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[wagers]

[A few of you know the girl with the wings and the sword. Right now she's flown to the top of the core and sitting there, knees hugged to her chest and just... allowing the movements of he things carry her. Every once in a while, she twitches, not being able to shake the feeling. She's muttering.]

_{It's everywhere. Everyone. All around. Everyone... everyone. All of it. It's killing us.}

Ar8dia.
AR8DIA.
That's........ y8u, isn't it?
Ple8se tell me it's y8u.
Y8u're d8ing it aga8n. I kn8w it.
I
It's 8k, I can t8ke a j8ke.

[She manages a filter, but she's otherwise muttering these words to herself. If you approach the core, beware. There may very well be backlash.]

<sub>It's killing us. It's killing us. Everyone's going to die. Everyone's going to die.

(ooc. OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN!!!!!!!! get your last shots at vriska while you still can!!!!!!!! open via journal, in person, over a ship, through space, through time, to the window, to the wall--)</sub>

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[cyan_maid]

[Out of everyone she knows must be on this other ship, out of all her friends...she hadn't heard anyone sound quite like this.]

Vriska? Vriska, is that you?? Vriska, what's killing you???

forever!

[wagers]

Jane. The ship. It's... I've seen it. We're all trapped. We're going to die. It's going to kill us from the inside out.

[cyan_maid]

What are you...

[No, Jane. Remember the video of the woman you saw. Remember the blood.]

...No! No it won't! Vriska, you have to fight it!

[wagers]

I tried, Jane. I did all I could, but-- [A choked breath.] I'm just not strong enough. I've seen what will happen. I know what's going to become of all of us.

[cyan_maid]

...And what, may I ask, could that be? What's made you so certain that there's no use in fighting?

[wagers]

I've been there. Inside the ship. Inside the void. It shows us everything.

[wolf_of_war]

[He had only stepped away for a few minutes, to check on both the medical bay at the docking bay door, but when he returns he finds something that, if he had a regular face, might be making him lineface right now. There was someone on the Gravity Drive, and in Bladewolf's mind, this is not kosher. He'll walk up to the front of the thing, and raise his head to look at Vriska.]

Miss, it is not safe to make physical contact with the Gravity Drive. While I appreciate your concern in keeping watch over the device while I was gone, it is not necessary to sit on it to do so.

[He'll plop himself down, facing Vriska, hoping to coax her down.]

[wagers]

[She doesn't even look down at him, shuddering at the voice.]

It's done all it can with me. It's just a matter of time now.

[wolf_of_war]

That is not entirely accurate. The castle residents on board the Lewis and Clark are doing all they can to open the door separating the ships, so that we may escape what the Event Horizon is doing to us.

[He'll turn around to face the door, just to make sure he can see out in case anyone else decides to come take another look at the Gravity Drive.]

[wagers]

There's no escape for me. [She's shivering. Like something is running down her spine slowly.] I've already been inside its very being. Now, it's doing the same to me.

vriska

[psych0p0mps]

what are you talking about
im not doing anything
what the hell is going on over there??

Aradia

[wagers]

Are y8u sure?
I kn8w I've 8een a 8itch, 8ut I learned my less8n.
Y8u c8n m8ke the gh8sts go away now.
It's an ela8or8 j8ke.
Y8u did it.
Y8u m8de it h8ppen.

vriska

[psych0p0mps]

vriska i
i havent summoned any ghosts in sweeps
even if there were any available i wouldnt do that to you again
is that whats attacking you?

Aradia

[wagers]

I s8w them aga8n.
Every. S8ngle. 8ne.
Tavros, especially. All th8se oth8r tr8lls.
I 8r8ke some8ne's l8gs yesterd8y, just l8ke 8efore.
It's h8ppening aga8n.
I c8n't make it st8p!

vriska

[psych0p0mps]

[oh geez this is bad.]

listen to me vriska
tavros isnt here none of them are
if there were that many ghosts over there id have noticed something
whatever youre seeing its not real
....
did you really break somebodys legs

[or was that a hallucination too 0m0]

dictated;

[ofhope]

What is? What does it look like?

[ LUCREZIA WAS NOT HELPFUL. ]

ditto

[wagers]

People ripping flesh apart. Killing one another. It's making us do it. It wants every bit of our selves.

[ofhope]

Is it consuming you? Like the castle?

[wagers]

Much worse. Much much much much much much much worse. It's invading every aspect of our minds! Every little inch.

[ofhope]

...Have you found any dead blonde girls in fancy clothes?

;dictated

[fluthlu]

[Aw hell no. Vriska you don't know how hard it is to halfway sort of look for you while also trying to avoid everybody and keep a semblance of sanity GET DOWN FROM THERE THIS INSTANT you awful terrible horrid-]

Vriska. Where are you.

ditto!

[wagers]

[Rose. She shakes a little, her words just as even. What to do? What to say?]

At the very core of it all.

[fluthlu]

[She's already back on her feet, trying to remember where the hell the core even is. She's weak and tired and FUCK DAMMIT that's not real that's not real, and she knows there's nothing she can help by finding Vriska, but maybe... maybe she can do something, keep her from hurting anybody. Anybody else.]

What are you doing there?

[Her voice is quiet and level.]

[wagers]

[She replies simply. No light-hearted tone, no holier-than-thou inclinations, no mocking, not even a drip of facetiousness... it's really unnerving, isn't it? But no, she leaves her voice low, dark. She acknowledges you, Rose, but...]

I'm waiting for it all to end, Rose.

[fluthlu]

You're not waiting for anything. Stop being...

[Foolish? Deranged? She doesn't even know. Her voice trails off with a shaking breath, fighting back another sharp, intrusive thought of we should go wait with her- no, you can't talk, dead, stabbed, right there next to our parents, and none of this is even remotely real to begin with-.]

... I'm going to come find you. Try your best not to do anything completely idiotic in the interim.