thefolder | play, play, play! (april 2013-- game start!)

Characters: EVERYONE!
When: 4 March 2013
Where: Terminal Room or all over town!
What: An open mingle log for everyone to play in!

The Digital World had been having a great deal of earthquakes the last six months. The first was the largest of them and had ended in the shifting of the planes. Since then earthquakes happened periodically, often sending new Chosen Children with it. At first it was Chosen that the Digital World knew and rejoiced, but now and then it would send new Chosen.

Today was different, however. The earthquake that rattled the Digital World felt almost as bad as the first, but there was a difference this time. Suddenly dozens of children were making their way to the Digital World. Destiny was calling and so were their partners...

Every chute in the Terminal Room activated while the small Digimon known as Culumon trembled with excitement. There were so many lonely Digimon that had appeared recently and--finally-- their partners had arrived!

OOC: Feel free to mark your characters in different locations! They can be just arriving in the Terminal Room you read about in the arrival post or anywhere on the map! Also feel free to mark the day for each thread. You can also request to play with Culumon, too! Have fun, guys!

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Shepard is in the process of fiddling with her new electronics to try to figure out if she can call the Normandy on them when a familiar whoosh announces the opening of a door. She looks up from the screen just as a girl in black is deposited on the floor.

Monodramon yelps in surprise next to her, having been completely absorbed in staring at Shepard in a way that she found, frankly, a little bit creepy. Shepard responds quickly, abandoning the gadgets on the table to sprint across the room. She drops to her knees and checks to see if the girl is awake, if she's breathing.

"Hey! Can you hear me?"

God, this girl can't be more than 15, she shouldn't be here.

She's breathing, but it's hard to tell if she's awake. There's something strange going on, too -- There are parts of her that are... flickering. It looks like lines of code, glowing with light. She isn't being patched up, since she doesn't appear to be injured...

"Nn..." The girl trembles a little, and then her eyes flutter open.

That's about all that can be seen, though, thanks to the hood pulled over her head.

Shepard's mind flashes briefly back to an encounter involving a very immoral scientist and a whole lot of geth, but she shakes it off immediately. Something is going on with this girl, but it might just be electrical charge from the tube or one of the electronics in the room. Shepard can figure out why she's flickering later.

She carefully slips her hands under the girl's arms and gently pulls her up into a sitting position, ducking her head down to make eye contact. Her voice is softer now.

"Can you talk? I've got you."

Someone warm is... Xion is breathing. The voice is unfamiliar. A woman's voice. Who...? Red hair. For a very brief, very confusing moment, Axel's name is on her tongue, but no, not right, not right.

"I..." What is this? What's going on? "A dream...?"

Okay, this girl is together enough mentally that she's able to talk. That's good. Shepard leaves an arm firmly around her shoulders, making sure she doesn't end up back on the floor.

"Unfortunately not. Are you hurt anywhere? Can you tell me your name?"

Is she hurt? She doesn't know. But her name...

"Xion." That part, she can do. Her name is Xion. No. XIV of the Organization, wielder of the Keybl...

Her eyes snap open and she jerks almost out of the woman's arms. "No -- Sora -- !"

Xion. Alright, the girl's got a name.

"Okay, Xion, it's going to--"

Shepard certainly wasn't expecting Xion to panic, but she tightens her grip.

"Woah, woah, calm down, hey, you're okay, it's alright. Who is Sora? Is she a friend of yours?"

Hey, it sounds like a feminine name to Shepard.

This can't be happening. If she's here -- If she's here, and she isn't where she's supposed to be, if it didn't work, then Sora --

"I can't be here." She tries to fight her way out of Shepard's hold. "I have to find Riku." He'll know what to do. "I can't -- "

Xion reaches out to summon a corridor of darkness...

... and nothing happens.

"What -- ?"

Shepard isn't about to let Xion up, because damn, this girl seems to be having some kind of panic attack, if she's injured, she shouldn't be moving around like this.

"Alright, Xion, I'm going to need you to calm down, okay? Do you know how you got here? We'll find your friends, but you need to tell me what's going on so I can help you."

Being the adult in the room comes naturally at this point, and Shepard has almost forgotten about Monodramon at this point. The little dragon is standing nearby, looking awkwardly between the two humans. What do?

Calm down? How can she calm down?!

"I can't be here, I can't, it's not possible, I should be with Sora, if I don't go back, he'll never wake up, I can't -- "

At the very least, she knows there's no point in trying to get up on her own, because whoever this woman is won't let her. It adds to her frustration, but she wants to know, and Xion has to make her understand that this cannot be happening.

Shepard is suddenly very glad of all of her training in dealing with soldiers who have just watched friends die. They tend to protest with similar ways.

"Is your friend sick? Do you know where they are? Are they somewhere in the building?"

Because, hey, she doesn't know where that tube comes from. Maybe she fell in here after being kidnapped from somewhere else.

Questions -- This person wants to help? That's enough to shift Xion's demeanor, ever-so-slightly. (~~You have improved Xion's attitude towards you +1 step.~~)

"He's asleep, and if I don't give his memories back to him, he won't wake up." The words come out in a rush. Her mind is going so fast that the consideration that she shouldn't be saying this to a stranger doesn't occur to her yet. "I don't -- I don't know... if he's here..." But she's slowing down now, because the thought that Sora might be here also hasn't occurred to her yet. Which also begs the question, "Where... Where am I...?"

So, giving someone their memories? Shepard's not sure what that means, but it sounds like children's logic for someone with a head injury, and this girl seems young enough that it might be.

"I'm not sure where we are, I got here the same as you did. But we'll look for your friend, okay? There are lots of people here, maybe somebody knows where he is."

Especially if the person they're looking for really is someone with a head injury.

That... Xion's still confused, because, because because because, nothing about this makes sense, but -- even this woman is confused, since she doesn't know where they are. So... It'll be okay, maybe. Maybe.

But she doesn't have to find the answers alone. Not right now.

She nods mutely.

play, play, play! (april 2013-- game start!)

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