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Event #6: Doctor Why Instead of Who



Doctor Why Instead of Who
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Sawyer's Return


Sawyer, the Autumn Guild Leader, addresses the network on noon on the 19th. He's back from wherever he has been since disappearing in November. The message goes as follows.

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"This is Sawyer. I lead the Autumn Guild as the last Autumn Power Holder native to this world. I was accused of crimes relating to the portal mysteries and sabotage in the Research Center in November. Well, I guess I still am.

I managed to track down the real culprit, but couldn't capture them. Instead, I got the device they used just before they disappeared into yet another portal. The device still has the coordinates to the location they went to. Instead of pursuing them myself, I'm asking for everyone's help, since I got injured fighting them. I'm leaving the device to Olwen, along with a file on another incident, and letting Harrison put me in jail until the real culprit is captured. Hopefully after Jade looks me over.

Anyway, I'm counting on all of you to capture the bastard. They go by the name "The Doctor".

Harrison, I'm waiting behind the Amberfall Guild."

Any inquiries about the video will be met with a "We are forming a plan of action, please wait" for the first few days after. But everyone will be assures that Sawyer did get medical attention before taken away! (Handwaved) Visitations are permitted while he's in custody.





Color Me Inked

(Duration: Whole month)


Part 1


There is some really good news following the slightly worrying news from before: The Fairy Queen has reacquired all of her powers! That's why anyone who is interested is invited to Amberfall to gain an upgrade for their seasonal powers. This upgrade comes in the form of a magical tattoo. These tattoos not only give boosts but it can also move around one's body (for example, if someone's tattoo is a bird, the bird can fly around, especially when powers are activated).

These tattoos are permanent by default, but they can also be temporary should the person wish so. Temporary tattoos will wear out in a month (or earlier, if the tattoo is in constant use).

The basic effect of the tattoo is simple: seasonal powers stronger against the dark energy, meaning everyone will be able to fight creatures coated in it easier. That is, however, not the only effect; two more effects can be chosen when the tattoo is made, from a pool of choices provided.

Tattoo extra effects
• Danger Sense (gives an ability to sense danger in the surroundings)
• Door Creation (lets the user create a temporary fake door to pass through walls and other obstacles)
• Elemental Resistance (one element) (can be chosen twice)
• Enhanced Sense (choose one of the basic senses) (can be chosen twice)
• Guardian Spirit (summons an astral being to physically protect them, in the shape of something important to them - stays for an hour per summon)
• Mermaid Song (gives an ability to be able to heal minor injuries with singing)
• Minor Regeneration Powers (automatically heal minor injuries)
• New Element creation and manipulation (choose from electricity, light, neutral) (can be chosen twice)
• Retrocognition (able to see an item's past by touching it (does not work on living things))
• X-Ray Vision (lets user see through walls and other objects by touching them (does not work on living things))


All extra effects of the tattoo drain magical energy just like any other abilities do. If someone is low on magical powers, the tattoo will look like it's faded out (animal based tattoos may even start sleeping). No one automatically masters these abilities, so it might take some time to get used to them and properly use them in a fight.

Part 2


Various booths have been set all around Nightwake that let people test their new abilities. Most of the booths utilize just one ability (like being attacked by a water balloon with a blindfold on to test danger sense or test their enhanced senses) but some of them have several ways to complete them. They vary from obstacle courses to target shooting. These are mostly fun, harmless things

There's also just general fighting areas set up for people to just fight it out with their new abilities (they know by now that otherworlders love their fights). There are also robots that are installed with various martial arts to use as opponents, for those who prefer not to fight other people.






Bigger on the Inside


(Duration: January 22nd -> 26th)



Part 1


Olwen, the Winter Guild Leader, is the next one to address everyone through a message sent to all devices. It's an invitation to join him in tracking down and capturing The Doctor, but also for anyone who wishes to join the support side of things. The team will be gathering in Blossomcrown Park, on the 22nd of January at noon, where he will explain the plan.

The park has several tents set up. All of them are somehow related to aiding the fighters who will be entering the portals, so all non-combatants will be asked to man them. There are healing, food and even touch energy tents. After an analyzation done on the portal device, it seems that touch energy will drain faster inside the portals than they do normally.

Before the portal is opened, Olwen greets and thanks everyone for coming. He will explain that their primary goal is to find The Doctor, but also prevent monsters from entering Nightwake while the portal is open (it cannot be shut while someone is inside, unless you're someone like The Doctor). He explains that the nature of this portal is otherwise still unknown and he advises anyone who starts feeling bad in any way to return to Nightwake right away.

Once everyone is done with preparations Olwen activates the portal device and leads the way inside, holding a sword and shield in hand.

Part 2


When people first enter the portal they are met with a breathtaking view. It looks as if the water surface and the sky melt together, as the water reflects the starry sky. On the water there are several rowing boats. Once at least two people are inside a boat it will start moving across the surface of water and will eventually disappear into a mist (all except for Olwen, who disappears alone for some reason, who tells everyone to stay focused on the mission before the mist takes him).

The boats take people into sceneries that reflect their seasons. If there's more than one season on the same boat the scenery will be a mix of them.

• Winter is a cave of ice and water, filled with monsters named Glaciduets (Rock monsters with various animal bodies that shoot ice and rocks as weapons)
• Spring is a place among the clouds, filled with monsters named Galeduets (Birds that are partially fishes, that use sharp winds and icicles as weapons and dive among the clouds)
• Summer is a village that is burning, filled with monsters named Flameduets (Various dinosaurs with wings that use fire and wind as their weapons)
• Autumn is a rainy forest filled with monsters named Terraduets (Skeletons with fiery armor that use earth and fire as their weapons)


All of the monsters are far sturdier than they look and can provide to be difficult opponents. To proceed, they all (at least five monsters, can be more) have to be defeated and if any of them get past them into the mist the people entered from they will attempt to enter the portal into Nightwake. The mist is also the way to escape and return to regroup if needed.

Part 3


Defeating enough monsters will destroy the space they entered. Once enough spaces are destroyed, one final space is revealed (this will take a few days, there are a lot of these spaces). It's where Olwen can be seen fighting a masked, hooded person. Olwen is using his sword, water and ice - while the other figure uses force fields to protect themselves from magic and two swords. From the looks of it, the fight is rather even.

Those who try to help Olwen will be met with another force field around the area, preventing anyone from entering. Destroying the devices making the field will help Olwen get past the villain's defenses, but they're guarded by shadow monsters called Shadow Moths (This creature takes the shadows of people to become bigger and faster. It usually takes the form of a giant mothman that has shadowy vines as its weapons. If hit by the vines, characters would start doing everything backwards).

Once the devices have been destroyed, Olwen manages to encase the figure in ice before collapsing on the ground himself from exhaustion. All that's left now is to get both the ice covered villain and Olwen out of the portal and closing the portal - but with that, it's mission accomplished.

The masked villain (still frozen) will be taken by the Law Enforcement into custody to be questioned while Olwen gets Jade (Spring Guild Leader) to look after him right away. Olwen is tired, but thanks everyone who came to help with the mission (whether fighting or supporting) with a healthy sum of 20,000 Moon Coins.

Epilogue


With The Doctor in custody, Sawyer is free. Harrison makes a public apology, which Sawyer accepts and a viral video can be seen of all the guild leaders hugging him and telling him how they always believed in him. Are those tears in Sawyer's eyes? You must be seeing things!

Information about the villain will be given at a later date, once they manage to interrogate them. Meanwhile Sawyer will return to his guild duties. This time actually doing them without (as many) complaints.




Waiting in the Shadows

(Duration: January 28th - 31st)



Part 1


The Research Center Leader, Helene, and the Fairy Queen have been working on a project while the Portal fight has been going on. They send a message that there's another mission to take to those who are interested, with a 50,000 moon coins reward because of how dangerous and important this mission is.

Those who agree to take on the mission are asked to take at least a temporary magical tattoo. Those who already have a tattoo (permanent or temporary) will have theirs temporarily enhanced. This is the only requirement to participate in the mission. The enhancements for the tattoo are to protect the user from what they are about to face and make magic work against it - as well as work as an emergency exit if all else fails.

Explanation of what they are about to face is a dangerous entity once faced by two otherworlders. It has been named the All-Consuming Darkness: an experiment made by the Doctor that was meant to be unleashed to destroy the barriers around Ellipsa. Under normal circumstances it would eat any attacks delivered at it. But with the Fairy Queens magic tattoo boosts that danger will be out of the way.

After all the preparations and explanations, they are advised to take the new, temporary teleport crystal out to the Autumn Segment, straight to the Abandoned Mansion.

Part 2


The Abandoned Mansion is a creepy, old two story building that looks quite rundown. It's surrounded by mist that expands into the forest. There's not much to look at on the outside, other than two tombstones with the names of Kamisato Ayato and Kaveh on them. Anyone who has previously visited the mansion might remember they definitely weren't there before June, when the place was sealed.

Magical tattoos let everyone pass through the barrier and into the house. The strategy is simple: find all the arms of the monster, spread out to the mansions every room, and destroy them. With the boost from the tattoos all attacks can now deal damage, but the monster can still inflict status effects (silence, stun, burn, poison) and the air around it generally feels poisoned.

The being itself has no actual figure. It's a shapeless blob of mass that attacks people relentlessly with its arms. It will also try to capture anyone it can and eat them to make itself bigger, since it no longer can consume attacks to do so. Even with the magical tattoo boost it's still a difficult opponent to face.

Those that do get eaten will receive their own tombstone outside. It seems it appears automatically after death.

Everyone is also advised to retreat if they need to, which they can do by passing the barrier out of the house. With how many arms the being has the fight may take a while.

Part 3


Once all the arms are destroyed, the shadow blob will evaporate and the eerie feeling that was all over the place will vanish. The spirits that were guarding the doors will open the windows and doors, relieved that the danger was now gone. It's almost as if the nature was celebrating too, as sun beams start to fill the mansion as well.

The teleport crystals will take them back, but there's also a promise of a free luxury airship ride back for those who want to pamper themselves for a job well done. The airship is parked at the Autumn Airship Station.





OOC TIPS


• Ask Event-related questions here!

• Smut is not allowed on the event post, so if your thread is heading that way, please move it to a private entry of your own (your own entry or a new locked post on the comms).

• Remember to content and spoiler warn as necessary!

• Characters are responsible for coming up with their designs for the tattoos or at least ideas for them (the fairies doing the tattoos can offer options). As a bonus, there's no healing time for the tattoos, as they are completely magical! It also doesn't hurt (unless the person is very sensitive to it, then it might. Player's choice). Everyone is also allowed to get temporary tattoos first before committing to a permanent one (the limit is one permanent tattoo per character).

• Those with special skin (mechanical or otherwise) will still be able to get a tattoo, as they are magical. Even those whose skin would normally regenerate (like titan shifters) can have a tattoo stay permanently. These tattoos will also be available as "aesthetic only" ones after the event.

• Neutral Element is what it says on the tin. It's a shapeless energy that usually takes a blank, white form (but can be different colored, too). No creature is super weak against the element, but none of them resist it either; it's the element that will always deal damage, no matter what.

• Reminder that this month does not have Activity Check-in!


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necromants: (✂ 51)

[personal profile] necromants 2024-02-19 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, that's wonderful to hear! It seems most people I've talked with have been enjoying their time here.

[He's still pretty new, so he hasn't really formed an opinion on it yet. Better than what he was dealing with back home, in several ways, anyway.]

Are you the only two from your world here?
retirementsnotsopeachy: (Mentoring is hard.)

Re: Bigger on the Inside - Part 3

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2024-02-19 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't think it was a fight. Things seemed like they were getting better. So I don't know, MK.

[He sighs and rests a hand in MK's hair.]

Let's take five and see where we are after. We might need to help out someone else.
noodleboi: (S1 Human - Need cuddles)

Re: Bigger on the Inside - Part 3

[personal profile] noodleboi 2024-02-19 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mk leans into Wukong and nods. They can recharge and get back into the fight. See if anyone else needs any help.]

Good idea... [If it wasn't a fight, what was it? What just happened?]
wrotetheworld: (just bros)

[personal profile] wrotetheworld 2024-02-19 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
As far as anyone I know. If any of my sect siblings slipped in without me noticing, it might be a while before they get on the network. We... don't have anything like this where I was brought from.

[Less work, and his favorite eye candy came along too? It really is a vacation.]

Did in my hometown, but only Shen-shixiong is from there. And I'd hope whoever picks people to bring here would know better than to kidnap him.
battlebound: (13)

[personal profile] battlebound 2024-02-19 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
( Well, that's great. But Steak is no stranger to the unknown, so his response amounts to little more than a grunt before the dissipating mist begins to reveal what they're getting into.

What the hell indeed. Steak's thoughts turn to the one, most obviously pressing, issue almost any Food Soul would consider;
)

Do you see any people?

( Are they mounting a rescue mission? And if so, how are they meant to do that with one rowboat? )
battlebound: (23)

[personal profile] battlebound 2024-02-19 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
( Honestly, not a question elex ever answered! And we're probably, for once, quite glad about that fact. )

... Is that so? It must be difficult to get used to a place like this.

( No magic at all? That's so far from how Tierra, run on ~imagination~ God I wish I were joking as it is, works that Steak can't quite picture it. Though, he supposes most humans on Tierra don't really have access to magic in the way Food Souls and Fallen Angels do.

And so, when she asks, he nods (and grimaces slightly, okay so apparently he isn't fully healed yet);
) Mm. There's a lot of magic on Tierra. It allowed humans to summon us Food Souls as their servants and warriors.

( For starters. ) It's common for Food Souls to have magical skills of their own.

( Even he does, although his abilities aren't as interesting as, say, someone like Candy Cane or Croissant. )
anenemies: (30.)

[personal profile] anenemies 2024-02-19 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Medical attention is optional! He's numb to pain now that he's realized this new epiphany about protecting Nenonen.

He at least doesn't rush ahead of Nen. If he did that, it would risk something attacking them before he could react. He stays close, humming some upbeat song under his breath as they traverse the stairs.]


And then later, once we've won, we can celebrate~
Edited 2024-02-19 20:43 (UTC)
borelblue: (Aw shucks)

[personal profile] borelblue 2024-02-19 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
And Eren, in turn, seems passingly familiar to Aymeric. Perhaps he'd seen Eren on the network?

Well, they're meeting properly now. Aymeric nods.

"Aye. And received quite the bruising for it," he says, gesturing to the left side of his torso. That explains his stiff posture. "But I was glad to do so - to do my part. What of you?"
mysophobic: (83 - troubled)

always too late!!! ;_;

[personal profile] mysophobic 2024-02-20 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's meant to be another way of saying throwing punches, I guess. [ Shigeru huffs and then laughs a little. ] But you're absolutely right. This thing hurt Ayato and we should do whatever we can to help him.

[ Shigeru gives Nen a nod and warm smile. ] I know you won't, and I'll be here to help you. I-I should get some practice with using my new powers so...this thing will help me test them out. I'm not going to go easy on it, for Ayato's sake.

Do you have everything you need? Should we go inside?
monoceroscaeli: <user name="iconsiconsicons"> (314)

i had another dumb idea

[personal profile] monoceroscaeli 2024-02-20 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[THERE IT IS. He sees where Hijikata's finger points to and spots that small amount of movement. That was the last thing he expected out of this adventure, being played by some small creature who's taking pot shots at them instead of coming out and FACING THEM LIKE A REAL WARRIOR WOULD.

Marching straight over there, he hangs only a few steps back, keeping his eyes peeled. It's pretty smart of it to stay hidden, considering it's outnumbered and outclassed, too. But just because he can acknowledge that it's smart doesn't mean he has to like it, and he sure doesn't like it.]


It's no use, all it's going to do it run around and hide. We should move towards the water to-

[That's when he looks down and sees it. This rock-squirrel, one that's stealthily climbed onto the pants on Hijikata and is currently creating little rocks and shoving them into the man's pocket like he was its personal tree hole to store its treasures, taking advantage of its small size just to mess with them. The urge to draw his bow leans on him, but he can't just shoot his friend in the leg here.]

-hey.

[He stops in the middle of his sentence, his words slow and more quiet.]

Don't make any sudden movements.

[Tartaglia looks like he's ready to murder someone. That squirrel needs to pay, even for that little ping off his head with a rock.]
squidzure: (backshot)

[personal profile] squidzure 2024-02-20 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Estinien swung around, Nidhogg in hand, in an attempt to pin the arm down as they had so many times before--except this time he was too tired and too slow and the arm dodged his advance. It came back once again, punching him straight in the cheek and making him see stars as he stumbled, dazed.

The arm swung again and it was pure instinct that had him clumsily dodge out of the way. Estinien stood with his lance for balance and then stabbed straight through the arm with a single thrust. "Kill it!" he demanded, words slurring a bit.

A concussion, perhaps.
essenceborn: (yoman)

[personal profile] essenceborn 2024-02-20 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yes!

[ PARK. Please don't walk too fast for them to keep up with though Oryou-- ]
essenceborn: (Default)

[personal profile] essenceborn 2024-02-20 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kagami pls... They don't look entirely convinced, but there doesn't seem to be any stopping him yet. Nen resolves to stick close to him and monitor his condition as best they can, keeping an eye on his gait and balance. ]

We may celebrate our victory after a medical check-up.
Edited 2024-02-20 05:59 (UTC)
urtitan: (So be kind.)

[personal profile] urtitan 2024-02-20 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
[If she's honest, after the initial awe and wonder (and confusion about some things, especially home appliances - luckily, she had her sister to show her how to use them!), she got used to all the comforts of this world faster than expected. But it's his answer to her question that gets her full attention.]

Food Souls? I've never heard of your kind.

[Him being a Food Soul is about the last thing she'd have expected, even without fully understanding what that even is! Nothing about him seems related to any food - not that she can tell at a glance, in any case. He looks like a proper flesh-and-blood person to her! Having noticed his pained expression, she urges him to drink that potion - and while he does so, she'll sing another small verse, even if she'll hardly have enough time for that. His wellbeing takes priority over her curiosity!]
essenceborn: (it's the profile pic!!)

never!! just on time uvu

[personal profile] essenceborn 2024-02-20 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I have prepared. I am ready to enter the large house.

[ They have their side bag, their Safety Pin, Swamp Thing in hand, the ring Shigeru gave them, their new tattoo. and they're as rested as they can be in terms of magic. With Shigeru there to manage their health if needed, there isn't much more they can do to prepare. ]

I will stay close. I promise.
justattack: (S_questions_1[BUST])

[personal profile] justattack 2024-02-20 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
How it works?

[ That's the basics of the basic right? He's tried Crafting his seasonal magic, but it isn't easy to picture "water" when forming Rock, Paper, or Scissors signs. Maybe Odile could have managed it, but... ]

No one uses hand signs when they use it. I haven't really been able to picture it.
dreamsofwings: (14)

[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2024-02-20 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Eren thinks of arguing. Why suffer if you don't have to? But he's been unable to heal before, some psychosomatic block against it, some way of punishing himself. He doesn't project that onto Hakkai, but he accepts that there are reasons someone might not want a healer's assistance.

He looks out at the clouds again, but his gaze drifts downwards. He can't say it doesn't annoy him, the weakness of others.

No. Not weakness. He has plenty of that himself. He can't stand people who are content to stay in a cage, oblivious to the horrors of the world. He's never been able to stand it.

"They don't," he says. "I dunno if they even try. We're trapped in this place, you know? The barrier keeps whatever the fuck it is out, but it keeps us in, too."

This is the first time he's voiced this aloud, but how could he not think it? Everywhere he's ever been is a cage. Thinking this place is any different would be lying to himself.

But this is a cage he would choose, if he had a choice, rather than going home — even rather than going back to Folkmore. People he love are here, and he doesn't want to leave them.
dreamsofwings: (18)

[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2024-02-20 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It had sounded unreal when Eren first heard it, sitting in the basement of what remained of the house he grew up in. Of course he knew it somewhere in his head, but he'd blocked all his own future memories so it had hit him like a ton of bricks, like the wall falling all over again. How could they have been lied to so thoroughly and for so long? ]

Was that in the last place? Avalon?

[ He realises again that he's not entirely sure what Avalon was like. There was magic. Jean became a knight, like in Armin's books. But he doesn't understand Avalon any more than those around him understand Folkmore. ]

Did you like it there?
monoceroscaeli: <user name="optimisty"> (129)

[personal profile] monoceroscaeli 2024-02-20 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. I didn't know you too, know them. Well, which is it? Here for the thrill of the challenge, knowing it took them both out? Or...

[And this is what he suspects more:]

...are you here to take revenge for your fallen comrades?

[It's more a statement than a question.]
offeredhearts: (with deepest fondness)

[personal profile] offeredhearts 2024-02-21 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
"...good to know." There's probably a few reasons why he hasn't offered yet - still figuring out their boundaries again, unsure if Levi would even want him to touch the injury. Sure, they've done things like this before...but most of that was back when Erwin had two hands.

But here, in the quiet, in comfort, in a familiar feeling of post-battle, it had felt right. And Erwin had felt a little more useful with this new power. Even if Levi hides his reactions, it's enough for Erwin to know that they exist. He keeps up the motions and the magic, gentle but firm constant, until it seems Levi's had enough. For a few moments they just look at each other, a comfortable haze surrounding them.

A brief look of surprise turns into a soft, grateful smile.

"I'd appreciate that."

Erwin shifts closer, within Levi's reach, and settles down a little lower so that his shoulders are a little more accessible. If anyone has the hand strength to attack the tension he always carries with his shoulders, it would be Levi.
mayoninofukucho: (Some things stay the same.)

[personal profile] mayoninofukucho 2024-02-21 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, that's probably why Hijikata hasn't been dwelling too hard on the history of the Walls. Everything that happened within his Paradisian friends' and acquaintances' living memory is already messed up and heavy enough without that entire other clusterfuck on top of it - though of course, it's all intertwined.

His expression turns a bit wistful as Eren asks about Avalon. Much like Prismatica, that strange place still feels like a home to him - his third one, and now Ellipsa is becoming the fourth. It's terrible, really. How thin can a man stretch himself across the multiverse? But at least he can't return to Avalon at will, having received no token to faciliate that. Instead they were only left with a cryptic promise that, should they ever have the need to return, Avalon would call them back.]


Yeah, I did. It's an island, a little smaller than the area we've got to explore here, but still big enough that you could go questing for days or weeks. Magic was in everything, and there were dangerous creatures in the forests, swamps and mountains, but it was all... normal. Not calamity-induced, I mean.

[The calamity was happening outside, with the multiverse frozen on on the brink of destruction while those called to Avalon worked on a multi-pronged plan to save it.]

It had two kingdoms: Camelot, the kingdom of humans, and Elphame, the kingdom of the fae, far in the north behind insurmountable forests and mountains. We had to work our asses off to prove ourselves to those damn fae and win them over as allies, but I'll admit that they did put in a lot of work to help afterwards. There were also several smaller, independent settlements of different kinds of people.

[Elves, swamp fae, witches... he won't even go into the dragons who could bring salvation or destruction, the insane necromancer who doomed not one but two societies, the glow of the will'o'wisps in the forest at night, his summer camp by the lakeside, taken over from someone he loved who was called back home, his winter cabin in the remote forest closer to Elphame than Camelot, with only his spirit subordinates for company.]

...

I liked it. How about you? Did you like Folkmore?

[He hasn't heard much about Eren's previous adventure either, and it feels comforting to talk about those worlds rather than Eren's cursed homeworld.]
mayoninofukucho: (Praise Mayonnaise!)

I'm loving it!!

[personal profile] mayoninofukucho 2024-02-21 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Hijikata, cool as he can arguably look in a battle, can also be shockingly dim at times. One would think someone'd notice a rock monster, small as it may be, climbing up their leg, but he only realises that something's amiss when his pocket starts bulging with pebbles. He opens his mouth, probably to let out a string of curses, and half-raises his arm to smite the offensive rodent, just as his companion's instruction lands.

Congratulations, Tartaglia, it seems as if he likes you enough to suppress his shitty temper (albeit with considerable effort)! Maybe it's because the Harbinger looks about equally pissed off. How dare this puny thing trifle with them?! They pretty much both have angry veins bulging at their temples. Even Hinobuta, usually less than subtle, stays still and silent, only narrowing its eyes in evident irritation.]


Do it.

[Whatever "it" is. He trusts you, Tartaglia! He wants blood!! Or... stone dust, he supposes!]
knowsvinewhip: (but she's touching his chest)

[personal profile] knowsvinewhip 2024-02-21 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
"I hadn't thought of it in that respect..."

That they were being trapped here. Maybe they are. After all, Eren has been here longer than he has. Eren probably knows the score, so to speak. Maybe it should bother him more than it does. But, then again...

"Trench was similar," he says, folding his arms to also gaze over the landscape. "The world I was in, prior to this. You couldn't return to your own world... and the edges of town kept most of the Beasts away."

Most of them. Occasionally. Until the seasons flipped and the tides of the sea literally turned. That's probably why it doesn't rattle him as much as it would have, if he'd arrived in a different way. A different time.

"Do you wish to leave?"
dreamsofwings: (76)

[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2024-02-21 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
Hakkai might not be normal, but he doesn't have Eren's mad freedom obsession; Eren doesn't really imagine most people think of it like he does. That doesn't change his mind, though.

Maybe the whole world can only ever be a cage to someone like Eren.

"Trench? You didn't come here from home?" he asks, unable to recall if he knew that already. Beasts. Titans. Walls. Cages. The encroaching darkness. Why are so many shitty worlds like this?

"Folkmore was probably a cage too, but it didn't have a tangible barrier."

He shakes his head, insistent. But his voice is quiet when he answers.

"No. I'd do anything imaginable to stay here."
knowsvinewhip: (Every driven word)

[personal profile] knowsvinewhip 2024-02-21 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
Eren that is possibly the funniest statement ever.

"No, I didn't," he answers, shaking his head. "I was in a place called Trench, or the 'Waking World', as they put it, for over a year before I arrived here."

It wasn't that bad. Not really. Once everyone learned how to deal with it, how to survive, it was somehow more peaceful than home. No road trip. No impending insanity that couldn't be solved with contact or incense. Which wasn't ideal, but better than completely losing your mind to the Minus Wave.

"I... take it Folkmore was somewhere like this?" A world that pulled people in at random.

And then he's quiet again, watching the landscape pass by. "Then... I hope you can. For all the troubles, it's quite a lovely place to remain."