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In my restless memes, I see that town.

Maybe you've come here by accident. Maybe on purpose, or together, or alone. Either way, the fog is settling down thick, and all roads leading out have crumbled away, leading only to deep cliffs and chasms. You're stuck.

Welcome to Silent Hill.

Instructions
1. Post your character with their name/canon in the subject line.
2. Tag around!
3. You can each choose or roll for a reason you're here.
4. You can even roll for a situation.
5. No powers! Sorry--enjoy that.
6. Oh, and try not to die.

NOTE: This meme can potentially contain triggers, for violence and psychological torture in particular. Please take heed!

why have you come?
1. You're searching for someone. A relative, a friend, a dead lover. Someone has led you to this quiet little town.
2. An accident. You got lost in the fog, the roads fell off into chasms, you thought you saw someone in the road and crashed. Time to venture farther in for help.
3. Returning visitor. You've come here before, to the lovely little resort town, and had a beautiful time. But this second trip will be different.
4. An escape. You're running from something ... or someone. A crime you committed? Grief? Too bad you ran to the wrong place...
5. Wildcard, or make up your own!

what horrors do you encounter?
1. You just met. You've only been able to find each other, no one else in town. Stores are deserted, doors are locked, silence is everywhere. What happened here? What's going on?
2. A shuffling in the night, the fog, or in a tight dark hallway of an abandoned building. A strange creature is moving toward you. Maybe humanoid, maybe not. They can be powerful. They can be slow. They can vomit acid. Time to pick up whatever plank, knife, or gun available to you ... if you both want to live.
3. A dark secret from your past is returning to haunt you. It manifests in hallucinations, the town reaching deep inside your mind to paint the surroundings in grotesque symbolism. Yet, the other person can't seem to see what you see.
4. The walls are peeling away. Or maybe you got knocked out and just woke up to an entirely different kind of town. There are chains, rust, fans, orange light, splatters of blood. A horrific version of what used to be around you. Welcome to the Otherworld.
5. That other person with you--you see them as someone they're not. Someone from your past that you loved or feel bone-wracking guilt over. And no matter what they say, that they're not, they're someone else, you just can't help but see...
6. The town has driven you insane. The monsters, the guilt you may carry. It's all coming back to you. You need to lash out. At anything. At anyone.
7. Wildcard, or make up your own!

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myheartglows

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((Let me know if this works for you. I figure Thrawn's showing up to track down the Undaunted since it's missed its rendezvous by several days and transmissions can't make it out of the globular cluster.))

Apart from the tidal distortions that had earned the Bridge To Nowhere its colloquial name, the object had appeared to be a perfectly normal, if unusually populous, globular cluster. The high number of stars and their unusual distribution made it a prime candidate for concealing a planetary refuge for the Chiss Ascendancy; Captain Mitth'ar'isshana - with Vah'nya again serving under her as the Undaunted's navigator - had been assigned the initial scouting mission.

The fact that they were currently six days behind schedule getting out was, at this point, not even one of the top five most concerning things about how the mission had gone.

Things had taken a turn for the eerie when Vah'nya had mentioned one night that she was experiencing what she'd described as specters around the edges of her Second Sight. They were calling her somewhere, she'd said; and Tharis was left with the choice of either letting her follow those specters, or scrapping the mission entirely.

She should've chosen the latter.

Granted, the former had started off very promising - they'd discovered no fewer than four habitable planets, which was an unbelievable streak of luck under the circumstances. The first three, however, hadn't been the source of whatever was calling to Vah'nya, and she'd insisted that they move on as soon as possible after the initial planetary surveys were completed.

The fourth planet was where they had finally found what they were looking for. Or rather, where whatever was looking for them had finally managed to trap them.

There was no sign on any of the ship's security cameras, or any of the other monitoring systems, that anyone had gone anywhere near the Undaunted's hyperdrive the day they'd arrived in-system - none, except for the fact that it couldn't possibly have sabotaged itself. They did have the parts on hand to make the repair, but it was a week-long process under the best of circumstances, and it seemed as though every time the techs turned their backs on it even for a moment, something else went wrong. In the time they'd been here, she'd already had to send a scouting team down to the planet for fresh water - and despite the intermittent radio transmissions from the planet's surface, never a coherent message and never in response to anything Tharis sent down, they had reported no current signs of sentient life. There was one sprawling, desolate town they had located, but Tharis had them avoid it, for now; they'd probe a little deeper into the mystery of what had become of the life on this world another time.

After the hyperdrive was fixed. Maybe after they'd gotten reinforcements. Almost certainly after the itch in that one spot in the back of Tharis's mind, the one where she thought she'd lost all ability to feel anything years ago, had died away.

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