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tabularasa_rp2020-10-04 04:54 pm
abeautifulgame) wrote in tabularasa_rp2020-10-04 04:54 pm
open | i hit the bottom but I'm on the mend
Who: Damien Brenks + You
What: Prompts below.
Where: All over the place
When: Throughout the month of October.
Content Warnings: Implied nudity? Nothing graphic, though.
What: Prompts below.
Where: All over the place
When: Throughout the month of October.
Content Warnings: Implied nudity? Nothing graphic, though.
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Uh... well. Maybe.
[Very decisive, Noct.]
Still need to figure out a way to get back home, but now I'm kinda trying to figure out what's going on.
[Because yeah, stuff just keeps appearing and changing and he would very much like to know who's doing all this, if it's not all a dream.]
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I wouldn't spend too much time on that. So far, I've got nothing. No one does. [it's fucking frustrating. it won't be long, he thinks, before he goes back to wishing this place would throw him a clue to this puzzle it's put in front of him]
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Yeah, kinda getting that.
[He sighs.]
Thing is... the stuff that happened at home before I got here? I don't know if this is... supposed to happen?
[He knows he got pulled into the Crystal, but as far as he knows, there's no precedent for that sort of thing. For all he knows, this is some weird alternate dimension and the logical place for him to have ended up? Especially since Tifa's world has some similarities to his.]
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[because he's pretty sure, at least in his case, this absolutely wasn't supposed to happen. he was, he imagines, supposed to get killed by Aiden in the next half an hour or so. so, what the hell was Noct doing that this might have been a natural progression of events?]
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Okay, this is gonna sound weird, but. My magic comes from this huge crystal that's kind of a... royal heirloom or whatever? And it got taken by the empire that we've been at war with for, like... ever. When we got to where they were keeping it, I touched it and got, like... sucked into it. And then I was here.
[Yeah, his life is weird.]
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Well, I'm pretty sure this wasn't supposed to happen, for me. [a beat] Some of us are mere mortals. There's no magic, where I come from. [and boy, is he bitter about that. he's the only person here without power, as far as he's aware. at least no one here can use theirs]
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Yeah, I guess it doesn't make a lot of sense for a lot of people if they're from somewhere like that.
[He frowns, thinking.]
Do you remember, like... I know most people just wake up here.
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[he pauses, frowning as he squints into some middle distance. after a beat, he shakes his head, and returns his attentions to Noct, shrugging]
I was on top of a lighthouse, in the middle of blackout, and then I was here, in the nothing. [a beat] There was literally nothing here, when some of us first got here. [and another] It was like it is out past the shrine. [where the setting gives way to the Void]
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[His other theory is that this is all a dream somehow - though he doesn't know how much sense that makes considering no one here is anyone he recognizes -- unless it's some kind of weird communal dream, but there's still the alternate dimension thing, considering how few of them do know each other, and...]
[Oh, he's just going to give himself a headache.]
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[a beat]
I take it your other prevailing theory is that this is all a dream? [it's not his take on what's going on here, but it's one he's heard before]
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Yeah. [He pauses a beat before he goes on, wryly.] I don't have too many theories.
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I've heard dream, some kind of computer simulation, something in between involving how we perceive things, that maybe this is some kind of sentient planet and it drew us here to help sustain it. [that last one is a little horrifying to him, a lot horrifying. he's really glad only one person he's spoken to has posited it] I'm not entirely sure which camp I'm in, anymore.
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Yeah, those are all kinda equally good guesses, though. I mean, considering no one actually knows what's going on.
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[a beat]
That's one of my biggest bitches about this place. It would be nice to have some indication, one way or another. [it would be nice to have even a clue, something he could dig in and obsess over, but no. and isn't that a bitch?]
[ .... whatever. at least he can get to the bath house, now. he's going to just try and focus on that and not let his own mood tank]
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[It seems so random for most of them.]
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[where there's no one here from his world (which is probably for the best, but). where he has no supernatural power, unlike everyone else here. where he's not in the teenager-to-young adult age range. and so on. he's an outlier in so very many regards. he breaks nearly every connection one might make about the people who have ended up here]
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Yeah. Most of us are from different places and times, and some people are... robots or just not human looking at all?
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Have you met Legion?
[who is a robot, as far as he understands it, but -- hooboy, there's a lot to unpack there, just beyond that. it's kind of amazing. and getting a little off topic, but]
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Yeah. Why I mentioned robots, actually.
[It's definitely amazing.]
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Great minds.
[a beat]
But they're -- fascinating, aren't they? [there's really no other word for it, even if he tried to find one]
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Yeah, they are. It's cool knowing robots that are actually, like... people instead of just being fighty things.
[Yes, he said fighty.]
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Mm, fighty -- is that a technical term?
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Oh, definitely. You mean you've never heard it before?
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You know, come to think of it ...
[and then he drops his hand, smiling outright now]
Smartass.
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