bermuda....? ♔ and it will take you to fears you never knew

[behindcloseddoors]

♬ Vessel - Zola Jesus

WHO || Stiles, Fiona, Astrid, Lila, Drax, Snow, Phineas
WHAT || A wish goes awry and the team finds themselves lost in a world of shadow...
WHERE ||Maybe Bermuda. But not.
WHEN || April 14th, 2015 [backdated].
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.

It started as a simple enough mission.  Travel to a remote area in Russia where an entire town had fallen from the Shadow World years ago and remained largely entrenched in the culture of that world, to check on a Russian woman who had married the local baron for her parents, who had stopped hearing from her.  The woman had expressed paranoia about her husband's behavior, and upon investigation, the party discovered why: Anya's husband, Stepan, harbored a dangerous secret that threatened not only his family, but the entire town.  Years ago, he made a dark deal with an entity who lived inside a family heirloom called a Midnight Mirror - an artifact of Loviatar used as a magical prison to punish those who offended the goddess.  Agreeing to let this entity take over his body for a year every decade, the shadowy figure helped Stepan to trap his own brothers in the mirror and take over the baronry for himself.  His marriage and the subsequent birth of his child, however, made him change his mind about following through on the next swap, and the shadowy being, angry at him for reneging on his deal, released a plague upon the local town called tallowthroat, a horrible disease wherein shadows birthed out of the inflicted's throats.  

Stepan convinced the heroes to enter the Mirror and destroy the heart of it, ending the threat to the town and freeing him of the deal once and for all.  After a fierce battle against the horrible form the Heart had taken, the Shadow Manor began to collapse, taking with it their only escape route.  Trapped and uncertain what would happen to them if they were there when the entire Manor fell apart, they made a wish on Fiona the genie, to escape to Bermuda.

Where they found themselves seems to be the beach - but they are also in a world still drained of color - trapped somewhere, perhaps, on the Shadow Plane, with no known way to return home.

Comments

[behindcloseddoors]

[ guess what's not working right

yo compasses

also this world is drained of color so i think u mean her black and white lighter ]

[pathology]

It's not working! [tosses the compass on the ground in a little hissy. THEY'RE ALL GOING TO DIE ANYWAY.]

[unlost]

We're going to need to use landmarks or something physical to find our way back.

[She pulls out her multi-tool, and she'll just carve a line into some of the nearby trees? If there are any? Or she can lay sticks on the ground pointing back. Whatever you get the idea.]

[bittersweeter]

[ IT'S PINK IN HER SOUL OK.

she exhales shortly and puts her hand on astrid's arm like calm down bb, i'm not gonna let you die. gaaaaaaay. ]

I have-- [ clamping the cigarette between her teeth, she rifles around in her bag again, looking for something useful. ] Duct tape.

[ which would also be pink if not for this crappy black and white world. like she is already hella pale, okay, she doesn't need to be pleasantville pale. ]

[pathology]

I do, too. [it's also ... previously pink. :'( ] If we run out of yours.

[unlost]

We should be fine, then, even without a working compass.

[So as they head away from the others, they can leave duct tape x's in various spots to mark their way hurrah!

She crit failed her spot check to actually...look for anything though, so apparently she's SUPER focused on this task idek]

[pathology]

[don't worry boo ... astrid has it under control with her elf snakeblood eyes. (spot 28)]

[bittersweeter]

[ that's good because lila also crit failed. she was looking for a candy bar this time, unwrapping it greedily. she will share, fyi, but not before she shoves half of it in her mouth as they walk. she's worthless rn, but at least she's becoming less murderous so.

it's a decent trade off. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ they might also be crit failing b/c it's

fucking dark.

astrid would realize that there is no sun, no moon, no stars adorning the inky black sky above. there's also no one in sight, although she'd seen a shitty little dock up the way, with no boat. there's a pervasive nip of cold in the air, and the water smells vaguely foul. ]

[pathology]

[after a few minutes of everyone ... exploring nature, astrid decides to announce] This is hopeless. The people on Lost had it better than this.

[did they really tho astrid?????

probably....]

[bittersweeter]

Well they were in the real fucking world for one thing. [ but she keeps pushing onward because what else is there to do? build a bonfire like they're on the island with tom hanks and wilson? she's not going there yet. ]

[unlost]

I think this place is very real, considering we're all here and alive.

[But where the hell are they, no one knows.]

[pathology]

It's really some hell dimension or something. There are so stars or moon or anything, you see that right? Even though we're out in nature so they should be like, super bright. And the water smells weird. I can smell it from over here.

[bittersweeter]

[ lila glances up at the sky, eyebrows lifting like "oh, astrid's right". ] I hadn't noticed. But I hang out in nightmares, so... [ the landscape isn't what bothers her. ]

[unlost]

[Yeah she...hadn't noticed either. She looks up, and immediately looks disturbed.]

That's kind of ominous, isn't it.

[pathology]

Right?

[bittersweeter]

There wasn't any light in the mirror either, so reason would lead that we're still stuck in that world. [ she exhales her little cloud of smoke away from the both of them before glancing at astrid, and then snow. ] Either of you know any light spells?

[pathology]

[ DAMN IT JIM I'M A DOCTOR, NOT A SORCERER.] Uh, no.

[unlost]

Maybe this will work.

[And she reaches into her bag and pulls out...a flashlight. Let's see if it turns on!]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ it... does, but the beam only extends about half as far as it should yay ]

[bittersweeter]

[ yay... once snow's flashlight is proven to work, lila pulls hers out as well. two tiny beams. well, three, because she knows astrid has one and it'll probably be out soon. ]

You know, I thought the mission with the fucking Mind Flayer was the worst? Scotland was awful. But this takes the fucking cake.

[ grumpily looks around. ]

[pathology]

[yep, astrid gets hers out next. three poorly working flashlights. yayyyy.] I almost miss Germany. Like, I don't, but I almost do.

[bittersweeter]

[ while they're kvetching, lila digs around for another candy bar because she's starving, before sweeping the beam of light further down the beach. and still finding nothing of note. (spot 10) ]

Aren't you best friends with the drunks in that town now?

[pathology]

Sort of ... there was one cute guy, and that one dad ... Franz! Shit, I wonder what happened to Franz? He's probably fine now.

[unlost]

[So lost in the midst of this conversation so she'll just...keeping looking around while they gossip. Kids...]