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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. The techs and others in the facility seem strangely frazzled and tired, but if asked, they reassure you that nothing is wrong, the danger has passed and everyone is all right now.

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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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[There's a part of Zavala that is honestly surprised he hasn't seen a Golden Gun shot or a knife coming by his head and at the creature he's now free of. The fact that the Exo hadn't done that at all actually and instead ends up in front of him after backstabbing the creature, just reminds Zavala why Cayde is what he is.

So when the creature lets him go and he sees Cayde's gesture, he does the sensible thing. He kicks his legs and makes if not for the shore, then at least to the surface so he can get a breath of air into him before he tries to make for the shore. It's a tactical retreat, because he and Cayde are both more like stones then they are swimmers, especially compared to their foes. Any frustration at the retreat is squashed with that thought alone, because if they're swarmed in the water then even the two Guardians would really be no match for them.

Any residual frustration, at least mentally, is channeled at Cayde for hiding from him for this long.]

[Cayde's moving right after the Titan, not wanting to get caught in a knife fight underwater against...whatever these things are. While he doesn't have the same amount of armor to weigh him down, his body makes up for it, and fighting underwater is so not the same as fighting in zero-G.

Once he breaks through the surface, he looks for Zavala before pushing towards shore himself, still keeping a grip on his knife as Ghost internally tracks the movement below. The further away they get from those things, the better!

...and come on, give him a break! They were on separate boats! Caught in a storm!!]

[By the time Zavala gets to the surface he's gasping for air. It takes him a moment to glance around for the Exo and when he doesn't see him he just hopes he follows and starts the long slog back to shore and praying to the Traveler that they aren't chased.

So by the time he's back on shore, he's already turning around and looking for Cayde, because he won't leave any man, woman or Exo behind if he can at all help it. Even if he's panting from the effort of pulling himself through the water in his armor, he's all ready to jump back into it to drag him out. It's not as if they're being chased on the shore by anything after all, and even if they were on dry land he can hold his own.]

Cayde! [The yelling is important because he doesn't want the Hunter sneaking off on him this time and also to make sure he actually escaped.

...and look, he had all that time on the shore!]

[He was just. Making sure. Ya know.

Cayde isn't sputtering, but he's not exactly a graceful swimmer, and his progress is slow. He probably won't be too annoyed by being hauled out of the water, and provided he keeps his feet under him as he staggers onto land, he'll wave a hand at Zavala. He hears you! Gosh! You don't have to yell!

Taking a moment to disengage his helmet, he shakes his head, straightening so he can give the Titan a proper look over.]

So. The next time you decide to take a dip, maybe try it without the armor, huh?

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test drive meme

welcome to thisavrou

escoria

YOU KNOW IF YOU'D ONLY SAID HI

I DIDN'T WANT YOU YELLING AT ME

IT'S NOT YELLING IT'S JUST SHOWING GRATITUDE THAT I'M NOT ALONE

WHY DO I NOT BELIEVE YOU