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From Dusk (Persona/Steven Universe)[Older Version]

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Since there was a tie between a voter in Spacebattles and a voter here, I decide to combine the two votes. It also has the benefit of speeding things along.
Also, I noticed that in other stories in forums like these, the authors are able to use lines to separate paragraphs. How exactly do you do that? I don't know.
 
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Fecyrineu said:
Since there was a tie between a voter in Spacebattles and a voter here, I decide to combine the two votes. It also has the benefit of speeding things along.
Also, I noticed that in other stories in forums like these, the authors are able to use lines to separate paragraphs. How exactly do you do that? I don't know.
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You an look up something called BB codes. It'll teach you stuff to implement line breaks. Now, if you want a line break other than the example then I cannot help you there. I never figured that out myself.
 
[X] Go through the dirt road

Hoo boy, so it is Persona 3 or at least the general timeframe what with The Dark Hour. That, and other Shadow Gems running about, some clearly more monstrous/unstable than "Dusky".
 
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Crossroads
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    • There is only one path fowards! Well, actually that's not true since you can roam into any direction, but walking through the dirt road seems like a sensible decision.

    Soon the open clearing surrounding the cliff was replace by a florest. The trees here were very large, and big. You don't think you would be able to hug them even if you streched your arms wide.

    You never hugged anything before, did you? You run towards one of the trees and try to hug it. You can feel the rough texture of the tree bark in your arms. You really were right in the fact you wouldn't be able to hug it, in fact your arms don't even seem to be able to reach the halfway point. This tree seems to be some sort of cedar tree, maybe. It looked different from what you'd expect from a cedar tree though, not that you have ever seen one before.

    Leaving the tree behind you continue your treek trough the woods when you start to hear a sound in the distance. It starts faint but grows louder the longer you walk. You have an idea of what it is, but for the life of you it doesn't seem to come to the front of your mind.

    This is the longest you have ever walked. Your own cyan light combined with the moon's green light make the path visible yet it's still pretty dark, especially here in this road. The treetops block most of the moonlight and trees that are not close to you are just seem like black outlines. Yet it's also calming, just walking without having to punch things or go into weird rooms.

    You stop when you reach a point in the road blocked by a fallen tree. It's the same big kind of tree you saw before, but this one seemed to have been slashed at the base. Jumping over it is not hard at all. With that out of the way you continue to wander.

    Soon you find yourself in a crossroads. From what you remember, one path would lead you in the direction of the building you saw before, the one with 4 floors and a chainlink fence surrounding it. The other path would lead you towards this pleasant sound you've been hearing and you really want to find out what it is.

    Where to go?

    [] Go towards the other building
    [X] Go towards the sound
    [] Go back
    -[] Why?
    [] Write-in
     
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    • Red Sea
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    • You start walking towards the sound because that's what you want. It's mysterious allure has entranced you to follow it.

    Following the path you eventually stumble upon a big concrete wall with a large metal gate which, judging by it's color, is very rusted. Thankfully, the gate seems to be open slightly. You'd imagine that crossing to the other side would be a big inconvenience if it wasn't. Still, the opening is small so you will have to squeeze through. You can feel your body shiver as pressure is applied to the weird rock in your chest, but soon it stops when you finally reach the other side.

    You see a sign in japonese that reads "Private Property: Stay Out". Well, if they wanted people to stay out then maybe they shouldn't put people inside walls!

    Soon, the big cedar trees are slowly being replaced by palm trees and the ground become less and less firm until finally you reach your destination

    The trees give away to sand as you find yourself staring down a beach. You look from one side to another, seeing the red ocean waves gently clash agaist the sand. There are large rocks scattered here and there. You look at the horizon, where the green night sky meets the red ocean. It's quite the sight.

    You also noticed that, near one of the large rocks that seem to dot this beach, there is a small wooden pier. At the end of it is a weird upright structure, it can't be that much bigger than you.

    Now that you are here, what do you do?

    [X] Inspect
    -[] Inspect what?
    -[X] Inspect the upright structure
    [] Walk through the beach
    -[] Towards the left
    -[] Towards the right
    [] Go back
    -[] Why?
    [] Write-in
     
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    • [X] Inspect
    -[X] Inspect the "Coffin".

    Not sure what someone was doing out there so late, but having a person around to tell "Dusky" things will be helpful.
     
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    • You decide to check the upright structure. Besides the beautiful scenery, it was the most attention drawing thing here.

    You start moving towards it, walking in the beach for the first time. You could feel the grains of sand moving between the fingers of feet. Soon it ended, as you started walking through the wooden planks of the pier, the wood creaking as you step on it.

    Finally you reach the weird upright structure. It was an black box the shape of an irregular hexagon, it seems as though you could fit inside it standing. In fact, it reminds you of a coffin. Though, does it really remind you of a coffin considering you never heard or thought of a coffin before this? Is it really remembering when it's something you never experienced before? And why is it there an upright coffin on a pier in an empty beach? For the same reason you were in a wall before you suppose, or how you can glow, or have cyan skin. You were to busy with other stuff at the time, but you're pretty sure that skin color is supposed to be dark, or light beige, or something in between or some other colors too but not cyan. Who has cyan skin? You, apparently. And that's not even going on that weird rock in your chest or how you can just push your way-

    Suddenly your thoughts are interrupted when everything changes. In one moment everything was as it used to be, the next the ocean was no longer red but a very dark blue, the sky no longer shined green as darkness overtook most of it with exception of a few small points of light scattered through it, the moon was white and smaller. It was so alien and weird. You don't know much, you've only existed for just a short while, but an ocean that was not red, a sky that was not green? It was wrong, very wrong! What happend to the world!?

    In front of you the coffin disappeared and was istead replaced by a young man looking at the ocean, his back turned to you. Something made him turn around and look at you.

    "JESUS FREAKING CHRIST!" he screamed and jumped back, raising his arms in a defensive position.

    [] "Who are you?!"
    [] "What did you do to everything?!"
    [X] "Why were you a coffin?!"
    [] "Jesus freaking who?!"
    [] Write-in
     
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    • [X] "Why were you a coffin?!"

    Man, this kind of sounds like a threat... but sure, let's freak the guy out.
     
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    • "Why were you a coffin?!"

    "I, you- what?!" the man shouted back. He was a slight chubby tall asian young man, had short curly black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing glasses, a gray jacket, jeans and sneakers. And, most importantly, was not answering your question!

    "I said, why were you a coffin? What happend to the the world?!" you asked while pointing your finger at him then using your arms to gesture at everything.

    The man still didn't answer you, istead he just stared at you with an open mouth and eyes wide open, not doing anything.

    "Answer me!"

    "I-I don't know! What are you?!" he had the gall to say.

    "What do you mean you don't know? Everything was fine and you were a coffin but now you're not and the world is wrong!" you say. His eyes seem to get even wider as you said that.

    "I was just out for a scroll, please don't kill me!" he said as he covers his face with his arms and starts walking backwards towards the end of the pier, until he falls off it. You can hear a splash as his body hits the water.

    You didn't expect coffin-man to just jump into the water! What do you do?

    [X] Dive after him
    -[X] "You didn't answer my question!"
    [] Reach out your hand
    [] Wait for him to reach the shore
    [] "You didn't answer my question!"
    [] Write-in
     
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    • [X] Dive after him
    -[X] "You didn't answer my question!"

    Wait, "Dusky" is literally a metaphysical force from the collective unconscious forced into the shape of a magic rock, can she even swim...? Eh, it'll probably be fine, figure it would be obvious if this would backfire horribly.
     
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    • "Oh no, you don't!" you shout as you get a running start and then jump into the ocean.

    The water submerges you, though it's not that deep since you could feel your feet touching the sand. You wait for your body's buoyancy to bring you back to the surface except that didn't happen. You jump upwards. Your body is able to completely escape the surface of the water, allowing you to briefly see coffin-man trying to swim away-

    "Gaahhhh!"

    before gravity pulls you back to beneath the surface. You have a vague idea of the movements you need to make in order to swim so you try them out but when you do, you just sink to the floor no matter how much you paddle.

    Getting tired of waving your arms and legs while lying down on the sand, you just decide to run underwater towards the rude man who didn't answer your questions. His swimming is slow compared to your underwater running and soon you were upon him. You jump and manage to grab onto one of his arms. He tries to free himself, struggling as much as he can and even punching you a few times, but it barely does anything. You start dragging him to the shore despite his non-verbal protests until finally you reach terra firma. Coffin-man gets on his knees and starts coughing and breathing heavily until eventually he seems to have caught his breath.

    "You didn't answer my question!" you say.

    The man has a hysterical giggle as he hears you. "Are you going to kill me?"

    "What? No! I just want you to answer me. Is it that hard?" You ask pleadingly.

    He just looks at you. You notice he no longer has his glasses.

    "Why were you a coffin?!" you ask, hopefully for the last time.

    "I... have no idea what you're talking about." He answered.

    "You. Were. A. Coffin. How did that happen?" You starting to get annoyed.

    "I... wasn't a coffin? What does that even mean?" he replies.

    "I come here to this beach, to that pier-" you point at it "and you were a coffin. Then suddently everything gets wrong and you were no longer a coffin. How did you do that?"

    "I didn't do that. How would I even do that?" he starts giggling hysterically again.

    "Ugh! If you weren't a coffin, which you were, then what were you doing?" he was really pissing you off.

    "I couldn't sleep, so I decided to take a scroll through the beach. I go to that pier when suddently you show up behind me out of nowhere and starts asking stuff about coffins! What even are you? Are you some sort of ghost?"

    "I..." What are you? "It doesn't matter what I am! Fine, even if I believe that you have no recollection of being a coffin, what's going on in the world?!" You use your arms to point towards the ocean and the sky.

    "Like, in general or-"

    "The sky! And the ocean!"

    He looks at the ocean and then at the sky. He doesn't say anything.

    "What, are you going to tell me that the ocean being blue and the moon being white is normal?" you ask.

    "...yes?" he replies.

    "Gah!" You punch the sand and create a small crater in the ground. Coffin-man crawls back a bit, clearly scared.

    You sit on the ground and hug your legs. You try to hide your face behind your hair.

    "I just want to know what's going on..." You're not crying. You never cried before and you're not going to start now.

    Some moments pass like this. Coffin-man might be watching you but you don't care anymore. You just want things to go back the way they were. Why couldn't there be any breakable windows nearby when you needed it?

    "Hey." You look up to see coffin-man looking at you with a worried expression "I don't really understand what you're saying, but maybe you can try to explain to me? I'm sure we can find out what's going on together."

    "You promise?" you ask.

    "Well, I can't promise to find out what's going on but I can promise to try." he says, giving you a hand.

    You stare at it, unsure what to do.

    [X] Take it
    [] "I don't need your help."
    [] Write-in
     
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    • Fecyrineu said:
    Guardsmen? What exactly do you mean by that?
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    I dont thionk there are any and this is about whereher or not to take his hand
    Edit I think they want to go fight someone
    And even if there are people to fight Ild prefer world building/ making a friend to picking a fight we dont have to
    edit sorry I just dealt with she russ thread and a guy wanting a Chaos Weapon
     
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    I dont thionk there are any and this is about whereher or not to take his hand
    Edit I think they want to go fight someone
    And even if there are people to fight Ild prefer world building/ making a friend to picking a fight we dont have to
    edit sorry I just dealt with she russ thread and a guy wanting a Chaos Weapon
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    I actually just think that he just posted on the wrong thread. Had multiple tabs open and wrote the response in the wrong one kinda of deal.
     
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