mirror_mod: (city 2)
mirror_mod ([personal profile] mirror_mod) wrote in [community profile] asidarap2012-06-05 10:32 am

Day 1

The first sign is maybe different for all of you – the hard ground underneath you, the lack of a body next to you, or no blanket to pull over your shoulders when you reach for it. Either way, when you open your eyes you know for certain you aren’t in the castle.

It’s a little too quiet here, except for the sounds of people around you moving about. There is a strange, unreal quality about everything, as if were viewed through the grimy patina of an old piece of film or photograph and half-realized blurs of images and words seems to hang suspended in the air like solid smoke – there but not quite there.

The group seems to be at the edge of a dead forest, the trees dark and twisted and the ground swirling with mist. A path seems to lead into the depths, but the sky that way is cast with dark umber and hanging shadows that don’t seem terribly inviting.

Not far off, however, is a long stone bridge stretching over a chasm of nothingness and leading to what looks like a city. Far beyond the rooftops, there is the briefest glimmer of dazzling light, gone almost as soon as you see it.

((OOC: WAIT FOR SECTIONS PLEASE! Aaaaaand GO!))

WAKING UP | THE CITY
wolfuncaged: ([Disgust] Trust issues up the wazoo.)

[personal profile] wolfuncaged 2012-06-06 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[He takes a deep breath, before striding towards it.

An elf and a small girl against whatever the hell is in there.

They'll be fine, right? Right?
]
perfectisnteasy: (oversee the games (like a boss))

[personal profile] perfectisnteasy 2012-06-06 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Huh, sounds almost like a virus. [now he's REAAAALLY curious. he looks back at the Marker, wheels in his head turning.]

You think a thing like that might have the power to reprogram the castle itself?
persequor: (fallen.)

[personal profile] persequor 2012-06-06 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Arya follows quietly, stealing glances at the cherub as she walks.
]

It feels like it's staring at us...
perfectisnteasy: (oh yes indeed programs)

all the father issues CR y/y?

[personal profile] perfectisnteasy 2012-06-06 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Considering I'm not able to, and I'm here? Prob'ly not.
cloakand_danger: (Or are you gone and on to someone new?)

[personal profile] cloakand_danger 2012-06-06 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs bitterly.] I wonder. The original was destroyed, and the world change did end when it was. Still, it seems unlikely that something powerful enough to affect the castle itself would leave alone a resident capable of destroying it, so I suspect it was just another of the castle's games.
ironlady: (emptiness)

[personal profile] ironlady 2012-06-06 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Not in this exact fashion. The castle has a tendency to drop us in different places or change itself period.

[Caterina nods.] But let's move on. I'd like to see if they are all themselves still.
ironlady: (Default)

[personal profile] ironlady 2012-06-06 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
We do. Where we will find it is another matter entirely.
perfectisnteasy: (have a drink on me)

[personal profile] perfectisnteasy 2012-06-06 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[CLU takes a moment to think that over, then turns back to Yuan, smiling maybe a little brightly for someone discussing mind control] You know, that's the most sound logic I've heard out of a User since I arrived here. What's your name, man?
persequor: (on.)

[personal profile] persequor 2012-06-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.
succubitch: (Feeling like a criminal)

[personal profile] succubitch 2012-06-06 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Lilah wasn't as put together herself as she normally was, dressed only in the nightgown she had been sleeping in. Her hair was a little more flyaway then it normally would be.

Not that she carried herself any different, of course. She walks a little brisker, until she's managed to catch up with Fred.
]

Well, I didn't think you were a willing captive.

[If there's anything she and Fred have in common, they're survivors, people who will fight tooth and nail to get out of situations. Who don't like things being out of their control. She can understand the sentiment.]
demontobeloved: (panic)

[personal profile] demontobeloved 2012-06-06 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[The first thing Cole can sense as he wakes up is his total lack of powers... And a sense of panic. He sits bolt upright.]

No powers... Can still feel...

[There was still that sense of his demonic side, but Belthazor still sleeps, and he doesn't need his strength to keep him at bay. Seems this place does more than depower...]

Thank god...
cloakand_danger: (Of hopes and dreams)

[personal profile] cloakand_danger 2012-06-06 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[this strange person is calling him a user. Yuan is not sure how to feel.] ...Yuan. And just what do you mean by 'user'?
gevurah: (sune stop being so hot)

[personal profile] gevurah 2012-06-06 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
It's like out of a messed up fairy tale. [ Kate eyes the fish, trying to make out their shapes properly. ]

It looks like the City...
persequor: (last.)

[personal profile] persequor 2012-06-06 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Mo—!

[ She freezes in the doorway, eyes wide.

Empty. It's empty. It's not their room and her mother isn't there.

Arya shakes her head.
]

But I saw her. She was here. I saw her, I did!
perfectisnteasy: (why you put ISO in my code man?)

[personal profile] perfectisnteasy 2012-06-06 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
A human ... or just someone not of the Grid, like me. [he holds up his disc by way of explanation]

I'm CLU. Stands for Codified Likeness Utility. I was the Grid's system administrator, 'fore me and my User got sucked over here.
fredless: (Profile : Thoughtful and Pink)

[personal profile] fredless 2012-06-06 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. [Her reply was quieter, distracted as another school of fish passed overhead. This time she manages to brush against one. She studies her fingers for any lingering trace] Definitely not willing.

Have you managed to make contact with anybody back home?

[Her steps falter slightly as Fred hears her own words. Did she really just call it home?]
save_the_souls: (checking in)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-06-06 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[personal profile] chippedcup 2012-06-06 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Probably the city in the distance is our best bet. [She gestures in that direction.] I doubt standing on the edge of this forest is going to get us much.
cloakand_danger: (Has someone taken your faith?)

[personal profile] cloakand_danger 2012-06-06 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
You're...a computer program? [That's...one of the stranger life forms he's encountered within Paradisa, although it does explain the glowy lines and why this guy isn't half-naked like everyone else.] I...see. I think.

[But even that can't distract him from the presence of the Marker lookalike for long. He glances back at it, and has to suppress another shiver.] ...I don't know that this one is the real thing. I haven't had any compulsion to touch it yet. ...But I'd still recommend not lingering near it.
save_the_souls: (an uphill road)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-06-06 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Mm...it does this a lot.

But regardless, I'm sure we'll be all right.
perfectisnteasy: (watchin' the game - havin' a Bud)

[personal profile] perfectisnteasy 2012-06-06 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[oh god computer logic is going to get him into so much trouble GO FIND HIS USER, YUAN, OMG.]

So ... this marker. Everyone it affected, they were all Users, right? No programs?
persequor: (bitch please.)

[personal profile] persequor 2012-06-06 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ What a stupid thing to be thankful for, Arya thinks, but she keeps her opinion to herself. ]

[personal profile] chippedcup 2012-06-06 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Hm? [She looks over at her, and then looks around.] You're right. It does and yet...not.
save_the_souls: (I have to fight)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-06-06 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Less fun than Ponyville for you Fenris?]

Neither would I, from the sound of it.
atadiscoverer: (awe)

[personal profile] atadiscoverer 2012-06-06 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Carson had woken up with everyone else, and is now walking towards the city with the others.

In his hand is a small device, which doesn't seem to be working. Carson isn't paying it much heed, however, since he's just staring around the area.]

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