❧ Just Breathe

[luministimods]

[For days, the zombie invasion of the Luministi town and spacestation has gone on, but through various means, there have been less and less zombies appearing by the day. And now, only a few remain, stubbornly shambling after their prey--

--or rather they were. With a bright, blinding flash of light, their bodies instantly change. No longer are they dead and decaying, but are that of full-fledged living beings with absolutely no desire for brains or flesh of the living. In fact, while they take a moment to blink and look around to see where they are, these townspeople merely shrug and continue on with their business like they did months ago. For them, it's back to their normal routine, and if asked, they won't even remember being a zombie. No one does. Even those who were killed during the fighting are back, right as rain.

But something else has changed.

Something big, yet the sound was so soft and heard by none. A door has been opened...

And from the surprise left in the town square, it seems other metaphorical doors have been opened as well, a fact that the sender of a text message to all of the CATs, is very well aware of:]

Enjoy this respite from chaos while you can.

[The moment that text is sent, anyone still injured will be blinded once again--but will find all wounds have been healed.]


Plot Details: Just Breathe

Welcome to Luministi's Fourth Wall event! If you have never participated in 4th wall with us before, the portion above the cut there is an IC continuation of the story that has been in the making for the past two seasons (a summary of which can be read here if you are curious, but it's not required reading!) Unlike past events, the town is not only fully populated with people who will just talk about mundane things about Luministi, but the pathway to the spacestation via the Mayor's House has been opened. How long that will remain open is anyone's guess, but for now, take advantage of it!

Also, visitors have a choice of physically appearing in the town square or communicating from their own world via the CAT.

Now, for those of you new to the game, the CATs, or Communications Audiovisual Transmitters, are personalized communication devices about the size of your palm, and for this day only, visiting characters will have this device. They'll have found it randomly on their person with no idea how it even got there. From a video broadcast standpoint, you'll be able to see the the immediate surroundings of the person you're talking to. More information about the CATs can be found on the FAQ page, which also has some handy tips about how the game is run and other questions about the game that aren't answered elsewhere in the mod journal. But if you don't see your question answered anywhere, please don't be afraid to ask!

In-game time, this event lasts a day, but you can tag for however long you want!

If visiting players do app into the game they will be able to remember visiting the town (or viewing it in a video feed), as well as everyone they met, the moment they show up in the town of Luministi for real. Yeah for ready-made CR, right?

And for current players, consider this a plot break! I'll have the game's next proper plot update for you guys tomorrow, so enjoy the breather while you can!

This event is the last one the game will hold, unfortunately, as Luminsti is in its final season. All of the storylines and mysteries introduced back in June 2010 when the game first opened will be brought to a close, and how it all does will be up to everyone involved. There are choices to be made and tasks that need to be accomplished--but only if you do it. Not doing something also will result in something, but whether it's for better or worse, well... You'll just have to come along for the ride and see, won't you?

Apps for luministi formally close July 28th, 11:59pm EST. I look forward to seeing everyone here! ♥

Now, let the fourth-walling commence! Have lots of fun~

Comments

[chainsawspistice]

Yes, that's right. It should only be a means of keeping us confined. More immersive than a tangible barrier and less offensive to the eye: a placating illusion.

[She'll start ahead to demonstrate.]

[magicisreal]

[Oh, Rose is coming with. There's a groundedness to this place that labels it definitively not a dream bubble after all.

When they appear at what is presumably some other end of the village, she frowns and narrows her eyes at the direction they just took.]

And if we go back the way we came? Am I to assume we will reappear in the place we stood a few moments ago?

[chainsawspistice]

Yeah.

[She follows Rose's line of sight before looking back at the girl herself.]

Why? Is there something special about it?

[magicisreal]

You don't think such dubious and invisible transportation is special?

[Rose does. She digs in her bag (it was there the whole time, like her arms) and holds out a ball of yarn to Kanaya, keeping the end of the string between her fingers.]

Will you go back through alone? I'd like to see what happens if you hold this.

[chainsawspistice]

Sure.

[She takes the ball and carefully turns it in her hands for a neat unravel as she backs toward the boundary.]

I suppose the alarming regularity of "special" circumstances that has assailed daily life ever since we began playing Sgrub has rendered each one just a little less unique than the last from a purely subjecti--

[She disappears into the barrier, leaving only an amputated end of string floating in her wake.]

[magicisreal]

[One could always count on Kanaya to verbalize her thoughts.

Rose studies the string carefully, holding it out before her and giving it a gentle, experimental tug. Hmm - it isn't broken. But that means it is connected to their entry point, on the other side of town.

She looks up, just in case it's somehow vaulted over their heads, but no. Nothing.]

One mystery after another.

hi

[doggtier]

[So. Where is he.]

hihi

[chainsawspistice]

[Oh, it's him again. She stops unraveling the ball of yarn and stares at him.]

Dave.

[doggtier]

SHIT.

[He starts, visibly tensing for a moment, eyes wild behind his shades. Holy crap, he swears his heart just stopped in the bad way.

And then he sees her and relaxes. Oh, there's one.]

Hey.

[chainsawspistice]

[She glances at the yarn when she feels a tug and gives it a small tug back.]

Were you following us?

[doggtier]

Yeah. [No, not intentionally. But why not. He'd want to follow them anyway. He assumes the "us" includes Rose since he was last with the two of them.] Where're we going?

[He nods to the yarn.] What's that for.

[chainsawspistice]

[She hands him the yarn ball.]

We were going here. As much as "here" can signify two distinct locations divorced by a mile.

[doggtier]

[He takes it. Again, why not.]

Everything you just said almost made sense to me. Practically completely. But okay. So what now.

[magicisreal]

[What now just stepped through the barrier, holding her end of the yarn and- looking suitably what the polite hell when she sees Dave, too.]

Are you certain this isn't a waking dream?

[doggtier]

[There's the other one. Trio's now complete.]

Sup.

[He'll leave the answering to Kanaya because what the hell is even going on.]

[chainsawspistice]

I'm certain. Dave was just following us for some reason.

[She's not even sure what's going on herself now.]

[magicisreal]

Nothing happened to the yarn. That's interesting. [Because Dave following them is fairly standard and doesn't warrant nearly as much speculation as the rest of this issue.] If I had some long enough, I would have told you to keep walking until you reached my location the long way.

[doggtier]

The shocking plot twist in the latest arc on Days of Our Lives on this God Damn Rock: Lalonde doesn't have yarn long enough to take over the world.

[He examines the yarn idly.]

Was something supposed to happen to this though? Looks like a regular ball of sheep pubes to me, but what do I know.

[chainsawspistice]

"Sheep pubes"?

[Rose, can you explain this please.]

[magicisreal]

[To Kanaya:] Woolbeast genital hair?

[To Dave:] With which you seem to have an unusual and easy familiarity. Care to enlighten us?

[doggtier]

Whoa, no. Shut up. I'm not the one fondling them all over the place like Hugh Hefner fondling his string of blondes. [Except he is. Kind of. But he's really just holding it. The line between fondling and holding may seem blurry to some, but it's very clear to him.] You do it.

Anyway it's not my job to know and be psychic. It's yours.

[chainsawspistice]

[Oh, woolbeasts, okay. But now who's Hugh Hefner... Screw it.

Her eyes follow the metaphorical ball as it bounces back into the Lalonde court.]

[magicisreal]

Your combined avoidance of the question and focus on the masculine mascot of sexuality in our nonexistent human culture convinces me that you know quite a bit more than you're letting on.

Since that's not the issue at hand, we can come back to a deeper analysis later.

[doggtier]

I call bullshit. Stop trying to say I'm gay. No, look, we're dropping the subject. And we're not talking about it ever again. Not later. Not ever again. Okay? Okay. Cool.

[He tosses the yarn back to Kanaya. Touching this thing is the last thing he wants to do now.]

So where are we.

[chainsawspistice]

[She catches the ball and absently begins to reel the string back in, tugging it out of Rose's fingers from her end.]

At one of multiple paths leading out of Luministi. If you attempt to proceed past this point, you will appear at a corresponding point on the opposite side of town.

Think of it as an standing transportalizer, only instead of being useful and letting you know what it is via uniform construction and embellishment across devices, it's invisible and doesn't go where you want it to while dangling unattainable distances in front of you every day in clandestine mockery of free will.