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
[All of this is horrifying, but it's not the first time Dipper has seen his own corpse, and it's not the most grotesque thing he's ever had to wade through. It does startle him at first, but there's a very potent]
C'mon, really?
[That escapes him while he walks over to look at them.]
[Because he is your resident puzzle solver, and isn't distracted with kicking his corpse, Dipper frowns.]
[ Jade looks over this with keen eyes of his own. Surprisingly, or not surprisingly, he's not afraid at looking at his own corpse. Given the damage he did to his own doppelganger, and also life in the ocean, he seems not too worse for wear. The only thing he thinks for a moment that everyone else is probably thinking is:
Lets hope they don't stand up of their own accord, hm?
He's got that wry little toothy grin too. Though, eyes flick down to the reflections when Dipper mentions it. ]
Hm... Well, it appears that Sesa and Livio need to swap to match the reflections. As for the moon...
[ Getting closer to it, Jade summons a small rock with flora magic. He aims it for the moon's reflection to see what happens when you throw something on it. Any thud from underneath the water if it connects with something, if it even ripples at all, etc. He's not flinging it hard or anything, just testing things! ]
[As Joshua places a hand on Sesa's shoulder, the Vouivre's eyes flicker over to look at him. Thank god for Joshua, because Sesa was 100% probably going to just shoot one of the corpses, ideally his own because he cannot look at it any longer. The face is so disfigured by tentacles and coral bits that it doesn't look exactly like Sesa anymore, only just enough, and that's the part he can't stand.
That, and the knowledge that hurting these things- or even making contact even slightly- is having an affect on Mizuki...god. Fuck.
Reluctantly, he puts his gun away, slinging it back over his shoulder as he quickly sweeps past the others to bend down and check on Gnosis, reaching under his arms to see if he can help the Liberi sit up.]
Livio meets a similar fate to Gnosis. He feels something scratching at the corners of his brain before everything goes... dizzy. Wobbly. It's a bit like he's drunk except only the bad parts. His reaction speed is a lot slower, and sometimes it's hard to tell where he is at all. He's still here, physically, and he still has enough sense to process everything as needed, but things are just...
...slow.
Livio has been afflicted with 'Neurodegeneration'.
Mizuki, again, shifts. Tentacles cling to Affogato's arm and squeeze - not hard enough to hurt, but definitely with intent. He does not wake up.
[ The tentacles squeezing is enough to tell Affogato that touching them probably isn't good. The reaction from Mizuki is a REACTION, which in a way is good, but the warning is clear.
Even if it's not hurting Mizuki, it's making him distressed. He shhh's softly down at him. ]
It's all right, little love, they won't damn themselves anymore with their own need to prod.
[ To the others as he shifts Mizuki to cradle him better. ]
Investigate with your Ovens damned eyes, not your hands or feet!
[ Oh, wonderful. So touching the things is not on the table. Joshua sighs, turning to look at Sesa, and then at Gnosis. Whatever is happening when they touch these things, it isn't good.
To Sesa: ]
Is he hurt? I don't know what's wrong, but I can try to heal him.
[ He's keeping an eye on Livio, too. He's the only other one to have touched the bodies. ]
[Sesa glares in Affogato's direction, thinking Are you going to offer any aid or are you just going to sit and bark at us?, but he keeps it to himself while he turns back to focus instead on Gnosis in front of him, still trying to help him lean against his front for support even if he isn't necessarily able to sit up on his own.]
It's the Nethersea Brand...I imagine these...creatures must be riddled with it, if they are Seaborn. It afflicts you if you touch it and seems to largely affect the nervous system. I'm not sure if your healing could aid with that, but anything would help.
[Good news, Gnosis is alive?? Bad news he definitely bruised his ass and upper back when he hit the ground but y'all don't need to know that. Worse news is he's still having difficulties moving; he tries to adjust his limbs and his right arm elbows Sesa in the ribs when he's trying to move his left.
He also looks like a drowned rat.]
I'm having difficulties moving my limbs, sorry. [And he's shaking involuntarily still, yay.] I'm normally resistant to these sorts of effects, so I think it has more to do with the corpses themselves, if they can be called that. I don't know if it can be healed away, unless you know of a way to cleanse neurological effects.
The water does ripple when Jade throws the rock into the water, though nothing more happens than that. The moon is still very there after the water settles. He can reach in the water to get his rock back. It's still only ankle-deep.
Gnosis, the three babies you held earlier at trying to lay on your arms to help "warm you up". They're doing their best.
Joshua, the seaborn you brought with you is holding your hand again, mimicking your voice from something you just said: "What's wrong...?"
[ Neurological effects... The Phoenix's fire can heal wounds, mend damaged tissue. Would this count? He hasn't tried it on any sort of illness or effect, though. He frowns, thoughtfully. ]
I don't know if my healing would work or not. But, I am the Phoenix - I cannot go without trying.
[ The seaborn baby takes his hand again, using his own voice to ask a question, and he looks down to it as he lifts his free hand to hover over Gnosis' chest. ]
He isn't feeling well, little one. I need to summon a flame, but I promise it will not hurt you. All right?
[ Focusing, he draws upon himself, flame lighting on the back of his hand and letting the warmth of the healing magic flow through Gnosis. If there is damage that can be healed, it will find it. ]
Unfortunately, there is not really any damage that Joshua can find. Not really. With an 18, while he cannot heal Gnosis, he'll be able to tell it's because there's... nothing to heal. Joshua will notice it's not necessarily an illness either. In fact, everything seems to be working as intended? Gnosis is fine. He is functioning and nothing is wrong.
But obviously his magic and Gnosis' reactions are giving him different answers there. How strange.
[Gnosis goes to flip his left wrist like "it's okay don't worry about it" and he instead raises the right way too fast and hard and slaps Sesa with it. You know what, he's going to stop moving now.]
I appreciate the attempt regardless, Joshua. [What he needs is probably like, spiritual healing. A cleric. Church. To find God. Anyway, he's going to continue appreciating the little baby seaborn and being a godless heathen.] I think I can sit up on my own, if the two of you want to attempt to figure out what's going on with the bodies and the reflections.
[fun facts: livio does not know what being drunk feels like. alcohol is technically poison, and his freak of science metabolism burns it out too fast to have any effect. so this whole time, he's just... stayed crouching here, maybe a little wobbly, not quite registering how out of it he is because he doesn't have any frame of reference. obviously he knows what dissociation is like, that's just... his life, but.
while everyone is saying things, discussing what to do, he slowly looks back and forth along the bodies and their reflections... and he's just gonna grab razlo by the hair and start dragging the corpse over to where it's reflected in the water.
like, really, really, really slowly. probably stumbling while he's hunched over the body like a damn gargoyle (no offense zahliya or zonari). anyone feel free to stop him??]
[Ow. Okay no that didn't actually hurt, but Sesa does sort of look at Gnosis a little with concern when he's bitchslapped on accident. He's glad to hear that he seems mostly okay, if only for the issues with his...limbs, and everything.]
If you're sure.
[Sesa says this quietly, placing a gentle hand on Gnosis' shoulder for a moment longer before he rises to his feet, trusting he won't just flop over again when he does.
Someone else may have to stop Livio (sorry), because he is trying very hard to NOT look in the direction of his own corpse, knowing it's just going to set him off again, and the Livio!Corpse is near his own, so. He's not at all aware that Livio has just hauled off and touched them again oopsie. He has...an idea, but the only way he can test is by approaching the bodies.
He'll approach the corpse of Gnosis instead. He'll get close, but keep his hands off, and crouch down into a squat to study the corpse closely. Closer than he ever would have wanted, for a friend.
His question is this: Are these corpses completely still and inanimate? Because knowing Seaborn like he does, now...]
[Cool! He's discovered nothing and now he's even more upset.]
Shit.
[He was hoping, even though he knew deep down it probably wasn't going to matter, that IF the corpses were...he doesn't know, horrifying zombies, that they could move them without having to touch them. At this juncture, they have two options. Either they try to shift the bodies to match the reflections as they should and hope this does something, or they sit here for hours hoping something else happens.
Sesa doesn't want Mizuki to be under further duress, believe him. Mizuki is his best friend. But if they don't do something, he might not wake up. Not now, not ever. And Sesa, up until this point, really hasn't done a whole lot to help at all.
So. Without asking for permission and instead figuring he'll seek forgiveness instead, he plunges both arms into the water and scoops Gnosis' body up wholesale, attempting to lift him up bridal-style so he can quickly bring his body over to the correct position.
Whether this affects him or not, that will just have to be. He is a Vouivre, hardy as they come, capable of surviving weeks, months even without food. If anyone could, it's him.]
[ Sesa is about to be screeched at but Mizuki doesn't react to that so Affogato merely blinks. Glances back to Sesa, thoughtful. Well, he'll relay the information that Mizuki doesn't seem to give a fuck about touching someone else. ]
It would seem he only seems upset if you mess with yourself? By all means, continue touching them if you so desire hoisting dead bodies around, merely do not touch your own?
[ No he's not going to help, unless someone wants to come hold Mizuki. And then you might get bit. Affogato is doing a very important job. ]
[ Something has not sat right about this with Joshua. Even if there was something about it that he couldn't heal, it shouldn't have felt like... nothing. He's never felt that before.
But when he sees Sesa pick up the corpse of someone other than himself, with seemingly no ill effects at all, it's like a light bulb turns on. He sits up straighter, pulls in a breath.
Like when they had first stepped in here. When he had been so certain he'd been back in the bailey at Rosalith Castle, but to the others, nothing else had been wrong aside from him being in a slumber. And the only person here in a slumber is-- ]
... Mizuki.
[ It's soft, almost to himself. His eyes search the layer of water around them. Mizuki had physically responded when the others had become afflicted, but didn't even seem to flinch just now, when Sesa picked up Gnosis' corpse. Is this another illusion on a far more grand scale? Are they all trapped within Mizuki's dream, the same way he had been trapped in his own?
By the Founder. If that's what this is, if they're all in, how are they to break out? ]
The reflections stay where they are, and do not move with the bodies. However, to recap, the reflections in order are:
Sesa's where Gnosis was Livio's where Jade is Razlo's where Dipper is Affogato's where Joshua is Joshua's where Affogato is Jade's where Sesa is Dipper's where Livio is Gnosis' where Razlo was
[God damn okay he actually?? Did something right?????]
Well...
[Sesa will relay the ^above verbally to Joshua as he carefully walks Gnosis' corpse over to Gnosis' reflection, and since Livio is dragging Razlo away...
He'll be able to gently lay the body down there, matching up the reflections.]
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C'mon, really?
[That escapes him while he walks over to look at them.]
[Because he is your resident puzzle solver, and isn't distracted with kicking his corpse, Dipper frowns.]
The reflections don't add up.
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Lets hope they don't stand up of their own accord, hm?
He's got that wry little toothy grin too. Though, eyes flick down to the reflections when Dipper mentions it. ]
Hm... Well, it appears that Sesa and Livio need to swap to match the reflections. As for the moon...
[ Getting closer to it, Jade summons a small rock with flora magic. He aims it for the moon's reflection to see what happens when you throw something on it. Any thud from underneath the water if it connects with something, if it even ripples at all, etc. He's not flinging it hard or anything, just testing things! ]
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That, and the knowledge that hurting these things- or even making contact even slightly- is having an affect on Mizuki...god. Fuck.
Reluctantly, he puts his gun away, slinging it back over his shoulder as he quickly sweeps past the others to bend down and check on Gnosis, reaching under his arms to see if he can help the Liberi sit up.]
Hold on, I've got you....
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...slow.
Livio has been afflicted with 'Neurodegeneration'.
Mizuki, again, shifts. Tentacles cling to Affogato's arm and squeeze - not hard enough to hurt, but definitely with intent. He does not wake up.
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[ The tentacles squeezing is enough to tell Affogato that touching them probably isn't good. The reaction from Mizuki is a REACTION, which in a way is good, but the warning is clear.
Even if it's not hurting Mizuki, it's making him distressed. He shhh's softly down at him. ]
It's all right, little love, they won't damn themselves anymore with their own need to prod.
[ To the others as he shifts Mizuki to cradle him better. ]
Investigate with your Ovens damned eyes, not your hands or feet!
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To Sesa: ]
Is he hurt? I don't know what's wrong, but I can try to heal him.
[ He's keeping an eye on Livio, too. He's the only other one to have touched the bodies. ]
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It's the Nethersea Brand...I imagine these...creatures must be riddled with it, if they are Seaborn. It afflicts you if you touch it and seems to largely affect the nervous system. I'm not sure if your healing could aid with that, but anything would help.
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He also looks like a drowned rat.]
I'm having difficulties moving my limbs, sorry. [And he's shaking involuntarily still, yay.] I'm normally resistant to these sorts of effects, so I think it has more to do with the corpses themselves, if they can be called that. I don't know if it can be healed away, unless you know of a way to cleanse neurological effects.
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Gnosis, the three babies you held earlier at trying to lay on your arms to help "warm you up". They're doing their best.
Joshua, the seaborn you brought with you is holding your hand again, mimicking your voice from something you just said: "What's wrong...?"
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I don't know if my healing would work or not. But, I am the Phoenix - I cannot go without trying.
[ The seaborn baby takes his hand again, using his own voice to ask a question, and he looks down to it as he lifts his free hand to hover over Gnosis' chest. ]
He isn't feeling well, little one. I need to summon a flame, but I promise it will not hurt you. All right?
[ Focusing, he draws upon himself, flame lighting on the back of his hand and letting the warmth of the healing magic flow through Gnosis. If there is damage that can be healed, it will find it. ]
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But obviously his magic and Gnosis' reactions are giving him different answers there. How strange.
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I cannot... feel anything. It's as though I'm trying to heal someone that needs no healing.
[ But Gnosis is clearly suffering effects... Isn't he? Unless... ]
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I appreciate the attempt regardless, Joshua. [What he needs is probably like, spiritual healing. A cleric. Church. To find God. Anyway, he's going to continue appreciating the little baby seaborn and being a godless heathen.] I think I can sit up on my own, if the two of you want to attempt to figure out what's going on with the bodies and the reflections.
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while everyone is saying things, discussing what to do, he slowly looks back and forth along the bodies and their reflections... and he's just gonna grab razlo by the hair and start dragging the corpse over to where it's reflected in the water.
like, really, really, really slowly. probably stumbling while he's hunched over the body like a damn gargoyle (no offense zahliya or zonari). anyone feel free to stop him??]
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If you're sure.
[Sesa says this quietly, placing a gentle hand on Gnosis' shoulder for a moment longer before he rises to his feet, trusting he won't just flop over again when he does.
Someone else may have to stop Livio (sorry), because he is trying very hard to NOT look in the direction of his own corpse, knowing it's just going to set him off again, and the Livio!Corpse is near his own, so. He's not at all aware that Livio has just hauled off and touched them again oopsie. He has...an idea, but the only way he can test is by approaching the bodies.
He'll approach the corpse of Gnosis instead. He'll get close, but keep his hands off, and crouch down into a squat to study the corpse closely. Closer than he ever would have wanted, for a friend.
His question is this: Are these corpses completely still and inanimate? Because knowing Seaborn like he does, now...]
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Shit.
[He was hoping, even though he knew deep down it probably wasn't going to matter, that IF the corpses were...he doesn't know, horrifying zombies, that they could move them without having to touch them. At this juncture, they have two options. Either they try to shift the bodies to match the reflections as they should and hope this does something, or they sit here for hours hoping something else happens.
Sesa doesn't want Mizuki to be under further duress, believe him. Mizuki is his best friend. But if they don't do something, he might not wake up. Not now, not ever. And Sesa, up until this point, really hasn't done a whole lot to help at all.
So. Without asking for permission and instead figuring he'll seek forgiveness instead, he plunges both arms into the water and scoops Gnosis' body up wholesale, attempting to lift him up bridal-style so he can quickly bring his body over to the correct position.
Whether this affects him or not, that will just have to be. He is a Vouivre, hardy as they come, capable of surviving weeks, months even without food. If anyone could, it's him.]
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It would seem he only seems upset if you mess with yourself? By all means, continue touching them if you so desire hoisting dead bodies around, merely do not touch your own?
[ No he's not going to help, unless someone wants to come hold Mizuki. And then you might get bit. Affogato is doing a very important job. ]
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But when he sees Sesa pick up the corpse of someone other than himself, with seemingly no ill effects at all, it's like a light bulb turns on. He sits up straighter, pulls in a breath.
Like when they had first stepped in here. When he had been so certain he'd been back in the bailey at Rosalith Castle, but to the others, nothing else had been wrong aside from him being in a slumber. And the only person here in a slumber is-- ]
... Mizuki.
[ It's soft, almost to himself. His eyes search the layer of water around them. Mizuki had physically responded when the others had become afflicted, but didn't even seem to flinch just now, when Sesa picked up Gnosis' corpse. Is this another illusion on a far more grand scale? Are they all trapped within Mizuki's dream, the same way he had been trapped in his own?
By the Founder. If that's what this is, if they're all in, how are they to break out? ]
What reflections are in the water right now?
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Sesa's where Gnosis was
Livio's where Jade is
Razlo's where Dipper is
Affogato's where Joshua is
Joshua's where Affogato is
Jade's where Sesa is
Dipper's where Livio is
Gnosis' where Razlo was
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Well...
[Sesa will relay the ^above verbally to Joshua as he carefully walks Gnosis' corpse over to Gnosis' reflection, and since Livio is dragging Razlo away...
He'll be able to gently lay the body down there, matching up the reflections.]
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anyway, brings this out of the brain subthread
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