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Entry tags:
- !event,
- aerith gainsborough; the sun,
- alucard; the hierophant,
- anakin skywalker; judgement,
- castiel; the hanged man,
- cirilla of cintra; the devil,
- commander shepard; judgement,
- dean winchester; the lovers,
- diana prince; the empress,
- edelgard von hresvelg; the emperor,
- garrus vakarian; justice,
- geralt of rivia; the hanged man,
- gideon nav; strength,
- goro; the chariot,
- harrowhark nonagesimus; the magician,
- hendrik; death,
- himeka sui; the fool,
- jaskier; the sun,
- jasper; judgement,
- jayce talis; the magician,
- jesper fahey; the wheel of fortune,
- jordan hennessy; the moon,
- julie lawry; the wheel of fortune,
- kell maresh; the magician,
- kylo ren; the tower,
- link; strength,
- nero (dmc); the chariot,
- princess zelda; the high priestess,
- rey; the star,
- rhy maresh; the lovers,
- ronan lynch; the moon,
- sam wilson; justice,
- shuten-douji; the devil,
- thancred waters; strength,
- thane krios; death,
- viktor; death,
- wanda maximoff; the hanged man,
- yennefer of vengerberg; the chariot,
- zhou zishu; strength
EVENT #7: THE SIGHT
Event #7 - The Sight
The night before APRIL 18, your dreams are disrupted by a vivid image of the same eclipse that occurred last month. The black sun seems to be an endless void in the sky, growing ever darker - until it suddenly opens into an eye that stares straight at you.
When you wake up, much of your night seems a blur except for the vivid dream of that eye. Whether you find it unsettling or try to ignore it, the image is something you cannot get out of your mind. If you ask, you will discover that none of the locals of your faction saw another eclipse. Speak with your fellow Summoned, however, and you may learn that while there was no eclipse that formed over the world, you were not the only one who had this dream.
Of course, dreams don't need to mean anything. You can't feel or see any immediate effects, and nearly everyone around you is going about their day as usual. Maybe you should do the same.
When you wake up, much of your night seems a blur except for the vivid dream of that eye. Whether you find it unsettling or try to ignore it, the image is something you cannot get out of your mind. If you ask, you will discover that none of the locals of your faction saw another eclipse. Speak with your fellow Summoned, however, and you may learn that while there was no eclipse that formed over the world, you were not the only one who had this dream.
Of course, dreams don't need to mean anything. You can't feel or see any immediate effects, and nearly everyone around you is going about their day as usual. Maybe you should do the same.
The Awakening
It might happen that very morning or a day or two later. You could be discussing the dream with a fellow Summoned or perhaps you simply brush shoulders with them as you walk by. Whatever it is, as soon as you make brief physical contact, one of you is struck with a sharp pain in your temple that grows into a terrible headache. It's disorienting and painful as the world around you shifts to someplace you may or may not recognize. Like an old film reel, you watch the events of the past play out before you: the past of the other Summmoned. It might be something they would rather hide, a moment of failure or despair, or something they are immensely proud of and brings them great joy - or even a jumble of several images over the course of a person's life. But you see it as if it were real and right in front of you all the same. When you come to, you'll likely find yourself on the ground or bent over, possibly with one or more people around you to see if you're okay. It'll take you a bit to gather your bearings, and the subsequent pounding in your head could last from minutes to hours.
Or, maybe you aren't the one who receives the vision. Instead, as you watch, another Summoned might grasp their head and crumble in front of you. They may go silent or groan in pain. They'll be impossible to shake out of their stupor until it's over. If you ask what happened, they may be inclined to tell you the truth - that you, you were what happened to them.
Or, if your Arcana signs happen to line up in a specific way, you'll see each other in the shared memory itself. You may also find that for certain Summoned, you can help soothe the effects, calm their emotions, or help draw them out of the memory before it consumes them for too long. It's not entirely clear what determines which effect, but one thing is for certain - within each memory, every Summoned as they appear in the past seems to wear the mark of their Arcana somewhere on their person.
For some, they might experience this only once. For others, they might experience it multiple times: with the same person, with several other Summoned, or with a different memory each time. Over the next 7 days, you'll find the Summoned around you are all receiving a glimpse into each other's past, as if the Singularity has awoken an eye within each of you.
Flee for the safety of the Horizon if you want, but you'll find that in there, it's much the same. In fact, inside the Horizon, the other Summoned don't even need to be anywhere near you - just existing in the Horizon space itself together will be enough to possibly set off a headache-inducing vision.
Or, maybe you aren't the one who receives the vision. Instead, as you watch, another Summoned might grasp their head and crumble in front of you. They may go silent or groan in pain. They'll be impossible to shake out of their stupor until it's over. If you ask what happened, they may be inclined to tell you the truth - that you, you were what happened to them.
Or, if your Arcana signs happen to line up in a specific way, you'll see each other in the shared memory itself. You may also find that for certain Summoned, you can help soothe the effects, calm their emotions, or help draw them out of the memory before it consumes them for too long. It's not entirely clear what determines which effect, but one thing is for certain - within each memory, every Summoned as they appear in the past seems to wear the mark of their Arcana somewhere on their person.
For some, they might experience this only once. For others, they might experience it multiple times: with the same person, with several other Summoned, or with a different memory each time. Over the next 7 days, you'll find the Summoned around you are all receiving a glimpse into each other's past, as if the Singularity has awoken an eye within each of you.
Flee for the safety of the Horizon if you want, but you'll find that in there, it's much the same. In fact, inside the Horizon, the other Summoned don't even need to be anywhere near you - just existing in the Horizon space itself together will be enough to possibly set off a headache-inducing vision.
The Factions
What has occurred between the Summoned will not go unnoticed within the factions. While it's difficult to say how faction officials have picked up what's happening, it'll be obvious they do know.
In THORNE, characters will be asked to remain in the castle walls until further notice. Characters will not be allowed to leave the castle grounds, not even to go into the surrounding city, and anyone who is already outside will be requested to not leave again as soon as they return. If asked, they will be told it's for their own safety, given the Singularity is behaving unpredictably and the Summoned have a unique connection to it. Soothing potions and healers are on hand to offer assistance, if anyone is particularly suffering from ill effects.None of the factions appear to be doing much more than keep a watchful eye on the situation - but as the week comes to a close, officials will start making a decision as to what they want to do and how to handle the Summoned who have demonstrated this unforeseen connection to the Singularity.
In the FREE CITIES, characters will find the army by the outposts show more activity than usual. A higher number of guards will patrol the streets throughout the event, particularly in areas frequented by the Summoned. Anyone who publicly and visibly experiences the effects of the memory share (pain, doubling over, etc.) will be offered assistance by the guards. They are generally there to help, but they are also there to maintain order and ensure anyone behaving erratically due to this incident is properly contained. This might include confinement for a day or two if anyone is especially posing a risk, but no one will be punished except in the most extreme cases, as the locals are aware this is not within the control of the Summoned.
In SOLVUNN, the locals will be watching what's happening with a mixture of trepidation and curiosity. Host families and neighbors will be on hand to help with charms meant to offer protection, as well as general care and assistance (soup, blankets, and so on) if your character seems to be especially under the weather or afflicted by the event. Towards the end of the event, more elders and mages will be out and about to check up on the Summoned to make sure they're doing okay. If asked, the mages will say they aren't sure what's going on, but that they are currently divining with the gods and hope to have a definitive answer soon in the upcoming days.
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Hennessy can't comment on the killing of his father -- because to be frank, she'd kill hers given half a chance -- but she understands defending a friend, and how complicated allegiances can be when everything's life and death.
She grabs a mug from the coffee station and starts filling it while contemplating the current mess, both interpersonal and magical.
"For what it's worth, I don't think he wants to kill anyone here, or he would've by now."
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It was uncomfortable, how much she'd hated that. In the Resistance she was viewed as a little odd by many of the people, but her small group liked her. Here she had no one, and he had an entire castle town that loved him.
"He's also killed everyone he might want to kill already, except maybe me."
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"Oh God, the fucking appearing out of nowhere after having clearly been observing you -- it's uncanny. How does he even do that? He's like a hundred feet tall!"
She grabs a bagel from a large platter and sighs dramatically about the whole affair.
"Look, I'm not saying he's 'a good person'" -- yes, the air-quotes are audible -- "But if you murder him I'm going to have to find someone else willing to stay up at night and make sure that my dreams or Ronan's don't end up eating anyone."
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"He's even bigger here, somehow," he'd never answered her question about how that had happened. Rey is not a tiny woman by any means, and yet he had made her feel small and fragile on more than one occasion.
The way the word "murder" is thrown out makes Rey feel a little sick, and she shakes her head as she grabs an apple.
"I don't know what would happen if I killed him. That's... another part of the story. We're connected. The Force... if part of me wasn't actively trying to block him right now, he could find me anywhere in this world, or any other." Not to mention most of her didn't want to kill him. Part of her still craved that night in the hut when he'd told her she wasn't alone.
She'd never felt that way since. That she wasn't alone in some way.
"Your dreams come to life?" she asks, trying desperately to put Kylo out of her mind for a moment. It's usually when she's thinking about it that it's the hardest to keep the wall up.
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The question about her dreams, by contrast, is easier.
"Yeah, it's -- complicated. Ronan can control his better, and he can help me control mine, but sometimes one or both of us still screws it up. Sometimes whatever we bring back is dangerous, and when we first wake up we can't move for a few minutes. Long enough to die, if whatever it is wants us dead."
Or if she dreams the ocean into a small bathroom.
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"That sounds..." Suddenly the less savory aspects of her abilities seem a lot more appealing. "Awful. But Kylo protects you both?" There's the light, that good in him. That part of him that's so much bigger than he realizes. Thinking about it makes her chest ache, but not in a terrible way.
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"He protects Ronan. I'm important to Ronan for some ungodly reason, so he looks out for me. It wouldn't last if Ronan weren't here."
It'd be a moot point, though, unless she learned to defeat the Lace. Sooner or later it would kill her.
"Though, I suppose if Ronan weren't here I'd become more useful to Thorne as a whole, which might incentivize treating me nicely for my own sake until I fuck up and die."
She's remarkably calm about it all, but she's had a while to come to terms with the fact that she's probably on borrowed time. At least cooperating with the mages gives her a better chance of learning the right magic to stop it.
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"If he's protecting you now, he'd keep protecting you even if Ronan weren't here. If he didn't... I'm here, now." Rey offers, tilting her head in an deciding manner, putting her tray down and sitting. "Anything Kylo can do, I can do too. That's the one advantage of being tethered to him."
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"You hero types are exhausting, you know," she settles on as she sits, a grudging hint of a smile playing at the edges of her lips.
"Theoretically I should be able to do what Ronan does without needing a babysitter, but my head's too fucked to make it work how it should."
She's working on it. She'd like to think she's improving, but she doesn't trust it. The risk is still too great to test it, and after the weird eyeball dream she's not gonna poke the bear for a while.
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"What do you mean?" She has an idea, there are certain things that she was supposed to be able to do at this point in her training that she is still entirely hopeless at, but it might be something more than just trying to clear all thought and commune with the living Force.
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She takes her time chewing, swallowing, and taking a sip of her coffee before she decides she can face explaining her failure to be a proper Dreamer to someone new.
"So, normal Dreamers are supposed to be able to take things out of their dreams, and to control them a bit. But without Ronan helping me, all my dreams eventually turn into the same dream, and there's something nasty in there. If it gets out -- I'm pretty sure we're all toast."
She's flippant because the Lace frankly terrifies her, and to speak of it seriously is to elicit questions like what am I that I have that in my head?, a question that's never left her since she heard it leveled at her by someone who saw only a fraction of the Lace.
"And thus far, I have no idea how to stop dreaming it."
That's it in a nutshell. She'd tried and failed. It wasn't a question of willpower, because no one wanted that thing gone more than she did. It wouldn't be shut down by her will alone.
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"Do you know the exact nature of whatever it is, or is it more of a feeling that something bad would happen?"
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Even if she wanted to, which she doesn't. Talking about the Lace risks summoning the Lace when she's asleep. When she's awake, it just summons mild nausea and an extreme dislike of her entire existence to date. It can't get her out here, but that doesn't mean it isn't waiting. One more mistake. That's all she gets.
Suppressing a shudder, she shrugs it off.
"Trust me when I say that you do not want to encounter the Lace long enough to describe it. If you're a mind-reader too, hang around me long enough and you'll probably get a glimpse."
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"I usually try to stay out of people's minds." Chewing thoughtfully for a moment she mulls things over, the Lace, that Hennessy seems so sure of the chaos it would wreak. "It sounds a little... like something that would draw from the Dark side of the Force. I wonder if Jedi techniques would work against it."
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"I don't know a lot about the Force, or what a Jedi is, but I'm open to experimentation."
All she really knew about the Force was that it's what Kylo called his magic. She supposes if her world generally acknowledged the existence of such a thing, her own might have a name, too. It probably did once, before the world forgot. Bryde would've known, but she doesn't.
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"He might actually have a better idea about this than I do, but I've picked up a few things too. I have a block I learned to do, to keep him out of my mind. I wonder if it would be possible to teach you to do the same thing."