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Jun. 30th, 2012 07:46 am
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[They were on land again. Rowan had been slowly going insane out of inactivity and the feeling of being locked up in an unnatural plastic cage separated from both his people and the hisil, and he took the first opportunity to leave his new plastic prison.

It was a desert, but he didn't even care. He could feel the spirit world again, though it felt alien and impossible to access. For now, that it was there was enough for him to feel the collected tension disappear by at least seventy-five percent.

Another ten percent disappeared when he shifted into his wolf form and opened his senses beyond what he had been able to sense before. If he had been able to cry, he would have. Instead, he started to explore this new world.




Hours later, he returns to the shadows of the ship, dragging a half-eaten carcass of a deer-sized lizard. Reptile was far from his favorite, but the hunt more than made up for the peculiar alien flavor of the creature. He lays in the sand for a few minutes to recover, enjoying the shade from the spaceship. Then he stretches and shifts back to human, clad only in a pair of pants and quite a bit of blood.

Relief makes him careless; he doesn't think of the scars and tattoos on his body, or how it would look to sit next to a dead animal, licking blood from his fingers or reaching over for another bite from his prey.]

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Jun. 30th, 2012 01:19 am
whenceyoucame: but never say to me. (All the things you talk about)
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[YOU wake up.

How you managed to fall asleep at your desk nobody is certain. But one thing is certain: this isn't your desk.

>INVESTIGATE

You are standing in a corridor. The walls are metallic. All around is quiet but for a gentle background hum. The corridor stretches out in two directions, EAST and WEST.

>GO WEST.

The hallway has many doors, on both walls. One door is half open.

>ENTER

It is dark. You may be eaten by a Grue.]


Er. Hello?

Um. I'm in a corridor filled with bedrooms. Hello? This is way too weird.
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It was just a shock. I’ve always known, ever since nursery. But I tried to be good. I married Rex. All through the backgammon and cigars I tried, but it’s not enough...

[Marnie recites the monologue as she splashes at the pool with her right foot. It's been days since she was brought onto this craft. Maybe a good old-fashioned breakdown would suit the actress in her, but the ship is too beautiful and comfortable. Marnie has no idea how to react.]

It’s never enough. God had to punish me.

[With her back against the floor, she shields her eyes from the overhead lights. 'What is this' she's wondered so many times. Alien abduction? Fucking brilliant. Just when her career seemed to be taking off, she was jettisoned off into space.]

So He took my little Sue, my child, my girl. With you I thought I could really and truly be free. [Marnie doubles over so that she can slap the surface of the pool.] But coming back here it’s like an invisible thread drawing me back inch by inch, when all of a sudden you’re a child again. And that voice inside your head that mummy planted all those years ago in the nursery, every night in the nursery fill your head with it.

[The words keep coming as the water goes still. Back in college, she'd been cast in Brideshead Revisited. Marnie hadn't understood any of it, but apparently she'd been good. Good enough to earn an audition... Even now, as she recites to comfort herself, she doesn't understand the words.]

And the voice is telling you, whispering “wicked little Julia, bad little girl living in sin” and here I am living in sin with you.

[She pushes herself forward into the pool. With one kick, she's beneath the water and the rest of the wide world is far away.]
constantasthenorthernstar: I'm still here, but all is lost. (sad & angry can't learn how to behave)
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[Okay, so you're in the future.

Okay, so everyone you've ever known is dead.

Okay, so this godammed French motherfuck keeps calling you a coward. Mari glowers at the text in front of her and turns another page of 'Ambiguity and Freedom.' Right now, the world has her in a weird limbo between rage and utter sadness. It seems to have equaled out to numbed pain. She is sitting on the edge of the indoor lake (why do they have a large, square indoor lake with a slide going into it?) and is kicking her feet in it. The water tastes awful, but the alcohol area has supplied her with three bottles of wine to quench her thirst instead.

One and a half are already empty.

Okay, so soon you need to go find more wine.

Okay, so maybe it's only being drunk that's stopping you from a breakdown.

This happened before. When Rhys died and everyone left her. It was easiest, being drunk or healing until she couldn't stand. Exhaustion and alcohol are the two best cures for grief. Unless she cuts off her own hand, she can't get exhausted from healing here.

Well now, there's a plan.

Okay, so you're very drunk.

Mari takes another swig from the bottle and lies down with the book on her chest. Her bare feet remain in the water, she's left staring up at the blinding lights of the ceiling. Okay, so you're alone. You were before, she tells herself. It's just that now, it's obvious.]


I'm the only one of me, [she says quietly to herself.

It's okay. Here is better than her world. With or without anyone else.]

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Jun. 15th, 2012 07:51 pm
fornightmare: (stressed)
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[After searching around for roughly an hour, Rowan ends up in the library.

It took him very little time to figure out what happened; he may have disdained most popular media concepts, but he knew what spaceships were. He knew people claimed to be kidnapped by them, or cows were kidnapped.

It took him even less time that this ship was doing something to him. Rowan tried to shift, trusting to his wolf senses more than his human ones in situations like this, and failed.

Each time.

Thus, the need for answers. He did not find anyone else to ask, the computer was very unhelpful, and the library is the last avenue he could think of for answers.


The pile of books laying haphazardly on the tables demonstrated well that this avenue wasn't giving him much in the way of answers either.]
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[Fauna knew she had been walking down the halls at one of the Freehold salons, one only open to those that were Lost. It was a place she had been to dozens of times before, sitting at the edges of the audience and watching the members of the Spring Court - of her new court - perform songs and stories to their admirers.

Then, suddenly, she was no longer there. The walls were different and there were no people, nothing familiar.

She stands in the hallway for a moment, panic coursing through her veins before realizing she was alone and lost with no logical explanation. This had happened before, and she remembers the forest of dangerous creatures and plants. There is no one here yet.

There would be someone here soon.

Fauna turns and bolts in the direction she came from, running like her life depends on it.]

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Jun. 9th, 2012 07:24 pm
constantasthenorthernstar: I'm still here, but all is lost. (and I am coming home to you)
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[This...is not her room. Mari recognises that the moment she steps through the door, clutching her bag and looking around. Her cat had been in the act of winding his way around her ankles, but he stopped dead with a sudden hiss. Mari pulls him up and wraps him in her arms, trying to calm him. Metal reflects back at her as far as she can see when she looks around. For a moment she blinks slowly, obviously confused, and then she hugs her cat closer to herself and shuffles into the room a little further.

Where is she?

Everything she looks at down the corridors, from the tube of the transporter to the square looking rooms she can see further down. When she walks down and steps towards one of them, the door slides open automatically and she's startled back. Inside is a bed, as far as she can see. She's stepping back before she can see more.

Mari walks back to the transporter and stares at it. It doesn't move when she steps inside and hits every button she can think of. When she steps out again and moves into the elevator, the doors close and move smoothly downwards. By the time it opens she's pressed against the wall like a cat in a room filled with water and her cat is hissing again. The corridor looks somehow even less familiar than the previous one; she remains in her position against the wall until the elevator moves back up, then throws herself out of the doors as soon as they open.

What is this place? Purgatory? There's a mix of fear and nervousness building up inside her. Mari rubs her shoulder and slides down the wall, before finally burying her face into her cat's fur. He stays still and tense in her arms.

This is bad.]


This isn't my fault. [Her voice sounds strange in the echo of the metal room. She swallows, unwilling to look up and face the gleaming metal reply.] I didn't do this. This wasn't my decision.

[That feels a little better. Holding her cat close, she strokes his fur to calm him while watching the metal tubes, waiting for someone to explain this to her.]
thanatosdrive: instaemo @ ij (I'll take a quiet life)
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HELLOx3. what follows is details of the new ship. This is of higher quality than the previous ones; the computer system is much more sophisticated and the synthesiser produces things which taste of actual food. Some of the description is cribbed from the previous post which was written up by the lovely Lissa here!

fml 3.0 )
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HELLO AGAIN.

throw down characters/ideas you plan to use here! idk use this to work out who you want to bring in, which universe they come from and...stuff.
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USUAL RULES

characters from any canons/games.
app will go up when it isn't 1am.
irc at usual place.
there are spaceship modifications. these will be detailed tomorrow i guess.
woop.

(hi)