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[hot_mess_express]

Who: You
When: Day 52, morning
Where: Anywhere

[Of course there's still the flowers that, when stepped on, enhance or dull a sense, and there are still some chocolates in the lounge if you missed them or want more.

But this morning dawns with an infestation of bats.

That is, tiny tiny clockwork bats that get in your hair and coffee and make tiny tiny clockwork bat screeches.

Should you encounter a clockwork bat, and they're pretty hard to dodge, the next person you talk to will... Well, see one of your memories.

Otherwise it seems like a pretty typical morning, and the bats will be gone by afternoon.]

Comments

[bestbrotherever]

[Loki's dressed more casually today, but still not in team uniform. He's also slightly more open and less overtly wary.]

Odd creatures...?

[Grabbing at a bat and holding it carefully in his hand as he examines it.]

Ah, machines. In the shape of creatures. Is this a normal inhabitant of this train?

((OOC: Memories received will be personalized by request!))

i'm good w/ any memories just #yolo me

[dereban]

If they are, I sure don't know about it.

[ too new for this, Unfortunately. . . ]

[bestbrotherever]

And do you have any thoughts as to their purpose?

[Have a quiet happy memory.]

[dereban]

[ . . . well then ]

No idea. I'm not exactly familiar with this sort of stuff-- maybe something to do with time?

[bestbrotherever]

Time? Why would you think that?

[He has absolutely no awareness of anything that happened to her.]

[dereban]

Based on what they look like, of course.

[ and she's glad that he doesn't, she'd rather not reveal any information like that so easily. ]

[bestbrotherever]

Why would you associate Time with primitive machinery such as this?

[He missed the entire clockwork era of human development, give him a break.]

[dereban]

Because they look like clockwork.

[bestbrotherever]

You call this clockwork? Why?

Gimme whatever you'd have most fun with.

[daydreamshimmer]

No, those are new.

Though usually new things do something.

[bestbrotherever]

Of course, nothing here would be simple and what they seem.

What can we expect from these? Is there a pattern to what new things do?

[CW: torture and mind control. One of his worst memories.]

[daydreamshimmer]

I haven't been here long enough to see patterns. Shouldn't trust weird sounds outside. Otherwise....emotional maybe? But that's a wide ran-

[She's used to the memory thing. Very used to it and it being horrible. Death, destruction, even physical abuse much like the torture. At least enough to not be immediately sick.]

[But the contents hit something deep. That dark feeling the destruction god provoked, making something stir and she gasps, stumbling back, the whites of her eyes flashing black before she trips over her hooves and hits the ground.]

[bestbrotherever]

Solar Flare? [There's some alarm and concern in his voice and he moves to catch and support her, then turns to look at the bats suspiciously.] What happened?

[daydreamshimmer]

[Her head snaps up to look at him, turquoise on black, dark energy flickering on her horn.]

[Then she blinks and the energy is gone and her eyes are normal, the dark....thing quieting back down as he supports her.]

I...that....I wasn't touching you, I shouldn't have...have....

[Looking up at the bat.] Was it them....?

[bestbrotherever]

Your horn. It was reacting as if you were using your magic. This... effect... did it use your magic against your will?

[He scowls at the bats.] If this has never happened before, these things are the most likely cause. But there were none closer to you than to me when... you nearly collapsed, and I did not notice anything in myself.

[daydreamshimmer]

Maybe? I don't know how I look when I use it as a pony.

That....isn't solely based on the magic itself. I think. My luck hasn't been good on what it gets.

[bestbrotherever]

Your eyes turned dark and your visible magic was dark as well. Quite different from how you looked when you demonstrated your telekinesis.

"What 'it' gets"? Perhaps you should tell me what you experienced.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ peering from behind ]

I haven't seen them before myself, but that's not saying much. Is it not an animal...?

[bestbrotherever]

It is made to look like an animal, but it is truly machinery. Rather primitive machinery.

[A good memory in a tense situation]

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ She has no memories to be shared in return--but it's just as well; she's thoroughly distracted by what she just saw even from the previous topic of mechanical bats. ]

What was that just now? ... A flying ship?

[bestbrotherever]

[A frown.] I did not notice anything out of the ordinary. What are you referring to?

[dragonheartedgirl]

You didn't see the vision just now? There was a flying boat... and a woman named "Jane?"

[bestbrotherever]

[The frown deepens.] Jane... [He conjures an illusion of a woman between his hands.] Is that who you saw?

[dragonheartedgirl]

Oh, yes! Only she was much larger before. How did you do that?

[bestbrotherever]

This was just an illusion, to show you an image and confirm her identity. Simple magic that I mastered as a young child.

The flying boat, was it this? [Another illusion.]