BARGHEST

[soulping]

[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...]

Comments

RULES

[soulping]

• 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.

ROOM 1

[soulping]

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.

Re: ROOM 1

[neverendingstory]

...This does not seem entirely joyful.

[terminalbanchou]

[ Running diagnostics on his system to locate the buzzing and remove it, as well as why his strength is dampened. ]

Let us begin.

[ He makes his eyes as bright as possible, so there is... a very small amount of light. Like a smart phone's screen in the darkness. ]

[neverendingstory]

Begin what, exactly?

[terminalbanchou]

Getting out. Reaching the goal of this task. It is unlikely we are meant to sit here.

[soulping]

[There seems to be no real source for the lack of strength OR the buzzing, but it persists anyway.]

[terminalbanchou]

[ Hmm. He'll flag the errors for later analysis. ]

[neverendingstory]

Is this a prison?

[culpa]

Knut wouldn't lock us up.

[terminalbanchou]

It looks like one. Perhaps a sewer.

[ Grabbing the metal bars and using all his robot strength to try and bend them. ]

Re: ROOM 1

[culpa]

Do you think you can fit through the bars?

[ you're tiny. ]

[neverendingstory]

I should hope not.

Re: ROOM 1

[efflorescere]

[Taurus sits up a bit later than the others. Ugh, why does he feel all tired and gross...

...

This sure looks pleasant.]

[efflorescere]

[Tries to help!]

Re: ROOM 1

[culpa]

[ pats. at taurus. ]

It's okay. Knut wouldn't do anything bad.

[soulping]

Whatever is sapping your strength is preventing you from using your robo buffness! The bars only move a little, but it is not nearly enough.

[terminalbanchou]

This should not be happening.

Try something else.

[ Starts scanning the walls for any abnormalities. ]

Re: ROOM 1

[efflorescere]

[patted?]

Alright. [well, if alya says so, clearly there's nothing to worry about! even if he feels weird.] I wonder what we are supposed to do?

Re: ROOM 1

[culpa]

I think we're supposed to get out?

[soulping]

None that you can see.

Re: ROOM 1

[efflorescere]

[Nods. That makes sense. Uh, Orion is doing stuff with the walls, so...]

...I'll see if anything has fallen into that water.

[gets up to go do that!]

Re: ROOM 1

[soulping]

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.

Re: ROOM 1

[efflorescere]

[


Taurus doesn't look too hard at the gross stuff floating in the water (it's dark, he can pretend it's just bits of dirt). He uses one foot to press down hard on the crumbling stone, just to see if he's strong enough to break it right now.]

Re: ROOM 1

[soulping]

You aren't quite strong enough! You don't really feel strong enough to do much of anything, though.