Orb post on the cusp of Midnight GHB 16 & 17

[thequestgiver]

[[There's nothing very visible in the orb. Light filters in a little through the cloth over it, but nothing enough to tell who's using it.

There's a long moment of silence before a voice speaks. It's faint. Distant and muffled and has an almost wispy quality to it.]]

Flow away, flown away, to where none can say.... to the wood, to the sea, to the peaks, to the depths... the walls crumble as we all fall down and down...

[[There's a pause before there's a soft laugh. It's hard to even tell what gender the person speaking is, through the muffling and the odd intonation in the voice.]]

It's all falling apart, isn't it? Time has warped, the walls are falling once more... falling falling falling...

[[another laugh. This one's a little higher pitched. Maybe it's a girl's voice? Then it suddenly drops down again.]]

I saw it all... from my tower high, I saw it all, but no one would listen... no one would listen and now it's all coming true, isn't it? Everything will fall again... again and again, we're locked into it, you see? Locked...

[[The voice cuts off suddenly. When it resumes, it's shaking.]]

I'll smash it all... never locked away again. Never never never--

[[and the orb suddenly goes black]]

Comments

[thequestgiver]

There's naught left of me to see... it all was locked away because they wouldn't listen

[dash_dynamic]

[Can he have some more giant monsters, please? Even if he doesn't have any of his powers working here, at least he knows how to deal with those.]

I'm listening! I'm listening!

[thequestgiver]

[[The voice falls quiet, the sound of uneven, heavy breathing almost audible through the cloth covering the orb.]]

It's too late now... it's already falling...

[dash_dynamic]

[As freaky as this was, Gunpei's detective instincts were starting to kick in. Gathering information might be good, right?]

What's falling?

[thequestgiver]

We're trapped inside it, don't you see...? And unless we break free, we'll be destroyed... again and again and again....

[dash_dynamic]

You're trapped? Where are you trapped?

[Come on, if he's supposed to play hero time, he needs to know where to go, creepy disembodied voices.]

[thequestgiver]

Where...

[[There was a sobbing, broken laugh that shifted upward half way to a maddened giggle.]]

There isn't a where, only a what... and no why to go with it....

[dash_dynamic]

So what's the what?

[This is weird, even for a guy that thinks a Super Sentai world is the most normal thing ever.]

[thequestgiver]

Puppets on strings as we all dance away, dance away, dance away until it all falls again...

[[There's a sing song to the voice this time, sliding up and down in pitch.]]

It never really ends....

[dash_dynamic]

[This is like that one time early on in Gunpei's police officer career when they found that drunk guy out by the docks wearing only a pair of boxers on his head, and Gunpei had attempted to ask the drunk guy how he'd gotten there. NOTHING is making sense.

At least the Orb smells much better.]

Who was responsible for this? If I had some concrete information, maybe I could help...

[thequestgiver]

Order.


Chaos.

[dash_dynamic]

[This is...not very enlightening. At all.]

Anything else but...that? Something tangible?

[thequestgiver]

[[There's a broken, sobbing laughter that quickly morphs to something rather angry and snarling]]

Why will you not believe what is before your face?!

[[The pitch is swinging wildly now, sounding some how both high pitched and low at the same time]]

We will all fall to dust before you have eyes that can see!

[dash_dynamic]

[Gunpei needs an adult. Or maybe Renn. Renn was super-smart, he'd be better-equipped to deal with this. But he was on his own, away from his team. Sadness.]

I'm just trying to understand! Really, I want to help!

[thequestgiver]

Do you....?

Or will you just say you do long enough to shut me up?!

[dash_dynamic]

No, I really do want to help! I just don't know how!

[So. Confused.

And unnerved. Can't forget unnerved.]

[thequestgiver]

Open your eyes and break your chains before you fall into darkness and die.


[[And with that, the orb goes blank.]]