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The Legion [Mods] ([personal profile] letsgolegion) wrote in [community profile] legionmissions2017-01-15 07:55 am

SILENT HORIZON - [Part 2: Facing the Faceless/Escape] [modplot]

Who| Everyone in Silent Horizon plot
What| Fighting the Faceless, a perilous escape, and a chance to have a breather
Where| In the In-Between, the Silent Horizon, and then the Legion Cruiser
When| Chronologically, only hours have passed in the outside world from when the team disappeared, but it's up to players whether their characters perceived it as being hours or days
Warnings/Notes| Gore, blood, body horror, all the usual


They hear the voice again, calling out to them. Not the Faceless, not the dark whispers of this world. It's the same tinny voice that warned them, that told them not to give into the Faceless' offer. It's the voice that told them their Phalanxed teammates can still be saved if the Faceless is killed in time before they die.

It calls out again. Wherever they are, whatever the landscape is doing, they can hear it.

"I know you have no reason to trust me. I know you've been probably hearing lots of voices in this place, telling you all kinds of things. But I'm trying to help you. There's a way to end this, to stop the Faceless. Just follow my voice. My language synthesizer is broadcasting in the telepathic range like telepathic earplugs and I've managed to reconfigure it to broadcast through the entire In-Between. You should be hearing it wherever you are and you should be able to use its broadcast strength to navigate. I think I've managed to secure it from the Faceless and his Phalanx but there's no way to be sure."

How loud the voice is changes as they get closer or farther away. They can use it to navigate, albeit very crudely. And now that it's clearer, it's far more recognizable: it's the voice of the Robotican in the horrible footage that played before they were taken -- the one that had his head knocked off.

"My name is N-45LEN/Keth Series. My organic crewmates call --" He pauses, and sounds distraught. "--called me Lenny. I was a crew member of the Silent Horizon. This entire dimension is called the In-Between. It's made up of the body of the Faceless and I'm currently trapped at its core. I can see you Legionnaires from here through...what appears to be some kind structure for processing what equates to ocular stimuli for the Faceless. If any of you get lost, I can see enough to guide you here."

If they need it, they'll find that he can give them individualized directions, no matter what the landscape does, and he can give them to multiple people simultaneously. Having a complex processor for a brain has its perks.

"My organic teammate and I managed to discover the core of the Faceless and its nature, but I'm currently incapacitated and Bob...he just lost it. He nearly destroyed what was left of me and ran off before we could stop the Faceless. I saw him eventually accept the Faceless' offer and turn. If you make it here where I am, you may be able to destroy the Faceless' body enough to kill him, save your teammates, and destroy this dimension once and for all."

A pause.

"And if you could maybe take me with you when you leave, uh, I would appreciate that. Like, a lot."

[ooc post here]
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-01-26 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
76 immediately balks at the use of “friends”, but all he offers her is a sort of noncommittal noise in the back of his throat. He sort of wonders how he got to the point where it’s easier to hear a joke about how he just tried to kill her than it is to hear her call him a friend. Even the prospect of facing the Legion, the press, the public—he’d rather take that than accept friendship.

“They’ll have to catch me first.”

That is not a joke—he is entirely serious about that.
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[personal profile] vata 2017-01-27 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
That pulls a grin from her. A real, honest grin, her stare entirely fixed so he knows exactly how responsible he is for it.

"Don't say that too loudly, vato. You don't want to tip them off to your daring escape before it's even started."

Not that they probably aren't already anticipating more than a few Legionnaires bypassing the arrival process. She'd like to count herself among them (she could if she wanted to, after all) but the less of a disturbance she makes now, the better it is for her in the long run.

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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-01-28 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Really, he'd welcome the challenge, but he feels like voicing the sentiment will just invite more grins like that from Azúcar, so he refrains. 76 doesn't quite know how to deal with this kind of teasing, a sort of camaraderie--well, he does, but that part of him is long-buried. Instead, he offers a sound in the back of his throat that might be a laugh as he leans back a little on the bed.

"I'll let you get some rest."

Lord knows they all need it--and it's a convenient exit from the situation, to boot.
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[personal profile] vata 2017-01-28 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
She does. More than she'd like to admit, she needs it.

And there's such a weariness in those few seconds between breaths when they aren't talking, but it's steeped in shock, in survival instincts that want nothing more than for her to stay alert and active against the logical fact that it's over. Done.

"Si te quedas conmigo, lo haré por ti."

Not that Sombra has it in her to wait for an answer before she's shut her eyes again, shoulders going slack by degrees. Whether he leaves or stays is up to him.

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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-01-28 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He laughs a bit--and it sounds more real this time, an indication that he understands. But it's a nervous sound, too, and he doesn't seem entirely comfortable with the sentiment behind the words.

Still, Jack waits. Not very long, but he watches her eyes close and her breathing slow. He's not sure if she's asleep or not by the time he stands up and finds another part of the medbay to haunt, but either way, the sentiment is there.