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Tweak says, "Rock me, Amadeus!"

vax'ildan (daggerdagger) wrote in jurassiccitylog,
@ 2016-10-01 17:27:00

Entry tags:

cassandra de rolo, cisco ramon / vibe, harrison wells, hartley rathaway / pied piper, kashaw vesh, keyleth, percy de rolo, shaun gilmore, vax'ildan, vex'ahlia, zahra hydris

WHO: Vox Machina & Friends + The Star Labs People
WHAT: Percy's demons have caught up with him... in a quite literal sense. VM & Company unite for a resurrection ritual.
WHEN: After this
WHERE: The Lab
RATING: TBD
STATUS: In Progress

It had been a moment of panic in Vax the second that he'd realized they hadn't arrived back in Whitestone. It had taken a beat later before he realized where they were instead of the city they'd been aiming for. He wasn't sure how long they'd been gone, or if their absence had even been noticed, and he'd noted, with a mix of shock and relief, that Keyleth had been with them as well. But there hadn't been time to thinking about the whys and wheres and whats of the situation. Percy was still dead, and they had to do something about it. Kash had flashed into his mind a second later, and he'd put up his plea before leading the small group that he'd arrived with towards the Lab where Percy had spent 90% of his time here.

He hadn't expected Harry to greet them when they arrived, but he realized after a moment that he should have. He hadn't exactly been vague about explaining what had happened in public, and the expression that was twisting the other man's features made it more than little clear that he was already expecting the worst. "We need a place to put him," Vax said, no real pretense in the words as Harry nodded, shifting back into the labs.

"I already prepped one of the examine tables," Harry said, his tone making it a little too obvious he was barely maintaining his composure. After all, for him, dead was dead. There was no hope to be held onto when that became a state of being beyond the handful of minutes that someone could be resuscitated. But, somehow, Harry doubted that Percy's condition just required a little CPR. What they were planning... it was well beyond him.

"How likely is it this is going to work?" Harry asked, sparing a look over his shoulder.

"We won't know until we try," Vax said, not really sure how to answer that. On one hand, they'd never had it not work before. But on the others, well... There was always a chance it would fail. He'd just rather not think about that possibility.

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burymyshame
2016-10-02 02:26 pm UTC (link)

Stay calm. Think. Keyleth had lost track of the number of times she'd told herself that since she'd rushed out and found herself in the sprawl of an unfamiliar place. The comforting familiarity of the Sun Tree, practically an old friend by this point, was no where. Instead there were alien trees and equally unfamiliar creatures - some of them the size of dragons, by the look of them in the distance. Scanlan and Grog were gone, Percy was still dead, and they weren't in Whitestone, where Pike could set that right. They weren't where Keyleth was supposed to take them, where they could bring back Percy.

She let Vex and Vax explain, show her how to use the devices to talk (through her panic, she was still halfway fascinated by those,) and try to tell her about this place, and people they'd met before. Keyleth tried to take it all in, but it made no sense. None of this made any sense, and Percy was still dead.

Kashaw was there though. Keyleth didn't understand why his goddess would bring Percy back, or what the price would be if she did. But it was the only option they had here.

Wherever here was.

She followed where the twins led, the strange city and people around them distracting. Everything seemed like a threat when Keyleth didn't know what any of it really meant. She trusted Vax, but it was ... a lot. Everything. Was a lot. Keyleth just wanted her friend back, and then somewhere familiar. And maybe an entire bottle of something really expensive and really bad for her. And Pike. She really wanted Pike to be there right now.

There were people she didn't know waiting for them when they went into the lab. Or what Vax had called a lab, anyway. Keyleth recognized a few things as familiar - it looked like tools or projects Percy might tinker with. Keyleth had helped him enough that even when it wasn't something she understood, she could see something familiar in bits of metal or parts on a table. Seeing them made her heart hurt and her eyes sting and she gritted her teeth, telling herself again. Stay calm. Think. Nothing good happened when she panicked. She wasn't any good to anyone when she made nothing but mistakes. She drew in a deep breath, making herself step up to help Vax and Vex get Percy onto the table. Other than the few familiar traces of Percy in the room, nothing made sense in it - machines she didn't understand, men she didn't know. She focused on what they had to do and looked for Kash, who at least was familiar, and welcome.

There were a lot of lights in the room. They were harsh and unnatural. Unforgiving. Keyleth couldn't help but see how much blood and dirt she'd missed when she'd cleaned Percy up with those lights glaring down on his still face. She hadn't done a very good job, even with something so basic. Her hands itched to try to fix it, but there were more important things to do now. One more thing to apologize for when he was back. He HAD to be back with them. Then she could worry about making sense of all of this.

Cisco had sort of hovered in the background when he realized what was going on while people invaded his lab. (Harry's technically, but he'd worn the vest so he got to say it was his.) He wanted to text Caitlin, but ... once they had Percy there, Cisco didn't think there was much she could do. Dead was dead. They'd just been here.

There were extra elf-types and fantasy-peoples he didn't know, and Cisco knew they were planning some magic, D&D style attempt at raising the dead. It might work. He knew nothing about magic. Or it might interact with whatever weird mojo was already here and blow everything up.

Or it just ... might not work. Cisco stayed out of the way, but he didn't leave. He'd just hang around. In case they needed anything.

He could at least tell them people came back here, he had pretty compelling evidence of that one.

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huntersmark
2016-10-02 03:51 pm UTC (link)

Bouncing back and forth between worlds had not been on Vex's to-do list, but when she arrived back in this place, she thought it was some kind of strange and cruel fate. Worry about this place not being safe, this place being an illusion and full of danger, and that's where they ended up. She'd been so relieved to go home, to go to Ank'Harel, and all of the things they had experienced there. Then fucking Ripley showed up. Out of all people.. She knew that eventually the woman would have shown up, but not like this.

It shouldn't have ended like this. Not at all. Putting an arrow in her heart and through her mouth had only eased the pain just slightly. Vex hadn't left his body, not really. Just enough to make sure they were safe, before they headed back to Whitestone. Except that's not where they had ended up. If Vex hadn't felt so utterly numb about everything, she would have laughed at the circumstance of ending up in this place again.

The only good thing about it was that Kash was there. And while he wasn't Pike, he was the next best thing. There was no question on her part. If Kash had brought her back, he could bring back Percy too. And this time it would be up to her to sacrifice something, if it was necessary, to make sure that Percy would come back and that they weren't asking some kind of evil goddess to come back. Reviving Percy was the only thing that mattered.

She absolutely didn't leave his side, not for one second as they laid him out and waited for Kash to come. She held onto his hand, wishing very hard that she wasn't crying in front of these people she didn't know very well. They liked Percy well enough, but she wasn't sure they had the right to be there. She wasn't going to bring that up though, not now. Right now she was just shaking, holding onto Percy's hand and waiting for the ritual to begin.

Kash had shown up a moment later, with all of the stuff that he needed to make this ritual complete. This wasn't what he wanted to do either, but he could never actually say no to Keyleth. And besides, if he didn't do it, then they were going to get one of those weirdos to do it. Lyra and Gern? Yeah, he was not going to let them handle Percy's resurrection. He was likely to come back as a damn zombie, or worse. He was risking a lot, by doing this again. Vesh hadn't responded the last time, the Raven Queen had but calling on her a second time? Yeah, this was probably going to be bad. They knew the risk though, so he got to work setting up the ritual.

When he asked around for a diamond, Vex hadn't hesitated to hand over one of hers. It was the first time that he'd seen her pay for anything.

"We ready do to this? I'm going to need help." They knew this from before, right? Kash looked over at Keyleth, knowing she would want to. Percy was her best friend anyway.

Then he looked over at Vex. She nodded her head. Kash knew a lot of things, but he was pretty sure how she felt.

Gilmore had slipped in, standing next to Vax. Clearly here for whatever happened. Kash kind of hoped that if this went sideways, that Gilmore would be able to help. Hopefully.

With a deep breath, Kash started the ritual. Here went nothing.