home is where i want to be [open]

[phaseflex]

Who: amara and some other peeps, also you. yes. you.
What: slime, punching, weird dogs and more!
When: first half of april
Where: it's an open fellers



a. closed to housemates of 69 house

[when amara wakes up in the pitch black of her room and covered in horrible slime, she makes good on her siren namesake and shrieks very loudly. one might be forgiven for thinking she's been hurt by it, but really-- it's just so gross.

then she stops, because it actually doesn't feel that bad when she peels it off her arm. her skin is... so smooth. it smells nice! all the little cuts and scratches she'd had from hunting down the unsnakely and other creatures during her first month in trench are gone and fuck how long has she been asleep?

Yo, who's home?! I need some help, guys! [she calls out, struggling to sit upright with the weight of the drying mucus on her. god, have her muscles atrophied? she needs to start lifting immediately.]


b. closed to ange

[it's with significant distress that amara realises she doesn't know where ange is living. she didn't find out before she fell asleep, and it was right after that conversation she had--

ange gets a somewhat urgent message through her device; amara looking dishevelled and still with bits of mucus in her hair.]

Jaan, where are you? I fucking-- I'm sorry, I didn't avoid you! I fell asleep for... a goddamn month! Shit! Can we talk? Are you willing?


c.

[though it's quite annoying, amara can deal with the dark. xylourgos was shrouded in constant darkness under the unforgiving eclipse that never ended and while it did, admittedly, drive most of its residents to madness, amara and her team were for a long time. she didn't go loopy! well-- not much. thank god for eista keeping her sane with his constant demands for slass. well, that and the cultist killing.

now that she's awake again and despite still wanting to join the hunters and do big monster murder, amara figures she should at least act like the hero she was in partali. she's easy to see in the dark with her glowing tattoos and six ethereal arms branching from her back, all of them carrying several lanterns each. she hands them out to whoever needs them during her "morning" walk, then goes about her daily business. she finds herself needing to work to start building up her weaponry stock before she can even think about getting serious.

amara can be found doing odd jobs through all of trench, from carrying barrels to threading needles. she has worked her way up before, and she will do it again.

her omen follows along behind her without fail, panting happily (that sure is a weird dog) and catching anything she tosses to it with a long, prehensile tongue that comes out of its three-way split face.]

d. blessed are the curious, past

[a gigantic cavern stretches out, stonework dotted around it ancient and beautiful beyond imagination. it is distinctly alien, grey slate lit up with red energy. golden statues stand side by side by a small star-shaped pattern on the ground, a pedestal standing in the middle. a gigantic stone archway - not the one that was used to get here - stands with a shimmering purple surface between the supports.

it's dilapidated, but not dangerously so. this place was a place of reverence, and there are a few white wisps floating around. there is a strong sense that they were once people, but now are nothing. this is still a place of legends, but for different reasons now.

a monstrous beast lays freshly killed by the stone steps, blood pouring out of its many wounds. amara stands next to it, covered in some of the gore, watching the archway shimmer.]

No. Not this time.

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[onerthes]

mmm, what not this time?

[Vira-Lorr was looking around everything that she saw. No judgments were in her gaze. She was more curious than anything, taking it all in, eyeing Amara to make sure she was fully aware, not losing it. One could never be sure in surreal situations like this. She had to be sure first. So, she was on guard, but trying to be at ease mostly.]

[phaseflex]

We wanted the loot in the Vault last time -- [the other vault hunters round the beast, having stuck to what they'd been doing last time amara was here. she was the one that went off the path of the memory, but sirens always have to wander off to do some weird mystical shit. they didn't think much of it.

here's the main point: another woman with them. she's laughing, smiling. shorter than amara, but she has the same markings down her arm. she is unmistakably another siren.] --and Maya died because we were not there.

[later, she might wonder if this is impeding on maya's own wishes for her powers to go to her protege, but this is one of amara's great regrets. she wanted to save may. she wants to save lillith next. even if it's not real.]

[onerthes]

And you want... what, to save her this time?

[She moved into a position right alongside Amara, setting her blade on her shoulder. There was a hiss that came shortly afterwards. If she looked back, Amara would see several odd bulges beneath the fabric of Vira-Lorr's clothes, and the look of armored seams at her wrists. She was breathing a little heavily for a second, but afterwards smiling in a strained way.]

mmm, I think I should expect a fight, don't you?

[phaseflex]

Yes, I... think so.

[is this right? is it real? amara is clearly battling with several lines of thought, as she fidgets with her hands quite uncharacteristically.]

The twins will arrive. They are both powerful Sirens. Please... don't let Tyreen touch you. She will kill you with her touch.

[onerthes]

[Vira-lorr was currently assuming it was a vision of some kind, or something along that line. However, at the mention of Tyreen, her fingers clenched. She remembered that name. That bitch had been in the nightmare.]

Her. I vaguely remember her, from the nightmare. I don't recall her powers in use, but I will absolutely follow that direction regardless and stay on guard.

[She popped the chamber, loading an explosive round into her gun before setting it to its blade configuration. That little surprise was for if either gets close.]

Anything else to watch for?

[phaseflex]

I remember being told she was in the nightmare, and regretting not being dragged in earlier so I could murder her. She drains the life of people she touches. Er. Sometimes at a distance, too.

[she doesn't know how the phaseleech works!! shit!]

Her brother, too. He has... he's large and has an equally large sword. They must go down together, or she will absorb him. She did it before. Extremely gross.

[onerthes]

That's genuinely disturbing. Given that you have the experience, I might focus on the brother over the sister. I've got a few explosive rounds and at least one that's meant to serve like a ... what did they call it? Glue shot? I don't know why you'd put some sort of gunk in a bullet, but we're about to find out?

[No, seriously, it was actually really useful as long as the bullet could stay intact long enough to explode outward, so... blunderbuss.]

If I can keep him busy, dodge him and wear him down, we can try to time it.

[phaseflex]

That's a plan. The other Vault Hunters should be able to help. Maybe? [amara's expression pinches.] Do you get what's going on here?

[onerthes]

At a hunch...

[She frowned and looked around them, folding her arms now that her gun was loaded and seeming to take it all in.]

It's a straightforward 'face your past' sort of nonsense that we encounter. So, likely enemies from our past bubbling up. Next we'll see the Dark Knight trying to assault us from my world. Bah. It shouldn't last. We just have to get through it.

[phaseflex]

Good, because saving Maya might actually... change some time. In a huge way.

[there's a bright, loud flash of light as tyreen and her brother appear on top of the monster, sauntering down it's body casually.]

Go time.

[the other vault hunters, unfortunately, are doing what they did in the real time. they have gone into the vault. fucking loot whores, she thinks, ignoring her own part in that. amara immediately fires her gun at troy, though he deflects it with his large, robotic arm.]

[onerthes]

[This was the moment where Vira-Lorr angled to get attention. They had the siblings' attention, after all. So why not get everyone's? She moved to leap over to the side, separating the targets somewhat. In this case, she brought her blade up, popping it into the gun mode and firing a shell off right on top of the one that Amara had. This too? It looked like an easy deflect.]

Is that the best you can do, vault thief?!? Haha, we're freaking gods man!

[And right about then, the reality set in. There was a wide, extremely loud explosion. It didn't do a whole lot of real harm to Troy or his sister, but what it did was make a hell of a ruckus and knock him back into a cloud while she was reloading.]

What are the odds they'll come back out if they hear enough of a fight?

[phaseflex]

They're in another dimension, I think! So not very high! [she's never been all sure how vaults work, but how they work isn't really her concern. amara's interest has always just been plundering the bastards, and that's what they all do very well.

she can't help but bark a laugh at troy getting knocked back like a huge dumbass. god, she hates him so much.

seeing that the fight is starting, maya grabs ava and makes to get her to cover before she can join herself. amara uses her phasegrasp on tyreen, quickly using the brief lull to move away from troy's crosshairs.]

[onerthes]

[It was right about then that Troy lunged up and dropped down like a freaking Dragoon. Vira-Lorr had to roll backwards just to get away from the attack before dodging the energy that flowed outwards from him.]

Is he going to keep doing that?!? I'm trying not to engage him in melee!

[He was just laughing at this point, cackling while she got her distance, right before she threw something at him. When it connected and exploded, he coughed and shouted something unpleasant again that was lost in the din.]

You wouldn't happen to know where I can find more grenades around here would you? Seems like the kind of fight where people just leave stockpiles of ammunition around, just in case.