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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] repeter2019-01-17 05:32 pm
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EVENT + TDM


I. - CURRENT PLAYERS + TDMERS
It's been days since the firewall took over the city of Recollé. The heat is still present even in mid-January and though the wall has consumed much of the outer edges of the city, the buildings and innerworkings of each district are unaffected and still standing tall. Firefighters are working endlessly to try and put out the flames and combat the issue, but the flames only begin to lessen as Retrospec users work together to curb the fire and stop it from spreadng.

This might be the time to jump in and help. Previously, you may have tried to help and found your efforts futile. Those new to the app may even have found themselves thinking the flames were best left to the professionals once the assessment was made that there would be minimal damage. However, there seems to be a power tied to that new app on your phone. Should you attempt to help put out the flames, your efforts shall be rewarded and a pathway will open into a tunnel of fire with a series of doors spread before you.

With many of you finding your way through the firewall and unlocking the doors within, progress is being made to wear down the security measures. Points in the wall will begin to crumble under touch alone and rows and rows of doors begin to appear. The flames are starting to die down outside, but it becomes clear that it's not just a few chambers you must explore. Several thousands of doors are scattered amongst the flames waiting for you to approach. Luckily you won't have to open all of them. The silver doors loom in the distance, but thanks to the efforts of the last two weeks, identifying the doors is much easier than before.

While several of the doors that have been opened are easy to navigate, users will come to find that as they approach a new door an error message will appear and block the path to the door. These messages will not appear on doors that do not contain keys, though this pattern may not be obvious at first. Sometimes the messages will appear just by walking in any of the cardinal directions inside the fire tunnel, popping up right in front of your face and forcing you to walk straight into them. These pop-ups can be dismantled via physical force or magic, though you may wish to be careful. Anyone who directly touches these messages will find themselves…multiplying? Oh dear. Two, three, or even four copies of yourself will appear and begin to wander off not only in the tunnels but back through the wall and out in the city of Recollé. Users who are split apart will have to round up all versions of themselves to become whole again, and the clones themselves will be more than happy to wander as they please, posing as you and attempting to deter others from progressing. Good luck getting them to stop.
II. - CURRENT PLAYERS + TDMERS
The pop-ups aren't the only issue users will begin to experience the longer they linger in the wall. As Retrospec users continue navigating these routes and clearing the paths needed to break down the firewall, things begin to grow a little more difficult to manage. Though the passages of the doors appear to be fine and users can enter new areas to obtain keys, it seems as though there's something bigger that wants to stop the progress occurring.

Users with Retrospec-given abilities will find difficulty in using their powers in ways they've never experienced before. Superstrength gives out after two seconds while shapeshifting will leave you stuck in that form for three days. Magic is on the fritz and spells will backfire, kicking back and damaging yourself for every spell you attempt to use. A small ball of light will escape your fingertips, draining you of your abilities and gifting them to someone else temporarily (though they won't know how to control them the way you do.) The trouble with it all is that no method is the same, and even if you experience a glitch once an outside force will change the consequences so they do not repeat.

You may think to check your phone for answers. Can you Google how to fix your own powers? While a search engine won't be of any use, users will find that the Retrospec app's logo has a new, upgraded appearance. Five of the eight inner petals have will appear gray in color while the remaining three are untouched. A sixth petal is colored halfway in. Should a user activate the app while in the city, they will find that everything around them will pause in a freezeframe. Birds will stop mid-flight, cars will be stopped in the middle of intersections, firehoses will have frozen arches of water aimed to the flames…everything is perfectly still save for other users.

As for those who activate the app inside the firewall, time will become fluid and change around you. Everything seems to move at hyperspeed, actions on fast-forward and time skipping ahead. Your actions will also be at the speed of light, and should you manage to accomplish your goals inside the wall and beyond the doors, a return to the city will show that much more time has passed than you anticipated. Hours or even days have escaped you even if it felt like no time at all.

With some trial and error, users can discover that a hard reset of their phone and re-opening the app will undo these effects. However, it may not be so easy seeing how the app will appear and disappear intermittently. Be quick; you may miss it if you blink.
III. - CURRENT PLAYERS ONLY
It seems a bit suspicious that Retrospec's gone quiet throughout all of this, doesn't it. There hasn't been word from the company since Joanne's last message about the firewall, and as usual any attempt to contact the company is futile. The message from delta#02018329 on the 13th was the last form of communication from anyone tied to Retrospec and since then all has been quiet. The animal guides from before are hard at work helping users discover new paths and find the keys, knowing they need to work quickly.

On the 24th, the firewall begins coming down in large chunks, falling away and shattering into embers when destroyed by an established user. The wall reveals the lines of doors surrounding the city and as of this date the temperature begins to drop again. Good job, users. You've almost fully dismantled the blockade. However, the wall isn't finished yet.

Beginning on this day as well, established users will become public enemy number one for the operator of the wall. A string of bad luck begins to follow you in an attempt to deter you from finishing your task of destroying this wall. Ranging from small feats such as misplacing your phone to larger feats such as removing all doors and windows from a building you're in, these attempts can be easily broken with enough willpower or simply waiting it out. For the truly unlucky, even NPCs will grow suspicious of you and begin to question you, asking you what's changed about you and why you and only you are the one who can put out the flames when the fire department has been working so hard.

Most importantly, however, are the small showers of green sparks that will appear over the city, sprinkling on you from overhead and dousing you in an invisible sheen. An equally invisible force feels as though it's pulling you down quickly despite standing in one place, and when the feeling passes…well. You may wonder what this strange app is on your phone and why you have it. It's new, isn't it? Wonder what it could be. You've never heard of Retrospec before, you think, but it can't be that interesting.

Perhaps you haven't slipped that far. You may be one of those who finds yourself with gaps in your memory, or items on-hand you don't quite recall having before. Images will flash through your mind even if you can't pinpoint where you've experienced these things before. And, of course, there's the fact that you may even literally slip between layers in the city, entering a door in the firewall and falling down into a plain white room. This washed-out castle-esque hall will make navigation difficult as the doorway to return blends into the walls. It only takes a trick of jogging your memory and recalling your true purpose to outline the door. What does it mean to jog your memory? This can be anything from sharing a memory you don't understand to showing off an item or ability and brainstorming its purpose. You will only understand the truth and remember everything upon leaving this castle, but until then? Time to brainstorm.
IV. - TDMERS ONLY
It's a little alarming to suddenly wake up and have a brand new app on your phone that connects you to a special group of people, isn't it? This may not be what you were expecting, but the Retrospec app seems harmless even if it's a bit unusual. With the power necessary to help combat the flames, perhaps you're the type who isn't even worried about what's happening. There's a job to do, after all.

Upon opening the app for the first time though you'll receive a message from a user named Z.C.

You're probably confused right now and I get it, this is really confusing. I was confused, too. But you have to be on-guard. Looks like you're a fresh target.

That's an ominous warning, and yet nothing comes from it for several days. In fact, it isn't until the 25th that those words hold some weight. It seems that there's someone out there who doesn't feel like you belong. No matter where you stand or what's happening for you at that given moment, at the stroke of midnight a large crater will open beneath you and swallow you whole, sending you straight down. The fall feels endless but as you land you'll find yourself standing on barren, gray ground surrounded by a black night sky, spiderweb cracks spreading from the center and moving outward. The world around you is dark and above you you can hear the sounds of the city and the people in it. The sounds of your fellow app-users combatting the wall of fire and even some of the ongoings of what's happening to them beyond the doors echo in this dark chamber.

The space around you is dead. There isn't a single sign of life sans what looks like a large, 80-foot whale skeleton. Even that appears abandoned, though there are footprints in the dirt near the creature's mouth. You aren't the first to arrive, but getting back will be the trick of it all. Someone wants you hidden away, but finding a clever way to reach out to those in the layer beyond will grant you an exit. Shouting, throwing items on hand, anything you can think of to create a diversion and draw attention to yourself may help. The louder you are, the thicker the cracks in the sky grow. It'll take a combination of people working below and people working above to break this barrier. Don't be afraid to reach out. It may be your only way back home.
BONUS.
The firewall gave a good effort, but in the end the power behind the Retrospec users was too much to sustain it for long…or was it? On the 31st the rest of the firewall seems to crumble and turn into smoke and ash as though the force holding it up cut its losses and quit. Several wolf-shaped figures appear from the smoke and surround the city, spreading ash as far as the eye can see before running off in the direction of Magatus. A sharp crackling noise like glass shattering rings through your ears and the wall and the layer below disappear for good. Congratulations, users. It seems as though you've broken down the barriers standing in your way.

However…there's still the matter of all of this ash and dust to take care of. Grab a broom, a dustbuster or a friend. It's time to do some major clean-up on the city and get it back to normal.

For those who venture to Tisse though, looking up to the very top of the towers will show a set of windows that have been dark and dimmed for several months. As the night wears on, however, the lights begin to flicker on until the entire floor is lit. There isn't any way up to the top of the building just yet, but for every light that comes on it seems that the amount of ash lessens. Is there a correlation? Or is it just someone from above helping you out? Only time will tell.
NOTES.
Welcome to [community profile] recolle's January event part two!

All characters who are TDMing will be begin in-game AU'd as Recollé residents. You may use any of the above prompts for ideas or make up your own depicting your Recollé AU! Prompts do not have to be set in the districts listed above. You can review our list of locations for what's available. Please note that TDM threads can be used as samples, can be kept as game canon, and can also be used for bonus points for future item regains. Share a few minor details of your AU, tag around, and have fun!

If you are TDMing this round, please indicate this by including TDM in your subject line! This will help the playerbase know who is who.

As indicated in the link above for prompt 2, if you would like us to generate a key-tracking scenario for you please sign up at the comment on the first event log!

-For current players, you may claim multiple freebies from this log! These include:
-One freebie memory for threading with a character that is test-driving.
-One freebie memory for combatting the issues occurring in prompts 2+3
-One freebie memory for helping someone else combat the issues occurring in prompts 2+3
All of these threads must have at least five comments from you to be eligible. To submit for your freebie memories, please link us the appropriate thread with the trigger explanation of "freebie."

TDM characters who app in and are accepted before February are also eligible to claim this log's memory freebies! Like current players, please be sure to submit your freebie regain threads before the end of the AC period.

As a special note, we will also allow current players to use a thread from this event/TDM for their AC proofs! As this ties into a game-event, we are making an exception. However, your other proof(s) (at least ten comments) must come from sources outside of this log. Likewise, as this is an event log instead of just a standard TDM, you may use this log to trigger regains as normal.

Finally, be sure to check out January's AU workshop if you haven't yet! Any questions you have regarding this event may be directed to the mod comment here. Be sure to review the mods' question thread on the plotting post for additional information as well!
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[personal profile] invocate 2019-01-24 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Li-Na looks at the Yuuki clinging to her.]

Why are you assuming she's going to try to hurt you? I know this is kind of scary, but we need to try to stay calm. Only then can we figure out a solution.

[She glances over at the other Yuuki, because staying calm applies to all of them.]

Now, there are few of schools of thought when it comes to duplicates. Sometimes the duplicate is a completely separate being from the original. The original and duplicate are able to lead their own separate lives. This is the Riker Scenario. Sometimes the duplicate is unstable and can only exist for a short time. This is the Martha Scenario. And sometimes, being split is bad for both the original and the duplicate. In those instances, they have to combine back into one person. This is the Kirk Scenario.
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[personal profile] sleepingknight 2019-01-24 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, the clingy one is now ceasing with the clinging, backing away...]

"Hey, come on... You're joking, right? You're really going to help her catch me? You don't even know what she's planning!"

[She looks ready to bolt now, eyes shifting between Crow and - well, the real Yuuki. The real Yuuki who's now giving a sigh, posture slightly more relaxed, but still ready to make a dash for it again.]

It definitely feels like I've been playing tag.
sleepingknight: ([Curious] pile up)

[personal profile] sleepingknight 2019-01-24 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think the world is ready for multiple Kikis. That would make the takeover plan way too easy.

[No becoming an evil overlord with your clones! But then her tone becomes a bit more serious.]

Did you come to try to help out too?
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[personal profile] servileness 2019-01-24 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Whether or not it has your "magic's number written all over it" doesn't mean you won't tire. You're still yawning. If you remove yourself from the source, you can rest.

[ She gestures towards parts of the cities where people have snuffed out enough of the fire. ]

Please think of those that worry about you. It'll give you and them peace of mind.
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[personal profile] servileness 2019-01-24 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's enough magical happenings in Clover's memories that she, clone or not, views Li-Na's attacks without much blinking. It's impressive enough but nothing that'll make her stop. ]

I'm glad if it helps, but it would help you even more if you took more time to replenish yourself. No one would want you to get dehydrated.

[ Her concern borders on saccharine, but she is doing her best to sound genuine. ]
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[personal profile] frostythehitman 2019-01-24 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
That, or they got their own!

[ Because James certainly doesn't remember taking any wire with him, but this fake clearly has some. But the knives certainly look similar.

The fake that Lina's fighting gets kicked, sure, but manages to keep a grip on her hair still. So even if the kick sends him reeling, with a fistful of hair still in hand, it should backfire on Lina too.

James, meanwhile, gets tackled by the first fake, who's reawakened after Lina's earlier hit. Now both of them are embroiled in fights with the fake Jameses. The real James shouts behind gritted teeth while doing his best to fight off the fake: ]


Why are you--such--stubborn jerks!
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-24 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She did have a point...maybe he is pushing his magic too hard.

It just some rest after all...and he HAD been working ever so hard.

The hero business can wait a little bit, OH! It's been a while since he pickpocketed someone and spoiled himself to some ill-gotten gains.
]

I guess my body would need the rest eventually...that offer of water still good?
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OTA

[personal profile] devilsadvocato 2019-01-24 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
III-A

[When Foggy catches word that the fire is out he cheers and takes a detour out of the studio building to look down the street at the horizon. He expected some signs of the fire to be left behind but a hint of the bay or the woods outside the city.]

Well crap. [He grumbles. A line of what? Are those floating doors forming a wall where the fire was?] An herd of wild doors is coming to get us now. Wait! I know what this is!

It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.

III-B

Hey wait up! You know the way out of here?

[Foggy calls after the figure he sees down the other side of the long empty hallway and rushes toward them.

He's been wandering what looks like the inside of a castle or church for a while now but every door seems to lead to either a blank white room or another hallway. He needs to get out of here and get back to his family- he knows that much. Trouble is there's more missing from his memory than the layout of this place. He knows his name, that he has a family, that he was on his way home from work, and that he should be somewhere in Recolle City. The rest is fuzzy. He has memories and feelings but the details are all scrambled.]


BONUS

[ASH ASH EVERYWHERE! Screw sweeping! Foggy dug around in the janitor's closet at the studio and found a handheld vacuum. He has a rhythm down- vacuum, go to trash, empty vacuum canister, repeat. For a hot moment there he starts singing as the vacuum hums and sucks air loudly. Then the wind picks up and that's when he gets a mouthful of the ash blown up in his face. Next thing he's coughing up a storm.]
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[personal profile] dereban 2019-01-24 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I just feel like they wouldn't have come here with someone they just met on a flimsy excuse to help without an ulterior motive...

[ She keeps her voice low with a short sigh, sounding a little frustrated. ]

As for what to do with them, no idea. I'm not really equipped to handle clones, and most movies you'd have to kill all of them, right?
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[personal profile] motiv8 2019-01-24 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's...

[...There's not really much use in lying to her, is there? Even if he does, she's bound to find out what it can be like in the future.]

It's nothing we haven't been able to handle. I haven't wound up with anything more than scratches or bruises, [that didn't immediately get healed, so just that little white lie is fine, right,] and honestly with the odd jobs I pick up every now and again it's not too much different from the bumps and scrapes I get there.

[Shrug!]

And if it does... well. Would you believe that healing magic exists?
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[personal profile] motiv8 2019-01-24 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
You got it. Better than being totally lost alone, right?

[He reaches out to shake that hand. FRIENDSHIP CONFIRMED.]
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[personal profile] motiv8 2019-01-24 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey, it's better than walking in complete awkward silence!

But oh no, they're at an impasse, here. What to do...?]


...How about this? I can use this to buy us a drink at a cafe somewhere, and I'll answer any questions you have over that.

Because lord knows I'm going to need caffeine for this.
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[personal profile] motiv8 2019-01-24 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[holy shit al please don't knife the waitress.]

Believe me, I'd love to give it back if I knew how! [Rean deflates a little. Don't blame him for this! But as for the second part...] ...Huh?

[Ooooh, yeah.]

Oh. Ah... I don't know if I'd call them that, quite? It's more... I've noticed I can kind of sense people I can't necessarily see. So if they're sneaking up on me, hiding, or behind a door, I just sort of feel they're there?

But it's never really gotten in my way before...
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[personal profile] dereban 2019-01-24 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . Great. And I'm going to get involved in this-

[ She shakes her head, absolutely refusing to curse any further than she already has in front of him. ]

In all of this. I'm not the athletic one in the family! Just running around to deal with the whole clone thing already wore me out and I didn't even get injured. And even if healing magic does exist, that isn't an excuse to get yourself extremely hurt.

[ Like, Rean, please, did you think that she wouldn't pick up on the fact that you learned that healing magic is real because you got injured... She isn't that brainless. ]
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[personal profile] motiv8 2019-01-24 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[A sigh at her mention of not being the athletic one.]

Yeah, I know. Unfortunately, Retrospec doesn't seem to care, so...

[...Ah. Called out, again. Still! Even if she is right that he has been injured enough to need it, that is actually not why he knows about it, so!]

In my defense, I knew about it just from practicing with my friend. He has a lot of different spells, but he specializes in healing.
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[personal profile] brushy 2019-01-24 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not sure if I should be honored or concerned, if speaking to an old lady like me is of the same high priority to you.

Multitasking or not, do be careful. What do you like?
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[personal profile] usurpers 2019-01-24 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Three in one.

[ checking the app is the first thing, certainly that comes to mind, but as eren shifts through the modules and tabs, the contacts and any waiting posts, everything stops. it might be hard to notice that everything has paused, but perhaps the bird that’s in mid flight by their side, to catch a mid air insect, is stuck in time as well.

he shouldn’t tell her. it would freak her out more. eren clicks his tongue when he doesn’t seem to find anything in the post, and shakes his head. why her? why anyone? ]


You had enough to worry about.
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[personal profile] dereban 2019-01-24 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I figured that "not caring" would be on their agenda...

[ She leans back a bit, sighing. Why do things gotta be so complicated, now? ]

Well, that's good, but my point still stands. Although if people are getting back magic, I wonder if I'll get anything like that.

[ She won't because Inaba is too normal, but Raina can dream, can't she? ]
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[personal profile] brushy 2019-01-24 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ]

Ex— Excuse me?

[ and hurt this poor girl? what? ahmi even loses her grip on the cloth she was twisting. it falls with a pathetic splash. ]
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[personal profile] motiv8 2019-01-24 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That's about the only thing I've figured out that is. Everything else is pretty much a black box to me.

[Sigh.]

I know, I know. [Believe him, he got his fair share of being yelled at for that exactly not too long ago. It was kind of hot.] And who knows?

Even if you don't, you'll wind up surrounded by a lot of it, I have a feeling.

[So she'll be the token normie in their Japanese animes, but hey. Still in an anime! That's a plus, right?]
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[personal profile] jurai 2019-01-24 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Kill them? Well that seems a bit harsh, don'tcha think?

I mean, in the end, they are YOU.

[But I AM THOU, THOU ART I doesn't really fix the problem, does it.]

Call me crazy but...why don't you try being nice to them?
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III - also hi i wrote you a novel

[personal profile] motiv8 2019-01-24 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rean has been spending a lot of time with Crow as of late. It kind of comes with the territory of spending the latter half of the month as his roommate.

He notices that morning when Crow's more than a little out of it as he's trying to prep for the day, but even though he can feel worry nagging at the back of his mind, he just shakes it off. Crow's not exactly a morning person on a good day, he must just be more tired than usual. That's fair enough, anyway. He hasn't pressed too hard about things – if Crow wanted to complain about details, he would, right? – but he knows Crow's been working like crazy this whole month. Who wouldn't be tired?

He offers to help where he can. It's almost too easy to lie about why – "Well, you know. If I'm imposing on you like this the least I can do is make myself useful, yeah?" Still, aside from that, he doesn't put voice to his concerns. The worry lingers, but Rean pushes it aside as he does so many things.

It's not until late that afternoon that the worry turns into full-blown panic.

At first, he doesn't even really register what he's seeing – a mop of white hair out of the corner of his eye on the opposite side of the street. He takes a couple steps past before his brain clicks in that oh, right, white hair isn't normal, and he turns back to see who it is.

When he sees Crow hunched over by the wall, the worry that's been silently nagging at him all day blooms into a spreading ice in his veins.

He doesn't run directly across the street to him – maybe let's not get hit by a car and give the poor overworked EMT more reason to freak out, especially after his previous stunts this month – but he is quick to find a crosswalk, bolting across as soon as he's allowed and weaving through the other people on the sidewalk to make his way to his friend.]


Crow!

[He can't quite make out what Crow's muttering, but that voice is wrong coming out from his mouth. ...almost like—

No.]


Crow, are you okay?!
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[personal profile] dereban 2019-01-24 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It's okay, I'll try to figure things out myself. I can probably investgate and read some stuff later.

[ She'll have a lot of reading to do, that's for sure. ]

Speaking of which... you said other people had powers. But did you get any yet?

[ You can tell that there's a vague interest in her voice, is he like an RPG protagonist? ]
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III

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2019-01-24 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well this month sure has been awful. First with the firewall, and now with his powers not working properly, Elliot has pretty much given up any hope that 2019 was going to be a nice year. No, it was already proving to be a jerk year.

And even through his own haze of issues, he'd noticed how much Crow had been pushing for himself. Trying to be there for everyone, take care of things. It's a lot of pressure to put on one person, and he felt awful that he couldn't be more help.

So when he sees Crow in pain and sinking against that wall, he's rushing over to check on him]


Crow? Crow are you okay?!
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-24 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there a way to turn the damn thing off?!

...so, obviously we need to try to figure out a way for our magic to be in the right place...aside for my sanity's sake, you could die if you don't know how to use my magic properly.