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Entry tags:
- aziraphale,
- beckett mariner,
- bradward boimler,
- elle bryant,
- gwen stacy (spiderverse),
- loki (mcu),
- miguel o'hara (spiderverse),
- nog,
- sam winchester,
- stacia novik,
- ✘ aiden price,
- ✘ dean winchester,
- ✘ drift,
- ✘ eddie munson,
- ✘ garviel loken,
- ✘ henry townshend,
- ✘ jennifer,
- ✘ kon-el,
- ✘ mackenzie haynes,
- ✘ nyara,
- ✘ peter b parker (spiderverse),
- ✘ puss in boots,
- ✘ rowan heart-eater,
- ✘ sam wyldhammer,
- ✘ sarah kerrigan,
- ✘ steve harrington,
- ✘ tim drake (comics)
SLEIGH BELLS RING ❄ MINGLE
SLEIGH BELLS RING
Those that escape from the theater all seem to come out through the same doors. When they get there, they can see that the theater isn't actually a building. There's only a free-standing set of theater doors on the playground. At the rear side of them is a brick wall.
Those that exit will find they can't re-enter.
None of the humans have seemed to notice the door or them, even those driving by.
Not everyone escapes at the same time. It comes in fits and starts, them filtering of the theater. Some can walk out mostly unharmed, some limp out, some come out supporting each other.
What they find outside is... uncanny. There in the playground is a massive sleigh, but one that looks not-exactly-traditional, with equipment and boosters that look almost like a mix of technology and something magical.
It's been expanded into many carriages, almost like a roller coaster. Harnessed to it are eight massive reindeer, champing slightly at their bits. It appears the people that attacked and created the theater are at least long gone. That means that as people slowly filter out they can check up on each other, provide first aid, and reassure each other.
❅ Status effects: Any injuries or damage that happens to a character will stick when they leave the Multiplex. That means that someone that gets facehugged by a facehugger will have an alien larva problem that may be causing some serious indigestion soon. Anyone that gets Borg-nanited through the neck will start having the nanites take over them. However the myth healing will slow these processes down until they can get to the Pole, and there are magical means at the Pole to help the characters survive this.
❅ First Aid/Other Supplies: The sleigh will have magically anticipated their needs. While it won't have the antivenom for Kaa because only a magical plant that grows at the Pole can cure the bites, it will have plenty of well-stocked general first aid kits. Applying first aid can help the myth healing heal someone more quickly and is important for injured characters that opted out of the myth healing.
❅ Timing: People can bendytime the timing of when their characters have escaped to play in this and "Let's All Go To The Movies" at the same time. People can also intro here late if they need to wrap some things up in the other post first.
❅ Intro: Players can use this post to intro instead if that's their preference. You can just assume your characters had to run from scary things in the theater and either handwave their circumstances, or assume your character found a way out more quickly than others.
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Yeah. Yeah! There's a whole bunch - Picard, Hugh, Icheb, Seven of Nine from your favorite ship, VOY-- [Gentle ribbing. She's back, too.] --we can fight this. We can win.
And no matter what, you're always going to be my best friend. No stupid nanites are going to change that. Got it?
[Has she ever actually told him he's her best friend before? Surely she has. Right? Not just implied it? Suddenly she's not sure.]
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[He knows she'll be there. He knows she's not going to look at the mess he'll be and decide it's too much to deal with. That if he has to be slowly coaxed back into thinking for himself, she'll do it.]
I do have one request.
[The joke is teary. He's really pushing himself to make it. But it makes this whole thing feel like less of a death sentence to find some humor in something somewhere.]
When I'm a drone, occasionally toss some enrichment into my borg enclosure, okay? Just roll in a watermelon for me to assimilate every once in a while.
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Yeah, [she says, her voice just as teary as his. These aren't tears of despair anymore, but tears of sudden, newfound hope.] Might even mix it up sometimes. Give you a pumpkin for Halloween.
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[He seems to be dealing with the "it's either laugh or cry" of it all by getting stuck somewhere in the middle because the laughs are caught somewhere between being laughs and sobs. He's afraid, hence tears. But it's also the kind of laughter that makes you cry from mirth because why not? Why not laugh out a few tears while he still can? At the sheer absurdity of it all?]
[But then the time for laughter is over because even if this is a process he can survive, it's still going to be an unpleasant one.]
[He winces and lets out an "Aaah!" bowing over slightly and reaching a hand for his lower back.]
Spinal clamps! I think the spinal clamps are clamping! Ow. Ow ow ow.
[It does not feel good to be sitting down right now the same way sitting is terrible for any back problems.]
[Still cringing, he scoots a little in the grass of the playground and awkwardly lays down flat next to her. It does hurt less for the nanites to be screwing with his spine when its not as bent.]
[He's still wincing, though. Even when it doesn't hurt - and it does hurt off and on, he keeps getting it in waves - it feels jangly and uncomfortable.]
If I have to deal with Borg implants, they better make me smarter. And stronger.
[A pause.]
Taller. Taller would be nice. I know I'm not that short but it just feels like when I'm around someone like Shaxs that I should be asking for a booster seat when I'm manning the Conn.
[So weird. Feeling tall and short at the same time. He'd weirdly felt a lot taller when visiting Pike's crew for some reason.]
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When Boimler winces and lies down on the ground, Mariner takes his hand. She wishes she had a medkit with a hypo full of something to take the edge off. It seems almost cruel that the assimilation process is so painful, but the Borg don't care. It's not cruelty, it's indifference. What does it matter if the individual suffers when joining the Collective?]
To be totally fair, Shaxs is, like, a man-mountain. It's kind of disturbing how tall he is.
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[It is absolutely not a thing they do, holding hands. When there's affection between them, it's an arm around the shoulders or something. There's a weird innocent intimacy to it that makes him think of what it might have been like to meet her on the playground when they were kids. Whether she would've taken one look at his shy little ass and immediately dragged him off to poke at small animals or something.]
[It's kind of weird. And kind of nice.]
[And definitely comforting, like when your parents hold your hand when you're little and nervous about getting a hypospray at the doctor's office.]
Weirdly tall.
I only want to be just a little under Riker tall.
[He says this like it's a thing he can just politely request, like "hey nanites make me tall." Even thought they don't even do that.]