Ceasefire - The Way Out
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mockweek[The room is dimly lit and made of pitted, industrial metals. You sit up abruptly on- some sort of padded table or cart? There’s a caged structure of metal piping surrounding you like a low barrier, but it’s open on top. You might similarly have a moment of panic about the straps holding you down or the electrodes on your head, but they’re just velcro and lightly tacked on, respectively, and in no significant way prevent you from sitting bolt upright and getting onto your feet. A series of twenty one such tables ring the room at even intervals. All but one has an occupant.]
[However long it takes you to notice, there a twenty of you again. Patches, the Trusty, and Yaiba, the Legendary Bassist, are back among your number. Penny, unfortunately, seems to be missing. Whatever you were wearing to the trial, or at the time of your death, you are back in the clothing you wore when you initially arrived. If anyone checks, CAREFULLY PLEASE, they will find that any powers they may have been missing are back.]
[The room is lit well enough, and there are computer banks and monitors around all the walls, which look to have been monitoring your vitals until just this second. Wires and tubes lead from each table to the center of the room, where a low pool is filled with a thick, milky-looking liquid that looks incredibly disinviting to touch.]
[A door rests on each side of the room, a glowing hand-sized pad beside each.]
[Welcome back, Participants.]
[Now, what do you do?]
((One clarification - any active powers that require some kind of power source or connection from your home worlds will either be not active or severely weakened.))
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Date: 2018-12-09 06:01 pm (UTC)[Yeah, that high pitched sound? It's not faint anymore. It's also very obviously the scream of a robot who does not need to stop for breath and just had a friend explode in her arms.]
[Penny is kneeling next to and mostly IN a large puddle of liquid where Neku was moments before.]
[There's a lot of big puddles and splash-points all over the trial room now, actually. Eighteen of them, mingled with any clothes that had been changed into during the week and everything you all brought with you to the trial.]
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Date: 2018-12-09 06:05 pm (UTC)[This is extremely WTF but also there's an upset Penny here who needs hugging so it's time to hug the Penny.]
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Date: 2018-12-09 06:14 pm (UTC)[Yeah, it- takes a second here. But when Meredith calls out Penny freezes, looking between her backlit in the door and the dim red aftermath of the trial room.]
M- wh- h- but- you-
[She looks on the verge of blanking out and resetting again, but gets up and runs over, slipping and skidding slightly in some of the pale white ooze coating everything, and slams into the hug.]
MEREDITH-!
[...There's almost certainly Neku-ooze all over both of you now, sorry.]
[Nekooze.]
[But at least it already seems to be beginning to fade and evaporate.]
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Date: 2018-12-09 06:24 pm (UTC)It's okay. We're all in here, all of us. Even Mr. Patches and Mr. Yaiba.
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Date: 2018-12-09 06:35 pm (UTC)[Sounds fake but wonderful.]
You just- you were- there was that NOISE and thrn you all just-
[She gestures desperately at the slowly-drying trial room. You saw it too, right?]
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Date: 2018-12-09 06:46 pm (UTC)[Meredith has now, incidentally, gone back to looking human.]
There's so much weird stuff. You have to see!
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Date: 2018-12-09 06:58 pm (UTC)[She leans back a little and kind of. Pokes Meredith in the shoulder to confirm she's there.]
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Date: 2018-12-09 07:11 pm (UTC)I'm okay. Actually, I'm back to normal. You want to see?
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Date: 2018-12-09 07:42 pm (UTC)1/2
Date: 2018-12-09 08:16 pm (UTC)[Meredith smiles and takes a few steps back.
Then, just like she did two weeks ago, she raises her hand high above her head.]
Once Upon A Time!
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Date: 2018-12-09 08:25 pm (UTC)When it fades, she's twirling around, now dressed in the fancy costume in her icons, instead of ordinary clothes like I just realized I've never actually said she was wearing at any point.]
Seeker, wanderer, discovering new lands across the ocean! Type: Blue!
[She said that in blue. How did she do that]
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Date: 2018-12-09 08:28 pm (UTC)Sen-SATIONAL! It's even prettier than I imagined!
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Date: 2018-12-09 08:30 pm (UTC)[ArcheTypes can blush, apparently.]
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Date: 2018-12-09 08:46 pm (UTC)[Still. Clapping, just a little, and bouncing on her toes.]
...and how did you do that thing with your voice?
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Date: 2018-12-09 09:06 pm (UTC)[Update: she can blush even more.]
My... voice? What do you mean?
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Date: 2018-12-09 11:45 pm (UTC)[It sounded extra cool somehow.]
[Though, speaking of blue... this is an awkward segue into saying that Meredith might notice something flashing green from her podium.]
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Date: 2018-12-10 12:02 am (UTC)[That's a complete and very thorough explanation obviously.
And yes she does notice that, and she has an idea of what it might be. Time to head that direction.] Hang on...
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Date: 2018-12-10 12:44 am (UTC)[Well, obviously.]
[And you remember that Plot Coupon Crystal from the greenhouse,Meredith? It's blinking from underneath all the pile of file-folders holding everyone's profile.]
LOW SIGNAL
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Date: 2018-12-10 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 01:01 am (UTC)...Hello? Who's- how did y- get this frequency?
[As Meredith examines the crystal, Penny quietly picks through the profile folders.]
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Date: 2018-12-10 01:04 am (UTC)Hello? Is someone there? I just found this crystal and this happened!
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Date: 2018-12-10 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 01:23 am (UTC)[She puts her hand over the indentation for a moment like she's covering the receiver on a phone.]
I contacted someone! Does anyone know where we are?
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Date: 2018-12-10 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 01:27 am (UTC)[He sounds very distressed, whoever it is.]
Th- shoul-n't be POSSIBLE, hang on- -'m tracking-
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