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Luceti Mods ([personal profile] lucetimods) wrote in [community profile] lucetilogs2013-08-12 09:29 am
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Post-Event Blues

Who: Everybody, everybody!
What: The battle is won. Now what?
When: The eleventh, twelfth, and onward
Where: Luceti
Summary: With Zompano dead and the cultists routed, Luceti is restored. Kind of.
Rating: F for Feels

On the eleventh, things were slowly breaking down. Memories of their true lives were breaking through. The village, scarred by the battle with the cultists, began to rebuild itself. Community buildings that had vanished were returned to their rightful places. The battle dome was uncovered from the earth that had covered it. Hundreds and hundreds of fake homes slowly faded away. Paved roads gave way to trees and grass. It was an incredible sight for anyone who was willing to sit aroun and watch it happen.

Things wouldn't be easy for the villagers, though. The memories perpetuated by the last ten days would not be easily removed. The feelings and hatreds it had created would take time to conquer and remove. Perhaps, in a way, that was Zompano's nastiest trick of all. The village itself may heal from his invasion, but it would take far more than a few Shifts to fix the people left behind.

Towards the end of the day, their wings returned. Much like some of the buildings, they seemed to just reappear, as if they had never been gone. Their barcodes became visible again as a singular reminder that they were, ultimately, just the property of another entity who as a whole were not much better than Count Zompano.

By the twelfth, the village looked as though nothing had ever happened. Sure, the contents of buildings might have been messed up or destroyed during the battles, but things were otherwise as they were supposed to be. The night before, people would have had to find their old beds to go sleep in, as they no longer possessed the old ones granted to them in another life.

The village was peaceful.

Modly Note: That wraps up the event. As noted in the prose above, you have the option to play up the after effects of the event more than in other ones. While it won't have the same impact universally, the Shift was constructed in such a way that people may have difficulty shaking off the emotions they developed during the event. In effect, it was a cruel send off to Luceti so they would have to deal with the loathing and hatred that came with the less desirable parts of it. Of course, that means the feelings of familial bonds will also persist for awhile as well. It's up to you, as players, to decide how much or little to play with it!
savedtheworld: (resigned)

[personal profile] savedtheworld 2013-08-14 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Aang can't help but feel guilty, himself. He's been trapped here over a year - longer than the entirety of his quest to defeat the fire lord - and he feels no closer to saving everyone from the Malnosso and the Third Party. Sure, it was easy to accept when all these other skilled people faced the same problem. But now that it was being raised in conversation, it was making all them bad feels rise again.]

It is. But at least... It's never permanent. We're always ourselves again, in the end. And if we can keep holding onto that... maybe we can find a way to stop them, someday.
teenwonder: (Star; emo)

[personal profile] teenwonder 2013-08-14 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
Are we ourselves?

I remember being able to escape from traps like these a whole lot faster at home.

[This isn't his first interdimensional rodeo, but it's certainly been the longest.]
savedtheworld: (sickly)

[personal profile] savedtheworld 2013-08-14 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
We are ourselves. We have to be. I... I know it. This place is just - it's different.
teenwonder: (Star; emo)

[personal profile] teenwonder 2013-08-15 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
We might not even have homes to go back to.


I'm tired, Aang.
savedtheworld: (uncomfortable)

[personal profile] savedtheworld 2013-08-17 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Don't say that, Robin. Of course we do.

You... you need a rest. That's all.
teenwonder: (Star; emo)

[personal profile] teenwonder 2013-08-17 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
We all just had a rest.
savedtheworld: (disappoint)

[personal profile] savedtheworld 2013-08-17 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
It was only a rest from being ourselves.

And now that it's over... I know I don't feel rested. At all.

[He clasps at his head, feeling at his head, now thankfully devoid of hair once more. Inside his head is throbbing ache as the new set of memories try to settle in with the others that have built up during his time here in Luceti.]
teenwonder: (Star; emo)

[personal profile] teenwonder 2013-08-17 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
But we've already lost too much time.

[Not that time seems to matter much here. Only as much as anything matters. As much as everything can be taken away.]
savedtheworld: (meditative seriousness)

[personal profile] savedtheworld 2013-08-17 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
We can stand to lose a little more. Especially if it'll help with thinking clearly.
teenwonder: (Star; emo)

[personal profile] teenwonder 2013-08-17 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
What if they don't need our help, Aang?

What if we're not making a difference?
savedtheworld: (lone egghead solitude)

[personal profile] savedtheworld 2013-08-17 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
We have to be, Robin. The longer we're here... the more we're learning about this world, after all. And the closer we're getting to others. Even those events that've been bad... we've been growing from them. We became friends because of one. So if we keep growing, we keep learning and we keep working together... Even it it takes time, we'll make it through this and make things better.
teenwonder: (Star; emo)

[personal profile] teenwonder 2013-08-19 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
We're growing and changing but if we get too close it can all be taken away from us. The people who get sent home forget everything. They can't even send help. If they even really get to go home in the first place.
savedtheworld: (I'll show you firebending)

[personal profile] savedtheworld 2013-08-21 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
They do. I know that I- I did, that one time. And I came back with our memories. But even when people forget.... even when it looks like things're getting reset... there's still even something good left over. And we're still moving forward. An old man named Iroh told me once... he said that life was like a dark tunnel. It was an actual tunnel we were moving through! But he said that... even when you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel... if you keep moving, you're going to find yourself at a better place.