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[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

Who: All the good little anti-entropy engine girls and boys and others
Where: On the way back towards the dorms
When: Day 258, evening, so very shortly after Good Ends
What:

[As the festivities end and it’s time to head back to dorms, there seems to hang an uneasy feeling that has nothing to do with bittersweet goodbyes. The particularly astute may notice an uncomfortable stillness about; not a living thing is out and active, save the Blanks. Even the river seems stilled, as if holding its breath. The more sensitive can probably feel it coming, whatever it is. Even the insensitive may find something about the walk home distasteful.]

Comments

[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

*ominous!

time to proceed back warily.*

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[It's strange how the path seems to have curved here, out away from the torches and then back... You could have sworn it was a straight walk from the Arena before.]

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

[tttense... dnw...]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[The ground shudders beneath you; a torch flickers nearby.]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*...why does it seem quieter than usual?*

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[It's still. Almost painfully quiet, reminding you how absolutely empty a cave can be.

There's the kind of silence that no animal breaks... just your breath, footsteps and ... the noises your mind starts to substitute...]

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

[. . . nnnngh don't like this 8|]

[maryhadalilgun.insanejournal.com]

. . . oi.

[tothelight]

[ ...stops mid-practice and lowers his sword, looking around ]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

What...?

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[That is an unpleasant ping...NOT SURE IF WANT]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Does it feel weird to you too?

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[Waiting for the others to return home just outside the dorms, trying to ignore the unpleasant feelings.]

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Coming back from the baths . . . and stopping, when she sees him.]

[hacks_ur_garden.insanejournal.com]

... ...the fuck...

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[Your eyes tell you nothing, but a faint rolling motion makes your feet unsteady. Also, that mole? FREAKING OUT.]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[massages his head]

Strange.

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[A strange sound claws at the edges of your mind. Stone grinding against stone, words lost in the flow of something churning.]

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[Was walking out of the Arena with Kaito when....]



...............................


[The sharkling STOPS, yanking back on Kaito's cloths.]

[hips_dont_lie.insanejournal.com]

[That's unusual . . . He halts at the tug]

Brat?

[baddecisiondzur]

[may not be the most observant Corvus in the flock, but was a skilled sorceress]

What is this...?

Show yourself!

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[Nothing answers. The air is still... almost stagnant...

.. it's strange how the path seems to have curved here, out away from the torches and then back... You could have sworn it was a straight walk from the Arena before.]

[letdownmyhair.insanejournal.com]

[Stops, going still]

What...

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[The air grows dead and still around you. It's a struggle to breathe.]

[eggspectant.insanejournal.com]

[doesn't seem to be bothered... yet]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[The ground seems strange for a moment, as if where you stepped has some give to it.]

[madheroking.insanejournal.com]

*...well that's a little odd*

What...?

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[Something is moving behind the walls.]

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[Perched on the brim of the hydracula skull's hat, tttensing up at the strange feel . . .]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[From where you are, you see the waters surrounding the geardorm still... and then churn with unusual waves.]

[lawfulreception.insanejournal.com]

[PERHAPS LEFT THE CELEBRATIONS EARLY punch not strong enough, and it's depressing seeing people leave that aren't you]

[almost to the dorm area but freezes, looking around]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[Your bracelet begins to vibrate uncomfortably, sending sympathetic rumblings up your arm.]

[ghostduster.insanejournal.com]

[oh god oh god. drops to his knees just outside Lacerta's dorm, hands covering his mouth]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[Around you the ground seems to rattle and thrum. A grinding sound works its way across your senses, tugging somewhere at the back of your teeth.]

[cherry_on_top.insanejournal.com]

[stills near the river where he was hunting, looking around]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[The water has stopped flowing entirely. If there were any fish in this part of the river, they are gone now.]

[spiltbloodlines.insanejournal.com]

[out on the Lyvress, Sharingan up, keeping an eye out for returning teammates.]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[There's something... unease about the air. It prickles along your senses, and wavers at the edge of your vision. Some of the pillars and rock formations almost seem to be ... swaying...

((OOC SORRY I MISSED THIS SOMEHOW!))]]

[mad_pony.insanejournal.com]

[MEANWHILE, AT CETUS]


... you say something?

[got_axed.insanejournal.com]

[standing at the open door to the dorm]

Nothin'. But there's something fuckin' wrong out there.

[grewuptootsun.insanejournal.com]

[was coming home from fishing

what is happening what]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[The floor underneath your feet begins to curve slightly.]

[wutaistyle.insanejournal.com]

[oh, well, that SURE IS A THING I LIKE FEELING when I'm heading home from my evening run along the river.]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[It's familiar. So very familiar.]

[Anywhere in the South Block]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[All at once, the shocks seem to finally resolve into SOMETHING.

The air fills with an guttural roar, grinding on and on for what seems to be an eternity. The ground pitches and rolls under those who are outside, moving like waves. All around, the earth seems to twist and curl on itself as it trying to tear itself apart.

Twisted shapes form and slide back into the ground as you watch... and then it all begins to settle ... The ground solidifies and stills...

But the thrum continues...]

Re: [Anywhere in the South Block]

[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

*sssshit. tensed, ready to launch himself off the ground if it stops being solid*

[By Pygnus]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[For those returning along the river or running back to your own dorms in sight of the Pyxis and Cygnus dorms, the roar of the earth, deep and terrible, the shaking knocking over furniture and making it difficult to keep your footing... it's all so much stronger here.

The ground moves as if it was a mere cover of a pool or water bed, waves pushing it rhythmically underneath. The Pyxis dorm rattles... but it's the empty Cygnus dorm that begins to crack and crumble under the assault.

The very earth seems to rise up around the walls, a caricature of hands, arms and bodies dragging it down, glurping up over the sides, even as the structure seems to fold in on itself, collapsing into the deep fissure ripping open in the earth.

And just as suddenly, it seems to stop.]

Re: [By Pygnus]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[The Cygnus dorm is left in half-serviceable rubble, looking less like the glory it once was, and more like the abandoned and half open dorms that are scattered throughout the South Block.

Walls seem to have collapsed under the weight of oddly ...liquid looking stone. It glistens with moisture in the torchlight and should you stare with a paranoid eye... it's almost as if you can make out forms in the rock. A male shape here, a stronger form there of in-determinant gender, pushing against one wall, one might even imagine a horse...

The Pyxis dorm on the cliff above is completely untouched and the path to it unobstructed.]

[Everywhere]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[The ground settles, the waters still and the sound slowly, slowly ebbs so far into the background, even those with amplified senses can barely notice it anymore.

It seems to be over at long last.]

[In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[wutaistyle.insanejournal.com]

[so, how many of us are trembling bundles of all the terror]