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Rakuen Moderators ([personal profile] utopiamods) wrote in [community profile] rakuen2011-02-05 10:32 am

Round 1 [beta characters here]

And then you woke up and it was all a dream.

Or... was it?

You don't know. The details are fading. Some of it seems as clear as if if had happened minutes ago, whilst the rest is as hazy and vague as a long-lost memory. You remember blood and screams; a girl with a bright smile. Need to get rid of you, someone said. For a little while. Sometimes you were running, fighting, facing dark shadows with red eyes and mocking smiles. Sometimes you were hunting yourself, hurting people, feeling the power of your weapon coursing through you as you headed towards your prey. Sometimes you were watching your friends die, or your family, or your enemies.

Your shadow is you, and you are your shadow, and its voice is all around you.

Free us. Free them.

Static. More images, some you will remember and some you will not.

...but, your shadow whispers, the Demon King always returned. Didn't he?

You are outside, and the sky is blood. The towers glow, humming atonally as a star lights up the sky. The campus blazes with its light; the lines of the symbol span the horizon, and a tiger smiles.

Once, the knight despaired and sought a sage...

The tiger smiles, and the world is consumed in fire. You're falling, falling, and the shadow's voice falls with you.

There is a story everybody knows.

Light streams through the windows of your room. In eight different rooms, in four different buildings, thirty-nine students wake up with a start, and find their campus as picturesque and empty as it was the day before.

The day before? What...

A cheery voice breaks through the fog of confusion, loud over the speaker system.

"Good morning, students! Please be at the lobby by midday for the week's announcements."
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[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-02-09 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
Bizarre. He knew, vaguely, that occasionally some scientist or group would make a huge deal about sending up a rocket, but nothing ever came of it. Especially not when they were in a state of world war. Science projects took second place at that point.

Therefore, Gino knew nearly nothing about it. It wasn't just for Mei that he gestured for her to continue.

"It's a good distraction, right?"

[personal profile] idkmybffxiao 2011-02-09 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Even without memory loss, the concept of 'space' had no frame of reference for her. Not for how they defined it. "It's... an... expanse in which..." No, no, they went over this back home. She knew a definition. "All objects are located aaaand all events occur?"

Yep. That was what space was. What the other two meant sounded like something completely different, though.

"But that means everyone lives in space." Which doesn't clear this up at all. Mei won't even touch the entire 'not living on Earth' or 'space station' stuff yet.
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[personal profile] summerstars 2011-02-09 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Shaking her head, Grenn Shook her head.

"The space I mean is the.... uh..." She wasn't sure what Mei knew and didn't know, even factoring in my game-related memory loss... "Right... There's lots of planets, right? Not just the one you or I or Gino counts as home, but others. They all occupy a air-less 'space', circling their suns, and so on..." Trailing off, Grenn frowned. She wasn't good at explanations, and wasn't sure that had been a good one.
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AUGH LATE forgive me guys ; ;

[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-02-14 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's what's above the sky, Mei."

So helpful. He gestured upwards, towards the ceiling, then out at the window.

neeeveeer--- okay

[personal profile] idkmybffxiao 2011-02-14 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"...the what?" Mei would have wondered if they were just making fun of her now, but Grenn was less likely to troll than Gino. She looked over at the window. Aaagh, the blue thing out there. "Is that what that is?"
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Re: neeeveeer--- okay

[personal profile] summerstars 2011-02-14 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
... yeah. She'd had that memory taken away from her. Grenn shook her head.

"Don't worry about it, Mei. It'll make sense when that memory is returned again." It was kinda amusing how it almost sounded like 'it'll make sense when you're older'.