Hook, Line, and Sinker
| Hook, Line, and Sinker | ||||||||||
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| Part of Ships in the Night | ||||||||||
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ShadowHaven Phototaxis Friendly Fire Spirit | SSC | Bloody Mountain Gangers | ||||||||
| Asura |
Mystic Adept Master Adept Apprentice |
Bloody Mountain Chief Bloody Mountain Gangers | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||||
| Asura got dented a LOT, but is still alive | A fire spirit lost a duel of the fates | Chief died, others ran | ||||||||
Summary
An incredibly desperate runner is offered a chance to find the answers she seeks. This is the first step of many into the unknown she will take.
Background
Asura has only been able to remember her life up to about 2 years ago, from when she was picked up by the Knight Errant and made an officer under her adoptive father, Captain Marcus Avera. But that was not where she belonged. Frequent visions she didn't understand and a blank spot where a whole second life was before her, she left for Seattle and worked independently to try and find leads. And this led to Phototaxis-A runner who, despite the worrying attitude, had a means by which to at least find a way to get started hunting down answers.
Phototaxis suggested that the metal woman find her something to use psychometry on, try to find some sort of lead into the ex officer's past, and then let the brunette do the actual searching herself. And so, Asura settled upon letting Phototaxis search through the imprints on something from her past-a small little tea set Asura has had for a while, dearly beloved and cared for. Perhaps there would be something there they could use. So upon a rainy night after some months of preparation, mentally and physically, for the events to come, Asura arrived at the conjurer's abode to allow her a chance to peer within. Phototaxis led her inside the fortress she had made out of this abandoned factory, into a central sort of laboratory. Asura tenderly, dutifully removed the tea set from the box she carried it in and set it down in the center, and Phototaxis began working. After some initial prodding by the moth to get a feel, the layers of positive emotion and care layered over it through the years, when something peculiar sticks out at her. Something...foreign, like a drop in a pond, rippling out. Left there, it seems, by something or someone.
So Phototaxis took a look
What followed was a series of memories from Asura's perspective. Or, rather, an Asura from before she was brutalized so badly she lost her memories and replaced her body. And in all of these vision, warm and joyful, was a woman with white hair and red eyes. First, it was the two of them enjoying a lovely, scenic picnic together. Then, they danced together in a ballroom, holding each other close. Then...she was in a hospital bed, apparently injured from being hit by a truck, with the red-eyed woman by her bedside, hand in hand. Very gently, the woman asked her if she remembered anything. And PT began trying to find answers. The woman says that she'll show her the answers she seeks, which leads to...concerning changes. First, they are shifted to another location. Some sort of building, with crystals decorating the halls and bodies in these strange spacesuits that doubled as armor and with even more crystals embedded in them. the woman led her down, with memories seeming to skip ahead until they were in front of some sort of vault door, which opened into a bright light that the woman encouraged her walk through for her answers. Somewhat skeptical but unable to determine the honesty of the white haired woman, PT did as she was told. This led to another memory skip, and then she was trapped in a room with absolutely no light save for a single, heavy spotlight beaming down at her and the door she walked through. The Red Eyed Woman slides upon a viewport, infuriated by the intruder, and as Phototaxis grappled with the situation and demanded answers in a frightened fury, a version of herself in that same spacesuit and with crystals growing out of her approached, snapping her neck. The vision ended then. After Phototaxis gave...some, of the information discovered there to Asura and prepared herself for another dive to discover what in the hell was going on with a psychometry being apparently controlled, she dove back in. But rather than a repeating vision, Phototaxis was back in that room, under that spotlight, stuck in a dead body, and feeling herself become nothing as time passed for a while until she was let out again.
With some new information but no major lead yet, Asura packed up and went home, with Phototaxis summoning a spirit to tail her and find her dwelling, which Asura did not find, who kept an eye out to see if anything happened in the night. Nothing happened on the Astral, and Asura went to bed.
And she dreamed.
The Meet
Asura's dream found her adrift in an endless ocean on a ratted, ruined raft. There were supplies there and a tattered sail, but that ship did not move from that spot. Asura found herself in her former body, whole but dehydrated, and she began to search around for anything of note. One such thing was something in the water-a chain. She took a look below the surface of the water, finding a reef of metahuman corpses and the chain going further and further down until it was all the way down embedded in a relatively fresh corpse. Having nothing else but a desire to get moving to guide her, Asura dove into the water, swimming down with help from the chain to latch onto for support, and slowly made her way down. She couldn't remove the chain from the body, so she simply moved the body up instead. She managed to swim up to the surface, body in tow, until she dumped it onto the raft. Sher then looked at its face and saw her own in there.
And then the scene changed. The raft became a wonderful ship, with multiple women in white veils and sarees on the decks. There was also the ringing of the bell, up at the front of the ship. Allured, Asura moved forward and asked politely what was going on. She has a back and forth with the figure, learning bits and pieces and, upon her revealing her face and red eyes, felt ashamed she couldn't remember exactly who she was. Asura pleaded with the White Haired Woman for answers, a way to find out more, to find her, to make things right. And so the woman obliged, and offered a means by which Asura could find her, given that the ignorant awakened knew nothing of magic anymore and needed another to probe for answers (Much to the red eyed woman's chagrin). She, along with the other figures who lifted their veils to show they had her face, wished Asura luck.
And the seeker awoke.