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AMALTHEA + AOKO

[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.

[Slowly... pushing himself to his feet, though he's having to lean himself against a wall to do so.]

What the hell happened back there...??

[ Also ... sitting up, scooting a bit closer to Technic before he stands as well. And rubs the back of his neck. ]

I don't know...

[ And he looks around the room to see if there's some way out of the cell. ]

The only exit you can see is past the bars! But they look pretty solid.

[He's trying to get up, but his arms and legs are shaking at the moment.]

I dunno.. ugh...

[Stumbling over to the water, feeling along the bottom with his feet as he wades through it.]

[ Weak himself, but offering Leo a hand all the same. ]

The stone beneath is crumbling and slightly soft. The water must have been standing there for a long time.

[He takes it but still.. uses mainly his own strength to stand up.

And looking around.]

This place seems ancient.

Maybe we have to head down?

[ Stompy motion with his foot. :T ]

You don't have your usual strength, but that stomp might have done SOMETHING. It's really really hard to tell, with the lack of light and the water.

...I think that might be working..

Then, shall we? On three!

One, two...

[ LET'S PUT SOME TEAM JUMPING POWER INTO IT. ]

[ALSO JUMPING YE]

You get gross, grimy disease water all over your nice uniforms.

The first few jumps do nothing, but then- CRUNCH. The stones suddenly give way, sinking a few inches. You fall over and get even more gross water on you.

[BLLEHHGHGHHG]

Eeeeeugh...

Well, we're almost there! Maybe doing that shifted the bars.

[ Going to check if the floor fucking up shifted of moved them enough to get through. ]

Enjoy your dysentery.

[THIS IS A FUCKING OREGON TRAIL GAME I KNEW IT.

GETTING BACK UP.]

Not enough to get through, but they have been jarred somewhat.

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.

Edited 2015-02-03 21:04 (UTC)

[ ...

Rubbing at his ear, trying to ignore it. ]

The bars moved a little, so maybe if we shift the ground a little more, they'll give.

All we can do is try it again...

[ Squints at him, as if he didn't quite make out everything he just said. ]

Maybe we can try it closer to the bars, this time.

[ Heading over to the bars, and tries stomping at the ground around them. ]

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