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 ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[wherethewildthingsare]

I think she's.. testing the door.

It's a little.. off.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[zeroics]

...

[looks at his wristband.]

Hm...

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[carptricks]

Yeah.

[there's a pause, and he mumbles you must've missed what happened before the game. . . and then he speaks up]

Eveningstar channeled the Echo. Poltergeist. He's a malevolent spirit, so I guess she was able to rip him away from Haunt and stop his game before he could do any damage.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[soulping]

[It's fine.

it clatters by the door.

...

Near the desk, you'll find scraps of paper.]

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[zeroics]

Worth a shot.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[hyanaimne]

You will have to ask someone else for an explanation, unless you somehow understand Elvish.

[it's some necromancy bullshit obvs]

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[hyanaimne]

Hmm?

[she's investigatin' the desk]

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[soulping]

[AND THEN YOU ARE KILLED BY-

No jk. Near the desk, you'll find scraps of paper.]

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[tatsumi_textiles]

[Ducks out of reflex, watching the pen flying towards his destination]

What the-

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[zeroics]

If we need to test the door, I can do it.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[hyanaimne]

[2 SPOOKY

She's picking them up, ofc]

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[shiroganeheir]

[Paper. The paintings hated fire. Lapis pauses, looking at the fire she still holds in her hand. Yes. This might work.

Before she does anything, howver, she scans the paper scraps to see if there's anything on them.]

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[ghettobatman]

Is the Echo some kind of spirit....?

[that would explain the haunted out bullshit]

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[hyanaimne]

. . . with what?

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[shiroganeheir]

Apologies, Ochre. I don't trust this.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[hyanaimne]

Ah - yes, he is.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[wherethewildthingsare]

...It might be okay.

Of course, I suspect the paintings might try something, again..

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[showyouthesight]

What are you thinking?

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[tatsumi_textiles]

Yeah, I kinda got that.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[ghettobatman]

[he heard that, bucko, and yes he did]

So that girl is fighting him as we escape? [what is this spirit medium bullshit]

[you know what, forget it.] Where are they? Is she alright?

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[zeroics]

I've got a grappling cable in this. [he taps the wristband.] I can lock it onto something here and unwind the cable, so if I go in and something's wrong, you guys can pull me back out.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[shiroganeheir]

They didn't like fire before. If we take these paper scraps and put them in front of the door and set them on fire, it might get rid of whatever's out there.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[hyanaimne]

. . .

Surely you are not serious.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[carptricks]

I don't know.

[that's his answer to every one of those questions]

. . . but 'm hoping we can find her once we manage to get the heck out of this place.

Re: FLOOR ᴃᔌজ᜗⇣༛ (the lobby)

[shiroganeheir]

I... am uncertain if just punching it is going to work in this case.