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The Shimmer Mods ([personal profile] shimmermods) wrote in [community profile] theshimmer2020-08-01 11:41 pm

WEEK THREE



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?

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scythegun: (RELAXED ⇝ hahaha wow)

[personal profile] scythegun 2020-08-04 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, starting a war would have been good for business! So yes, it was definitely reasonable.
alchemicals: (008.)

[personal profile] alchemicals 2020-08-04 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes it profitable. I don't know if that makes it reasonable.
scythegun: (SHRUG 3 ⇝ yes i need three shrug icons)

[personal profile] scythegun 2020-08-04 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair, I'll give you that one! I'm not exactly the best judge of what's "reasonable" to begin with, so leaving it at "profitable" is very fair!
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[personal profile] alchemicals 2020-08-04 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
No offense, but I've noticed. About the not-knowing-what's-reasonable thing.
scythegun: (LILY ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2020-08-04 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a little too late to blame it on my world being strange, isn't it?

[Not that he seems all that bothered by it, of course.]
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[personal profile] alchemicals 2020-08-04 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Way too late.
scythegun: (SHRUG 2 ⇝ the shruggening)

[personal profile] scythegun 2020-08-04 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear. Whatever will I do now. I can't have people thinking I'm strange.