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Restart.
APOCALYPSE. It's difficult to say how long you're unconscious. Whenever you do wake up, it's warm; your limbs will probably feel a bit heavy, and it might take a while for you to come back into yourself fully - whatever just happened, it's disorienting, weighing heavily on your body and leaving a heavy fog over your senses, and for a long moment it may be tempting to go back to sleep. Slowly, though, everything will start to seep back in. The confrontation with Cyrus. Countless beams of light smashing down to earth, tearing everything in their path away. Judgement. The end of the world. The ruins still seem, miraculously, to be intact; pushing yourself up to sit up and look around will make it clear that whatever protected you from the attack on the world is still present, a swirling field of white light encapsulating the area and forming a protective shield around your group. The Lake Guardians are present for a brief moment, hovering overhead in a manner that's easily read as concerned, but as soon as enough of you are awake they'll take their leave - it's difficult to say where they're going and why, given that they don't offer an explanation, but all three of them are together still, having seemed to have found each other eventually over the past little while. Their protection vanishes with them, and their departure may leave you feeling empty; on the other hand, it may not affect you at all, seeing as you have other things to worry about. Leaving the ruins themselves and returning to the center of Celestic Town, it will be immediately obvious that something is very, very wrong. The first noticeable difference is in the people of the town; it seems that Cyrus adhered to his word in that everyone is alive, having been reborn after the world was destroyed. But there's something unwelcome and familiar about them now - the inability to process very much, the staring with nothing behind it, the lack of drive or desire to do anything for themselves, it seems that everything about them that made them a person has once again been torn away from them, leaving them dead-eyed and spiritless. The other differences are less noticeable, but as the day goes on, something seems...off. Not just with the people, but with the world as a whole. The passage of time and the expansion of space are things that everyone takes for granted; as long as the day passes by, the sun moving across the sky to fade into night, it can be assumed that everything is working as it should be. But the longer you spend here, the more it becomes obvious that something feels wrong; the sun continues to pass overhead, night will eventually fall, but there's an undeniable sense that nothing is really happening. The perceived passage of time seems more and more irrelevant to you, giving way to a notion that you're just...stuck, somehow. That nothing is changing, despite evidence that it should be; that everything is strange and stagnant and still despite the fact that you're still moving forward. It's this, maybe, that makes you realize why Lucas is twelve at the oldest, despite the passage of at least five years; the flow of time, the expansion of space... Both have been disrupted and brought to a standstill. Take the day to get used to your new reality; it might take some time to get accustomed to. [OOC: Welcome to the start of Week 14, the end of the world, and the beginning of the second half of the game! No NPC response will be given to this post, though you can thread here amongst yourselves if you wish; we'll see you tomorrow at noon with a new log for your further adventures!] |
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[It's light, though, not chiding or anything.]
I've been trying to talk to people, morale's kinda fucked but at least determination's still there.
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There is always something worth doing and I cannot bear to be idle.
[But of course she settles, more serious now.]
So I would expect... But our group has always been so strong. [A smile again, soft, fond.] We will recuperate tonight and be better tomorrow, however slightly.
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[He's already dealt with a lot of apocalypse-tier bullshit.]
It's good that you're taking care of 'em, though.
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[And maybe there's a sadness in the smile she wears when she says it, but she's as sincere in this as anything.]
Still, even without a true choice, it is so heartening to see everyone decide so quickly to carry on with such resolve... [The slightest tilt of her head, an offer more than an attempt to pry, and,] But then, you sound so seasoned.
[like is the apocalypse just the fuckin usual to you over there, jake? what the fuck???]
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Oh... Yeah. We've had a couple of attempts at ending the world happen recently. I didn't even know about one of 'em until a few years after it happened, but I got to deal with the second one directly. Some politician and his girlfriend decided it'd be a great idea to wreck the place. I guess no one got the hint the first time that we kind of like the world where it is.
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[because. like okay yes she ASKED but what do you SAY about that]
Forgive me—I cannot help my curiosity, but...of course every world will have its own calamities, and people steadfast in their destructive beliefs, but...this is a new scale for me.