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Mayfield Mods ([personal profile] mayfield_mods) wrote in [community profile] mayfield_rpg2012-12-02 11:36 pm
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THE END

You've walked for what feels like ages down the highway as a group- all those who chose uncertain freedom over certain death. Within an hour, Mayfield became a distant speck on the horizon before ultimately fading into the hills and trees. The only sign of the place you've escaped is the sky, which remains an eerie brown even after night falls and you've put Mayfield hours behind you.

Try as you might, it's impossible not to imagine that you've been led into a trap. What if this is all part of some new sick game of Johnson's- or even Zemekis'? It certainly wouldn't be the first time. What if the events of the past few months- saving Annie, Gray's "ghost", Zemekis' apparent death -what if it's all been nothing but the latest in a long tradition of Mayfield's-

These thoughts fade when you see the first sunbeam.

This road isn't like the ones before: the roads that looped endlessly into themselves, inevitably leading back to where they began. This road has an end.

Keep walking forward and you'll find yourself in a new town, both similar to Mayfield and utterly unlike it. The buildings here are crude and unfinished- the streets little better than paved paths of dirt. There are no drones here, no hazmats, no one in sight other than you and your companions. But all of these things are nothing more than trivial details, when compared to what you feel the moment you enter its boundaries.

There's power here- you can feel it in your fingertips. Each and every one of you can, from the most godlike seraph to the most ordinary human: power, faint but unmistakable. The power to build a world, and to destroy it. The same power that's been lorded over you for four years... but now, it's yours to command.

You can create a new life here. It isn't the home you remember- the home you remember, after all, was never yours to begin with. For some of you, that's a blessing. For others, it's a hard truth you'll have to live with. But even though you can't go home, with the power you've been given, it might just be possible to bring home to you. Bits and pieces of it- locations you remember, small creatures from your world- no people, though. That's one power Annie decided not to give you.

The place you've found isn't perfect- there will be work, hard work, and pain. The place you've found is your own: there are no overseers here, no Zemekis, no Johnson. The place you've found may not be paradise- but it's the nearest thing you're going to get.

You've found, at last, a better place to live.
doudemoe: (sigh)

[personal profile] doudemoe 2012-12-03 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[...fuck, this isn't good.]

Ryoji.
answerer_sword: (Oopsies)

[personal profile] answerer_sword 2012-12-03 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
...You know him?

[Just what was Arisato's world like if he knew a harbinger of death by name?]
doudemoe: (book to the head)

[personal profile] doudemoe 2012-12-03 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
He's like this now, but...for a while he was a normal human.
answerer_sword: (Oopsies)

[personal profile] answerer_sword 2012-12-03 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
What caused him to mutate so badly? Is his body the only thing affected?
doudemoe: (here's looking at you)

[personal profile] doudemoe 2012-12-03 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
He's Death. A long time ago, a group of scientists summoned him to bring the absolute end to humanity. They were foiled, and he was broken to pieces.

He's like this now because everyone in the world wanted him to end it all.
answerer_sword: (Default)

[personal profile] answerer_sword 2012-12-03 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
In your world?

[But from what she had seen, Arisato was nowhere near suicidal.]

Everyone here wishes to survive. What will happen to him?
doudemoe: (look around you)

[personal profile] doudemoe 2012-12-03 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
...That will be up to him. He's free to do whatever he wants.

[There's a gentleness in Minato's words that's quite unlike him. Almost as if he were as unworldly as the reaper before them.]
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[personal profile] answerer_sword 2012-12-03 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
What of his body? Will he be broken again, or will he remain like this?

[There is very little hostility in her voice. From what she has heard from Ryoji, he does not seem to be the sort of person to go on a rampage.]
doudemoe: (contemplating)

[personal profile] doudemoe 2012-12-03 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Since it's this place, he should be able to return to his old self.

[He's certain almost nobody wants to destroy this area.]
answerer_sword: Kattu (Peaceful)

[personal profile] answerer_sword 2012-12-03 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods.]

I suppose I should congratulate you on having your friend back.
doudemoe: (not so bad)

[personal profile] doudemoe 2012-12-03 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[He appreciates it.]

Hnn. Better warn you though, he's a flirt.
answerer_sword: (Oopsies)

[personal profile] answerer_sword 2012-12-03 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...How old is he?

[Because if he is Arisato's age, that would be a little too young for her.]
doudemoe: (contemplating)

[personal profile] doudemoe 2012-12-03 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...Good question.

[Because technically, he was in the world for 10 years, and spent most of it inside of him. He was only a teenager for 2 months.]

Probably eons.
answerer_sword: (Oopsies)

[personal profile] answerer_sword 2012-12-03 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Physically, I mean.

[Chronological age was second to physical and mental age in a place like this.]
doudemoe: (approved!)

[personal profile] doudemoe 2012-12-03 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sob.]

Oh. He was my age.
answerer_sword: (Oopsies)

[personal profile] answerer_sword 2012-12-03 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
And he just asked me out to dinner, Arisato.

[Just when she thought it could not get any more awkward.]

Please tell him that some of the women here might be too old for his attentions.