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AMALTHEA

[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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[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!

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[Someone has black sclera today, and she's staggered, but only for a moment and not enough to knock her off her feet.]

Two cats, then?

Stay close to us. The darkness is our realm.

[Her voice sounds... off. It's hers, but there's another voice mixed in--a child's.]

[She's already looking around for anything that seems an obvious way out.]

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[wobbling to her feet and trying to take stock of the area]

Uhm...hi.

That was...

[getting to her feet and, after a cursory look around to make sure everyone is alive, moving to inspect the mirror]

Good day. I think the best approach is to force a door and attempt to climb back up the wire. Failing that, I could try taking us all through the shadows... but without frame of reference we might run out of air before we get anywhere.

[ His heart is racing from the sudden drop, but more importantly from what happened with Star and he's pounding on the door. He far from has his "cool" right now. Let me the fuck out of here. ]

Star...

[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
e
d. ]

I would rather not run out of air. Uhm, Coyote and I can both teleport, if our pendants still work. If we can pry the door open that may be the best option, or get out through the roof somehow.

[reaching out--maybe to steady herself, but she looks fine once she's on her feet--to place a hand on his arm, firm.]

The best way to help her right now is to get out and find her.

Then without further ado.

[So the lights being off? All that darkness is turning into countless tendrils which will be prying into the door and working on shoving it open.]

[She wasn't kidding about the darkness thing.]

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[that's

so unhelpful]

Why...

[looking up at the chandelier--is there a hatch at the top of the room at all, or anything else??]

[There is something there but a familiar voice calls out.]

Why not?

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[It's creaking open. It seems to be working a bit albeit slowly.

But something is happening here...]

[ One more fist slam against the door. He knows that, he needs to calm down. With the combination of Holly's words and the fact that he has to save Star somehow, he's taking in a slow, steadying breath. ]

It's the only way.

[ Staying alive... but it also encourages what she did and it pisses him off. ]

Let's go.

[glances at it

does a double take]

[and then looks back up at the chandelier, trying to see what's there]

Because we have better things to do, I suppose.

[Meanwhile Belt will just keep an eye on that thing directly. The shadow tendrils can keep pushing even if she doesn't look right at them, after all...]

[she doesn't comment on his reaction, just eyes his fist with a slightly raised eyebrow before nodding]

Any ideas? I think Belt can get us out with her shadows.

[ At least he's only taking his anger out on objects that aren't the people he's working with. ]

If she can, then we should probably rely on that. Save our cat powers in case we need them for something more serious.

I do too. I need to . . . I need to do things.

[...okay.]

[New plan.]

[She raises a hand and the tendrils go at the... image in the mirror? Faux-holly? Whatever it is it's time to try and smash it.]

Unless you're about to help us, you can go find someone else to bother.

[ He's going to need some coffee here... what a useful skill he has. Hot, dark and bitter as he takes a drink. ]

[momentarily distracted from the ceiling]

Where did you get that?

[yes that's a good sign]

I think she can manage it. And we might be able to teleport back out once we can see where we are.

A skill I have.

[ An utterly bullshit skill he has. ]

It's all I had from home when I got here.

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