Closed | Journey Into The Void | sometime before and up to the 22nd

[imsorey]

[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.))

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[oneandmikleonly]

[Mikleo, like Dirk, is worriedly grateful; if the planet doesn't completely control them, and the crew can't communicate with them, they're still going to have some difficulties in the future. well -- as long as they can get out and about, and keep looking for answers, that's about all they can ask for. they've all worked in trickier conditions before.]

Thank you for giving us a chance. We'll keep working to fix things.

[subnauticmods]

[The soul reaches out to them with caution again. It shows them both the Sea Dragon and the Emperor Leviathan. Both of them are in green light, but the Emperor vibrates with the Song while the Dragon has the Void Song instead.

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.]

[imsorey]

[He can't really muster up a response to that even if he wanted to--the sheer volume of malevolence is incomprehensible, and even when the planet soul pulls it away Sorey takes a moment to recover from feeling that much malevolence.

That's one way to make a point, at least. Caution isn't a bad thing.]

...O-oh. Got it.

[splinten]

[Dirk is staggered. It's more soul than he has ever felt in his life, and it's torn apart, and it hurts. He can't even say anything in reply.]

[expulsions]

[Ow ow ow? That was not what he expected and he almost loses his focus entirely. The nice thing is that focus kicks in at his hardest moments and he re-centers himself.

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."]

[oneandmikleonly]

[Mikleo visibly recoils from that volume of malevolence; the strange, shifting lights and shadows thrown by the soul around him twist and deform for a few seconds, a serpentine shape like the Dragon's or the Emperor's, with huge fins -- or are they malformed wings?

...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.

[subnauticmods]

[The light warns them to leave now because the dream could get unbalanced. It feels kinder to them now though and a little more stable.]