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voidtreckernet2020-11-11 03:31 pm
so_dark_a_road) wrote in voidtreckernet2020-11-11 03:31 pm
Mission Vision -- very early in the morning of Imagination Day 6 [Video]
[ 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?
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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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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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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I'm fine though, of course. [ As if he'd ever say anything else. ] Although I do suppose that dream you had means we ought to start preparing ourselves.
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You're really fine, Inigo? [ Curufn is hard to fool about these things. ] Yes, we ought to start preparing. The dreams usually happen within a day or two of the actual mission.
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[ It sounds genuine enough. Are there some things still faintly bothering him? Of course, but doesn't everyone have stuff like that? He supposes he's as generally fine as anyone can get on this train. ]
Even after hearing that vision. I'm not too worried, I mean.. we've solved everything during every mission so far, right? [ Let's just ignore the one that got cut short. ]
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It's true, we have a history of solving problems on these missions. I guess we have reason to remain hopeful. [ Yep, we'll just ignore that aborted mission for now! ]
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[ So surely someone... will know how to prevent fiery hellscapes, right? Hopefully. Please. ]
There's no way we should just let one bad vision bring us down. We're building our own future.
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[ Curufin seconds that motion! Let somebody know how to prevent a fiery hellscape, please! ]
You're right, of course. We're on the train for the foreseeable future, and we're Void Warriors, and whatever we want we must expend the energy and the hope to create.
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Is that our official title? Or did you think of that?
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[ Thinking about it.. Curufin is one of the few people left at this point who's been here about as long as he has, huh? Or no, maybe even longer than him.. It's kind of hard to think about at this point for Inigo - after a while the time all just starts blurring together. ]
That sounds a little aggressive though, doesn't it? It's not as if we are attacking anyone! But I guess there's no helping it if you like it.
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[ Now, that is true. Curufin and Inigo have both been on the train for quite a while, and there are not many people left from those early days. The time just goes by. ]
I think I like the term Void Warriors because it suits me and my past history. It's true, we don't go to the mission planets to attack anyone, and if there is fighting it is because somebody or something attacks us. Or else it is the innocent citizens of those planets who are attacked, and we are the designated protectors.
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Earth months?
[ Look, he knows months, but.. he's not from Earth, even though he's heard people talk about it, so.. ]
Are those the months you use back home? Do you know how long those are compared to the months here?
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But the months I'm talking about are based on about 30 solar days per month, whereas the Elvish months are around twice as long. When I refer to time, I usually use the system I and other Elves adopted after the mortal race began to migrate all over the continent of Middle-earth, and since we were connected with them in trade and war alliances, we adopted their calendar for most purposes. That's what I mean when I refer to Earth months. Each one is just a little longer than a lunar month. That's the mortal system.
The train's calendar consists of months that are about twice as long as the Earth months I'm talking about. But my time sense still works, even though I'm not in my own world, so that's how I know I've been here for a little over fourteen months, Middle-earth time or mortal time.
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Inigo isn't quite sure if it's because he's just dumb, or because all of this is way over his head, or maybe it's since he's still distracted at least partially by the visions - but he can't really make heads nor tails of what Curufin just said. It's all a little bit too much.
So he just.. nods a little.. let's just pretend he understood that somehow. ]
Ah, I see.. It must be nice to be able to tell time on the train then. [ At least he seems to have grasped that much from it? Though he doesn't know how Curufin does it. Magical elf powers, probably. ] I have no idea with how strange everything here is, really.
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It is nice to have a back-home clock in my head. [ Snicker. He's laughing at himself, not at Inigo. ]
But I agree, everything is strange here. Any mental tools we have that can help us, go for it! Including visions, confusing as they can be.
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Well, some of us don't have any to begin with!
[ He's not including his connection to Naga, since that just seems.. pretty much useless here.. ]
We can't all be as fancy as you, Curufin!
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Oh, who cares anyway? Time is an obsession that not everybody needs to have. Is time always on our side? Nope! Why should you be on its side?
Besides. . . [ Grin. ] That's probably a good thing, if not everybody is as fancy as me?
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[ Maybe he doesn't need to go full elf, okay, Inigo thinks it'd be pretty weird to live that long, for example.. But some elf things seem to be pretty cool. ]
It's easy to start to feel like being an ordinary guy is bad when you're surrounded by so many extraordinary people like here on the train.
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Oh, I dunno. I don't really think of you as being ordinary, Inigo. There's something about you that is just not ordinary. I can't pinpoint what it is, but I believe in you.
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You know, maybe that's just you having a bit too much faith in me! Or just you being too nice. All I'm good at is doing my best.