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ALECTRYON + JAGUAR

[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.

[She's low on the ground, growling]

[GHOST BITCHES BETTER STEP OFF]

It's all right, Tora.

[looking around warily, rubbing his face a bit]

[Crawls a little closer to!]

Where are we?

[pats head reassuringly

why does this keep happening]

I'm not sure. Maybe a prison of some sort.

[Clearly your fault]

We should get out of here.

[yep]

Agreed. Let's see what we can do.

[testing the stones for weak points]

[since this new guy is comforting Tora, Kiiro is ambling around the room as best the mind-sap will allow him to, trying to get a sense of where they are and where they need to go]

Somewhere different, but how the hell did we get here? Did the floor drop out?

Edited 2015-02-03 19:47 (UTC)

[trying to smile even though his head is cloudy]

Don't worry Tora, whatever just happened is the start of the game. We win, we leave, right?

[While he does that, she crawls towards the bars to get a better look at what's outside]

[Relaxing a bit!] Mm. We just have to get out of his creepy room.

You try to move, but before you can get far 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...

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

Edited 2015-02-03 19:58 (UTC)

Right. Let's take it one step at a time.

[looking for weak points in the room but also keeping one eye on Tora as he goes]

Edited 2015-02-03 20:12 (UTC)

Walls or floors?

Did it?

...I can't remember.

[Sclera might not be able to remember how she got here, but she doesn't need to remember how it happened to know she wants to get out of this place. After taking a few moments to orient herself, she follows Kiiro's suit, looking around the room.]

Help me look for a door or something, will you? I don't feel well, but I can at least...do that, I think.

[Her constitution is weak to begin with, so the sap on her strength means it's all she can do to feel around the walls looking for a handle or a hinge - any sign of a door.]

[NO??!]

[IMMEDIATELY TRYING TO GET THEM OFF]

I hate this!!

[yeah, she just realized she's chained up and has started thrashing around wildly and freaking out]

[THIS IS GOING GREAT]

[WOAH THAT WENT SOUTH RUSHING TO TEAMMATE]

Tora!!

You find...a whole lot of nothing. The walls are plenty loose and cracked, but you find nothing that seems very helpful. The bars appear to be set into the stone itself, with no visible opening or hinges.

[she's trying to get her chains off and probably failing]

Get them off! I want to get out of here!!!

[ogod one teammate is pushing herself past her limits and the other is freaking out from sudden chains from nowhere

fuck this game]

Hey, don't push yourself too hard or you become a liability.

[and then gentler]

I'm going to calm down Tora. [hopefully] Please try to find an exit, but be careful.

[trying to help her get the chains off]

I know you do! You have to calm down though or it might take longer to get you out.

[realizing that they're really attached to the floor he settles for patting her head to try and comfort her]

Either finding a way out will free you, or there's a key or a switch or something... I have to search but we'll keep talking so you know where I am in the room, okay? I'm going to get you out of this. The others will help me.

[floors]

The floor is ancient but seems solid enough- the dry parts, at least.

There's nothing in the water but gross and probably dead bugs. However, the stone beneath is crumbling and slightly soft. The water must have been standing there for a long time.

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