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My name is Max. ([personal profile] theroadwarrior) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2018-04-02 02:11 am

The Bunker of Nariba Relia | OPEN PLOT MINGLE POST

Who: Everyone!!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: The bunker in the surrounding desert.
When: Sometime recently, see this post for full information. Below is the excerpt of information listed there. Feel free to make a top comment and thread out the sad truth and whatnot.

[Records buried in the library, the research facility, and cues from the power plant will eventually reveal the bunker in the surrounding desert. The passageway leads several yards underground, and it doesn’t appear to have been used in a long time. Those brave enough to venture inside will find that it is not much more than a tomb. Eerily enough, the emergency lights are still on, casting a soft red glow over sheets and the once-bodies beneath them.

It has been long enough that paper journals, books, and personal belongings (like bags and such) have deteriorated to the point of being extremely fragile. Handled with care, however, they are eager to tell a story.

“The engineers should have been more careful. I’m not sure I’ll be able to recoup my losses from this… At least I have enough money to buy a ride off this planet!”

“No one could have known this would happen. Hopefully it stabilizes so we can go home soon. In the meantime, I’ve been teaching my daughter how to count. She doesn’t understand what’s going on, and I don’t know what to tell her.”

“It’s not getting better. So many people have died that we’re running out of room in the morgue. We had to move all of the food to another room so that the smell doesn’t leach out, but we all know what’s back there.”

“The replicator was supposed to repair us, too.”

“I don’t know if we can go back yet, but it doesn’t matter. Even if the city was back to the way it was, there’s no cure for us. The dead are dead, and we lay down next to them as we wait for our turn.”

There is nothing that can be done for these people except to give them the eternal rest they deserve. Ultimately, the fate of Nariba Relia is a sad one and not altogether preventable.]
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-04-06 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[A shelter turned into a tomb. Whatever happened here - Riona doesn't fully understand, but she gets the gist of it - left these people trapped and waiting to die. An awful fate, one that makes her stomach turn unpleasantly. She looked over the records, but it was too much after awhile.

Saddled with her own grief from recent losses, and now this, Riona feels compelled to act. Which is why she eventually leaves the bunker, intent on doing something for these people. In most places in Thedas, humans burn their dead. and these people deserve a funeral of some sort. This place has endless supplies; she's certain she can get enough to make funeral pyres for these people. Likely mass ones - there's too many dead to build one for each individual, but it's better than nothing.

On the way out, though, she spots Thor, and slows. Her task can wait a moment. She steps over to him, looking at the sunset with him.]


Not... what I was hoping to find in there. Those poor people.
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-04-06 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thor shifts, glancing up at Riona as she comes to stand next to him. It's a welcome diversion from his thoughts, even if they're going to speak of the same thing. What's buried in the ground behind them. He nods in silence, looking back to the sunset.]

I didn't think this was what happened. Maybe that was foolish of me.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-04-09 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't call it foolish. Optimistic, more like.

[The world needs optimists. Even if the cynical folk laugh at them for it, the world needs it.]

Honestly, I expected that they had left or moved elsewhere. I wish that's all it was and not a tomb.
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-04-10 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
I thought that as well. I didn't want to think that none ever left this place.

[It's a terrible fate, one that strikes him too close to home at the moment. Asgard hadn't suffered an accident, but its wholesale destruction had claimed all but a few hundred. Maybe he had hoped it would have been the same for Nariba Relia.]

And with no one left to remember it.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-04-11 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
The machines and the notes they left behind hold some of the memory, but it's not really the same.

[She wishes they knew where they had come from, so maybe they could be informed. Come collect their dead, give them a proper burial. But that doesn't seem likely, and given the seeming length of time that's passed, no one may care about them anymore.]

They deserve better than being left in that place.
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-04-12 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
They do. But we don't know what rites their people held for the dead.

[Maybe giving them any kind of funeral would be better than nothing. Yet Thor still isn't certain he has the heart to do that for strangers he never met. Not when there's still such a weight on him from elsewhere.]

If nothing else, maybe the bunker should be marked in some way. So that no one else who happens across this world has to wonder at what befell it.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-04-15 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I wish we knew, too, but something has to be better than nothing. I... was out on my way to gather as much wood as I can. In Thedas - with one or two exceptions - we burn our dead. A funeral pyre for them at least would take care of the bodies and give them some kind of send off.

[Surely it beats just being left there.]

I agree with a marker, too. Some kind of memorial.
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-04-15 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Thor smiles at that, understanding what she means.]

We do something similar in Asgard, though we lay the dead in boats first and set them out to sea before igniting it.

[There's a lot more magic involved as well, spheres of light and ascension into the stars. There still remains a thread of similarity.]

Do you want some help with the wood?
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-04-17 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
You do that as well? Some holds in Ferelden have that. Mostly the ones near or on the water. My home of Highever does it.

[They had done it for her family and those Howe killed during his attack of Highever. The bodies were long gone, burned in a mass pit, but once Fergus had returned to the city and she was able to come, they had done a proper funeral for them that way.

These people deserved the same, even after all this time.]


If you would be willing. The more help the better.
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-04-18 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Of course. I'd be happy to.

[Thor doesn't know if he has the heart to set these people to rest himself. His own home's destruction is still too close to bear, and if he does anything at all it will be for his own people. This, however, is something simple enough to assist with.]

Most of Asgard was set on the water's edge, so it became tradition long ago.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-04-20 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Riona waits for him to get up and follow. It's a long walk ahead.]

Thank you.

[Maybe this will mean little, but it'll leave them with a peace of mind, and the bodies taken care of. She hopes that it'll allow them to rest, for once and for all.]

Is Asgard a great naval nation?
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-04-21 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Thor follows Riona, humming with faint amusement.]

We did have a number of water vessels, though those were mostly for pleasure. Our travels usually took us through space rather than water. Asgard had far more airships than sailing boats.

[Not that they used those for voyages between worlds. That was what the Bifrost was for.]
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-04-22 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, so all this space travel isn't new to you. [Even after being on the fleet for over two years, it still strikes her as odd to imagine it being a daily part of someone's life.] It must be so convenient to be able to zip through air and space like that.
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-04-22 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't, but we never used to travel in spaceships. Asgard had the Bifrost - a bridge between realms. It was much faster.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-04-29 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
How... is a bridge faster than the ships?
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-05-01 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
It's not the kind of bridge you walk on. It was more of a beam that shot you between worlds.

[So, not a 'bridge' in the traditional sense, but you'll never find an Asgardian who doesn't call the Bifrost a bridge.]

I used it quite often. I could get between Asgard and Earth within moments.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-05-06 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...oh. A... beam? Of what?

[A laser beam? But she understood those not able to be used for transportation.]

A very fast beam, then, from the sounds of it.
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-05-07 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
Light and energy. It was also known as the rainbow bridge.

[There's far more to it than that, but the technology and magic behind the Bifrost is difficult to explain to those unfamiliar with it.]

It was, yes. It made it much easier to manage the Nine Realms.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-05-19 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
[She's just gonna... nod and go along with it. This clearly sounds like something far beyond her understanding.]

You had nine realms to travel between? Goodness, that sounds very large and... unwieldy.
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-05-20 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
It was definitely that. Keeping the peace in the Nine Realms was a full time job.

[Thor heaves a sigh, reminded once again that 'keeping the peace' had taken on a darker meaning since learning how Asgard appointed itself in charge of the task in the first place. Not for the first time, he wonders how the other realms reacted to the knowledge of Asgard's destruction. Whether they knew yet. Whether they cared.]

But they will need to keep their own affairs now.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-05-28 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds it. [She frowns a little at the hint that something happened that they no longer can do that job.] I think I remember you mentioning something happened back home. Was it so serious that you can't look after the rest of your realms anymore?
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-05-29 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid so. [He watches the skyline for a moment before turning his attention back to Riona.] Asgard was destroyed. We were able to save some of the people, but we are without a home at the moment. I cannot spare any attention for the other realms, even if I wished to.

[And he doesn't, not really. Not since finding out how Asgard appointed itself Protector of the Realms to begin with.]
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-06-04 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...Oh, Thor. [It hits a bit close to home. If she had failed during the Blight, Ferelden would have been decimated by the darkspawn. Granted, the survivors could easily flee to Orlais or the Free Marches, something that doesn't seem quite so easy for Thor's people. But in the end, a destroyed home is a destroyed home, no matter how it happened.] I'm so sorry. Have you been looking for a new home? Another world, I suppose?
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[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-06-05 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
[He exhales, feeling the weight of it all once more. It's still a faint relief to say what's happened, rather than talk around it. He isn't much used to avoiding the facts of his life. Time just got away from him after his memories came back.]

We are - we're on a spaceship at the moment, all of us. My plan is to take everyone to Earth. They know me there and I've saved the planet a couple of times, so I'm hopeful that will earn us the right to make our case.

[Hopeful, but still practical. There are precious few other worlds in the immediate vicinity that Thor both knows and can be assured of Asgard having decent standing.]
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2018-06-10 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You know of Earth, then? Seems to be a popular world in the fleet. As in, one everyone either knows of or is from. Strange. [Who knows, maybe Atroma just likes it for some reason.] But I hope it all works out. Starting over in a new place will be difficult, but at least your people have you.

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