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]

[ malkarion steps closer, looking up at them, his hand returning to his sword. ] The fact that your heads are still attached to your bodies is only a matter of my great generosity.

Move.

[bittersweeter]

Relax, sweetie, we're going. [ what if she just grabs stiles and drags him with her. (str 17) w/e drax is a grown as man, he can fuck up if he wants. stiles is a kid. ] Let's go. We can think this one through away from here.

[killingtodeath]

[He doesn't fight Lila trying to drag him but it sure doesn't stop him from grabbing for Drax's wrist as well as they go (str also 17 weird)]

[spinerip]

[Drax tries to pull away but with his sapped strength he has no resistance and that's just sad (str 11). He was going to go with them anyway he's just annoyed about being this weak.]

[unlost]

But where should we go?

[There's...not a whole lot of places they can move to other than back the way they came, right?]

[bittersweeter]

Outside, at least. For now. [ AWAY FROM GETTING MAIMED. for now. ]

[killingtodeath]

[Stiles nods and moves back outside, but there's not exactly much other option for where they should go.]

We may just have to try to take this guy.

[pathology]

[it's hard to tell if astrid's displeased with this idea or just done with life in general after their descent into more shittiness. it's probably both.]

[spinerip]

Yes! Finally a worthwhile plan! [Drax is way down on his strength and still generally in favor of plan beat the crap out of the guy. He's just always in favor of beating the crap out of people.]

[bittersweeter]

Go for it, Muscles. [ again, lila is not going to stop him. she's just not going to contribute to this fight either. oh well. ]