06 . the sleepy town expedition.

[necrolord]

Who: necrolord, Gideon, Harrow, Paul, Kaworu, "Shannon," Mako, Ford, Shiro, Ruby, Luna, Faith, Willow, Ezra, Zhongli, Perell.
What: An intentional family-and-friends roadtrip to a forbidden holy ruin. A less-intentional catacombs adventure.
When: 3/14.
Where: Sleepy Town and the Catacombs.

Content Warnings: Sleepy Town-typical themes of grief, loss, and surreal landscapes. Catacombs-typical horror per the March event. Also, note all the usual warnings of this character.

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[shiro2hero]

Now it feels like one big hallucination.

[Or something along those lines.]

Or, hah. A dream. [He picks up an old, deteriorated package. Turns it over.] Now we have all these new faces... trying to explain what it was like almost makes you sound crazy.

[arclightning]

[ Mako snorts quietly to himself as he crouches down to look for more of those weird bandages on a dusty bottom shelf. A couple packages crouch near the back, stuffed into decaying cardboard. ]

Every time I tell Ryan or his boyfriend about something from the dream they look at me like I started airbending.

[shiro2hero]

[Shiro's turn to snort.]

I've almost stopped trying. If they ask, then I hand over Peter's notes. Maybe... it's not the best. But I don't know.

It's easier.

[arclightning]

Hey, if they were helpful in the dream, they're helpful now.

[ Mako yanks out one of the dusty packages, blowing off some of the crap, and holds it up. ]

This is them, right?

[shiro2hero]

Maybe we need to condense them somehow, then... just to keep new arrivals from feeling like they're back in school.

[That won't help anyone. Especially the teens he's seen.]

[His head pops up. And, miraculously, Shiro grins.]

Yeah - there they are.

[arclightning]

[ That grin feels, as always, like a victory. Mako grins back and shoves as many as he can reasonably fit into his back before pushing himself to his feet to go prowl the medicine aisle proper. ]

That's half the point of this, isn't it? Figure out what's still relevant so we can tell people what they actually need to know. Should definitely condense them.

[shiro2hero]

Maybe that's something else we can go over. You, Ruby and I. And whoever she has in mind for the fourth.

[Most of the cans are either rusted out, or expanded past the point of safety. What few bottles of aspirin he can find look decayed.]

[Moving on to another aisle.]

[arclightning]

[ Wow it is really quite empty in here, huh. Mako snags a few bottles of vitamins that somehow got neglected but it does look like it did near the end, when they had no supplies but what was already on-hand. ]

We should probably make a list of what we need to figure out. Ford was saying this place wasn't even the only echo of the dream. That maybe there are other realities out there where people landed.

[shiro2hero]

Did he mean places beyond Trench? [It's a thought, and not a bad one. Maybe other people aren't ending up as squids. Maybe there's something beyond the ocean. Or whatever was in the opposite direction.]

How did he find that out? The Archives?

[arclightning]

[ The ocean, the desert, the forest. The dream could have been any of them, couldn't it? ]

It's just a theory he had. Think he was looking to check it out, told me to keep an eye out for those weird rifts. You think we can still find those doors?

[shiro2hero]

If he does, and he needs backup... I want in. Or, at least, I don't think he should go alone. More eyes the better.

[He straightens up. Aside from a few bits and pieces, there doesn't seem to be much usable ... anything here.]

I think it wouldn't hurt to take a look.