[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

[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]

[adropintheocean]

[ME TBH]

[gavehimhead]

[+1]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[o/]

[psychopompous]

[WELL I'M JUST WALKING CALMLY BACK UPSTAIRS]

[gavehimhead]

...They'll be outside.

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