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Nemesis and Hurricane's Ideal World: Session 3
[The sky above is a deep, unnatural crimson, filled with roiling clouds and creatures that are a sickly oil-slick black. They writhe and wriggle like something out of a Lovecraftian nightmare; they have entirely too many eyes, and entirely too many wings, and when they open their mouths, they have entirely too many teeth]
[Below them, the city of Tokyo is half-shattered; above the rooftops, mechanized suits the size of people hover in the air, darting in out of the chaos, laser blasts and explosions and wickedly sharp blades fighting tirelessly against the endless onslaught]
[Until finally, the last creature falls]
[All at once, civilians flood the streets of the city; the lights come on in all the buildings, which somehow have become whole again, safe and unharmed. A cheer goes up from the crowd. Overhead, a stunning fireworks display paints the night with light and color]
[And they all lived happily ever after]
[The end]
Re: THE HOUSE
[ have a woman in avante clothing, dipping her head in a shallow bow of greeting ]
I'm sorry; if we've spoken before, I don't clearly recall it. But you're from pep!, aren't you.
Re: THE HOUSE
I am. I'm Rufous.
Re: THE HOUSE
Do you recognize anything of this dream?
Those machines; the sorts of weapons they wielded...
[ she sounds a bit overwhelmed, speaking of them ] ...I've never seen their like.
Re: THE HOUSE
The machines, no. [But most machines are either Close To A Magic Equivalent, or fully foreign.] But I guess that's how humans make up for not having magic. [Because he has seen fights like those.]
Re: THE HOUSE
—Nor do we have any shortage of demons and worse to threaten us, though even I have never witnessed such things in these numbers.
[ a pause, and she checks her phone, brows furrowing as she reads ]
...If this is indeed Hurricane and Nemesis's dream... I knew they piloted warstriders, but not that their warstriders were so... powerful, even by standards of legends from the First Age.
Re: THE HOUSE
My world, its an oddity to not have magic, but humans also aren't native. That level of skill is less common. It takes a lot of hard work, talent, or usually both to achieve.
It makes sense, doesn't it? Just seeing all the stuff back in Hell. They have machines that go to speeds that can be safely ridden, control hot and cold, display recordings, all without the use of magic.
Re: THE HOUSE
To be honest, I imagined that such things were only possible because of the power of our captors, who only seem to abide by normal laws of craftsmanship when it amuses them to do so.
[ pausing again, head slightly tilted as she considers ]
In contrast, your own world sounds more like my own, even without humans. After all, in theory any mortal might awaken her Essence, if only through decades of training.
[ a shrug, and a sigh ]
But I am distracting us; we surely don't have much time. I am good with children, so I plan to ask them for information about this place first. Perhaps you would do well to choose a different route, to make the search efficient.
Re: THE HOUSE
Teaching is necessary for control, but having access usually doesn't. There's always been incidents of toddlers causing problems on various scales depending on their natural power level.
I was going to head inside.
I'm probably not good with kids.
raksha = fairies, except from outside reality
If so, he's the sanest and most even-tempered raksha she's ever heard of. ]
In that case, I'd suggest endeavoring to meet back here in an hour, to share our findings with one another.
—And, since it seems our phones still work in this dream, we can contact one another if we're able to find either Hurricane or Nemesis sooner than that.
Fun.
[Allegedly.]
[He's got some questionable history.]
All right. Probably good, creatures like that can be pretty good at hiding.