[Game 18] The Waking World

[arsgoetia]

After successfully talking Zan into waking up—the world around you starts to dissolve and break apart. There's a lurch, like the sensation of abruptly falling into sleep, but backwards; and all around you, the glass begins to crack apart, splintering and sending ocean water splashing everywhere, gushing forward, a cascade of blue and black, alternating between starfish and actual stars, suspended in liquid sky.

. . . reality seems to bleed in overtop of it and, sluggishly, you find yourselves waking up all over a suburban basement in New Jersey. There is a lamp on near the bed, where someone is still asleep, though fitfully beginning to wake up.

More noticeably, there is a woman sitting up in bed with him, arms wrapped around her bare knees as she watches them with amusement, extremely beautiful and . . . extremely familiar.

"Wow." One hand drops to Zan's hair. "I don't even know where to start with you guys."

Comments

[loveinvein]

[ Okay but Mika doesn't know about Yuki's power and he can definitely shake Yuki off right now. So NOW he'll do that and BOLTS out of the room and hopefully out of the house. He knows bad news when he sees it! ]

[star_and_stone]

*following him out, ready to distract if need be*

[psychopompous]

[Una doesn't move, but Sariel follows quickly]

[adropintheocean]

[TACKLES??? SARIEL???

this is not going to be very effective]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[OKAY BUT IF TWO NERDS TACKLE SARIEL--]

[psychopompous]

[You might smack into each other]

[psychopompous]

[lifts a hand as if to hit him, then looks a bit surprised and just . . . blips out of existence for a second, so Waver misses him]

Be careful!

[troublebrewing]

Sariel, you don't have to do this--!

[adropintheocean]

I REFUSE!

[picks himself up and does it again]

[rollwillpowercheck]

Just because she outranks you--!

[liarliarliar]

Sariel what are you doing?!

What the hell is going on??

[psychopompous]

[glances back at all of them, then just vanishes again in a small plume of feathers]

[liarliarliar]

. . .

[rollwillpowercheck]

AUGH!

[rollwillpowercheck]

[but yes joining the benny hill-ing already in progress up the stairs and out into the street.]

[troublebrewing]

[TEAM RUNNING OUT OF THE HOUSE INTO THE STREET, WHO'S WITH ME]

[gavehimhead]

...They'll be outside.

[heading upstairs and out the door to see if he can catch them]

[loveinvein]

[ is there car keys in immediate sight when he gets to the lounge/entrance way!! ]

[innerdemon]

[There's Elluka]

Hurry!

[loveinvein]

Please tell me you've got a car--

[ BUT YES OK following Elluka!? ]

[innerdemon]

I can hotwire one sort of.

[Yanks the door open on a street-parked car and flinging herself into the driver's seat]

[loveinvein]

Good!

[ shoving himself and Zan into the back! ]

[star_and_stone]

*slamming a barrier of solid air up behind them; it probably won't last long against two(?) angels(?) but seconds could count*

[delivoreance]

[Sera's getting carried along with Elluka's cell phone and NON-PHYSICALLY GETS IN SARIEL'S WAY if he gets past the air barrier! maybe Varnani's hunger will stop him for at least a second, even as a psychopomp.]

[star_and_stone]

*once they get into a car....well, screw it. we're kinda done with subtle here, so jamie's taking to the air.*