in all my life all i wanted was the keeping of someone like you

[cleffiesreborn]

The video was posted to Youtube. It immediately got taken down for violating their Terms of Service, and the account was reported to the authorities. Most people thought it was a hoax. Some new movie or something. Others said it just felt too real. Either way, it went viral, even without Youtube's help. Then the news picked it up, and well... it

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[sophicsulphur]

[OOC: ...oh, what the hell, I'm throwing Iris in here even though she's not even out of her intro post yet; I call Timey Wimey Stuff, and this is interesting. And I doubt whatever she encounters within the next 24 hours is going to change her reaction to this.]

She's found herself at the same storefront, a throng of gathered people blocking her passage. Some of them are weeping. Some of them are staring, the expressions on their faces horrified or numb. There's a palpable sense of panic and disgust that she doesn't have to reach out to feel: it's thickening the air like rain.

To Iris, a girl from a pre-technology world freshly fallen out of the Rift, the first hurdle to get over is how she is seeing this. Her first, immediate thought is that there are people behind the glass, trapped inside some kind of... crystal mechanism? Is that man holding them hostage there? Or is this a projection, a magical image superimposed on reality? Whatever's creating these appalling scenes is... it's energetic, in some way, strong lightning energy

[sophicsulphur]

She takes Cassie's confusion in her stride. After all, she's quickly learnt that the majority of people here weren't living lives that were anything like hers, before they came here. She decides to go for the simple explanation