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[ Curtly: ]
Morning. Kyle Rayner; Green Lantern Corps. I’ve been here fifteen months. For those of you new here, hi.
[ He inhales, bites his lip, glad it’s an audio feed, before continuing evenly: ]
So, the stuff they feed us about there being three planes isn’t BS. [ a faintly amused noise ] We’re on the Life plane. The others are Death, and Dreaming, and they’re accessible with the right gateway. Our enemy is said to live in the Death plane and control the environment there. We can’t recreate the original portals we found when the turtle stopped at Sinbrilee, but even so I wouldn’t really recommend sightseeing [ unless someone’s highly inclined towards raising hell, but Kyle doesn’t mention that, not even as a joke. ]. The Dreaming plane seems pretty harmless so far. We’ve done some exploring, here’s what we’ve got:
1. Any injuries you sustain there won’t heal automatically when you come back. We don’t know about dying but if you can get hurt there, you can die there too.
2. It changes depending on your subconscious. If someone else is in there with you, they can affect your environment if they try hard enough. I’d advise building some mental defences: meditation, et cetera… especially if you’re from a world that doesn’t have telepaths. If you need a hand with this, call me.
3. Eating and drinking works normally.
4. Powers - any kind - don’t work reliably and sometimes don’t work at all. Neither does technology.
5. You can enter and leave using different gateways no problem, doesn’t matter how far apart they are, but if you’ve only got the one, I’d say use it to get out. There’s plenty more gateways than the ones we got for research, but we don’t know where they are, and for all you know you could end up at one on the ocean floor.
6. The runes for all gateways have to be exact. Scraping one, even barely, shuts it down.
7. Don’t fall asleep there. You get stuck in your own nightmares - or somebody else’s - and it’s a pain in the ass to get out.
8. If something lives there, it’s pretty good at hiding.
9. Time’s much slower. A few days there could mean a few minutes here.
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If anybody else has got research they’d like to share, we’d appreciate hearing it.
[ click. ]
[100% encrypted | PRIVATE TO: ARTHUR CURRY, AYA, BILLY COSTIGAN, BUCKY BARNES (MCU), CLARK KENT, CONNOR HAWKE, DAMIAN WAYNE, DICK GRAYSON, GAIUS SEPTIMUS, JAIME REYES, & SHARON CARTER.]
I’m coming by with the full report. I’d appreciate your thoughts on it; let’s try to keep this stuff off-network. Our enemy has the advantage. - GL 2814.4
[ The message is hand-delivered. Included are Kyle’s sketches from Mark’s description regarding the previous batch of heroes present in Keeliai: a rough drawing of the being Tele, a tree-like creature, gesticulating, captioned as “tree people??”. There’s sketch of a woman with harsh features, one leg, and a cane. Several maps, too, showing campaigns; one describing an assault on the Death plane, and a final description at the end regarding the explosions destroying the city. ]
[ After a while, he also sends a copy to movie!Hal Jordan, but puts it in a sealed envelope and leaves before the man opens the door. ]
Morning. Kyle Rayner; Green Lantern Corps. I’ve been here fifteen months. For those of you new here, hi.
[ He inhales, bites his lip, glad it’s an audio feed, before continuing evenly: ]
So, the stuff they feed us about there being three planes isn’t BS. [ a faintly amused noise ] We’re on the Life plane. The others are Death, and Dreaming, and they’re accessible with the right gateway. Our enemy is said to live in the Death plane and control the environment there. We can’t recreate the original portals we found when the turtle stopped at Sinbrilee, but even so I wouldn’t really recommend sightseeing [ unless someone’s highly inclined towards raising hell, but Kyle doesn’t mention that, not even as a joke. ]. The Dreaming plane seems pretty harmless so far. We’ve done some exploring, here’s what we’ve got:
1. Any injuries you sustain there won’t heal automatically when you come back. We don’t know about dying but if you can get hurt there, you can die there too.
2. It changes depending on your subconscious. If someone else is in there with you, they can affect your environment if they try hard enough. I’d advise building some mental defences: meditation, et cetera… especially if you’re from a world that doesn’t have telepaths. If you need a hand with this, call me.
3. Eating and drinking works normally.
4. Powers - any kind - don’t work reliably and sometimes don’t work at all. Neither does technology.
5. You can enter and leave using different gateways no problem, doesn’t matter how far apart they are, but if you’ve only got the one, I’d say use it to get out. There’s plenty more gateways than the ones we got for research, but we don’t know where they are, and for all you know you could end up at one on the ocean floor.
6. The runes for all gateways have to be exact. Scraping one, even barely, shuts it down.
7. Don’t fall asleep there. You get stuck in your own nightmares - or somebody else’s - and it’s a pain in the ass to get out.
8. If something lives there, it’s pretty good at hiding.
9. Time’s much slower. A few days there could mean a few minutes here.
[ Beat. ]
If anybody else has got research they’d like to share, we’d appreciate hearing it.
[ click. ]
[100% encrypted | PRIVATE TO: ARTHUR CURRY, AYA, BILLY COSTIGAN, BUCKY BARNES (MCU), CLARK KENT, CONNOR HAWKE, DAMIAN WAYNE, DICK GRAYSON, GAIUS SEPTIMUS, JAIME REYES, & SHARON CARTER.]
I’m coming by with the full report. I’d appreciate your thoughts on it; let’s try to keep this stuff off-network. Our enemy has the advantage. - GL 2814.4
[ The message is hand-delivered. Included are Kyle’s sketches from Mark’s description regarding the previous batch of heroes present in Keeliai: a rough drawing of the being Tele, a tree-like creature, gesticulating, captioned as “tree people??”. There’s sketch of a woman with harsh features, one leg, and a cane. Several maps, too, showing campaigns; one describing an assault on the Death plane, and a final description at the end regarding the explosions destroying the city. ]
[ After a while, he also sends a copy to movie!Hal Jordan, but puts it in a sealed envelope and leaves before the man opens the door. ]
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Hello, Kyle.
Please come in. I am certain there is much we need to discuss.
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Yeah, no kidding. [He waves in the general direction of the report.] You'd better read it first.
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[It would not take long for her to read. The details were not conclusive, of course, but the information was more than enough for her to draw some initial opinions.]
Am I correct in my assumption that the initial assault was specifically aimed at the Death plane, but not Dreaming?
[Since she did not see anything about the latter in the report.]
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[He cracks open an eye when Aya speaks.]
Yeah - we've got no evidence it went to the Dreaming plane at all.
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Do you think there is a reason for that? Why it would choose one over the other?
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From what you have shared with me, it appears to hold similarities to the Spider Guild Prison.
[Likewise, Kyle should recall the memory he received from her about her experiences with the Guild. How they used mind control devices to trap those inside their worst memories, causing one to relieve their greatest pain over and over again.]
[In Razor's case, a pain that had, indeed, involved the Death of his Love.]
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You could say that. I'd think about it more as... goop central. We haven't gone since Sinbrilee, and I don't think anything's come out anywhere that we know of.
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[Much as she had come to understand Kyle like no other, there were still moments when Aya had to...pause...at his casual choice of phrasing.]
Though we cannot be certain.
[Not a correction. Merely a continuation of his assessment.]
With the information presented at this time, I am able to hypothesis two equally similar scenarios.
The first is that there is more of a value to the Death Realm than Dreaming, for the enemy appears to be focusing much of its energy there. The second, however, would suggest that the attack on Death could, perhaps, also be a distraction to draw attention away from Dreaming. It would not be the first time I have encountered such a method.
Regardless, I am curious as to precisely how the two realms should differ, particularly from the perspective of the enemy.
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No, but I think we'd have noticed. Somehow it used the Death realm to corrupt Kithika, maybe it's harder with Dreaming? Asti used it, I wouldn't be surprised if he was around looking after it so he could talk to us safely, and he's the only one immune to our dark and shadowy friend.
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Not long ago, I encountered a young individual--presumably even younger than myself--who identified as a member of Asti's species, although, at the time, he demonstrated the ability to mold his appearance to appear more like me.
I did not understand at the time, but now I am certain I had been...dreaming.
[The hesitation only came from the fact that the concept was still so new to her, as she had never experienced it before. Baby's first Dream.]
It was not an entirely unpleasant experience.
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You had your first dream - and that too about a boy - and you're telling me now?
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I did not realize these were significant details you would have wanted to be made aware of.
My apologies.
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Aya - it was a joke. I was teasing you.
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...oh.
I do not...recognize which part was meant to be humorous?
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Look, you had a dream for the first time? And it was about.. y'know, a boy?
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I have been informed that there are some cultures that see the random neurological impulses that often result in these dreams as holding greater meaning, but I have yet to decipher precisely how so.
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That that qualify as 'liking' him?
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[Oh. That's what it was. That...still did not quite explain everything.]
Are my potential affections for other beings meant to bring amusement?
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[He grins.]
It's a human thing. I - think.
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Then there are aspects of human life that I am not certain I will ever fully understand.
Even when it come to you, Kyle Rayner.
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They do?
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