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Aigis (orgia_mode) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-05-02 09:38:00

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aigis, felix gaeta, nico di angelo, spencer reid

Day 374 | Action | Open
[1] The Dark Hour

[Surely you're in a dream, or rather a nightmare. There's no other way to describe your surroundings. It's night, and you're in a city - that much is normal. Everything else is wrong. The sky is an eerie, sickening green, the buildings are dark, the streets are the deep red of dried blood. The moon hangs impossibly huge in the sky a few days away from full - luckily for you.

There are coffins everywhere. Standing upright in the crosswalks, in the drivers seat of cars, clustered under darkened streetlights and by bus stops; every place people would be at this hour.

Above it all, rising high against the green sky, is a tower, twisted and misshapen and impossibly high. You can see it no matter where you happen to be right now; outside a school dorm, in a certain alley by the train station, standing on a suspension bridge over a dark bay. There's something wrong with that tower, you can tell just by looking at it. It shouldn't exist.

If you have a watch you'll find it stopped at precisely midnight. In fact any electronic device you have on you will have stopped working. Everything except the robot girl gleaming pale and alert next to you in the darkness.]

[2] Tartarus

[You're inside the tower, because where else could you be that would fill you with this much dread? The walls are that same dark green as the sky outside, the only light is a sickly yellow from the moon leaking in through the occasional window to spill across the stained, checkered floor. It's a maze in here, but if you wander far enough you might fin the stairs. You can take them up if you'd like but you'll never reach the top, not tonight. You could come every night for the one hour you have and fight your way upward and it would still take you a year to reach the summit. And every night the maze will have shifted, changed, morphed into some new shape.

You're alone, and yet not alone. There are no other people here, just the monsters. Shadows that roam the halls with you. You can try to hide, and you might succeed. You can try to fight, and maybe you can overpower one or two but you won't be able to keep it up for long. This place is a nest of Shadows, and there will always be more. Maybe if you're lucky someone will find you. Or maybe you'll be trapped here, forever.]

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didwhaticould
2016-05-03 02:11 am UTC (link)

[This is extremely disturbing.

It's not just the complete unfamiliarity of the bridge and the city. It's not even the eerie sky or the ominous tower or the coffins where people should be.

Fully expecting something terrible to happen, Gaeta edges closer to Aigis. He doesn't know why she's here or what's going on, but being with her has got to be safer than being alone.]

Aigis? Do you know where we are?

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orgia_mode
2016-05-03 12:04 pm UTC (link)

[She stares up at the moon, silhouetted against the green sky, a thousand emotions playing across her face. They're standing on the Moonlight Bridge, the place that has perhaps the most powerful memories for her of anywhere in this world.]

This is the Dark Hour. A phenomena that cannot be perceived by most people. It is an extra hour, every night at midnight. Most people are not aware during its existance. [She gestures towards one of the coffins as she says that.]

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	didwhaticould 2016-05-03 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	The day can't have an extra hour. That's impossible. [Not the most rational thing to say in a dream where any number of impossible things are likely very possible. He looks at the coffin that she gestures to.] They're still alive? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

orgia_mode
2016-05-03 05:42 pm UTC (link)

Ten years ago there was an incident involving the Shadows. They have the ability to alter time and space. The Dark Hour was the result of an accident that happened. I was created to address it. [She looks at the nearest coffin and nods.]

Anyone without a potential we call Persona is transmogrified during this hour. There can be exceptions, if the Shadows target a particular person. And they can still be injured or killed.

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	didwhaticould 2016-05-03 07:55 pm UTC (link)
	Not a lot of that makes sense to me except for the injured or killed part. [He's not always this much of a coward, honest. The novelty of the potential danger is what does it.] There must be more than this for you--addressing this Shadow problem, being the only conscious person for one hour every night. That's a bleak existence. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

orgia_mode
2016-05-03 11:17 pm UTC (link)

I do not know of many cases. [And it's not always the Shadows. Persona users are dangerous, too.]

I am not the only one. [She smiles, bright and dazzling in the gloom, a beam of pure innocent happiness.] My friends and I fight together. There are eight of us. [There used to be more.] We all have the power of Persona and we can all function during this time. They are my most precious friends, and I never would have known them without this time.

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	didwhaticould 2016-05-04 03:28 am UTC (link)
	[Please don't point out more dangers. This place is creepy enough already.] I'm glad you managed to find something good in all of this. [As much as it pains him to be sincere about anything as faulty and fickle as friendship, it's hard not to be in the face of Aigis' joy.] Shouldn't they be here instead of me? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	orgia_mode 2016-05-04 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	You are not in danger. There are unlikely to be any Shadows outside of Tartarus tonight. [She glances up at the moon as if that somehow confirms it.] And you are my friend, Felix-san. Perhaps that is why you are here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-05-05 12:42 pm UTC (link)
	[He follows her gaze to the moon. Unsurprisingly, the moon has no relevant information to offer. Shadows, Tartarus, friends... this is all very strange.] Thank you, Aigis. You're a good friend to have. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)