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MAY TDM.

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// PART I. waking up with a stranger  


So what do you say? What are you willing to do to erase your regret from existence?

These words ring in your ears when you wake with a gasp — perhaps the last thing you remember after hearing them is the sense of free-fall, or your throat constricting as tears threaten to fill your eyes. Whatever it is, you can’t shake the feel of dread — that whatever you’ve done in your dream has changed everything forever.

As the sense of dread fades and your heart slows into something resembling a normal tempo, you notice something you should have noticed immediately: you are not in your bed.

1.0   White walls, clinical yet clean, sparsely-furnished rooms. You may wake in one of three rooms: a room with only one bed, a room with two beds, or a room with four beds. Those waking up in rooms with more than one bed notice that they are not alone. Perhaps the other occupants of the room are still sleeping, only to wake up with their heart pounding… or perhaps they have been awake for longer, a spectator to everyone else’s dreaming.

What you do is entirely up to you: try and wake the others from their dream? Yell in surprise when you wake to someone staring at you? Or maybe you’ll try to sneak away before anyone else wakes...

After all, nothing binds the characters to the room they wake up in. If you find your bed comfortable, you may claim it as yours, or try to change rooms. However, there are only eight one-person rooms — so those who want solitude may have to fight for it.


2.0   Those with life-threatening injuries find themselves awakening in the infirmary, in a regular hospital bed. Most of their injuries have been treated, and any lingering illnesses or conditions will have designated medicine bottles on the table next to the bed.

White curtains surround the bed on both sides, giving an illusion of privacy. But is that a rustling sound you hear? Some footsteps? Perhaps you’re not the only one in need of some medical attention.

In fact, if you’re very badly off, you may want to hope for some company — you can’t stay in the infirmary forever, and will have to make your way through the hallways of the station to the living quarters, and claim a room and a bed there.

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// PART II. the welcome wagon  


Suddenly, the soft hum of the station is replaced by loud static, like an old radio being turned on. Wherever you are on the station, it’s impossible to miss it — or the clear voice that follows.

// VIVECA.AI
Don’t freak out! I’m the AI of this station, name’s Viveca. Sorry, these old speakers are old tech and don’t get much use… anyway, the reason for that should be on your bedside table. There’s an earpiece. Put it on, and it’ll explain how to use the network that connects everyone here. You can also talk to me through it, if you want.

// VIVECA.AI
Now, we weren’t exactly ready for you to arrive just yet, so the station’s a bit... hm, well, I suggest you go and see for yourself. There’s lots to do here, and I recommend you familiarise yourself with where everything is. Go train, go test a mission on the simulator, check the lab… as long as you stay away from the Northern Wing. Trust me — not only will you not be able to enter, but I’ll know, and that’ll get you thrown off the station faster than you can say "freckles".

// VIVECA.AI
Oh, and get to know each other. The success of your missions depends on that.

With that, the speakers go silent — though if characters follow Viveca’s instructions, the earpiece will provide them with a chance to speak to her again.

True to her word, there is a lot to do and see on the station. When characters leave their rooms, they have the chance to explore all of the Southeastern and Southwestern Wings, and the Center of the station.

3.0   In the armory, characters can try to work the machine to make themselves some weapons to perhaps replace ones that didn’t come with them to the station, or to simply be prepared for future missions... but there aren’t many materials available, so the more the weapon requires, the more chance there is of the end result being less than satisfactory. A gun whose barrel is made out of recycled rings, a sword that’s just the blade and no handle, a knife made out of cheap aluminium — well, it’s better than nothing, right?


4.0   Eventually, when characters get hungry and want to eat, the kitchen and mess hall are ready for them… mostly. What food there is on the station seems to have been stocked for long-term storage: canned foods, dried meat and fruit, dried herbs and seasoning, condiments, some rather musty root vegetables and cartons of chicken stock. It’s certainly not impossible to make good dishes out of those, but it may require some skill.


5.0   The lab provides an interesting space for those who enjoy tinkering and technology — though the parts available are all in large boxes with no apparent method to their sorting. It may very well be that what you need for a hoverboard or a robot dog are in the boxes — it’s just a matter of finding it!


6.0   Meanwhile, those who want to train (or perhaps let off some steam by sparring with others) find the training room suitable for their needs. On top of the entire room existing for the express purpose of training, whether it’s martial arts, weapon skills or magic, anyone entering the room will see a message pop up on their network:

Complete these tasks for a boon:
a. Teach someone a new move or skill
b. Win a sparring match against someone
c. Learn to fight with a new weapon, style or skill

Should you take up this challenge, any time you complete any of the three, you’ll see that one turn light green — a mark of completion. Once all three are completed, you’ll see a new message:

Congratulations! You are now eligible for one (1) boon. Please check in later for submissions.

But when is later? What submissions? Even if you try to ask, no answer comes… all you can do is hope that you haven’t done all that work in vain.


7.0   A welcome reprieve to the cold, dark space that surrounds the characters can be found in the sunlight room. A skillful illusion surrounds anyone who steps inside the room: characters will hear birds singing, feel a light breeze on their skin, as they walk through a grass field, a meadow and a small forest. In the middle of the room, a small brook runs the width of the room, and to cross it one must walk over a bridge — wooden, creaky, yet undeniably charming.

There are other things to do, of course… but the only room that requires a mandatory visit from everyone is the simulation room...

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// PART III. ready steady go  


For those eager to get started, it might be best to do a little practice run first, huh? When you’ve successfully entered the simulation, you will immediately be provided with a supply satchel containing the following: a grapple hook, a long cord of rope, a flashlight, and a couple of snack bars (these will not actually feed you IRL). And your mission, if you choose to accept it (and you must, right? Otherwise what else are you doing here?) is as such:

There’s an orb buried deep in the Lodgen Mountain Mines — a series of winding underground tunnels long since abandoned now that any and all useful resources had been picked clean — and it’s causing a little bit of a problem down there, but the good news is that it’s yours to claim so long as you can get in and get out. You see, there’s been a cave-in and the culprit is the orb itself. Extracting this valuable object might take a little bit of doing, and if that’s not complicated enough, the orb’s presence appears to be the cause for the mines being in their current state of fragility.

Still: you’re resourceful, and more than that, you’re determined, and you can enter the mines in the following ways: going in from the top and climbing down through the mine shaft; going in from beneath the rubble where a narrow but perfectly safe-ish tunnel opening leads back into the mountain; finding an entry point from the mountain’s side by way of a refreshing dive into the lake that neighbours the mines.

8.0   If you decide to climb into the mine through the mine shaft, there’s a risk of the rocks you’re using as hand and footholds to crumble, or for the rocks to give way against your weight.

9.0   If you decide to go in through the tunnel, be careful you don’t take the wrong prong in the fork of paths. One will get you closer to the orb, but the other might lead you into the darkness where the first thing you’ll notice are several beady little specks of light reflecting off the beam of your flashlight, accompanied by the sharp chittering of large monster rats who haven’t had a decent meal in who-knows-how-long, and are eager to befriend you. It’s probably a good time for that weapon you have on you, or if that’s not an option, maybe there’s something you can MacGuyver from your supply bag?

10.0   Swimming is always an option, but like all unknown waters there’s the risk that you’re not alone, and we don’t just mean your fellow teammate swimming somewhere close by. (Though you might want to continue onwards together, Buddy System Style and all.) There are beautiful, haunting creatures that live in the depths who have the ability to draw their prey towards them through song — Sirens, some might call them. They call to you now, and oh boy, don’t you want to dive deeper? See what secrets they hold? Now would be a good time for your swimming partner to pull you back to your senses or be lost to the waters.

But okay! You’ve made it. Don’t forget that the mines are still in a very fragile state, so it’s best to tread carefully and avoid making sounds that could agitate the delicate infrastructure and risk the whole mission — and your simulated life. This is on you. This is about you.

Or is it?

When you’ve neared the location of the orb, you’ll find that it’s mostly quiet and you’re on your own, except … if you stand still for long enough, you can hear muffled cries for help behind a large wall of rock right by you, sounds that are clearly distressed and panicked. But before you can make any kind of snap decision, there’s a tiny blip of static in your earpiece and a matter-of-fact voice will state that you should probably get going — there’s an orb to recover and you’re nearly there. Anything else you attempt to do is outside of your mission, and time is ticking. Will you listen to the voice or will you try and save the trapped? You might be successful, but time is running against you and the longer you stall the more unstable the mines become.

N O T E:   During each mission, characters will be given one personal goal to complete. For the purposes of the test drive, we’re offering three goals to choose from and leaving it to players to pick one for their character and run with it:

A   Choose the most difficult or challenging path into the mountain.

B   Help a teammate during the mission.

C   Retrieve the orb at all costs, leaving any possible trapped individuals to fend for themselves.

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vivecai: (18)

[personal profile] vivecai 2021-06-02 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you know how much effort it would be to change my voice for everyone? So no, this is the voice I've always had. Is there something wrong with it?

[ she knows of his regret, of course, it's in the system. but she hasn't bothered to pull up the info on karli morgenthau. that she knows the woman died and he regrets her death is enough, for now. or so she thought. ]
vivecai: (04)

[personal profile] vivecai 2021-06-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That's classified information.

[ said with her best ai voice.

after a pause, though, she adds:
]

But let me just say it's for the best, right now. I can't take the risk of someone going in and messing things up for all of us.
vivecai: (05)

[personal profile] vivecai 2021-06-02 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
In "search"... got it.

[ there's a moment as she adjust the frequency and tries to get used to scanning the em field instead of regular radio waves or something else. ]

Near the kitchen... oh, I maybe got something! Wait, no, it's gone.

[ clearly she wasn't quick enough with switching to scan, and she lost the field... brb trying again ]

Hey, I think I got it! At least it's giving me something...
retributioning: (09)

[personal profile] retributioning 2021-06-02 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I did. Doesn't make this any less strange.

[ she believes she might talk to everyone on this cursed station and still she would not feel any more comfortable with it all. but... ]

Shanghai'd? [ tilting her head, puzzled. ] Well, I don't have anything to lose. And if they're telling the truth, I have everything to gain.

[ and even if they're not... here, she's alive. so what if they're lying about the regret? what does it change? if they send her back, there's nothing for her to go back to. ]
hikachiin: (hika012)

[personal profile] hikachiin 2021-06-02 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
(the dream? ah. the saccharine voice asking whether he had a regret he'd like to settle. slowly, hikaru nods. there's no guilt in his own decision, not when it was done in the benefit of kaoru.

to have been aware of the boy's feelings earlier... that would have meant the world to him. he'd let kaoru have his shot with haruhi without having him to worry about. he'd start working together on their freedom beforehand so that kaoru wouldn't have been burdened to worry about it himself.)


... Yeah. We're here to deal with our regrets, right?
totheright: (careless)

[personal profile] totheright 2021-06-02 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ kaoru swallows. part of him had been hoping the dream had been just that. that the want he'd expressed at his most vulnerable would have just disappeared into whatever limbo he was in.

apparently, not so. he shrugs, does his best to stay casual. and if his tension comes through, well. they've just been abducted, so he can blame it on that. ]
Something like that. It's weird. I wonder what they all think is happening at home.
Edited 2021-06-02 21:06 (UTC)
hikachiin: (group002)

[personal profile] hikachiin 2021-06-02 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
(not that hikaru would think kaoru's tension is anything but the horror of being dragged into wherever this place is. his hand retreats from the other's cheek to his forehead and slowly, the older one rises to his feet. the world is spinning and he hates it.)

Couldn't they have abducted me tomorrow? Did it have to be when I'm hungover?
coordination: (I have already eaten the sand)

[personal profile] coordination 2021-06-02 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Transmute—? [ Repeated with a knowledge of the term itself, not so much with how almost easy the process sounds from the way Ed says it. Just make a door?

In either case, Yzak frowns and first glances down to the ground, and then up at the (unsteady) rocky ceiling. ]


I'm not exactly versed in compositions like that myself.
flowerinthemoonlight: (serious)

Yuri Tsukikage/Cure Moonlight | Heartcatch Precure

[personal profile] flowerinthemoonlight 2021-06-02 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ waking up ]

The first thing Yuri notices when her eyes open is white. Far, far too much white, bright and blinding. She squints before she blinks and comes to, pushing herself up onto her side with a hand.

The second thing she notices is that her hand is touching something that definitely isn't her bed. She looks around, shock slowly settling in as she realizes where she is. Or rather, where she isn't.


"Where am I...?" How'd she get here? Why is she here? Urgency overtakes her as she gets out of the bed and wobbles as she steps onto the bare floor. She walks around the room in what amounts to circles, touching the walls as if that'll unlock some answer. To anyone else who woke up, she'd look like a madwoman.

[ sunlight room ]

The strangeness of the station will definitely take getting used to, but Yuri supposes she can take comfort in certain things it provides. There didn't need to be a sunlight room, but whoever was responsible for the place had put it here anyway, and she's much more glad for that than she'd admit.

It feels vividly real that, if she closes her eyes for a moment, she can pretend it's not an illusion. She can savor the light breeze on the skin of her face, soak in the sunlight, reach down and brush her fingers over the soft petals of the flowers. The beauty of the place could put Kaoruko's garden to shame, though thinking too much about it makes her feel uncomfortably homesick.

She walks and walks until she steps onto a small wooden bridge, the creak under her steps loud in her ears. That's where she stays, leaning forward with her elbows on the rail as she looks down at the brook below.


[ tunnel ]

The tunnel is dark and cold, bits and pieces of the rubble occasionally sliding around her with her movements as she pushes her way through. She takes care in how she navigates, every muscle in her body tense and on edge as if waiting for the inevitable collapse of the whole place.

She waves her flashlight around every few seconds, squinting as her eyes adjust to the darkness. So far, nothing. She's starting to feel rather silly, wondering if she should turn back and try climbing instead, when she hears it.

The unmistakable, noisy skittering of what can only be animals, behind her in the shadows. She turns around and backs up, bracing herself as she curls her free hand into a fist. She might not have much in the way of weapons, and the Moon Tact won't be of much use here other than providing a flashy light that, if misfired, could bring the tunnel down.


"Stay back," Yuri snaps rather pointlessly, considering whatever she's facing most likely doesn't care about such words anyway. Maybe she's just saying it to hear herself talk, in such an otherwise creepy and silent area like this.
Edited 2021-06-02 22:48 (UTC)
flowerinthemoonlight: (neutral)

6.0

[personal profile] flowerinthemoonlight 2021-06-02 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sparring. Now, that's something she hasn't done in...well, it probably speaks for itself she can't remember the last time she did it. Giving up fighting in general, it seemed, had been part of going back to a "normal" life after everything she'd gone through.

So, when he approaches her, it takes a second for her to register the question. But she nods, looking him up and down. He's noticeably shorter, almost to the point of seeming nonthreatening, but she knows it's best not to underestimate any opponent.


"Ready when you are." She relaxes her body into a fighting stance, her fists raised and feet braced against the floor as she waits for a hit.
softcode: (MIDAS)

kitchen

[personal profile] softcode 2021-06-03 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh no...Chihiro can't really handle judgmental tones that well. Already he's looking a little nervous and unsure of himself, although he's not yet in tears. Cooking isn't exactly his forte, but he's not completely useless or anything. Devoid of any other options, he's defaulted to making a simple soup...and now he's being judged for it?

He wilts. Although from all appearances she wilts, since he's a reverse of the cross-dressing trope Hikaru is used to (for entirely different reasons). Even his voice doesn't exactly give way to that lie, since it's the sort of soft, higher tone that could belong to a girl or boy. ]


I...I just haven't eaten in a while...and I thought soup would be okay...
softcode: <user name=1361844 site=pixiv.com> (Wolfram Mathematica)

sunlight room

[personal profile] softcode 2021-06-03 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a truly beautiful room. A feat of programming and engineering, or something else...? Chihiro hasn't been able to figure it out, although he's been looking around. He approaches almost hesitantly, knowing he probably needs to meet the people here, but unsure...how to go about it. There's no one he recognizes even a little bit.

It's worth noting he appears to be female, though that isn't the case. ]


...Do you think this is...real?
callada: (this is definitely going in my writeup)

[personal profile] callada 2021-06-03 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
That is quite the assumption to have made, but then again, Rosinante didn't exactly think much differently. It's hard to fathom what a difference of seven hundred years even means - and is that really the difference anyway? Some islands use different calendar systems if they're not part of the world government, so why would other worlds use the same calendar?

Damn. It's so much to take in that it's hard to actually do so. The concepts involved are so far beyond what he's used to that he doesn't even know where to start.

He doesn't even really mind the stumbling, at this point. It's a fair question after what just happened. He's frowning anyway, but what else is he supposed to do?

"Probably," he answers, as he looks around the room - as if that will help him figure out how much of this everything he doesn't understand. "Most of it. I don't know why this information popped into my head here. I know there's something that can talk to us but I don't know why or how. 'Station A.I.', sure, but that's not an explanation." Maybe he'll start there, see if he can get an answer to that.
sunborne: (272. - 🔹 - PLANNING.)

[personal profile] sunborne 2021-06-03 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ that's good! both the answer and the reaction. daylight is pretty pleased that, so far, there haven't been negative reactions to his real appearance. he sees the guy is trying to take this in stride, more or less, and daylight is grateful for it. he promises to return the favour by trying to not use too much jargon from his home.

... emphasis on 'trying', admittedly.

all the same, daylight visibly relaxes as he pulls some stuff out. it what looks like rolls of gauze but shimmery and metallic in colouring, along with large sheets and tubes made of the same material. ]
We can work with that.

Just think of this as like, um, fixing up a... remote or something. Patching up your phone and stuff until an expert can fix it.

[ yeah. that's it.

daylight now holds up a roll of what seems to be bandages for inspection. ]


Do you know the different types of bandages to expect in a medical kit? It'll help with me deciding whether we should panel compression or a quick winding.
heartoftoman: (12)

[personal profile] heartoftoman 2021-06-03 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
...Ryuguji Ken. Call me Draken.

[ He introduces himself with his last name first. For a guy who looks as intimidating as he does, Draken can be a surprisingly grounding figure when he needs to be... Either way, he's going to try his best to keep Hikaru calm, if he can. ]

What's the last thing you remember? Before waking up here, I mean.
heartoftoman: (8)

[personal profile] heartoftoman 2021-06-03 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...That's quite some confidence he has there. To be honest, looking at him, Draken can't help but start to feel that maybe this is a bad idea after all... It's obvious that Wang Lu is pretty damn sure of himself, and it feels like that's just inviting things to go all kinds of wrong.

But it's not like Draken has any better ideas. So he keeps going without complaint. ]


That sure, are you? Well, as long as we get to the orb, that's all that matters. Just keep an eye out for anything unusual.

[ Speaking of which. Did he just hear something, or was that his imagination? ]
choosetruth: (bex13)

[personal profile] choosetruth 2021-06-03 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, I do get annoyed when you know more than me about something. So I guess it's good we're on the same page." The joke is week, but it helps a little. Bantering with Shaun is as natural as breathing. More, even. She might have stopped breathing for a while there, but she kept bantering with Shaun, at least in his head.

They're together. That's something, at least. She braces herself, digging her fingers harder into Shaun's arm as she swallows back the immediate panic and looks up at the walls again. Now that she's not actively panicking, she can see differences in this room. The two beds, for one thing.

"It's not the CDC," she says, trying to sound more confident than she feels. "It better fucking not be, anyway."
hikachiin: (group025)

[personal profile] hikachiin 2021-06-03 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm Hikaru.

(and finally, he breathes, his eyes closing while he recollects the events of last night.)

Kaoru and I were at a party... I drank a bunch... We went home, I crashed, and now I'm here.
hikachiin: (hika007 (1))

[personal profile] hikachiin 2021-06-03 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
(hikaru is not the smartest, most perceptive twin. haruhi had been easier to tell, but chihiro gender goes straight over his head. not that he cares either way, case in point, the aforementioned girl in boy's clothing.

more importantly than gender or even questioning it, is the soup that the other is making. hikaru winces, making a face at the possible taste that wouldn't be suited for such refined tastebuds such as his. he's too goddamn spoiled.)


I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. I'm wondering if this place has a VIP lounge with better food.
peasant: (alina-set3-12)

[personal profile] peasant 2021-06-03 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ we'll. kaz brekker, in all of his spindly and polished edges, strikes her as a man that chooses his words with conscious and careful deliberation — or maybe that's just the desperate hope inside of her, gleaming in her rich brown gaze as it turns to him with wide eyes that would look just as at home on a doe.

the command chafes, but alina's too overcome with relief for indignation to replace it. an audible breath breezes out of her alongside every unyielding argument she had already been poised to give, easing out some of the tension shaping her shoulders into hard ridges as she offers a short, sharp nod.

— and says nothing of the fear that curdles in the pit of her stomach, the dread of failure as she reaches for light welling inside of her. she has no guarantee it will answer when the darkling's hold on that power is bitten into her skin, chunks of embedded antler hidden beneath — and daring to bore through — the high collar of her shirt. what is rightfully her own, shackled to his hands. her eyes flutter closed, grasping for the tether that will pull it to the surface.

like a kindling spark between the swipe of her fingertips together, it flickers to life — an orb of white-hot heat spilling from her hands, sunlight leaking from the very pores of her skin in a hazy, eruptive glow. the cavern tunnels seem to flood with daylight before she concentrates it, drifting above their heads to illuminate the precarious stone wall.

specks reflect in her eyes as she opens her eyes, still unable to shake the incredulity of her own accomplishments, the disbelief over what she's become, and turns them on him. anxious, expectant.
]

Your turn.

[ she nods toward the rock with a tip of her chin. she won't do him the disservice of believing him incapable, as so many had thought her to be — small, frail, quiet. appearances are deceiving, she's found, and strength lurks inside the most unexpected people. ]
Edited 2021-06-03 06:58 (UTC)
chrysology: (What's worth)

[personal profile] chrysology 2021-06-03 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. With alchemy. As long as I know the materials I'm working with, and transmuting something with the same mass, anyway.

[It's a science, after all. There's got to be some limits. But it is still extremely versatile. Ed isn't so used to having to explain since most everyone back home tend to be familiar with alchemy even if they themselves can't transmute. He puts a hand to his chin, considering the wall, placing his gloved palm to it.]

I can probably guess though. Worth a try, right? Unless you have any other ideas.
chrysology: (Dying for)

[personal profile] chrysology 2021-06-03 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Alright then. Let's see how you do.

[Ed has been sparring almost every day with Alphonse for years. So he's rather used to it. And this is just training. To keep from getting rusty. To get to know what each other was capable of, right? It isn't like he would be going absolutely all out with transmuting or anything. Probably not even figuring transmuting his auto-mail. He stretches, grinning as he shifts into an initially starting defensive position, ensuring his hair is braided back out of the way.

It takes a moment before he then makes a move in shifting to close the distance, raising his leg to kick and being rather faster than one might expect considering the metal prosthetics of his right arm and left leg.]
leadingwang: (008.)

[personal profile] leadingwang 2021-06-03 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[He only seems more smug as they keep going. Reaching the orb? Well, sure, that's the main goal technically, but as a player, Wang Lu thinks that achieving the greatest victory is in discovering as much bonus content as he can and gaining the best personal score more important. If you speed run a mission it's fun for that rush, but the reward is in the time, not so much the full job.]

You don't think walking through a mine tunnel looking for an orb is unusual?

[He has to tease a bit. But he does look around, flashing the beam of light here and there. As he does, he catches a quick movement of shadows, but they always seem to flee before he can fix the flashlight on them.]

Just out of curiosity, you're not bad at fighting, right?

[This is a great time to double check the skills of his partner.]

Like, on a scale of one to ten.
heartoftoman: (6)

[personal profile] heartoftoman 2021-06-03 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, good. Looks like Hikaru's starting to get a hold of himself.

It's funny, though... Draken can't help but wonder how so many people could've been kidnapped all at once. If they'd all been taken from the same place, he'd understand, but the sheer number of people he's seen here already makes him feel like there's no way any ordinary person could pulled it off. The ones behind this would have to be a large group with a lot of power - or...

Draken hesitates. He wants to ask Hikaru about the dream, to see if he had a similar one. But that'd be ridiculous, right? It can't have been real... ]


If we can't find him here, then it's possible that only you were taken. That'd be good, because it'd mean that he's probably safe at home, right? So don't worry if we can't find him.

[ ...Well, there's a few other things it could mean, but Draken doesn't want to be a pessimist, here. ]
heartoftoman: (12)

[personal profile] heartoftoman 2021-06-03 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
...Vaguely. Couldn't hurt to have a refresher, though.

[ Though nothing that Daylight's holding looks particularly familiar. Honestly, this is... downright bizarre, and Draken's having a tough time processing any of it. Who would've thought that he'd end up having a casual conversation with a robot? Yesterday, he would've laughed in your face at the thought. But now... ]

I'm assuming it's different for beings like you?

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