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The Fifteen Strangers Mods ([personal profile] strangerpeople) wrote in [community profile] 15corpses2019-07-16 11:11 am

A Reckoning...

[You are dead.

Where you awaken is not of your cabin on the train but rather firm earth, the skies above you being nothing but an inky blackness as for as you can see. And yet throughout the darkness, you are surrounded by soft lighting and peculiar music playing all around you. When your senses become less muddled, you will notice that the music playing is upbeat and joyful almost. But let's face it, you are probably thinking this is some sort of creepy hell that you got yourself into after biting the bullet.

It all depends if you find circuses to be such a place because that is where you find yourself. The setting feels more antique than what you may assume a circus to look like, more Victorian themed than what one can be called. First the sound picks up and then you can smell something delectable in the air, catching popped corn and fried sweets and maybe something to drink? It's more than likely here.

Going down the main way, you can see some classic carnival games such as skee ball, ring toss, balloon popping if you are inclined to try and take your mind of the fact that you didn't have a choice in coming here. But despite the joyous air of the circus, there are not many people here that can help you out...or are there?


Lost souls just like yourself who met with the same horrible fate...perhaps an accord can be struck. After all, it looks like you will be here for awhile.]



((OOC: Map for reference.))
icanhearscreams: (let's go.)

GHOST CAT HERDING

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-06 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[After a bit of speaking to the living - but what does time matter in this place? - Jun goes around and gathers everyone together.]

We need to discuss what we’ve found on - and pass along messages.
bendwiththewind: (Business)

Food For Thought

[personal profile] bendwiththewind 2019-08-07 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Quite curious that there is a connection as such...

[Oh hey, it's this bitch. And she comes with some food like candied apples, funnel cake and popcorn, setting it down in front of everyone.]

But there is something I am curious on: has anyone here eaten any of the food in this place?
icanhearscreams: (sitting)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-07 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
... I haven't really been hungry, so no. I ate some stuff at the mansion... that might have been a mistake.
bendwiththewind: (Thinking)

[personal profile] bendwiththewind 2019-08-07 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh good, you can test this then. I need to see for myself.

[She's very serious here.]
icanhearscreams: (huh...)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-07 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
... Any idea of the side effects if I do this, before I eat it?
bendwiththewind: (Pipe)

[personal profile] bendwiththewind 2019-08-07 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
That's why I'm suggesting this. There was not any when I had some but I'm more concerned about the taste.

[It would be a good idea to try the food.]
icanhearscreams: (no way...)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-07 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He sighs.]

I don't really like being a guinea pig, but...

[Time to munch on a candy apple.]
icanhearscreams: (i can do this.)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-07 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[He chews it, looks down at it, and spits out his bite. He takes another bite and spits that one out, too.]

Ugh! It's gritty. It tastes like sand.
bendwiththewind: (Thinking)

[personal profile] bendwiththewind 2019-08-07 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
That confirms it. I had thought it a trick when I had tried some myself but it is the nature of this place it seems. The drinks as well also have the same.
icanhearscreams: (Default)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-07 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Is it this place in particular, or just because we're dead?
bendwiththewind: (Business)

[personal profile] bendwiththewind 2019-08-07 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
Nay, it is not due to your death. The place itself has something very off about it; while our Underground was where the 'dead' stayed [Double Dead?], that was not something within it.
icanhearscreams: (asleep)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-07 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Any idea what's causing this? You guys are the death experts, apparently.
bendwiththewind: (Default)

[personal profile] bendwiththewind 2019-08-07 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
None. Even this is something I have not seen before. The whole point of coming into this dark matter was to investigate and so far, no signs point to Noise.

This means we might be dealing with something unknown even to us. Such as that monster that attacked earlier; there was no sign of Noise influence.
icanhearscreams: (i can do this.)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-08 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Do you know of any sort of afterlife monsters besides Noise?

(no subject)

[personal profile] bendwiththewind - 2019-08-08 17:32 (UTC) - Expand
7_0_7: (Default)

[personal profile] 7_0_7 2019-08-08 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Most of the things I found were of more personal interest, like the robot dog...

But!

There is yet something I never got the chance to tell anyone. It's about the barrier surrounding the train. I recognize its code.
icanhearscreams: (say what?)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-09 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
There's a barrier there? ... How do we break it, and what happens when we do?
7_0_7: (This will all disappear.)

[personal profile] 7_0_7 2019-08-09 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
[He considers this, and decides the latter question is the better one to start with]

That depends on what it's even there for. It's more like a smokescreen than a physical shield... the world it's from is full of aliens who tried to manage entropy with a hi tech pyramid scheme until someone used it to rewrite the laws of reality. A barrier like this is meant to create a space where laws like that don't reach, invisible and unaffected by the passage of time.

So, it's either trying to hide the trains, hide something from the people on the trains, or make the trains time-free zones, and breaking it would reverse all of that... but I'm really wondering how anyone got this technology in the first place. It really did a number on our Conductor back home - that's music, not trains.

The good news is almost any titled power could take it out. Ones based in elements are more effective against it, but the crucial factor is attacking from within the barrier.
Edited 2019-08-09 16:14 (UTC)
icanhearscreams: (let's go.)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2019-08-09 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
... Huh. We'll have to let them know. We need to share as much information as we can with them.

I mean... what else are we going to do? We're dead and they have a chance to not be.
7_0_7: (Can I really enter your world?)

[personal profile] 7_0_7 2019-08-11 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
We truly have nothing better to do!

Our chance will come, though. Probably. [He's certainly keeping an eye out for them, at any rate.]
telecosmetic: (annoyed)

[personal profile] telecosmetic 2019-08-10 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
...I guess Caleb's power is elemental. [Ugh, that means that him dying would be bad. That sucks.]
7_0_7: (Blasting positive wifi)

[personal profile] 7_0_7 2019-08-11 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe! [he has no idea who that is, only a couple living strangers managed to pull in his particular signal.] Why so glum?
telecosmetic: (annoyed)

[personal profile] telecosmetic 2019-08-11 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
That means they can't let him die. Even though he murdered poor Rika and let Minato take the fall. [A pause.] On...whatever train we were on before that. Which I guess is why Rika's not here.
7_0_7: (Pluto no longer part of the solar system)

[personal profile] 7_0_7 2019-08-11 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Rika? [He's shocked to hear the name.] No way... Was she a blonde lady with green eyes?

[He knows someone else who goes by this (and no last name) so he has to clarify this seeing as how the robot dog from his world was already found.]
telecosmetic: (hmm...)

[personal profile] telecosmetic 2019-08-11 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...her hair was more brownish-purple...I don't know if it was dyed or anything, though.