System Glitch: In The City

[theextras]

The artificial sun rises in the artificial sky... just like every day in Taxon. For some of the inhabitants, this has been going on long enough to be very routine.

This morning, though, the light shines over quite a few gaps in the city's architecture. There is no Oxford library, no Hedge Maze. A number of the private residences are simply gone, those that people brought with them to Taxon. And the streets are very empty, indeed: no Extras on the sidewalks, no Extras driving cars. No smiling faces in the corner coffee shop. The trams rattle around the city with nary a soul on board. The streets are silent.

But it's not just the Extras who are gone. Most of the familiar faces are, too. The tablets show only a very short list of 'Contacts'-- those few citizens left in the city proper.

Save for a small handful of Taxon's prisoners-- left rattling around like the last pills in a nearly empty bottle-- the city is deserted, and silent as the grave.


[ OOC: The first of two log posts to kick off the event! For reference, these are the characters who are remaining in the city: Azkadellia, Briar Moss, Charles Xavier (AU), Daphne Powell, DG, Drusilla, Eanes, Illyria, James Holmes, Jenna Sommers, Martha Jones, Remus Lupin, and Wyatt Cain. ]

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[justdysfunctional]

"Oh..." So the empty points in the skyline were missing people. Guess sometimes people just get out of here or something. Whoever's in charge gets bored with them and gets rid of them. Daphne looked around trying to figure out what to do, "Do so many people usually vanish at once?"

"I meant if you want to find her now, maybe you should look for where she might go," Daphne wondered if this woman's sister wasn't so much a goal or an excuse. Something to do to not think about everyone else gone. Daphne was muttering to herself now, "Why did the city have to get all creepy? I was almost comfortable with this place."

[azoftheoz]

"Oh." She repeated the word with a nod as if that said so much more than it did. Just a single word, an expression of emotion but, in the end, it gave them nothing. She shook her head. "After Willow disappeared and I was talking to people about how it happens and how often. No one seemed talked of so many at once."

Which she hated. It was new and different. "I keep helping it is one of the stunts they speak of the aliens playing. If it was that, then they might come back." Which she wasn't sure if it was good or bad. Was it cruel to wish for that?

"I've looked at the palace, and then where the maze was. I admit, I don't know much about her life here. I only just arrived. Those that I know she knew, I've either spoken to or aren't here now," she admitted.