bravenewmods: (Default)
Brave New World Mods ([personal profile] bravenewmods) wrote in [community profile] bravenewworld2015-07-17 09:32 pm

Descent into Darkness

As the characters arrive, they will find what appears to be a rather deep cavern. Upon entering, the caverns are quite narrow, with twists and turns everywhere and different tunnels that all seem to be interconnected. As characters travel deeper within the caverns, reality around them will start to warp, they will start to see and hear things that aren’t necessarily there - images of old enemies, past failures, voices of condemnation, visions that strike at the soul and core of the characters. Once this begins, it will only increase in power and volume, demanding it be confronted, lest they be trapped within these caves forever.

[OOC: This event will run for a week. All characters who enter the caves will be subject to some of their deepest fears, darkest demons, and most abject failures. To overcome them, characters must help each other out, finding their purpose through strength of character and resolve to move forward. In general, these visions should require characters to come to grips with themselves. Illusory images and voices can and will appear and can take any number of forms, depending on what is most appropriate to a character. Additionally, characters may thread with each other and are encouraged to help each other out to overcome these personal demons. For those who wish to take part, they are able and encouraged to narrate their own personal demons, which will be on display for everyone who enters their thread. IC threads may be made in this post.]
windyflower: (pic#8196754)

[personal profile] windyflower 2015-07-29 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
I...I don't know but we need to get out of here! I just thought you needed to get away from that man!

[Best plan ever, Fuuka! Of course, now that she was running, she knew she couldn't keep it up forever. Even after a couple of minutes, she found herself starting to pant a little with each passing row. While her Pokemon was worried, she didn't even want to think about what would happen if she stopped.

However, she didn't neven bother to look behind them. For all she knew, the ghost was chasing after them and preparing for an attack should they stop]


We...got to keep...moving...
lunchleader: (hey Tokacchi...)

[personal profile] lunchleader 2015-07-29 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Right and his Pokemon also cough a little. There's some singed marks on his clothes and their fur. Soft Steel is definitely sporting actual burns, due to being part-steel himself.]

...You okay? [Right hasn't left Hayato's side since they got out, and is looking a little concerned upon seeing Hayato staring at his own hands.]
windyflower: (pic#8008711)

[personal profile] windyflower 2015-07-29 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
The younger woman just stared at her friend's hand before looking up her. She didn't need a confirmation, she just simply took her hand before giving a small nod.

"R-Right!" She shouted before standing along side with Yukiko. Although, she had to wince her eyes from the sudden glow on her other hand. She wasn't sure what she was planning on doing but...

She trusts her.
bleeding_heart: (Inquisitive)

[personal profile] bleeding_heart 2015-07-29 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He hasn't given her a reason not to support him yet.]

Did someone come through and change all of the books around?
bleeding_heart: (Resolute)

[personal profile] bleeding_heart 2015-07-29 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Merrill shakes her head, staring the other Yuuna down defiantly.]

That future is not certain. No future is certain. Only the past has already been written. We write the future with our own hands.
bleeding_heart: (Wary)

[personal profile] bleeding_heart 2015-07-29 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
He must not have been a very good husband to have ended up like that.
footprints_on_your_face: (when I pressed her)

[personal profile] footprints_on_your_face 2015-07-29 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Like that time a month ago when I was exhausted from pushing myself too hard training, and she took care of me!
footprints_on_your_face: (you've been there yourself)

[personal profile] footprints_on_your_face 2015-07-29 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
O-oh...

[Chie really has no idea how to respond to that, so she drops down to Lucca's level and hugs her instead.]

Lucca...
footprints_on_your_face: (some are steel)

[personal profile] footprints_on_your_face 2015-07-29 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
I'm with you all the way, then.
wishingalone: (Distraught)

[personal profile] wishingalone 2015-07-29 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[So alone...?]

[Mami wonders about that. She stares at the shadow version of Yosuke, her eyes narrowing. She's still on edge, her eyes red and puffy, but in a sense, this is easier for her: it's not attacking her. She falls back on trusted instincts.]

Maybe he is doing this to impress me... but I should think there is more to it, too.

[But, what he said earlier... that people shouldn't be alone... Her eyes widen, slightly, even as she speaks and begins to realize.]
expertonshutters: ghosthotel (And him with less)

[personal profile] expertonshutters 2015-07-29 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[What a questions. He doesn't answer him, though. Instead his gaze snaps to the Doctor who is ...presently trying to get his machine to work. A fire lights in Hayato's eyes as his expression becomes damn near murderous.]

You!

[He storms over to the man and shoves him away from the console. His hands go for the man's throat. It seems anger burns just as strong as the flames of justice in this one.]

You will never get your hands on me again. I'll make sure of it!

[....He sure is about to choke that guy.]
rainsrespite: (Ready to Fight)

[personal profile] rainsrespite 2015-07-29 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
You're a fool. As stupid and naive as ever.

[The other Yuuna advances, fist raised, ready for a swing. She launches herself at Merrill...

And the real Yuuna, seeing that? Snaps out of it. Her sword flickers forward, the flat crashing against the Enhanced shade's fist, sending it wide.]


You. Take. That. Back.

[Every word is punctuated by a step forward, a swing of the blade, forcing the double back.]

Merrill. Let's drop this sorry excuse for an illusion.
punchesyu: (WELL I DID I REALLY GOT KISSED)

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-07-29 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Don't delude yourself. [The shadow speaks right to Mami, and then continues to mock Yosuke.]

Some high-brow celebrity right from Citadel, how lucky can a guy get? All that training you've been doing, it's a real thorn in your side isn't it? You're still the loser who wants his time to shine. Get stronger to impress the girl and be a hero! Didn't we go over this before? You don't care about anything else. You hate that you got dragged to Union, to take over Junes, you'd rather have some fun! That's why you're here, right?

[Anger boils over from Yosuke, more than he can handle anymore.]

S-Stop it! That's not it at all! Mami, don't listen to this crap, he's not telling the whole story here...

What do you mean? It's all true! I'm pathetic! Ahahaha!
wishingalone: (Teethgrit)

[personal profile] wishingalone 2015-07-29 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
['I'm pathetic.' It is Yosuke -- or, at least, it's a part of Yosuke. Mami stares at the shadow for a moment, before she glances sideways at Yosuke. Her eyes widen.]

...but it's part of the truth, too.

[It's not a question, but it's said gently, rather than being an accusation. She looks back at the shadow and frowns.]

We all want selfish things sometimes. I do. You... saw that.
punchesyu: (his eyes have disappeared)

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-07-29 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... [His voice catches in his throat, and he turns to look at her.] Yeah, but...

[It was embarrassing beyond anything he could imagine. It was bad enough Yukiko saw some of it, but Yukiko was just his friend, and one that was incredibly understanding too. He knew that. But there were just some things about himself that he didn't want Mami to know. This, being one of them, even though deep down in his heart he knew the shade wasn't lying. Not in the slightest.]

...I know. He said some stuff earlier that was really embarrassing too. But that's not how it is, not completely. I do...sorta wanna feel special. And I'm terrified of being alone. It's like, the worst thing in the world. But no matter how many people I have around me, I always feel like I'm in a room by myself.

[He looks away, and the shadow narrows his eyes. He wasn't expecting this.]
wishingalone: (Concerned)

[personal profile] wishingalone 2015-07-29 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[At this point, Mami turns and looks back at Yosuke and keeps looking at him. It's easiest that way, to focus on what she suspects matters more. The shadow's presence is felt keenly, though. She knows he is watching.]

...You said no one should feel alone, before.

[She starts to realize, then. He wasn't just interested in her. He wanted someone from his home city, too. Someone that he could be friends with.]

It isn't easy. To tell them what you're thinking. It can feel like... like they couldn't like or respect you, if they knew the truth. But... we can't live like that, either. Otherwise...

[She glances, briefly, at the shadow.]
commissionergrump: (Default)

Re: Open

[personal profile] commissionergrump 2015-07-29 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Gordon looks back to the lifeless forms. He looks over his mourning Pokémon, Mike in particular distraught over the younger Barbara, big, watery tears flowing down blue cheeks. He opens his mouth to speak, but, while the voice that comes out is definitely his, it isn't coming from his lips, but from the cave itself.]

There will be time when I retire.

[Gordon looks stunned to hear the voices return, but this time it's only his.]

You can always visit me at work.

[That was the first trickle before the dam bursts, a flood of excuses. Of 'Laters' and 'This weekend.' Soon, the sonic onslaught is indistinguishable, a lifetime of excuses blurring together before going silent.]

[Gordon rises to his feet, adjusts his glasses, wiping at his eyes with a gesture not quite as subtle as he'd like to think. He adjusts his hat and claps a hand on Waver's shoulder, the sound dismissing the fears of the future, the illusion dispersing to reveal a tunnel opening onto a broad cavern. Gordon speaks, and this time it is him, no interruption from his past self, no 'might be's or taunting voices.]

Let's find what we came for and get home. I've got some catching up to do on the 'father' front.
commissionergrump: (Default)

[personal profile] commissionergrump 2015-07-29 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Gordon picks up the pace a bit, perhaps trying to outpace the voices.]

My wife.

[The next blind corner leads to the image of a rooftop in Union, a man recognizable as a younger James Gordon, his hair still red, is smoking a cigarette in the company of a rather pretty blonde woman, who speaks with the second feminine voice, not that of his wife as she turns to him.]

You're driven. That's one of the things I like about you, Jim. It's admirable.

[The pair step closer together, and the older, real James Gordon heads for the roof access door, trying to get through the door before what he knows is coming. He gets the door open just as limbs entwine and the figures embrace.]
frozenflame: (Terror)

[personal profile] frozenflame 2015-07-29 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
You mean when she was basically trying to make herself feel better? Helping you when you didn't really need it? Please, that was for her, to make her feel better about being such a leech.

[Yukiko? Just shakes her head, quivering with anger and...basically disbelief.]

That's not true...
punchesyu: (sadness)

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-07-29 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[His gaze comes up to the look of silent fury of his shadow, unhappy with how this has turned. It wanted to be rid of Yosuke, beaten down once before but not completely gone. He stares at it for a good, hard minute, thinking. He had told her just moments ago that no one should feel alone, even though he was the one who really felt that way.]

...We'd become what that thing is. [His eyes finally fall again.] I am what he says I am. It's true. But it's not everything. That's just one part of me, that I wish didn't exist. I'm sorry Mami, I...I was interested in you at first because of who you were, but I got to know you better. And...

[His shadow starts to fade, the more he talks, and the more he shares the truth with her.]
frozenflame: (Solar Serious)

[personal profile] frozenflame 2015-07-29 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
The air around them rippled and flower petals kicked up, a blizzard of suddenly conjured white and pink blossoms swirling around them. The flame in her hand grew and grew, casting back the Shadows...and the very illusions that gave them power.

"Fuuka, deny them. Stand up to them with me! Together, okay!"

Yukiko took a deep breath, and just shouted:

"You're wrong! We're not like that! Go! Go back whereever you came from! We reject you!"
sparkofgenius: (Unwell)

[personal profile] sparkofgenius 2015-07-29 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[The scream continues, and Lucca just shakes into the hug. She can't really resist it. All around them, the scene begins to shift, the inside of the lab becoming more plain. A conveyor belt, some automated hammers, and a woman stuck.

And a little girl. A six year old girl, frantically trying to climb up onto a control console. But she's too short...and it's too slick.]


...I just...why did it have to be this?
faithfulflame: (Rei Do Tell)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2015-07-29 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Rei nudges her own mount closer and holds out a hand. It's a gesture of goodwill. Companionship.]

Well, we're a team. And we've always worked well together. Even against the Beedrills.
untalented: (conjecture)

[personal profile] untalented 2015-07-29 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
What? No! This just-- it's...

[He trailed off, brows furrowed in confusion as he tried to define exactly what he was trying to say. The library was familiar and yet somehow foreign, inhabiting a space that existed on the edge of dream and memory. It--]

"Tempting to stay, isn't it?"

[A new voice, low and even like that of a firmly disciplined academic, spoke up to finish Waver's sentence. The young man stopped, looking around in alarm-- that wasn't a voice he recognized at all.]

Yeah, [he agreed,], it really is. If it's safe to stay.
untalented: (argumentative)

[personal profile] untalented 2015-07-29 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[A glance behind was enough to show that they weren't being followed. The apparition had been left behind in the dust of a well aimed distraction-- that being the young woman-- and Waver made to pull himself out of her grip once he was satisfied that they were relatively safe.]

Don't be dumb, [He chided, looking at her in disbelief,] you don't even know me-- what if you got hurt over this?!