05 ☼

[deviances]

Who: Eithan and YOU!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: SS Blue Fish, or a random planetside bar, if you so choose!
When: Right heckin' now.

☼ Waking Up → SS Blue Fish
[ He's been out for days - no movement, no sound, nothing. Just sleep. Or... something like that. Everything changes when he wakes up - and he wakes with a start, heart racing and mind reeling.

He remembers. A vast sea of stars - different from space. Walkable, breathable, wrong. He remembers names and faces of people he grew close to, and the way his reality began bleeding into others' because of it. He remembers running. Fighting. Struggling to survive, facing down horrors that shouldn't have been. He remembers the shop - remembers waking up in the back of it, being left to figure out what that meant and the changes that came with it. And... he remembers how that didn't hold a candle to the way it felt when the bladed hand of some shadowy creature slid so easily between his ribs, straight through--

It's too much.

So of course, the first thing out of his mouth is a very heartfelt: ]

Fuck...!

[ He wishes it was all just a nightmare, but he's pretty sure it wasn't.

Crewmates or visitors can find him in his room, or eventually he'll start wandering the halls, looking hella distracted and even paler than usual. Long story short: yeah, he's not okay. ]


☼ Network post → Text
Looks like it was my turn for Atroma to knock me out and give me memories or some shit. So that's awesome. Good times.

So to "celebrate" I'm gonna be hanging out in a bar on the planet, corner of 5th and Boulder streets. Can't miss it it's got the bright as hell red roof and the weird cactus neon sign thing out front. Seriously. It stands out.

I'd say drinks are on me but I mean drinks are free! Literally all of it. Anything we want. But hey if you really want I'll make it for you. For the hell of it. Anyway come hang out. Let's make it a party. Why not?


☼ Planetside bar
[ And yep, there he is, just like he said he'd be. He's already made himself a rather large drink, and he's sitting at the bar staring into it, as if the place wasn't completely empty around him and he really was just... in a bar, somewhere populated, where people hadn't died from radiation or what the hell ever. Doesn't help that this reminds him a lot of a certain other always-empty, always-restocking bar.

... Goddess, he really needs a distraction. Or to get wasted. One of the two. Feel free to catch him either just getting started, or already well on his way to drunk. ]

Comments

[bryces_pup]

[They reach the kitchen just as he speaks. Riona gestures for him to sit as she heads for the fridge.]

Everyone who lived there died. Some kind of illness spread, and they weren't able to stop it. It was... awful. People just sitting in that bunker, waiting to die.

[deviances]

[ He sits, listens... and falls quiet for a moment, somber. He shakes his head. ]

Goddess... Just somethin' they weren't ready for, totally out of their control, huh?

[bryces_pup]

Something like that. The mechanism that resets the town each day... I think they thought it would fix them, too, but it didn't. The disease spread and they all died. And that machine just keeps going, resetting the town every day.

[deviances]

[ He flinches at the word "machine," for reasons entirely unrelated to this place - but he can't help it. But then, of course, he ignores it!! Besides, the news of what happened is bad enough. ]

Mm. On the one hand, at least they're not sufferin' anymore. And hey, at least we found out. If we ever need to tell someone later on down the line. Or warn 'em. Whichever.

[bryces_pup]

If there's anyone left who remembers them. Seems like it all happened a very long time ago. But yes, Maker willing they're not suffering. And there was a memorial placed for them.

[deviances]

A memorial's good. I'm glad someone did that.

[ He leans forward, elbows resting on the table while he rubs at his eyes. ]

Thanks for the update. ... And the company. More for the company, honestly. But. You know. ... Thanks. [ Ugh. Can't make the words go right when the brain is doing the dumb spinny thing, clearly. ] Guess it's my turn to update huh?

[bryces_pup]

[She nods as she finishes grabbing some food. There's leftover soup in the fridge. She takes it out and pours some out for them both before putting the first bowl in the microwave. Handy thing, that microwave, even if it sometimes makes the food taste funny.]

If you're willing to talk about it. Sounds like you had a rough time. Did you return home?

[deviances]

Not exactly... [ He narrows his eyes, thinking - how the hell to start talking about this... ]

You know how some people here were in other places that weren't their homes, before endin' up here? Turns out, I was too. I got all the memories of bein' there. And I went back for a little bit. Couple months. Maybe a year.

[bryces_pup]

I've heard of such places, yes. But I'll admit, I never heard of anyone being here, going to such a place, and then returning here. [She presses her lips together, wondering how much to ask.] What... was the place you went to?

[deviances]

[ He'd never heard of anything like that either, but... well... here we are. He nods. ]

The Astral Plane. Or, uh... The Machine. It was actually kinda like space, except you could walk around in it - as if there was a glass floor? And, you know, air. 'Course. ... [ Snort. ] I know, it sounds all crazy.

[bryces_pup]

[...yes, it definitely sound crazy, and the confused expression betrays her thoughts.]

So it was just empty space that you could... walk in? And breathe? Was there anything else?

[deviances]

>(( ooc: I'm back from the dead! fjksl If it's been too long, no worries, feel free to ignore - we can always do new things o7 ))

Yeah, a few things. People could bring stuff from their own worlds, so there were random buildings here and there. Like... a library, a bar - oh, someone apparently brought a beach with 'em? No ocean, though. Just the sand and some trees. [ Beat. ] Yeah, like, the whole thing was... really fuckin' weird. All kinds of weird, awful shit happened, too. But, you know, figures. Right?