̈͝Ř̴̠͋̐͘ NORMAL DAY
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"Jinnjar citizens. Unfortunately, all train travel will be closed due to issues on the lines. Members of the Voidtrecker Express have been located around the city, and are deploying trickery to agitate and confuse us. We ask any volunteers at this time to help us locate any suspicious objects and people, and to restrain them. For the f̴̘̯̰̦̺͖̔͌̋̃ũ̴̢̖̦͙̩̼̺̪͚͍̥͈̜̝͋̌̒̊̚ẗ̶̪̺͕̤̯̞̤͓̝́̑̄̎̊̕future of our city!" |
A TL;DR notes version of days/prompts: (click to show)
EVENT BASICS:
DAYS 5 & 6:
- By now, some people have broken out of their fake lives while some haven't. Tension is rising in the city as people are led to believe this is by the Voidtreckers, which some will believe due to illusions and messing with one's heads is believed to be one of their many tactics.
- Some oddities are occurring with travel, and glimpses of how the city is made beginning to show. The streams of colour - the void - are getting brighter. Electronics are not working well. Some monster sightings are seen, but not to a large degree.
- The prompts here are light to give characters and players time to ICly coordinate, as Voidtreckers are being more actively hunted. Some faces are known. You know who you are, troublemakers.
- The world is really starting to go a bit wild now, with more things disappearing, animals on the loose and more monster sightings.
- By the end of day eight most people have realised the truth though those who are very susceptible to mind control or very stubbornly wanting to believe in this world will still be trapped, believing this is the Voidtreckers doing.
- There are monsters to fight, people to keep calm and a plan to make.
[ HOME SWEET...HOME? ] By day 5, the people of Jinnjar are in a state of anxiety more than before. There's those who realise they're not a part of this world, never were, while there's those who still cling onto this life. Health services say that the source of confusion comes from the colour trails that are brighter than ever in the sky, while the D-Force/Heroes have it confirmed - internally and publicly - that there are Voidtreckers amongst them. The media shows pictures of potential suspects, some Voidtreckers, some not; a man with the same face as two others, one who made a show by creating ice in the middle of the street. Your face may be shown, but don't worry - they're asking people not to play vigilante.
That'll surely keep people behaved.
[ TRAVEL REVIEW. ] As if it couldn't get more frustrating, most of the trains are down. Air taxis are still available for short journeys, yet some people have the bizarre occurrence where they end up in the wrong spot, and even remember going in this wrong direction...but never say anything about it. Those using the tele-pads will also find themselves not always arriving where they should, or worse, suffering intense headaches, swirling colours behind their eyes, their thoughts jumbled for as long as ten minutes before it passes.
You might want to walk.
[ MAKING DO. ] Still, with all the chaos, many are trying to live. You have a life here, no matter what some other force is trying to make you believe,
- For our HEROES: The cinema has rethought its showings due to the worrying happenings of the last few days. Clearly a boost in morale is needed and so they have pulled out some of the great films of the past. Action films that show heroes beating the bad guys, disaster films where the good guys beat the aliens, stop the natural disaster or thwart the secret agency looking to take down civilisation from the inside, at the last minute. Even the childrens films have taken on a pro-hero and triumphant air.
It's not quite distraction though, how could it be when every film has a warning before and after. REMEMBER TO REPORT ALL SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY TO DFORCE and WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE SHOW. REMEMBER TO WATCH YOUR SURROUNDINGS AS CAREFULLY AS YOU DID THE SCREEN. - Fun Park: It's for the kids, but one of the largest arcade parks has a special discount on everything to anyone who come visit. It's even advertised across the news: For half the price, get amazing fun and even better food! Kids younger than eight or from the orphanages get free access everywhere!
It's time not to think too hard, and to ignore the trouble! Play laser tag, racing cars or get a high score on the dance mat! - Encroaching Dangers: Something new is beginning to happen, as the city continues to shift. It starts at night, those that stay out past when the streets go quiet might see a shadow, might hear a growl.
Rumours and reports start to spread about monsters on the street.
DAY SIX: HELP FROM INSIDE
[ AID. ] DIAGNET is full of videos but one that has started doing the rounds is of a small droid and a cat. It's not hard to see why it has gone viral, the cat and cleaning droid are chasing each other around an apartment, caught on a home security footage. The cat tries to catch the droid but every time it gets close the droid turns to chase it and the cat runs away. It has been uploaded with stirring orchestral music, which adds to the madness.But... For those Voidtreckers who have already regained their memories that little droid seems familiar indeed. As do the sounds that punctuate the music.
beep beep beep boop | boop
boop boop beep | boop boop boop
boop boop | boop boop boop | boop boop boop | boop beep | boop beep beep | beep beep boop | beep beep beep | boop
boop beep boop beep | beep boop | beep beep boop beep | beep
boop boop boop | beep boop beep | boop beep beepp | beep | beep boop beep
boop beep | beep beep boop | boop | beep boop beep | beep beep | boop | beep | beep boop
Of course it might not be anything, just weird droid sounds that haven't been fully edited out of the video.
[ MOONDUST CAFÉ. ] It might be that they figured out the message or, it might be that a friend is dragging them to the cafe. But for those that make their way there, they will find the Moondust Cafe is a bustling cafe on the edge of a park, near local transport links.
For those that say the right words, a slightly bored looking teenager manning the counter waves them to a side door. "Best sit downstairs, service will be quicker."
Downstairs has a fair number of tables and booths and is lit by coloured lighting making everything look a little obscure. There's soft music playing, not loud enough to make it impossible to hear each other but enough to make it a little harder for evesdroppers.
Mingle, discuss. This is probably the closest to a safe space there is.
[ LOST & LOST. ] You may have spotted it already - that is, spotted what's missing. There's been the pets, the birds in the sky, a pen or apple or wrench from the garage. But now, with every single bad thing going on, more is starting to disappear. Machines stop working, from air conditioning, freezers, your Jinnjar MP3 player, to TVs and more.
And in some business buildings, even entire rooms are gone, their floors empty of more than the door you opened to find this out. Even the heroes seem worried and they quickly clear any affected areas, chasing away bystanders and sealing off whole wings of office blocks.
None of them have answers though, except that this must be the Voidtreckers doing. After all who else but that group could have power enough to do such damage?
DAY SEVEN & EIGHT: UNRAVELLING
[ OVEREXPOSURE. ] Everything is starting to escalate. The headaches are getting regular the more you're outside, buildings are starting to go missing around the outskirts. People see parts of the city flickering, and when they reach certain sections of the city, they find they can't go beyond it.
Life tries to go on, but as more areas of the city begin to be sealed off and considered dangerous, even those who are most stubborn about pretending everything is normal can see that is is not.
[ LET LOOSE. ] The breaking down of the city has caused a lot of chaos, but one of the biggest problems are that parts of the zoo have vanished. Walls, fences, enclosure roofs. Meaning that the animals inside are no longer confined and are now prowling the city streets. Real birds now fill the sky that the fakes left empty.And they aren't all that's there. Twisted creatures are becoming more common on the streets of Diagad. Creatures that look almost like animals but warp and twist between them, one moment a bear the next it has horns and then it is a wolf. But no matter how they look those claws and teeth are bad news for everyone.
[ CRUMBLING, CRUMBLING. ] By day eight whole streets are disappearing. homes, houses. people need to be moved in closer around the congress sector. Colours crackle through the sky like lightning and the world shakes often.
It's not just the infrastructure but the memories of those in the city. Dreams have come realities and all but the most stubborn have begun to realise that this world is not their own. They are from another place. What is going on? Why are they in this city? Who are these people who are their 'family'?
Confusion and anger are growing in the streets and it is perhaps time for the Voidtreckers to come out of the shadows.
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Then her feet are locked down, not yet mimicking flight, and suddenly-
There is so much.
Her legs buckle because Sunset isn't just an empath, she's an extremely powerful empath.
There is the rage, the anger, but all of that is nothing. Blinding rage is something Sunset knows well. Rage had been all that made her demon form the times it appeared. Rage and emptiness and crazed madness. That would be nothing to face up to, because one does not experience a corrupted Element of Harmony without paying the price for that level of disharmony.
What hits harder is that pain, the grief, the memories of laughter and joy and despair and she feels the tears in her eyes, a sob leaves her before she could stop it as her heart aches. Over and over there are memories, thousands, in an instant understood because-
That is her soul.
That is her Element of Harmony.
That is what makes Sunset Shimmer Unique.
And with the pain, what grows inside her is a singular, screaming, desperate need.
She wants to help. She needs to do something for this person suffering.
Loki's illusion is there, but he will find there is form under the fake wings, as light grows at her back because this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her, this is her-
Clarity.
Through the pain and suffering and it being so much.
She pushes through the magic of teleportation, because she can do nothing if she's trapped, to be free of the shackles, to appear near Loki.
And then there is her. There is light in her, a desire for harmony singing through her, and there is complete and utter sincerity as she speaks, reaching out, trying to understand, get them to understand, try to understand the entity-
"I want to help. This isn't the way to heal, let me help you. You don't have to be alone, there's a better way. Please, let me try."
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She felt pity for it. Sympathy. Empathy, even. But her plans remained unaltered. "None of us came here of our own will," she said, calmly and quietly from her hiding place. "You said before that you know our natures and our souls, and yet you brought us here anyway. So what else can any of us do but be true to those natures?"
The entity itself was included in that statement. If its nature was pain, grief, and chaos, then it would be true to that, and gain what came with it. Their natures would always bring them into conflict. One way or another, they could only see that conflict through to its conclusion.
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'Yes... what can I expect?' it speaks, intermingled with another, more frantic, more in line with Sunset's plea - 'I will not be alone, I will heal what has been torn, I will right what has been wronged!' - but continues as it was. 'Betrayal, family, pain, regrets. But every nature... can be changed.'
A minor dispel hadn't released the 'clamps' on Loki - though there had been a tiny flicker, a reaction to the spell, but too weak - but they then release from everyone, the spell being let go, the presence in their minds disappearing - except for Sunset and Leia.
While Loki's mind will be as it was, for Leia, even against her strength of Force and will, even if she tries to fight it, she will be re-brainwashed into the illusion, into a role like her nature: A higher-ranked member of the D-Force from another district, a woman who has come to apprehend Loki for real. And her real life, her real story, is pushed and hidden away for a day or two, depending on strong intervention from another.
For Sunset, in all of her empathy, overwhelming as it may feel for her, there is a voice in the many that lurk inside the entity. Hesitant, a pained thing that mutters, 'You look like her,' without it being directed at her. A private consideration that isn't without the company of insanity, but she will disappear - just as the D-Force arrive.
( She too will have her mind re-brainwashed, which may last for half a day. A young woman who lives at one of the orphanages as a caretaker - no one will recognise her there as a wanted criminal. )
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There are Heroes, those that can be seen, those that can't. Two figures step forward - one with a face not easy to read, and then a woman with her eyes obscured by D-Force issued scanner.
She is the one to speak, voice modulated to be loud and crisp, first saying Loki's Jinnjar citizen name.
'There are less destructive ways to turn yourself in than this. You have one chance to be voluntarily apprehended.'
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There is the madness and anger, the need for control, that is anchored in pain and fear and wanting to make things right and she knew it, she knew it would be like this and she wants to help. A forced change isn't real. You can't make people fit your idea of a better place. Her own feelings on the matter, her own lesson.
"Who is-?" Words murmured, wondering who, wanting to know more, but then-
She's gone.
Little Sunset is awake, curled up around the warmth of a baby phoenix. Hearing the caretakers talking about how long its taking her aunt and uncle to arrive. Sunset needs family now after the loss.
Sunset doubts after all this time. Considering how things go, perhaps it would have been better to stay after all. How would things have gone...?
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She didn't attept to strike back against the entity the way she once might have, but neither did she surrender. She made the entity work for it as much as possible, in a process that felt much longer to her than it actually took in reality.
But in only a moment of real time, Leia the Voidtrecker was subsumed by Leia, special agent of D-Force and high-powered telekinetic. Even her clothing got a makeover, from something a civilian would wear, to a light-weight uniform with a prominent D-Force ID badge. It was meant much more for ease of movement than combat readiness, but then Leia was hardly suited to be a brawler, and her powers and marksmanship let her easily work from a distance most of the time.
She'd been called in to track this particular fugitive ever since he'd set off that fist bomb, both in hopes of apprehending him and in hopes that with her tracking skills he'd make some sort of mistake that would lead them to his Voidtrecker friends. Both would be ideal, but she would take just one if the opportunity presented itself.
And it just had. She'd been ready to apprehend him on her own as soon as the dust settled from his latest attack, but she would hardly say no to backup. Powerful and skilled though she was, she was hardly in her prime any more, and this criminal was particularly dangerous and unpredictable.
As her colleague spoke, Leia emerged from the alley where she'd been waiting, expression hard. "I suggest you take her up on that offer," she added. "It's been a very long day for all of us, and we're not likely to be especially gentle if you choose to resist."
It would be immediately clear that something wasn't right. This wasn't at all what they'd rehearsed, and Leia was definitely not looking or behaving as expected, and she wouldn't have changed things up so late in the game. That plus Sunset's vanishing would point to trouble with a capitol 'T'. The question was, what did Loki intend to do about it?
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He registers the officer's words numbly and almost accepts. Capture is no more than he deserves for such a failure. Why should he be spared when his companions weren't?
But he shakes himself. They've learned something. Leia's with D-Force like they had originally planned, if in a very different way. If she can be broken out again- and he has every reason to think she can be- she can provide more insider information. Maybe even be a mole on the inside. If he gives up now, none of the others will know what happened here. Their loss will be for nothing.
He grins, slowly, with a teasing mirth he doesn't feel at all, and starts to gather power in one upraised hand. It's unformed at the moment and likely to backfire on all of them if he's interrupted and loses control. A threat. His other hand, behind his back, weaves a spell he's been working on. His flight spell. At the moment, it's more of a weightlessness spell, but it should be enough to give him a boost up the buildings. Up is a good escape route, and viable now.
"What do you offer me," he drawls, "to not throw this at your feet?"