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Rakuen Moderators ([personal profile] utopiamods) wrote in [community profile] rakuen2012-01-07 08:00 pm

and then they fell. [rakuen revolution opening post]

You're falling, and you can't remember why. It's a sickening feeling that makes your insides lurch; the darkness and the vertigo combine, and all you can think of is a story you heard once, somewhere.

Ah, I remember now. It's... a simple story that everyone knows. A legend of a Princess, the Demon Lord who kidnapped her, and the Knight who fought to save her. The Demon Lord had kidnapped the Princess countless times, but every time the Knight bested his challenges and rescued the Princess. No matter what tricks and ploys the Demon Lord used, the Knight would always triumph in the end. This was because--

The world tilts on its axis one last time, and the dream slips from your mind as easily as it arrived. A new voice intrudes on your sleep. Mechanical, monotonous.

"Next stop: Rakuen City. This train terminates here. The next stop is Rakuen. All change." The train rocks steadily as it winds its way through white drifts of now. Sunlight streams through the window, heating the air and making the seats almost uncomfortably warm. A puff of steam from the train winds its way lazily past the windows when the wind is right.

It's strangely difficult to shake off the sleep; the rhythm of the train seems to lull you back into slumber and the air is warm and heavy, making it hard to keep hold of a thought. Finally, though, the nausea settles, the last of the dream fades and you can take in your surroundings. And, perhaps more importantly, those around you in a similar state.

"We have arrived at Rakuen City. All passengers must leave the train. This train is terminating here. This is Rakuen."
duchy: (but they don't see inside of me)

[personal profile] duchy 2012-01-07 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lithuania yawns, curled up on a seat and looking not entirely willing to leave. It's so warm, much more comfortable than it should be in January. Even when others might be getting up, he lingers. It's not until the train lurches to a stop he really wakes up, because the whole ground has moved beneath him and that shouldn't be happening.

He ends up falling off the seat in confusion.]


What...
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[personal profile] lovesignmasterspark 2012-01-07 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whoever's sitting beside Marisa has probably learned that she's leaned over on them. Fast asleep.

Good luck waking her up.]
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[personal profile] secondtoone 2012-01-07 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Red wakes with a jolt in the train's path, eyes opening quickly. It takes a moment to come back to the world; he's curled in on himself in his seat, hunched over with his chin resting on his chest. He looks around for a moment before moving at all, cautiously straightening up, and then moving to stretch, which jostles the person next to him. Oops.]

[Rakuen City. That's not a city he's ever heard of. How did he get here, and... could that city be...?]
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[personal profile] hairoftheweek 2012-01-07 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ramona wakes up, unsure of what just happened. Though she has the oddest feeling she was supposed to be doing something else... hell if she could remember that. First order of business was... finding out why they were all going to this city. It wasn't a question that had been answered, and it was nagging at the back of her mind all this time. She sat up, looking around at who might be next to her. Maybe they'd know something.]
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[personal profile] itsbrittanybitch 2012-01-07 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you forget how to sit? That happens to me sometimes.

[There's a girl staring at you from across the way, seated with her hands folded in her lap.]
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[personal profile] bloodbrother 2012-01-07 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Something about this sun feels really harsh. It's really making him feel overheated, and since he's wearing his lab coat on top of his suit, that would only stand to reason. He'd like to take off a couple layers. But there's a little girl leaning on him.]

[Nudge] Hey. We're here. Wake up. [Gentle nudge]
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[personal profile] cmonstepitup 2012-01-07 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, this is so uncool... [Streeeetch. Man, he was sleepy. And STILL unsure of why he was stuck on this train. To get out there and run some more... he'd forgotten just how awesome that felt.] Where are we, anyway?
duchy: (they don't know)

[personal profile] duchy 2012-01-07 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lithuania looks up at the girl, uncertain.]

Where are we?

[He's cautious, talking to a stranger, but he doesn't have any other option right now.]
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[personal profile] itsbrittanybitch 2012-01-07 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Someone seems to have their face pressed against the window, staring out at the city around them.

Dare you disturb them? (Yes go ahead.)]
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[personal profile] trollofthree 2012-01-07 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oops indeed. The jostle shoves Gino's head away from where he was leaning over the shorter boy, and he jolts awake with an incoherent sound of confusion.]

Man, what a drea-- Huh?!

[Sorry, Red. He's going to twist around in his seat to look out of the train window, and then turn back to you.]
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[personal profile] lovesignmasterspark 2012-01-07 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't seem to move very much, but she does mumble.] Jus' a few more minutes, ze...
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[personal profile] itsbrittanybitch 2012-01-07 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Iuno. I can't even remember what I ate for breakfast.

[Shrug.]

But the voice over the train said Rakuen or something.
duchy: (they don't know)

[personal profile] duchy 2012-01-07 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never heard of it...

[Looking around, he realizes he's in--something. He climbs up onto the seat again to look out the window, but it doesn't help much.]

What is this? This thing we're on? It was shaking before!
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/sob... quietly puts violence warning in here....

[personal profile] swordofzero 2012-01-07 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku was used to weird dreams, they were usually more brutal than the one he had just had though. It was fading fast and he blinked, worrying about why it was so hard to throw off the sleepiness.

He looked to the side and pulled up, he had been leaning on someone... on...

"Zero!"

Suzaku reacted quickly, grabbing Zero by the throat and pushing him against the seat.
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[personal profile] itsbrittanybitch 2012-01-07 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
A train, duh. Are you from like the third world or something?
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[personal profile] secondtoone 2012-01-07 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[It takes the movement for Red to consciously realize that there's someone next to him. He's around people. He's on a crowded train, and they can see him, and...]

[He's silent for a moment, then carefully turns to look at Gino... and breathes a sigh of relief. It's not someone who knows him. He looks away and looks around... no one he recognizes. Maybe it's okay, for now.]

[Oh, right, someone looking at him. He turns to Gino awkwardly, meeting his gaze, and gives a small shrug. He doesn't know what's going on any better than his companion seems to.]
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[personal profile] bloodbrother 2012-01-07 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry, but it's time to get up. [Nudge jostle]
duchy: (they don't know)

[personal profile] duchy 2012-01-07 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The third world?

[There's only one world, right?]

I've never seen a train before. Is it supposed to shake?
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[personal profile] revelation 2012-01-07 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Rakuen...

( Weird, she feels as though she has other things to address but goodness if she can remember right now. A glance around tells her that there doesn't seem to be anyone familiar in the immediate area but that didn't mean there wasn't someone she knew nearby.

Oh, well, Madoka had to get up anyway. A look around wouldn't hurt.
)
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[personal profile] sciioniic 2012-01-07 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sollux sits up with a start; he stares around him in brief, empty-socketed confusion before he remembers that, oh, right. He's blind.]

[It's a recent development. There's still blood on his shirt, although if you're accustomed to blood being, say, red, you could pretty easily take it for mustard or something.]

[he fumbles his hand along the edge of the chair, trying to work out where the hell he could possibly be, but he has no idea. Maybe it's a dream bubble? But it's definitely not his memory...]
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[personal profile] itsbrittanybitch 2012-01-07 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, like, the place where all the poor people are! Right?

[Shes the smartest ssshh.]

Yeah, it moves you from place to place so you don't have to walk or anything. [You might notice Brit is kind of excited that she gets to explain something to someone-- usually its the other way around.]
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[personal profile] lovesignmasterspark 2012-01-07 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Nngh... [Usually it takes a lot more to wake her up, but she finally gets tired of being jostled around, and yawns. Very loudly.] And I was having a good dream too. [Was it a good dream? She wasn't really paying attention.]
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[personal profile] itsbrittanybitch 2012-01-07 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...Your hair is pink.
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[personal profile] duchy 2012-01-07 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[You can explain lots of things to 13th century children!]

I don't think we're that poor... That's convenient, though.

[Lithuania is now imagining a big box on wheels pulled by horses.]

Um... I'm Lithuania. Who are you?
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[personal profile] cullscuttlefish 2012-01-07 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It was the strangest feeling, falling underwater. Feferi couldn't say she had ever felt anything like it. Not an undertow, not a current, this was a free-fall from a frightening height, and the ground was rushing toward her fast, fast, fast --

-- she started, waking up and feeling the world tilt and spin. She clapped a hand over her mouth to try and keep the bile from coming up, the burning at the back of her throat almost too much. The story echoed through her head just as Feferi felt like things were past the point where they could be called overwheming. A princess, a demon lord, her knight. Of course she knew the story (no she didn't; it wasn't part of her horrorterror dreams, her unique brand of nightmares), and the last words faded to black as the world followed suit.

How long was it until she woke again? Feferi couldn't say. She hadn't dreamt when she fell asleep the second time, an experience she counted as strange in and of itself. It was tempting to stay asleep, fold it around her like a blanket and rest, if it was going to be that deep and dreamless. Her eyes were heavy as she blinked them open, the mechanical voice grating on her nerves.

"Rakuen City?" The word was foreign on her tongue, which still felt too thick for her, as if her words were still thick with sleep.

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