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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
don't mind me, just being fucking Unnerved over here in Adult Town
Or who was going to send them there.]
Oh, hey kiddo. [Sans' perpetual smile turns genuine on reflex when he spots the child leaving the medbay. Just done visiting someone, no doubt. What a good kid.]
... Hey, kiddo. [He repeats again, warmth to his voice a little more forced when he looks up to see Kaworu.] You guys candy striping?
little swapping of the order here, don't mind us
Hi, Sans! [Frisk blinks a little bit at the slang--they've never heard that one before--and glance up to Kaworu to be sure he doesn't have an idea about it before turning back to shrug.] Naw, I just got hurt a little. We're gonna go down to th' planet an' try the Ingress!
[Hopefully Kaworu will catch on to the little white lie, and not blow it out of the water. He can be a little obtuse at times...but he's pretty good at secrets.]
Sans is actually the most responsible person in this room! ...or is he.
[Kaworu's not very subtle.
But he knows quite well that the easiest way to let a lie like that pass is not to acknowledge it.
So he doesn't.
He does find it interesting that Frisk would lie about this to Sans, though. Isn't Sans their friend?
Apparently it's okay to lie to their friends, but not to break a promise. He's sure Sans would appreciate that logic, if he only knew.]
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I slipped an' hit my head kinda hard. 'M okay now.
...what is candy-striping? [You know, in case Sans happened to miss Kaworu asking somehow.]
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He noticed you ignoring him, Sans.
But it's all right.
He's not bothered by it.
You were talking to Frisk, weren't you?]
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What it sounds like, kid. [He finishes the bit by handing the gumball to Frisk, straightening up with one more thoughtful glance Kaworu's way. His eyelights reorient on Frisk after a half second.] Watch where you're running, alright? No reason your mom's gotta know about this, but I'm kinda honor bound by Mom Law to tell her if it happens again.
[Another look towards Kaworu. This time, he even speaks to the guy.] You've met Tori, right? Tall, big arms, lots of fire magic to crisp up bad guys.
[The 'so make sure you're not one' implication is clear, no matter how friendly Sans' tone is.]
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[And then he turns to Kaowru and--oh, rude, Sans. Don't think they don't see what you did there. Frisk's cheeks puff up, and they give Sans a very annoyed look.] Yeah, Kaworu has breakfast with us sometimes! Mom likes him.
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Was that a threat?
It's a good thing Frisk speaks up before Kaworu can, or he'd likely have questioned Sans about it right there. Instead, what he says is this:]
Tori--? Oh, you mean Toriel? Don't worry.
[His smile doesn't even falter.]
Frisk is safe with me.
[Honestly.
He doesn't want to fight Toriel. He doesn't want to fight anyone.
It's not that he couldn't, obviously. But what for?
He just doesn't understand that kind of thinking at all.]
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Be good, kids. Wait thirty minutes after eating before playing with any matches.
[On cue, he disappears around a hall corner. Quite literally, though one would only know if they bothered to look.]
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[...yeah, that's about the expression they expected to see on him.] Sans likes to makes weird jokes like that. It didn't actually mean anything.
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But he was right there for the event that proves their lie.
So he doesn't try to play along.]
Oh... it's all right. I'm not worried.
[Sans' interruption was, if nothing else, a good distraction, and he's speaking again in that tone of benign detachment.]
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No, he meant the stuff with Mom. I dunno why he's worried about you, though! You never did anything.
[Sans is protective, but not over-protective.]
I used the wrong icon for the last tag omf
He stares at the doorway that Sans disappeared through.
He says nothing about it, but he felt the presence of Sans' soul vanish.]
...you said there are things monsters can tell about souls.
[Which has directly resulted in Kaworu's permanent mistrust of them. But.]
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[...WHOOPS, that was supposed to be a secret. It...probably won't be a problem now though, right? They can trust Kaworu.]
Or, uh...or if you're hiding somewhere or nothin'.
Does this even need more to it I somehow doubt it
it really doesn't
Um...let's just get going, okay?
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....
[He doesn't argue with it, at least. It's basically the last thing he'd argue with right now--it's the only thing he really wants to do.
So he just closes his eyes for a second and heads for the door.]
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[The pair of them head out and down the hallway, and for a while Frisk allows the silence to hang in the air. Eventually, though, they do speak up again.]
Um...I'm sorry about. Um.
[Frisk looks down, fidgeting with their hands.] I forgot that you're diff'rent than us.
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...It's hard not to if I look like you, right?
[It's not clear, this time, whether it's an actual question or not. It is, sort of... but not much of one. Shinji struggled with it too: even knowing Kaworu was the enemy, he looked human.
And because he looked human, he became a person, however unlikely, in Shinji's eyes.]
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[Frisk doesn't look up just yet, and their voice is quieter than usual.]
But you told me. I shoulda r'membered.
[Frisk still doesn't think that what happened is fair, or okay at all, but they recognize that it didn't mean the same things to Kaworu. That the isolation was meaningless to him.]
...does it. Um. D-does it bother you, bein' around us?
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[He echoes it, but even as he does--
He's never had much choice, really. Things being what they are--Lilim, the possessor of Earth, the innumerable child of the the usurper, Lilith--how could it matter what he thinks of it, when he is subject to their whims in even his very form?
But that doesn't change the fact that he was never meant to be in a place like this.
With beings like you.]
....
You're very observant.
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[It feels a little like a knife in their chest, a sharp phantom pain that fades to a dull ache. Yes Kaworu had made no real secret to Frisk of how different he was from them, how much the Lilim around him baffle and frustrate him at basically every turn, but they had hoped...]
[Well. Maybe they had hoped too much.]
[...but...if that is true...]
Then...why do you keep hangin' out with me?
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[You talk to him. You listen. You volunteer yourself to him... something he does not expect from others, nor want, nor even need.
No one has ever done that before, and he still has not decided how that feels.
Perhaps Frisk's motives are selfish... but if so, it's a selfishness that serves them both.
He looks at Frisk now, and smiles.]
I don't regret the time I've spent with you.
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...
[It's not much. From anyone else it would feel like an insult, but Kaworu is so strange and distant to begin with, even a concession like this feels like a gift.]
[Frisk smiles back.]
'M glad.
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THERE it goes
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Reads tag, quietly whispers "Adam is not God" under his breath
we chose this hell
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