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POSTED ON Jul 9, 2024 16:27:34 GMT

howard slayte & june sleigh

Two scrappy individuals walk into a bar and look their mistakes in the face. Wait, no one would ever do that. Let's see. Two scrappy individuals walk into a bar and fight over a fifty-dollar bill on the ground. No, that's not right. Two scrappy individuals walk into a bar and see themselves in each other. Is that too reductionist? Too broad?

Ah, here's how it goes:

Two scrappy individuals stagger into a bar and sit across from each other at a wooden table. Some juvenile scribble or doodle is carved into one curve of the table. Everyone else in the bar is a nobody. It's the two of them in some meaningless, mundane setting with minimal set dressing. Besides the table, there is nothing between them.

Perhaps, it is more accurate to say there is nothing stuck between them. The dream is reaching a crescendo, held on by strings. The minds navigate the 'scape have been victim to its anomalies but have not been ensnared by its trap. You are unaffected by any alterations to your behavior, any unusual visions beyond the bar. There are no more visions of dead relatives nor of monstrous possibilities brought on by failure. You are stuck neither in the past nor in a cyclical vision of potential futures (potential pasts?).

Guilt is a bridge as much as it is a pair of shackles.

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velmos saga [ss:g]

POSTED ON Jul 9, 2024 16:27:19 GMT

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The dream is in alignment.

You feel a phantom sensation if sand slipping through your fingertips, though it passes just as soon as it arrives. You become aware of a ticking clock in the room, though its echoing sound seems to only impact you. You feel compelled to make the most of the time you have left.

oscar clayton

The dream is in alignment

Your mind is influenced by Priam's. His feelings echo in your heart, his words on the tip of your tongue. You almost know exactly what he's going to do and say before he does it.
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THE FIRST SUNRISE

POSTED ON Jul 9, 2024 16:27:01 GMT

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MATIAS SILPH

The red stone cracks in your grip, shatters.

When you look, what you are holding instead is a dead Ariados. Somehow, you know it is Hideo's. Somehow, in all your righteous anger, this symbol takes you back to that moment of comforting him, and it is a sobering thought.

The man you were in that moment and the man you are now, in this one, they exist in the same body. You are all that you have ever been and all that you ever will be. Rebirth, renewal, reincarnation seem to surround you in some way, but have you become a new body, mind, and soul with all that you have experienced?

Who is here, now?

Elisabeth Fiorelli

For a brief moment, you feel like you are of three minds. You see a snapshot of three outcomes.

1 - An experience: raw forgiveness. The scars you bear differ from his but are all the same, ultimately, in how they ache incessantly. You see the two of you embracing, feel his passive warmth, feel the sharp razor of resentment or apprehension or fear or - whatever its name, you find it dulled against his touch. In this snapshot, you are sure you are holding someone who has been cut so many times they know how to bear it.

2 - A philosophy: inevitable conclusion. The earth will yawn open in his anger and swallow you whole, but you are a bitter pill. You are blight and plague and sick personified. The earth may swallow you, but you will ruin it, meanwhile. For all your shortcomings, no one can say you don't leave your mark wherever you go. The earth closes around you, but nothing can grow for miles around it, ever. You have ruined it.

3 - An observation: the cycle. The story repeats. It doesn't matter if you want to love them or flee from them or own them. You kill them in some way, some form. They always haunt you in some way, some form. What you want doesn't matter. What you do will always kill them. What remains will be their ghost. You are a harbinger. You are better than others because you know the story, while others cannot comprehend theirs.

For a brief moment, you feel the most removed from the dream scenario than you've been this whole time, though with the powerful drag of Matias' emotions and how it triggers yours, it is a difficult bondage to break. For a brief moment, you aware of the bondage.

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[SSG][C/Eris] Confront

POSTED ON Jul 9, 2024 16:26:48 GMT

Josh Devlin & Eris Halla

Hunter, hunted. Seeking, fleeing. Powerful, powerless. Knowing, unknowing. Perceiving, feeling. Heaven, Earth.

The dreamscape is solidified in counterbalance.

You are aware something will happen if you tip the scale.

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Dreams Within Dreams (SSG)

POSTED ON Jul 9, 2024 16:26:26 GMT

Lucia Aldrete

You become aware of one fact: you have the capacity to take that god-like power from Doug. You can change the world, your fate, everything. You need only take it.

Do you take it?

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You feel the moment tipping. Something pulls at the back of your mind: gently, at first, then sharp.

You can hold the reigns tight and stay here, or you can let your mind be pulled in this new direction. It makes your stomach drop, the sensation of the pull, but you find yourself feeling floaty the longer you hold the reigns.

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TOWER: AA

POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 21:45:48 GMT

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The man looks terrified. [break][break]

She turns to Aqua, her eyes spelling out, nice work. Then, the man stutters out an excuse. He really doesn't know anything, really, it's the truth...[break][break]

Unfortunate, if he's lying. Catastrophic, if he's not. He's in for a world of pain. Ameena has supervisors to impress, and Aqua has even more people to answer to as a newcomer. Ameena looks at them again, this time, with an incline of her head. Hit him, her head movement spells out. Hit him hard.

TAGS – Aqua Kennedy [break]

NOTES – hit[break][break]

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TOWER: AA

POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 21:43:49 GMT

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Visibly startled by your threat, he takes a moment to think over your response, weighing the heavy burden of treason versus personal survival in his mind. The man's anxiety is obvious in the way he picks at his cuticles while he internally deliberates, causing them to bleed a stark red against the dull gray all around. [break][break]

You watch and wait, patiently or otherwise. [break][break]

Finally, he decides to go with, "I-I don't actually know anything useful, I swear..."

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POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 20:51:59 GMT

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POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 20:42:54 GMT

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Ameena felt infuriated by the playfulness of Rotom. It had no sense of time and place! She readied another complaint, but she paused only at the sound of rapid footsteps behind her. She was in the middle of turning when Rotom launched itself from the power line and into the Vaporean with a discharge. Ameena watched the Vaporeon go flying several meters away, caught off-guard by the assault. Rotom had been powered up from the power line, so she could only imagine how badly that strike hurt. "Nicely done," she belatedly complimented as she approached Vaporeon.

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THE FIRST WAVE: PRELUDE SIGN-UPS

POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 20:29:45 GMT

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BATTLE OF MOSSDEEP SIGN-UP

THE FIRST WAVE PRELUDE

OOC NAME:[break]
CHARACTER: ameena abadi [break]
FACTION: rocket[break]
SCENARIO: B[break]
PREFERRED PARTNERS, INCLUDING OPPONENTS IF PVP?: Montgomery James [break]
POKEMON PARTY (MAX 6) [break][break][break][break]
NOTES/COMMENTS: Ameena and Montgomery have danced a few times now, but neither has gotten the either to succumb. Ameena's about to be put in a precarious position: she is loyal to Rocket and serves them as a foot soldier, but Montgomery always sees through her -- no matter what disguise she bears for this fight, he's going to know its her, and she's going to have to decide if preserving her civilian ID is worth killing him. After all, she sees potential for a strong ally in him... and maybe something else.

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POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 19:47:09 GMT

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BONUS STAGE: DESTROY CAR (TT)

POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 17:58:21 GMT

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POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 17:58:04 GMT

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It was stupid. [break][break]

She could admit that. But she needed some R&R, damn it. And her Rotom was so energetic. She was tired of it possessing her lab equipment, as it threatened her data, but letting it out often led to it hacking into power lines or into someone's phone. She needed Rotom to get some energy out without disrupting the general public or her own lab. Really, this was two pidove, one stone.[break][break]

"Have at it," she instructed, watching Rotom descend on the busted car.

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POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 17:32:58 GMT

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"Get out of there!" Her whisper shout displayed how she balanced her anger with her need for quiet. It was dusk, and they had a small window of time to skedaddle before civilians found them. With the hounds of war released, she needed to avoid wandering. It would complicate her Rocket duties and her civilian persona. She looked so suspicious out here. Rotom inhibiting the power lines only looked worse.

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opportunities [m]

POSTED ON Jul 8, 2024 17:28:11 GMT

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As much as she was feeling him out, she got the distinct impression he was doing the same. She did her best not to grimace at the sipping noises. "Yes," she finally confirmed once she knew she could speak evenly, "my own cybersecurity team has been cut to minimal parties given some... unacceptable extracurricular activities. If you can try to break in and find a weak point, I can prioritize sealing it." [break][break]

It was boring work, which was why she did next to know technological processes herself. It being an information technology company had more to do with convenience than her own strengths, though the ability to purchase so much processing power and computational equipment was a huge benefit for her personal laboratory. [break][break]

"If you can manage it, and you find the work interesting, I prefer to hire Rockets for my business if they can avoid ruining their public persona." Hers in particular was difficult to manage. It worked that taking vacations in public suited a CEO, just as hiding from the public for sustained periods did, but her Rocket work was becoming more and more visible, these days...

TAGS – Mark Cunningham [break]

NOTES – bond bridge[break][break]

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