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∎ ETRAYA MODS ∎ ([personal profile] etrayamods) wrote in [community profile] etrayamemes2025-01-02 03:19 pm

TDM 006



⏵ arrival ⏴

Arrival is absolutely not normal this month. Instead of a hospital bed, you wake in a tunnel with a large group of other people. These are the residents. A woman’s voice in an earpiece hurriedly clues you in with an apology.

I apologize; I had not planned to introduce you this way, but we are low on time. Please proceed down the hallway.

An image of a shattered pearl pops up on your personal HUD and rotates.

I am Aurora. You are joining many others on Etraya in order to save your world from destruction by completing missions. Your current mission is to find the pieces of this object that have become scattered in the library ahead of you.


For everyone else, coming in is much the same. The instruction goes out to head to designated areas immediately, where companion bots will escort the residents of Etraya down into the depths, the area beneath where much the same is explained.


⏵ disrobing ⏴


The tunnel eventually opens directly into the foreroom of an expansive library, painted in marvelous hues and patterns with skylights far above. There are wizards milling about, bearded and holding tomes, quietly chatting amongst themselves.

The reception area of the library has tall ceilings with equally tall doors Before you get too caught up in the scenery, a voice directs you forward. A gentleman, hunched and bespeckled craws out.

"Make a line! Make a line, everyone! You cannot enter the library dressed as you are... Come forward and give me your name."


The receptionist asks your given name and then hands over a box from underneath his counter. You can give him any name you want, he doesn’t seem to mind. It is tied with a tagged ribbon- labeling it accordingly. “The _____ robe of _______.”

(First Letter of Given Name) (Last Letter of Given Name)
A Controlling N Helpful A Melodies N Light
B Glimmering O Floating B Discretion O Mind-Reading
C Wet P Handsome C Growth P Climbing
D Gruesome Q Gullible D Grasping Q Jumping
E Observant R Ratty E Flying R Hurting
F Powerful S Adhesive F Reading S Guiding
G Psychedelic T Sweltering G Dancing T Bug-Speaking
H Swift U Cheerful H Shouting U Exploding
I Voracious V Anxious I Extracting V Complaining
J Soft W Likeable J Punishing W Dividing
K Keen X Ruthless K Creeping X Slapping
L Fabulous Y Dramatic L Walking Y Charming
M Fair Z Demonic M Listening Z Combustion


As you read what the contents of the box may be, they form inside- Looking and behaving as your character expects them to. After all, magic is all in the wielder’s mind.

Don your robes and enter the library.


⏵ unfamiliar familiars ⏴


For those without a familiar (like one hatched from an egg not too long ago) you may borrow one from the library counter. They all have strengths and weaknesses, but they will all assist in the very important mission. As you roam the library, they will make little indications that you are closer or further from finding a piece of the pearl.

Image Image Image
Pro • Hardworking
• Gives correct directions 75% of time
• Won’t run away from you
• Very affectionate
• Gives correct directions only when paired with another rat, toad, or personal pet.
• Gives correct directions 90% of the time
Con • Must feed bookworms • Will run away if too close to a cat • Does not care for you
• Sleepy
• Will run ahead
• Gets distracted by rats



⏵ the task at hand ⏴


With robes donned and creature in hand, you must now complete your mission. Find the pieces of the shattered pearl. As you enter the library, you may notice that it’s all very dim. There’s oil lamps around the place that may be moved with you to assist in your journey if your robes do not already emit light.

Break off and search the library. There is a directory at the front to point guests to all the different sections.

Wings of the Library
A General Works B Music
C Philosophy, Religion D Fine Arts
E History, Auxiliary Sciences F Language and Literature
G Magic, General H Science
J Geography, Anthopology K Medicine
M Agriculture N Hobbies, Recreation
P Social Science Q Military
R Political Science S Practical Arts
T Law W People
X Education Y Spiders


Each section looks enough like the last, though the books within have immense power. Pick up the wrong book, and you might conjure a dragon or a historical figure! You must persist and avoid making too much noise or breaking too many things.

Or else the Librarian, a tall mass of knotted fabric will confiscate your robe and usher you back outside. Your name will be struck from the list, and you must pick a new one to re-enter the library to continue the search.

You can try to fight back against him- he may be set alight with the lamp. But should you be starting fires in here?

⏵ NOTES ⏴


Any thread with 15 comments between you and another may be submitted to find a piece of the pearl. There are 20 pieces altogether, and we will determine if the mission was successful by March 28th. A post will go live on the OOC comm for this!

This mission occurs out of time, similar to how the spaceship had. Meaning, those currently in game can experience these events any time between now, and March 14th.

Please direct all questions to our mod queries comment!

FULL NAVIGATION

nomoreleftshoe: (10)

team free will now includes this toad

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sam holds out the little toad like it's definitely part of the team now, looking between the bookshelves and the creature as they go.]

Do you think it might be in a hollowed-out book?
venatoris: supersuits @ IJ (pic#16366688)

finders keepers

[personal profile] venatoris 2025-01-25 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Dean feels like a weirdo, very I put on my robe and wizard hat vibes, but they won't let him in until he puts on his Grusome robe of hurting (fitting), so he does. And he looks stupid.

His "familiar" is trailing along beside him, a lazy little cat that nearly trips him as he heads towards the back of the line. It's why he literally stumbles into Sam, the cat darting out of the way at the last moment to avoid being stepped on, Dean grabbing awkwardly at his brothers shoulder to steady himself. ]


Dammit, sorry man, she always does that -- Sam?
levelshift: (sigh)

[personal profile] levelshift 2025-01-25 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's right. [He nods.] People have asked her, and she's told them she doesn't have that information. I don't think she's lying.

[It's still a possibility, and he knows a lot of people assume she is, but he thinks that's a lot of bullshit.]
nomoreleftshoe: (10)

hi!

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sam is holding a little toad in hand as he has just about walked into Dean. The physical contact is enough to break the hallucination for now and he turns to face--]

Dean!

[His eyes are wide, he's sweating, but he's Sam Winchester in all his beanpole glory. Sam's rope is sticking to him at an awkward angle.]
venatoris: @tweak (pic#15665416)

here late with starbucks lol

[personal profile] venatoris 2025-01-25 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesus, you look terrible.

[ He straightens Sam's robe, frowning, brow furrowed in concern. Literally terrible. ]

Why're you holding a frog? [ The shock of seeing Sam has him off kilter - Dean's been here forever now it seems, and not once did he ever expect to see his brother. ] Dude, are you okay?
constants: (you're my mermaid sister)

[personal profile] constants 2025-01-25 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't think she's lying, but is the Archive just supposed to believe this stranger she ran into? Is she so trusting? ]

What makes you believe that she is not lying?
messenger: eyes closed, brows raised, head tilt (❝ we see each other plain ❞)

[personal profile] messenger 2025-01-25 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Could be.

[ castiel tips his head in acquiesce.

a moment passes as he begins to pick up the books that they pass. he doesn't open every one, but he does weigh them. ]


How have you been, Sam?
nomoreleftshoe: (29)

delicious

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
They just, uh--- They just gave it to me.

[Sam is also confused, but his brain is currently made of flambéed scrambled eggs. He does relax a touch as Dean straightens his robe, the action familiar and comforting. As soon as he takes a step though, the robe gets stuck to the side of his jeans again. It was a great effort, Dean.

Sam looks down at his hands, the toad in his right and a bandage over his life before around at the library again. Seems quiet for now.
]

I'm good. I'm good.
nomoreleftshoe: (48)

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's... not particularly helpful. Sam frowns and is about to start looking at book names when Cas speaks to him again.

How have you been? If that isn't a loaded question. How does one go to Hell, come back out without a soul, have the wall broken down by the angel in front of him, and then come out the other side okay? He feels like he's been chewed up and spit out.

To which the natural summarization is,
] I'm fine, Cas. Really.
venatoris: hollow art (pic#15394297)

[personal profile] venatoris 2025-01-25 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. Weird.

[ Dean shakes the weird off, glancing around, a hand on Sam's shoulder as he studies him intently, frowning up at him. ]

You sure?
nomoreleftshoe: (20)

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[The last thing Sam remembers before the tunnel is being with Dean, so the follow up question has him worried about Dean in return.]

You were just in the Impala with me. I'm good.

[If he still needs to be backup for the Leviathan meetup, he wants to persuade Dean that he's in tip top--

The echo of chains rustling has Sam straightening.
]
venatoris: tweak (pic#15237637)

[personal profile] venatoris 2025-01-25 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
...Right.

[ Timelines, all that. Nothing here is linear, it's fine. He's just - okay. It's fine.

He barks a strangled laugh, then pulls Sam into a hug. ]


Damn, it's good to see you, Sammy.
Edited 2025-01-25 21:02 (UTC)
nomoreleftshoe: (5)

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sam is fine to be pulled into a hug because he feels like he's need a good, quality bro hug since what feels like forever ago. The contact helps to quiet the sound of chains around him and when he pulls back at it's conclusion, Sam is grateful to see Dean and the library.

Dean and the library and someone that looks just like Lucifer standing in the corner.

Not real. Not real, not real.
]

Yeah? Are you feeling okay, Dean?
messenger: looking down, neutral (❝ and the lord of the snails is born ❞)

[personal profile] messenger 2025-01-25 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ one might think he's not taking this task entirely seriously. maybe he's tired of dripping like a faucet.

he glances askance. he doesn't look convinced. ]


You know, ever since I arrived here, I've been... relieved. The fact that Dean is here from my future— and now you, too— means you saved the world.

I don't know how. I just know it must be true.

[ he pauses, taking another book off the shelf before weighing it, and placing it back. ]

But you're clearly not fine. Which means that something else has happened.

[ he turns back to face sam. there's resignation in his countenance. ]

I don't expect you to give me the details, but— [ castiel stops. cuts himself off. what he says isn't what he was going to say. ] Is there anything I can do?
Edited 2025-01-25 21:08 (UTC)
nomoreleftshoe: (8)

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sam exhales through his nose, regarding Cas with exhausted eyes. Right. Saving the world in one way, only to have the world fall apart in a new way. It's never-ending.

Having dealt with a time loop, he's honestly not too surprised that Cas is from somewhere in the past.
]

I said 'yes.' And then something stopped Lucifer for just long enough for me to take back control. We both went down into the Pit with Michael. Apparently I got back out.

[And then some other shitty things happened.]
messenger: mild shock, lips parted (❝ ok ❞)

[personal profile] messenger 2025-01-25 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
You were in the pit with them?

[ suddenly castiel's impenetrable exterior cracks. he'd been operating under the assumption, because he had no reason not to, that everything had been fine with the both of them after. he had no reason to think otherwise with what dean (hadn't) told him.

it's only now that he comes to realize, naturally, that their act had come with great sacrifice.

castiel looks shaken. ]


You— you don't know how?

[ that means— ]

Did I lose my powers? Or am I...

[ dead? ]
venatoris: hollow art (pic#15394296)

[personal profile] venatoris 2025-01-25 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's needed it too; Dean hadn't realized just how much he'd missed his brother until he'd come face to face with him. He drags it out a little, squeezes him tight before he steps back and claps him on the shoulder again. ]

Yeah, yeah. I'm good. Great. Friggin'...awesome.
nomoreleftshoe: (38)

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. My soul was down there for a year and a half. I think Dean made a deal with Death to get it back.

[The rest of him came out like the T-1000, ready to hunt anything and everything.]

You were dead for a few minuntes but then God brought you back is what I've been told.

[And then, well, tore down the wall in Sam's mind and now Sam is borderline insane.]
nomoreleftshoe: (89)

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Good. Good. [His robe is once again all mussed, but he doesn't care. Sam nods, but his eyes flick to the side, watching as Lucifer approaches up the stairs. Not real. Not real.]

Cas is here, too. I met him a little bit ago. [Just in case Dean is new like him.] He's, uh, not so gooey any more.
venatoris: hollow art (Default)

[personal profile] venatoris 2025-01-25 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's fine, Dean's is all messed up now, too. ]

Yeah, yeah I know -- wait, what? Gooey? Guy's got a soft spot for us but I dunno about gooey.

[ The cat bumps against Sam's ankles, weaving between his legs. ]

Sorry about Ziggy Stardust down there. She's needy.
nomoreleftshoe: (10)

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Y'know. All the black goo? Leviathan?

[Sam is still operating under the assumption that Dean is from the same time as him.

Sam flicks his gaze down at the gentle bump to his leg and tries to pull the adhesive part of the robe back so she doesn't get stuck. When he looks back up Lucifer stands just behind Dean and Sam just about jumps out of his skin, taking a couple steps back.
]
venatoris: supersuits @ IJ (pic#16213003)

[personal profile] venatoris 2025-01-25 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Leviathan?

[ He looks very confused - both at what Sam has said, and the steps back his brother takes. ]

That was, uh - that was a few years ago for me, man. Cas is, uh. He's alive. [ he almost said fine but Cas in his timeline is not, in fact, fine. ]
messenger: looking aside, earnest, melancholy (❝ the election cycle and the tides ❞)

[personal profile] messenger 2025-01-25 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Your soul?

[ what about his body? ]

Wait, God—

So I...

[ was he forgiven? wasn't he dead or powerless? but— ]

Did I bring you back?

[ what. what. what ]
nomoreleftshoe: (32)

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
["Few years ago for me." Sam furrows his brows at Dean, shaking his head, especially as Lucifer steps around Dean.

Funny little thing, time. Lucky for you, I've got my finger on the button.

That can't be real, he reminds himself, stepping further and further back as Lucifer enters his personal space.
] He is? Outside of here?
nomoreleftshoe: (30)

[personal profile] nomoreleftshoe 2025-01-25 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
No. [Sam shakes his head slowly, regret written across his face.]

Death, the horseman, did.

[And then you tried to be God and turned into a puddle of black goo. Fun times.]