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Ingress travel can be disorienting, but there’s no need to worry! All side effects are temporary and lessen with each trip. Your body may experience several sensations at once: being pushed forward as if a hand is resting on your back, momentary and startling blindness, a gentle ringing in your head. You may have difficulty discerning whether it is hot or cold, but where you have been prodded is noticeably warmer than the rest of you. Some may suffer from dizziness while others are perfectly fine. You notice that the area you are in is filled with a soft cerulean light and feels slightly humid and dark despite the glow around you. Regardless of your current state, however, the stress of initial Ingress travel forces your body into unconsciousness.

Waking up is another story. Or maybe it isn’t.

You find yourself in a nondescript room; sometimes with others who have found themselves in the same situation, sometimes alone. A medical tech is always present to explain what’s happened before giving you some clothes, a TAB, and a guide that discusses things in further detail. This entire process also consists of a complete work-up of medical history and current health in order to obtain your signature—a specific frequency that will allow them to hone in on exactly where it is you’re from in order to get you back there.You spend your first week on the Ingress Complex while other accommodations and arrangements are made for you.

welcome to thisavrou

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escoria

⋆ Escoria is classified as Exploration Class (EC), and travel through the Ingress is mostly smooth except for one issue: anyone with powers or abilities will find that the distortion between worlds has temporarily caused problems accessing them. Essentially, it has left all travelers depowered. Another similar issue comes in the form of the location of Escoria’s Ingress—seemingly in the middle of a vast ocean, the Ingress is balanced precariously on a set of buoys connected to a small floating dock. Once on this dock, it is clear there is no getting anywhere without some transportation. Testing the dark waters will find it unbearably cold, though not cold enough to form ice, and far off in the distance, between the mist and ever-constant gray light - where’s the sun? - some might even notice what looks like an island.

⋆ The boat that eventually comes to your rescue isn’t very big, one of a fleet used to transport visitors from the floating Ingress platform. Only a few passengers are allowed on each one--a maximum of six. The boat’s captain is quite insistent that each group remain small, handing out blankets to those who did not come prepared for the chill. It isn’t too much trouble as there are a great many boats and plenty of natives to pilot them. The weather is cool, the skies are dark with rain that might fall, but for now things seem alright. Leaning out on the rail, you might see some shark-like sea creatures breaching the surface to breathe. Of course, you might also see quicksilver figures darting underneath the water from the corner of your eye, which is then followed by a sharp rocking of the boat. Did something nudge the vessel? Maybe you ought to make sure people stay back from the sides in case they fall in...

⋆ Despite the calm appearance of the sky, the worst has happened. A storm hits at just the right time to drive your boat against one of the multitudinous reefs, roughly jarring its passengers, and then, the waves continue to batter the ship against it until it falls to pieces. You get lucky and find a piece of debris to hold onto to keep your head above the water until the storm passes, although it’s some time before even a calm comes. Once it does, you have to deal with the facts: you’re stranded with minimal supplies, all alone except for the other people who were on board with you when the ship went down in the waves. And what’s worse, the water isn’t getting any warmer. What do you do to survive until help, hopefully, arrives? Will you make an attempt to swim to shore or wait for someone to send another boat?

⋆ The few who manage to weather the storm and make it to one of the few islands of Escoria are, indeed, lucky. What lies beneath the surface of those dark waters is much more dangerous and deadly. Distant cousins of Thisavrou’s native Gorgona of Region Four, these nameless creatures are ruthless as they hunt. They slither the shallow surfaces of the reefs spread out across Escoria, waiting for even the slightest ripple of water to alert them to their prey. At first, looking into the water reveals nothing. Then, the closer these things come to the surface, the faster it begins to change and look as if something familiar, something you long for is calling to you. It can be a person, alive or dead, or it could be something intangible like a goal waiting to be fulfilled or an object waiting to be touched. This is how they lure the unsuspecting below the surface, and once they have their claws in you, it’s very difficult to escape. The urge to be with them is impossibly strong regardless of the fact that no one can hold their breath for that long or survive the deep cold of the water for longer than a few minutes.

Your only chance of escape? Someone who might have noticed that you’d suddenly slipped under without a sound. Or, if by chance, you manage to snap off a piece of the coral in the reefs. It changes with the shape of the holder, and that, if you’re lucky, might be the very weapon that saves you.

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[keymemory]

Donald's voice came heavy in his mind, telling him to make sure all his focus is on the task he meant to do and channel the power of his heart to push through the strength needed to complete this task, yet––

he was swimming upstream, clearly. Then the demon spoke and if that wasn't as surprising enough it spoke as if he too expected danger! Although, something was up with the demon's face, he was looking as if he couldn't even be bothered to see Sora. Flame-green-firey-freak eyes.

"What? ...." Wasn't it obvious? Didn't the bad guys know they were the bad guys, didn't they know they spewed danger all around them repelling comfort for all those in proximity! What the heck was this freak talking about!?

"Yes! Uh.." Sora glanced at his keyblade and gave it a soft shake before he found, once again, his focus and shot a blizzard spell toward the demon. "Hah!" A mist came around the demon, clouding the view, but it was enough that Sora felt happy for it and thrust his armed hand in the air with a cheer. "Gotchuuuu!!!" He huffed and puffed before he brought his free hand to pat at his chest.

Then the mist dissipated and the demon stood there unmasked by any magic he'd thrown his way. "The ... crap is going on!?" He smacked his keyblade against his open palm as if it were a flashlight needing a good swats before the batteries came back to life.

[demonwinged]

Illidan was so confused. It didn't sound as if anyone else was around, but the youth was speaking as if there was and continued to make strange sounds and exclamations. Again, Illidan waited and waited. A cold breeze came and went and still nothing.

He cocked his head and closed his eyes, trying harder to focus and listen to what was around him but it was too hard to tell. Illidan let out a huff and crouched down, one clawed hand resting on the platform and his wings flexing briefly before tucking neatly together. There were no obvious vibrations in the platform except for the lapping of waves.

"I do not hear any danger, nor sense it." Except of course the creatures in the water. Maybe that was what the youth was talking about. "Do not go in the water," he warned. "The creatures there, they are dangerous."

[keymemory]

Sora's whacking halted as the monster readjusted and his eyes focused on the wings that drew back behind the creature's back. He could appreciate a few things here, the first one being that this guy(?) was obviously telling the truth: there was no danger here, for him! Everything Sora threw at him bounced off without so much as a tickle! Maybe he was purposely being facetious, patronizing him like this when the demon knew there wasn't a flipping thing Sora could do about it. And secondly, well, Sora didn't know secondly but by golly if he had some more time to think about it he'd have it! Gosh, he really needed his friends right about now. They'd know what to do!

He was fresh out of ideas.

Then, suddenly, a confession(?) came out of the monster's mouth! "Yes! Exactly!" Being that this monster came out of the water. "I know!" He gestured toward the monster. "You.. .. you're ... a dangerous!"

[demonwinged]

"Me?" came the slow, sardonic response like a tiger's hungry purr. Illidan slowly stood up again, finding the great irony in the boy calling him dangerous. Oh, wouldn't Malfurion agree! Illidan did too of course, he knew he was powerful and dangerous, but his goal had never been to harm innocents such as this child. It never had been his intention...

"Maybe, but not to you, not this day," Illidan explained, alleviating the anxiousness of the would-be little soldier hopefully. Once he was fully standing, he finished wringing the blindfold out before he took his time tying it once more around his head to cover his eyes. The glow was still obvious of course, he could never hide the fel magic orbs the demon Sargeras had given him after burning out his eyes.

He turned his head towards the boy again, still unable to see due to this planet sapping all of his powers, but he could hear the breathing nearby. "There are things dwelling in the waters here which will show you dangerous things, boy. Do not heed their call. Be afraid of them, not of me. I have no desire to hurt you."