it's been so long between the words we spoke {OPEN}

[shiro2hero]

Who: Shiro or Shadowmaru & YOU
Where: Various
When: During the Basculegion Swarm
Summary: Open log for Shiro and Shadowmaru's encounters with the Ghost Generating Fish
Rating: PG13 - will update if necessary


Log:

> SHIRO'S THREAD

> SHADOWMARU'S THREAD

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I need the clouds to cover me {SHIRO}

[shiro2hero]

AT THE HOUSE
[Local dorito man goes for a jog. He does this just about every day around this same time. He leaves at the same time, comes back at the same time - like clockwork. So maybe it was natural that something was going to find him. Something with a devious plan was on its way.]

[It came in the form of a fish.]

[Naturally, Shiro sees a flopping Basculegion on the sand and makes an effort to try and return it to the ocean. Why wouldn't he? But no sooner does he toss the creature back into the waves, than his whole body goes cold. Like he hadn't just been running, like he isn't standing in front of his house in the tropics.]

[And when he turns, slowly, around to see what might be causing the chill, he comes face to face with ghostly figures. More than he can count on one hand. They're see-through, colorless, their bodies wrapped in rags. None of them have faces.]

[Shiro falls over backward in utter shock, landing in the surf, unable to tear his eyes away from the scene - and hoping no one comes by to see this.]


TRAVELING | aka anywhere option
[A bunch of weird figures in the yard is... a lot to take in. But maybe it's a localized phenomenon. Maybe it's nothing. And Shiro has things to take care of - he has the never-ending prep and planning of making his own gym, after all! It's a lot of work. And not all the supplies can be found in the Sevii Islands.]

[Which is why he's here - whichever town you happen to be in, there's Shiro. Walking out of a shop, holding books under his arm. Or out of a cafe, with takeout.]

[Only to stop dead. Because there's one of those fish. Staring at him from the smallest body of water - be it a puddle, a spilled drink. Maybe it's a fountain. But it's staring at him. And before he can react, it leaps, and smacks him in the face, full on.]

[In moments, the area around him goes cold. Figures materialize out of the sudden chill, rising from the ground, staring at him with yellow eyes.]

[They don't move.]

[Shiro suddenly can't move.]

[This is fine.]

pull in the dark, surround me {SHADOWMARU}

[sassymaru]

BEACHSIDE | OLIVINE
[No good deed goes unpunished, it seemed. You try and shoo a fish back into the ocean and... it goes poorly. Maybe he shouldn't have shooed it with his foot. But what was he supposed to do? Get fish slime all over him?]

[Apparently, yes, he should have.]

[He's left standing, staring up. And up. And up.]

[Standing in the waves is another robot. One who looks bizarrely similar to Shadowmaru's normal form, if only in different colors. And sporting a rad eyepatch. It just stands there, staring at him in silence.]

[While Shadowmaru looks as if he's been punched in the chest.]

[He has no idea how long he sits there. How long he stares. If his face is damp, he swears it's the spray of the ocean. Nothing else.]


NETWORK OPTION;; text
Has... anyone yet managed to rid themselves of these fish-spawned apparitions?

I had made an attempt to assist one of them, and was rewarded with... spirits. Nothing I have done is banishing it.

[And... he's not even sure he wants to, deep down.]