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subnautica2017-01-19 07:46 pm
imsorey) wrote in subnautica2017-01-19 07:46 pm
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Closed | Journey Into The Void | sometime before and up to the 22nd
[They're under attack (they've been under attack) and they need solutions, answers, help in any form that they can get it. There is a constant thread of green light weaving between all of their questions, pointing them to what they just might need to solve this whole mess, but they need to get to the heart of it first. Literally, because it's sort of the planet's heart, somewhere in the dreamscape.
Deep diving into the dreamscape for an extended period of time is something they haven't done before, at least not intentionally, so they do take the time to prepare. With their bodies in the pods they should be safe from any warping attempts, and they can trust everyone in the base to look out for them while they're asleep. They don't know how long it will take them to find the green light they're searching for. But they can try to make sure that they find it before it's too late to count.
Even with adrenaline running high, it's easy to fall asleep in the pods. Sorey opens his eyes first, to see that the dreamscape is as serene as ever. There's a faint sound of the Void Song far, far off, and he tilts his head in that direction before turning around and counting heads.]
Are you guys good to go?
((OOC post for reference.))
Deep diving into the dreamscape for an extended period of time is something they haven't done before, at least not intentionally, so they do take the time to prepare. With their bodies in the pods they should be safe from any warping attempts, and they can trust everyone in the base to look out for them while they're asleep. They don't know how long it will take them to find the green light they're searching for. But they can try to make sure that they find it before it's too late to count.
Even with adrenaline running high, it's easy to fall asleep in the pods. Sorey opens his eyes first, to see that the dreamscape is as serene as ever. There's a faint sound of the Void Song far, far off, and he tilts his head in that direction before turning around and counting heads.]
Are you guys good to go?
((OOC post for reference.))
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Sorey's right. There are a lot of questions, but we can't help if we don't know why these things are happening. [And in addition to that, he focuses on the aliens from the original lab at the Lost River, the data they couldn't interpret and channels the need to understand what happened to cause all of this. He does his best not to overload with questions, questions about what happened to him when he disappeared for a week or about the pulse but he fixates on the desire to make the planet less confused. Confusion sucks.]
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(look he's a curious boy)
he dials it back, though. the others have covered what they need to ask, so he reinforces things with his own quiet hum of the Song, conveying steadiness and calm with it, helpful stability, that they mean no harm. he remembers the wild conflict the planet soul embodied last time. he's willing to try and give it an anchor against that, if it needs one.]
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The oneness that sings through them however does not make the planet not wary. The darker current of the Void Song is still present, only subdued.
It shows them a series of impressions infected animals: Stalkers, Ghostrays, Gasopods, the Sea Dragon and many others they haven't even encountered. No species has avoided infection. With the images comes a deep sickening pain. Sorey and Mikleo will feel it as spreading malevolence. For Percy it may feel like things are wrong with the ocean as he knows it should be.
It also shows the Aurora and other manmade structures. These feel like being torn apart. The crew's base is part of this but their efforts to use natural objects to heal the scar in the dream seem to have helped and the pain is partly healed.]
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the base, though, is something they can work to fix so that it isn't an open wound on the planet's surface. the sickness, the spreading malevolence, that's the part they're struggling with.]
We tried to cure the illness, but we're missing something we need. And while we're searching, those warping aliens keep trying to attack us.
[he pauses to let a mental visual flicker--the warpers surrounding the base, trying to grab anyone in the water, tied into Dirk's image of them. then, with a bit of difficulty, he tries to show an image of the warpers shutting off--a hypothetical, but the ultimate goal they're going for.]
We need to keep them at bay until we can find a way to help. So they don't hurt anyone else.
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Feeling their souls start singing the planet song is super creepy, though. He'd say something or do something but he figures that's a bad idea. He'll... check it out when they get home.]
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Are they angry at us because of what was previously done to them? That's one of the questions he wants to know, thanks to being used to monsters attacking based on previous enemies. Sorey seems to cover the other portion of his point. They're trying. The warpers are making it difficult, and the ocean itself seems unsatisfied.]
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If we fixed the base, it's not unreasonable that we could do the same for other items. The illness, though...
[the planet soul didn't show the warpers themselves as part of the disturbance, so he sends an image of the Warpers again, then the faint cold spots they leave in the dreamscape. Iniidae, did you wake them up? Did you think they would help drive off the sickness? Didn't they hurt things before? They're hurting us now.
images, of goals and desires: members of the base crew melding coral and flora to more of the abandoned structures' walls, to start healing the scars; the strange glowing growths falling away from the Dragon and the other wildlife, the sick pain dissipating.
images, of those same people being attacked, so they can't finish and things are left undone and unhealed]
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The green light touching the Warpers, and now they are given the feeling of protection and affection. The planet will not destroy the Warpers. It has taken them in as its own and relies on them to care for them.
It shows them a possibility of the disease spreading from each of them. More malevolence rises with the fear. It shows them the Emperor trapped and suffering because of the aliens who came here. Distrust rolls off of it in waves of the Void Song.
It questions them again but the question is clearer this time. This time, it shows the possibility of the Warpers leaving them alone and them making sick things well again. The planet is asking them how they plan to help.]
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Given the information we have right now, I don't know if we can offer a guarantee that everything will go like we hope. We want to help, but we can only do so much on our own. If our plan is going to work we need your cooperation.
[Hope is mixed with the possibility as he mirrors back the image of the Warpers leaving them alone. It's a tentative and vague plan, with details blurred, but there's enough there: inspecting the Precursor bases and compiling the data they gathered on the disease; finding the Emperor and her children in order to see if their enzymes can be used to help facilitate a cure; having the Warpers distribute any potential cure, their ability to locate the disease turned into an asset instead of a problem. It hinges on them being able to create a cure, and he doesn't hide the fact that he doesn't know how long that will take. But there's an overwhelming amount of confidence pushed behind it--these people can do anything if you give them a chance.]
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They care about this planet. They want to protect it. They must.]
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"It's going to be a joint effort between us and you." Startling, it reminds him of what happened in his own world. The gods couldn't defeat the giants without demigods, and vice versa. "We can be your hands and your eyes and whatever else you need to actually get things done. We won't let you down."
More than anything, he's letting the hope and determination ripple off of him in ways, pushing the thoughts forward, the drive and the sheer will to make things so. The planet deserves a chance just like all other planets out there. They've been aligning themselves for this for some time now. They just needed the final push.]
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Reefbacks teaching crew members the Song, and an injured Reefback healed, Korosensei carefully grafting new coral to cover what was torn away from it -- living with the life on the planet, helping it, instead of infecting and destroying it. crew swimming with Rabbitrays, feeding and teaching stalkers, fistbumping Cute Fish. The Emperor herself, scarred and anxious in the dark of the Void, wreathed lightly with malevolence that fades away under heatless, purifying fire. these are not just possibilities; they are certainties, because they've already happened.]
We can keep going, keep doing these things. We can make them even better, if you give us the chance, and the time to prove ourselves. Maybe we can't fix everything instantly, but I don't think we'll need another thousand years, either.
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This warmth spreads to everyone on their crew, who will also seem to hear the Song for the moment when the planet's acceptance washes over them.
The trust the planet offers still is uncertain however, and the Void Song remains. It gives them a feeling of warning and shows them the Warpers acting without the green light in them. Though the planet wants to care for the Warpers, the Warpers make a lot of mistakes when they act on their own. The planet doesn't control them completely.]
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—Thank you! You won't regret it, I promise. And we'll be careful.
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"Thank you." On the other hand, he can't help the suspicious look on his face. That last image wasn't exactly happy and he has to wonder what they need to do to keep the Warpers in line. There's a question of if he could learn to communicate with them himself to work with them, maybe help them help themselves, and he projects these questions to the planet just once before focusing on the feelings of gratitude. Sorey's said it enough for all of them.]
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Thank you for giving us a chance. We'll keep working to fix things.
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Then it lets them feel its own consciousness. They are drowned in the life of every thing on the planet and feel the unity of every animal and plant, and even the water and ground. It could be vast and overwhelming, but they hopefully can find their focus in it because that isn't what the planet is trying to show them.
The part of that soul in the Emperor is warm and affectionate to them now, but the other half hates them. The torn consciousness of the planet is at war. To Sorey and Mikleo, this malevolence is as huge as half a planet. To Percy and Dirk, it's more confusion and self-hate than possible.
The planet soul pulls its mind away and repeats the feeling of cautiousness.]
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That's one way to make a point, at least. Caution isn't a bad thing.]
...O-oh. Got it.
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Confusion and hate. He knows people like that, knows what that kind of consciousness and mindset can do to a being. How a planet can feel it, he doesn't quite understand, but he narrows his eyes in thought.
"I understand." And he does. It's the way the gods were split between their Greek and Roman forms, it's the way certain friends of him felt every day, it's the way he himself sometimes felt when he was useless in battle. How could a planet...? "We'll take it in stride, but we won't give up."]
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...but there is more than that here. he hangs onto that sense of unity and awareness of the water with a deathgrip, and the shape fades as soon as the planet removes the weight of its focus from them, leaving him as himself. still, his voice is a croak when he responds]
Thank you for the warning, too. We'll try our best to be careful.
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