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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This room is knee-deep in blood; it stops where the arch is as if meeting an invisible barrier, though you certainly can't feel one if you try to pass through that way. The blood is warm and thin, not congealed at all; the smell of the blood is overwhelmingly pervasive, though it too stops at the arch. Perhaps this blood comes from the bodies scattered everywhere -- bodies of men and women in coats that were once white, thrown in piles, floating face down in the blood, hanging from chains in the ceiling.

There is a body in the dead centre of the room, impaled through his torso on a large metal spike which rises from the ground. The man here is handsome, apparently on the younger side of middle-aged, with blond hair and an agonized expression. He's facing upward, head tilted back. The spike is about five feet high; he's about two feet down on it.

The blood whirls and eddies in one spot in the room, as if there is something beneath it which is causing motion in the water. Chains appear to be leading to it from the tall spike.

[This room is horrible, wading through to those chains, what's going on with that whirl]

Looks like there might be a trap door down there.

[Thrown into the blood room courtesy of Kanda]

[Fine then. I'll just pout over here]

Oh, Lavi. There's another trap door.

Mmmm...?

[Staring at the man that has been impaled. Who is that supposed to be anyway?]

[It kind of makes him wonder if that's what Yupunzel's first life Alma looked like]

He looks a tiny bit like Bak, but not really.

[idk looks kind of like Bak to me so IGNORING HIM SUPER HARD]

The whirlpool, over there, it's the trap door.

[Oh. ... Oh...]

But we have to stop the blood first, yeah.

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[She saw Kanda toss you out, so she's following.

Aaaaand then just coming to a dead stop right at the edge of that invisible barrier.]

—oh my god.

[Reaches for her hand, gripping tight I'M IGNORING ALL THESE DEAD BODIES SUPER HARD LALALA]

There's another trap door, let's get through it quick.

[Squeezing her hand hard enough to hurt.]

Where?

[Points to where the blood is whirling] Over there.

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[Wiping blood off of his everything]

Don't step in here if you want to keep your clothes clean.

[She knows exactly what this room is.]

Where's the way out?

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[Nova is reluctantly wading through the blood in here and over to the dude impaled on the spike. He frowns uneasily at it and then tries reversing the corpse's gravity to lift him up off of it]

He lifts off it easily, body limp as it rises.

click

Whirrrrr

Even without Lenalee's wind -- though that was a great idea -- the blood clears in a square, as if forced away by the same sort of invisible wall that keeps the blood from spilling into the arch. In that square, a trap door opens, a ladder descending into the darkness below.

ting ting ting...

The red orb comes free from the archway and rolls to a stop in there.

[. . .]

That was easy.

Way to go, Nova.

[...Relaxes] Oh.

What are you doing?!

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That is... [Okay maybe the other room was better.

Welp, I'm gonna go wade through the blood to check people's faces.]

They're all familiar. Though the question is, how much of a headache do you get trying to place them?

[REALLY REALLY BAD ONE.

Names, names, I know all of their names, don't I?]

You sure do. Tip of your tongue, really...