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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-09-22 02:45 pm
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( open ) i'll fly you to the moon and back

Date & Time: September 21st - September 30th, 11:59 PM
Location: The Hold, the Moon Base
Characters: Any/all.
Summary: The Transports are evacuating to the Moon Base. Those on the Moon Base try to settle in and figure out their next move. Setting info can be found here.
Warnings: Talk of nuclear warheads and reference to immense loss of life. Please contact the mods should any individual thread get graphically violent or anything else of the sort.
Note: Use date and location tags in your subject headlines! Such as "On the moon, 23rd onward" or "On the spaceship, 25th" or "down at the Hold, 29th."

The Hold is a flurry of activity, grim faced members of the Initiative group directing supplies and people with the subdued air of people facing their own doom, and wondering at how to process the knowledge. None of the Initiative appears unaware of what will happen; their eyes linger on the Transports, expressions pleading, hopeful, doubtful, or immeasurably sad in turn.

Every eight hours, the space ship is sent back up with a load of people and supplies. The pilots are worked until they can't; the AI stolen ages ago by the Initiative greets and corrals people and supplies at both ends, and in the middle step between.

The network continues to broadcast on narrow channels between the Moon Base and Exsilium, up until the time that all connections are lost, with the carrier located en route to Exsilium. The first airship will pass by without dropping anything, but it's too early to celebrate. At a six hour delay from behind, the second airship arrives, and with it, the dark promise of the Black Code's nuclear weaponry.

The six hour window allows for time for those left behind, either by choice or circumstance, to be pulled to the Moon Base with the successful activation of the Transport Pad. New characters will ultimately arrive with the remainder of those not yet on the Moon Base, all in time to witness the explosive contact of the nuclear warhead with the ground of Exsilium live on satellite.

But until then, there's only the hurry, the silence, and the potential for full out rioting should the Transports spread word to the Exiles inevitably left behind to face this fate.
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[personal profile] bumbles 2013-10-24 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
W-what-- do you know about um, G-Greek myths? Adonis, and stuff?

( he's going somewhere with this )
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[personal profile] lucency 2013-10-24 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Not much, I'm afraid. [ said slightly regretfully. really, she should know more about this. this is her forte, after all, but greece didn't exist in the enchanted forest, and by the time she'd made it to storybrooke and seen all the other books, well -

look, adonis' story wasn't in the first half of the library's anthology, okay.
]

I know a few of them, but that name isn't familiar to me.
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[personal profile] bumbles 2013-10-24 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
That's m-my given-- given name. Adonis. He was-- the l-lover of um, Aphrodite.

( quickly because that part doesn't matter, that he was meant to be beautiful, be adored.)

Adonis symbolises, um. D-death and-- renewal.
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[personal profile] lucency 2013-10-25 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
And you think, because of the myth -

[ belle cuts herself off and shuts her mouth, face twisting into a knowing expression. names don't mean anything (and then she remembers regina and queen and the names they were given in storybrooke. correlations, nothing more. certainly nothing that ultimately defined their destinies. ]

That doesn't mean anything. You know that, right?
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[personal profile] bumbles 2013-10-25 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
I think sometimes-- l-living can be too hard. And-- I c-can't. I just n-need-- need to stop Asteria.

( a smile, sad and apologetic. )

Forget it. It's-- d-don't worry.
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[personal profile] lucency 2013-10-25 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ don't worry.

she stares blankly, jaw set and don't worry.

living is too hard, but belle isn't supposed to worry.

she doesn't bother to force back any emotion as she steps forward, reaching out, grabbing donny by the forearms. she doesn't shake him, but her grasp is firm.
]

There's another way. There's another way to stop her, and there's another way out of this. And you'll find it.
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[personal profile] bumbles 2013-10-25 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
( his expression is gentle behind his mask, drawing his arms from her grip to catch her wrists instead, holding them carefully.)

How d-do-- do you stop someone you c-can-- invade d-dreams? And-- t-twists your subconscious against you?

( his smile is sad, but sympathetic.)

It's o-okay.
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[personal profile] lucency 2013-10-25 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Is that what she's done?

[ is that where he got this idea? the idea that he has to die to save her and no - no - she shakes her head because it's not true. none of it's true, and it isn't okay. ]

Donny, it's not real. You have to remember that.
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SORRY I WANTED TO ADD MORE STUFF

[personal profile] bumbles 2013-10-25 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
N-no, it-- she's-- she t-takes other p-peoples memories and t-twists them. She--

( a little shrug )

It's real. I'm-- it's n-not something I j-just decided. ( licking his lips, trying to work out-- what to say, how to say it. ) She's too d-dangerous, and I'm just-- it's j-just what I need to do.
Edited 2013-10-27 00:57 (UTC)
lucency: (❝ ᴛʜᴇ ɪᴅʏʟʟs ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋɪɴɢ.)

no bella that's not allowed

[personal profile] lucency 2013-10-27 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
That's not - [ she looks away from him, at the floor, out of frustration. she's used to stubbornness. she's used to people wallowing in their wrongdoings, refusing to see it any other way.

she's not used to explaining away powers that she has no experience with.
]

It's not what you need to do. You need to remember she's manipulating you, remember the way things were.
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:c but ALSO WOW I THOUGHT I HIT POST COMMENT HOURS AGO I'M SORRY

[personal profile] bumbles 2013-10-27 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
It's always been this way.

( Gently, because he can't imagine how weird and twisted it sounds from the outside. )

She d-doesn't-- she c-can't touch m-my dreams, while she's not here. This is as-- as c-clear as it gets. I've had a l-lot-- lot of t-time to um, to think about it.

( It's okay, and he rests his hands on her shoulders. )
lucency: (❝ ᴛʜᴇ ʙɪʀᴅs.)

WOW BELLA WOW

[personal profile] lucency 2013-10-27 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you can come up with some way to control it. A precaution, for if she does wind up here. Or you wind up back home, or -

[ no. it's not okay. there's a long, long road before that will even be considered okay, even if he doesn't die, or even if he doesn't go back home or she doesn't come here. ]
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:C

[personal profile] bumbles 2013-10-28 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Belle.

( Steady, more steady than he's felt for the rest of this conversation. )

I've-- I shouldn't have t-told you. I'm s-sorry. That-- w-wasn't fair.