Some days?
Some days started off good and got progressively worse.
A couple of days ago, as Larimar, zyr coffee had disappeared into a ******** hole in the world while zyr back was turned, apparently -- and that sucked, ze wasn't going to lie, but the encounter spawned by that had been marginally beneficial. That apple girl was so skittery and strung-out with -- something, anxiety or fear or self-loathing, ze really didn't care on the specifics -- that she might have made a decent Negaverse prospect, if ze could find her again.
Which, well. This was a big city. Finding anyone in specific unless ze'd scheduled a meeting -- not the most likely thing in the world. But it was food for thought. Ideally whoever did find her immediately next on the encounter list wouldn't chase her thoughts into how terrible the Negaverse was, because yes, blah blah blah, whatever, they were killing people, etc. - it was always the same damn old rant about how could you do this! they have families! these are people! - no s**t, Sherlock, that's exactly why Larimar was killing them, goddamn. Ze wasn't exactly out there killing random ******** raccoons or feral dogs or something for a reason.
...Well, part of that reason was because animals were worthless for energy-harvesting purposes, but there were other - considerably less practical - reasons. Reasons that Larimar had elaborated to zemself on in one of those sleepless nights in a rant that'd never made it out of zyr brain, thankfully. A lot of those low-sleep nights went like that, full of erroneous sidewinding trains of thought that were nothing logical and nothing reasonable, fated thankfully to never see the light of day.
So, anyway: that'd been a few days ago. Things were looking up: nothing of zyrs had vanished into the void, fourth of July and an off day from normal work hours was slowly approaching, no wild Senshi bullshit had gotten in zyr way, and ze'd gotten compliments on the pronoun pins from customers at work, ze was making good progress on an essay and a video edit (unrelated to each other, thank god), and -
Sparrow was too busy looking down at zyr phone that ze didn't see reality tear, only feeling the pull that dragged zem in; ze fell through gracelessly, whirling around in too-late alarm just in time to watch the trace of the real world and the sidewalk vanish, phone almost flying out of zyr hand and being saved from an ill-fated tarry landing only by the graces of a very, very inelegant fumble. Thank god nobody had seen that -
there was nobody here, wasn't there.
Check, check - no cell signal. Actually, no nothing, because zyr phone had apparently dropped dead on the damn spot, because it was allergic to temporal-spatial rifts or something. God, tech these days. Whatever. This wouldn't be a problem, wasn't going to be a problem, because ze could just teleport out --
and Larimar's uniform, Larimar's weapon, being Larimar, wouldn't come.
Sparrow tried again. Nothing. And again - still nothing. Ze was civilian and weak and nothing, and zyr phone was dead, and there was nothing but some sort of black, half-featureless landscape in all directions, and -
Sparrow took a deep breath, put zyr face in zyr hands, and screamed.
Quote:
Disappearances (14): People are missing. Maybe they’re people you know, maybe you’ve just heard about it on the news. They’re just disappearing. In front of you one second, gone the next, sucked into some between-space. Into some hole that flickers out of sight once it’s swallowed them up. Maybe you got sucked in–right into a strange strange black expanse, with no access to anyone else or any exits. The pull would have been magnetic, almost unavoidable. Some might escape, but maybe you didn’t. Electronics don't work and characters cannot power down. There’s no way to reach the outside world. You might feel the sensation of creatures following you, you might run into obstacles or strange environments in the darkness. While you are in this strange location you may feel hungry but will not starve to death; you may feel tired but you will not need to sleep. Maybe you were lucky and got sucked in with someone. Maybe you’re trapped there and run into someone and team up. One thing is for sure, though–once you’re here, you can’t get out on your own.
