[log] Event: Lavender's Green, Part Two [open]

[snowblindmods]

Characters: everyone
Location: mysterious, white hallways
Date: Day 193-194
Summary: Find friends. Get lost. Don't look.
Warnings: Potential for gore and psychological horror. Please note any specific warnings in your subject lines!

While confusingly similar, the area is split into a few different sections:

The Core
The hallways here are narrow and twist at a rapid rate. With how dazzlingly white everything is, it's easy to not realize you're coming on a turn and slam right into the walls. There are no rooms here--no one starts here, though they may find it while they wander. At the center is a large, round area, like the center of a spiral. There's a lot of air pressure here.

The Inner Hallways
The largest area, filled with dead ends, gentle slopes and twists, and, occasionally, difficult-to-see drops where a higher hallway intersects with a lower one without a wall to separate them. The whole place tastes vaguely like blood. Most rooms are here--most people start here.

The Outer Hallways
The outer ring of the ball of yarn. It's not as thick with halls and twists as the other two areas, leading to a lot more boring walking in one direction. It's totally possible to circle around the same path multiple times without realizing it, as everything is so similar here. Occasionally, footsteps can be heard just outside the farthest walls. Sometimes, something breathes. There are a few rooms here--some people will start here.


Remember to note what kind of eyes your character has in their top level!

Comments

Prophet eyes

[deus_ex_phs]

The Inner Hallways

[Kunsel's cautious when he emerges from the room, paranoia running high with the death of his tablet and his unexplained release. He's not so paranoid, though, that he doesn't grab the backpack after rummaging through it briefly, pulling out something to eat when he realizes that there's food. He doesn't stick around for long, already moving while he chews.

The halls really don't help improve his mood, and it isn't long before he's swearing softly as he has to turn back from a dead end again.

Maybe someone's had more luck finding a way out? Or maybe their luck is just as rotten as his, explaining why they've run into him.]

The Outer Hallways

[Kunsel's stopped trying to figure out if he's been in this hallway before. That way lies futility and madness. No, instead, he's following the sounds, pausing and tilting his head every time the breathing stops. It may or may not be a good idea to seek whoever or whatever it is out, but barring any other plans, it seems like the best one he has.

Join him? Talk him out of it? Present him with a better idea? Up to you there.]

The Core

[Kunsel is grimacing and walking with his hand outstretched in front of him now. It's the only way to keep from running face first into a wall.]

Definitely something different here, at least.

[The air pressure makes him pop his ears. Doesn't deter him from pressing on, though.]

What the hell even is this place?

[devoutish]

You're looking for somebody?

[exequies]

[It's those short little gremlin legs.]

I don't have much experience with them. Does that mean anything to you, particularly? That the battery isn't recharging.

[renkinjutsu]

[That sounds so... remarkably surreal to Ed, but thinking about it for a moment makes it easy enough for him to grasp onto it, as a concept.]

If we're inside some kind of machine, how the hell big could it be? Wouldn't we be able to see it from the town? [now he's musing to himself] Unless it's under ground somehow... but then...

Even if the theory's wrong, you're probably right about this being a chance to learn something. And something is better than nothing, as far as figuring out this damn city goes.

[ecks]

No. I am not looking for somebody.

[Eyes still trained on him, she slowly wraps up the remains of the bar and tucks it into the top of the pack.]

Do you think that Doctor House is dead?

[ecks]

[For a fleeting moment, she wants to attack -- but with no weapon to hand and no comprehension of the thing before her, she doesn't dare. Ecks turns and bolts in the other direction.]

[devoutish]

[He has no idea. It's very possible.]

Get up when you're done eating, and you can look for him.

Inner Hallways

[despiteeverything]

[Even if that person happens to be stationary on the floor? In that case, he probably won't so much crash as trip, and jolt the child into full alertness. They hadn't been asleep, not really. But enough in a sort of exhausted daze they hadn't seen him coming either.

They scramble to disentangle themselves, mumbling apologies between coughs- and then they squint at him, blinking against the fierce whiteness of the corridor that made it so hard to see.]

Lutha?

[They don't even bother to hide the relief in their voice.]

[snowblindmods]

[The shadows chase her down, crawling along the floor and nibbling at her heels, casting the world into a growing darkness. For an instant, she hears the sound of metal against metal and sees sparks in the blackness.

Then the shadows are gone, and Ecks is alone.]

[ecks]

What name do you call yourself on the network?

[It is a source of eternal frustration that others lie about their names when they register to the network.]

[exequies]

Hmm...

[He reaches up, plucking his bottom lip with his first finger of his right hand. The ring on it glints in the too-white light, not that Andersen can see it from behind him.

Then something occurs to him, making him pause in his tracks as he looks over one shoulder at the smaller prisoner.]

What about underground?

[ecks]

Zell. Zell?

[There's barely any tonal differentiation in the two attempts to ask what he means by being Zell. She squints up at him, one hand making an abortive little motion over her own shoulder for a shovel that isn't there.]

You found me?

[exequies]

[He helpfully continues to keep his hands up, only lowering them an inch or two while she interrogates him.]

'Of corpse'.

[bloodbiter]

[As soon as she sees him, she remembers what he told her. While in any other situation she would greet him with a smile, she feels like she's lost the privilege of being kind here. This situation might be new to her, but danger certainly isn't; her instincts kick in almost automatically.

She takes several steps away from him as she reaches back to place a hand on her backpack. She's tensed, at once ready to pull it off to use it as a makeshift shield, or ready to run. Quickly, she looks him over; his eyes, his body language, any possible sign that he means her harm. He seems like he's normal, but it seems like a dangerous assumption to make.

All the same, she's not running away. She's just waiting until she can be certain she doesn't need to be worried. When she speaks, it's careful.]

I'm fine. Are you well?

[thewarningafter]

[A pause again, and then his footsteps pick up, not bothering to try to mask the sounds.]

...You're not the thing outside the walls.

[There -- finally, up ahead along the curve he can see someone. Stephen steps into view, eminently recognizable from his appearance on the network, the absence of his cloak aside.]

[keepscalm]

[England hears the soft thuds of someone falling in a corridor nearby, and quiets his humming to listen more closely for where they are. The voice sounds familiar, and so England makes his way in that direction. Of course, with the labyrinthine nature of the hallways, it takes a few moments for him to reach Watson.

He keeps his hand on the wall until he sees the other man on the floor.] John! [England hurries his way over, an obvious furrow in his brow as he approaches.] Are you hurt?

[mightyratslayer]

[Charlie stops short when he sees her reaction. Oh, shit. She's scared of him. Or... Maybe scared isn't the right word. In any case, what a shitty first meeting.]

Right. Sorry. [He waves a hand at his eye.] Good call. I'm, uh, fine anyone can be right now, y'know? No... murdery urges, or anything.

[Yet, anyway. He's glad there's just food and water in the backpack, just in case.]

[equal_shots]

[Ordinarily, Kid and his coughing can be heard approaching--especially now that he's been without the cough syrup he's been prescribed.

But as he carefully makes his way through the disorienting maze of halls, he hears voices that are familiar. Talking about the tablets and their reach. Would they work underground? When he'd first arrived the groups doing repairs, he's sure...] Andersen? Undertaker?

[His voice is quiet--because it comes from above, before he promptly falls down one of the drops he didn't realize he was so close to. Both the newly given backpack and Kid are now sprawled on the ground beside Andersen, the teen gingerly rubbing his side.] ....I wanted to say that I'm fairly certain the tablets have shown they work underground, but not like this.

Inner Hallways! o7

[escutcheon]

[ Kunsel's not the only one to have run afoul of the maze, although he's probably missing the embarrassing injury that Cousland's managed to score so far. Considering she's missing the conspicuous layer of armor she usually has, it's taking a while to get used to not simply walking right through things when they're in her way.

FORTUNATELY with him making at least a modicum of noise, she has ample warning to sidestep when he comes around the corner - one hand still clamped over her stinging nose (a la previous wall incident), the other splayed on the wall to her right.

Pause. ]

Well. Isn't this just an ammazeing coincidence?

[ SUP FRIEND ]

[bloodbiter]

You don't have to apologize.

[He hasn't done anything, yet, and she's not certain that he will. It doesn't make her posture relax, but she does sound a bit more at ease when he says that.

It's still slightly awkward to hold a conversation with someone while you're still trying to make sure they aren't going to try to murder you, though.]

I'm glad to hear that. Hopefully we can find an exit soon... I assume you haven't seen one as of yet?

[equal_shots]

[Kid is meticulously making his way through the inner halls, feeling along the wall with his hand to try and prevent backtracking. The going is slow and tedious, and he's careful to feel for signs of the floor beneath his feet changing.

Then someone shouts above him, and something lands beside him, and Kid nearly jumps a solid foot in the air. He turns quickly to see Hange, having missed them in his peripheral vision with no vision from his absent right eye.]

You need to give more of a warning!