Hi guys! I've noticed that this role play has been very slow lately, and the same could be said of the message board. I think that we are all starting to outgrow this place, finding new joys and new ways to spend our time, and that is alright!
Darkness on the Rise has been going on for almost three years. We have made so many memories here! Dotr had helped me grow as a writer. I'm connected to these characters and I'm connected to this plot. Most role plays die without receiving a true ending, but that doesn't need to happen with Dotr.
I would like to find a way to tie up some of the loose strings to the plots we had going on here, if all of you also agree. We could role play the ending, or we could also just discuss what would happen.
A long time ago (and perhaps in a galaxy far far away 😉), Iceberry and Stormflight designed an ending for Dotr. We would have to change a good deal of it, as so much has happened since then, but we could potentially use attributes of what they wrote here if people would like.
I very much agree, I'd love them to have/ or at least have discussed, a good ending. I feel very much as sad as it is I've outgrown this space and that's lead me to become less and less active. Kevty also took a very big nose dive (which I'd like to uncannonize some or most of), due to my own failing mental health at the time, but I'd like her to get a good ending, as she is probably my most important oc at the time)
@Windfeather (I can empathize a lot with what you said. I think we all put so much of ourselves into our characters. Cosmo and Nova especially helped me realize so much about myself.)
(I think this is a wonderful idea and gives the characters an end they deserve> I'm going to make a new... and likely the last official Darkness on the rise post to keep this organized! I'll ad the link above when i've finished :).)
“He’s a child. He is seventeen years old. He has hardly had the time to get experienced. Even I felt misgivings at first.”
Hayes:
“Please do.” He tapped his foot anxiously. “Ask Nova to as well.” Surely if the two did it together, they would be able to avoid getting stuck and ending up in similar...comatose situations?
Cosmo:
“And when are emotions a blessing?” he asked brokenly. The sickening sense of dread he felt right now made him want to ask Dr. Fenn to sedate him until it was all over. “What are you going to do? Watch as San goes through his most vulnerable moments?” He couldn’t stop himself from shaking. “Please, Doctor. Please, you have to help him.”
"Rick or whatever seems plenty responsible to me...?"
Sash
He hesitated then nodded, "I think I could try?"
Dr. Fenn
"No one is asking you to be like San or act like him... you can close your eyes and plug your ears, but the time is going drag you along..." he wished he could release him... he really did but Cosmo put the helmet on. "Emotions can also be a blessing, Cosmo."
"The guild is in a shaky place right now. Everyone is still trying to get used to the fact that the guild leader is well...a child. It's a time of distrust."
Hayes:
"Aren't you connected to San because of the whole helmet thing? Can you feel anything through there?"
Cosmo:
He shook his head wordlessly, causing tears to cut a zig-zag pattern down his face. "I'm not like San. I'm not a strong hero. I am reaching my limit on how much pain I can tolerate."
It wasn't that he wanted to refuse to see San's traumas; he wanted to help San overcome those memories. It was that he wasn't mentally well enough to see those memories in real time, without knowing there was an end in sight.
"I've heard what some Mandos say about me. They say that I'm too weak. I'm too emotional. And...it's true. San could stay strong and do this." His voice broke. "I can't."
"You're injured, yes, but you are also a mystery to them. You haven't served here for more than a decade. They think that since you left, you changed sides. Hayes isn't in good favor right now, either so that doesn't do anything for you."
Hayes:
He wished he had gotten the chance to know Nova better. "She's grieving for her mother, too. She's grieving for all that could have been." He cleared his throat. "Nova smashed one of San's helmets to bring you back. I thought that maybe that would tie you two into this in some way?"
Cosmo:
"A dream, maybe, but torture nevertheless." Nightmares had a way of sticking with you, and even influencing the person you became. He shivered, feeling like the jaws of an iron cage were squeezing his heart, like an animal trap catching a creature's leg.
"What I need to see is my San. I need to see him alive and well. I need him to see me, to really see me, to see the heart of who I am."
He furrowed his brows, "not saying that's entirely out of character, but how rude of them to jump to conclusions. Don't they know I'm an injured man?"
Sash
He looked towards a window and smiled slightly, "there are a few things I know, and that is that she's the strongest woman I've ever met, and that Nasa treated her very well. I don't blame her for that. I couldn't. " he rubbed his face and turned his attention back to Hayes, "was there something specific about Nova you wanted to know? Do you think she's connected to the helmet in any way?"
Dr. Fenn
"I don't think he will remember much of what happens here... he might but I doubt it. If he does I believe it would be more like a dream? It may be something you need to see."
"No. They were mostly concerned about the nurse who was screaming." She huffed. "Actually, they thought you were hurting the nurse."
Hayes:
He shook his head. "I'm sorry about that, Sash. Give Nova some time to grieve. I've seen how much she cares about you." He knew what it was like to grieve.
Cosmo:
He didn't move Dr. Fenn's hands away. Though he was shivering, he wasn't cold. If anything, he was a little hot. His body wasn't reacting well to all of this news. He finally managed to stop coughing and felt somewhat out of breath.
"You mean stopping the trauma from happening?" He wheezed a bit. "But you said he'd have to face it again anyway."
He wanted to hear the mature San's voice he knew. He wanted to be wrapped up in those arms and held tight. When San had been there, he felt alive.
"I don't know... I wish I understood what was wrong here... Nova uh... she broke up with me officially though. I thought maybe you would want to know that, but it's not going to help those men.
Dr. Fenn
He put his hands on his shoulders, "but your San is here... this is what made the loving man you know... maybe you need to see who he would have been without all he had gone through."
"For now," she said a bit sharply. "They weren't happy about it." Remy was a bit of a hazard here.
Hayes:
"Anything that could help here?" He would be really angry if San dragged Lander down with him.
Cosmo:
Dr. Fenn's comparison between San and a bomb made him think of Calore. Calore was a real human bomb, designed to go off in a burst of flesh and blood.
He flopped onto his back, lying there on the carpet with his hands on his chest, which was feeling tight again.
"San finds ways to save those he loves, and yet, I can't seem to do the same for him. I have never been strong enough." His voice was shaking, shaking, a volcano about to erupt. "There has been so much pain and death. I can't imagine glitter anymore." He closed his eyes, but tears still streamed down his cheeks anyway. "San is my safety, but my San isn’t here!"
He shut his eyes and sighed, "I know a little bit..."
Dr. Fenn
He was aware of the situation and this man's failing state of sanity, "the weight of war is a hard one to bear... and you fell for a man who placed himself right at the front of it because he was sold and found such a solace in saving those he loved..." he looked into Comso's eyes and found the brokenness inside, "love drives us crazy, but love also is our safety. This man is a bomb... but that doesn't mean the explosion he makes will be filled with pain and death. It could be a glitter bomb."
The clamor outside died down and the sound of footsteps walking away could be heard. Katra walked back into the room.
Hayes:
"The helmet did something to them, and maybe the cyanide, too." He sighed. "I was hoping you knew something about that d*** helmet? Or Nova?"
Cosmo:
He felt something snap within him. "You call this living?" His voice was edging on hysteria. "To see your love suffer through one pain after another, all while being incapable of doing anything other than making things worse? To feel so horribly empty inside because you are grabbing at loose strings? Ha, Dr. Fenn, I've never felt quite so dead."
He glared at the door as if that would or could do anything.
(Hmmmm B?)
Sash
He hardly knew how to take that, "are they going to be ok... what... how?"
Dr. Fenn
"I really hope not much... I believe there will be a place where both of you will find peace and thus joy in your lives... neither of you are even halfway through life."
He hugged Haydi tighter as the bickering continued outside. Katra was arguing fiercely, but he didn't know if words would be enough to protect them.
(A or B?)
Hayes:
He heard that. Nova must have given Sash the couch. Sorry, Sash.
"Cosmo and San both seem to be...well...a little too still at the moment. They're alive, but comatose, it seems."
Cosmo:
He slid down the wall and set down the journal and the stuffy, unable to quash his panic this time. He could feel himself on the verge of something terrible, wobbling on a precipice hundreds of feet in the air. He pulled things out of his pockets, desperate to find something, anything, that could get San and him out of here. His inhaler. The sapphire brooch. The letter. Two lightsabers: one Fotarah’s and one Azar’s. A comm with no signal. A packet of hot chocolate powder. No! He pressed his hands against the floor and breathed harder.
“Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them,” he whispered.
“How much more suffering will San and I have to endure before we are...are happy?” He could feel a weight behind his eyes.
He held him close and gave him a tight hug. He wanted to protect him. He just didn't know how...
Sash
He hesitated, "y-yes... fa- Hayes? What's going on?"
Dr. Fenn
"The person who created this is not here... and now that you put yourself in here, there is no way for you to get out or contact anyone outside without seeing this through... I don't think they considered this to be a thing that would happen..."
"A hug is much appreciated." He carefully gave Haydi a hug, making sure to avoid pulling out the IV.
Hayes:
He put the dots together. "A helmet?" Cosmo had been clutching that thing like his life depended on it when he had arrived.
Cosmo:
He let out a short breath and shook his head. "No. San is more than an object to be used; he is a living, breathing being. He went through more trauma than I'll ever know from his time as a 5-year-old to his time as a teen. I am not going to make him go through that suffering again."
He still had San's cat stuffed animal. He held it with lightly shaking hands. "Where is the person who created this?"
He smiled a little bit. "Okay. I wish I could turn invisible, though." He paused. "No, I don't, actually. Being a ghost was not fun."
Hayes:
Great! Sash was here. Now how to ask him about all of...this. "You were talking to Cosmo a bit ago, weren't you? Do you have any idea how the **** he was poisoned with cyanide?"
Cosmo:
He was starting to feel sick just thinking about it. San had shared the memory of what Azar had done with him. That memory hurt so very much, and these other memories of San's weren't so much better.
He tried not to panic. "We'll just have to find another way out of this trap, then."
"Hands or not, I work out. I'm strong and not going to let you go."
Sash
He picked up and felt just the slightest bit confused, but it was his... the man who had been his father in law? "Hello?"
Dr. Fenn
"I can not tell you what to do... you can certainly try it? I believe it will just cause you to see what would have been had those event not happened to him. I think you will still have to face them in order to get out."
Star Wars Darkness on the Rise: The End | theguardianherd
@Firesong @Windfeather @Iceberry
Hi guys! I've noticed that this role play has been very slow lately, and the same could be said of the message board. I think that we are all starting to outgrow this place, finding new joys and new ways to spend our time, and that is alright!
Darkness on the Rise has been going on for almost three years. We have made so many memories here! Dotr had helped me grow as a writer. I'm connected to these characters and I'm connected to this plot. Most role plays die without receiving a true ending, but that doesn't need to happen with Dotr.
I would like to find a way to tie up some of the loose strings to the plots we had going on here, if all of you also agree. We could role play the ending, or we could also just discuss what would happen.
A long time ago (and perhaps in a galaxy far far away 😉), Iceberry and Stormflight designed an ending for Dotr. We would have to change a good deal of it, as so much has happened since then, but we could potentially use attributes of what they wrote here if people would like.
https://www.theguardianherd.com/messageboard/herd-chat/calling-all-darkness-on-the-rise-peeps?origin=member_posts_page
Do you guys have any thoughts?
Katra:
“He’s a child. He is seventeen years old. He has hardly had the time to get experienced. Even I felt misgivings at first.”
Hayes:
“Please do.” He tapped his foot anxiously. “Ask Nova to as well.” Surely if the two did it together, they would be able to avoid getting stuck and ending up in similar...comatose situations?
Cosmo:
“And when are emotions a blessing?” he asked brokenly. The sickening sense of dread he felt right now made him want to ask Dr. Fenn to sedate him until it was all over. “What are you going to do? Watch as San goes through his most vulnerable moments?” He couldn’t stop himself from shaking. “Please, Doctor. Please, you have to help him.”
Haydi
"Rick or whatever seems plenty responsible to me...?"
Sash
He hesitated then nodded, "I think I could try?"
Dr. Fenn
"No one is asking you to be like San or act like him... you can close your eyes and plug your ears, but the time is going drag you along..." he wished he could release him... he really did but Cosmo put the helmet on. "Emotions can also be a blessing, Cosmo."
Katra:
"The guild is in a shaky place right now. Everyone is still trying to get used to the fact that the guild leader is well...a child. It's a time of distrust."
Hayes:
"Aren't you connected to San because of the whole helmet thing? Can you feel anything through there?"
Cosmo:
He shook his head wordlessly, causing tears to cut a zig-zag pattern down his face. "I'm not like San. I'm not a strong hero. I am reaching my limit on how much pain I can tolerate."
It wasn't that he wanted to refuse to see San's traumas; he wanted to help San overcome those memories. It was that he wasn't mentally well enough to see those memories in real time, without knowing there was an end in sight.
"I've heard what some Mandos say about me. They say that I'm too weak. I'm too emotional. And...it's true. San could stay strong and do this." His voice broke. "I can't."
Haydi
He frowned, "seems they have grown quick to judge in the decade I've been away."
Sash
He fell silent for a moment, "you may be on to something, but I don't know if we are here? I don't feel anything?"
Dr. Fenn
"I know... but the only way we can do that, is if we get him out."
Katra:
"You're injured, yes, but you are also a mystery to them. You haven't served here for more than a decade. They think that since you left, you changed sides. Hayes isn't in good favor right now, either so that doesn't do anything for you."
Hayes:
He wished he had gotten the chance to know Nova better. "She's grieving for her mother, too. She's grieving for all that could have been." He cleared his throat. "Nova smashed one of San's helmets to bring you back. I thought that maybe that would tie you two into this in some way?"
Cosmo:
"A dream, maybe, but torture nevertheless." Nightmares had a way of sticking with you, and even influencing the person you became. He shivered, feeling like the jaws of an iron cage were squeezing his heart, like an animal trap catching a creature's leg.
"What I need to see is my San. I need to see him alive and well. I need him to see me, to really see me, to see the heart of who I am."
Haydi
He furrowed his brows, "not saying that's entirely out of character, but how rude of them to jump to conclusions. Don't they know I'm an injured man?"
Sash
He looked towards a window and smiled slightly, "there are a few things I know, and that is that she's the strongest woman I've ever met, and that Nasa treated her very well. I don't blame her for that. I couldn't. " he rubbed his face and turned his attention back to Hayes, "was there something specific about Nova you wanted to know? Do you think she's connected to the helmet in any way?"
Dr. Fenn
"I don't think he will remember much of what happens here... he might but I doubt it. If he does I believe it would be more like a dream? It may be something you need to see."
Katra:
"No. They were mostly concerned about the nurse who was screaming." She huffed. "Actually, they thought you were hurting the nurse."
Hayes:
He shook his head. "I'm sorry about that, Sash. Give Nova some time to grieve. I've seen how much she cares about you." He knew what it was like to grieve.
Cosmo:
He didn't move Dr. Fenn's hands away. Though he was shivering, he wasn't cold. If anything, he was a little hot. His body wasn't reacting well to all of this news. He finally managed to stop coughing and felt somewhat out of breath.
"You mean stopping the trauma from happening?" He wheezed a bit. "But you said he'd have to face it again anyway."
He wanted to hear the mature San's voice he knew. He wanted to be wrapped up in those arms and held tight. When San had been there, he felt alive.
Haydi
"Did they know he was in here?"
Sash
"I don't know... I wish I understood what was wrong here... Nova uh... she broke up with me officially though. I thought maybe you would want to know that, but it's not going to help those men.
Dr. Fenn
He put his hands on his shoulders, "but your San is here... this is what made the loving man you know... maybe you need to see who he would have been without all he had gone through."
Katra:
"For now," she said a bit sharply. "They weren't happy about it." Remy was a bit of a hazard here.
Hayes:
"Anything that could help here?" He would be really angry if San dragged Lander down with him.
Cosmo:
Dr. Fenn's comparison between San and a bomb made him think of Calore. Calore was a real human bomb, designed to go off in a burst of flesh and blood.
He flopped onto his back, lying there on the carpet with his hands on his chest, which was feeling tight again.
"San finds ways to save those he loves, and yet, I can't seem to do the same for him. I have never been strong enough." His voice was shaking, shaking, a volcano about to erupt. "There has been so much pain and death. I can't imagine glitter anymore." He closed his eyes, but tears still streamed down his cheeks anyway. "San is my safety, but my San isn’t here!"
He shivered violently and started to cough.
Haydi
Did he glaring work?? "Are they gone?"
Sash
He shut his eyes and sighed, "I know a little bit..."
Dr. Fenn
He was aware of the situation and this man's failing state of sanity, "the weight of war is a hard one to bear... and you fell for a man who placed himself right at the front of it because he was sold and found such a solace in saving those he loved..." he looked into Comso's eyes and found the brokenness inside, "love drives us crazy, but love also is our safety. This man is a bomb... but that doesn't mean the explosion he makes will be filled with pain and death. It could be a glitter bomb."
(A - Katra is unsuccessful
B - Katra is successful)
Remy:
The clamor outside died down and the sound of footsteps walking away could be heard. Katra walked back into the room.
Hayes:
"The helmet did something to them, and maybe the cyanide, too." He sighed. "I was hoping you knew something about that d*** helmet? Or Nova?"
Cosmo:
He felt something snap within him. "You call this living?" His voice was edging on hysteria. "To see your love suffer through one pain after another, all while being incapable of doing anything other than making things worse? To feel so horribly empty inside because you are grabbing at loose strings? Ha, Dr. Fenn, I've never felt quite so dead."
Haydi
He glared at the door as if that would or could do anything.
(Hmmmm B?)
Sash
He hardly knew how to take that, "are they going to be ok... what... how?"
Dr. Fenn
"I really hope not much... I believe there will be a place where both of you will find peace and thus joy in your lives... neither of you are even halfway through life."
Remy:
He hugged Haydi tighter as the bickering continued outside. Katra was arguing fiercely, but he didn't know if words would be enough to protect them.
(A or B?)
Hayes:
He heard that. Nova must have given Sash the couch. Sorry, Sash.
"Cosmo and San both seem to be...well...a little too still at the moment. They're alive, but comatose, it seems."
Cosmo:
He slid down the wall and set down the journal and the stuffy, unable to quash his panic this time. He could feel himself on the verge of something terrible, wobbling on a precipice hundreds of feet in the air. He pulled things out of his pockets, desperate to find something, anything, that could get San and him out of here. His inhaler. The sapphire brooch. The letter. Two lightsabers: one Fotarah’s and one Azar’s. A comm with no signal. A packet of hot chocolate powder. No! He pressed his hands against the floor and breathed harder.
“Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them,” he whispered.
“How much more suffering will San and I have to endure before we are...are happy?” He could feel a weight behind his eyes.
(Excerpt from one of Hamlet's monologues!)
Haydi
He held him close and gave him a tight hug. He wanted to protect him. He just didn't know how...
Sash
He hesitated, "y-yes... fa- Hayes? What's going on?"
Dr. Fenn
"The person who created this is not here... and now that you put yourself in here, there is no way for you to get out or contact anyone outside without seeing this through... I don't think they considered this to be a thing that would happen..."
Remy:
"A hug is much appreciated." He carefully gave Haydi a hug, making sure to avoid pulling out the IV.
Hayes:
He put the dots together. "A helmet?" Cosmo had been clutching that thing like his life depended on it when he had arrived.
Cosmo:
He let out a short breath and shook his head. "No. San is more than an object to be used; he is a living, breathing being. He went through more trauma than I'll ever know from his time as a 5-year-old to his time as a teen. I am not going to make him go through that suffering again."
He still had San's cat stuffed animal. He held it with lightly shaking hands. "Where is the person who created this?"
Haydi
"How about just a hug?" He whispered with a kind smile.
Sash
He didn't know what to say when he was cornered with that, "he was... looking for something? I...I think?"
Dr. Fenn
"There isn't another way." He said softly, "you may at least want to get him to a teen? He may be more useful that way instead of a five year old?"
Remy:
He smiled a little bit. "Okay. I wish I could turn invisible, though." He paused. "No, I don't, actually. Being a ghost was not fun."
Hayes:
Great! Sash was here. Now how to ask him about all of...this. "You were talking to Cosmo a bit ago, weren't you? Do you have any idea how the **** he was poisoned with cyanide?"
Cosmo:
He was starting to feel sick just thinking about it. San had shared the memory of what Azar had done with him. That memory hurt so very much, and these other memories of San's weren't so much better.
He tried not to panic. "We'll just have to find another way out of this trap, then."
Haydi
"Hands or not, I work out. I'm strong and not going to let you go."
Sash
He picked up and felt just the slightest bit confused, but it was his... the man who had been his father in law? "Hello?"
Dr. Fenn
"I can not tell you what to do... you can certainly try it? I believe it will just cause you to see what would have been had those event not happened to him. I think you will still have to face them in order to get out."