forasecond: (Rough)
Number Five ([personal profile] forasecond) wrote in [community profile] metaverses2022-08-17 10:43 am

{Fever inside the storm

Who: Number Five [personal profile] forasecond & OTA
What: Crisis On Infinite Dreamwidths catch-all
When: Aug 12-18, 2022
Where: MetaHumans universe + A Nexus (details inside)
Content Warnings: Five comes with a bucket of warnings, including:
• Mental-physical age discrepancy (he looks 13, he's mentally 58)
• Well-hidden trauma and PTSD symptoms, potential depression/anxiety descriptions, some obsessive behaviors being exhibited at times
• Alcohol-as-a-coping-mechanism which technically presents as underage drinking
• Casual/flippant references to child abuse/neglect
• Violence, liberal use of violent threats, potentially flippant talk about murder and references to his time as an assassin
• In general, he can be aggressive, incredibly reactive, and generally come off as an asshole. These are risks in tagging with him that aren't feasibly curved without being untrue to the character.

Other Notes: HMU on Five's HMD / @loyalwolf[#3540] on plurk[/discord] for something specific!

these golden ashes turn to dust.



The Nexus
ARRIVAL
You show up in a desolate, dilapidated city that has seen better days. The buildings that remain intact are futuristic in their architecture, with sweeping lines, sharp angles, and geometric shapes that seem impossible but some have even withstood whatever ravaged this place so thoroughly.
EXPLORATION
Care needs to be taken as you explore the broken, inhospitable city. Electricity is spotty at best in the few places it seems to still work at all, but powerlines might have enough juice left to harm. Buildings and homes are in various states of disrepair with weak floors. Edible food is hard, though not impossible, to come by. Best to stick with anything you might find in a can.
SURVIVAL
When night falls, it becomes eerie, the lines made by the architechture seem sinister, and there's something humming or clicking in the distance- or is that just your imagnation? You might find yourself faced with a semi-sentient machine, twisted and changed by some magic or other means long-past. You better find an escape route or dismantle it and quickly, because it's coming for you.
ESCAPE
At some point, you see it: a small, shimmering break in the ground you were about to step on, in the wall of the building you're next to or the relfective glass of a broken down car. You see it, and somehow, instinctively, you just instinctley know it will lead you somewhere safe and warm. You're going home.
grivences: (family video 02)

[personal profile] grivences 2022-08-19 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Excelsior sucks. Robin's never been a big city kind of girl, but even if she had loved cities before now, the past four hours she's spent in Excelsior would have rid her of that dumb idea.

All she'd tried to do was toast herself a bagel, before the toaster tried to burn her hand. Then grab a juice from a fridge, only to have the fridge try to slam its door on top of her fingers, and hop menacingly away from the wall as of it was thinking about toppling itself on top of her.

Okay, so no breakfast.

She hops onto a city bus, aiming to go back downtown to where it might be safer, or to where she can teleport to one of the other cities, but quickly it becomes clear that the driver has lost control of this bus. It speeds down the street, ignoring all stoplights and bus stops, careening into parked cars left, right, and center. Everyone in the bus is losing their minds, Robin included, but thankfully she's a quick enough thinker to bust open the emergency exit window and start carefully shepherding passengers off of the runaway bus, instructing them to tuck and roll when they land.

Finally, just as Robin gets the last of the other passengers free, the bus takes a sharp left and hits the brakes hard, knocking Robin ass over teakettle, tumbling forwards down the aisle, knocking her head on the arm rail as she goes. Bruised, dizzy, and a little pissed off, Robin's eyes go wide as the bus takes off again, careening straight for an intersection, where it looks like they're about to run down a lone teenage boy!
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[personal profile] grivences 2022-08-25 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Jeeeesus Christ!" is about all Robin is able to get out at first as the teenager fucking teleports straight onto the bus with her. She knew, vaguely, that people here have superpowers, but it's another thing to see one up close and personal when you're hurtling 50 miles per hour down a city street. She blinks, and shakes her head vigorously, trying to clear the ringing in her ears from when she fell.

"No, it's just me. I got everyone else out." It's like the bus has it in for her, specifically...

She should have fucking stayed in Central City.
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[personal profile] grivences 2022-08-27 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"The sign said it was cutting edge technology!" Robin is really regretting being impressed by the driverless bus right now.

The teenager seems so confident that he can save their asses. Robin feels like she's still ten steps behind... How did he go from being in front of the bus one second, to right by her side the next?

But... What options does she have? She takes a deep breath, looks him in the eye, and nods.

"Whatever you're going to do... Do it."

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nepotis: (Harry TASM2 128)

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[personal profile] nepotis 2022-08-21 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Five has been good to Harry. Peter may not have been around much, in the months since Harry got to this universe, but now that Harry knows the truth, he's been avoiding not only his own Peter, but the other Peters as well. Which means the people Harry has to rely on are getting fewer and farther between. So when Five offered to let Harry crash with him for a while, well. They both needed the company.

Harry is upstairs, drying his hair after a shower, when he hears a commotion coming from downstairs— stuff falling, dishes breaking, the airy zap! of Five's power, flitting this way and that. Harry drops the hair dryer, rushing downstairs and stopping short at the sight of Five prone on the floor. ]


Jesus Chri— dude, what the hell?

[ He hurries to Five's side, kneeling and trying to turn him over, make sure he's okay. ]

Five...? Five? Talk to me.
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[personal profile] nepotis 2022-08-27 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry lets himself be pushed back, rolling his eyes when Five disappears again. He stands, trying to follow the sound of someone moving to figure out where the hell Five went to this time. Luckily, the house is empty aside from them and the dog, so it isn't hard to find him in the kitchen.

He enters the room, leaning against the doorframe as he watches Five busy himself cleaning.

"You're clearly not fine. Will you just fucking talk to me?"
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[personal profile] nepotis 2022-08-29 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Once Five stops moving and settles in against the counter, Harry stalks over to stand in front of him, looking less concerned now and more annoyed.

"What.. fucking... happened? You just flipped the fuck out, out of nowhere? What's going on man?"

They can settle on an action to take when he gets all the fucking details of what they're dealing with.

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[personal profile] tinglesense 2022-08-22 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Peter's only been back in Excelsior for a couple chaotic days. An unfortunate side-effect of the whole technomancy thing is that sentient AIs realise they can mess with him. Some of them are fine and curious and even friendly, but some of them are outright hostile. And computers are everywhere so it's pretty constant.

He slips into the coffee shop just for a caffeine jolt, not intending to hang out. But he spots Five on his way outside again just...apparently doing fine here. It's noisy outside, car alarms going off and things like that, the sentient computers just exploring what that means. Loudly.

He stops by Five's table.

"That dog is so chill for all the craziness happening right now," he says.
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[personal profile] tinglesense 2022-08-30 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Peter manages a smile at that. He's trying!

"Mind if I join you guys for a little bit?" He asks. He's not nearly as good at blotting out the noise, of course. Between super senses that already make it difficult and the whole technomancy thing, he's on wild overload. But he's also…kind of used to that part.

"Did you get to see any crazy other universes?"
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[personal profile] tinglesense 2022-09-07 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Peter slides into the seat across from Five, making sure to offer pets to his dog. That's just polite, okay! And maybe a little self-serving because dogs are great, whatever.

He sighs and looks down at his coffee. There's a lid in the way, no dark depths (or…tan depths) to stare into.

"Uh. Yeah, a couple places. One of them was kinda cool, except everyone turned into monsters once a month? One of them was…honestly hell. Some people had lived in that place for years and I have no idea how."

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[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-08-22 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
This isn't the first nexus world that Sephiroth has been to, and maybe it won't be the last during all this chaos, but it's easily the emptiest. He can get by longer than the average person without food or rest, so in that sense it doesn't concern him. The ruins aren't especially familiar either; this isn't the demise of anything he cares about. And yet it's... uncomfortable, somehow, walking this place alone.

In the absence of other sounds, Five's muttered curse is quite clear, even from a fair distance away. Sephiroth approaches near enough to observe. A child?

Probably not a normal child, whether he was brought here from the Confluence Earth or whether this is his world. Not that Sephiroth has a great handle on what normal children are like. Still, just in case he's intimidated by a 6'7" man in black, he'll keep his distance.

"...hello."
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[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-08-24 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Alert is good. Alert is the appropriate state of being in a place like this, and that makes it something he can understand. Sephiroth moves a few steps closer, looking the boy over. No, he'd probably be in worse shape if this were his world.

"I take it you've been displaced here as well."

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