Alma Heart Game

[imaginemeandyuu]

You fall into mud. It is sticky and sucking and cloying and whether you stay still and try to remain calm or struggle and try to get out, you're sucked downward. You can't breathe, you can't (of course) see, and you can feel the crushing weight of earth on you. When the blackness becomes overwhelming, you find yourself somewhere else...

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Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[seaside_cherry]

[Hmmm :| Welp let's go everybody stay behind me as we go to the cross and try to see how it works are there any openings in this thing]

What blocked this path is River! River! River!
A stretched-out River!
The fated River! River! River!
An ordeal River!

Throw away all your doubts!
Show your willpower!
Don't hesitate!
Immediately
One step forward! Believe yourself!

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[yourewaitingforagate]

[yess nice job Melody. standing up and helping her check that cross out]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[imaginemeandyuu]

The cross shudders every time it lets out more spikes. It's formed around some kind of central tube out of which the spikes are generating, and seems to be made of silver.

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[yourewaitingforagate]

[knocks on that tube, how sturdy is it?]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[imaginemeandyuu]

[pretty sturdy! You're resourceful people if you plan to break it though]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[karlsefni]

I've got knives.

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[goneastray]

I've got my strength still...

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[seaside_cherry]

[Can I get a closer look at that tube if that's where the spikes are coming from that must be where we turn them off]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[imaginemeandyuu]

It's about 1 foot in diameter, appears to be solid silver, and the top has spikes all over it which shoot out other spikes, to discourage tampering.

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[yourewaitingforagate]

Hey, Melody, we've got to break the tube they're coming from somehow—do you think you can aim your shield so they'll smack right back into it?

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[seaside_cherry]

[Well I'll have to angle it... Motioning for people to follow her as she tries to bend it, she can only move it so far before it exposes people to spikes]

Inside your heart too
A river is flowing
So painful, a river of trial
Maybe it doesn't go smoothly, even so
Sometimes you almost drown, even so
It's OK to repeat again
Do not give it up
The bank exists just there
Someday your struggle will bring you to it

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[karlsefni]

[joining in on this with his own knives, throwing them with great precision onto the tubes]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[yourewaitingforagate]

[you're the boss, magical girl. crouching down and hiding behind her]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[emomachine]

[well I guess we're trying to break it so. ducking down to punch it]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[goneastray]

[ Is honestly just going to try to rip the tube out... ]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[imaginemeandyuu]

You all attack the tube viciously and abruptly it rumbles, spikes stopping their attack, and cracks down the side...

The screaming continues from inside, however.

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[seaside_cherry]

[If the spikes are gone I can stop shielding us, feeling along the crack]

We might be able to get it open now.

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[karlsefni]

[pulling the broken bits of tube away as best he can, using a knife to assist]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[yourewaitingforagate]

Right, let's do it.

[crouching down to help Leif with tugging it apart]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[karlsefni]

[i could have just stabbed the thing u kno]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[seaside_cherry]

[Stabbing is not always the answer

I mean maybe we will have to stab the thing

But let's explore our options first okay]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[karlsefni]

[i am very sure stabbing the thing is our answer here]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[seaside_cherry]

[...Yeah okay let's stab it]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[emomachine]

[are we resorting to stabbing, is that what we're doing]

Re: UP - Further Left (up)

[seaside_cherry]

[SOMETHING LIKE THAT motions for them to move over slightly so she can keep them shielded and try to aim a spike ricochet at the tube itself]