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Aloy, Despite the Nora ([personal profile] lightkeeping) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs 2022-07-10 05:09 pm (UTC)

horizon

i. new domain time
[The American West (or some of it, anyway), has spontaneously manifested.

Well, some of it, anyway. As with many domains, the mountainous backdrop is not necessarily reachable, though this particular addition to the neighborhood indicates a war-torn past, the corpses of military tanks and machinery half-buried in the ground, the implication of something far more monstrous in the distance. Thankfully, it all seems immobile. Defunct. Visitors can make their way through fields of red and purple flowers, and the ruins of what was once a home. There’s a strange stillness to it all. Blue lights dance in the distance.

One of the mountains—one that’s actually reachable, anyway, has a door. It seems Aloy hasn’t quite grasped the concept of locking away certain parts of her domain just yet, so the base is available for intrusion. Someone is talking in one of the interior rooms—Aloy, of course, who is leaning over one of the desks, seemingly lost in a one-sided conversation.
]

—I don’t know. It feels too much like what the Zeniths did. Locked themselves away in simulations and forgot what it was like to live in the real world.

[Probably as good a time as any to interrupt, though at the first sound of intrusion, she’ll stop what she’s doing and look up. Maybe she’s a little surprised.]
ii. life, uh, finds a way,
[From what she can tell, the entirety of the Horizon is only a few square miles. Easily traversable by foot, by why do that, when she can simply will anything she likes into existence? Aloy is not so comfortable with the Horizon yet that she’s going to venture outside the realm of what she knows, but when it comes to getting around efficiently, she doesn’t see the harm. If this place is real—real enough, at least, then it’s important for her to explore every inch of it. The last thing she wants is to be caught off-guard by something.

So, there’s someone new in town, doing the aforementioned exploring. She’s riding what appears to be, for all intents and purposes, a robot dinosaur. This is all extremely normal, of course. No need to flag her down (actually you probalby should).
]

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