Pseudocoma

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Pseudocoma

Postby Narrator » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:06 pm

When Sam comes to again something immediately feels off. She's looking around the hospital room and once the last bits of unconsciousness fade she realizes that her head is moving without her wanting it to.

Her body shifts forward and without being controlling the movement it feels almsot dizzying and like she's about to fall forward. Instead she feels one hand push against the bed to steady herself as she gets up, a strand of curled hair falling across her face and dangling maddeningly in her field of vision, her hand resisting any attempt to make it brush it away. Instead her head turns and her eyes focus on the mirror hanging on the wall. Looking back at her is, well, her, but the body language feels all wrong. A little more slouched than usual, expression guarded. After a moment her view is torn away from the mirror and dart around the room, taking in her surroundings. Then she feels her throat moving as laughter bursts out of her.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:46 pm

Is this a dream? It has to be a dream, she reasons as she tries to take control of her limbs.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Narrator » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:57 pm

Nothing. Instead she can feel the muscles in her legs working and moving her towards the door. A brief stab of pain shoots through her as she flexes her arm a little, but there's no spike of adrenaline, no whincing at it. The feeling comes detached from the usual physical reactions and leaves Sam floating in an empty detachment and a sudden anxiety that has no outlet. No deep breaths, no flexing muscles, no compensation mechanism.

Meanwhile her hand grabs the door-handle, feeling the vague coldness of the metal as she opens the door and steps outside. The rush of air makes her suddenly very aware she's just wearing a hospital gown, but her body seems to pay this no mind and step out into the hallway, head turning to glance up and down, looking for the exit.
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Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:16 pm

Why does it feel so bloody real? This can't actually be happening, can it?

Is something... wrong with me?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Narrator » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:53 pm

There's no indication that anybody heard her as she continues down the hall and to the nurses station.

"Was Tereza Rozanov already released?" she can feel her mouth forming the words, then nod when the nurse responds in the affirmative. "You have my gratitude." she goes on with this strange edge to her voice.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:15 am

...is one of them doing this to me?

Are they... going after Tereza?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:23 pm

'Sam' throws open the doors of the infirmary needlessly dramatically and steps outside into the gloomy January weather. She starts humming to herself as she walks across campus, eventually muttering words under her breath.

"Eeper Weeper, nightmare eater, had a friend but couldn't keep her.
Found another, didn't love her, to the doggies she did shove her.
And the Queen without a word, gobbled up a tiny bird.
Then she slept and with an ache, realized she couldn't wake!"
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Nov 09, 2018 6:52 pm

Something about the rhyming was naggingly familiar to Sam.

Wait, is this Conduit? Did she put something in me? I've got to fight it!

She continues to strain against the movement of her body.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Sat Nov 10, 2018 12:39 am

'Sam' suddenly stops, giving Sam the impression she actually managed to exert some control, although it doesn't last. Her head tilts to the side as if she's straining to listen to something.

"Hrm...Gone. Protected by their fairy thrall beneath the shattered halls of stars." she mutters.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Sat Nov 10, 2018 12:49 am

What? No! You don't get to go after Viv either!
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Sat Nov 10, 2018 6:37 pm

A gust of wind blows through, Sam's body breaking out into goosebumps at the chill. Almost comforting how it plays out as it would normally, involuntary but expectedly so. Then the moment is broken when 'Sam' starts walking again, changing directions and heading towards the XUB and Rec Center
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Mon Nov 12, 2018 6:48 pm

Up ahead, a tall figure bundled against the cold steps out of the XUB, hand curled around a travel mug. A careful sip and a look around and she starts walking in Sam's direction, obvious concern in her sense as she approaches. "Sam? Are you okay?"
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:07 pm

"Just splendid." says the woman sporting numerous bandages and wearing a hospital gown in freezing weather as she eyes Wanda.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:12 pm

"You're... um... not really dressed for the weather," she says, "Did you come from the medical center?"
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:11 pm

"Oh. Yes. Clothing. Let's trade."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:22 pm

"I don't think my stuff will fit you, but here," she says as she begins awkwardly shrugging out of her coat. "This will at least keep you warm until we can... where were you heading anyway?"
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:49 pm

"I'm waiting for the wolf and the mortal fairy." she says and takes the coat, pulling it on without a word of thanks.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:08 pm

Wanda frowns a bit, rubbing her arms slightly as she adjusts to the cold. "The wolf and the mortal fairy? You mean Tereza and Gemma?" Her mental sense bristles with suspicion that she can't quite keep out of her tone.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:36 pm

"It's not me, Wanda! Something is making me do this!" She tries desperately to project.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 14, 2018 1:58 am

One might think that telepathy could work, but it seems like she's cut off from that as well, unable to tap whatever physical structure of her brain usually allows her to. It does seem to make her body tilt her head ever so slightly as if she was listening to something surprising.

"No. The one who wielded the blade. Vivienne. I'm uncertain what her proper title is at the moment."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Wed Nov 14, 2018 2:13 am

"My mistake. So many fey running around here." Wanda looks Sam over, "We should probably get you back to the medical center or at least to the dorms."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:34 am

"I don't need your pity or assistance, Storm-Mender."

Meanwhile Sam hears a familiar voice in her head reaching out to her. "The Raven is yet awake..."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:53 am

I'm awake. I don't need to be heckled while I'm trying to break out of this!

Sam tries another gambit, trying to gestate another brain inside her body, shifting a new structure from which to take control back.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 14, 2018 5:21 am

"This is most unfortuna--Hey, cut it out, little crow!"
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 14, 2018 5:29 am

It's still my bloody body, and the Morrigan doesn't take orders from the likes of you!

Sam starts trying to extend her control out from the growing nerve cluster, sending a tendril of neurons out to tie back into the body's spine.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Wed Nov 14, 2018 5:39 am

Wanda’s eyes narrow and the image of a Skrull flashes through her head. “Then do you want my wrath, whoever you are? Because Sam wouldn’t talk to me that way. Explain yourself.”
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:24 am

"Careful, Storm-Mender!" she says, suddenly standing up straighter and rising to be a good foot taller than Wanda. "Sam may tolerate this kind of talk, but the Phantom Queen will not!" her voice seems to boom as shadows grow longer and deeper. At least to Wanda. Sam can tell it's at least in part just clever telepathy, embellishing shapeshifting reality with mental imagery. Unfortunately getting impressions of what her powers are being used for is about all she manages to gleam from what little wriggle-room she has in her own body.

"I am no creature from beyond the stars. I accepted your oblation, do not be misled into thinking I require your aid."


"You don't deserve the mantle of the Raven Queen! You bested me once, so I followed you, watched you. I even tried to spur you onto the right path, but you're nothing but a pretender and I have claimed what never should have belonged to you in the first place, little girl!" the mental voice grips Sam and wrenches her attempts at shifting her way out of her predicament out of her metaphorical hands.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:43 pm

Wanda takes a couple of involuntary steps back, as you do when someone suddenly looms over you. That's as far as she goes as something from somewhere else seems to add steel to her backbone. "Oblation is reserved for gods. I just offered help to someone I thought was my friend." The sky overhead rumbles unhappily, "But I can see you're not her."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:16 pm

"I never claimed to be, little weather-witch. I am more and you are testing my patience!"

Wherever the steel in her backbone is coming from seems to send a feeling of awe to wash over Wanda and suddenly she's not so certain that she isn't, in fact, facing down a god.

"Don't think that simply because you're hallowed in your own way makes you exempt from my grasp."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:31 pm

Guess I get to tell a goddess where to get off then. Her hands clench, "I don't belong to the Morrigan, so who are you trying to convince of your godhood? Me or yourself?" The clouds overhead darken and there's a flash from inside one of them.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:37 pm

She leans down until her cheek is almost touching Wanda's and she whispers slowly.

"In the end everyone belongs to the ravens, the washer at the ford, the singer in the deep. If you wish to so desperately you can meet them right now."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:50 pm

Wanda seems to process that and internalize it. "And in the end, *everyone* returns to earth, nourishing life in a great cycle. I've made my peace with that cycle. Have you?" The air around them starts to tingle with energy as building winds pick up stinging snow.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 14, 2018 5:22 pm

"Have you now?" Black, vaguely scaly fingers close around Wanda's neck as she's lifted off her feet, the points of the large raven claw scratching at her skin. Breath is suddenly hard to come by and her head starts to swim, only vaguely aware her back is being slammed against a wall. "I am the cycle and ignorant little whelps nourish me instead. Is that what you want, little girl?"
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:14 pm

Wanda claws at the hand at her throat in pure reflex, trying to pry it away with no success. As her air gets cut off, the weather starts to clear back up as she loses control on the weather system she's building.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:44 am

Let. Her. go!

Sam strains to try to make her body's grip falter.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:27 pm

She seems to take either the weather faltering or Sam's objection as an indication to ease her grip and set Wanda back down.

"Good. It would be a shame if I had to take you before your time."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:39 pm

Wanda collapses to her hands and knees, gagging and coughing as her windpipe works on settling back into its proper place.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:58 pm

'Sam' shrinks back down to normal proportions to the point that she's almost drowning in Wanda's jacket again.

"Now, as I said, I accept your offering, but I do not need your assistance." she says and wraps herself in the coat with a put-on air of a regal huff as she turns around and walks away.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Wanda Johansson » Thu Nov 15, 2018 5:06 pm

Wanda watches her leave before trying to reach out through that weird sense. "Isolde. I need you." Then she struggles to her feet and makes her way towards her dorm room.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Thu Nov 15, 2018 5:44 pm

Cailleach turns her attention inwards as she wanders across the school grounds.

"You're not supposed to be awake. Explain yourself at once!"
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