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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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phanos

⋆ Phanos is classified as Exploration Class (EC) and is open to all travelers. The dry heat on the planet is overwhelming, but it's important that as many people as possible visit so that scientists can track down the origin of a strong signal pulsing somewhere on the planet. Its frequency indicates that if it is found, Ingress engineers may be able to hone in on people's signatures to send them home. However, frequent dust storms on the planet's surface are causing interference. It is strongly advised that investigators visit in groups—and keep their mouths closed!

⋆ Between dust storms, at the ege of the sandy plains, travelers will notice a series of pyramid-like structures. The smallest ones are just a few feet high, and the largest reach as high as ten-story buildings. Those who press on will find the terrain more difficult, as they must trek through increasingly dense clusters of pyramids of all sizes. Eventually, the pyramid 'forest' clears to reveal the largest pyramid of all, the size of a small mountain. Its peak is guarded by nests of griffin-like creatures which are no larger than a medium-sized dog. Those with combat skills should be in no danger, unless a whole nest attacks at once!

⋆ Multiple stone doors built into the top of the pyramid lead into a surprising space: a sleek lab, filled with incredibly advanced technology. Scientists, engineers and techies could happily spend years studying the equipment and deciphering the data it contains. But in the darkest corners, there's a quiet chittering...are the travelers really alone?

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[lavelly]

[Of course. As if there was ever any other possibility. Still, the question remains: which one is she?

He doesn't for a moment consider telling her the whole truth. Not least of all because he's not ready to explain it himself. But this would be too much to confront her with at once, when she doesn't even truly understand her situation yet.

So he won't lie, and he has confidence that the parts he omits would hardly be suspected by her. After all, who would believe them?]

Neriel. Nobody worth mentioning beyond that. [He pauses, considering.] There are others of your entourage here. Would you like an explanation before or after I direct you to them?

[sulevin]

[ His name is not familiar to her, perhaps he is from another clan? Or someone she never met from her own? It has been some time since she last seen any of her clan.

Although thoughts on his identity come to a grinding halt as he continues speaking of her entourage, her companions. Friends all gone to their separate corners of Thedas leading their lives outside the Inquisition. Her chest aches with a distant longing and she frowns. ]

I would like to know what you mean by that. [ She pauses, shoulders lowering a fraction. ] Please, any information you could provide I will greatly appreciate.

[lavelly]

This is Thisavrou. It's-- [He breaks off, because suddenly he doesn't quite know how to explain concepts such as space, and technology, and any of the other fantastical inventions that are commonplace here. He only has the basics of understanding them himself, and only very recently--

He doesn't want to think about that.

Only the basics first, then.]

It's another world. Not Thedas. This Ingress you came through, it's--a little like the eluvians. [And he's not going to stop to let her linger on that thought.] And there's no way to get back, as far as we know. We're stuck here. You, me, everyone.

[He offers her a thin, grim smile.] I wish I had better news.

[sulevin]

[ It is a lot to digest, to wrap her head around and it is obvious by her expression that she struggles to swallow it all. Another world? Like eluvians? A wave of nausea hits suddenly, her hand presses against the wall as though it would be enough to keep her standing.

Of all the times to stumble into such a mess it had to be now, didn't it? Now when the world stands on edge of ruin.

Old Dalish curses sit on the edge of her tongue, it almost makes her laugh bitterly that they are what come first, that she thinks to hiss out the Dread Wolf's now knowing all that she does. Instead she simply bites her lip and shakes her head. ]

Well, at least I don't have to worry myself about the fate of the world anymore.

[ In the end she cannot help but let some of that bitterness bleed through. ]

[lavelly]

Small mercies. [He sounds equally bitter. The fuck's up with this asshole.

Then, however, he finds he can't hold out any longer, and he takes a long, slow inhale, as if he's bracing himself for something.]

I apologize for the change in subject, but could I ask your given name?

[sulevin]

[ Her gaze returns to him and for a moment she does not answer, for a moment she stares searching his face for an answer to a question she does not quite yet have. But then the moment passes and Sahlin exhales, her hand reaching across to grab at what is left of her left arm. ]

Sahlin.

[lavelly]

[He freezes.

For a long moment, he forgets to even breathe. It almost feels like his heart itself forgets to beat.

Of course it would be her. Of all the ones that could have come through, it would be her. When he remembers to breathe, to move again, it feels like resurfacing from drowning. He's numb, and he feels himself turning away from her so she can't see his expression like his body isn't even his.

His mouth moves of its own accord.]

Y-You'll want to see Solas then, I imagine.

[sulevin]

Solas?

[ All of her thoughts seem to come to a sudden halt then, her breath catching in her throat and her fingers curling tightly around her arm. He's here, somehow he is here. Mouth partly agape Sahlin shivers, an icey coldness washing over her and seeping deep into her bones.

She does want to see him, she truly does, and yet─

And yet she doesn't.

There is a knot in her throat and an ache in her chest. ]

I... I don't know.

[lavelly]

[Well. That wasn't quite the reaction he'd expected. But he can hardly blame her for having mixed feelings, can he?

Still, something bitter rises at the back of his throat. Because Neriel knows how much Solas misses her, and how much she must miss him, and here she is being difficult anyway. He was hurt the same way that she was, and at least she has the luxury of that hurt being acknowledged for what it is. The least she could do is appreciate what she has.

No. Stupid. Stupid. Shut up. It's more complicated than that. He knows it is.

He decides to avoid the subject entirely, trying to act like it truly means nothing to him either way.]

Well, then, is there somewhere else you'd rather I take you?