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"the trees rustle in the evening when we stand uneasy before our own thoughts."
With the events of Del Pascia behind the Moira, things are only now beginning to settle—and not very well. Through the combined efforts of some of the crew, D-E-L and her permanent residents were incinerated into the dust of space. While it’s not the most peaceful end, it is one, and not many are going to be thinking back on how nice Del Pascia’s facilities were for quite some time. Repairing what they could of the ship’s interior and putting as much distance between the Moira and the prison as possible, those aboard are informed by Navigation that they are approaching another planet. This means, of course, the potential for better supplies, as some things are beginning to dwindle, and the Captains elect to dock so long as the crew follows protocol. WELCOME TO AMISSIS-RE
Amissis-Re is an unregistered planet with no documented histories or signs of life. The Moira’s Navigation crew have scanned the planet for any usable resources and have discovered a faint signal emitting from beneath the surface of Amissi-Re. Using the transporters and any other crafts located in the Cargo Bay, the crew are able to travel to the source of the signal. Upon arriving in its exact location, they’ll find a small series of lakes that lead to a tower-like structure that appears to be in use. Crew must cross a poorly assembled bridge system that sways and dips when weight is applied to it in order to gain access to the entrance. Once there, a woman comes out to greet them and explains, excitedly, that she is so very happy that they have come to Amissis-Re.
Everyone can go home.
Their host insists that she has done the impossible and has somewhat fixed the Ingress that’s been built on Amissis-Re a long time ago, and what’s more, she can send crew home for short bursts of time. Upon following this woman inside, crew will find that the planet is not, in fact, barren at all. Diving deep into the underbelly of Amissis-Re, it’s like an eternal factory of machines, and while vast, for whatever reason, it also seems incredibly welcoming...
☄ LEAP OF FAITH ( 05.01 and on ) The barren planet of Amissis-Re is devoid of vegetation and organic life except for a lone woman, and the planet itself is an intricate honeycomb of machines that go for miles below the surface. Yet, that seems insignificant and unimportant in comparison to the news that the crew has just received. After Thán has looked at the Ingress, he tells the crew that he cannot say for certain that it is properly functioning, but Emiri native, Ben Link, will volunteer to test it out.
An elevator takes crew down to a glass platform that overlooks an inverted Ingress portal. In order to return home, the Moirans will have to take a leap of faith and jump in. Ben, in order to show his commitment to the crew and willingness to help get them home, takes that jump with Captain Thán seconds behind him. Jumping feels like dropping through wind; lights swirl, it’s warm, and a soft buzzing encompasses you as you fall. You don’t feel the landing. One moment you’re falling, and the next, you’re in a new world.
A few hours pass before a similar elevator rises from below and to the left of the Ingress, stopping beside the platform. Ben and Thán step out unharmed.
It works, and everyone can temporarily go home. Will you jump? ☄ COMBINE THE EXTREMES ( 05.01 and on ) The woman that greeted the crew and led them to the platform will allow anyone that wants to go home the opportunity to go. There’s only one catch: it’s not permanent. She’s worked for years to fix the Ingress so that she can return to her own home but hasn’t been able to make the trip an everlasting one. Everyone always comes back. Always. They go for a few hours, at first, but that amount of time increases with each visit.
The one guideline, she says, is that you can’t go alone. Each trip requires a partner, or it becomes too much for the mind to bear. These rules are simple: the world takes shape depending on who jumps first, but if crew go hand-in-hand and leap at the same time, the worlds combine. This new world will be populated with people that existed in both and may appear to be a jarring combination of both worlds. It may seem unusual, but if the woman is asked, she’ll explain that the combined world does exist as there are more universes than can be imagined. The Ingress tries to take the person to their own home, their original home, but when jumping together, it finds the closest possible match and deposits them there instead.
From that point on, you can travel the world together or split up, but remember, this world is a living, functioning world. It doesn’t matter if it’s the home of one crew member or a combination. You meet other people. You can get hurt. You influence and are influenced by others.
Be cautious, and enjoy your visit “home”. ☄ LINGER ON ( 05.05 and on ) The more times the Amissis-Re Ingress is visited, the more it seems that your trips last longer and the experience becomes even more vivid. More real and harder to distinguish from the current reality that you know. It’s difficult to explain why, but you get the feeling that maybe if you went without the aid of the host, that perhaps you’d be able to stay. Forever. It takes some subterfuge, but in time, you see your chance: she’s nowhere in sight, and you take it.
The world you are in now is completely your own, whether another crew member accompanied you or not. The people you know are there, everything around you is exactly as you remember. A few hours pass, and you don’t feel that familiar tug, that invisible hook at the base of your spine that signals that your visit is over. Even more time goes by, and you’re still in that world, your home. When the first day has passed, you begin to question if you’ll ever go back, or if life on the Moira was all a dream. The person with you won’t be able to convince you otherwise, and they’ll start to feel less real, a stranger that you used to know.
There’s only one way to go back to the Moira. Someone from the other side has to come in and retrieve you both. Once in, contact with a third will jump-start a link through the Ingress, and it will pull all crew back to the platform.
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thisavrou_log2016-05-01 09:04 pm
ensuing jumps
Finally, she finds her voice:]
...it's beautiful.
[If that can even begin to cover it. Wanda knows no word in Sokovian or English that adequately describes this sight.]
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[She's proud and sad, looking at it. This is why she fights--first to save it and now to keep it from ever happening again--and seeing it again is a pleasant ache. But a pleasant ache is still pain on some level.]
Is your home in here, too? [There are pieces of the world that don't look immediately recognizable, but she can't be entirely sure what's Wanda's and what isn't.] I'd heard they mixed together if you came with different people...
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These are not even supposed to exist anymore. She can even see that church from here.]
It's... I don't understand, Novi Grad was destroyed...
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What happened? [Quiet, soft-edged--the kind of question Wanda can choose not to hear if she'd prefer not to answer it. Leia knows what kind of pain can come from talking of the past.]
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I made a mistake. And that mistake became more mistakes and when I realized...we stopped his plan but it was too late for the city.
[Too late for Novi Grad, too late for Pietro. Almost too late for Wanda, but somehow Vision had found her. She had wavered between being grateful and hating him for it for weeks.]
It fell out of the sky.
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[Of all people, Leia understands that much.]
Would you like to visit it? [Alderaan can wait; Wanda deserves her home, if she can have it.]
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She's been completely blindsided. This wasn't what Wanda was expecting at all when she jumped through the Ingress and...it's hard to process. Alderaan is so beautiful and it's all jumbled together so really, you can't get one without the other at this point.]
I want to see everything. We have time for both, I think.
[It's not fair to monopolize Leia's home time and...Wanda's not sure how much of Novi Grad she can take.]
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If Wanda were Alderaanian, she'd reach out to her. But she's not sure that would have been the done thing in Novi Grad.]
I think you're right. [And then, in hopes that it might be a distraction, however small:] Do you ride? We'll make better time between my home and yours if we don't go on foot.
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I won't fall off a motorcycle if that's what you mean. [Granted, having powers like hers really comes in handy for that.]
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[It seems so out of place among all the futuristic trappings she doesn't recognize from Novi Grad...but Wanda's not complaining. She flashes her best unsure-but-game smile. Horses are definitely superior to whatever a speeder is just for the experience.]
We have them on Earth, but not in Novi Grad. I've only seen them on TV.
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Maybe we should say hello to them. You can decide whether you're up to riding one. [A little smile. There will always be speeders, and they can try doubling up if need be. She nods in a direction--towards the stables, just to look in--and starts to walk.] When I was a girl, I was crazy for horses. Horses, and learning to fight.
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[Some things don't change - Wanda looks cautiously excited as they approach the stables.]
And now? What do you do?
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Now? I work. [She pushes open the stable door, where a line of horses' stalls await them.] We're fighting a war--it takes up almost all of my time. What about you?
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[Obviously Wanda is going to be over the moon when she sees Alderaanian horses. But her face goes serious when Leia mentions a war - she understands that life.]
I fought to protect Sokovia. [And did a terrible job of it but she'd been so convinced that they were right and anyone associated with Stark had to be wrong.] Now I fight to protect the world. They call us the Avengers.
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[The Avengers. Leia likes the sound of that, especially knowing that Wanda has lost her home. Every good thing she does can be in Sokovia's honour, avenging her people.] We're the Rebel Alliance. What kind of fights do the Avengers take on?
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Terrorists, evil robots, aliens. Anything bad enough the local governments can't handle.
Sometimes if there is a bad disaster I am allowed to go help, but not as much as I would like. [And that's what irks her most. She didn't submit to these experiments just to help on a world scale - there was real suffering on the ground in Sokovia. She hasn't forgotten that.]
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[The galaxy is made up of larger factions, large enough that individual planets don't divide so neatly.]
They have you working other places, for the most part. It must be difficult to stand by and watch.
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[And whether they can get even that right is seriously up for debate. Wanda wasn't really surprised by how deep the corruption on Emiri ran - really, she was more surprised by how smoothly everything on Caducus-Primary actually ran.
Wanda drifts even closer to the horse and half-reaches up to touch before dropping her hand.]
It's not that. Not just that. People are...afraid, sometimes.
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[It's not like they have anywhere else to go, after all. When she sees Wanda's hesitation, she takes a little step to the side, making sure her friend has plenty of room to say hello.]
Hold your hand like this. [Leia curls her fingers under and holds out the back of her hand for the horse to sniff at it.] They get to know people by smell first.