[ STAFF PLOT: FINALE ]

[xi_npc]

Characters: Tolian Soran (NPC) + Staff!
Location: Soran's Launchpad
Time: Early Saturday Morning, June 19th
Content: Soran is going to launch a probe to destroy the sun and change the path of the energy ribbon so he can return to the Nexus. Only the staff can stop him!
Please check the OOC post first.
Warnings: Nexus realities may contain traces

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OUTSIDE THE FORCEFIELD

[xi_mods]

[ Want to make any last ditch attempts to throw yourself at the forcefield, or talk Soran out of it? Be his guest. He wont stop you. Mostly because he knows you wont get anywhere, not now at any rate. ]

[clearlythatsme]

[He does not do force fields or anything like it

Mostly hides behind other people in order not to get shocked]

Couldn't you have just said John or George?

[toliansoran]

[ Doesn't even look up from his console. You are so far beyond his interest right now. ]

Mr Jane, wasn't it? You must think me quite the mad man.

[clearlythatsme]

Just a homicidal monomaniac.

3, 2, 1...

[xi_mods]

[ The probe launches. It's a tiny target, shooting high out of the forcefield towards the sun. You fire at it uselessly, hoping to stop it -- but it's too late. You've failed. It takes a while, but you can see it happen -- the sun begins to darken as it collapses. Darkness falls completely, and everything goes silent. Then, a flicker of distant light -- and the energy ribbon is rushing towards you. There's nowhere to hide. It whips across the plateau, whisking anyone present into the embrace of the nexus. Just behind it, the shockwave finally hits -- wiping out earth in blaze of flames.

But you aren't present for that. It feels strange, like you've been asleep.

When you awake, it might take a moment to get your bearings. You're in the Nexus. Open your eyes... ]

NEXUS OF ANGST

[clearlythatsme]

[Jane sits up in bed--his bed--and feels stirring next to him. Angela looks over at him with sleepy eyes, putting her hand out.

"Bad dream?"

He pauses, because this doesn't seem right, and touches her hand. It's real, warm. Tangible.

If he actually died, this might be heaven. He wasn't sure he believed in it until now. Sure, grabbing spirits from the other side was one thing, but there was a difference between some inarticulate plane and this. This was home.

Jane smiles.

It takes them a while to disentangle before he goes to check on Charlotte. She's asleep, clutching her favorite doll. He brushes her hair, pulling the blanket around her shoulders, then meets Annie downstairs in the kitchen for breakfast tea. He comes up behind her, snaking arms around her waist and resting his chin on her shoulder.

"I love you."]

Doop

[fairerthandeath]

[ John has no idea where he's going. He knows none of this can be real, knows it like he knew the moment he shut down the power in the Antarctica base to stop the overload it would be the end of his career.

He's trying to remember what was said about this Nexus... thing that Soran wanted to get back into. It's like a dream, right? Somehow. Some kind of... weird reality thing. Soran has been in it before and come out. There must be a way they can get out. It can give him what he wants, right?

He wants to find the others.

So he walks. He walks until the landscape seems to change, becomes familiar yet unfamiliar. This isn't somewhere he remembers, but -- these cars have California plates. This is someone else's reality now.

He has a sickening sense of dread as he paces slowly along the street, trying to work out where to go next. ]

[clearlythatsme]

[It's Southern California in the summer- sunny, hot, but with a coastal breeze.

The front page headline on town newspapers show Jane shaking the hand of a cop, with LOCAL PSYCHIC REVEALS LEAD IN KILLER CASE. There are clients past and present around, many of whom can show directions to his home.

Jane's house is up on a hill on the Malibu coast. He and his wife are outside, sitting together in the gazebo overlooking the ocean.]