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far from nowhere
"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
the fledgling | ota
[ Ava's has misgivings about using the Ingress, no matter what proof there is that things are fine. The uncertainty around the function of the machine is only a part of the problem - she realizes quickly that returning home, even temporarily, will put her right back into immediate danger. Any Kindred nearby will want her dead over lies that LaCroix is spinning, and she doesn't know if she can fight every vampire in all of Los Angeles just to get out alive. Jack can't protect her (or won't) and she can't rely on the Anarchs or Strauss, not when people believe Nines is dead and she's defected the Camarilla. She has a great deal to consider before she goes.
But her curiosity and her hope for something better outweighs it all, and by the end of the first week, she's taking the plunge into her own world instead of going to someone else's.
She steps out into Los Angeles in the daytime. In the daytime. She recoils first, shocked, afraid...and only then realizes she's still alive. She isn't burning. There are no fangs, no thirst for blood. She's at a reasonable weight, her stomach is gurgling with hunger. She's...human again. She's normal. ]
Oh my god.
[ It's quiet at first, muffled with a hand. She doesn't cry even if there are tears stinging at her eyes. This is what she wanted. This is how she wanted to be again. Ava's eyes are alight with excitement and thrill, and she looks about ready to run off. She's normal again. Now, now everything will be okay. ]
Oh my god... I'm back home.
[ Back home and alive. What could be better? ]
I have to-- We have to... [ She shoots the other person an ecstatic look. ] Come on, let me show you everything. This is-- This is going to be so great.
[ There are restaurants to explore, things to do, people to meet. She has a life to live again, if only for a few hours. She wants to spend it as best she can. Maybe she has time to find her family and leave them messages, let them know what's going to happen to her. Maybe she can stop it all, find her Sire and kill him first. Maybe, just maybe, she can fix everything. ]
final nights - second week of May (tw: descriptions of cannibalism)
[ All good things must come to an end. The few times she's jumped through the Ingress, she's either gone back as human or in the beginning days of her vampirism, fresh faced and uncertain. Of course, with her memories still intact, she's found it easier to change things - Heather is pushed away immediately and she hopes that will keep her alive, she starts saving her money for weapons and ammunition, and she takes greater care to watch what she says around her 'elders'. There's more to observe this time, both in the Camarilla and with LaCroix, and only now does she see how much he loathes her. It starts a rolling boil of anger within her, and she begins to scour Los Angeles for items she might need: weapons, books on Thaumaturgy, and any items she left behind.
But then, in the second week, she jumps...and finds a very darker, far more different world than she left. The date is a few years later, and yet the world couldn't be more different. Kindred are disappearing, missing, getting murdered. Things are getting worse, much worse, and Ava doesn't know what's going on.
Those who go with her will find the world bleak, and there is dark energy in the air. Something is wrong, very obviously so, and looking at televisions and news reports will show exposure of the supernatural...very specifically, vampires. The Masquerade. All of it's blown right into the open and everything is very, very bad. That's not the worst thing, of course. Humans are turning feral and eating one another, controlled by some of the elder vampires that have risen from their slumber, and the whole world seems to be breaking apart from the inside out.
Where does Ava fit into all of this? Nowhere, really. She is very quick to get anyone with her off of the streets and into one of her hiding holes, an old rundown apartment building that's more or less seen better days. But there are weapons, and the windows are shielded from what little sunlight there is, and she looks better prepared than anyone else in the world.
To whomever is with her, she looks apologetic. She doesn't say what she is or how she's connected to all of this, and it isn't incredibly clear what she is now - especially as the sun is not permitted to shine entirely, choked by Lasombra's darkness. But everything is very, very bad, and surviving until they are pulled back through the Ingress is their only option. ]
Welcome to Los Angeles, I guess.
wildcard + rescue - anytime
[ Ava isn't keen on going back to her world after she experiences the Final Nights. She's taken what she can, every item she can fit into a bag and onto her back, and tried to bring it back. She has money to stash away for any world that will take Earth currency, she has a few mementos to comfort herself in the loss of everything else, and she tries desperately to rid herself of the horror she's seen. Kindred dying, being devoured. Humans tearing themselves apart. She thinks of the family she's left behind, her human family, and she hopes everything she's done to fix things will work out. She hopes they end up surviving.
Now? Now, she needs to do something else so she doesn't lose herself in the spiral of depression seeking to overtake her.
When someone comes up to the Ingress alone, she is there to offer herself as a jumping partner. ]
You first.
[ No one wants to go back to her home. Not her, not anyone else. Besides, she can learn so much more from other worlds...provided she doesn't burn up and die in the sunlight.
But sometimes, there are people stuck in their worlds, and she is also there to volunteer to bring them back. This Ingress, she decides, isn't safe. If it can take her to the end of her world, what's to prevent it from taking someone to the end of theirs, or to the destruction of their home? How can they be certain anyone is safe?
So she is there, ready to help, because at least it takes her mind off of the alternative...even if repeated exposure to other worlds isn't favorable either. ]
[ ooc: Any combination worlds or rescue attempts we can hash out over PM or
before the crisis
He follows Ava in, nervous merely because of the unknown. Danny glances sharply over at her when she speaks, then looks around him with wide eyes. He isn't sure what's going on or where they are, but she seems excited.]
Where are we? Somewhere in the states?
[Danny hasn't seen many films, but he can vaguely recognize that it feels like the West Coast.]
I don't mind where we go. I'd love to look around.
no subject
[ Home. Or...her newer home. She's spent much of her post-graduate life here and all of her time as a vampire on these streets. They're far enough from downtown that she isn't immediately assailed with terrible memories or the familiar scents of the people she has preyed upon for her nightly meals, and it only makes her smile more genuine. She has a chance, even fleeting, to be normal again. To be human again.
She needs to find out the date. How much time does she have to potentially fix everything? Plans spin in her head as she ducks away briefly to a vendor to look at the date. It's two days prior to when she turns into a vampire...and the Ingress might pull her back in a few hours. She'll need to keep trying to come back.
But to Danny, she turns back to him, light still in her eyes and she's actually happy for once. Not wary, not paranoid. ]
Have you ever been to the states? I could take you to Hollywood. It'll look nice around sunset. There's some places to eat around there, too-- But the sights are amazing.
[ She doesn't care what they do. Anything to give her some normalcy. ]
i'm so sorry D:
[That's part of the reason he'd struggled living on the Moira at first. Everything was different, but it wasn't just his surrounding, but the constant change of scenery. If there hadn't been people around him, he might have gone mad from the stress of it all.]
I'd like to go to Hollywood. Could we, um.
[His cheeks flush, and he rolls a shoulder, suddenly embarrassed.]
Could we go somewhere that's for music? I don't care where.
[Danny loved music. All genres and bands, all types of performances.]
no subject
[ She goes to grab a map of Hollywood, looking for where they can go. She knows the seedier places, knows Isaac's joints and Ash's nightclub. That's not a good place to take Danny. Instead, she shows him the map and points to a few places. ]
There's a few clubs this way with live music. A lot of them have outdoor patios so we can sit outside and listen. And they're really close to the popular outdoor venues. We should be able to hear some of the residual music nearby and we can go join them.
[ If she has the money... Ah, screw it. It doesn't matter. If she has limited time here, she wants to spend it enjoying herself. Ava goes to flag a taxi over. ]
There's a ton of other things to do in Hollywood, too, so we can just...wander around and see the sights. I think you'll like it.
[ Ava glances back to him. ]
Are you into history? There's a museum down where we're headed that has Hollywood history in it too. We could drop there if you wanted something quieter.
such a cute icon :D
we're going home. [He raises a skeptical brow, tone lightly sarcastic.] But we don't really know. Back in London, I always knew what was going to happen.
Work and home, then all over again. It wasn't until after I met Alex that I realized things were going to be different, but then I showed up on the ship.
[It's easier to talk about Alex now, it gets easier every time he says his name, but he knows that going into it right now will only bring the mood down and he doesn't want that.]
Wherever you think is best, is where I wanna go.
[He keeps close, not wanting to get left behind.]
The clubs, or wandering around. Even the museum sounds like it can be fun, if you want.
thanks! c:
[ And it's unnerving to her, too, to wonder where they'll go and if the captains are even trustworthy enough. In the end, she doubts they have their best interests at heart, and every world is just another stopping point. But she's surprised to hear how Danny seems far more reclusive than she assumed, and the way he sounds sad when he says his friend's name. She frowns as the taxi pulls up. ]
Let's see what we find. You're half of the team on this excursion; I want you to have a good time too, okay? I'm down for music. It's one of my favorite things about being in such a busy city...since all you ever hear is some kind of music somewhere.
[ Ava pulls open the door and gestures for Danny to get in while she tells the driver where they're headed. She slides in after him and closes the door. ]
Was it hard to adjust to being on the Moira?
[ She wants to know more about Danny, and now about Alex, but it might be better to start this way. ]
What did you do for a living back home in London?
final nights
And he knows that there are places - on other worlds, and on Azeroth - where such horrors are common. Dark magic, blighted landscapes, people turning on each other in awful ways...he's not a child, and he knows what life can be like. Yet seeing it in person still rattles him. He doesn't have any clue why this is going on. At least they have a safe spot for now, and weapons for later. He's not worried about them surviving - too much.]
How long has it been like this?