VISION SHARDS: With Tifa they saw Jack's face with a sad expression. With Isabela they witnessed Jack and the Ice Queen sharing a tender moment, but the rose the Ice Queen is holding turns black and she looks pensive while Jack is still smiling, suggesting that might be the shard's or nightmare corruption's doing.
NOCTAERE ENCOUNTER: He first saw the noctaere appear in the dreamscape with Tifa but they left instead of fighting it. He did fight it with Joshua, and while they were able to inflict some damage, it escaped.
ABSORBED ENERGY: UH. Eustace absorbed quite a bit and he had a very, very bad negative reaction later. This is partly due to some other condition he has that he's unaware of, but right now he assumes it's because of taking in the Ice Queen's energy. He's working to deal with it and this will totally not lead into anything later it will
Tifa had some negative kickbacks from the nightmare energy, namely when she was attempting to make the images appear on the shards. It was like frostbite, and even outside of the dreamscape, it lingered through the night. She's likely going to be looking into how to harness her own nightmares in the future.
Extra Note: - Thread is ongoing; Aerith and Cloud are collecting various shards to piece together to help the Ice Queen, and have been finding shards depicting memories or feelings of loneliness and isolation, longing.
Player: Vette Character: Reaper | b_a_n_g Thread #1:01/14 Thread #2:01/14
Extra Note:
• Reaper and 76 pieced together a large shard that held the image of an outstretched hand with shattered ice and glass actively being broken and digging into the skin of said hand, even cutting through fabric. Some glass/ice shards filled with prismatic color and others black like an empty void. It was clear the hand belonged to the Ice Queen, her desperately reaching out for someone or something with fear in her eyes, even as the glass/ice shards dug into her as if following whoever/whatever through it, not wanting to lose whatever/whoever it was. As if falling after them.
• While repairing the shard with 76 a large Noctaere appeared and at some of the shards while actively repairing another; the mix of absorbed nightmare energy and this caused some manifestation of their own Noctaere to break free and attack the intruding one, buying them time to finish repairing the first. The still connected noctaere that manifested basically devoured and absorbed the large one piece by piece.
• With Kazuma leaving, Reaper and 76 took over full ownership of the Wild Harvest.
Character: Barok van Zieks | discourtesies Thread #1:12/23 (5+ this month) Thread #2:1/7 (5+)
Extra Note: Ferran helped reconnect a few shards with Naoya and Prompto; though the threads aren't complete, at least one shard he encountered will have involved the Ice Queen's fear of betrayal by Jack i gotta rep my boy hans u kno.
On his way out he saw the queen suffering from an attack and helped absorb some of the nightmare energy at that point; he experienced his usual brain fog/static as a result, and will end up seeing a resurgence in the hallucinations of his guardian he thought he was over. :)
Edited (i swear i can spell) 2024-01-31 07:59 (UTC)
Extra Note: Handwaved, but Sheik would have tried absorbing some of the nightmare energy from the Ice Queen with the thought that, well, the tapirs can do it well enough. He would have stopped before he started feeling too badly, though.
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