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๐ผ๐ ๐ป๐๐๐, ๐ผ'๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ( open )
Who: Dean Winchester & Open.
When: April 1 - early May.
Where: Aquila; Cadens; The Horizon;
What: Demon shenanigans part 1 โ featuring hobo'ing through the Horizon, hiding out in Aquila, and then returning to the Free Cities.
Warnings: Rated R for sexual content, demonic violence, psychological abuse, and suicidal ideation.
๐ป๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐๐ ๐ -๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐
๐ผ๐ก ๐๐๐๐'๐ก โ๐ข๐๐ก, ๐๐๐๐๐ก, ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ก, ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐ โ๐๐๐ก, โ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐
๐ด๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ผ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ก ๐๐๐ค๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ , ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐ผ'๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ
๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐กโ๐๐
๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฆ โ๐๐
๐๐ข๐ โ, ๐ โ๐๐ฃ๐, ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐๐๐
๐โ ๐ฟ๐๐๐, ๐ผ ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐ฆ๐๐ข
๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐คโ๐๐ก ๐ผ ๐ก๐๐๐ โ๐๐
๐ต๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ โ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐
๐โ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐๐๐ค ๐คโ๐๐ก ๐ผ'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐
When: April 1 - early May.
Where: Aquila; Cadens; The Horizon;
What: Demon shenanigans part 1 โ featuring hobo'ing through the Horizon, hiding out in Aquila, and then returning to the Free Cities.
Warnings: Rated R for sexual content, demonic violence, psychological abuse, and suicidal ideation.
๐ผ๐ก ๐๐๐๐'๐ก โ๐ข๐๐ก, ๐๐๐๐๐ก, ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ก, ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐ โ๐๐๐ก, โ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐
๐ด๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ผ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ก ๐๐๐ค๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ , ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐ผ'๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ
๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐กโ๐๐
๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฆ โ๐๐
๐๐ข๐ โ, ๐ โ๐๐ฃ๐, ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐๐๐
๐โ ๐ฟ๐๐๐, ๐ผ ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐ฆ๐๐ข
๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐คโ๐๐ก ๐ผ ๐ก๐๐๐ โ๐๐
๐ต๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ โ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐
๐โ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐๐๐ค ๐คโ๐๐ก ๐ผ'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐

Horizon.
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With one very pointed exception.
One evening when Nadine decides to visit the Horizon, something will be subtly different in her domain. It might take her a few seconds to spot it, but once she does it's impossible to miss: a trail of flower petals. Roses. Thousands of them, sprinkled in a leading line for her to follow. Up the sidewalk of her quaint little town, all the way to the center. They trail up the stairway to that sweet, steepled church. Between the pews. All the way up to the front, where he'll be waiting.
The interior of the place looks different. What light streams in from the windows is red-tinted and dim. Something about the atmosphere seems distinctly... familiar.
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But this is...different. Her domain is set to mimic natural passage of time, night falling here if night is fallen in the real world. But the old fashioned streetlights and the ever-full moon are more than bright enough to show everything in relatively clear detail.
She thinks at first that it's Jaskier's doing. Who else would it be? Julie isn't one to make big romantic gestures, not towards her at least. If she were inclined to, Geralt would be on the receiving end. She also thinks the trail will lead to her little cottage just off the square - Jaskier's one of the few people who can come and go from her house as he pleases. Questions begin as she realizes that's not where the trail leads.
What the hell...?
Nadine follows the trail slowly, approaching the little church on the square. Curiosity is mixed with concern as she climbs the steps. Which only grows when she steps inside. She pauses, looking particularly small in her oversized white sweater dress and her hair down. What the fuck is this?
"Is...is something messing with my head or is this real?"
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He wants it. Whatever it is, he wants to open her up and find it. Dissect it, understand it, hoard it, keep it.
He stands cloaked in shadow at the very back of the church, red shirt swallowed by red lighting. Hard to spot at first, until he finally takes a slow, deliberate step forward toward the pulpit.
"Por que no los dos?"
Low, wry, rhetorical. Real, sure, as real as anything gets here in the Horizon โ but that doesn't mean he isn't messing with her head, too.
"I guess that depends on your definition of reality, doesn't it?"
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๐ค๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ( ๐๐๐๐ )
With a cough, a choke, a splutter, salt water is forced out of his lungs. Not that he needs to breathe anymore, exactly.
One limb at a time, he rises. Tattered, water-logged, but utterly healed, Dean Winchester walks to the city of Aquila. He's there for nearly another week recovering, thinking, strategizing.
Also, drinking, fucking, and fighting.
Eventually, curiosity and the compulsion for chaos have him returning to the Horizon for the first time since he's been back. He does not go to the Roadhouse. He does not go to Kaer Morhen, or to any of the other places he might be welcome. As a matter of fact, the more recognizable a domain is to somebody he knows well, the more likely he is to avoid it.
Instead, he wanders through new places. New temples, new landscapes.
It's there you're likely to find him, visiting unannounced and without permission, exploring the outskirts, or wandering carefully deeper if he thinks he can get away with it. He won't apologize if he's caught. Instead, he'll just smirk, and nod. )
Nice place ya got here.
( If it seems like he isn't completely unwelcome โ or if it seems like he is, but it could be interesting โ he'll likely be a repeat visit that surfaces up again later in the week. )
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That is why he is actually startled when Dean speaks, glancing up with wide vivid blue eyes. Somewhere, all five of the ravens who live in there turn to look at Dean with cold eyes from different parts of the library. They slowly start to make their way down, eyes on him, but still at a distance.
Istredd is oblivious to that as he didn't actually create them and stands. He looks the way he always does in here, the changes in the Pit did not cross over into here. He has better mental control than that. He feels like he vaguely remembers the face, possibly from the escape, but Istredd passed out not long after he was on the turtle and was in and out of consciousness. He doesn't remember most of his saviors, outside of the blonde woman who was sitting next to him and deeply sad. )
Thank you. I consider it more of a public domain, it fills in with books anyone who walks in remembers. You're more than welcome to, uh, do the same, if you want.
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He ambles closer, lazy, loping like a house cat, trailing fingers along the shelves as he goes. )
Oh, I don't think you'd want the kinda books I read, but uh... I appreciate the aesthetic.
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chaos mode
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Though, other than its somewhat futuristic (or at least, ambient-lit) ambiance, there is nothing notable to be seen here. Just a reception desk. Red banners bearing a foreign logo, strung up above. Shiny, shiny surfaces. The squeaking of leather boots on perfectly polished floors as the owner of this domain strides forward.
Brow furrowed, gaze rather placid. He's considering the other in a beat of silence, and then-]
There isn't much to see.
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Oh, now, don't sell yourself short.
( Don't mind him casually, slowly sauntering in the direction of one of those staircases. )
It's very Trek. I don't hate it.
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i'm assuming that dean has visited the club at least once before bc they've both been here so long
Steven, ever-present and omniscient within the club walls, greets him with a drink, as normal. But not by name.
It's not until later in the week, on a repeat visit, that Julie herself is present in the Horizon. She's in a booth at the back, scrolling through an iPad as her third, invisible hand takes notes on paper; she's loosely planning a party for next month, at least for those who were kidnapped. After once again delivering a drink, Steven appears next to her to inform her that Dean has arrived.
They share a concerned look. Dean has been declared dead. Half the Summoned are moping around over him, although Julie herself has not been particularly upset. The Roadhouse and his car remain, and though it's been pointed out to her that apparently forty people or something are all sharing that domain, she does not believe it would remain entirely intact without Dean's continued connection to the Singularity.
Disappearance affect domains, end of story. Her own domain used to technically be shared, connected by a doorway to Lloyd's Inferno. The space behind the bar, where there used to be a door, remains blank and empty. Something would be marking the Roadhouse like a scar if Dean were gone, in her opinion.
But he's still been missing. Not talking to anyone. Julie and Dean have never been close outside of the general orbit of their friend group, so she is... surprised to hear that he's come to her domain in this situation.
There's a stitch in her brow when she approaches, all shimmering gold and glittering crystals. ] Dean? What are you doin' here?
he has! he grilled at it on 4th of july
Julie's club comes close.
He's dressed differently than his usual Horizon attire of flannel and jeans. Now, he wears something a little more fitting of the setting โ a three-piece suit, but lacking a tie, and with the top button undone. A little more ruffled, like somebody you'd see doing coke off a mirror in a five star motel bar.
He doesn't seem upset to see her. In fact, his lips quirk up on one side, and he offers a hand out to her โ an offer to dance. )
Same as everybody else.
( With a pointed nod at the NPCs currently ignoring their presence. )
Having a good time.
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It's later in the month that Kahlil spends more time here, when he can be found - when fate decides that he's meant to meet whoever has wandered in today. Dressed in a grey cassock he's kneeling by the base of the tree when he hears and feels someone enter. Recognizes the voice too, though he can't completely place it until he stands and turns to face him. Dean. The one who runs the bar. The cursed man. He hasn't thought about him in the past month, not with everything else demanding his attention.
"If you're looking for the gas station it's next door," he says casually, cocking his head to the side. There's no immediate tension or anything to give away that he knows there's something not quite right with this man. There's nothing Kahlil has to fear from him in his domain. Dean doesn't even know his connection to Lucifer, as far as he knows. It's even possible Dean doesn't remember him, it's been a long while since he's stopped by the Roadhouse - but he imagines he's the type of man with a sharp memory.
"Long time no see."
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It's an obligation in the eyes of whichever god this dude worships. He has to fuck this guy, for the blasphemy, for the irony, for the vine.
"Howdy, stranger," he greets pleasantly. In one hand, a crystal fruit taken from Kyle's tree. He brings it to his lips. Takes a bite as he ambles closer. He gestures vaguely at Kyle with what remains of it. "Hope I'm not interrupting?"
If something seems particularly predatory about his Vibe, well, that's probably all in Kyle's imagination.
consolidating with cas' network post
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what is timeline idk
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slightly nsfw
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or, perhaps, he doesn't look that closely at all. perhaps he will just wait for the rolling hills and growing mountains and filling and then emptying lakes to settle. it won't take long before it all calms down to a field, ankle-high grass, blue skies.
yennefer is there - because of course she is. the moment she felt someone enter she locked the door to her classroom and sat back. what the intruder will see now is a woman, long black dress catching the gentle breeze, and violet eyes somewhere between annoyed, curious, and exhausted. ]
And you weren't invited. Leave.
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This version of the man doesn't. He wanders, a slow and curious amble, extra-human senses alight like they're seeing more colors on the visible spectrum than the naked eye should be able to perceive.
Magic and mountains.
Powerful and pretty.
A few of those words apply to the woman rather than the landscape. Her lack of welcome earns her nothing but a smirk, and between one blink and the next, green eyes shutter over to a consuming, encompassing black. )
Or.... what? Where's your hospitality, gorgeous?
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[Lucifer is sitting cross-legged on a patch of ice that connects back to the beach, pockets of snow over sand. The red lake is currently half frozen, but below where he sits instead of more red there is a weaving pattern of colors almost like an aurora. Lucifer has a hand pressed close to the ice, carving nonsense with a fingernail, almost looking like he's painting because with every curve and coil of a symbol the contained color changes.
He's working, thanks. Go away.] Predictable, really. I told Geralt you couldn't die. So strange that people don't believe me when I tell them the truth! [Almost like he's the Deceiver.
He does not shift around to face Dean despite how much he very much needs to.
Because whatever that is behind him? Oh, that is not currently human. Shouldn't be a demon either though so that's. Real damn fascinating.] How's it going, Dean?
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That man is dead, and something else stands in his place: a little shit. A fucking chaos gremlin.
A bored chaos gremlin, jonesing for entertainment and coming up short. His brilliant idea? Poke the bear. Tickle the sleeping dragon. Screw with Satan. Shits and giggles, thy name is-
Go away; nah. He ambles closer, one deliberately slow step after another. )
Oh, you know. ( He shrugs one casual, absent shoulder. ) Can't complain. Easy, breezy, beautiful, Covergirl.
( He slows to a stop just a foot or two from Lucifer's side, head cocked, staring down at the colors as they change and shift.
Cute work, Van Gogh. )
You got it a little wrong, though, sweetheart. I definitely died. ( He tips his head to one side, a short concession โ and as he does, his eyes flicker black. ) I got better.
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cw: snake attack
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cw: snake attack, consumption
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He's lurking in the lounge, sitting at the piano but not playing it, attention having shifted when he sensed a stranger in his domain, but he doesn't make any particular move just yet. Instead he lets Dean explore a little, at least until he's noticed and Dean makes his comment about the place being nice.]
Thanks.
[The response to the compliment is polite enough, but distracted; Dean looks very, very vaguely familiar, like Jayden might've seen his face before, but he can't place where.]
I don't think we've met?
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In this instance, it's a denim-wrapped flannel-clad fuckboy. As it just so happens, aforementioned bored fuckboy is drawn to things like hotel lounges. They usually have bars, and they're attached to a place with beds. It's convenient.
When he ambles Jayden's direction, it's with a nice, full glass of whiskey in one hand and a curious quirk to one eyebrow. )
Probably not.
( He muses, giving Jayden a too-thorough once-over. The feeling's mutual, he thinks he's maybe seen this face before, but nowhere in his mind does he have a name to pair with it. He doesn't immediately ask for one, either. Instead, he nods his head at the piano. )
You just gonna sit there, or you gonna play that thing, Billie Joel?
( Get it? Because... piano man. )
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Aquila.
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He doesn't give a crap about them. He doesn't actually give a crap about much of anything, actually.
There are exactly two things on his radar right now: sex & alcohol, mostly in that order. Things that get in the way, people that seem to annoyingly impede his access to these two things? Well, they get taken out of the equation.
He does not leave a trail of bodies, exactly. That would imply he's going on some kind of serial spree, which ain't the case. It just... happens to be that a small handful of ne'er-do-wells never make it home after they pick the wrong fight with the wrong obnoxious drunk. He's careful enough that there are no witnesses. He bounces around between enough pubs and taverns that it's hard to connect him to them.
It's not so much that he has a newfound hard-on for homicide. Rather, it's that he simply has no regard for the sanctity of human life, or for anything other than fulfilling whatever whims motivate him in the moment.
Sometimes that means contentedly getting belligerently shit-faced in a pub, sometimes that means being charming enough to hit on whoever happens to be nearby regardless of gender or station. Sometimes that means stalking some asshole home and killing them in their sleep. A lucky or particularly sleuthy individual can find him at any stop along this path. )
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it's a long shot, a last ditch effort. at best, it's the most ill-advise attempt at trial and error. castiel has to try, he owes him that much. whatever else dean means to him, he's his family first. as the frequently preached saying goes - we don't leave family behind.
for several nights, cas keeps tabs on the few seedier taverns he knows of in the city, once he learns dean's in the area. the majority of his last paycheck from the clinic goes towards greasing palms, but once he knows dean's entered one, cas has to work fast. the alleys and side streets in Aquila are a mix of cobblestone and dirt. it's easy enough to paint the devil's trap across the width of the stone alley behind the bar, then bring some buckets of dirt to scatter across the length of the visible street from the back door. He had to create his own rosary, stringing together beads, reciting prayers as he hammered the cross out, but it was enough to bless several flasks and a full bucket of holy water.
knowing the first sight of him would send dean on an escape path, cas takes a new angle with what he learned from his last encounter. far from the most morally sound of strategies, using some unfortunate innocent as bait, neither sam or jo are here to object. his partner in scheming is a male prostitute, approximately the age, height, and build of kyle. that appeared to be this hedonistic dean's type, and it's become clear what his current appetite for sin includes. castiel pays the man to linger in the club, drink, flirt and distract dean long enough for Cas to finish the trap. dean's easy enough to play out a non-commercial attraction to, and his cohort doesn't have to fake interest when he lures dean towards the back alley with the promise of quick, emotionless, non-strings attached sex.
As soon as Dean steps down from the back door's stoop, he's entered the devil's trap, and Cas announces himself via a bucket of holy water splashed directly into his face. his paid accomplice seems less than willing to split, but after a barked go, while dean's skin is sizzling, he's flustered enough to make his escape.
not knowing how long the trap will hold him, cas starts into the exorcism immediately. ] Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus.
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What Dean got when he walked into this alley: a face full of what feels like fucking acid burning his flesh off.
He hisses and recoils, snarling at the blurry figure he can't quite focus on until he raises his forearm up over his eyes, shielding them from more backsplash. Slowly but surely his retina knits itself back together, and he can see โ right on time for a familiar voice to start grating out words that make his god damn bones itch.
Slowly, he lowers the arm and glares daggers at the tweedly little douchebag reciting poetry at him. )
What, is it your holy mission to cockblock me now?! What the hell are you doing here, you sad clueless jackass? ( The words, the voice, are like nails at a chalkboard. They're like painful, stinging horseflies biting at his ears, and he swats absently at nothing. ) You can't exorcise me, you idiot, I'm not possessed.
( For the love of not-god, he's gonna spitroast this motherfucker.
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Cadens.
sแดสแดแดษชษดษข ( แดแดแดษด )