TIAMAT

[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]

Comments

Re: FLOOR 3463 (the team elevator floor)

[showyouthesight]

Forget the technicalities!

Re: FLOOR 3463 (the team elevator floor)

[shiroganeheir]

Don't say that. It just tempts fate.

[Lapis sighs, trying not to glance around them, but still trying to keep tabs on the light and what is in front of them.]

Re: FLOOR 3463 (the team elevator floor)

[soulping]

What are you waiting for :)?

Re: FLOOR 3463 (the team elevator floor)

[shiroganeheir]

Yes.

[And Lapis is already running off.]

[soulping]

[The subjects of the portraits turn MONSTROUS with sharp teeth and claws and they start to climb out of the pictures to grab at people as they run past.

They want to drag you in.

RUN FASTER.]

[hyanaimne]

[setting the nearest one on fire.

how dare you]

[carptricks]

[levels his gun at the nearest portrait's head and shoots, definitely trying to take off that thing's head before it can grab anyone. he is also definitely picking up the pace, here]

Back the hell off. . .!

[tatsumi_textiles]

[Yeah, okay, or-]

Mazio!

[Ochre snaps a fist through the air, shattering a card that had suddenly appeared. Behind them, Take-Mikazuchi rises up, and five bolts of lightning shoot down at their followers]

[zeroics]

[why is there a melee when he has no skills!! punching the nearest claw as it reaches for him.]

We're not interested!

[ghettobatman]

[get too close to anyone and you're getting punched out you creepy painting]

Re: FLOOR 3463

[ghettobatman]

For me either. I hope it's not always this crazy.

[purple_sister]

[But I haven't unlocked that video game abstraction that lets me run indefinitely yet!

Which is to say, she's uh... slowing down.]

[soulping]

[IT GOES UP IN SMOKE WITH A LOUD SCREECH.]

[showyouthesight]

[Well, he does have a sword so any claws that get too close to him or people next to him are going to get parried.]

[soulping]

[It just absorbs the cards.

And suddenly it is covered in the print of the card.

Numbers, symbols, it's eyes are crazy.]

Re: FLOOR 3463

[zeroics]

[considering the other game he was in...]

Hope springs eternal, right?

[soulping]

[THE LIGHTNING DOES NOT DO MUCH but the leftover fire from it seems to be effective...]

[shiroganeheir]

[Shit. Between the gunshots, and the lightning bolts and everything else that is being thrown around, Lapis is startled and trips on something on the floor, falling down right in front of one of the portraits. Shit.]

[soulping]

[It breaks off at least.]

[hyanaimne]

[THAT IS SO SATISFYING

SHE IS SO PLEASED

SETTING ANOTHER ON FIRE :D :D :D]

[soulping]

[Punching does break off pieces of it it seems , but you better be careful or you'll be getting a few cuts yourself.]

[tatsumi_textiles]

[Ochre swings back long enough to try and grab her around the wrist]

Come on!

[carptricks]

[JFC REALLY]

[he'll just slam the butt of his card gun into the FACE of any portraits that come too close, then. like hell he's going down without a fight]

[soulping]

[CHOP CHOP CHOP it does seem to have an effect.]

[zeroics]

[that... was flimsier than expected, but WORKS FOR HIM. time to go grab his purple child.]