gifgifpersonperson[SIML] Tiu's Story - Heat Abnormal (Luminous Mix)Hidden deep in the pockets just outside of the Oort's city limits, there lies a seemingly centuries-old, forgotten settlement. No living soul, Celestial or otherwise, would dare to step foot there - anyone with a functioning Somastone would quickly be choked by the darkness lingering in the atmosphere. Unbeknownst to the residents of the Oort, their city was not a brand-new marvel of technology and science as they'd been led to believe. Rather, it was built upon the graveyard of failed experiments, horrific accidents, and curses deeply rooted in the fabric of the Cosmos. Thus, it remains abandoned, without a soul to remember it ever existed. That is, until the Solar Unit finds a curious trail of rubble, in the midst of searching for a Star Shard with a resounding energy. Feeling a deep pit in their Somastones, the cadets hesitatingly stare upon the ruins. The Luminous flowing through their bodies overwhelmed them all with the instinct to turn away and never look back, even as they scramble and try to shake off the intense feelings of dread. They look to Earth and Mars, the only two whose Luminous is not fully developed and will not constrict them the same way it does the others. Though the site is covered with the dust of decaying Star Shards, there are still ephemera and lost collections buried under the rubble. As they enter and quietly shuffle through crumbled walls, Tiu takes over front from Mars and begins to search for anything - anything that pieces together the forgotten stories of those who came before the Oort. He dusts off an abandoned cassette tape, musing to Earth, "I doubt this thing even works. Maybe I'll take it home and see if I can fix it." To his surprise, the on-switch clicks and the cassette begins to softly rumble in his hands. "...No choice but to hear whatever it is they have to say, I guess," Earth replied. Tiu puts the cassette by his ear, and begins to realize this is a story all too familiar to him. That shadowy figure - the Ringmaster - had etched his existence into the minds of the superstitious, as if he was just a myth from old-time folklore. And yet, this wasn't just a legend passed down as a cautionary tale through the generations. There was so much more to the story than Tiu once believed. He listened on with a horrified face, as a drifter recited their recollection of the man who could harness the consuming void of a singularity.play_arrow