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EPONA + KASHA

[As you stand around waiting for something to happen, you begin to feel something pressing on you, vaguely...as though a heavy blanket has been draped around your shoulders, although there's still nothing there. You close your eyes for just a moment - just a blink - and then-

The floor drops. You go plummeting downwards, or so it seems; you can't quite tell, because suddenly everything is pitch dark and you feel like you're falling, falling, falling...]

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• Teams will find themselves in a series of rooms that force them to confront some common fears ("common" as chosen by the majority who signed up- y'all got some issues).

• There will be four rooms. They will be run in a semi-exploradora format, although "exploration" is not the actual goal. In that sense, it is more like a heart or shadow game.

• The game takes place in a nightmare/mindscape formed by Knut, so that no one can actually get hurt from what happens. However, your characters will not know this. Everything that happens will seem completely real, despite being occasionally vague and absurd in the way that dreams are. Stuff will only seem weird after they wake up!

• This means that anyone who comes late or leaves early will simply appear or vanish and their fellow players won't really find it odd, because again: dreams. (In other words, don't worry too much about it.)

• People may get hurt during the course of the game! It IS a nightmare, after all. But no matter how bad an injury is, the character will only feel it in a conceptual way; like they're remembering the pain rather than actually experiencing it. This will seem normal at the time. Dreams!!!

• Powers are ON but characters will not realize this unless they actively make an attempt to use them. And certain rooms will prevent them from doing even that!

• These rules are all OOC. Your characters do not know what is going on.

• However, this does not exclude the possibility that they might eventually figure it out. That's up to you.

You don't remember hitting the ground. But you must have at some point, because that's where you're lying now- on your back, staring up at a dark, blank ceiling. There's no indication of where you fell from...wait, fell? Did you actually fall? You can't seem to remember anymore. Your thoughts seem a little hazy and dreamlike around the edges, but your surroundings, at least, appear to be solid and real enough. So do your teammates, who lay nearby.

As everyone sits up and looks around, you see that you are in a small, dingy room. The floors and walls are rough-cut stone that is cracked and crumbling, covered in grime and mold, and there's an inch of filthy, stinking water covering half of the floor. One wall is covered entirely in thick steel bars like a prison cell. Although you can make out your dimly lit surroundings well enough, immediately beyond the bars you can see nothing but a solid wall of darkness.

There is a buzzing in the back of your mind and you feel weak and tired, sapped of any power and strength.

[ omph ]

Unyu? What's going on?!

[jIIIIIIIIIIII]

[She doesn't get up right away, breathing heavily]

K-Knut, cut it out! This isn't funny!

Is it supposed to be funny? Who's Knut?

[ oh holy fuck no. no no no no no nonononono...

like the genius he is, Shroom immediately goes for the bars and tries pulling on them (???) because this is damn near his worst nightmare right here. ]

You TRY to do that, but something holds you back- you realize that your ankles and wrists are wrapped in heavy, rusted manacles, chained to the floor. You don't know how you didn't notice them before, the way they're cutting into your skin...

[ ...ah. well, then.

it's completely irrational, but he'll just keep yanking, weak as he is. how much of a bloodied mess will he make himself before he finally gives up? we just don't know. ]

The Echo! I.. I don't know what he's playing at! Did someone kidnap him?

I don't know...

[ looking outside though. ]

I don't like it here.

Y-Yeah.... [TAKES A DEEP BREATH]

Let's get out of here.

Right. Um, don't look, I guess.

[ AND THEN SHE POINTS HER ARM CANNON AT ONE OF THE WALLS AND ]

You can't see anything past the bars. It's completely black and featureless, like a literal wall of nothingness.

[ a whole bunch of nothing happens ]

...Um!

[HOLY SHIT iT'S AN ARM CANON]

W-Woah!!!

Ah! Rats! Powers must be off....

[ I'M JUST GONNA

SMACK A WALL WITH MY CANNON THEN ]

Is there anything cannons CAN'T do?

Apparently, break through this wall. But maybe that's just because you feel so weak.

It's not working!

M.. Mushroom!

[Yeah she's super freaked out but seeing him freak out brings her back to earth.]

[..Or.. Kyr]

Stop!

W-We'll have to find another way...

[POKES AT THE BRICKS!!!!]

The walls are plenty loose and cracked, but you find nothing that seems very helpful.

[ honestly, he was only vaguely aware there were other people in there with him, because this is some serious shit and his brain momentarily turned off. so much for being a fearless, stoic hardass, right?

fortunately Star's voice snaps him out of it. a little. and he just looks at her, fairly horrified. ]

Ugh.... [Looking around for anything else in the room that might be of use]

This is the nastiest prison I've ever been in....

You don't see anything. Is the light getting dimmer? This is hopeless, you're totally trapped. The buzzing in your head seems to grow louder, making it somewhat difficult to hear your fellow players despite the silence in the rest of the room.

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