[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

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.

[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.

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.

[helborn]

Maybe. You could fake your death in the desert I guess, but the midges would still be around.

[levelthreehooligan]

I was thinking the ocean might be my better bet - I can breathe underwater after all.

The midges might not be able to pick up on magic on a visual level, so that could give us another level of subtlety.

We just have to find the weak spot and exploit the hells out of it.

[helborn]

We'll figure it out. Just... don't do it too fast without someone to back you up in case you need it. Okay?

[levelthreehooligan]

I’ll keep it in mind as a last resort, Cass. Honest.