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Tweak says, "Shut up, LOST is on!"

MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-05-27 15:11:00

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Day 221 — Morning mingle : Main shelter
[Wake up and smell the lack of coffee. You're on a bunk bed. Maybe you're a top and maybe you're a bottom. There are five other people in your room. Maybe they're friends or enemies or faces you barely recognize if at all. It doesn't matter much. You can leave this room and you don't need to come back to it.

You should get your rations though. You're probably hungry. You're definitely a little sluggish of body. What happened to that bruise you got sparing yesterday? What happened to your newly dyed hair? Mystery, mystery... Move along. Find the public bathrooms and do your business with a hundred of your closest friends.

Find the kiosk and get your rations. Careful not to let anyone steal them. You won't get more until tomorrow and the bots won't care. They aren't here to hold your hand. If you get sick or hurt and they deem it necessary they will take you to the hospital whether you wish it or not. But why dwell on such things? You're here now and you might as well enjoy it. You even get a free day today.]

(OOC: OOC info. This mingle takes place in the Main shelter over the morning hours.

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	kitty_has_claws 2013-05-31 03:35 am UTC (link)
	Reid? [It's like she can see things clicking in his head, but she's going to need a little more communication before she gets the full message.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

thisiscalm
2013-05-31 01:08 pm UTC (link)

[ It's a pretty brain-breaking revelation and he's not entirely sure how to approach it verbally. He could be wrong after all. It's just a thought, barely a theory and even if he is right he doesn't have the first idea of how to confirm it.

Still... ]

The body storage hosts everyone who's been here and disappeared, right? And during the coup, I heard about people finding their friends deep asleep in their beds... they weren't able to wake them up. No one was awake aside from the group that went with Sentience. [ A beat. ] I think we've been asleep all this time.

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kitty_has_claws
2013-06-01 12:25 am UTC (link)

[As a girl with some familiarity with the astral plane this concept is not that far out there. On the other hand the gravity of what he's saying has only begun to take hold, weighing more and more heavily as it sinks in.] ...You think we've only been awake during the coup and right now? [Heavier and heavier.

She wants to disagree. She wants to point something out to say, no that's not true because of this thing I'm pointing out! And while her head does spin with questions and reservations and wild speculation it's fresh out of solid proof.]

If that is true [Starting slowly.] then why now? [Why all of it? But she has to start somewhere.]

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	thisiscalm 2013-06-01 11:13 am UTC (link)
	I don't know. [ But he's wrestling with it. ] Maybe they couldn't keep us there... that doesn't explain why they woke us up — if that's really what's going on — but what if something went wrong? Maybe they didn't have a choice? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kitty_has_claws
2013-06-01 12:18 pm UTC (link)

Maybe. [So many questions.] Why build an actual underwater prison if you are just going to keep people asleep? Even if it was to keep us contained if something went wrong, why make it look exactly like what we saw in our minds? [She's trying to remember if her room looked different at all, but the power had been off. Things were dark even with a handy flashlight. How could she tell if things were a little out of place? Maybe it wasn't exact. It's not like she went exploring. They had a mission. It looked close enough. She didn't go check to see if they really had a beach or a bowling alley. Why would she? Why would any of them?]

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thisiscalm
2013-06-01 01:28 pm UTC (link)

[ It was dark. It was also an emergency, there wasn't time to properly explore all the devils in the details. For all they know, the structures could've been the same and not much else. ]

We don't know how accurate it was... and maybe they needed the structures to make the illusion complete? It still doesn't make perfect sense, but seeing as how little we actually know about our captors...

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	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-01 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	[A nod.] Maybe we should ask other people who were in the coup. Not everyone joined us. Maybe some of the explorers are still around and can tell us more. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-06-01 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	That's a good idea... we can't rely entirely on our memory of the event, after all. [ Pause. ] We should be careful, though... I mean, this kind of information regardless of whether we're right or not... [ Psychological repercussions. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-01 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	You don't think people would like the thought of the last several months of their lives being a big, shared dream? [She's not loving it either.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-06-01 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Not really, no... especially if we can't back it up with anything. [ Not knowing what's real or not... that's frightening. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-02 12:01 am UTC (link)
	I wasn't about to announce it. [She's definitely feeling some things here with all of this. She's been spending some time convincing herself or trying to that shared dreams don't count, but she very much wants to count this one. Maybe it's only dreams within dreams?] It's...big. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

thisiscalm
2013-06-02 12:09 am UTC (link)

Very.

[ If they slept all that time... does any of it count? Dreams aren't supposed to. They're not real, even when they feel just as genuine as what he's experiencing right now but if that's true then nothing that happened between them happened for real. Not the physical, at least, and in some ways that hits so much harder.

Never slept together. Never spent the night in the same bed. Never had dinner or lunch or breakfast. Never went to the movies or the arcade, never danced on the beach and aside from that brief moment of handholding during the coup they've barely even touched until just now.

Never kissed. ]

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	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-02 12:12 am UTC (link)
	Are you... [Okay? How could he be? Is she? Are any of them?] What are you thinking? [It's not a safer question, but maybe a better one.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-06-02 12:18 am UTC (link)
	[ For a moment he considers just telling her, but what good would come of that? How can he point out that they've never kissed without making it sounds like none of it matters to him? It does. It matters a lot and that's why it hurts so much. ] Nothing, really... it's just a lot to take in. [ Worth a try, at least. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-02 12:45 am UTC (link)
	Nothing... [Not buying that for the tiniest of second.] Me too. Lots of it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-06-02 12:52 am UTC (link)
	[ A short, stiff nod. ] ...We don't even know if we're right yet. [ Keep clinging to that. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-02 01:04 am UTC (link)
	It...might be hard to prove one way or the other. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-06-02 01:10 am UTC (link)
	I doubt the Wardens will be very forthcoming. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-02 01:11 am UTC (link)
	There might be a lot of time for thinking nothing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-06-02 12:05 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah... [ Heavy. Let's leave this subject for now. ] We're going to, uhm... we need a new leader for the Investigative Team. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-02 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	You're in charge for now. [An order? A request?] It should be you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-06-02 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	[ Whichever it is, he accepts with a nod. ] Alright... I'll do it. At least until we can find someone else. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-04 12:50 am UTC (link)
	Good. [She gives his hand a squeeze. She can't be all DF leader here. Not with him.] I need to do some team combining to work around missing leaders and people who aren't going to be helpful without their powers. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-06-04 11:52 am UTC (link)
	Do you need any help? [ Before he rallies the troops of his own. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2013-06-04 01:22 pm UTC (link)
	[She shakes her head.] I have something in mind. I'm going to turn all the investigators over to you though. A lot of them moonlight between teams. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)