Sabra La Tau

[Once again, that strange patchwork of light and reality bathes the arena. Deep, impenetrable darkness wars with scattered rays of light, illuminating tiny slices of some seemingly unconnected scenery. Here a patch of lush, bluish tinged grass is warmed by the sun and blown by the breeze. There half of a delicate stone fountain is bathed in the first morning light... And over there you see a strange, fuzzy creature skittering and scrambling up a sheer rock face, ducking nervously in and out of shadows.

Scenes like this are scattered throughout the entire Arena without any sense of rhyme or reason... But as you walk further, you find yourself having to step on or around more and more thread. Fourteen shades of fine thread loop, scatter and tangle, condensing and congregating below the throne... leading to fourteen looms, each with a primitive, fuzzy picture coming into view, line by line- starting with the sky at the top.

When you look directly at the throne, it seems empty. It is only out of the corners of your eyes do you catch fleeting glimpses... sometimes fingers twined with thread... sometimes a face: matured with age, but warm and kindly.]

W... d...seek.... ?

Who: Everyone
Where: Everywhere
When: Day 198, evening
What:

[Suddenly, whatever you were doing, whatever your current physical state, you can feel it. It is a Call, but like none you’ve ever felt. In the arena lies the truth. A secret stifled for thousands of years now demands to be told. It resonates with something inside you, and you feel the pull.

It’s hard to hold in your mind to any thought but that need. Incapacitated teammates will need to be assisted. Everyone must be there.

You cannot look away from it. You cannot look away from Him.

You must go to the Arena. She will show you the truth.]

((Please to consider this your pre-Mingle mingling post. :) Characters may gather and chat on their way to the arena. Rabi can weep his bitter, useless Madagascar tears. Those who are FEELING THE COSMOS will feel these effects much more strongly, but everyone will to some extent feel the compulsion to go. At 8PM EST, everyone arrives at the Arena, and the :) may begin in earnest.))

Who: Ophiuchus, blanks in need of rations and instruction in new rules
Where: ALL the dorms
When: Day 198, morning (or whenever those Ophi get around to it)
What: Special delivery!

((for general early 198 threadings! Put your location in your subject, etc, you know the drill....))

Who: Slick and such
Where: Vulpecula then Lacerta
When: Day 198, late morning
What: deliveries and dates

[KNOCKNOCK]

Who: Lyvus + visitors
Where: Lynx
When: Day 198, mid-morning
What: Just stay inside and make preparations for Crazy Winter.

[also Lelouch has determinedly gotten out of bed after a full day and a bit and is cooking, at least until somebody notices and herds him back to bed :|]

Who: Moar Stresspire
Where: YOUR DOOR
When: Day 198, morning
What: An Offer You Will Probably Refuse.

[Bring out your crazies, Stresspire thinks he can fix them so he's knocking at every door ever]

Who: People
Where: Outside Cepheus
When: Day 198, morning
What: BEING MADAGASCAR. Hanging out. Being SO SANE

. . .I wish I was a raptor.

Who: Weed, Nightshade, others
Where: Cygnus gardens, for now
When: Day 198, morning
What: a date..?

*after awkward flirting and even stranger dreams, this Cygnus is out in the garden, not sure whether he actually wants Nightshade to show up or not*

Who: Rainbow and Stresspire
Where: Heading back to their respective units.
When: Day 197, late night.
What: DEHIATUS!!

[Some people had the TIME OF THEIR LIVES with Horn. They're looking pretty tired, Rainbow is annoyed too, his life is so hard]

Who: Anybody!
Where: DREAMWORLD oooh
When: Day 197, night
What: Dreampost!

[I dunno about you, but it's been one hell of a week for this noodle. He's not in critical condition anymore, but his grip on reality is more tenuous than usual tonight. Therefore, it's time to go wandering.

Whatever you may be dreaming about -- nightmare, fantasy, Old Sabra, something in between -- you feel a light prick at the back of your consciousness, and then a widening. Even the non-dreamwalkers can move about tonight in this hazy shared reality. But be aware that other things lurk in the deepest recesses of tonight's mindscape, especially with so many restless alter-egos on the move...]

(( OOC: It's dreampost time again! Here's a repost of the guidelines from last time, with a few changes:

A) If you comment to the post, you're hosting a dream of your own. People commenting to you are part of the dream, whether as a figment of your imagination or as a conscious interloper.
B) Similarly, if you comment to someone else's thread, you're either part of their dream or crossing over from yours to theirs.
C) Feel free to remember as much of (or as little of) the dreams as you like.
D) If you're participating, then your bracer is open a tiiiny crack or two during slumber. Or otherwise briefly permeable.
E) Watanuki and Aeris are not commenting to everyone. In fact, I'm going to sleep in about an hour and a half.
F) If you want a magical toy surprise (and have not already been Pillar'd, lake'd, etc.), then PM Aeris or Watanuki. :) :) :) ))

Who: Bunnycorn and friends
Where: the caves
When: Day 197
What: FATTY LIZARD

[we huntin']

Who: Anyone!
Where: Outside Delpavo dorms
When: Day 197, afternoon
What:

*today outside the Delpavo dorms there's a half-metal dolphin drawing on the ground*


*there is also a sign:

UNIFORM REPAIRS FOR TRADE
all teams welcome!*

Who: Lizards, Squidrabis and interlopers
Where: Lacerta dorms
When: 197, afternoon
What: LOTS AND LOTS OF SANITY derp :(


Sir Cobra . . . Sir Cobra, we should probably clean up before we wake Allen.


Buttercup, are you injured at all either?

Who: Charming, Himiko, anyone else
Where: Nearish the lake
When: Day 197, late afternoon
What: Laziest Patrolling

[It's Charming and Himiko's turn to patrol to make sure no one goes too near the lake, but instead of walking around they're sitting at the cave entrances near Hydracula and playing with a trio of dice. They might even be bored enough to play blanks for trinkets!]

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: In the snake's chamber
When: Day 197, evening
What: It IS kind of unusual that the Guardian calls in the evening...

[It is just as the torch's magical lights begin to dim for the evening that every Ophiuchus hears a summons, floating across the surface of their thoughts, seeking their return.]

Gather and heed well: there sssssshall be new ordersssss.

Who: Scowl, Fang, Cepheus
Where: Cepheus
When: Day 197, Morning
What: SCHEMING

[KNOCK KNOCK CEPHEUS]

Who: Brass, ANYONE
Where: Baths
When: Day 197, afternoon
What: A Lynx returns

[So, perhaps you are in the bathes. Or passing by?]

[Either way, there is one very miserable looking Lynx pulling himself out of the water, wearing completely drenched clothes.]

Who: Hydracula
Where: Angerdome
When: Day 197, lunchtime
What: Lucky has an idea

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! We're going raptor hunting!

Who: Lyvus and others
Where: Lyvus
When: noonish, Day 197
What: resident crazies.

[after returning to Lyvus and managing to locate headache leaves or whatever, Bond has grabbed the Corvus journal and is writing in it while sitting outside and leaning against Lynx dorms.

... or is attempting to. stops to rub at his head or curses to himself as he scratches out YET ANOTHER mistake. If you glance over his shoulder, he's managed to at least write in this much on a page, scribbling out the last bit with an aggravated look]

Who: Cepheus
Where: the usual place
When: Day 197, early morning
What: owls and hiatuses and crazies oh my!

[Going through the morning routine, probably earlier than anyone would really like. Noodle's in the kitchen, making up some tea to help with all those aches and pains.]