[Jaunt Week 1] [End of Week]

[helborn]

I... I had one of those dreams again. The warning dreams... focus on something else if you can't deal with stuff right now. It's... it's bad.


It was morning... I could smell food, but it was quiet. Someone was slumped over a mortar as I walked down the street. I touched them and they fell over - warm, but dead. Another body in the street, and another. They all had small wounds in the back of their necks, like... a needle, maybe.

A whole bunch of people were near the bay - they looked like they were running from something. Someone was defending some kids. Someone looked like they were fighting whatever it was off. Two people were huddled together as they died. And two people were being dragged across the sand towards a big square machine that looked like a trash compactor.


I... I don't know what to do...

[Individual Private messages to Thorn, Pinya, and Q'uila]

Please tell me you're okay... and tell me if you've seen Acantha, Sara, or Sprout recently. I... I need to make sure they're okay, too.

Comments

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[thornsofmalkav]

Oh god.




I saw Acantha heading toward's Stone's place a while ago. Sprout not since this morning. Sara not since yesterday. Were we... were we some of the people you saw?

Private

[helborn]

... You were with Sprout, yeah.

[dragoonrouge]

I think we shall need to act cautiously because a needle mark could in some cases be a bite from an insect... A midge mayhaps if you follow my train of thought.

[Private]

I am fine, Pinya is with me at the moment. I haven't seen the others but I can find the for you, just a moment...

[helborn]

Yeah... yeah... we need to get rid of them somehow.

[Private]

I just... I just... I'm scared, Q'uila. I'm angry and I'm scared and I don't want you all to get hurt because of me...

[dragoonrouge]

It may take some time, considering your dream we are going to have to be very subtle about this.

[Private]

I know Casper, but we know a possibility know and we can work together to avoid it. I have faith that we can do this.

Alright, Sprout is with Ceder... Acantha is in Stone's dwelling with Cain and Circe. That...is Concerning.

[Private]

[helborn]

... You tell me to be subtle and then tell me that?! I don't even know where Stone lives!

Private x2 protected 5eva

[thornsofmalkav]

Jesus fuck.

[helborn]

Thorne... I don't want this to be true. This can't -

I won't let you die again. You deserve better.

[Private]

[dragoonrouge]

In my defense, I told you to be subtle before I detected Acantha. I think subtlety can wait a bit longer!

[Private]

[helborn]

Directions. Please. If nothing else, Acantha needs to survive.

Re: [Private]

[dragoonrouge]

[Q'uila sends a memory of walking through the village to Stone's house.]

It should not take overlong to get there from where you are. I shall head over as well, just in case.

[thornsofmalkav]

... breathe, Casper. None of these worst case scenarios have come through yet, right? We'll keep this one from happening too.

[helborn]

I'm trying, but it hurts.

[His mental voice is 'audibly' strained, and he goes silent for a few long moments.]

I don't... I can't let you all get hurt because of me. I won't...

[levelthreehooligan]

I am so bleedingly furious at all of this, but I am still here.

I concur with Q'uila, it seems as though the midges have a failsafe in them. Nothing else on this land would have quite that level of precision.

If anything, be glad that your dream has given me reason to be cautious instead of... Well.

[Private]

[helborn]

Do you think... I don't know, maybe they'll attack us if we do something wrong?

[prince_of_pain]

Wait, what the fuck?

Re: [Private]

[levelthreehooligan]

I think if their experiment fails, or derails, they're not likely to stick around and see what the consequences are.

The ever-present cameras, the lack of memories and basic knowledge of how to walk properly, let alone your own name? It speaks of a level of control that is obsessive. It's like Omega all over again.

Who can say that your dream is accurate as to how they'll respond, but I think if we want a real chance of fixing whatever the problem is here, we'll have to err on the side of caution and not... explode everything like I so desperately want to.

[Private]

[helborn]

I'm pretty far out - I'm at the unicorn pens. Don't... don't do anything until I get there, okay? If anything happens, I want to be able to heal you.

[helborn]

Obsessive control... ugh. Remind me to lend you a copy of 1984 at some point when you feel you can handle it.

... Not exploding is hard, Pinya. I don't do subtle, I wreck stuff.

[helborn]

I have... dreams, sometimes. It's not a hundred percent accurate but it's a possible future or at least a direction things might go... I've had them since Harrogate.

Pinya no

[levelthreehooligan]

[Pinya can't help but laugh]

No, neither does half of my party. All I ask is that you give me time to plan what we do, to make your explosions as hard-hitting as possible. But to do that... I'm going to have to not be in the limelight, I need them to think I'm not in the equation at all.

...

How easy do you think we could fake a death here?

Pinya VERY no

[helborn]

... Pinya, we're not doing that. There's nowhere to hide other than the toilets unless you become invisible.

*shrug emoji*

[levelthreehooligan]

It seemed like the easiest way to stop people from looking for me.

Invisible isn't a problem, I am the adversary of trickery, after all. I still need an alibi though. Fenrir could come in as my doppelganger but it would have to be at night when he doesn't really have to act exactly like me.

[prince_of_pain]

Okay, fair but like what the fuck??? That's just. Wrong. On so many levels. And you say it MIGHT happen??

[helborn]

Or something like it, yes, if we don't do something.