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apocalypsehowcomm2022-10-14 10:46 am
ferriswheelsandfootball) wrote in apocalypsehowcomm2022-10-14 10:46 am
Network | Video | Open
Who: John Sheppard
Username: Pegasus
Warnings: None so far!
[He’s not entirely unused to video calls, but it’s still a little weird being on earth and doing this on a network. Up to speed on the general gist of things in this world, he’s settled enough to start worrying about other things. On screen, there’s a man in what looks like some sort of vague military uniform, complete with tactical vest.]
Hi. Hello? I guess I should introduce myself—John Sheppard. Lieutenant Colonel. Air Force. I like Ferris wheels and football. Now you know everything about me.
Anyway, I figure this is the fastest, easiest way to get the word out, but I’m looking for my team. I don’t know if they made it to this world with me, but you can’t miss ‘em. They’ll be looking for me, and dressed like me, except one guy is about this tall— [He makes a gesture that shows this dude is really tall] Anyway, that’s Ronon. Teyla and Rodney would probably be with him unless we all got separated.
And on the off chance it’s just me here, well. That sucks.
While I think about how much that sucks, what does anyone do for fun around here?
Username: Pegasus
Warnings: None so far!
[He’s not entirely unused to video calls, but it’s still a little weird being on earth and doing this on a network. Up to speed on the general gist of things in this world, he’s settled enough to start worrying about other things. On screen, there’s a man in what looks like some sort of vague military uniform, complete with tactical vest.]
Hi. Hello? I guess I should introduce myself—John Sheppard. Lieutenant Colonel. Air Force. I like Ferris wheels and football. Now you know everything about me.
Anyway, I figure this is the fastest, easiest way to get the word out, but I’m looking for my team. I don’t know if they made it to this world with me, but you can’t miss ‘em. They’ll be looking for me, and dressed like me, except one guy is about this tall— [He makes a gesture that shows this dude is really tall] Anyway, that’s Ronon. Teyla and Rodney would probably be with him unless we all got separated.
And on the off chance it’s just me here, well. That sucks.
While I think about how much that sucks, what does anyone do for fun around here?
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But mostly I was saying that there are things that will pull images of the people you love out of your mind and use them to try to make you walk into something stupid.
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[Imagine meeting your friends but they’re from the past, or the future…man, this stuff gives him a a headache sometimes.]
Really. I’ve seen something like that before. Different instances even, but the most malevolent one was a dream entity…thing.
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[Her head cants slightly, attention sharpening.]
How did you deal with your dream creature?
cw: medical procedures, death
The entity came from a kind of living crystal that grows on trees, literally, and if you're near it, it compels you to touch it. This one got me to touch the crystal, and hopped a ride in my psyche or something, as one does, and traveled from person to person via touch. It would look like me in their dreams, and scare them so bad to feed off their fear. Eventually the fear was so bad people started dying from it.
[There's guilt in his voice, since it came from something he did, and it looked like him...]
Anyway, we got rid of it by confronting the entity in our dreams. The scientists in our group came up with a way of entering a shared dream through altering this virtual reality machine, or something like that, so I could go in and help my friend. We figured out this entity was vulnerable to electric shock, so they shocked me and managed to get it back into its original crystal.
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So, did they destroy it once it was back in its box? Or just lock it away with a lot of biohazard warnings?