Who: The Mizuki Quest Crew What: Mizuki Quest When: Roughly around the end of Feburary Where: The Caerula Arbor Warnings: Will come up in tags when appears
I did, yes. [Although he pocketed it so he could focus on getting Mizuki down. He pulls it out and holds it up, squinting at it. Just like before, huh.] I suppose we roll them now. Between Dipper solving the code and these, we might figure out a way to wake him, like you suggested.
[And/or getting out, yeah.
Gnosis supposes now's the time to roll. He gets a 1. Cool. I hope you kill him quick Rubie.]
Affogato has a jellyfish! He still is not waking up, and the tearstains are still on his cheeks, faintly shining in the lighthouse lantern.
Between the two rolls, you add 7! The screen briefly pops up with text again, going from Light Level: 28% to Light Level: 35%.
You all feel... strangely refreshed from the light! You will also note that you are unable to hear each other's thoughts anymore.
Dipper does not get a d8 for solving the cipher, unfortunately. But he does feel really confident that he's got the answer right! He will get the feeling that there's something else that needs to be done with it.
[Sesa is really glad that there are people here smarter than he is because he's pretty sure he never would have figured it out. Videogames are his strong suit, and he isn't even THAT good at those.]
"What ails your heart"...
[He brings a hand to his chin, frowning with his brows knitted together.]
You may be right, Joshua. We answered the voices' questions, but...in the presence of only whomsoever could hear it.
[So: Sesa and Joshua, but they couldn't hear anything from the others (well, except Jade).]
[... livio looks just about as unhappy and uncomfortable about this as gnosis and sesa, but... if it may help them get mizuki out of here alive, what choice does he have?
it takes him a while, nonetheless, to figure out how to put into words what feels so pathetic and selfish compared to everyone else's problems.]
... I don't think I'll ever feel like I deserve to be here. Ever do enough good to make up for all the bad, to earn -- my life.
The light level continues to tick up with every number rolled, revealing more and more of this strange chamber. Once the level ticks over "40%", it casts away the endless void of the water, blowing it away like smoke. You all still will not be able to see beneath the water (so your grippers are still obscured for the audience at home), but instead of being obscured by darkness, it's more like the water is just an extremely reflective mirror now. You can all look down and see yourselves as clearly as if someone else were looking at you.
Though, there are some notably odd things, the reflection does not "flip" your image like a mirror should. Mizuki does not show up in the water at all. The Seaborn merely cast shadows against the water, and do not really "reflect" themselves.
Ahead of all of you, now that a lot of the darkness has been cast aside, you can vaguely make out what's in this place. There's some odd silhouettes of things you can't quite make out because of its distance from the light, but on top of that you will all see... bodies? You think they're bodies. They're humanoid in shape, much bigger than the babies who care currently very enthralled with all of you doing Stuff(tm). They're covered in Seaborn features. Tentacles in place of flesh or limbs, coral growing out the eyes, fins, and other eldritch-y Seaborn corruption. They bleed blue in various places, implying they're fully corpses at this point.
Most alarmingly of all, these Seaborn corrupted corpses look familiar. They're you.
[As everyone starts to admit to their issues for the class, Sesa starts to feel more and more...guilty, for not having the strength or bravery necessary to do the same. He wants to open his mouth for once as much as he wants to chew glass, because he keeps his particular issues so close to his chest that very precious few even know about them.
His brother. His direct involvement with said brother's demise. The fact he's pretty much wanted by the government for illegal practices. And that's only beginning to scratch the surface...
Mizuki has been rescued from the arbor, and now all Sesa can think about is getting out of here with him, not that that's going to be made easy. He doesn't know what he's going to do if it turns out that he MUST admit to these things, to save him...to escape...?
The Vouivre brings his claws to his chest, because suddenly breathing feels that much more difficult. His eyes dart between members of their company, and though he feels like all eyes are locked on him, they likely haven't paid him much attention at all.
But...just as he opens his mouth, whatever he was going to say becomes lost the moment the darkness is suddenly swept away, leaving before them a view that has likely been hiding in plain sight this entire time. And...
It's not the first time he's seen himself...but it is the first time he's seen his own corpse, given that Flamebringer killed the wrong version the last time this happened. But it isn't so much that Sesa is seeing himself, all twisted and corrupted, his body fully taken over by that of the Seaborn influence.
It's that, with how disfigured and grotesque the bodies are, it doesn't look like him to his own eyes. It looks like someone else.
The claw on his gun's trigger begins to tremble, metal rattling audibly as Sesa staggers back a few steps in the water, suddenly lifting it up to aim straight at "his" head.
[ As the darkness lifts, and Joshua is able to look down and see his own reflection in the surface of the water, he... frowns. It isn't a true reflection, not in the way he's used to seeing - it's like looking at himself directly, as though there was another him standing on the other side of the water.
But the rattling of Sesa's gun draws his attention away. He'd been in an awful state before, when they had been mentally connected. Guns aren't familiar things to him, but he knows that it's a weapon, like arrows or crossbows. And that means it's dangerous in the hands of someone that isn't entirely stable.
He lifts a hand, gently placing it on Sesa's shoulder at the same time as he says: ]
Please, calm down. It's all right.
[ Though now that he does look at what Sesa is aiming at... Even from a distance, it all looks familiar. It's all of them, twisted and grotesque, and... bleeding? He squints his eyes as he locates his own face in the chaos, a mass of limp tentacles where the Phoenix's pinions would emerge from his back if he were semi-primed. ]
[He's not shaming himself for not sharing, unlike Sesa. He would sooner let himself die here so that he's "taken out of the pool" so to speak, and therefore wouldn't have to answer the question because he's dead. Having opted to not participate in whatever that was seems to have yielded horrific results, though, which he stares at with a deep frown and his arms crossed.
He walks up to his own corpse, blue coral growing where feathers once did, dragon tail replaced with a longer, more skeletal-looking one in blue, flippers and tentacles poking out of his coatsleeves...
And he kicks it.]
I'm getting particularly bored of seeing my own corpse in front of me. Please come up with something different.
Affogato will feel Mizuki curl in a little on himself, little puffs of air coming out of him in something that isn't quite rhythmic. A nightmare? Is he in pain? It's hard to say for sure.
...
With a 1, Gnosis will feel something creeping at the edge of his mind. Something like a tickle at the back of his brain, or like a tickle down his spine, in the worst way. Gnosis is used to the cold, and used to being chilly, but he feels cold. He's shivering without even realizing it. And when he tries to move, sometimes his arm or other leg will move instead.
He is afflicted with 'Metastatic Aberration'.
Good news, he might notice (or anyone else who comes up to Gnosis) that looking closer at the reflections of the corpses in the water... they're not matching up. No really. Above, the order seems to be Gnosis, Jade, Dipper, Joshua, Affogato, Sesa, Livio and Razlo. That in the water seems to be... Sesa, Livio, Razlo, Affogato, Joshua, Jade, Dipper, Gnosis... and the moon, for some reason??
Everyone is going to watch Gnosis going from confidently kicking his own body to looking like he might be having a seizure (he's not, but he's definitely mad about his limbs right now, on top of the involuntary shuddering), and he glances at the water reflections and feels sick and just
ough
He tries to kick his own corpse again out of spite and slips and falls backwards into the water.
[on the one hand: yay, no time to dwell on his stupidass embarrassing confession. on the other hand: WHAT THE FUCK.
so... outright hitting the corpses doesn't seem to trigger some sort of... well, look, they're not immediately rising from the dead to attack. that's good, right?
livio steps up to gnosis to make absolutely certain he isn't harmed, and since the seaborn don't seem worried about him... he'll turn his attention to the... fun little fucked up bodies. the out of place order isn't lost on him, nor are the extra or changed limbs, nor the fact that he has two.
... honestly, if they do decide to reanimate themselves, he's pretty confident he could take a hit better than almost anyone here, so... catch him crouching in front of razlo's. it's extra bizarre to look at his face and know it's razlo based on the wideness of the dead eyes.
yeah, he's gonna poke it. away from any obviously seaborn bits, but poke it nonetheless.]
[oh gnosis is absolutely harmed he's just laying there letting the babies play because he Can't be mad at them. he also doesn't think he can move properly either so he's just resigned to his fate.
[ Gnosis kicks the version of him he dislikes, gets rightfully zapped for it, but... it seems to make Mizuki upset? Affogato has been ignoring the him up there, focused on Mizuki, and he frowns as he curls in on himself and seems? to become distressed?
His scowl turns dark as he glances up in time to see Livio poking at it. ]
Whatever you are doing seems to be affecting Mizuki. Do be careful.
[ Please... He strokes his hand gently over Mizuki's head, picking hair out of his face and smoothing it back. He refuses to look at himself, focusing instead on Mizuki, speaking softly to him. Just little reassurances. ]
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[And/or getting out, yeah.
Gnosis supposes now's the time to roll. He gets a 1. Cool. I hope you kill him quick Rubie.]
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... he gets a 6! ]
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Between the two rolls, you add 7! The screen briefly pops up with text again, going from Light Level: 28% to Light Level: 35%.
You all feel... strangely refreshed from the light! You will also note that you are unable to hear each other's thoughts anymore.
Dipper does not get a d8 for solving the cipher, unfortunately. But he does feel really confident that he's got the answer right! He will get the feeling that there's something else that needs to be done with it.
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"What ails your heart"...
[He brings a hand to his chin, frowning with his brows knitted together.]
You may be right, Joshua. We answered the voices' questions, but...in the presence of only whomsoever could hear it.
[So: Sesa and Joshua, but they couldn't hear anything from the others (well, except Jade).]
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Oh, no, I'm not doing group therapy with any of you, and if you take offence to that, live with it and die mad.
1/2
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I miss my sister. I'm afraid that the next time we meet, she won't recognize who I am.
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What ails him? He snorts gently, shifting Mizuki so his head rests on his shoulder, his arms around him tightly. ]
It would be easier to ask what does not ail me. But I was asked what I would give to survive. Everything, for it is the only reason I live today.
[ He's talking to Mizuki mostly. Do you hear him, his little love? ]
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He's going to go talk to the baby seaborn that are stuck to his legs now instead.]
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I fear that my body will succumb to its curse before we are able to free this place of the Fallen Sun.
[ Even with the progress that Will has made. ]
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it takes him a while, nonetheless, to figure out how to put into words what feels so pathetic and selfish compared to everyone else's problems.]
... I don't think I'll ever feel like I deserve to be here. Ever do enough good to make up for all the bad, to earn -- my life.
cw: eldritch body horror
Though, there are some notably odd things, the reflection does not "flip" your image like a mirror should. Mizuki does not show up in the water at all. The Seaborn merely cast shadows against the water, and do not really "reflect" themselves.
Ahead of all of you, now that a lot of the darkness has been cast aside, you can vaguely make out what's in this place. There's some odd silhouettes of things you can't quite make out because of its distance from the light, but on top of that you will all see... bodies? You think they're bodies. They're humanoid in shape, much bigger than the babies who care currently very enthralled with all of you doing Stuff(tm). They're covered in Seaborn features. Tentacles in place of flesh or limbs, coral growing out the eyes, fins, and other eldritch-y Seaborn corruption. They bleed blue in various places, implying they're fully corpses at this point.
Most alarmingly of all, these Seaborn corrupted corpses look familiar. They're you.
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His brother. His direct involvement with said brother's demise. The fact he's pretty much wanted by the government for illegal practices. And that's only beginning to scratch the surface...
Mizuki has been rescued from the arbor, and now all Sesa can think about is getting out of here with him, not that that's going to be made easy. He doesn't know what he's going to do if it turns out that he MUST admit to these things, to save him...to escape...?
The Vouivre brings his claws to his chest, because suddenly breathing feels that much more difficult. His eyes dart between members of their company, and though he feels like all eyes are locked on him, they likely haven't paid him much attention at all.
But...just as he opens his mouth, whatever he was going to say becomes lost the moment the darkness is suddenly swept away, leaving before them a view that has likely been hiding in plain sight this entire time. And...
It's not the first time he's seen himself...but it is the first time he's seen his own corpse, given that Flamebringer killed the wrong version the last time this happened. But it isn't so much that Sesa is seeing himself, all twisted and corrupted, his body fully taken over by that of the Seaborn influence.
It's that, with how disfigured and grotesque the bodies are, it doesn't look like him to his own eyes. It looks like someone else.
The claw on his gun's trigger begins to tremble, metal rattling audibly as Sesa staggers back a few steps in the water, suddenly lifting it up to aim straight at "his" head.
He hasn't shot, not yet, but.]
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But the rattling of Sesa's gun draws his attention away. He'd been in an awful state before, when they had been mentally connected. Guns aren't familiar things to him, but he knows that it's a weapon, like arrows or crossbows. And that means it's dangerous in the hands of someone that isn't entirely stable.
He lifts a hand, gently placing it on Sesa's shoulder at the same time as he says: ]
Please, calm down. It's all right.
[ Though now that he does look at what Sesa is aiming at... Even from a distance, it all looks familiar. It's all of them, twisted and grotesque, and... bleeding? He squints his eyes as he locates his own face in the chaos, a mass of limp tentacles where the Phoenix's pinions would emerge from his back if he were semi-primed. ]
... what... is that?
light suicidal ideation cw
He walks up to his own corpse, blue coral growing where feathers once did, dragon tail replaced with a longer, more skeletal-looking one in blue, flippers and tentacles poking out of his coatsleeves...
And he kicks it.]
I'm getting particularly bored of seeing my own corpse in front of me. Please come up with something different.
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...
With a 1, Gnosis will feel something creeping at the edge of his mind. Something like a tickle at the back of his brain, or like a tickle down his spine, in the worst way. Gnosis is used to the cold, and used to being chilly, but he feels cold. He's shivering without even realizing it. And when he tries to move, sometimes his arm or other leg will move instead.
He is afflicted with 'Metastatic Aberration'.
Good news, he might notice (or anyone else who comes up to Gnosis) that looking closer at the reflections of the corpses in the water... they're not matching up. No really. Above, the order seems to be Gnosis, Jade, Dipper, Joshua, Affogato, Sesa, Livio and Razlo. That in the water seems to be... Sesa, Livio, Razlo, Affogato, Joshua, Jade, Dipper, Gnosis... and the moon, for some reason??
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Everyone is going to watch Gnosis going from confidently kicking his own body to looking like he might be having a seizure (he's not, but he's definitely mad about his limbs right now, on top of the involuntary shuddering), and he glances at the water reflections and feels sick and just
ough
He tries to kick his own corpse again out of spite and slips and falls backwards into the water.
Someone else can get this puzzle he's dead jim]
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so... outright hitting the corpses doesn't seem to trigger some sort of... well, look, they're not immediately rising from the dead to attack. that's good, right?
livio steps up to gnosis to make absolutely certain he isn't harmed, and since the seaborn don't seem worried about him... he'll turn his attention to the... fun little fucked up bodies. the out of place order isn't lost on him, nor are the extra or changed limbs, nor the fact that he has two.
... honestly, if they do decide to reanimate themselves, he's pretty confident he could take a hit better than almost anyone here, so... catch him crouching in front of razlo's. it's extra bizarre to look at his face and know it's razlo based on the wideness of the dead eyes.
yeah, he's gonna poke it. away from any obviously seaborn bits, but poke it nonetheless.]
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please be careful poking corpses, kids.]
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His scowl turns dark as he glances up in time to see Livio poking at it. ]
Whatever you are doing seems to be affecting Mizuki. Do be careful.
[ Please... He strokes his hand gently over Mizuki's head, picking hair out of his face and smoothing it back. He refuses to look at himself, focusing instead on Mizuki, speaking softly to him. Just little reassurances. ]
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anyway, brings this out of the brain subthread
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