Event || Revelations

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Characters: All the Heroes of Light and their Moogles.
Where: Order's Sanctuary, The Interdimensional Rift and their Homeworlds.
When: August 03rd - August 30th

Summary: Following the battle against Palitutu, all the Heroes of Light were transported into the Interdimensional Rift. They were told by Palitutu they would have to find her to prove they can break the cycle-- But before they could reach their destination, a malevolent entity from the Rift stripped them from their immortality...

And now, they woke up in a decaying and dying world, most specifically in a place called Order's Sanctuary. From there they are ready to jump... Into their homeworlds! Feel free to use this post for the Mingle at Order's Sanctuary and should your homeworld be the stage for the Heroes of Lights' next adventures, feel free to make a thread for it and as many sub-thread as necessary! Please refer to the OOC Post for questions and plotting.

Warning: Whatever you come up with.

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[sullenstallion]

[ooc: warnings for mention of cannibalism and other violent subject matter!]

[Your Hero Is Dead Twice]

[Circumstances inside of the portal quickly go from worse to the worst. Arriving in a small forested area with a large city looming in the distance, they're immediately joined by company. Unfortunately, that company is Dylas' corpse, which is made even more awkward by the fact he's standing right next to everyone. At least they won't have to worry about time shenanigans since he's already been killed.

And while he urges everyone to remain calm, he's the one that's panicking. "Don't stray too far from me," he warns everyone. He paces anxiously, looking toward the city in the distance and then back at the forest. His ears move wildly, picking up every sound while he deals with the damned eternal hunger returning to his body. He's a monster again, and it's been a long time since he's eaten...thankfully, he's not too interested in the people who followed him through.

As the minutes pass, his pacing starts to get more erratic. He stumbles a few times, ultimately deciding on the city.]

Let's hurry. My old apartment should still be there, we can break in.

[He only makes it about thirty feet before he holds his hand to his chest, cries out, and falls to the ground, becoming the second corpse the group has to deal with.]

[R&R: Rage and Regret]

[So, Dylas is alive again. That's wonderful, and they've made it back to his old apartment. Four stories up in the modern city of Bavan, it has four bedrooms and two living areas. A kitchen. It's spacious. Reminders of the pass tenants exist here or there. Even stranger might be the fact that the streets are lined with monsters: nagas, kelpies, demons, merfolk. It shouldn't take long to figure out what the monsters do, as a warning pamphlet might be handed to them at some point, though a few of the residents on the way there seem to think Dylas is wonderfully handsome.

Some people love monsters, apparently.

But now Dylas is seated in a chair, resting his head in his hand. He's tired. So, so tired. And occasionally, his stomach growls, but oh well.]

If you've got any questions, now's the time to ask them. But make them not annoying and not pointless. We'll stay here until tomorrow night.

[That's right, it's time for a sleepover. And Dylas sleeps during the day. He'll add one thing before everyone splits up to their own room.]

And remember, I can hear everything you say or do. So don't leave.

[ooc; i figure these are sort of a free for all, but sticking to Dylas is probably kind of important here. a fight thread will go up later. as far as i know, the only people coming are ales, ed, and reno. if you also want to come, just let me know first!]

[has_been_faking]

[This place was pretty strange, but stranger was all the stuff happening to Dylas. They had talked a little about it back in Crystallis, but Ed hadn't pried too much. After everyone breaks up, he'll come back out to where Dylas is.]

Hey, um. Are you-- Are you doing okay?

[sullenstallion]

[Strange is one way of putting it. Hellish is another. Dylas is trying his best to keep it together, to lead everyone out of this, but it's clear to everyone that he's struggling with a lot. He's on edge. Scared. When he spoke to Ed all those other times, at least his body moved like a normal person's. Here? Without breathing, he can sit as still as a statue, no heart beating or blood flowing under his skin.

But he glances towards Ed when he enters what used to be his old bedroom. He's sitting in front of the air conditioning unit. Wendigo like the cold.]

We need to get out of here, but I can't move as well during the day.

[Instead of answering, he offers up a reason.]

[has_been_faking]

I see. Is there anything the rest of us can do in the meanwhile? Or is it just safer to stay inside?

[He really would like to go out and explore. Curiosity always did get the better of Ed, and outside are magical creatures he's only ever read about.]

Maybe some of us could go out and see if we can find the way out...?

[sullenstallion]

Stay inside!

[He snaps back to attention, sounding desperate instead of angry.]

You're human. You aren't safe out there. Don't go anywhere.

[has_been_faking]

[He puts his hands up innocently. Slow down there, kiddo.]

Alright, I'll stay put. Promise. So it's really bad out there, huh.

Is it alright if I assume this world comes before his, or...

[sullenstallion]

Yeah. It is for you, at least. I'm fine here.

[Except he's acted anything but fine since getting here.]

I'm sorry for all of...this bullshit. You shouldn't have had to see any of this.

Your Hero is Dead Twice - Open

[umslay]

[Ales sticks close to the tallest member of the team, using Dylas as a traveling guide post. He'd rather not have their only source of information pass out from panic, seeing that he's likely freaking out from seeing his own corpse.

Ales pays no matter to it. It's not the Dylas he knows, so who cares? He moves his tiny legs as fast as possible, too busy focusing on keeping up to notice Dylas grow more and more pained. He's also way high up, so he can't read his expression.

The wendigo falls onto the ground with a thud. Anyone can be reasonable frightened by that, Ales included, but when the following seconds are only filled with silence, the chance that something attacked him from the bushes lowers. So why not poke the body?]

...You know what? He really is dead. [Unimpressed. There goes the easy way out.] Is there something in the air that kills anyone like him?

[Siiiiigh. You were kind of okay, Dylas. Now they have to leave your body behind. Again.]

[shinra_dog]

Fuckin' hell!

[Reno jumped as Dylas died -- again. What the hell was going on here? They'd followed Dylas into what Reno assumed was his world, and now their guide was gone.]

Now what?

[umslay]

We find the portal ourselves. Unless we secretly have a White Mage among us, there's no way Dylas is coming back.

[Ales raises his arms in a shrug. Where the portal is, he has no clue. The world is vast, and there's not a lot of time.]

[shinra_dog]

Fuck.

[Reno looked around. He wasn't a White Mage, and Ales certainly wasn't. He didn't know about the other guy -- Ed, he thought.]

We should at least hide the body. It'll look bad if there's two of 'em -- could cause some major world problems if he gets found.

[umslay]

...You have a point.

[So much for ditching Dylas. Ales tugs on the wendigo's hair. There's no way in hell he can help with the carrying.]

You want me to spot for you?

[shinra_dog]

Yeah.

[Reno didn't really expect Ales to be able to lift much, but he had sharp eyes. He looked over at Ed.]

Hey! Get yer ass over here and gimme a hand.

R&R

[shinra_dog]

[Reno paced, occasionally looking out the window. Gods, what a sight. Monsters, everywhere he could see.]

Gods...

[Another lap around the room. He looked over at Dylas.]

So is this... like, the real you? Or...?

[Even on Crystallis, the other man didn't look entirely human, antlers and all. So Reno had to wonder which was closer to the truth.]

[sullenstallion]

[And then there's this jerk. Maybe Reno hasn't been a jerk yet, but Dylas is more wary of him than the others. He doesn't know this man or why he decided to follow them, but now Reno is his responsibility. He goes out there, talks to the wrong monster, and he'll end up soulless or sucked dry (in the least sexy of ways).]

Of course it's the real me. And don't talk about gods. If they hear you, they might take an interest in you.

[He snorts. He can't say this isn't him anymore, not after what he's done and how much he's enjoyed certain activities in this body.]

Do I look fake to you?

[Or is he misunderstanding the question?]

[shinra_dog]

There's gods here, too?

[He hissed, pulling back from the window as if he'd already been spotted. That was not what he'd wanted to hear. He had enough of real gods meddling with people on Atia, he was rather enjoying the distinct lack of meddling gods on Crystallis (a semi-sentient Calamity and its avatars didn't exactly count the same way). He did not want to think about what kind of gods were running this place.]

And I meant... Well, did Crystallis tone you down for the sake a' the people there?

[Because KITT was originally a car, made into a man just so he could get it on with the rest of the human population. It wouldn't have surprised Reno in the least that Dylas was forcibly, magically changed just to fit in with the traditional "Heroes of Light."]

Or is it just this place, an' we're all gonna turn into... that [He waved vaguely at the window and Dylas] the longer we're here?

[sullenstallion]

Yeah. They pulled me here the first time.

[So Reno has figured out that everyone turns into monsters. He's not surprised. Someone on the way here probably handed him a pamphlet or he overheard it. Dylas certainly didn't plan on mentioning it, but at least they're the only two in the room right now. He doesn't think he can avoid hiding it from Ed or Ales much longer, but at least he can address the giant deer in the room with them one by one.]

It took away my lightning. And then one night, I was...hungry. And it never stopped. You can't fight a war against another god without strong soldiers, right?

[At least it's not foggy outside. That'd make him feel even worse.]

She didn't bring you here. There are other things to worry about, because we leave at next sundown.

[He's presumably explained that he can't go out during the day. It's a handicap, but one they'll have to deal with.]

[shinra_dog]

[Reno was quiet. Then he actually sat down across from Dylas.]

So that's why they brought you all in, an' how they get their power. Never thought I'd prefer Atia's demands...

[It was more muttered to himself, but Reno did sympathize. Gods screwing with humans for their own petty affairs rubbed him the wrong way. And he'd been there, too -- just not quite like this.]

[The mention of hunger was a bit of a concern, though.]

So... what exactly are you? Here, I mean.

[It wasn't accusatory -- just a quiet curiosity. And he didn't want to insinuate that this defined who Dylas was entirely.]

[sullenstallion]

Who the hell is Atia?

[It doesn't matter if Reno mutters to himself. He could whisper so quietly even he wouldn't hear it, yet Dylas' ears would pick it up as a loud whisper. Ever since coming to this world, his ears have moved and been lively, tracing every sound, picking up everything.

If he could have this ability back in Crystallis, he would.]

I'm the same thing I am everywhere else. But what business is it of yours? You didn't even know who the hell I was today. Let's just focus on getting our asses out of here.

R&R

[umslay]

[Maybe he should apologize for suggesting to hide the body without a hint of remorse, but that's above Ales. Dylas is alive, who cares. He wasn't around to feel the others poke at his corpse.

Ales thumbs through a pamphlet the group picked up. Several of the human residents eyed him with the same suspicion as they did for Dylas, which (while not hostile in the Teensie's eyes) did not fail to annoy him.]

So these...monsters. They're feared by the humans, but you live here just like they do? How does that even make sense? Why are they lumped together as a group? Kelpies are not goblins, the last time I checked.

[He's not a fan of the lovey-dovey "peace and harmony" idealism, but this does strike him as odd. It would be as if the fairies from his world regarded all other races as something to fear.]

[sullenstallion]

Some of them fear us. Some of them want to make movies about us. Hell, there's about...what, six million people here? More? They outnumber us. I think there's more people here than on my home world or Crystallis combined.

[It's closer to eight million, and he just can't wrap his head around that number in the slightest. They could easily just...round them all up and put them into some sort of prison, he thinks, but they never do. It's for the best, since what happens when monsters don't feed...

Well, it's not pleasant.]

It makes sense to me. There's human and monster. You can get more specific than that if you need to, but sometimes you don't have to.

[umslay]

Not to me. Whats so special about humans that they're all in their own group? Because they outnumber you? Teensies make up nearly half the population in my world, but you don't hear us talking about "Teensies and monsters."

[Humans are just as dumb as any other species out there. Ales met his first the day he arrived on Crystallis, but they managed to disappoint him just as anything else. All species disappoint equally.]

So if you're considered a monster, what do you call actual beasts that come out of the forest to sow chaos?

[sullenstallion]

We are the monsters that come out of the forest to sow chaos. There's no difference here. You live here long enough, and...you get used to it. Really used to it.

[He means he enjoyed some parts of his life, the thrill that comes with hunting, the satisfaction that came from sating his hunger.

He sighs. He doesn't even want to look at Ales, really, they're both convinced that the other doesn't get it.]

What's so special about humans is that they usually don't eat each other, I guess. And it doesn't matter. They're right. I am a monster, even if I didn't ask for it.

[umslay]

So you eat each other for a living. Not a lifestyle I would live, but you do you.

[Teensies are mostly vegetarian. Dragons and wendigos are not. Unlike dragons, Dylas can hold an intelligent conversation. Therefore, Dylas is okay in Ales' eyes.]

Unless it's the sort where you have fun in watching the world burn, not in the sense that you have to survive.

[sullenstallion]

[Does Ales mean "monsters eat each other" or "monsters eat humans"? Dylas wonders for a second, his ears flicking up and down but he decides not to question it. Both are true, though he gets pissed at monsters who eat other monsters. Their lives were bad enough.]

Is that a question? It's...not something you need to worry about. We need to find the portal and get out.