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aboveallthings[In your hand is a fidget cube, a rounded white cube accented with buttons, dials, and switches in the color of a certain Family on the ship.
Play with any of the fidget cube's six sides and you'll receive a vision. There are two problems with this:
1) some very important information seems to have been blocked out, and
2) you know, with a bone-deep certainty, that this vision isn't yours.
But if this vision isn't yours...then whose is it? Maybe the color of your cube is a clue.]
BACK TO THE EVENT POST
Play with any of the fidget cube's six sides and you'll receive a vision. There are two problems with this:
1) some very important information seems to have been blocked out, and
2) you know, with a bone-deep certainty, that this vision isn't yours.
But if this vision isn't yours...then whose is it? Maybe the color of your cube is a clue.]
BACK TO THE EVENT POST
WISTERIA
Date: 2025-11-14 10:11 pm (UTC)~
You're running through a corridor, following behind a man older than you. Given the coordinated way the two of you move, it seems that you’re working together. You’re running incredibly fast, faster than anyone should be able to. You feel... wrong, as though this place itself is sapping your energy. Still, you know that the two of you have come to this place to find something important.
Ahead of you, two soldiers step into the corridor. [NAME] doesn’t hesitate before slamming feet first into one of them, then flipping and jamming [WEAPON] straight into the other one’s neck.
After the two soldiers are dispatched, you both see a doorway with a brighter light shining inside, and you move towards it. This chamber is wide, with a high ceiling and murals made of silver. [NAME] strides forward, and you follow in a nervous crouch. It’s suspicious to you, how empty this room is, if it’s as important as the two of you are imagining. There must be other guards or soldiers nearby. Still, the two of you approach a large door leading further into the building, and [NAME] opens it without hesitation.
You were right to be worried. A [MONSTER NAME] stands in the doorway, a slow smile spreading on its face. Both of you freeze for a long, shocked moment, looking at the humanoid form standing there, processing the sudden danger.
Your thoughts are interrupted when [NAME] starts to yell. “Run!” As soon as he says that, the [MONSTER NAME] reaches out almost casually, grabbing him by the throat. You see two other [MONSTER NAME]s heading towards you. The one holding onto [NAME] lifts him with an iron grip. The smile remains as he looks at the man. “[NAME].” His voice sounds like grinding stone, before he turns his attention to you. “And... you. I’ve been looking for you. I’ll let this one die quickly if you tell me [PLOT DETAIL].”
[NAME] coughs, struggling for breath, and the [MONSTER NAME] turns back toward him. He coughs again, trying to form words, and the [MONSTER NAME] pulls him closer. Immediately, [NAME] takes advantage of the proximity and shoves [WEAPON] into the thing’s neck. As the creature stumbles, he slams his fist into the [MONSTER NAME]'s forearm, shattering bone. The [MONSTER NAME] drops him, and he falls to the floor. He looks back towards you. “I said run!”
He throws an [ITEM] at you, and you reach out to grab it - but it moves unusually fast, propelled by an unseen force. You realize that he was trying to throw it at you, not to you, and it pushes you backwards as it slams against your chest, propelling you past the other two [MONSTER NAME]s who were approaching. After you skid on the floor, you look up, disoriented. You see [NAME] standing, and the first [MONSTER NAME] moving towards him, apparently unconcerned about the [WEAPON] stuck in its neck. The other two [MONSTER NAME]s stand between you and [NAME]. “Run!” He screams. For a moment, the word echoes in the domed chamber, and one [MONSTER NAME] turns to you with its unnatural gaze. Finally, the word cuts through your daze.
You rush to your feet and start sprinting for the nearest doorway out of here, using [POWER DESCRIPTION]. When you hit the ground, it’s unexpected, and at an awkward angle. Your head hits the stone floor, and for a moment, everything spins. You wonder what happened and why you didn’t make it to the destination you were aiming for, before you remember the [ITEM] you’re holding - someone [POWER DESCRIPTION], pulling you backwards. Just as you realize this, you see the [MONSTER NAME] running down the corridor towards you, and you pull some [ITEM], throwing them towards the [MONSTER NAME] - until he [POWER DESCRIPTION]. You’re thrown backwards again, and when you come to rest, you see the him moving towards you once more.
You pick yourself up and run through the first doorway you see, grabbing an [ITEM] from the wall as a makeshift weapon - but as the [MONSTER NAME] comes into the room, it’s ripped from your hands easily. You jump, using [POWER DESCRIPTION] while the [MONSTER NAME] continues moving towards you. He reaches into a bowl atop a pillar, pulling out what appears to be [ITEM]. His hand bleeds at contact, but this doesn’t stop the way he throws them towards you easily. You only barely dodge them by ducking behind a pillar.
“You are trapped. Come with me.” It says. You look around to see that there aren’t any other doors in the room, and when you look towards the [MONSTER NAME] around the pillar, another [ITEM] shoots towards your face. You duck behind the pillar again before it can hit you. Behind the altar, you see a leatherbound book, and you wonder if this is what you came here to find - you reach towards it. When you look back towards the [MONSTER NAME], something fundamental has changed. You can [POWER DESCRIPTION]. The [MONSTER NAME] looks shocked for a moment, before he [POWER DESCRIPTION].
You run out of the room, and see several soldiers - normal humans, not like the [MONSTER NAME] chasing you. They’re easy enough to get past when you can foresee their movements. You don’t kill or even wound them - that would only take more time. You’re focused on escape. As you pass the last man, you turn around a corner, relief flooding through you at the possibility of escape–
Everything happens very quickly.
Before you’ve had time to process that there’s another [MONSTER NAME] standing right there, it’s too late to dodge before he shoves a weapon into your stomach, and it pierces out through your back.
You gasp in both shock and pain, hearing a sickening noise as it rips the weapon right back out with no thought or concern. You see that it’s a [WEAPON]. You grasp your side, feeling a terrifying amount of blood seeping out from the large, jagged wound, immediately [POWER DESCRIPTION]. You realize this is the [MONSTER NAME] from the room you left [NAME] in, and there’s a terrifying moment where you have to wonder if that means he’s been killed.
“Who is [PLOT DETAIL]?” The [MONSTER NAME] asks. The soldiers near you step aside to let another [MONSTER NAME] through the corridor you just ran through, and as you look down at the wound - it’s a severe one, and even with the [POWER DESCRIPTION] you’re using, you don’t know how long you’ll be able to stand - both [MONSTER NAME]s start to descend towards you, the first one still holding the weapon coated with your blood. You don’t know where to go. As you think, panicked, that you have no way out of this—
The memory ends.