[META 4 START] A hole in the world

[The Semblance of Unity]

She had figured it was probably part of the were junk, the wanting to go and see and whatever. So Preacher went, although she packed up her tent neatly beforehand. She'd maybe have a place soon, fingers crossed, but not yet. The forest changed a bit as she walked, and Preacher no longer recognized it. Other people stood around her and that was right ********' weird, too. Mercer was over there, n' Zac, and other familiar faces from around town.

There was a hole. A rift, or whatever. It had stars in it and that was also pretty weird. Even stranger was the person standing across the chasm. Sunny. She looked kind of.. creepy, Preacher thought, but she shrugged.

"HI, SUNNY!" Preacher yelled out cheerily, cupping her hands around her mouth. Her sense of reading the mood has always been abysmal, especially when concerned with spooky s**t. "WHATCHA DOIN'?" This was then punctuated by a wild waving of her arms. Preacher was short and easy to miss.

shibroganei

azuredreamsi

see you

 

[Daekie]

"I'm good enough to be out here." Alexis' voice was -- less emotional than it'd been. "To answer your question -- no. Dunno if I'll be for a while." They cracked a weary smile at him, pushing a stray flyaway wisp of hair back behind their ear. "But I get where you're coming from. 's...hard to be what you were."

And then they were quiet for the walk through the woods, surprisingly contemplative, and didn't quite look Rabbit in the eye. They looked guilty.

(Upon seeing Sunny, their smile flattened out into a thin line, leftover rainwater coalescing from the surrounding area to circle their feet like it was a living being. They didn't want to threaten, but she made them uneasy, and they -- they couldn't quite control this, yet.)

Smerdle

go be a comedian, rabbit

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"Watch what," Ashton inquires, polite as always, subtle and small. She's still in her costume -- her skin pale, an elegant faux-tux, white streaks in her hair and a touch of tooth-black to make her look fangier. (She doesn't want to speak yet, to tip her hand any more than this -- this is unfamiliar. It burns. It knows.)

everyone doot doot doot

 

[lizbot]

Offering the others a wave and a subdued smile and How do? to several familiar faces, America walked along with the group, excited and pensive and watchful. Mr. Bitterberry pops his head out of her pocket to greet Leila but otherwise stays put, his small body shivering as he hunkers down.

There is magic and it is real and America has known this, but across the strange rift is magic as a revelation, wild and strange and familiar. There is magic and it is real and it is Sunny.

It’s beautiful, compelling to the pieces America's shut away more and more without an endless desert at her feet, a swamp rising to breathe hungry life into every moment. But even so, the sight of Sunny inspires a thrill of fear, a crackle of tension.

"Hey, Sunny," America finally manages to call in greeting, "You okay, hun?"

shibrogane

 

[cibarium]

Leila and Eve kept a tight grip on each other's hands, saying nothing -- they had nothing to say to Sunny. The voice though. Had she known what it was the whole time?  

[medigel]

"Bindings about what?" Jack asked as they moved forward. "The cage again? Particular people? Because it's Halloween?"

His second question seemed partially answered as the group found Sunny. He didn't know her personally, but it wasn't hard to feel overwhelmed nonetheless, senses assaulted and at points even violated by a power he couldn't begin to comprehend. But even then, it wasn't enough to override that damned instinct of his to document, to prove.

He began to take several pictures.

"You made it," he said when, in a brief moment to check his work, he caught the colorful splash of Chel's hair. Like they weren't witnessing something unravel. "Thought you'd be passed out after last night."

chiickadee

azuredreams

Blade Kuroda

 

[The Semblance of Unity]

She'd gone because it was impossible to ignore. The seance, now this... At least Temperance had been able to change out of her flats and into some sneakers. Come and see. Her white dress drifted around her thighs and she walked. People emerged from the woods - a mass call. She saw faces here and there she recognized and moved towards one, keeping her eyes on the chasm. then, she stopped short, noticing who he was with. No.

"It's a hole in the world. Something's ended up wrong," she said softly. That didn't explain Sunny there (Temperance only knew her because of a passing sighting in alternate Ashdown in a house - it was odd). "We might have to do something." She wasn't really talking to anyone, but a sort of thinking aloud.

medigel

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[Blade Kuroda]

Drawing in a deep breath, Shun kept his gaze locked upon Sunny for now, not sure what she was going to do. If she was going to do anything even. Others had gone up to question her, but he remained silent, and instead just answered his boss.

"Agreed."

Letting out a breath, a flash of pink hair caught the corner of his eyes. He glanced over briefly to see Chel wandering in. Of course. And Jack was here as well.

"The cage is broken. It held the enemy in place, as well as us, but... "

Whatever was going on, he was partially to blame. Whatever was about to happen, he was going to need to make sure he did his damnest to fix things. If he even could. He was going to need to try regardless.

Failure was not an option.

Azuredreams

Chiickadee

Medigel

 

[chiickadee]

While it took her a while to wander through the forest, it eventually became hard to ignore the small crowd gathered around the glowy woman. A bit on the nose, all things considered. Jack was spotted and joined; she hadn't quite seen who all was here yet.

"I was." As indicated by her now-messy makeup and disheveled hair, Chel was not all put together and the headache was real. "Thanks fer takin' care of yer date." She snorted and gave him a little slap on the back. "
Her eye caught Shun's. Wasn't he supposed to be at his dinner party? She'd ask later. Right now Jack was more important.

xmedigel

 

[Smerdle]

Chester lurched forward, sure that he felt a second call, but it was only a pleasant young woman in a witch's costume brushing his side.

"It's not a problem," he said, nodding in greeting as he continued forward, encouraged by the movement of the crowd and the call that hadn't ceased. He stopped in his tracks again when he saw Sunny, only barely recognizable as one of the people who Knew Things at the ball. Now she was feral and terrifying, asking them if they'd come to watch. Watch what? A hole in the ground full of stars? He wanted to turn around and go home, but Professor Mercer and Jeremiah were here, which meant safety, and he couldn't bring himself to move anyway.

"You're seeing this as well?" he asked the one who had bumped him, staring at Sunny as if he expected her to jump. At him, into the chasm, whichever she chose, it wouldn't be a surprise.

quite uneventful

 

[azuredreams]

"The veil hasn't fallen yet, however," Jeremiah repliesto Shun, "and that is important." As in that moment they would likely know more than they ever wanted to know.

Except that this could be that moment.

Glowing eyes cut to Jack and briefly to Chel. "The timing is rather apt but I don't know if anyone had any say. There's usually some kind reason. Something created this rift and it's likely up to us to see something done about it. Especially if we are the cause." There was an entire town of people that had no idea of what their reality spiraled towards.

Blade Kuroda

iloveyouDIE

medigel

 

[Seussi]

Connor had been busy. Too busy, really. It felt like ages since he had a day off, or even a night for that matter. He'd barely spoken to anybody outside of work in what might have been weeks, between that and learning about what he was and what to do about it...there just wasn't the time, or even the compulsion, to do so.

But tonight he was being pulled. Summoned seemed more accurate. While he was loathe to answer that call, he found that he simply could not ignore it, and though Peeble's whined at him urgently as he got ready to head out the door, all he could do was apologize to the canine, and tell her that she couldn't come. He wasn't in control of his warg powers yet. He didn't want her to come to harm.

He hoped he was making the right choice, leaving her at home.

The forest was the last place he really wanted to be, but anywhere but back at his apartment fell pretty low on his list. He followed the winding trail, deeper inside, catching glimpses of others, familiar faces and familiar voices. Catching up with them, he made his way towards his usual group, looking tired, a hand reaching up to rub at a stubble covered jaw. His gaze flickered to Sunny, before he turned toward's Temperance.

"A hole in the world?" He asked, eyebrows rising. "Wow, I must really be out of the ******** loop."

the semblance of unity

all u others nearby

jack chel shun etc.....

 

[iloveyouDIE]

More faces joined them by the moment, some he'd seen and some were new and Algie couldn't help but worry for all of them, especially those new people, for whatever end of the world catastrophe was befalling them this time..

Because by look and feel of everything, the phenomena that had been springing up since the ball and the taste in his mouth, it felt more than ever like the end was nigh.

Brought to Heliodora's demesne for the first time since she'd been gone felt more like a kick in the gut than he expected. The professor was pale, his grip on his husband's hand tight, and the sudden sadness mingled with his intense hatred for Sunny at the sight of her. It was certainly a curious cocktail of emotions that Jeremiah was surely picking up.

azuredreams

pretty much anyone else around

cause everyone else is around XD ~ ur prof is here if you need him

 

[medigel]

"Held us?" Jack parroted with a frown, perplexed. Did that have to do with the sudden development of apparent magic he had, and the dreams as well? God damn school and his work ate his time up; he needed to actually find time to ask all the questions he still had.

For now, he had to take it slow.

"Usual magic bullshit," he told Chel as he let his camera hang once more, shivering slightly as the rain bled through to his skin. "If I recall, you left me somewhere past midnight with some hot zombie bride and didn't come back. Sorry I didn't stick around to wait 'til dawn."

Leave it to Temperance to put it in blunt terms. Jack did notice, however, that she was leery of being near either policeman; one more thing to file away. (The masked ball, most likely. He wondered how that had enfolded afterwards.)

"A hole. What makes you say someone like her," he motioned with his head towards Sunny as he asked everyone, "didn't cause it? Because I haven't done s**t, don't know about you. Just the damn dreams." It didn't seem like Professor Mercer enjoyed seeing Sunny either.

In short: Connor voiced his thoughts exactly as he approached. Great.

"It's the end of the world as we know it," Jack sang ironically. "Where's Peeble at?" He knew his friend was pretty attached to her--or at least, the dog was to him. But seeing as someone else's dog seemed loathe to come along...

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[kuropeco]

Nathaniel sidled silently over to Algernon and Jeremiah and stood there beside them with his hands tucked into the pockets of his ratty jeans.

Connor was also given a vaguely suspicious look just because.

seussi

look at this magnificent phone post

azuredreams

iloveyoudie

 

[chiickadee]

Chel looked around. That .... that did sound like something she'd do. "s**t why didn't you join?" she asked him accusingly. Like that was actually the problem.

Connor joined and Chel was feeling slightly out of place. Why was it always this group of people that had to get caught up in it? "Why we all jus' standin' around talkin' 'bout it. Shouldn't we like. Interrupt the satan summonin'?" Her eyes went to Sunny. It didn't look good up there.

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