unsheathedfromreality: (iskierka - one for sorrow)
Illarion Albireo ([personal profile] unsheathedfromreality) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-03-13 01:59 am

Real & Half-Real: Iskierka's Notes | OTA

Who: Illarion's Omen Iskierka and anyone who happens to stumble across her notes.
What: Receiving messages from hell.
When: March 5 onward, after Sayo's full return to the Waking World.
Where: Throughout Trench and the Levels

Content warnings: All of the following are mentioned or discussed obliquely: magical zombies, mind control, emotional manipulation, war-time violence, murder of family members, drug use, cannibalism, suicide, hallucinations/derealization, existential horror, apocalyptic setting, kidnapping, enslavement.



Iskierka has not been idle while her Sleeper is missing from Trench. Somewhere, he's wandering a hell far removed from the Waking World; somewhere, he rehearses to himself the briefing he might give to any would-be rescuers when they arrive, what is necessary to survive and sufficient for Sayo's ritual. When hoping for rescue pales on him, he dictates his thoughts to the air or an animal or a corpse's patient ear, and she hears it.

She hears every word of it, and she cannot respond; she listens faithfully, and the words fill her head to the point of forgetting. When there's no more room for them, she writes. With whatever comes to hand--beg buy borrow or steal--on whatever surface she can find, she writes--scratches out--rewrites. Notes and letters emerge beneath her pen, and she takes them where she thinks they belong. Some she abandons in significant places and others she brings to significant people, urging them to take this fragment of her lost Sleeper.


It may help, when they go to rescue him. If anyone can.

[[ OOC: Real & Half-Real Plot Write-Up and Interest Check, for those just joining us. Even if you haven't left a comment there you're more than welcome to join in on finding notes!

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imaglyphwitch: (Doing this)

Re: TARGET | Generation's Volkhv (Esfir) - 1A

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-03-20 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[After finding the first letter, Luz figured it might be good to search around and see if there were any more. She still wasn't sure what they meant yet, but the instruction of HELP was enough for her to start looking for more. She got onto her staff and was looking around as keenly as she could, and though it took about ten minutes, she finally came across another and snatched it up pretty quickly].

Huh. This Volkhv lady sounds like no joke. This sounds like it's going to be pretty bad when it goes down. I think I better get this to that Paul or Karou guy pretty soon.