Mission Vision -- very early in the morning of Imagination Day 6 [Video]

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin falls out of his bunk, as usual when waking from a mission vision. CRASH! He hits the floor, his blankets entangled with his legs, his right shoulder striking the floor with a thud. Luckily Elves don't break bones easily, but his shoulder is going to hurt. He scrambles to the ICP. ]

Wouldn't you know it, I've just had another prophetic dream. [ He shakes his head and drags his hand through his disordered black hair. ]

Didn't like the looks of this one, either.

I was in a jungle, and it was pleasant enough. Sun shining down through the branches, forest sounds, nice. But suddenly the light intensified, and something seemed wrong with it. I ran to the next clearing and gazed up at the sky, and what I saw was ominous. The sky had turned a glaring dark red and was getting darker by the moment. And then everything grew still, as though the world had stopped. I did not have time to react to that, or wonder what it meant. Abruptly the ground shook under my feet, and the dust rose, and there was fire everywhere, and I heard screams, screams, and more screams. And then I woke up.

Damn if this doesn't seem to me like another candidate for an aborted mission! What the hell happens to the mission world? Is it self-destructing, or is it attacked by unknown forces? Or is this some simple natural disaster?

[ Still shaking his head. He grabs for his jacket and pulls it on. ]

Did anybody else have this dream? Or any variation of this dream?

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[luckydragonsfoot]

[Suffice to say, Katsuya looks. Well.

Panicked. It takes him a bit to respond- his own bunkmates no doubt had to answer his own nightmare cries, but-]

S....so did I ever uh...say anythin' abou' th' one time I tried t' stop a vision?

...

Cause it didn't end great.

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin gives him a concerned look. ]

No, you didn't. Was that here on the train, or before in your own world? What happened?

[luckydragonsfoot]

It uh. It was...

[He has to breathe for a minute, honestly- aside from the direct past life connections, there's the whole matter of talking about it at all, but with what they both probably saw- !]

Ages ago, back home yeah. But th' way I've been havin' my visions 'n stuff hasn't changed b'tween th' two, y'know..? An'...

...An' back then, saving a kid tha' was s'pposed t' die...for a whole year after, 's village wen' through hell, an' then got slaughtered. I...

Th..There's gotta be a way t' recover righ', from whatever we saw, righ'? If there ain't...an' we pr'vent it...

...I don' want to think about what would happen tha's worse...

[dreamtamer]

Are you okay? That sounds like an awful dream.

[But... It wasn't that Takato doubted him. He'd had strange dream experiences of his own before. ]

How do you know it was prophetic?

[so_dark_a_road]

Yes, I'm okay. [ He rubs his shoulder and makes a face. ]

I know it was a prophetic dream because I've had them before, in my own world, in other worlds, and on the train. On the train, every time we are about to embark on a mission, I have some sort of dream about it. The dreams always come true.

[dreamtamer]

That happens every time?

[That was amazing. But if they were bad dreams, it also sounded terrible. ]

[blue_ice]

Another day, another disaster. It...does sound familiar, like the last time we were evacuated.

[so_dark_a_road]

Yes, that's what I was thinking! What if this is going to be another failed mission, and the train has to pull us out of there? I'm worried for us, and also for the people of that planet if the dream really presages a disaster.

[blue_ice]

The question, then, is can we stop it?

We won't know, but...I don't like the sound of this.

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[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita is already at her SCA, eyes narrowed.]

That's the same dream I had, exactly.

Did we all get the same one?

[It was what Zelda had mentioned; Nerdanel as well. Was it just Orange team, or-

Oh, there was Jonouchi. Blue Team.]

You didn't see any shadows, right? That could mean it's more like that space mission, where it was a more... normal type of threat.

[And she hates that she has to specify in that way.]

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin looks back at her, his own face worried. ]

You had the same dream? That's happened before, that all the passengers who received a dream got the same one. But it doesn't always happen that way. Sometimes it goes by teams, because the teams will be in different areas, so there may be some differences in our viewpoints.

[ That mention of shadows makes him shiver. ] I didn't see any shadow beings like the ones from the aborted mission. But that fiery sky, and the sudden explosion of the jungle? [ He shakes his head. ] That suggests some unknown threat, and it could be anything. A forest fire, fire demons, or maybe a self-destructing planet.

[herarrows]

You too? [She seems more... resigned than anything. This is just what ForeSight is, though she's never quite experienced it that way.]

I've never had a ForeSight dream like this. I can't say as I truly mind all that much of that's what it is.

[so_dark_a_road]

Did you have a dream like that, Selenay? Last night, I mean. [ Foresight! Generator of dreams that will throw you out of your bunk before you're even awake. ]

But you've had other prophetic dreams, in your own world?

If this one turns out to be true, and I expect it will, we may be in trouble.

[marriedanidiot]

Aye my son. The lady Zelda also.

[so_dark_a_road]

Did you and Zelda see the same thing as I did, or was there some variation? I'm sorry, I missed her post.

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[flatteries]

[ Yeah, that.. definitely doesn't sound pleasant. On the other hand, despite not experiencing these dreams and visions himself, Inigo finds himself slowly getting used to it. ]

Aren't they often like that? I mean, most of the time when I hear people talk about them ahead of missions, they sound.. bad. [ Even when the mission itself turns out pretty much fine! ] Maybe whatever is giving you those dreams is very pessimistic.

[ Inigo shakes his head though, more concerned with something else. ]

Are you alright though?

[ Curufin doesn't sound like he's doing great after all, and who could blame him after witnessing that, even just in a dream? ]

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Maybe Inigo is lucky that he doesn't have them! ]

You're right, they are often like that. That is, they warn of dangerous events or of dangerous elements in the mission planet environments. I don't know for sure what is giving me and others these dreams, but if it was the train, I would think that everyone would receive them. As it is, I think it's only the passengers who have some history of prophetic visions. And you may be right about the pessimism. The ability of foresight seems to involve the part of my being that fears that things will always go wrong, that the universe is not constructed to allow events to go unflawed. Maybe it's the same for everybody, visionaries and non-visionaries?

[ He smiles a little, hearing the concern in his friend's voice. ]

I'm all right. I whacked my shoulder when I fell out of my bunk, but I heal fast. By the time we get to the mission planet, the injury won't hinder my sword arm.

And how are you doing, Inigo? It's been a while since we talked.

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[blitzcheer]

S-sheesh. This is creepier than what Zelda was sharin'.

[ Speak about a nightmare! ]

What do you mean about an aborted mission though? Was it that bad?

[so_dark_a_road]

I find it fairly creepy as well!

I meant the aborted mission of seven months ago. Earth months, not train months. We had just got the mission started, when suddenly black clouds appeared in the sky and began to devour the planet. They weren't just clouds, obviously, but some sort of deadly and probably intelligent beings. It only took them minutes to reduce the planet's surface to floating rubble, and I assume they ate the whole planet after we were gone. The train pulled us all out of there, pronto! I was angry about that, since I prefer to stay and fight, however desperate the situation. We left the planet's inhabitants to die. I scolded the train entity about this, and it obviously wasn't pleased to hear from me. I apologized later.

[mtsilver_conquor]

As excited as I am for a jungle of all things, I don't think I like this one.

[He can probably hear the Displeasure in the nature nerd's voice, if not see it on her face.]

My guess is race against time.

[so_dark_a_road]

I don't like it either.

[ He certainly can see the displeasure on Eva's face! And he can't blame her a bit. ]

If this is a race against time, what do you think we should do first, when we arrive on the planet?

[laurefindil]

Same dream, actually.

However, I did not have the same feeling of dread that I did before the aborted mission. It could be this is something preventable?

[so_dark_a_road]

Glorfindel! [ Very glad to hear from him! ]

Of course, you'd have received a dream as well. It was the exact same dream? If you didn't feel the intense dread that went with the aborted mission dream, then I am hopeful. If this disaster is preventable, than we will do all we can.

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[purifyings]

[WHAT ARE ALL THESE VERY SCARY SCENARIOS!? THIS IS NOT FUN TO HEAR, NOT EVEN AS A SCARY STORY!

Nike will be left feeling pensive while listening to Curufin's description of the events he had seen. It was weird meeting someone with an ability like his and Zelda's, and yet she found them to be fascinating as well. It reminded her a little of the telepathic dreams she has with her rain partners. They were both vivid and a little obscure as well. Only showing what needs to be shown.

So, she will try to piece some of the details using the knowledge of the weather and the way her world works because...]

If the sky is turning dark red, like you've said, especially in a jungle while the sun up reminds me of an old saying -- red sky at night; shepherd’s delight. Red sky in the morning; shepherd’s warning.

[Which, honestly, is very clear there is an urgency; however...]

It may be possible the world has abruptly died. No weather disaster can create a sudden red sky with so little time especially in the middle of the day. The only way for it to be possible is if there was a volcanic eruption. Did you see one in your dream anywhere?

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Nobody's crazy about these visions! And yet, they always have them. ]

Hi, Nike! We have a saying like that in my world, too, except it is a sailors' saying. But whether on land or sea, that red sky gives me great concern, too.

No, no volcanic eruption, so far as I can tell. I think there may be other sorts of disasters that can produce a red sky. One is extremely extensive fires, and another is astronomical events.