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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.

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⋆ 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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TAAKO!
i cant believe youre complaining right now i just turned into a woodman and then DIED so
hahaha
i was on my way to find you and merle when i ended up here
oh and i know you were really worried about this, but steven's fine!!
not sure about the voidfish though
is merle not with you?

why wouldnt i be complaining we just got done getting kidnapped somewhere ridiculous and

wait merle's not with you????

[shhhhhhhiiiiiiit]

he was just here
i mean before all this

uhh
well shit
weve lost ourselves a holy man

this is definitely not my fault, i literally just got done waking up in a vat of goo, he was your responsibility

shit

look he was RIGHT THERE we were going into the director's office and then something happened and now i'm here
what i'm saying is this is also not my fault

well he's got to be around here somewhere
probably
i mean if you were with him he probably
uh
wait a second you still have barry in your bag right???

...
lemme get back to you on that one

[brb while he turns his entire bag inside out and like, screams into his fucking hat for a minute in private]

no
no hes gone

well
we're fucked my guy
summarily kidnapped and like effectively this time

there was some dark shit going on in the bureau though taako
i don't know what it was but something was in there
something bad
WE are probably better off being far away, but if merle and carey and avi and everyone else are still back there...

i mean they explained to you whats up with how we got here right? and how theyre gonna try to send us back?
its like accidental kidnapping
whoops weve taken some boys

no yeah something was definitely up but
i dont see how they got us and not them
the pocket spa is here the coin's here everything's here
just not barry, and the coin's not talking anymore

i don't give a shit about their explanation this shouldn't just happen its not

[He has to take a second to just... breathe. He was in the middle of breaking into The Director's office, and that was stressful enough. Having to go against what he trusts, trying to just be okay with this, it's not... it's more than he thinks he can take seriously at the moment.]

where are you
we can talk about this just where are you

a lot of really weird bullshit happens to us taako
we can handle this. step by step, day by day (dAYy by dayyy)
that doesnt translate well over text but i was just belting out those notes

[Sitcom themes aside, it seems like the world keeps coming with new fastballs to throw at them lately. The three of them haven't really had a chance to rest since they left for Wonderland. Magnus doesn't believe getting spirited away to this place is quite so bad as what they tackled there, but it is part of a recent pattern of unending bullshit hitting them hard and Magnus is not surprised that Taako's starting to bend.

But Magnus knows the two of them can get through this. If he has to be strong for Taako's sake, he will.]

im just in one of the empty rooms in the ingress complex temporarily i guess
they said i could stay here for up to a month for free
i was about to go for a walk, but i can meet you outside the room we woke up in

yeah dont worry i can practically hear you
you dont need to describe it to me my man
got the ol magnus jams in my head

but yeah
strength in numbers and whatever right?
get the team back together

[He bites his lip a little as he writes, trying to drop his earlier apprehension. He's not alone. He's not goddamn alone. He's acting like an idiot, and he needs to Stop This, because he'd rather throw himself into a pit than get all mushy all over Magnus.]

but yknow its whatever in the meantime
got tons of new junk to do right?
basically a hot vacay from all that stuff

yeah
i mean
theres not a whole lot for us to do about the bureau in the meantime
all the way over here
merle will show when he shows
he may have never cast a healing spell in his life but he can summon a mean della reese
we just gotta trust him for now

[In the meantime, Magnus will do what he can to continue protecting his friends, even if their number just dropped down to one temporarily. At least Taako seems to be calming down now, which is good. Magnus knows Taako has weathered worse. He should be good.]

plus everyone here goes to space all the time!
it's like us going to the moon but real moons
real ass moons

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