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CyberConnect Corporation ([personal profile] cccorp) wrote in [community profile] altimit2023-11-11 06:55 pm

⬣//A Mirage, Exposed - 11/12

Who: █████████
What: Deception, revelation.
When: 11/12
Where: Root Town Of Unknown Origin
Warnings: Death, violence, others to be added as needed.





Overnight, the Root Town without a name explodes into a cacophony of noise. There’s a rhythmic one-two-three of hammers, but looking for the source proves to be fruitless, as if something - someone? - is hiding the construction site from view. The noise lasts for hours, and so the sense of foreboding only seems to grow stronger and stronger. It’s the third week, so by now it might be natural to wonder.

Is this going to be where we meet yet another advancement of the Wave?

Eventually, the noise stops. The islands go quiet beyond the whistling wind that never stops. Minutes pass, hours pass, and then there’s a scream.

Finding the source of the scream isn’t all that difficult - at the end of a rickety bridge there’s a pale, crumpled shape on the ground. Gray hair, ivory robes, ghostly skin that’s even paler than usual - the only color is the bright red blood that covers his face and stains his robes.

Owen is dead.

A bloody trail can be followed across the bridge, to a large amphitheater that wasn’t there the day before. Rows of seating lead down to a raised stage covered by curved arches holding up a roof large enough to keep the stage dry and hide lights and the mechanisms for the curtain. A deep blue curtain hangs, closed and hiding the stage from view. An orchestra pit sits in front of the stage, seats empty.

Someone stands in front of the curtains, a scythe in hand. Their blue cloak and hair almost blend into the curtain, but the dull, yellow eyes are unmistakable.

It’s strange, isn’t it? How long has it been since you’ve seen Anaido…?
sicklysweet: (3860288 (40))

[personal profile] sicklysweet 2023-11-19 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh. You don’t have to be so smug about it.

[Is it really smugness…

But he can’t be too mad or sulky with a baby goat, and the attitude is mostly for show anyways.]
bleatingedge: tee hee (wink teehee)

[personal profile] bleatingedge 2023-11-20 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not being smug. I'm just glad I was right!

[Leo plops down cross-legged as he dismisses his staff. The baby goat crawls into his lap once it finishes its nuzzle-fest against Owen.]

Let me know if you need anything, anything at all, and I'll be there.
sicklysweet: (pic#14878129)

[personal profile] sicklysweet 2023-11-23 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah. You were right, I’m happy for you.

[Ah… the goat has abandoned him.]

…Sure. I’ll consider it.

[That’s at least not a rejection of help! He’s learning!]
bleatingedge: aw you got him sentimental (smile soft)

[personal profile] bleatingedge 2023-11-23 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
[That's a start, at least.]

Good. Consider letting other people help you too. I'm sure most of us want to make sure we all get out of this... or at least, as many people as we can.