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[soulping]

[When you come to, you find yourself locked in a small, cramped, antique elevator. One wall is covered with a large, ornate mirror, and a chandelier hangs above your head. The doors are made of metal and shut very, very tightly. The lights are off.]

[You hear two familiar voices echo distantly in your mind]

LET ME GO, Ǧ̲̖̩̞̣̲̌Ĩ͎R̞̩͎̝̍L̹̳̫̾͛Ȉ͙͈̬͐͒ͭ̄̌̊E̥̥̓ͨ!

I won't let you hurt them!

[Before you have time to say anything, the elevator suddenly jolts, before it begins to plummet. Your heart drops to the pit of your stomach as you fall, fall, fall, and then. . .]

[Suddenly it stops. You're thrown off balance, possibly to the point of where you crash into a wall or a nearby neighbor. All is silent]

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[soulping]

[Until another voice, also familiar but different than the two you heard earlier, creeps into your mind]

Get out! Get out, get out, get out! B-before it's too late! Star. . . when she channeled Poltergeist, she trapped him and cut off his control of this game! His influence on the realm right now is shaky at best, escape from this place before he returns to kill you all!

But be careful. . . be careful! The realm is-- it's unstable, it's dangerous! And there may be parts of it that try to drag you back as you escape. . . if you're grabbed by something, struggle until you get away! And try not to get hurt!

[It's Haunt, sounding more frantic than she ever has before]

I. . . I'm on my way. I'm on my way, just hold on until I can get there!

THE ELEVATOR

[soulping]

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[zeroics]

[ON THE FLOOR. but he scrambles to his feet as soon as his head stops spinning.]

What the hell-- what just...

[no, he vaguely knows what just happened. but between the weird channeling stuff and the sudden crashing in an elevator, some comment was warranted. he rubs his head and checks the elevator door.]

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[showyouthesight]

[Dragging himself to his feet and shaking his head hard]

Shit, I thought they had this under control now...

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[zeroics]

None of that looked under control to me.

[grabbing his shoulder as he gets up though, to help.]

You okay?

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[showyouthesight]

Yeah, I'm fine. You?

... I don't think my sword's going to get through that door.

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[zeroics]

Yeah.

[luckily his arm injury has healed. just in time to get new ones!]

If we can't get out through the door, maybe there's an emergency exit. Or-- roof panels? Elevators usually have those.

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[purple_sister]

There's a chandelier there!

[...Seriously, why is there a chandelier there?]

...I guess that we have to do something with it for the emergency exit...?

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[soulping]

[They seem to be regular doors, made out of metal, but they are shut very very tight.]

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[zeroics]

Figures...

[checking for buttons, as regular elevators should have.]

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[soulping]

[There are in fact buttons. One that goes up. One that goes down. That's all there is.]

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[zeroics]

Why isn't there an 'open'... is this before safety was mandatory?

[clearly, that is what's going on here. to the others:]

Guys, do we want to try going up?

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[showyouthesight]

Down will probably get us closer to an exit that's not a window.

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[purple_sister]

...Well, we've been going down, so... Maybe we should keep going down? I mean, going up would be going backwards, so...

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[showyouthesight]

[He's going to start feeling around the bottom for any sort of latch. These things always have latches, right?]

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[soulping]

[The floor is cold, it is cold, what is staring at you

don't look don't look

these feelings resonate through you. however, the floor seems to be just a regular hard floor.]

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[showyouthesight]

[Jerking back at that and backing into one of the elevator's walls]

What the fuck?

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[zeroics]

What? What is it?

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[purple_sister]

...Why are there mirrors and chandeliers in an elevator, anyways?

[Yes, let's... poke the mirror. There's no way this can go wrong.]

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[soulping]

[You see your reflection, it seems everything is fine.

But the eyes are r e d.

Everything is fine?

But the eyes are r e d

r
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d.

the touch is warm. are you touching skin . . .?]

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[showyouthesight]

Mirrors aren't that weird. The chandelier is totally out of place though.

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[purple_sister]

Then, how about the fact that they eyes are the wrong color and that the mirror feels like it's made of skin?

I mean, I can change my eye color, but it has to be outfit appropriate, and red really doesn't go with this peach.

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[showyouthesight]

Skin? Do you think we can push something into it?

[Going to leave the changing eye color be for now...]

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[zeroics]

Hold on, I don't know if we should push stuff into skin mirrors.

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[soulping]

No, don't do that. I'll be mad.