HENWEN

[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

[letstalk]

Tired...

[ maybe I'll just

lay here forever ]

Re: ROOM 1

[foxpas]

[holding her head and not getting up just yet]

This place smells....

Re: ROOM 1

[letstalk]

It's small...

Re: ROOM 1

[foxpas]

Is this.... jail?

Re: ROOM 1

[letstalk]

I don't know...I've never been in a jail before.

Re: ROOM 1

[foxpas]

Me neither... I don't like it here.

[how do we know we haven't we're amnesiacs]

Re: ROOM 1

[letstalk]

I can break us out.

Re: ROOM 1

[wherethewildthingsare]

This seems like a prison..

[He's already trying to sit up, but woof. Hard.]

Re: ROOM 1

[foxpas]

No, that's illegal!

[queencrimson]

[Totes here yes hello.]

Ahh...[She scrubs at her eyes. Must not fall asleep in hepatitis.] A prison?

Re: ROOM 1

[foxpas]

[did you just woof.]

Did we do something wrong?

[foxpas]

Seems like it...

Re: ROOM 1

[letstalk]

We didn't even do anything wrong!

Re: ROOM 1

[foxpas]

We will have if you break the jail!

[queencrimson]

Well, that's not right.

[Getting shakily to her feet, and starting towards the bars.] ...Where is all this water coming from? This place must have been abandoned.

Re: ROOM 1

[letstalk]

Then what are we supposed to do?!

[foxpas]

[well]

I don't know... How'd we get in here if it's abandoned?

Re: ROOM 1

[foxpas]

Tell the authorities there's been a mistake!

Re: ROOM 1

[letstalk]

Where are they?

Re: ROOM 1

[fairhands]

Gods, what is that smell...

[ S...Slowly sitting up. ]

[queencrimson]

[Suddenly this soul-sapping tiredness makes sense.]

It's a game, isn't it? But look...all this mold, the water...No one's been taking care of this place.

[She reaches the bars, and tugs at one, experimentally.]

Re: ROOM 1

[foxpas]

They must be somewhere.

[foxpas]

[rubbing at her eyes]

Is it a game...?