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re_alignment2013-10-30 02:01 pm
re_alignedmods) wrote in re_alignment2013-10-30 02:01 pm
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DOUBLE PILLAR ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY
[It extends upwards as far as the eye can see, vanishing directly into the Lambda. Markings adorn its rough, worn surface, too ancient to read. The material itself seems new, however--a contradiction in forms. All who approach will hear its rhythmic thrumming, a noise pulsing from it with a lulling and dangerous tone. Around it the earth is broken and crumbling, and pieces of debris from the junk pile radiate outward...some of it charred as if burned.
Will you approach?
Examine?
Climb the precarious looking footholds?
Or fall victim to something equally sinister...]
Note: This is the Pillar interaction post! A mod will be observing any threads made here, and will occasionally post with a response from the pillar depending on which actions you take. It is strongly suggested that you approach the pillar with a friend, as the effects of the Pillar's influence are not always pretty. (Also, it's difficult to hold a conversation between a character and a piece of stone.)
BE WARNED--many different outcomes will be administered here. If you don't want your character to be killed/injured/possessed then clear your post with Saeru before making it. All effects (yes, even death) will be temporary (IE not lasting more than three days).
but I don't like one-night stands! Despite my actions
[Pause. And it's not a pause due to Jetfire turning around to face the pillar while he speaks, leaning close in an attempt at reading the faded lines of writing on its surface, but rather because he's suddenly thinking of the differences between what he knows and what's implied in the recordings of the comm. and Starscream's reactions.]
And considering this pillar seems to be the origin of our being here - or the changes to us, depending on what's true since I believe you can accomplish quite a few things with the darker sciences and while this seems to be less... regulated than that--- either way, it would not take you, or us, home.
But into the center of where this goes, and we might be ill-equipped to handle it.
[There might be a small huff there at the end, despite the respect (and caution) he holds for both Megatron and Starscream, because why does no one think of such things? Even if they'd certainly be interesting and, probably ill-adviced, he does another careful, bare push of energy, trying to push past the pillar's... metaphorical surface, while feeling along the edge, not quite touching.
How deep does it go?]
Jetfire's getting all athiestic on us~
Very likely because it knows you're about to realize the following:
The Pillar seems to go to the core. In addition to that, it seems to be 'sucking' an anti-energy through the center of the pillar like a straw--darkness along the outside siphoning light up from the core. This also accounts for why everyone is so attracted to the Pillar--the pulling effect is universally tied to the energy at the center of this Cybertron, which...as best you'd be able to tell, is the same energy in your Glyph.
However, you may not get the chance to tell anyone this immediately since the Pillar WANTS YOU TO TOUCH IT, to the point of letting both Starscream and Megatron go.]
sigh jetfire sigh
[Because everything on this planet seems to be evil. He would know, he is evil.]
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[Megatron takes a step backward from the pillar as if to look up its length...and then pauses. The buzzing sound in his mind has almost completely abated, and things feel...normal?]
Did anyone else feel that?
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[The sudden strengthening of the pull doesn't lessen just because he immediately and reflexively stops the subtle pattern which lets him use the energy he's been probing the pillar with.
Which is a problem, and he can't quite actually hear Megatron's last question because his mind is full. And while he manages to keep a shade of distance between physically touching the pillar and his hand on the ground, it's a matter of seconds.
Less, probably, and maybe sometimes risks aren't worth taking, but it's too late for that and right before he shifts the bit forward needed to put his hand on the pillar, Jetfire thinks of the Fallen, and what he'd attempted to do.]
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[In all honesty Starscream probably would have gone up to the pillar and done something stupid as well (because for some reason he really wanted to), but his sense of Self-preservation was actually working at the moment.]
I swear Jetfire if something explodes because you couldn't keep your hands to yourself ...
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An angle that you'd recognize in yourself.
That, sadly, is precisely what opens the door to allow you to be the perfect vessel for the dark energy contained inside the Pillar.
For the next two days (or some future two days since this is retroactive) you will be a Herald of Unicron. You know he is coming, and you know that the only chance any of these miserable sparks have is to give themselves over to him before they are consumed by him utterly.
You will still be Jetfire underneath the guise...and all your own experiences will taint the new role you've been given...but it is still a role you will have no choice but to fulfill. Go hence, and convert the non-believers. The darkness under your command will cause any whom you touch to fall into a coma, all the better for you to bring them back to the Pillar. You will also have the same strange magnetic attraction as the Pillar itself, making anyone you encounter slightly easier pray.]
[This does have a counter-affect. Because both Megatron and Starscream had to be ignored by the Pillar in order for it to entrap Jetfire, they are both strangely immune to his touch and will be immune to the call of the Pillar for the same two days which Jetfire is influenced. After that, everyone will return to how they were before.]
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[Megatron is frowning at the jet, now, trying to put together the idea that this isn't his Starscream so of course he would be different, but also not understanding how or why.]
Are you alright?
[Because clearly the person who is crazy right now is Starscream.]
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Nothing will be exploding at this exact moment, but sooner or later, simply by natural laws, it will perish. This is but a small evidence of such. [Of course, calling the pillar "small" as Jetfire laid a hand on it again, was a severe understatement. But there was a vague hope that if he could keep talking, perhaps he wouldn't move.]
And no, I don't feel particularly alright. I don't appreciate having facts thrust riight into my processor without any supporting evidence.
[That was the only thing untainted by the need and want to make sure he (the master) had no opposition, and to spare everyone currently on Cybertron the potential of having to be alive when he arrived - the annoyance over having the knowledge of the Geometry of Dissolution and the angles of such, so elegantly obvious, just... put in his processor.]
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[He eyes Jetfire a bit more.]
That and people stupidly touching things they probably shouldn't stupidly be touching.