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+++ playground:cosmere_crossover [2022/04/12 04:10] (current)
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-====== Playground: Cosmere Crossover ======
+====== Playground: Cosmere Crossover, or, The Thrilling Adventures of Chainsaw, Blow Boy and Oberon the Absent, a Tale in Far Too Many Parts ======
 @Elias, We're making this happen. I don't mind you suggesting edits to things I've written, but please at least bring it up with me first.
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 She checked her phone's progress at finding a network, and was not at all surprised that it hadn't found one. She sighed anyway. A part of her had hoped that there would be an easy solution to finding her way back home, but she was becoming increasingly concerned by the possibility that her home, or Mayor forbid, all of Citropolis, might no longer exist.
-Wherever she was, it was clearly at least somewhat inhabited, given the machinery, although it was hard to see what such a ridiculous looking machine could actually have been built for. It was better at least than being stuck in her inventory. Unless this somehow was her inventory? She couldn't see any of her stuff here, but it was a strange enough place, it was worth a try. She picked a tree she could see down below, and tried to unstore it, holding her hand out over the railing so the tree would just fall down and not crush her. It didn't work. The tree was clearly not in her inventory, therefore this place wasn't either. Still, the landscape felt too surreal to simply be how the world had ended up, especially the clouds. She squinted at them suspiciously. How did that work? Perhaps this place was part of someone else's Spark, not Mary-Mary's inventory, but Titania's dream forest or something? It certainly had plenty of trees. Maybe someone had a Spark that interacted with hers, like Cass's did, and was able to save her? She knew she out to be grateful if that was the case, but couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed that whoever it was hadn't even left a note to tell her where to go.
+Wherever she was, it was clearly at least somewhat inhabited, given the machinery, although it was hard to see what such a ridiculous looking machine could actually have been built for. It was better at least than being stuck in her inventory. Unless this somehow was her inventory? She couldn't see any of her stuff here, but it was a strange enough place, it was worth a try. She picked a tree she could see down below, and tried to unstore it, holding her hand out over the railing so the tree would just fall down and not crush her. It didn't work. The tree was clearly not in her inventory, therefore this place wasn't either. Still, the landscape felt too surreal to simply be how the world had ended up, especially the clouds. She squinted at them suspiciously. How did that work? Perhaps this place was part of someone else's Spark, not Mary-Mary's inventory, but Titania's dream forest or something? It certainly had plenty of trees. Maybe someone had a Spark that interacted with hers, like Cass's did, and was able to save her? She knew she ought to be grateful if that was the case, but couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed that whoever it was hadn't even left a note to tell her where to go.
 If it was Titania, it would probably be better to look for her on the ground. Mary-Mary could see a long way from up here, but not much through the forest's canopy. What was it Titania did down there? Had tea parties and cavort with fairies or something? Maybe paying more attention to all the chats about the strange powerful old Sparks would have been useful. Too late now.
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 She headed down the tower's staircase towards the forest floor, but as she neared the bottom, she could see that the trees emerged from deep clear water. The roots were broad and tangled, so it would be possible to clamber from one to the other, but she didn't feel like risking getting her clothes wet. Although her Spark would allow her to dry herself in an instant, separating the clothes from the water would still be annoying. With no solid ground, the catwalks between the towers seemed like a much better option for getting places, assuming she could find a destination, so she climbed back up to the large machine.
-Arriving at the top again, she was distracted once more by the strange machinery. If this place was all part of someone's Spark, it didn't necessarily need to have that much logic to it. Nobody really knew what gave each Spark their particular powers, and they were often counterintuitive, but there did tend to be at least a theme to each one, and if this looked like a machine, it probably had some purpose. She may not have been an engineer, but she did have one advantage here (that she'd been meaning to test anyway, and assuming the test actually worked), a sense for intent. It didn't really seem to be what her powers were for, but sometimes when things didn't work, she could feel that the intent attached to the objects was wrong, so maybe she could use that to satisfy her curiosity (and maybe get a clue for where to go) here too. She stepped back on to the large central gear, pressed her hand against it, and focused her mind on asking it the questions, "What are you for? What do you want?".
+Arriving at the top again, she was distracted once more by the strange machinery. If this place was all part of someone's Spark, it didn't necessarily need to have that much logic to it. Nobody really knew what gave each Spark their particular powers, and they were often counterintuitive, but there did tend to be at least a theme to each one, and if this looked like a machine, it probably had some purpose. She may not have been an engineer, but she did have one advantage here (that she'd been meaning to test anyway, and assuming the test actually worked), a sense for intent. It didn't really seem to be what her powers were for, but sometimes when things didn't work, she could feel that the intent attached to the objects was wrong, so maybe she could use that to satisfy her curiosity (and get a clue for where to go) here too. She stepped back on to the large central gear, pressed her hand against it, and focused her mind on asking it the questions, "What are you for? What do you want?".
 The gear's answer was stronger than she'd expected. It thought it was a building, a transport hub, a place to help people to get where they wanted. Did the tower move? That would be quite a sight.
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 She appeared mid-step in a large damp room, and stumbled away from the broad trench in the ground she had appeared over onto a platform. Dim light filtered through stained-glass skylights, and water dripped from the ceiling, leaving trails of moss and grime on the tiled walls. The large sign on the wall waying "Old Town" and the rusted rails behind her made it clear where she'd arrived, the abandoned train station.
-In quick succession, she took out an umbrella, some waterproof boots and a phone from her storage, and waited for it to connect. The time it displayed updated, and to her relief, she'd only been gone 10 minutes. She called her brother Constantine back to update them on what had happened.
+In quick succession, she took out an umbrella, some waterproof boots and a phone from her storage, and waited for it to connect. The time it displayed updated, and to her relief, she'd only been gone 10 minutes. She called her brother Constantine back to update him on what had happened.
 "Hi, I'm---"
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 She ended the call, and looked back at the spot where she had appeared after leaving the forest. There was an awful lot still to look into, but instead she sighed and took Eden's advice to head straight home.
-When she arrived back at the apartment, Eden and Con were still sitting together in his room, holding mugs of tea. [This scene is probably important for Con's arc, but I'm not entirely sure where to take that. I might just skip to Mary-Mary doing more exploration for now.]
+----
+When she arrived back at the apartment, Eden and Con were still sitting together in his room, holding mugs of tea. Eden looked up as she arrived, and Con stood up to hug her tightly. She patted his back, trying to be reassuring.
+"It's okay now. I'm fine. Safer than before even, now I know I can always escape if something goes wrong."
+He continued hugging her, and sniffled. "I thought you were gone. You have to be more careful. Please don't do that again."
+"I... maybe. I know it works now, so it won't actually be dangerous if I do."
+He finally pulled away. Now getting a better look at him, she could see that he had been crying. "It didn't work how you said it would though. You can't keep trying things like this." He looked up and sniffed again, exasperated and worried. "Just... school tomorrow, late as possible." He held out his hand for her to take. She raised an eyebrow in objection, but he looked back at her pleadingly, so she took his offered hand and stored him.
+[Did you interact with Eden much? I'm not sure if I'm getting their reaction right.]
+Eden took a moment to process what had just happened before speaking, more visibly angry than before. "You need to be more careful with Con. He thought it was his fault you were gone, you know. He was doing worse than he let on to you too, like he didn't want you to worry about him or something. And what's with you now making him disappear?"
+"He just doesn't want to deal with the stress, that's all. It's... a way of putting it off. We've done this loads of times before, so it's definitely safe."
+She looked around awkwardly, avoiding meeting Eden's gaze. Eventually they left, with a final admonition to be more careful.
+----
+The rest of the evening and all through school the following day, she couldn't stop thinking about the forest, and was itching to go back. The others on the forum hadn't had much idea what had happened when she described her experiences, but did manage to confirm at least that the forest in Titania's dreams had the same colourful clouds, so it probably was the same place. As soon as school finished, she headed straight to the abandoned train station instead of going home, sending a text to her parents claiming she was just going to a friend's house.
+Back on the train platform, she stepped off the edge into the gap where a train would stop if the station were still in use, where she had appeared the day before. As suspected, she was transported back to the clockwork tower in Titania's forest.

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