imaginemeandyuu | Alma's unconscious game

((Alma's unconscious game goes here! I have put up a discussion plurk here since I know a bunch of the folks playing it don't use irc, any questions etc can go there. If for some reason you don't have access, let me know.

Since a large part of this unconscious is puzzle-based, if you need to leave and come back later: 1) you can handwave that you went along with the group or 2) if you want to explore everything yourself still, feel free to assume your character wandered off/back to check something (etc) -- but note that when you come back, you'll find whatever puzzles have since been 'solved' will remain 'solved'. It won't reset, so any paths that are opened or anything like that will stay that way.

That said, there are multiple things to do here, and changes still impact things, so if you oocly have to leave and come back, and when you do everything seems 'done', there are at least still things to look at and possibly multiple paths which you might want to do something about, so don't feel discouraged from starting back in after other people have opened doors or w/e)).

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The left room is a large elaborate dining hall. A long wood table takes up the majority of the room, with chairs circling it. Although the seats look comfortable enough, they are strangely decorated, jagged chunks of wood emerging from the back -- not in a position to hurt anyone who's sitting in it, mind, it just appears to be an odd decorative feature. There is only one place set at the table, although there are plenty of seats. The plate is empty and does not appear to have been used; the cutlery likewise is clean.

In the centre of the dining table is an adult male human corpse, nude. It is otherwise unrecognizable, distinguishing features having been sliced off. Long white-blond hair has been neatly cut off and arranged in twists around the body for presentation. A butcher's knife is embedded partway into the meat of the left shoulder, as if somebody had been about to serve the corpse up, but no pieces have yet been sliced off.

Heavy-looking steel chains wind around the table and lead across the floor to a square indentation in the ground. It looks as if it might be some kind of trap door.

[Sure am leaning over the body and trying to figure out who it is (while trying not to lose my lunch)]

Hard to say. He's maybe around 5'10", lean but muscled, but otherwise all mostly identifying features have been removed. Who wants to know who their meal once was?

[Shouldn't be touching things... Shouldn't be touching things...]

[But man, Lavi cannot stand that butcher knife in the corpse's shoulder. Puts his hand on the handle and tries to gently tug it out]

It comes free. What do you do with it?

[Just holding it for now. Who knows it might be useful]

[Now crouching down to get a better look at those chains and how they work]

Hard to say how they work. It seems to originate in the table and somehow connect with it.

[keeping an half an eye on Lavi in case that body leaps up at him, but he's checking out the indentation first]

It's a trap door in the same stone as the floor, and set firmly in the floor, though it's pretty clear the chains have something to do with a mechanism to open it.

Hahh . . .

[follows the chains back to the table to see what else they're connected to]

Edited 2012-07-08 18:50 (UTC)

They seem to emerge from the table itself, as if originating in its wood.

[gives the nearest one an experimental tug]

Very tight, very firmly attached. It does seem to give a faint tremor when Lavi removes the butcher's knife, but doesn't really react to your tugging otherwise.

[Speaking of butcher's knives. Coming back over to Nova, holding it out to him handle first]

Tell me cutting these chains by force is a bad idea so I don't entertain it anymore.

It's probably a bad idea. They've got something to do with the trap door over there.

[jerks his thumb at the indentation in the floor]

But we have to get it open, yeah. That's the only way out of this room.

[Looking over at the hospital room]

Unless there's an exit over there.

Yeah, but there might be a way to do it without cutting the chains.

Hmmmm. Let me try a couple things, yeah.

[Pulls out the nearest chair (that does not have the plate/dishes/whatnot in front of it)]

Edited 2012-07-08 19:13 (UTC)

Chair acquired.

[Sits in it, seeing if that does anything]

It provides a comfortable cushion for your rear.

Did you really think that was gonna work?

No, but to be quite honest, I'm worried about what will happen if I sit at the place with a setting.

Not exactly into cannibalism.

I'd stop you if that happened, but let's try looking for something less fucked up first.

[heading back to the trap door to examine the chains more closely this time, trying to figure them out]

[Leaning down from his cushy chair]

They come out from the table.

... What if we moved the body?

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