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

[pathology]

I dunno, I haven't talked to him since we went to Philly. Probably the same?

[bittersweeter]

Little lamb. [ out of the blue, she makes a frustrated noise. ] I don't even know what we're supposed to be looking for!

[unlost]

We're just scouting for now. So anything on interest, anything that could be used as shelter, getting to know what we're dealing with.

[She's not expecting to find some magical door home, basically.]

[bittersweeter]

Darkness, shadow, acid water probably. [ grumble. while they walk, she tucks her flashlight into her pocket before reaching up to unhook her necklace, pulling it out from the top of her dress. ] Come here, Red.

[pathology]

[she steps closer like werwatey???] What? Wait, oh my god, can you even call me that now that we're in a world with no color?

[/existential crisis nbd]

[bittersweeter]

Yes, your soul is red. [ putting the necklace on astrid like nbd deal with it nothing to see here. she needs her bestie to be safe, okay, she only has two, she wants to keep them both. ] Don't lose this. It's worth more than your fake college education.

[pathology]

Excuse you, my fake college education is like a few weeks away from being real. Or at least, it was. [wait ... what's happening??? she looks down at the necklace like werwatey some more.] What is it? I mean, obviously it's a necklace, but ...

[bittersweeter]

It's worth more than your real college education, too. It's my dad's and it'll keep you safe, so don't fucking lose it.

[pathology]

O...kay? Whatever. [she sticks the necklace under her shirt since it will probably be more protected there.

[bittersweeter]

Okay. [ and back to searching for shit. on the prowl for ~things. ]

[unlost]

[Snow listens to the exchange quietly, but doesn't comment on it, instead taking another look around (spot 28)]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ finally, distantly, snow makes out what seem like buildings, a city of some sort. and among those, she catches signs of movement, fleeting, something lurking rather than signs of real life ]

[unlost]

[That puts Snow at a pause, holding a hand out to try and stall the other girls as well.]

Maybe we should head back for now...

[pathology]

Really? Ugh, fine, I guess ...

[unlost]

I'm just not sure we should engage whatever's...hiding in there without the rest of our team.

[pathology]

No, no, you're right. It makes sense. We probably won't even find anything good there anyway.

[bittersweeter]

[ lila makes a face, but doesn't say anything to oppose the idea. she's calm enough so long as her cigarettes don't run out. and she should probably knock herself out soon. that in mind she turns to retrace their steps, following the duct tape. (spot 17) ]

[unlost]

[Between that and Snow's survival 17 to track themselves backwards, they should be able to make it back to the others relatively easily.

One would hope...]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ yes! they can make their way back to the other thread to report ]