in the woods dark and deep I offer you eternal sleep

[aarnethompson]

Who: Alba, Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna, Bruce Wayne, Cliona Donovan, Data, Don Draper, Ilde Decima, Irene Adler, Jae-hyun Kim, Jaime Lannister, Kalinda Sharma, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent, Martel, Nuray Amedi, Penelope Lane, Odessa Wander, Pepper Potts, Rex Lewis, Seoraj, Shrieky, Sunny, Wolfgang Einhorn, Xas
What: Something bad is afoot, and you must help.
Where: Abrogate Green, Badside, Barrackham, Chnum, Echomire, Flag Hill, Gallmarch, Ketch Heath, Pelorus Fields, Raven's Gate, Sangwine, Serpolet, Sobek Croix, Stoneshell, and the northern woods
When: July 22nd to the 30th
Notes: People are slow right now and a few are on hiatus, so slow-tagging and back-tagging are totally fine. Please check the accompanying OOC post for info and to coordinate.
Warnings: Disturbing content, will include violence, choking, drowning, body horror, and animal death.

Strange events tend to go unnoticed in Baedal, compared to the much stranger things happening around them. People don't tend to be noticed when they go missing, either. The city takes these things in stride. After all, people get called back to their homeworld all the time, or they die. Everyone knows this.

Still, rumors start cropping up around the city about the sudden appearance of twelve identical towers positioned around the city like the face of a clock...

ALBA ♞ Cliona Donovan
DON DRAPER ♞ Pepper Potts, Kalinda Sharma
ILDE DECIMA ♞ Irene Adler, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent
JAE-HYUN KIM ♞ Sunny
MARTEL ♞ Data, Jaime Lannister
NURAY AMEDI ♞ Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna
ODESSA WANDER ♞ Rex Lewis
SEORAJ ♞ Bruce Wayne
SHRIEKY ♞ Xas
WOLFGANG EINHORN ♞ Penelope Lane

Comments

[yeouiju]

The only reason Sunny does not find a way to discard the mirror once they're out is both a lingering curiousity for its properties and a reluctance for anyone else to get a hold of it. He folds it up in his jacket, though, half-consciously thinking back to that first moment of Jae's kneejerk fear and knowing now is not the time to press. Not now, while they're standing at the base of the tower, the lingering aftershocks of Jae's spell still keeping it moderately clear of people.

It had been the teeth marks. Those, Sunny hadn't wanted Jae to think about too closely. Not like this, anyway.

"Yeah, and it's kind of a hike. Think they'll mind less if we're going in a leaving direction?"

[boomvox]

If Jae could remember what the fuck had gone on, he wouldn't be so conveniently naive, right now - instead, his worry is centered around the gaps in his memory. They aren't uncommon for PTSD sufferers, and he's certainly experienced them before, but he hasn't had one this bad since-

Well. Since he got out of the facility.

What did I do? He doesn't want Sunny to think of him like that. Like some mindless creature, like - the one left in the tower behind them, dead.

"Skyrail?" He dips his head against Sunny's shoulder for a brief moment. "Quicker than hiking, it'll work out for everybody." There's the view too, sure, but Jae wants to spend the spiraling ride back to the beach making out with Sunny and telling him how badass he is, personally. (That'll probably annoy the shit out of other patrons but whatever, that shit happens in every subway in every reality.)

[yeouiju]

"Ooh." Because of course Sunny thinks of the view first, but the notion of sitting out and chilling with Jae next to such a view and ignoring it completely has its appeal too. An intense amount, in fact. His arm wraps around the skinny waist of the other man, tugging him into his side with that familiar if alarmingly athletic confidence of strength he ever so occasionally hints at. The bundled up mirror is clamped to his other side beneath the folded wing of an arm, ignored.

"Good idea. I knew I kept you around for a reason."

[boomvox]

"What would I even do if you didn't?" He likes it when Sunny does that. If he thought critically about it he'd be surprised at himself - liking that possessive talk, that demanding pull. Jae presses a kiss to Sunny's temple. "You're like my knight in high tops."

Flippant, but truthful. He'd have been eaten several times over by now if not for Seojin, something that he never forgets.

Presumably somewhere in between getting out of the tower and getting to the Skyrail, they are stopped by that old woman again and - according to the powers that be (aka editor's notes), they are given a solid gold rose. Jae doesn't have the same recoil instinct from the rose as he does the mirror, but he's still bothered by it. Maybe it really is just the magic of his captor subconsciously irritating him.