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revivalprojectooc2021-05-03 01:24 am
trpmods) wrote in revivalprojectooc2021-05-03 01:24 am
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Event: Not so Super Heroics
It was early in the morning when it happened. Everyone was asleep when the tendrils of some outside force reached out for their target as it had so many times before. It was silent and focused on what it needed to do now. The plan had been made already and this was just the first necessary step.
Billy was alone and the force grasped him tight and forced him awake. It compelled him forward and toward the water, toward the cave with the door in the back of it. When he got there, it was already open and waiting, the inside just as dark as it ever was. As he walked in, the door slammed shut behind him to shut out any lingering light. Was this Calibrations? Was this like what they’d done before? No.
No. The feeling was wrong.
It wasn't like before. Most obviously it was because it was just him, walking through the dark, hands lit up to guide him. He couldn't shake the compulsion, but he was aware enough to worry as he made his way through the tunnel. As far as he knew they'd never pulled anyone solo before now, unless they wiped the memories, and as much as Billy tried to think well of their Agrii captors, it was hard not to be concerned.
Billy stepped out into the waiting room and continued on, still driven, back to through the main corridor until he saw his name and that familiar greeting along the wall. ‘Welcome to Calibrations’. His feet carried him on into his room, and in what felt like an instant he was soon asleep.
It was then he realized the truly frightening thing about being down here alone. He didn't find himself inside someone else's mind, but inside his own, and even here he seemed to have very little control
There was Teddy. And seeing him opened up that ache in his chest, lost in a wash of bitter sweet memories, each kiss, every whispered encouragement. And then, jarringly, those were interspersed with vivid memories he wanted nothing to do with: Teddy strapped to the wall as the Warden tried to perform vivisection on him, taunting Billy as he cut into him, over and over. Billy screamed, tried to stop him, but couldn't hear his words no matter how he tried.
Outside these memories, Billy's body glowed, a low rubble running through the earth. "Stop," he pleaded, face twisted.
The memories switched again, showing each and every near miss, each time Teddy was nearly taken from him, and then- that night in the rain, and those words Billy never wanted to hear again, Teddy removing himself. A break. Some time apart to be sure. Had Billy made Teddy love him? Had he made Teddy? That sweeping guilt and loss threatened to swallow him up again, and Billy struggled to try and bring the memories back around.
He was thrust back into the Cube, back into that helpless state of watching Teddy be cut open by that mad man.
He was chanting desperately, still unable to hear himself.
"IwanthimtogotosleepIwanthimtogotosleep"
The Warden simply looked amused, "Hmmm, do you really just want me to "go to sleep"? You don't want to punish me? Hurt me?" He went to pick up his scalpel again, "The idealism of youth...I suppose you think you're above murderous thoughts. So childish."
"IwanthimtogotosleepIwanthimtogotosleep"
"Here, let's see if we can't get you to change your tune." The Warden stalked towards Teddy, and a loud buzz rang through the room. Billy's eyes started to shine.
There was each and every kiss, every fight, every word spoken in anger, it was a never ending assault of loss and regret, and Billy was helplessly trapped. Those rumbles grew louder, more insistent, a faint tremor running through the city.
Billy was thrust into a new memory. Sons of the Serpent and their attack on pride.
"As the serpent drove Adam and Eve from Eden...So shall we drive out the unfit--the inferior!" they recited, as they fought with Teddy.
"You're actually using the bible to justify murder?"
"What would you know about the bible, sodomite?"
"This sodomite went to an Episocopal school for six years, so if you want to swap bible verses, how about Exodus Twenty-One, verse Twenty-Four---an eye for an eye."
But of course Teddy only pressed a mocking kiss to the terrorist's cheek. From there, just as it had that day the memory seemed to pick up speed, highlighting poignant moments. Teddy was shot. The Avengers arrived. Teddy was grabbed by the terrorist, thumb poised over the trigger to his nuclear device.
Billy felt hot with rage.
"Let him go or yours will become a suicide mission."
"You'd risk millions of human lives for one alien invert?"
"Try me"
"Then let what happens here today serve as a warning that the wages of sin...are death."
His thumb pressed down, and like that day Billy felt his power surging through him, expanding outwards indiscrimately in a show of raw magic, desperate to end this torture. It rewrote the world around him as it grew ever bigger, a sphere of pure, reality warping, chaos magic that threatened to go on growing unchecked, swallowing everything in its path and forcing it to fit the narrative of the world it was building. A safer world.
Just as had been planned.
The spell spread through the space like a virus, taking over everything. The world itself bowed under the force and transformed as it only might during an Energy Storm. The rooms all filled with the power Billy pushed into the world. And then, only after it was settled and secure, did that same force from before reach out again. Except, this time, it grabbed everyone.
Whether asleep or awake, the compulsion will grasp you as it did Billy. It will pull you into that cave and through the door. This time, however, there are no pink, runny letters welcoming you to Calibrations. Oh, no. There is no sign. There are no rooms. Instead you find yourself in the bright and vibrant space of what looks like a superhero comic.
The space is far bigger than the room should allow, sprawling into what appears to be an entire city. Distantly you can hear almost over-the-top ‘evil’ laughter. Alarms of banks. People calling for help or just going about their day. You look down at yourself and perhaps see your clothes completely changed. Is this a superhero outfit? Are you now a superhero? Are you in some sort of campy disguise? And why now do you feel like you might have powers? Different ones, perhaps, than before? Or new ones for the first time?
What is going on here? And where is Billy?
It’s up to all of you to find out.
FAQ
WHAT’S GOING ON?
SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR MY CHARACTER?
DOES MY CHARACTER KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING?
DO I HAVE A PLACE TO SLEEP/EAT/MONEY?
WHAT ABOUT MY BABY/DOG/DRAGON/RICHIE?
CAN I BRING HOME THINGS?
IS THIS CALIBRATIONS?
WHERE IS BILLY? IS HE GOING TO FIX THIS?
WHY DID THE AGRII DO THIS?
DID THE AGRII DO THIS?
BUT NO ANSWERS?
WHAT ABOUT AN OPT OUT?
WHEN WILL THIS END?
Anything else?
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