ON THAT DAY (A MINGLE LOG)

[usurpers]

WHO: you!
WHERE: what the fuck is that 50 meter wall that just appeared
WHEN: throughout the month of september and beyond ✨
WHAT: その日、人類はやつらに支配されていた恐怖を思い出した。(honestly, whatever you want it to be; this is mostly just exploration/free for all!)
WARNINGS: none so far! perhaps mentions of aot-violence if it’s with eren.

maybe your eye catches something in the pixilated distance of recollé, something large enough to block out the horizon line, tall, linear and stretching out for kilometers. for whatever reason, you decide to check it out.

once there, you’re met with a colossal, stationed, 50 meter fortress. a gate remains sealed with the image of a woman’s profile on its front, while to the side of it there’s . . . this weird crystal thing. guillotine traps and cannons line the entire stronghold, but there’s no one there to man them. in fact, the only sign of life you can hear the birds that have migrated over from the city, and the wind.

you’ll have to climb to get to the other side, or maybe the gate’s already open once you get there. walk inside:



at least for now, there’s nothing here to hurt you. only stories to tell.

this is an open post to explore the new location, wall maria and shinganshina district, just outside of recollé! you can find all the information you need on this post here, and any canon blind questions could be asked there if need be!

explore, take what you want, mess around with the weapons, choose a hideout, etc.

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[usurpers]

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[ maybe eren sent you (all) a text to come with him, because he saw something, or maybe you just happen to be going in the same direction and meet him there—

it’s when they actually get there though that eren stares wide eyed, rattling inside as his neck cranes back to run over the wall’s entirety. he sees himself, a crystallized titan body blocking the hole kicked into it, and this feels . . . surreal. likes he’s living the one thing he never wanted to, all over again.

when he finally decides to speak up, his voice is soft, and one might even hear something akin to fear as it cracks. ]

Why is this . . . Here?

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[ and thank god, after plenty of searching, there are no titans anywhere. actually, there’s not a living soul in sight. inside shinganshina, there’s nothing but a ghost town, a dreary shadow of what it used to be. it smells like fire and blood, even though there’s no body in sight. there’s just too much of it to wear off in simple ages.

compelled, eren seems to be searching for something. he didn’t want to be here, he didn’t want this to be here—

but there was still a part of him that was trembling, that was searching for the place his heart still called home regardless of the pain it brought. ]

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( please lmk if you’d like something specific and we can tailor up a top level just for that! either pm, liberos or owlteer#3609 on discord!! ✨ )

[thebeastwithout]

Jesus.

[No one had sent him anything, but when a fifty foot wall materializes outside the city, Gar tends to feel it's just cause to drop whatever he's doing and fly there at the nearest opportunity. He drops down from the sky a short distance from Eren.]

Do you.... know what this is?

[usurpers]

[ if only it were fifty feet, my friend. those are fifty meters, more than triple the amount of feet.the fortress was made to keep things out, that and give a hard time to those who lacked wings.

eren stares at the design of a maiden’s head against what should be the gate, now left wide open from the inside (he’s been here for a few hours already, he’s climbed the the walls with the flight his maneuver gear offered, and he’s surveyed every corner with elliot. still, it’s hard not to stare no matter how many times he’s seen it by now. ]

It’s . . . My home. [ eren says, without putting much thought into what those words meant. either way, he begins stepping inside, neck craning back as he does to trace the architecture. ]

[thebeastwithout]

Your home is a giant wall?

[Kind of a crappy home, but he won't judge.]

......Is this Retrospec's new thing? I thought they only brought over like... small objects, sometimes.

I

[fiddlestick]

[Elliot's here after insisting on coming along with Eren. So at this time, he's standing next to him, also staring with a wide eyed expression at the crystallized titan form because what in the world.]

Good...question.

Isn't that...your titan form....?

[he'd recognize that backside anywhere]

[usurpers]

[ of course elliot would have that booty

covered

👀

eren clicks the handles of his maneuver gear off their holster, kneeling down to the ground with his hands open and pressing the side of his face down on the grass. he listens and feels for any sort of tremor. it was the same as the cautious trip over, and eren frowns in confusion. he’s afraid to believe it and be wrong, but so far . . . there’s nothing. he spends the few seconds of listening in silence, but not without glancing over to the crystal.

getting up, he brushes his hands on his pants and adjusts some straps on him. ]

Yeah. I think I sealed up the hole that was here.

[ in fact— there’s a guillotine nearby, with the same shine of blue crystal, and another shimmer of light some meters ahead. ]

That’s all . . . me.

[ honestly, it’s feeling sort of weird that there are pieces of him on the wall. a knock on the stone titan’s frame is like diamond. hard and near impossible to chip away.

he’s just looking troubled. ]

It feels— weird. There’s no one up there, either.

[fiddlestick]

[eyyyyyyyyyyyy

Elliot stares around in awe and confusion The crystal of the guillotine and around titan Eren is nothing like he's ever seen before. Even his own quartz looks different from this. ]

So this is....what hardening does?

[He'll walk up and knock on the stone titan. Yep. Hard as a rock]

I'm not sure weird covers it. There's not a....a you still in there, is there?

[Since last he checked, the titan fell apart anytime Eren left the "cockpit"]

ii

[blessmefather]

[ Matt can hear the way Eren's heart is pounding. He hesitates to add his thoughts, he isn't sure if they'll do more harm than good. Then again, even if his observations are bad news it's better to know more than less when Retrospec might be involved. ]

I've gotten a whiff of something... different ever since we wandered over here. I thought it might be an unfamiliar material in the structures or that crystal but it's so evenly spread I realized it had to be something larger. I think...

[ He bites his lip. ]

...It's the dirt and the air itself. This isn't just the sudden appearance of some buildings, albeit some very large examples. This is like someone grabbed this place up and set it down here, including the ground it was on.

[usurpers]

[ now

that’s disturbing, once eren gets the context. no wonder it smells like blood, and fire. he knows that matt can follow him just fine, it’s not like he’s going fast (eren is going fast, you’ll need to tell him to slow down, he won’t realize it), and once eren instinctively checks a corner for anything weird— there’s nothing. it’s only empty, and the path leads to a grassier field. they’re closer to the walls. ]

Is there anyone here?

[blessmefather]

...No. It's empty. Too quiet, it's never this quiet to me... Not since my senses...

[ He tilts his head at the breeze, frown set in place. ]

It's not just the people, and there were people here before. The animals are missing. No... Mice in the houses, no birds in the trees.

i

[windeity]

[Man...what a trip. He gets that this is something Eren recognizes and he feels a little bad for the guy as he looks up at the wall and the crystallized titan. He's not sure what to make of it all yet, but he frowns at Eren's question.]

Kind of weird how things just show up, huh? [There's a pause.] You remember it?

[usurpers]

Entire islands?

[ that’s what matt told him earlier, at least, that this was like taking a chunk of paradis and dropping it here. he doesn’t actually know how much of the wall there is, but if it’s here— the sky is literally the limit.

but after a pause of his own, eren runs a hand up the concrete and leads them both in through now open gates. ]

This is Wall Maria. It . . . Didn’t change at all.

[windeity]

That wall that you lost because of the titans? [Eren mentioned this to John and Dave before. It's...very tall, which he knew, but he starts to follow him through the gates as he looks around.] I've heard of people regaining certain places like houses--I mean, mine and Dave's house was my dad's old house--but this is probably the biggest one I've seen.

...you think there's people inside, too?

ii

[dirtdevil]

[ he wasted no time, taking off as soon as Eren pinged the location for him. it became a lot easier to follow once the sight of the towering wall came into view off in the distance.

well, holy shit. there it is.

he doesn't remember a lot about the walls—they mostly just provided a looming background to what he does remember. eventually he catches up with Eren in Shiganshina, which doesn't look particularly familiar.

not yet, anyway. ]

This was home for you.

[ an assumption, admittedly, but he's pretty sure he's got it right. ]

[usurpers]

[ excruciatingly right. eren looks back over his shoulder and erects his back when levi arrives, turning full way towards him just beyond the gates of the walls and into the dead city.

he can only swallow some as he lowers his head in a nod, but quickly after: ]

Where was yours?

[ if he . . . remembered, of course. there was still wall rose and the districts beyond. ]

[dirtdevil]

[ he doesn't remember it, but he does remember a lively chat he had in a bar with some crazy asshole who seemed to know something about that stuff.

he shrugs. who knows if that guy was even telling the truth? ]

"A garbage dump," apparently. Not sure how literal he meant that. I didn't have a chance to ask.

[ because they were trying to kill each other, you see. these things happen. ]

i

[physix]

[ Akane checks out the massive wall and lookd back at Eren. ]

That's a very good question. This wasn't here before. Is it some kind of barricade?

[ This is far from a normal wall. It's loaded with weapons and other junk. Akane finds it all do baffling. Just why? ]

[usurpers]

[ maybe his questions will just never be answered, no matter how many times he asks them to the winds, or the gods, or a god. it’s industry standard. and if there’s a new person here to check it out, regardless of there being little to nothing that pose a threat—

he knows this place better than anyone. he’ll stick around her. ]

It’s a fortress for the city inside.

[ he’s a little hesitant at first, but offers her a gesture if she wants to go in and explore shinganshina herself. ]

It’s empty.

[physix]

It's really strange. [Akane nods at that and starts exploring with Eren.]

It would take a long time to build something like this. Don't you think so? Just looking at it from here... I get the feeling it's a lot bigger than I expect.

[ She's feeling uneasy walking around here so she makes sure that she won't stray too far.]

II

[nachetanya]

I waited for five hours!

[ . . . Assuming Eren or someone else opened the gate, or at least that Natalia can run into him later, she announces herself in that way with a smile. A bright grin and a little shrug of her shoulders. Hi Eren.

... You announced this was a thing and she opted to wait long enough to allow him to check it out. Just not for the okay message. ]

[usurpers]

[ the gates are wide open for all to venture easier. from the inside, there are primitive elevators used to carry horses, cargo and soldiers, so it’s not too much of a difficult climb up now. after checking out a good chunk of shinganshina familiar to him, he’s spending some time by the guillotines from the outside.

wonder if they still work. ]

Sorry I didn’t say anything earlier.

[ he was sort of. intensely occupied!! ]

[nachetanya]

Well, I can understand that.

[ She says with a little wave of her left (prosthetic) arm. This is...

It's a huge village. It's as big as the one she grew up in, honestly. ]

I, late with Starbucks

[smothershadow]

[Amelia had been rather...distracted, with the current state of things. Between her employees turning blocklike and mostly useless to the irritating viruses and her building's elevator misbehaving, there'd been a lot to test Amelia's patience. Eren's message was almost a relief

At least, until Eren spoke up. The older woman had been regarding the walls themselves with an architect's curiosity; the walls seemed to be made of concrete, but a single, smooth block of it. Those buttresses seemed to be holding up the edge of each piece, but what was reinforcing the rest of the structure? They weren't exactly small.

At Eren's voice--uncharacteristically frightened--Amelia looked down again, slightly alarmed. She saw the statue, of course; it unnerved her as well.]

...is that you?

[She'd seen Eren's Titan form lying separate from the actual Eren, like some massive corpse. But it began to degrade quickly. This...thing, crystalline and still, bore the same likeness as the Titan did, down to the teeth and grimace on its face. But it was frozen, like some sculpture carved out of ice.]

you’re never late, and starbucks is always welcomed

[usurpers]

[ eren’s been inspecting the crystal left by himself for a while now, after enough exploring done behind the wall’s gates. the scars left behind from a recent shift drag down his cheeks, but no actual titan seems to be in sight beyond a few sizzling remains that finish going with the ribbons of wind.

the architecture, to trained eyes, is a marvel. a mystery, because some things shouldn’t be possible by natural means but there it is, standing tall and seamless. ]

It is. [ he rubs his wrist as he paces back toward the stone titan. ] I’ve been trying to do this for months now.

[smothershadow]

[Amelia frowned a bit, looking at the statue with more scrutiny.]

To petrify yourself? To what end?

[Armor plating she could understand, but deliberately making oneself entirely immobile? It hadn't seemed to work out very well for this titan. That structure on the wall above it looked uncannily like a massive guillotine.]