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2017-09-16, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Adventures in Time & Space IC
Ky
Stupid air conditioner...still it beat actually having to pay for a meal, maybe you could just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and be done with it. Except no you can't because this thing doesn't even have a neutron flow, that was the problem with the technology in this era everything was so primitive! (Though to be fair anything that isn't a hard 4 on the Kardashev Scale is primitive to you).
Still it wouldn't take you long to trace the fault in the machine to a faulty piece of wiring in the system's overcharge and a good thing to as a sudden wave of nausea rolls over you...
Laurel Ambers
Asset 3 & 7 had you cornered, that was all you ever knew them as, your former employer insisted that this was purely a security measure, very 007 but there was always the sense they their Psy-Ops agents a little less than human.
"Look we know that you've had your differences with Torchwood but we just want to talk." Asset 7, an older woman with her black hair tied up in a bun, tried to reassure you, but seeing as how she was an empath by trade, how reassuring this was was up for debate. "Think of it like an exit interview, Torchwood has it's rough edges but they mean well, we're never going to be able improve without people like you."
All the while Asset 3 stood silently behind his partner, as a telekinetic it was his job to make sure that bad things happened if you refused her offer. Her choice of words was a little poorly thought out though, people who went for 'exit interviews' at Torchwood tended to just get shuffled off to other sites or simply not leave at all, rumors of something called 'Asset 0' abounded.
Luckily for Laurel she wouldn't have to make a decision right now as a wave of nausea rolled over her...
Chaiti
Chaiti stood in the ruins of the Ophidia Clutch, thousands of years ago the reptilian race had been known thorough out the galaxy as doctors, scientists and philosophers until one day they simply vanished, taking their knowledge with them, leaving nothing behind but blasted wastes and crumbling monuments that hinted at the greatness of their lost civilization.
The room began to shake around her and as a wave of nausea hit her, you know what was odd? The glyphs, that eye wasn't reptilian at all...
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Darkness surrounds all of you, 3 shapes just about visible in the blackness creating a series of small uniform rows keeping the three of you apart without blocking your vision (such as it is in the dark).
((Ky, make a roll for Feel the Turn of the Universe at Difficulty 12))
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2017-09-16, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ky voiced his initial assessment of this situation.
"Whabudaga!?"
Very helpful. Off to a good start. Focus, Ky! With an effort, he forced his panicked breathing back into a mere anxious gasp. His mouth continued to echo his thoughts.
"C-calm down. Fear won't solve anything. Have to think. What do I know for certain? W-well, I've definitely moved a long way. This isn't the same planet...no, wait. Not even the same universe! Amazing. Who, besides us, has that kind of capability?"
He started feeling around in the darkness. Maybe there was a light switch somewhere.
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2017-09-16, 06:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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When the nausea suddenly hit her, Laurel could only assume it was the beginning of some sort of psychic attack. Granted, she didn't know of any psychic attacks that induced nausea, but that hardly meant there couldn't be any. "Wait, you don't have to-" she began to desperately gasp out.
She was elsewhere by the time she had finished, "-do...this...?"
Laurel looked around warily, if a bit pointlessly in the dark. What...happened? Had they somehow teleported her? (Look, once you move something with your mind, you broaden your definition of what is possible. Just how it goes.) She would have gone with the more plausible explanation that she had blacked out from some sort of psionic assault (why some arbitrarily nausea-and-unconsciousness-inducing psychic attack was deemed more plausible than full-body teleportation she couldn't quite verbalize, but there it was), but she was still standing, still holding her hands up non-confrontationally. ...Although she could have been physically immobilized as well as unconscious, she supposed.
The problem with broadening the possibility space to include more-or-less the full gamut of psychic powers prevalent in fiction (and who knows, maybe other supernatural stuff as well, it's a big world) was that it actually didn't make it any easier to come up with a solid conclusion. If anything was possible, guessing what had actually happened was far more difficult.
Another voice caught her attention, with speculations that both blew the most wild she could come up with out of the water and that she prayed were false. Laurel had fairly seamlessly managed to accept the idea of psychic powers, and intelligent alien life hadn't been a big leap (honestly, she'd have bet on that going by sheer statistics, although the idea that enough extra-terrestrial beings made it to Earth to warrant a whole secret organization for dealing with them had been a surprise). But being plucked into another universe entirely?
That was too big. She couldn't wrap her head around that.
Aside from the speaker, she could just barely make out a more-or-less human-sized-and-shaped form in the darkness. "Is everyone alright?" she asked, keeping her voice calm and steady.Last edited by Quellian-dyrae; 2017-09-18 at 07:35 PM.
A role playing game is three things. It is an interactive story, a game of chance, and a process in critical thinking.
If brevity is the soul of wit, I'm witty like a vampire!
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2017-09-16, 06:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Augh! I surrender!"
One of the humanoid shapes put its hands up.
"P-please don't hurt me. I mean this universe no harm!"
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2017-09-18, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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The last time Chaiti felt this sort of nausea was during planetfall from her shuttle. Either that or her rations went bad, which when it comes to food she always took seriously. The sudden darkness immediately brought to mind a short lived panic of a cave in. Chaiti did a self-pat down and found, to her relief, that her limbs and chitin were intact.
"Chai-Not a plate out of place-ti", she sighed to herself. She very rarely slipped into her native coloquial tongue, except in extreme cases and this had fit the mold perfectly. Chaiti had learned to discipline herself from using it since other races seemed impatient with it.
Even her trusty field journal was safely tucked away in a pocket.
"Is everyone alright?"
"P-please don't hurt me. I mean this universe no harm!"
The sudden arrival of two new voices most definitely put Chaiti on high alert. She most certainly knew that she entered these ruins alone, this sector of the Ophidia Clutch hasn't been visited in over 100 decades. Well, I've been in stickier situations. Maybe they can help? What's the worse that could happen?, she thought as she replied, I'm fine but could I bother you for a gastro-intestinal calming agent? Or at the very least a light?"
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2017-09-18, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Um...that's...good to know?" she asked more than said, not entirely sure how to respond to either the offer of surrender or the declaration of peaceful intentions towards the universe at large. (Which, to be fair, was a good protocol to have in general.)
"I've got neither, I'm afraid," she answered the calmer-sounding voice. Smart phones weren't exactly the sort of thing you carried around when you were on the run from a government agency. "Um, my name's Laurel. Do either of you have any idea where we are? Or how we got here?"A role playing game is three things. It is an interactive story, a game of chance, and a process in critical thinking.
If brevity is the soul of wit, I'm witty like a vampire!
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2017-09-18, 08:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Resourceful Pockets Attempt(1d6)[6]
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"Hold on, maybe I've got a pen light...somewhere. I'm Chaiti by the way."
Chaiti was relieved that the voices sounded friendly but still a little irritated at the lack of lumination. But then again, there's usually a silver lining.
"Chai-Eureka-ti!"
She did an experimental flourish to get a better grip of her surroundings. Chaiti aimed her beam towards the general direction of the voices.
(Edit was result of rolls)Last edited by SailorGallifrey; 2017-09-18 at 08:24 PM.
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2017-09-19, 12:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ky relaxed just a fraction. From the sounds of it, the other voices belonged to fellow abductees. That meant they were less likely to hurt him. Always a good thing to know.
"People usually call me 'Ky'. As f-for how we got here, it must be a very advanced technology. Not many are capable of crossing the boundaries between universes. If this were my people's doing, I doubt they'd just stick me in a dark box. So that leaves...No, that would be ridiculous. Though I can't speak for any of you, I certainly don't warrant the attention of a Guardian..."Last edited by Anyr; 2017-09-19 at 12:24 PM.
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2017-09-19, 12:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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As Chaiti shone her light around, not only would she see the faces that the pair of voices belonged to but also the contents of the shelving between them. On the dusty metal shelving sat cup and ball games, plastic bows and arrows tipped with suction cups along side overly large tubs of sickly candy floss, loud tacky horns, and all manner of the kind of souvenirs you're going to get bored of 30 minutes after you leave. All the packaging has become faded with time and like the shelving itself everything is covered in a thin layer of dust.
With illumination the torch cast around the small room Ky's search for a light switch would bear fruit in the form of a cord dangling from the ceiling next to a door in the corner of the room. Through a little glass window in the door he'll be able to see a store front filled with yet more cheap souvenirs, the whole place is clearly in need of repair with shattered mirrors hanging from walls with peeling paint along with the obligatory covering of dust.
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2017-09-19, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ky blinked in the new beam of light. It gave him his first look at the room's other inhabitants. Not that that told him much. They both looked fairly normal. The same couldn't be said for the room itself. What was this bizarre place? Ky experimentally pulled the newly revealed cord. Maybe better illumination would (somehow) let him make sense of everything.
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2017-09-19, 03:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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The surroundings illuminated by the penlight were...not exactly very alternate-universy by her mind. Although, she realized, she couldn't rule out the possibility that she was still in her own universe, but this Ky fellow was from a different universe. That made...sense?
"Um...why exactly do you think we're in another u-" Laurel began asking, and then the light went on.
And she saw Chaiti.
Laurel stumbled back on instinct, nearly knocking over a shelf full of knick-knacks. She knew alien life existed, of course. Because, you know, Torchwood, and all. But this was the first time she had ever encountered one, at least that she knew of. And Chaiti...well, she could not exactly be mistaken for human. Laurel considered herself an open-minded person. She had actually been excited at the idea of meeting aliens, learned about people and cultures from entirely different worlds. She wasn't afraid, but she was definitely surprised.
Fortunately, she had enough personal discipline to keep from blurting out something embarrassing like "OHMYGODYOU'REANALIEN!" or some such. And she only stared a little bit.
"Um, universe?" she finished her question.A role playing game is three things. It is an interactive story, a game of chance, and a process in critical thinking.
If brevity is the soul of wit, I'm witty like a vampire!
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2017-09-19, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ky glanced quizzically between Laurel and Chaiti. The former seemed to be startled by the latter. But why? Chaiti looked quite innocuous. With as close to a calming tone as he could manage, Ky answered Laurel's question.
"I can feel it. My species have an innate sense for such things. We can also sense whether another person is one of us. Given that and your appearance, I'm guessing that you're...human? P-please forgive me if that's not the case."
Damn it, the stutter was back. He'd never been able to suppress it for long.
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2017-09-19, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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It took a moment for Chaiti's eyes to adjust for the sudden flare of light. She quickly returned her pen-light back into her pockets. She tilted her head a bit at her newfound...companions? Fellow inmates? Though her newly discovered surroundings mader her think twice.
She had worked with a few humans on previous research projects so Chaiti was a bit confused at the female human's reaction. Maybe she didn't get out much?
"I take it we're not in the Ophidia Clutch anymore?", she ran a chitinous digit along a nearby dust-covered shelf. The gadgets looked bit primitive, if not childish.
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2017-09-20, 12:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Yeah. Yeah I'm human." And apparently he...wasn't?
Laurel only offered Chaiti a shrug. "No idea. I guess we should probably figure out where we are, huh?" she asked, only half-rhetorically. "This place looks...I mean, I don't recognize the place itself, but it certainly looks like a place you could find in, um, my universe. I mean, on my world. That is, Earth." She tried dusting off a few of the packages, looking at the labels. Or more precisely, at what language they were written in.Last edited by Quellian-dyrae; 2017-09-20 at 12:57 AM.
A role playing game is three things. It is an interactive story, a game of chance, and a process in critical thinking.
If brevity is the soul of wit, I'm witty like a vampire!
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2017-09-20, 01:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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"'Earth'? That sounds familiar. Earth Earth Ea-Ah! Isn't that the original human homeworld?"
Ky spoke as if recalling some obscure fact from a textbook. To him, Laurel's planet was just something to be memorised for an exam. He gave the room another once-over. It looked just as alien as ever.
"It s-sounds like you're the one most suited to understand our surroundings. I'm afraid I know very little about these things. The few h-humans I've met have never even seen Earth. So, w-would you care to take the lead here?"
Ky looked expectantly at Laurel. He clearly hoped for someone besides him to call the shots. He was a follower by nature.Last edited by Anyr; 2017-09-20 at 01:29 AM.
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2017-09-20, 07:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Well normally, I'm more partial to ancient alien ruins. So technically this could be a fledgling ruin?", Chaiti also started investigating the strange packages on the shelf.
"This planet that you're from...Eeearrth was it? It sounds very dirty. Your people are very odd to name their planet after dirt.", Chaiti bluntly stated. Then again, her sole purpose for her research was to investigate alien cultures. Maybe this was another cosmic intervention?
"Ky, what do you mean by universes? As in plural?", Chaiti tinkered with the ball in cup toy, curious about it's inner workings as well. Was this a torture device of some kind?
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2017-09-20, 11:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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"E-exactly as it sounds. We (or I, at least) have moved between universes. I don't know any more than that yet. It might be a parallel reality; A custom pocket dimension; Or a bubble clinging to our universe's metaphorical skin."
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2017-09-21, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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To Laurel's eyes all the writing on the kick-knacks surrounding her is in English, the bow and arrows promised her hours of fun taking potshots at those darn cowboys whilst a tag attached to a bag of jacks warned her that they were under no circumstances to be given to a child under the age of three and the candyfloss strangely didn't have an expiry date...
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2017-09-21, 03:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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"I think we named the dirt after our planet, maybe?" Laurel asked as much as said. She wasn't entirely clear on that particular etymology.
"The...original human home world? Oh, um, I mean, I guess? In my universe it's just...where we live." Honestly Laurel was starting to wonder if examining the labels had given her useful data after all. She was talking to an alien and to someone from another universe, and they were both speaking what she recognized as perfect English. Was that strange? That seemed strange. She might have assumed something had happened that was auto-translating things for her...but surely Chaiti wouldn't have recognized the relationship between the world's name and the mundane word earth if it were just some automatic translation...?
Well, her mind was blown. Moving on!
"Yeah, I can do that," she agreed to Ky's request. Best she could tell this was Earth, after all. Although that meant... "Um, Chaiti, you might want to see if you can find something to kinda...obscure your features. Most people on Earth don't actually know that other life forms exist, and sad truth is I can't promise that any given person won't overreact if they see you." To say nothing for Torchwood, but Laurel figured that particular concern probably wasn't a top priority right this second. "I'm going to see if I can't get a better sense of where we are."
That said, she tried the door leading into the larger storefront, and if it opened, would make her way to any windows or exits there might be and see about taking a look outside.A role playing game is three things. It is an interactive story, a game of chance, and a process in critical thinking.
If brevity is the soul of wit, I'm witty like a vampire!
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2017-09-21, 03:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Why would you think that most humans don't kn-Augh!"
Ky recoiled as if he'd been stung. This woman was from Earth's pre-colonial period! That meant that he'd been giving her spoilers! Such a grievous breach of protocol. He clamped his jaw shut, so as not to let any more information escape. He'd have to be much more careful from now on.
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2017-09-21, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Attempting to Locate Disguiseingenuity 5 + knowledge alien cultures + 4 + (1d6)[4](1d6)[2]
Chaiti rummaged through the room to try to find something. If Laurel was shocked by her visage then she wouldn't want to spook the natives. Though part of her was curious if she would be the first alien that they would encounter. Would that really be such a bad thing, to be a first?
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2017-09-25, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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The door offered Laurel no resistance as she headed out through the store front and in to the open air. Outside the sky was grey and overcast and wherever they were had clearly seen better days, bar the building she had just come from (a faded sign above the door helpfully identified it as the gift shop) the other buildings that lined the small tarmac street were collapsing collections of masonry held together by weeds, each was tagged by graffiti of an eye that Chaiti would easily be able to recognise...
One way down the street lead to a series of rusted turnstiles beyond which lay an empty car park, it's lines dulling and a few street lights dingily flickering on and off every few seconds. Looking the other way the street split off in to three directions, in the middle a warped sign post helpfully showed the way to 'Amusement Alley', 'Haunted House' and the 'Big Top'.
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2017-09-25, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: OOCI swear to God Dodgeson if Grandier shows up...
Laurel surveyed the area quickly, calling back into the shop, "It looks like just an abandoned carnival or something. I think we're...well, relatively clear, anyway." She cased the area more carefully, looking for anything that could give her some manner of indication where they were. A city skyline, newspaper on the ground, whatever.
SpoilerMy instincts are telling me to roll Awareness + Ingenuity, but my inexperience is telling me to not just throw an arbitrary die roll and instead let the GM tell me if I should roll something. So I'mma do that one.A role playing game is three things. It is an interactive story, a game of chance, and a process in critical thinking.
If brevity is the soul of wit, I'm witty like a vampire!
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2017-09-25, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: OOCDid Chaiti step outside with Laurel? If so, did she succeed in making a disguise?Last edited by SailorGallifrey; 2017-09-25 at 08:01 PM.
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2017-09-25, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: OOCThat was addressed in the OOC thread a few days ago. Dodgeson has been waiting for your response there.
The top of a very cautious head poked out of the shop door. It was eventually followed by the rest of Ky. He walked like someone in a minefield. Every step into this foreboding place seemed to promise danger.
"T-this isn't at all what I expected. We were brought here by extremely advanced technology. Why would a-anyone go to such lengths just to show us an abandoned recreational facility?"Last edited by Anyr; 2017-09-25 at 11:00 PM.
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2017-09-26, 07:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Chaiti didn't have much luck this time in coming up with an impromptu disguise. She nonchalantly shrugged her shoulders and preceded to follow Ky out of the store.
"Every ruin has a story to tell. There has to be some reason why we were brought here,", her eyes were suddenly glued to the familiar runes scattered around the abandoned park
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2017-09-27, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Well I wish someone w-would just tell us that reason. There's no point in...in...Are you all right? Did you see something?"
Ky followed the path of Chaiti's gaze. She seemed transfixed by some graffiti. He couldn't really see what was so interesting about it.
"It's just an eye, isn't it? That sort of s-symbol is common across the universe."
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2017-09-27, 08:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Chai-I've seen this eye before-ti,"she slipped into her native colloquialism. "Chai-I was studying this before we met-ti." She gingerly traced the symbol on the wall in front of her with one hand while the other went to retrieve her field journal.
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2017-09-29, 12:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Unfortunately for Laurel there appeared to be no hints as to their location nearby, the only things on the ground were weeds pushing their way up through the tarmac under her feet and the skyline was dominated by the apex of a rusty rollercoaster, a bone dry log flume and a drop ride that creaks and sways in breeze that doesn't actually seem to exist. Even looking back towards the car park yielded no luck, the skyline in that direction was bare as far as the eye could see.
((Chaiti and Ky can both roll Ingenuity+Knowledge to try and identify the Eye))
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2017-10-02, 11:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ky made one last nervous sweep of the area. As far as he could tell, there were no more clues to be found here. If he wanted to get off this planet, he needed to move. One foot hesitantly stepped forward; Then the other. Slowly, carefully, Ky walked towards the park's entrance. Maybe there was civilisation outside it?