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modormenace ([personal profile] modormenace) wrote in [community profile] f20202020-09-07 12:14 am
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THE FRACTURED WORLD: ARRIVAL

 

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rrival for some goes all but unnoticed. It's a sudden shiver, the sensation of being watched... and then nothing at all. Life continues serenely as it always has. The only indication of any change comes with sleep, wrapped in dreams: vague and distant echo imagery of another life, melting away in the morning.

 

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or others, arrival is a sharp jolt. In the space of a single blink, they find themselves in an unfamiliar world, surrounded by the trappings of a life they have not lived. They are replacements, spirits taking possession of bodies belonging to people very much like themselves...

 

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nd for the rest, arrival is a procedure. Routine. Those ported in to the Fractured World wake hazily in the comfortably dim light of the Porter room, laid out on an exam table. Their wounds, if they remember having any, have been healed— and even those who remember their own deaths find themselves miraculously restored. As they regain consciousness, an automatic audio-visual presentation is triggered. Regardless of their backgrounds or physiology, all imPorts 'see' and 'hear' this message as if in their own language:

"Greetings, imPort."
The voice is calm and gently authoritative, almost certainly selected by committee.
"On behalf of the Synod and all imPorts it represents, we welcome you to the planet Earth."

A decidedly non-humanoid robotic arm holds out a palm-sized device and rather insistently demands the new arrival take it. This is the imPort's comm, used for accessing the Porter's database of information, as well as the communications Network— though it won't receive communications from outside the Porter building until carried through one of the many Gates set up in a long, crescent-shaped array on the far side of the room.

As each Gate is approached, information about the faction it leads to flashes up on the comm device's screen. Which will you choose?

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[personal profile] inquiryguqin 2020-09-09 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"You had gone to the initiation rite? That's good. If you're done, just tell me where you are and then I can go pick you up and take you home."

At his question, he thought about it and he's perplexed himself. "This is...this body is different. I don't know how to explain. Like this body came from an earlier time, and then it has lived here for a long time, and my soul woke up in this body. I have no memory of living here, but I remember you, everyone, and our home in Cloud Recesses."

After a pause, "How about you? Tell me what you last remember before arriving here?"
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[personal profile] radishgrown 2020-09-09 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)

"I'm outside of the library at the moment. Are you nearby?"

His last memory...Sizhui thinks on it.

"My last memory was seeing Jin Ling outside of the restaurant I was at. With the soda."

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[personal profile] inquiryguqin 2020-09-09 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"No. I'm in Jeopardy. I have to go to you." Lan Wangji listens. He's pretty soda doesn't exist back home, and if he's with Jin Ling.

"Were you in Jeopardy or city? Because last I seen you, I left the house to go to work to the bookstore." Hopefully, their memories are aligned and this Sizhui is the one he has last seen.
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[personal profile] radishgrown 2020-09-09 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)

"Heropa."

The name is strangely familiar on his tongue.

"I was in Heropa. You came and picked me up. And I saw Jin Ling and Fairy. And Jingyi even came by."

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[personal profile] inquiryguqin 2020-09-10 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
The fact he is able to identify a city and the people he has seen, that is his proof it's him, and somehow he manage to cross over when the dimensional shift happens. He sighs in relief. "Which I have last seen you. I'm glad you're all right. I have not seen Jin Ling or Fairy here, but I have seen Jin Ling. You two ought to meet."

"Stay where you are. I'll go to meet up with you. You're at the library? Which faction you are in?"
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[personal profile] radishgrown 2020-09-13 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)

He's certainly not going anywhere. He nods.

"Yes, I'm at the Library. I seem to be a part of the Seekers of the New Dawn?" he asks.

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[personal profile] inquiryguqin 2020-09-13 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"All right, stay put. I'll be coming over and pick you up."

In half an hour, he took the porter and travel to the library. The faction is full of people, new arrivals, and staff alike. When he approaches him, he appears as he does. Except he looks different wearing glasses and tied up his hair in a ponytail.

As he makes his approach, spotting his son in the crowd. "There you are. Sizhui, are you well?"