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theshimmer2020-08-01 11:41 pm
shimmermods) wrote in theshimmer2020-08-01 11:41 pm
WEEK THREE
THIRD WEEK
While very few things have been made entirely clear since you've been here, one thing certainly seems to have been: there are no more survivors. There's no one else to watch out for, but there's no one that you're going to be able to save, either.
You are truly and utterly on your own.
With two of your number injured, it's likely that this isn't a welcome thought; it also means that the going may be slower than anyone would really like. Unfortunate, as this is where the hike starts becoming more difficult; it isn't particularly treacherous - there are no steep dropoffs or cliffs to be wary of, and it is still hiking more than climbing - but the paths are becoming steeper, requiring more exertion to traverse. It will give you time, however, to pay attention to your surroundings, and the way they start to shift around you - almost as though in response to your presence itself.
It's simple things at first - a familiar flower, a plant you used to see all the time back home. Perhaps it will even feel nostalgic for a moment before you realize that it has no business being here. Some of the changes are small - glasswing butterflies with wings the shades and colors of real stained glass, beetles with their hard backs glittering in jewel tones that serve no real purpose. Occasionally the bark of the nearby trees have cracked open, wood splitting to reveal inner mechanisms and gears like clockwork.
Some of the changes are reflected in you as well - or perhaps Wesker's words simply have you thinking too much. The notion that the Shimmer resides in you seems impossible; after all, you don't feel any different.
It begs the question, though.
Have your fingerprints always moved like that?
SUNDAY | MONDAY |
TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY
You are truly and utterly on your own.
With two of your number injured, it's likely that this isn't a welcome thought; it also means that the going may be slower than anyone would really like. Unfortunate, as this is where the hike starts becoming more difficult; it isn't particularly treacherous - there are no steep dropoffs or cliffs to be wary of, and it is still hiking more than climbing - but the paths are becoming steeper, requiring more exertion to traverse. It will give you time, however, to pay attention to your surroundings, and the way they start to shift around you - almost as though in response to your presence itself.
It's simple things at first - a familiar flower, a plant you used to see all the time back home. Perhaps it will even feel nostalgic for a moment before you realize that it has no business being here. Some of the changes are small - glasswing butterflies with wings the shades and colors of real stained glass, beetles with their hard backs glittering in jewel tones that serve no real purpose. Occasionally the bark of the nearby trees have cracked open, wood splitting to reveal inner mechanisms and gears like clockwork.
Some of the changes are reflected in you as well - or perhaps Wesker's words simply have you thinking too much. The notion that the Shimmer resides in you seems impossible; after all, you don't feel any different.
It begs the question, though.
Have your fingerprints always moved like that?
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You certainly are.
[That actually makes her smile, a little bit. Like...she would have been pretty upset if you'd gotten yourself killed? Good thing it was just a flesh wound.]
I must say, I have no idea why Wesker went for you like that. Gabriel makes sense [-sorry Gabriel, but it's true-], but you weren't even involved in the confrontation. Did you say something to him...?
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I was quite amiable with him. I'm a noble, I know how to treat negotiations and the like! I even told him that my world has a branch of philosophy not entirely unlike what he proposed - I don't see why being nicer than everyone else would single me out as a target of all things.
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It seems you were just unlucky, then.
[...or you're vastly overestimating your negotiation skills, but she won't kick a man while he's (literally) down.]
I suppose it's a moot point now, anyway, considering he's dead. Turns out that napalm you found certainly is as powerful as you mentioned.
[Like. That was a big fire.]
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[ Not having a way to get rid of Wesker would have hindered their progress by a lot. Even now, it feels as if the man could just pop back up at random. He's done a good job at advertising his immortality that way.
But, more importantly, he did pick up on that expression. ]
Does my lineage bother you?
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[She'd kept a canister or two, but the vast majority had gone into blowing up that hateful church and its hateful priest, so. A load off her mind, literally and figuratively.
...anyway. Page doesn't seem overly bothered that Garma noticed and highlighted the change in her expression; she would have put more effort into hiding it if she was concerned about being called out.]
It's nothing personal. I'm just yet to have any good experiences with 'nobles'.
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[ Garma's nobility is recent and though his family has always been rich, they have not formally declared their country a principality until only this year. Garma always thought he fit the role of a prince rather effortlessly, given he'd been raised this way to begin with, but maybe it is really quite different from proper old blood nobility, of which he knows none. ]
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[....hmm. She's not...overly thrilled at the thought of revealing anything about Albion to anyone here, but the earnestness of Garma's question has thrown her off guard. He seems legitimately curious, rather than just asking for the sake of moving the conversation along.
...odd.]
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Their children go to the best schools in the country, while the poor children slave away in factories all day. It's gotten worse, lately, now that the princess has taken the throne.
But that's my problem, not yours.
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I understand what you mean. I was born rich for the standards of the colonies, but the disparity of wealth and agency between the colonies and Earth is immense. I have never known the poverty of the common colony worker myself, but it's... pitiful. That's why we are fighting for proper independence. So that the elite from Earth can no longer take advantage of the spacenoids, and so that their living conditions will better.
There is nothing inferior about living in space, least of all being born there.