[ it is a fair question in this case considering malik's lack of reaction to it, but it's fine. we're past that now. he looks at the heap of bloody wood on the floor, then back to this pretty unicorn horn. yeah that's gonna be coming with him. ]
Although Otome is right... we should find a way out before something else can happen.
[ except there are no doors, so. hm. HMMMM.
are the pretty stained glass windows low enough to the ground to see out of? ]
[well that isn't much of a weapon either but she'll keep it, in case. we are looting this room i guess! because she's also going to pick up the mask on her way over to the windows since malik left it to take the horn, speaking while she inspects it to see if they might need this also.]
Well, wait, hold on a second-- Denji, Malik, do not hit them yet.
[JUST. PREEMPTIVELY.]
Make sure they aren't just hiding an exit before we jump to breaking things. Try looking more closely at them and looking around them, first.
Yeah, I'm all good, Miss Otome, thanks! It didn't even bite me that bad! [by his metric, anyway]
[Denji kicks through the dead wood and, when he reveals the cats paw and piece of licorice, picks them up and shows them off]
Hey, found some weird stuff inside that thing. I think this place might be kinda magic or somethin'. [he'd say "under the control of a Devil" but no one seems to know what those are]
So if you're gonna touch any doors or windows, uh...look out for teeth I guess? Also maybe don't use your hand unless you wanna lose a finger.
[speaking of hidden exit, his investigation contribution for this round is looking for any other suspicious cabinets, armoires, chests, standing closets, or bureaus]
denji doesn't find much else of interest here, other than random notes and books discussing dunamancy and something called aeor. when he takes the two items, he'll find he remembers that the cat's paw allows him to cast cat's ire, which is just a reskinned bigby's hand because liam o'brien is a dramatic binch. the licorice root allows for the user to cast spiritual weapon. he knows both of these things. but! when he picks up the cat's paw, his shoulder feels kind of itchy. that's probably fine.
lucretia picks up the mask, and remembers that this casts poison spray. man, whoever lived here must've been a big wizard, huh.
the stained glass windows are very pretty! they do indeed stretch to the floor, so you guys can reach them. there's also a big red button sticking out of the middle of one of them.]
Absolutely not. Lucretia, make sure they stay back.
[ Denji has been through enough trauma (and having a great time apparently), so Otome decides to go for the Highly Suspicious Button this time, after checking to make sure they haven't missed other exit opportunities.
...She's angling her elbow to hit it, just in case. ]
[as Lucretia sighs and presses the button, Denji is yelling back at Malik because of course he is]
What'd you say?? If you're so bothered why didn't you press it 'n stop her from pressin' it?
[drawing closer to him in all his bloodied bravado, he suddenly grabs Malik's hand with his free, non-axe-holding one and yanks him over to the window to make him press it
so assuming Lucretia disappears, Malik's next in line!]
Don't worry, I'll give ya a hand provin' your bravery, dude!
and - so does malik! denji goes too. looks like this is a wild ride! and for a second - you're all just out in what feels like space. you float in this weird, far too quiet place, and then, like reality is ripping, you all appear in a new room.
it's weird, though. it's weird, because you feel strange, you feel... different? more tired, or something. like you've been here a long time. in fact, you all realize with a jolt that it's been three years. you've been floating in that void for a long time. and your appearance and body reflects that!
you are now in a dark and damp chamber that is lit with a faint flickering green light coming from glowing orbs that are affixed to portions of the wall. or, it should be dark, but you can see pretty well in the dark with all those eyes, huh? there are chains hanging from the ceiling, and, uncomfortably, a very faint rhythmic beating sound that can be felt as a thrum in the floor. with every thrum, the eyes that you have on your body pulse just as faintly.
in the center of the room are ten nine-foot-tall glass pillars set at different elevations. They are frosted from the inside by a murky liquid, thought you can see that there is something within each one. two of them are broken.
Malik lays on the ground, letting the strange beat radiate through his body. He's learning, over and over again, to stop touching things-- but how else are they supposed to get back? It's not like he wants to stay here, either. So he gets up. And goes over to the pillars to get a better look. ]
I think I preferred where we were before, actually...
[ She can feel the pulsing on her arm now, glancing down at it with a faint frown. She's used to being tired, but that's from running around and tending to others, not from this... weird dormancy. For three years.
The only thing preventing her from panicking is that she thinks Yamato had said he went through something similar, so for now, she takes a deeper breath and then follows Malik over to the pillars, resting a palm on the closest one.
I guess her hair is down to her shoulders now, great. ]
Don't say that. Where there's a will, there's an exit. We still need to make our way back.
[famous last fucking words, but she sounds-- faintly shaken, maybe. only three years this time, but this is not an unfamiliar sensation, and it's one she hates the implications of.
Hey, is it just me or does anyone else feel like...older? Like we were in space for a super long time but not?
Also...ya hear that? Sounds like we all got eaten or somethin'. Maybe the whole damn room's alive this time. [again, denji is, for some ungodly reason, familiar with such things
....anyway since the pillars are well covered him and his axe are going to wander over to those green orbs attached to the wall—he is not touching them for now—and try to see if there's anything inside them, written on them, or if there's an overall pattern to them and their placements]
anyway. lucretia checks out the broken pillars. these are empty, but there's liquid all over the ground, and it smells fucking horrendous. it's swampy and murky like the rest of it. at the bottom of one of them is a pile of rags, and a mop of red hair.
malik and otome head over to the pillars. when they look inside them, they can see... people? people, maybe. or what were people. they're twisted, and rotting in places. the bodies are weirdly elongated, broken - and covered in red eyes, tattoos like the ones on their own skin. and as they look these people over, they might find something familiar about them? one is a little girl, with pig-tails, floating quietly in one of the tanks - someone that otome might know. the other is an austere looking bald man that malik will recognize as someone... important.
when otome rests her hand on the pillar, the little girl opens her eyes - and starts to scream.
which brings us to denji, who is looking at the green orbs. there's nothing written on them, but there's definitely something inside them. when the girl screams, four bright green orbs shoot out of the lamps and start buzzing, angrily.
hope denji can dodge, because the first one is going to shoot a shard of ice at him!]
[ remember how malik chose not to perceive denji getting obliterated before? yeah he's doing that again, even excluding the screams of the little girl in the pillar next door-- because he's only focused on the one in front of him. ]
Rishid! Rishid!
[ He's hitting the glass to get this... thing's attention, but look, it's close enough to who he wants it to be that he can look past how grotesque it is. ]
[ Ordinarily, Otome would be on it. By remarking to Denji or to Lucretia or trying to calm Malik down, but she sees that mutilated little girl and those familiar pigtails and the scream makes her flinch, but-- ]
Koharu!! Hold on, I'll--!
[ ... Well she has no idea how to break this thing and she's aware this is probably not legit but she's a little too distressed in this moment to be sensible. ]
[she glances over to them, worriedly, but also denji is (mobile game voice) Fucking Under Attack!
so she's going to try to help with that situation first, hurrying in that direction. are these orbs anything she's familiar with, can she identify what the hell they might be before trying to actually attack them?]
[Denji knows fighters who dodge, and they're all cowards
he does, however, jump back when the buzzing orbs shoot out of the lamps and when the ice shoots towards him he gets his arms crossed in front of his face and neck in time to just get scratched and punctured there instead—some also deflecting off the axe]
Another crappy piece of decoration wants to fight, huh??
[he turns at the screaming, concerned if Otome is okay (and only Otome), when he sees Lucretia running up—through gritted teeth:]
Cool if I chop these or you wanna, like, investigate first??
[the second malik starts hitting the pillar, the thing that was - or is, maybe, still - rishid, opens its eyes, and joins in the screaming. just wailing, without stop, the sort of crying that babies do when they're distressed. it's loud. the glass is starting to crack, with how loud it is, and it probably hurts your ears, all of you.
the orb buzzes angrily when it doesn't manage to one-hit denji, and zooms across the room towards the pillar. another follows it, directly into the pillars as well. they vanish, leaving two orbs behind. these orbs zoom across the room and through the closed door. lucretia doesn't recognize these orbs, weirdly enough, but she will hear the sound of shattering glass behind her as one of the pillars erupts into a nasty liquid mess.
she's not facing it, but denji will see a distorted, gasping creature, using its elongated limbs to drag itself out of the glass, not seeming to care if it's hurting itself doing it. a ratty, tangled mess of blonde hair and pointy ears are all that can be made out when looking at this bubbled, grotesque corpse. well - that, and the fact that it seems to be crying, judging by the sounds its making.]
[ malik has to back away and cover his ears, palms pressed hard against them. he should have expected this. he shouldn't have touched the glass. but it's hard to ignore something like that right there in front of him. but he has to back away-- stumble, more like, since he can't see where he's going and there's still hazard in this room. ]
You might have to start chopping sooner rather than later!
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[ it is a fair question in this case considering malik's lack of reaction to it, but it's fine. we're past that now. he looks at the heap of bloody wood on the floor, then back to this pretty unicorn horn. yeah that's gonna be coming with him. ]
Although Otome is right... we should find a way out before something else can happen.
[ except there are no doors, so. hm. HMMMM.
are the pretty stained glass windows low enough to the ground to see out of? ]
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I'm fine, I just lost my breath for a second. Are you all right? I don't have bandages on me but I could use fabric...
[ He's bleeding? So much?? From a goddamn cabinet??? With a quick glance-- ]
... I do think our only way out is to try breaking those windows. I'm not seeing any sign of a door.
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Well, wait, hold on a second-- Denji, Malik, do not hit them yet.
[JUST. PREEMPTIVELY.]
Make sure they aren't just hiding an exit before we jump to breaking things. Try looking more closely at them and looking around them, first.
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[Denji kicks through the dead wood and, when he reveals the cats paw and piece of licorice, picks them up and shows them off]
Hey, found some weird stuff inside that thing. I think this place might be kinda magic or somethin'. [he'd say "under the control of a Devil" but no one seems to know what those are]
So if you're gonna touch any doors or windows, uh...look out for teeth I guess? Also maybe don't use your hand unless you wanna lose a finger.
[speaking of hidden exit, his investigation contribution for this round is looking for any other suspicious cabinets, armoires, chests, standing closets, or bureaus]
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denji doesn't find much else of interest here, other than random notes and books discussing dunamancy and something called aeor. when he takes the two items, he'll find he remembers that the cat's paw allows him to cast cat's ire, which is just a reskinned bigby's hand because liam o'brien is a dramatic binch. the licorice root allows for the user to cast spiritual weapon. he knows both of these things. but! when he picks up the cat's paw, his shoulder feels kind of itchy. that's probably fine.
lucretia picks up the mask, and remembers that this casts poison spray. man, whoever lived here must've been a big wizard, huh.
the stained glass windows are very pretty! they do indeed stretch to the floor, so you guys can reach them. there's also a big red button sticking out of the middle of one of them.]
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Denji, hit the button.
[ he gestures to it. if denji isn't shaken by nearly being vored, surely he can guinea pig himself for a button press. ]
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[ Denji has been through enough trauma (and having a great time apparently), so Otome decides to go for the Highly Suspicious Button this time, after checking to make sure they haven't missed other exit opportunities.
...She's angling her elbow to hit it, just in case. ]
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Otome-
[it's a big red suspicious button jesus fantasy christ. there it goes.]
All right, this might as well happen.
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walking over towards the group at the window, he takes in all the visible eyes and red glows at a glance, thanks to his high Passive Perception]
Hey what's with all the glowy eyes—oh that's prob'ly [hm, Otome just elbows the Big Red Button, so instead he moves in closer, non-glowy eyes alert]
Get ready for another fight [he growls out, stretching and cracking knuckles in anticipation]
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anyway, otome presses the button, and vanishes!
... huh! weird!]
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Why didn't you press it?!
[ obviously directed at denji because OUR NURSE MOM IS GONE YOU ASSHOLE ]
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Well, whatever happened to her, we shouldn't leave her to it alone. Come on.
[imagine us tpking at this button, wow. anyway she's also going to come push it.]
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What'd you say?? If you're so bothered why didn't you press it 'n stop her from pressin' it?
[drawing closer to him in all his bloodied bravado, he suddenly grabs Malik's hand with his free, non-axe-holding one and yanks him over to the window to make him press it
so assuming Lucretia disappears, Malik's next in line!]
Don't worry, I'll give ya a hand provin' your bravery, dude!
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and - so does malik! denji goes too. looks like this is a wild ride! and for a second - you're all just out in what feels like space. you float in this weird, far too quiet place, and then, like reality is ripping, you all appear in a new room.
it's weird, though. it's weird, because you feel strange, you feel... different? more tired, or something. like you've been here a long time. in fact, you all realize with a jolt that it's been three years. you've been floating in that void for a long time. and your appearance and body reflects that!
you are now in a dark and damp chamber that is lit with a faint flickering green light coming from glowing orbs that are affixed to portions of the wall. or, it should be dark, but you can see pretty well in the dark with all those eyes, huh? there are chains hanging from the ceiling, and, uncomfortably, a very faint rhythmic beating sound that can be felt as a thrum in the floor. with every thrum, the eyes that you have on your body pulse just as faintly.
in the center of the room are ten nine-foot-tall glass pillars set at different elevations. They are frosted from the inside by a murky liquid, thought you can see that there is something within each one. two of them are broken.
there's a door on the other side of the chamber.]
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Malik lays on the ground, letting the strange beat radiate through his body. He's learning, over and over again, to stop touching things-- but how else are they supposed to get back? It's not like he wants to stay here, either. So he gets up. And goes over to the pillars to get a better look. ]
I think I preferred where we were before, actually...
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The only thing preventing her from panicking is that she thinks Yamato had said he went through something similar, so for now, she takes a deeper breath and then follows Malik over to the pillars, resting a palm on the closest one.
I guess her hair is down to her shoulders now, great. ]
Don't say that. Where there's a will, there's an exit. We still need to make our way back.
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[famous last fucking words, but she sounds-- faintly shaken, maybe. only three years this time, but this is not an unfamiliar sensation, and it's one she hates the implications of.
she's going to check out one of the broken ones.]
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Hey, is it just me or does anyone else feel like...older? Like we were in space for a super long time but not?
Also...ya hear that? Sounds like we all got eaten or somethin'. Maybe the whole damn room's alive this time. [again, denji is, for some ungodly reason, familiar with such things
....anyway since the pillars are well covered him and his axe are going to wander over to those green orbs attached to the wall—he is not touching them for now—and try to see if there's anything inside them, written on them, or if there's an overall pattern to them and their placements]
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anyway. lucretia checks out the broken pillars. these are empty, but there's liquid all over the ground, and it smells fucking horrendous. it's swampy and murky like the rest of it. at the bottom of one of them is a pile of rags, and a mop of red hair.
malik and otome head over to the pillars. when they look inside them, they can see... people? people, maybe. or what were people. they're twisted, and rotting in places. the bodies are weirdly elongated, broken - and covered in red eyes, tattoos like the ones on their own skin. and as they look these people over, they might find something familiar about them? one is a little girl, with pig-tails, floating quietly in one of the tanks - someone that otome might know. the other is an austere looking bald man that malik will recognize as someone... important.
when otome rests her hand on the pillar, the little girl opens her eyes - and starts to scream.
which brings us to denji, who is looking at the green orbs. there's nothing written on them, but there's definitely something inside them. when the girl screams, four bright green orbs shoot out of the lamps and start buzzing, angrily.
hope denji can dodge, because the first one is going to shoot a shard of ice at him!]
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Rishid! Rishid!
[ He's hitting the glass to get this... thing's attention, but look, it's close enough to who he wants it to be that he can look past how grotesque it is. ]
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Koharu!! Hold on, I'll--!
[ ... Well she has no idea how to break this thing and she's aware this is probably not legit but she's a little too distressed in this moment to be sensible. ]
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[she glances over to them, worriedly, but also denji is (mobile game voice) Fucking Under Attack!
so she's going to try to help with that situation first, hurrying in that direction. are these orbs anything she's familiar with, can she identify what the hell they might be before trying to actually attack them?]
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he does, however, jump back when the buzzing orbs shoot out of the lamps and when the ice shoots towards him he gets his arms crossed in front of his face and neck in time to just get scratched and punctured there instead—some also deflecting off the axe]
Another crappy piece of decoration wants to fight, huh??
[he turns at the screaming, concerned if Otome is okay (and only Otome), when he sees Lucretia running up—through gritted teeth:]
Cool if I chop these or you wanna, like, investigate first??
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the orb buzzes angrily when it doesn't manage to one-hit denji, and zooms across the room towards the pillar. another follows it, directly into the pillars as well. they vanish, leaving two orbs behind. these orbs zoom across the room and through the closed door. lucretia doesn't recognize these orbs, weirdly enough, but she will hear the sound of shattering glass behind her as one of the pillars erupts into a nasty liquid mess.
she's not facing it, but denji will see a distorted, gasping creature, using its elongated limbs to drag itself out of the glass, not seeming to care if it's hurting itself doing it. a ratty, tangled mess of blonde hair and pointy ears are all that can be made out when looking at this bubbled, grotesque corpse. well - that, and the fact that it seems to be crying, judging by the sounds its making.]
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You might have to start chopping sooner rather than later!
[ gross, denji gets to do something. ]
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