[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

[passingmemories]

[Dug?.... Dug! The dog! Wait, dogs have teeth, and teeth can hurt, but... Roxas decides that at this point he doesn't care right now. It's been days since he's seen another living soul, since Sora left. He'd been hoping to find the other boy here, but that hasn't happened yet.

When he sees Dug, Roxas takes off his hood and sits on the ground, trying to look non-threatening. Dogs have better vision than people, right? He'll see the glowing eyes without the doodles, right?]

I'm Roxas.

[thewarningafter]

[He's not going to argue the point about the eyes -- as far as he's concerned Doctor House is perfectly right to assume this will all go to hell.]

Well, first I was in a white hallway, and then I found a white hallway. Sorry, I forgot, there was a white hallway in between.

[Okay, now that he's got that out of his system:]

The halls were more curved where I started out; had more intersections, too. I'm getting the sense that I've been getting further away from the center of whatever this place is.

[theurgy]

Yeah, I know. I pegged you wrong. Does this mean you'll come to my rescue if we run into a monster?

[jumpthegun]

[John sits up, rubbing his abused wrist and looking toward her. They've only spent the last night together and he hadn't seen much of the girl, but he puts on a smile.]

Hey, Emily. It's John. Sorry. Just had a bit of a tumble. Mind the footing around here, yeah? Hard to tell where it drops.

[bloodbiter]

[A small sigh.]

From what I've been told, there's no way to best them in combat... They must be a fair bit more difficult somehow than dragons or ogres. [Bummer. Can't slay 'em all.] But I would make sure you emerged unscathed, of course. You're a civilian, after all, aren't you?

[theurgy]

Yeah, I am, but I was just kidding. Don't worry about me, alright?

[jumpthegun]

[He stops where he is, and then crouches down on one knee to make himself less imposing.]

It's okay. I'm a doctor. What's wrong?

[bywolves]

Yes. [ Hop to it, boy. ]

[bloodbiter]

I will worry precisely as much as I choose.

[Don't tell her how to live her life!!]

Hopefully such a situation won't come up at any point in the near future.

[devoutish]

Come on. You're coming with me.

[He doesn't even bother to stop walking. He just motions Tony along.]

None of you lot understand the concept of safety in fucking numbers.

[titanette]

I--

[She has trouble saying it, because she doesn't entirely understand herself. She tried to eat somebody? She wanted to eat somebody? There, in that moment, eating somebody seemed like it would be the most wonderful thing in the world, even as a big part of her was screaming that it was horrible?]

Please don't come closer. Please.

[bywolves]

I don't have time for this. [ Royce mutters, annoyed. He just... hops over Undertaker's legs, moving past him to mark his place on the wall. Which he does, by biting at his thumb (which has already scabbed over) and drawing an X on the wall with his own blood. ]

[jumpthegun]

Okay. I'm right here. I don't have to come any closer. Are you hurt, though, Miss...?

[titanette]

Melanie. Pandora. I'm all right.

[It feels like a lie. Her eyes go up to his, noticing their significance for the first time.]

What does it feel like when you want to hurt people?

[theurgy]

[Cassel does as he's told, although Royce does get an eyeroll as Cassel heads to one of the walls, running his hands over it. He might as well talk as he does.]

What have you tried so far?

[theurgy]

Bossy.

[It's a joke again. This time when he marks the wall, he draws a lopsided smiley face. Morbid.]

No knight in shining armor stuff, alright?

[jumpthegun]

[Oh. Oh, bloody hell. Is she feeling the urges, then? John hasn't had any, but if she went after someone without meaning to...]

It doesn't feel very good, Pandora. Not after. In the moment? It feels like the most natural thing. But you have to understand, that isn't you. It's this place. You don't wanna hurt people, right?

[He's tempted to inch closer, but holds off for the moment. John knows he needs to get her to come to him first.]

[jumpthegun]

[He's amped, adrenaline pumping through him, heart beginning to pound, and the Joker is just... standing there after getting whacked across the face.]

I'd rather us both be trapped in here forever than help you. At least it'll save anyone else who makes it out. [Which means he's just going to sort of... plant himself, and dare the other man to try to get past him. Give him a reason, dammit.]

[bloodbiter]

By necessity.

[A pause, squinting at that smiley face. Why.]

Is there something wrong with knights?

[despiteeverything]

[For a moment they're confused. Something was odd, different about how he was approaching them, talking to them. Then they realized - their name? He said their name. They rub at their mouth a bit, feeling some of the dried blood around it crumble and flake off. It feels gross.]

Tried. Didn't get a lot.

[Too much noise. Still, they don't waste any time pushing themselves to their feet and stumbling closer.]

SPARKLES

[escutcheon]

[ The Turks should be flattered, clearly. Not just anyone can match PURE WARDEN SWAG.
Cousland nonchalantly brushes a fleck of lint off her shoulder, seemingly unworried about a) being unarmed, b) stuck in a maze, and c) not having a single goddamn clue where her stuff (plus Dog) has gone.
she's internally screaming every second she's awake. don't tell anyone. ]

Figured it was time for a change. Fashion waits for no-one, you know.

[ THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENT??? ]

You, on the other hand, look like something the cat dragged in. Didn't sleep well?

[titanette]

No.

[She shakes her head firmly; desperately.]

I don't.

[But it does feel a little better, knowing it isn't her.]

[theurgy]

Nope, nothing wrong with them as long as you're not going to try to pull a heroic sacrifice on me.

[jumpthegun]

I didn't think so. It's people with glowing eyes you've got to be really careful around. We've got the same eyes, this Prophet symbol. That means you'll be safe around them. You can control the urges there. We've had this happen once before, a little before you got here. I'm sorry you're dealing with it now on top of everything else.