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expiationlogs2024-07-02 07:39 pm
theskyaccepts) wrote in expiationlogs2024-07-02 07:39 pm
I've Been Through the Desert on a Horse with No Name
Who: Tsuna and you!
Where: In the Desert
What: To complete his sentencing, Tsuna has led an expedition out into the desert to find the ruins of Tresed, and see if anything has changed Last time
Warnings: Risk of injury and possible death, hallucinations, monsters. Additional warnings to be added if needed.
OOC Notes:
-You do not need to have responded to the OOC Interest Check or the IC Interest Check to join in. Please feel free to dive right in!
-Timeline wise, ICly the expedition will return prior to the 15th so that we're all back for the event, but please don't feel you have to rush anything
-On a more personal note, while there is a risk of death with this expedition and if that's a direction you're interested in going for please do, I would also like to keep the body count to a minimum if possible. The ramifications of leading a bunch of people to their deaths is not necessarily something I want to play out with Tsuna at this time. Thank you!
The Expedition and Scouting Parties
The thing about deserts is that they are harsh environments. Unforgiving, some might say. The sun beating down, the wind whipping sand, the sound of monsters making their way through the desert. It's not the kind of place anyone would really want to go into, and yet, Tsuna is determined. Whether it is the effects of his sentencing or his own backbone finally making itself known, he has led this group into the desert for answers. It's not easy, and it weighs on him, but his face is set as he sends out small scouting parties, consulting maps and other information that he has, hoping to find the ruins of Tresed.
Sandstorms are prevalent in the area, so small scouting parties are being sent out to try and find some paths through it. Going out too far runs the risk of getting lost, injury, or potentially death. There are some monsters about, but they also have to contend with the storm.
The Oasis
But eventually, relief comes. An Oasis is discovered with clean, fresh water and edible vegetation. A respite from the harsh winds of the sandstorm. It's a chance to catch their breath and consolidate what they have learned so far. But as is so often the case in this world, things are quick to go awry. Mirages, of course, a key part of any desert expedition, start to appear. Images from that previous trip out to the ruins.
If you were on that previous trip to the desert, you've seen these images before but something about them seems off, wrong, not quite right. Warped, some might say.
If this is all new to you, you're seeing something that's happened before. But if it is wrong or right, who's to say?
But it might not matter if you've been in the desert before or not, because this vision is from the perspective of one of the Shadow Creatures that attacked before, and were ultimately killed. It comes with feelings of aching hunger, despair, and mindless fear in those final moments.
Or maybe it isn't an image of the desert at all. Maybe it's something far more familiar. An image of home, in the past, the present, or the future.
The Message and Returning Home
A message appears on the Chosen's tablets. Text, barely legible but undeniably a message:
FIND ME
But despite searching, and Tsuna will want to be thorough, the source will not be found, and they will be unable to trace it.
It's not much, but it is something. And they can return to Aldrip with that knowledge. One thing is clear though. They are not done with the desert yet.
Where: In the Desert
What: To complete his sentencing, Tsuna has led an expedition out into the desert to find the ruins of Tresed, and see if anything has changed Last time
Warnings: Risk of injury and possible death, hallucinations, monsters. Additional warnings to be added if needed.
OOC Notes:
-You do not need to have responded to the OOC Interest Check or the IC Interest Check to join in. Please feel free to dive right in!
-Timeline wise, ICly the expedition will return prior to the 15th so that we're all back for the event, but please don't feel you have to rush anything
-On a more personal note, while there is a risk of death with this expedition and if that's a direction you're interested in going for please do, I would also like to keep the body count to a minimum if possible. The ramifications of leading a bunch of people to their deaths is not necessarily something I want to play out with Tsuna at this time. Thank you!
The Expedition and Scouting Parties
The thing about deserts is that they are harsh environments. Unforgiving, some might say. The sun beating down, the wind whipping sand, the sound of monsters making their way through the desert. It's not the kind of place anyone would really want to go into, and yet, Tsuna is determined. Whether it is the effects of his sentencing or his own backbone finally making itself known, he has led this group into the desert for answers. It's not easy, and it weighs on him, but his face is set as he sends out small scouting parties, consulting maps and other information that he has, hoping to find the ruins of Tresed.
Sandstorms are prevalent in the area, so small scouting parties are being sent out to try and find some paths through it. Going out too far runs the risk of getting lost, injury, or potentially death. There are some monsters about, but they also have to contend with the storm.
The Oasis
But eventually, relief comes. An Oasis is discovered with clean, fresh water and edible vegetation. A respite from the harsh winds of the sandstorm. It's a chance to catch their breath and consolidate what they have learned so far. But as is so often the case in this world, things are quick to go awry. Mirages, of course, a key part of any desert expedition, start to appear. Images from that previous trip out to the ruins.
If you were on that previous trip to the desert, you've seen these images before but something about them seems off, wrong, not quite right. Warped, some might say.
If this is all new to you, you're seeing something that's happened before. But if it is wrong or right, who's to say?
But it might not matter if you've been in the desert before or not, because this vision is from the perspective of one of the Shadow Creatures that attacked before, and were ultimately killed. It comes with feelings of aching hunger, despair, and mindless fear in those final moments.
Or maybe it isn't an image of the desert at all. Maybe it's something far more familiar. An image of home, in the past, the present, or the future.
The Message and Returning Home
A message appears on the Chosen's tablets. Text, barely legible but undeniably a message:
FIND ME
But despite searching, and Tsuna will want to be thorough, the source will not be found, and they will be unable to trace it.
It's not much, but it is something. And they can return to Aldrip with that knowledge. One thing is clear though. They are not done with the desert yet.
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I guess, yeah. [even though she didn't like him much. hated him, in fact. but that didn't stop the impact she had on him.
but then he nods.] We did. The culprit went to jail, and the being behind the culprit...
[Izanami]
Was beaten or whatever.
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[ Ange quietly thinks about it. The being behind it must have been the one Yosuke and all the others from his world have spoken of before, that much makes sense to her. She feels like she knows much more about that being so far than the actual culprit - who has to be human, considering the way the guy is wording it here. ]
How did that feel?
[ Her question doesn't have a whole lot of emotion in it, but it sounds more serious than her usual deadpan. There's no sarcasm in it at all, like she genuinely wants to know. ]
When that culprit went to jail. Was it satisfying?
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I don't know. It was kinda satisfying... but that's not going to bring the dead back. It's not going to un-hurt the people he hurt.
More than anything, I think I'm just glad it's over. That no one else is gonna get hurt.
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Still, after thinking about it for a moment, she slowly says: ]
That's a bummer.
[ Despite her usual nonchalant Ange wording - more habit than anything else - her tone sounds more serious. Like she really means that, despite the choice of words. ]
I guess I'm hoping that it will feel better than that once it happens for me. [ ... ] At the very least it has to be better than nothing, I guess.
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Everyone's different, so who knows how you'll feel. But I hope you find them and make them pay one day anyway. Maybe it'll at least make you sleep better at night, knowing that they're not out there anymore.
[that at least, he can admit to understanding.]
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[ Ange looks at the buildings spread out around them. She contemplates saying something, but then swallows down the words, deciding against it.
Instead she asks-- ]
How did you manage to find who did it? [ Maybe that's better. See if she can learn anything from it, rather than having to admit to a truth that feels kind of uncomfortable to tell Yosuke about. ]
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In the end, he just slipped up. We were able to piece it together from there... it's not like he was a mastermind or anything.
[far from it, actually.]
He would've slipped up eventually.
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It's the way things happen in reality. ]
I always thought that too. That a perfect crime can't exist, since humans are bound to screw up somewhere along the way. [ Ange still seems.. very much the usual. Pokerface, relatively emotionless tone, all of it.
But there's a little bit of something in it. Perhaps some disappointment, or very, very faint upset at what she's reminding herself of here. ] Maybe I'm just particularly unlucky for not having found a flaw like that in the case I'm investigating.
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Sometimes it takes a while. It's not like we found the guy immediately... it was months. Sometimes it even takes years.
[but he smiles at her a little.]
You seem really smart though, so I think you'll be able to figure it out one day.
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[ It's a slightly belated answer, with that small pause in front of it. Almost like she had to think about those words for a moment.
Ange glances at him, but then quickly looks away again. ]
That's a surprisingly nice answer coming from you. [ Okay, so maybe it's not a compliment really worded in the nicest of ways, but Ange does mean it as a good thing.
She's just bad at expressing herself in this sort of way. ]
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What? Can't a guy be nice sometimes??
[he's not always a weird asshole, okay!!]