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Stillwaterite intently examined the ship in a bottle as she stepped into one of Desinty City's many parks with Mintaka at her side. Inside there was something shining---"Hey Mintaka---there's something sparkling in here I didn't see before. What do you think it is?"

The corrupt was curious, so she pulled the cork on the bottle---

Only as soon as she did so, the pleasant looking ship inside dissipated into a swirling dark mist.

"Don't you know..." Said a voice, seemingly echoing from within the bottle as the mist swirled, spinning more rapidly inside the bottle. "Cursed are those who are curious---they'll suffer consequences."

Before the corrupt could say anything else, much less process her surprise, the dark mist erupted from the bottle she was holding, and encased the entire park and the block it occupied.

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gaia_crown WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

gaia_star ICly

• Somewhere in a park downtown in Destiny City, an incredibly odd and powerful magical signature has now appeared on your radar. You're drawn to the signature if you weren't caught up in the radius before. If you're a civilian, you just feel this strange and urgent pull to check out the park!
  
• An entire block is encased in a dark swirling mist...just in case the energy reading wasn't a good enough reason to check it out
  
• Upon approaching the area, you find yourself pulled right in! Any attempt to get out is proved useless. Touching the edge of the barrier feels like touching a solid glass wall
  
• Inside, the park has an odd color cast to it. Things that should be their regular color are shrouded in various shades of blues, purples and blacks
  

gaia_star OOCly

• Welcome to the start of Bottled!
  
• You're at the introduction. Here you can RP your character(s) arriving and getting sucked in. Feel free to mingle and talk or freak out until the next portion!
  
• Characters must stay in the form they arrive in for the duration of the event! If your character gets sucked in powered, they stay powered until it's over. If they enter as a civilian, they stay a civilian until it's over
  
• This event will ICly take place in 1 night
  
• If you want something specific to happen to your character during this event, please PM Pixie Nyxie or myself, and we will work with you to make it possible!
  
• Eternal Dark Mirror Mintaka (Pixie Nyxie) and Eternal Corrupt Stillwaterite (Lucyal) are open for interaction (they're just as confused as you are)!
  
• Next stage will kick off January 4th, 2019
  

Mintaka - Eternal DMC of Origami

Mintaka didn't know what to expect. The bottled ship from mirrorspace had been nothing more then a trinket. A small token to give Still for her time spent there.

What she had not expected it to be, was a trap.

It was just like Pandora's Box all over again, except this time......

"So...." Mintaka smiled at Stillwaterite, as black encompassed the park. It looked darker, meancing.

When she tried to leave, she found she couldn't. "I think we have released a very fun party trick."

[ Hydrus - Super DMC of the Leviathan ]

Not again.... He stood within the swirling mist and let his face fall into a hand. His sister and her... insufferable tendancy to open things that shouldn't be opened. At least they weren't trapped in Mirror Space this time. He let his other hand fall on Mintaka's shoulder and sighed.

Loudly.

"Dearest Sister... why...." he said, head hanging and coming to rest on hers. He wasn't mad, he wasn't upset. He was just.

Tired. So tired.

Acubens had been out on a whim. She was ahead on her quota and so had no real reason to be out energy gathering, and really powering up was just a safety precaution for her midnight strolls. Even with her life settling nicely around her, Acubens still groped around for sleep on some nights only to be left lying awake and annoyed. Usually, her walks helped to calm whatever nerves were too frayed for sleep, and being Acubens assured that no ner-do-gooder would bother her while she was out.

And that park did it's part too. It was a peaceful place as it was, but at night it held an almost surreal beauty. Like a breath just sucked in a held, waiting. Like a paused frame or a hanging note of music. It felt like Acubens had fallen into some kind of liminal space between realities, and she loved it. It felt sort of... voyeuristic. Like she was in a space that was not hers and seeing something she was not meant to see. It made her blush and giggle. Made her feel... wicked.

Speaking of seeing things that she wasn't there to see, Acubens rounded a flower bed lined with tall, conical trees, and spied a very familiar far. A purple and red senshi with white hair that she had not seen since Pandora.

Mintaka!

Oh Acubens had been so worried about her! Unable to find her or contact her in any way, Acubens had tried to hope for the best, but she had been fretting about the worst! She seemed fine though, standing with a corrupted senshi that she did not recognize. And where normally there was trepidation around those individuals of the negaverse, Acubens was far more concerned with checking in on Mintaka than she was avoiding the gaze of the negaverse.

"Minta-"

She had begun to call out with a raised hand when suddenly everything went black. For a moment the whole world spun and tilted as Acubens tried to realign herself with the new environment. And once she did, her tone turned from genial to concern again as she called out, "Mintaka?!"

Sailor Sweetite


Patrolling was a tedious obligation but one that didn't take too much effort from the young woman wearing the flapper-like attire. If she managed to find any nefarious or skeevy looking men, it typically meant her night was set, as far as her energy requirement went. On evenings where rarely anyone lurked about in alleyways or side streets... well, it cost a little more energy out of the corrupt senshi to meeting her quota than she would have liked.

Tonight, however, seemed to be one of those nights that would require far more out of her than she cared to exert. She'd noted the strange energy source coming from near the park and had decided to investigate but, as curiosity was known for killing cats, so it seemed Sweetite had found herself in a predicament she wasn't able to get out of.

A moment of snooping turned into being yoinked into the mist, soon trapped, encased by some invisible wall. Beating on the glass did nothing to crack it and it wasn't as if her magic would actually do anything to it, frustrating enough.

So, she decided to do what Queenie (or rather, Sweetite) did best: leave the heavy thinking to the collection of other people who had gathered, presumably for the same reason as her. Well... that is, until she saw a familiar looking furball that had her straight face turning down into a frown.

"You," she hissed through her teeth, finger pointing at the goofy looking pirate cat as she stepped towards him, "You have something to do with this, don't you?"

Pendour, Page of Neptune

Pendour was trying to work on going out more. Being out in the evening air, crisp and cold as mint, was better for her mental state than tossing and turning in bed before it was even proper night. If she could help someone on the way, well, that would make it even more worth it.

But the bubble came, all at once, almost as soon as she'd powered up, and the small seed of fear she always carried now quickly grew. There were several dark auras as strong as the one from the monster-man had been, and several more that weren't quite the same, that felt a little more slippery in her mind but just as wrong.

She'd learned her lesson, and she tried to run, but quickly found herself face to face with a wall as smooth as glass. She kicked at it lightly. It didn't seem like glass. Well. That was no good, but panicking wouldn't do, either. She took a deep breath in through her nose and looked around, seeing one other knight, a page like she was. His outfit was lovely, even though she couldn't tell the planet of it.

She walked over to him, careful not to make eye contact with anyone in black. "Um, hello," she said. "Do you have any idea what they're doing?"

Captain Reinerite

This part of the city wasn't one of Reinerite's usual haunts, but the strange aura that had pinged against her senses had drawn her attention - and while it wasn't anything that she'd ever come across, whatever it was felt strong.

It was also the most eventful thing that had happened with what had up to that point in time been shaping up to be a rather quiet evening–

The dark swirling mist that was there to greeted her was completely unexpected, a startled look flickering across grey eyes as she stepped a little closer to get a better look as she hadn't come across anything quite like this before.

Getting pulled in herself hadn't been part of the plan, but she had misjudged somehow and gotten a little too close - and now she appeared to be stuck here–

Wherever it was that 'here' was.

Scamander Page of Jupiter


A soft voice to his right made Scamander turn his head, peering at the young woman beside him. She looked, for the most part, just as uncertain as he felt about this whole situation, though Scamander liked to think he wasn't really showing any of that on his face. He turned more fully to face her, lips quirking up into a slightly wry smile.

"Not at all," he said, the southern accent stealing small fragments of his letters off in a sliding drawl. "I jus' got here a few minutes ago, and I'm pretty sure that everyone else is jus' as confused as I am. And you too, it seems."

He stuck out his hand, Scamander's smile growing.

"I'm Scamander, of Jupiter. What's your name?"