[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

GORGEOUS ONES. (glowing :V)

[escutcheon]

[ Cousland raises one hand in greeting, as casual as ever, and saunters on up. ]

Just saying, drawing attention in this sort of place seems like a bad idea. You okay?

[theurgy]

Who's "they"? The admin or some faceless entity?

[bloodbiter]

...A child did?

[She stays silent for a moment as she keeps walking, thinking.]

Do you think it was something like what happened several days ago?

[ecks]

I remember you.

[Someone a little strange, but no one who seemed cruel or especially untrustworthy. She relaxes her stance.]

Are you lost also?

[ecks]

[She doesn't stop running. Not until she cannot breathe anymore, not until she cannot run.]

[theurgy]

Maybe? I don't know. I've run into a couple of other people who didn't try to hurt me.

[He shrugs, nibbling at his finger again to leave another smear on the wall as they keep going.]

Better to be safe.

[ecks]

[She knows that voice!]

Hans Christian Andersen. I do not have useful things to give you.

[It's strange, what details come to mind.]

[bloodbiter]

So have I, even people with different eyes than ours...

[A small frown.]

What happened, in the end? Did you merely run away?

[theurgy]

[Cassel nods. Not his finest hour, but what else was he supposed to do?]

She went for my throat. I didn't want to wait around and see if she came to her senses.

[ecks]

I should not find him. He has the wrong eyes, like you.

[devoutish]

And maybe we'll attack each other, and maybe we won't.

[bloodbiter]

No, it's good that you didn't. It could have been dangerous, even if she was young.

[She knows there are probably others who wouldn't have been as kind. If she was without a way to incapacitate this child, she most likely would have done the same as Cassel. She sighs.]

I hope she's the only one who's acting in that way.

Glowing Eyes

[wilsonsheart]

Outer Hallways

[For a good while, Amber can be found walking around these outer hallways, knocking at intervals and trying to see if there are any differences in the sounds beyond. If her face is any indication, she's not particularly happy with her results.]

The Core

[Amber has one reaction, and one reaction only when she arrives at the center of the white maze.]

Disappointing.

[She sighs as she rubs under her ears with care, her knitted brow showing how hard her wheels are turning. This is really what this whole thing lead to? An empty room? There has to be more, but how to find it? A hidden switch sounds too cliche. So what then? What is the secret here?]

[bloodbiter]

[She wasn't expecting to see someone as she turns the corner, and as he leans out, she pauses in her tracks upon seeing his eyes. She doesn't recognize his face, and she's going to keep her distance until she can be certain he isn't a threat, but she speaks nonetheless.]

Hello. [She hesitates.] Are you well?

[As well as any of them can be given the circumstances, at least.]

[renkinjutsu]

[At least, if he doesn't have his feet planted on familiar ground he has Andersen's approval. all is right in the world?]

...No. Not for a while. But I did when I first left the room I wound up in to begin with. You heard them too, then? And the breathing?

totally prophet eyes OOPS

[majorlazer]

[The first thing Zach hears is the coughing. Which sounds sort of more like it's actually happening close, rather than some banging on the other side of a wall - at least that's what it feels like to him. Like it's more real.

He turns yet another corner, and - well yeah, here it is.]

Church!

[Zach surges forward, almost dropping the backpack he's been holding in his hand.]

You okay?

[majorlazer]

[Zach has been walking around for what feels like hours. The lack of sleep, the lack of direction, the lack of anything, it makes him dizzy, makes him want to throw up. He hasn't eaten, despite looking at what is inside the backpack slung over one of his shoulders. It's the taste in the air, coppery blood, making his stomach lurch even more.

He turns another corner, having lost count a long time ago, when he sees her. Just a kid, looking around, taking cautious steps. He's never seen her before.]

Hey! Are you - [He almost asked if she was lost. Well, fuck that, they all are lost.] I mean, d'you need help or something?

[theurgy]

Yeah, me too.

[He stays quiet for a moment, running his bare hand along the wall as they walk.]

Why do you think they're doing this?

[bloodbiter]

The people who brought us here, you mean?

[She's fairly certain it is, but she wants to be certain. It gives her a moment to mull over her answer, too, and what she comes down to is that their motives don't matter when compared to the suffering they've caused everyone.]

outer hallways!

[nursetemple]

[Claire has started to think she is not going to meet anyone. It was just like the cells they were in, only this time they didn't have their tablets to communicate, and they were all in some kind of maze, like a private Hell.

She spends quite some time just walking around, periodically stopping with a hand against the wall and her eyes closed, to say a prayer. And then she straightens up, and starts back.

She should make some markings, leave traces of where she's been. She's been contemplating - a part of her incredibly incredulous at it - biting at her hand to make herself bleed, since she won't even feel it, when she almost trips over Emily.]

Emily! [Claire immediately crouches, wishing she could use her hands and check her over, make sure she's okay.] I'm sorry, I was totally in my own head. Are you okay?

[theurgy]

Yeah. Well...

[He pauses, marking the wall again.]

I don't know. Maybe whoever brought us here isn't in charge of what's happening to us right now.

[mightyratslayer]

[Charlie frowns too. That's not what he asked, unless this kid's name is Charlie, also. There had better not be another Charlie/Charles floating around here. This town is at capacity.]

Yeah. You, uh, sound familiar.

[mightyratslayer]

[He shakes his head.] No, haven't found one. I kinda doubt there'll be a way out, though, sorry to say. Whenever the admin wants to move us around, she'll knock us out first and then we just wake up wherever we're supposed to be. Like how we got here.