10/29 --- Δ Haggard Traveler’s Reprieve?????

[gluttoning]

Who: ??? & you!
What: Something's starting...
Where: Δ Haggard Traveler’s Reprieve (Twilight Shoreline)
When: Sunday, 10/29
Warnings: Will be added as needed.

( Perhaps intrigued by the mail allegedly sent by CC Corp, perhaps visiting the Shoreline by chance, gating into the Area goes as it always does, until the music stays cut for longer than it should, and the black, liminal transition screen lingers for a little too long. The seconds tick on. They near turn to minutes. You can't struggle, you can't argue— you can only simply be, and it occurs to you that maybe you'll be trapped midway here, conscious, for maybe forever.

And then you hear static. Your vision warps; pixels strain into words, blurred and unstable. You see them combat for your attention; you see— )



( And then you load in. )

( POST NAVIGATION )
( Sign-in Comment (Mandatory) • How to Play • Mechanics

Phase 1 • Round 1 • Round 2 • Round 3 • Round 4 • Round 5 • Round 6

Phase 2 • Round 7 • Round 8 • Round 9 • Round 10 •
Round 11 • Round 12

Epilogue )

Comments

[ophidie]

[Ah… yeah. This was bound to happen.

Every pent-up thing is unraveled from her at the exact same moment, and she doesn’t so much scream from it as she sobs from the thickest muscle in her throat. Agonized.

((very slight allusions to suicidal ideation, take care of yourself!))

After all, it’s really unfair, that someone who spent their final moments pleading not to die should be gone, when people who wanted to give up on living are still somehow around. All the things she’s lost, but there’s at least one that wasn’t stripped, one that doesn’t go until the very last, even now. Even before she came here, hasn’t she always wanted to -

As her HP shuttles past 50% and straight into the red, Miharu’s body is immediately engulfed in the consuming fire Anyone who tries to attack her will receive extra fire damage. But why does she need to be attacked when in a crumpled, flaming pile on the ground?

The flames surrounding her don’t seem to damage her, either, each burn roiling each tick of the poison status effect away but doing no more than that; tick, heal, tick, heal, tick, heal, over and over again like a thousand little cuts waiting to be noticed. The rest of the status effects assail her unimpeded, sapping everything else away.]

[justonezero]

F-fire-?!

[Casing Pha Repth for a full heal and 100% magic and physical attack up now that the statuses are cleared, but...]

[ophidie]

[Provided this is still done after Leo clears her status effects (I know the order got a little twisted), the flames will die down.

Miharu - whose name everyone close enough to hear her friends shouting now knows, and that's probably fine - is stable, but after taking all of that she will probably be lying her on the tattered floor a while longer. Don't mind her.]

[justonezero]

[He does mind, so he'll look over to the others briefly before sitting down next to her.]

...Miharu?

[ophidie]

[She stays where she is.]

... You should keep going.

[It's still quite hot over here.]

[justonezero]

I can stay.

[ophidie]

[She doesn't have the strength or will to push him away any further, so she just sits there in complete immobile silence for quite a long time, like she isn't even acknowledging his presence.

Finally:]

Why?

[justonezero]

[That's fine, he doesn't need others to pay attention to him.]

Because you're a precious person.

[ophidie]

[For what it's worth, though it might not be worth much to someone who's primed to see those types of actions as rejections, he may be able to get the keen sense that she is simply burying herself somewhere unreachable, rather than ignoring him to be cruel. But the effect is the same, either way. It is cruel.]

Thanks, but I don't believe that to be true. [She winces, from lingering pain or weakness or some other third thing.] That's so far from what I am I could scream.

[justonezero]

No?

...Why not?

[ophidie]

There are a lot of things I don't deserve.

[For the rest of their conversation, she's still been looking somewhere else, completely still, but Miharu does turn her head to give him a rueful smile.] You healed me up, so I'll be fine. You have other things to worry about.

[She's not about to bleed her heart out here and now, even with the horrible snarl of tangled feelings and memories and experiences that yanked out of her just moments prior. It's really, really not the place. Nanashi should go help the others while she gets her wind back. She hates goodbyes, but some people might need to see them.]

[justonezero]

...

Okay. But - you do deserve them.

Even if you don't believe it right now.

[Time to go talk to Beel.]

[bleatingedge]

Misteaks-no, TARVOS.

[Leo goes to start a chain of expletives, but bites his tongue. That's exactly what this stupid fucking entity wants. So screw that.]

Data Drain!

[Data Drain Type H: Status.

He yanks as much data as he can from the beast, siphoning it in Miharu's direction. This fire needs to go, along with every other debuff she's currently experiencing. He may not know her, but no one deserves to be in a state like that.]

[ophidie]

[If his intention is to get rid of the fire, the status cleanse unfortunately will not do that, but as the status effects are removed, he might start to see the very slow and gradual build of her health.]

[tinged]

[ tick, tick, tick.

so she’d understood more than they thought. they still have HP/SP items to share, so they’ll stop by here to pass them to the healers, so they can use them for themselves or for her.

they’ll be back if she needs a fight. a favor repaid. ]

[ophidie]

[She is probably at least cognizant enough to know that they pass by, but certainly not enough to actually acknowledge them. What kind of understanding can actually pass between them in that moment? Who really knows. That's for another time.]