You find yourself awakening in an unfamiliar location. Even if you don't sleep - even if you weren't sleeping in the Void, or even if you weren't in the Void - you find yourself here now. Your head feels fuzzy and you struggle to remember. Where are you? What were you supposed to be doing? Who are you? The exact extent of this is up to you all, but regardless, waking up is a struggle.
Getting free is going to be even more of a struggle. You're suspended in a glass tube of some kind, bound at the ankles and wrists keeping you aloft by mechanical shackles. Those will break fairly easily even if you aren't the strongest; the glass tube will be the bigger problem. It's thick and not the easiest to break - although those of you with enough strength can shatter it, and if you remember how to use your shards, those could come in handy.
Speaking of, you still retain your shards on the backs of your hands where they should be. You can still make use of them even here... wherever "here" is.
It seems to be a laboratory of some sort; aside from the glass tubes housing all of you individually, there are several more filled with liquid and dark objects within... are they people? Regardless of what they are, they fill you with dread. You don't want to end up like them, do you?
The laboratory is dimly lit. You can only see a few feet in front of you, making it difficult to tell what else this place has to offer aside from your fellow shardbearers and those ominous tubes. Strangely, any attempts at creating light - whether that's through anything you have on your person or through use of your shard powers - will simply fail. You're stuck in the dark, it seems, and even if you were once capable of seeing in it, you aren't able to now.
Focus on getting free first, then let's see where this leads.
[the only person who knows how the phantom ruby works is infinite, but he has no rights.]
...He was aware of you all? That's...
[Well, it definitely wasn't Shadow, then. Though that really makes him feel uneasy.]
Another reason not to use this any further, then. You all have proven yourselves to me anyway. Your struggles together will have improved your control over your shard; that's the most I can do for you.
Dreams are such abstract things, I'm not certain I want to psycho-analyze our mystery man, [he says, before going on to do just that] but I do believe this is someone who has some amount of trauma involving laboratories. And not as a researcher, if you catch my meaning.
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[He assumes Shadow knows how this works, anyway. It's not like angels can wander around people's dreams, or mindscapes, or whatever that was.]
Whoever it was, it was someone who didn't realize we were there right away, and as soon as he did, he wanted us out.
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...He was aware of you all? That's...
[Well, it definitely wasn't Shadow, then. Though that really makes him feel uneasy.]
Another reason not to use this any further, then. You all have proven yourselves to me anyway. Your struggles together will have improved your control over your shard; that's the most I can do for you.
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No one immediately springs to mind. More pressingly, no one else is here with us in the Void... which means this must have reached elsewhere.
[Damn, who knew the Phantom Ruby was capable of this?? It's almost like I'm making up its powers as need be for the game because no one can stop me.]
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[it's fiiiine, it's like how we make up just how lucifer's powers work every week so he can interrogate suspects in a police procedural]
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Somehow, I doubt it was someone entirely unrelated to all of this.
[our luck wouldn't be that good.]
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[He doesn't know how the powers of this world work to begin with, so Lucifer can't really speculate beyond saying some crazy conspiracy theories.]
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