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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
HOPE THIS WORKS manhandle him at will
Snoke is pleased—satisfied—with the scar on Kylo Ren's face, and Kylo's pleased his own feelings reflect the Supreme Leader's. Like a hall of mirrors.
Snoke doesn't tell him to stop permitting others to accompany him: it's simply understood. Kylo stands before him again and again. He sleeps less, and lightly. His thoughts take on the cadences of Snoke's speech. Outside the ingress even the Force itself begins to change, blurring, weakening. Fading.
Still, he finds her. Her presence in the Force familiar to him, and feeling so much like failure. She's dressed as he remembers. There's probably still sand in the folds of her clothes. He wonders—his curiosity an ache—how many times she's gone through. Whether it's taken her to Luke Skywalker, the Luke Skywalker cowed by time.
The crowds that used to mill by the platform above the ingress have thinned. Kylo Ren observes her from a distance, knowing she'll spot him soon enough.
Supreme Leader Snoke hadn't reiterated the order to bring him the girl: that, too, had been understood.
[ ooc: btw if you're game, I was thinking character fusions would be cool (and a good way to work around Snoke knowing fucking everything). WE COULD COMBINE SNOKE AND UNKAR and Hux and...literally anyone from Jakku would make me laugh. ]
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The Force is gentle around her, understanding. It's the first time she's thought of it as a living entity, understanding her pain and confusion, trying to show her the right path. But it's still blurred, and she can't pick it out on her own.
What she does pick out is a familiar feeling, a presence, one she recognizes as a "Force signature." She'd heard that phrase tossed around by the Jedi on board, and it definitely applied to what she sensed. Or rather, who.
Her veins freeze as her blood begins to boil. He had almost killed Finn--he had killed Han. Tears well in her eyes, more from rage than grief, but do not fall. She will not show him weakness. She cannot. Rey whirls around, foregoing her staff in favor of running at him full-on, her entire body thrown into the tackle she's prepared to deliver. Her voice is a bellow, raw and furious. She should have killed him when she had the chance because now he's here, and Han is here, and she will not let history repeat itself.
"You!"
[ooc; haha omg yes please snoke and unkar. tall, fat blobfish with stupidly long fingers. and yeah definitely what about hux and the pet seller? i don't remember his name but he's in exactly one scene and has a bunch of crates with animals strapped to his back.]
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She holds nothing back. It's as if their fight on Starkiller never ended, and—as they collide and he grabs for her wrists, for her arms, one leg twisting unnaturally as he tries to drag her with him into the ingress—Kylo is the last to realize it didn't.
[ ooc: HAHAHAHAHAH I LOVE IT. We can give Millicent a cameo >.>
And god I am sorry about the delay. I'm off for the next few days, the plan is to RP nonstop. ]
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Nails dig into his flesh where they can, and she can't stop glaring at him as they fall, her grip vicelike. She will not let him escape her again. There's no shattering planet to save him, no impending wave of First Order stormtroopers coming to his aid. It's just the two of them, throwing each other into the glowing abyss.
And if she has her way, only one of them will emerge.
[ooc; yes please, let's. also no worries! i've been pretty slow myself lately.]
btw if you're ever uncomfortable with any of the force shit I have him pull, just lmk
They land roughly, shoved into a long corridor by unseen and uncaring hands. Kylo Ren gathers the Force to him, draws it in through the pain beading on each arm. He senses Supreme Leader Snoke, and if the familiar presence seems muddled, he doesn't have the luxury of dwelling on it.
With a grunt and heave of the Force he throws her off him. Decisive but not savage. He glances to either end of the hall, then to the ceiling, a frown pulling at his mouth. “Come with me,” he says, and begins walking. She doesn't have to obey—she'll follow.
The corridor is empty of everything but echos—clattering footsteps, an inhuman groan that saws at his nerves. The flat, pitiless light that illuminated Starkiller Base has changed into something harsh but shifting, less certain. His stride lengthens as he continues, his legs outpacing his body. He mistakes it for urgency at first, but as the slope grows steeper and steeper he has no choice but to conclude that he is, impossibly, walking downhill.
same!! and no worries i'd only be concerned about any kind of mind invasion junk
General Organa would want him alive, but Rey doesn't think he deserves that. It isn't murder if it's justice, after all. She can think of a few million people who would agree with her.
She isn't prepared to have the Force used against her, and the air is knocked from her lungs as her back hits the metal floor. Circles of light pop over her vision, and she doesn't think she's heard him quite right. The sounds around her are a cacophony, throwing off all her other senses. She doesn't want to be anywhere near him just as much as she wants to do to him what he'd done to Han. Rey struggles with herself for a few seconds before standing, eyes zeroed in on his back and only vaguely taking in her surroundings. Familiar, but completely foreign at the same time. The last few minutes of her life have been a clash of emotions and she can't be bothered to pick and choose right now.
"Get back here!" She's chasing after him, stumbling only briefly as the floor begins its decline. She's used to walking down dunes, and on all kinds of rough terrain. She can't seem to catch up to him, but as they progress, something starts nagging at the back of her mind. A feeling of wrongness, as if this entire space is off by just a little.
o7 (and I'll always check before mind stuff)
Light shines ahead. His eyes start to hurt.
Kylo Ren slows with the spreading light. He focuses the Force through himself, the tip of a needle that swings unerringly to Snoke. He exhales: the supreme leader is near. (Near, but—strange. Crude.)
He breaks into a run, sprinting the last fifty meters before the hallway ends, plunged into sprawling desert.
“What is this?” he breathes, tripping onto the sand. Violently he wheels. From this vantage, the corridor is an amputated limb, a passage to nowhere. “What did you do?” he screams.
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But this place is nothing like that. And she's certain it's nowhere Kylo has been either. What had happened, then? Her gait slows as she tries to figure it out, ignoring his sudden burst of speed. If he was going to try and kill her, he would have done it already. He certainly hadn't wasted any time during their last duel. At this moment, she's certain she can take the time to try and puzzle out where they are.
And then he screams and she looks up--to see Jakku.
Rey squints into the desert sun, and then at him. Her feet hit the sand, but it still feels wrong.
"What did I do?" she snarls, anger rising once again. She's ready for a fight once more. "I didn't do anything because I wasn't the one stalking someone else!"