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the watchers ([personal profile] grigori) wrote in [community profile] chasma2021-11-20 11:38 pm
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FAREWELL

ALL GOOD THINGS must come to a (golden) end
WELCOME TO THE LAND OF PROSPERITY

Morning comes, and the world is alive.

Rays of warmth gently reach out to a place that has never seen the sun, bringing with it more vivid color than the world has seen before. The sky is clear, free of clouds and smog and gray, a picturesque scene to welcome a new day, a new life. The voices of the harpies welcome the dawn for the first time with a soft but joyful song, their voices light and sanguine as they take to the skies to sing of freedom from the powers they've always feared and served.

Drawn out by the familiar voices of the harpy, lifted into something beautiful, something heartfelt, are the ghosts that were hidden within the caves. Despondent, hopeless, beaten down for aeon by the harpies, they peer out into the open world that the bomb's explosion created. They watch the sun rise on the Land of the Dead - a sun many have not seen since time forgotten - and there is new hope. Slowly, one by one, the ghosts of the long dead and recently dead alike, those that have been ferried across to the resting place created by the Authority, begin to walk out into the sun.

And, just like that, they begin to fade to Dust, smiles on their faces after so long in the dark. The gold drifts in the air, to rejoin the world anew. Free will, intention, knowledge - soul.

The Tree of Knowledge thrives in the light, the last of the Dust of angels a perfect fertilizer to make it grow and stand tall over the participants of a competition they never chose to join, its branches blooming with flowers of white. And the participants themselves, all of you...

You, too, are alive. The icy touch of the ghosts has faded into something more natural and warm. Color returns to faces, and even without the touch of magic, all wounds are healed. You are alive. Your story will continue, and your happy ending awaits.

It's just across the river, and Charon is ready to take you there, through clear air where the mists have lifted. And when you finally arrive...

...Your souls are here to welcome you home. Even those who have lost that part of themselves will find it again, waiting at the docks to find their way into your arms the very second you step out, another second away simply too much to bear. And at last, your daemons shift, one last time, to settle on a form you may or may not have seen before - and you know, in your hearts, that this is a good thing, something natural, something to celebrate, no longer the herald of trauma or some misdeed.

Beyond the docks, the suburbs buzz with an energy it hasn't seen before. The ghosts, like your own, feel more warm and solid and real. The lost and misguided have a spark of hope in their eyes, their delight at the changes in this world unmistakable as they point to something, a little further out. Follow their gazes, and you'll find the source of their excitement easily.

A window to another world. Two - three - and more. As one person reaches out, a city on the other side slowly changes to a field of flowers. A small village changes to a desert market, through which the merchants wave people to come in, come in, they'd love to see you. Through another window, an empty and barren world littered with rubble shimmers to instead show a world filled with water and memory, perfectly intact, and someone new steps into this world to embrace a familiar face among the crowd.

The windows stabilize, allowing everyone to come and go as they choose. The Land of the Dead is no longer a prison, after all - merely a waypoint, just another stop along a journey that need only end when wanderers are ready.

What some might call an end, after all, is often a new beginning.


Welcome, travelers, to your golden end.

Dead and alive both have been revived, injuries healed, and powers returned to normal. Your daemons have all returned to you, though they will settle into one form, and will no longer shift - though this form does not have to be one of the three taken over the course of the game, and may yet be something new entirely.

Keep your coins! A new symbol has taken the place of the clock face or comet that marked your teams - a great, blooming tree. With that, you will be able to return to the Land of Prosperity at any time, and visit any other world that you wish to see.

Your characters are free to continue their stories however they choose - in their own world, or another.
bloodread: (entertain us)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-22 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He will get back to his original question in a second, but priorities. ]

And what about you?
perspire: <user name="byob"> (pic#8380961)

[personal profile] perspire 2021-11-22 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I... tried to help him the best I could, but sometimes all I could do is watch.

I just didn't know what to do.
bloodread: (break a leg)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-22 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Not that.

[ Leans in and...headbutts him. Not too hard, but not gently either. ]
perspire: <user name="kolossal"> (pic#7203863)

[personal profile] perspire 2021-11-22 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ blinks a bit ]

What... will I do?
bloodread: (気にするな)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-22 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
No. [ Headbutts again, hard now. ]

What about you. You had to deal with the same shit Reiner did, right?
perspire: <user name="byob"> (pic#8380963)

[personal profile] perspire 2021-11-22 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh ]

I... yeah. But I'm not as bad as Reiner. I never forgot, even as I started caring for everyone we came to know as friends.

I think he believed too much in trying to prove himself.
bloodread: (NG)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-22 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh. [ Takes one of Bertolt's hand with his right. ]

If you say so. [ His looks says he is Aware and will be watching. ] I don't know anything about that kinda stuff, but I couldn't do it. Probably something a doc could deal with it, but it'd need to be one who could keep quiet.
perspire: (pic#6717531)

[personal profile] perspire 2021-11-23 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ squeezes his hand ]

I'll be alright, for now at least. [ not as much therapy needed for him ] But we can find one once we get him to your world, right?
bloodread: (Sometimes the good things don't last)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
...yeah, I know someone who can get the right type of person. [ A beat later he squeezes his hand back. ]

I told you about Amanome, right?
perspire: <user name="byob"> (pic#8380964)

[personal profile] perspire 2021-11-23 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
You did.

He can find someone?
bloodread: (i feel stupid)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Some people will do anything for money and if not there's blackmail. But he, uh— [ Looks at their hands and looks at Bertolt. Help.

Not that he thinks Seiji likes him (lol) but that he has no idea how to explain this. ]
perspire: (again what the fuck do i even name this)

[personal profile] perspire 2021-11-23 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
He's... going to want to know where I, Reiner, and Annie came from and how we happened, won't he?
bloodread: (誰かが待っている)

1/2

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
...he's seen the spirit shit I went through. Maybe I can just tell him you're all spirits. [ Akira, no. ]
Edited (1/2s actually) 2021-11-23 05:31 (UTC)
bloodread: (and i forget)

2/3

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ ............................... ]
bloodread: (I'm a pothead)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Did it just occur to him now that this is a "we"?

Softly: ]

Fuck.
perspire: all icons by <user name="pronounced"> from here on out (reiner what did the doctor say about you)

[personal profile] perspire 2021-11-23 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
--Is this too much?
bloodread: (When your world is a mess)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ Instantly: ]

No, I'll figure out something. [ Just give him a moment. ] Aunt Natsumi and Ami, and I guess Hazuki...
perspire: <user name="ajna"> (bara boyfriend you sooo fien we should)

[personal profile] perspire 2021-11-23 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh more people that bertolt needs to meet /sweats and squeezes his hand ]

Let me know if I can help.
bloodread: (欠落も)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Neither of them have thought this through. ]

Are you good with kids? Ami's ten.
perspire: <user name="kolossal"> (pic#7203860)

[personal profile] perspire 2021-11-23 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
I'm.. alright with them?

[ she can boss him around? ]
bloodread: (oh yeah i guess it makes me smile)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
She'll fix that.

[ She pushes Akira around so yes. ]

You'll probably have more trouble with Hazuki.
bloodread: (it was hard to find)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
She's a lot and she doesn't shut up. And I kinda owe her right now.

Do you know what a pop idol is?
bloodread: (And sometimes the good guy dies)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-23 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Girls who were revealing outfits and sing. Kinda celebrities too if they get popular enough.

[ His biases and opinions smh. ]

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