[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

[titanette]

[She takes a hurried step back, though luckily, he isn't too close yet. She can smell him, and it's wonderful and terrible, but it's not strong enough to drive her to distraction.]

Something's wrong with me.

[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?

[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.

[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?

[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.]

[titanette]

No.

[She shakes her head firmly; desperately.]

I don't.

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

[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.

[titanette]

[A part of her knows he's wrong - at least partially, at least about her. But she swallows that down, wanting it to be all about the eyes, and nods.]

Okay.

What do we do now?

[jumpthegun]

[That's a good question.]

Well, I've been trying to find the center of this place. Have you gone looking around nearby your room?

[titanette]

I did. I ran.

[She hadn't been planning to, but that was how it had happened.]

I thought it was the center of the town that we were meant to find.

[jumpthegun]

The center's probably important here, too. [John rises and moves just a little closer before crouching down again.] We could go there together.

[titanette]

[She stands, very slowly, and then starts walking towards him. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine - until it's suddenly not, because the smell is growing stronger; growing better.]

No!

[She scrambles back.]

I'm going to hurt you!

[jumpthegun]

[John holds up a hand.]

Pandora, shh. It's all right. You're not going to hurt me. I trust you.

[He rises again and takes a few steps closer as she retreats.]

It's all right.

[titanette]

No! It doesn't matter what your eyes look like, I still want to hurt you! Please!

[jumpthegun]

[John stops again.]

Pandora, did you hurt someone else?

[titanette]

[She gulps.]

I didn't want to! But I-- I did want to, too.

[jumpthegun]

[He frowns.]

What did their eyes look like? Glowing?

[titanette]

No. They looked like drawings.

[jumpthegun]

[That's no good.]

Has anything... have you met people who aren't really people? Anything that tried to hurt you or scare you?

[titanette]

No, I haven't. I've read about them in the guides, but I haven't seen any yet.

[jumpthegun]

Is there something in your head telling you right now that you need to hurt me? Can you get a sense of why it wants you to hurt me and the other person you met?

[titanette]

Because... because it's hungry.

[It's a little easier to talk about when it's an it and not her.]

It's very, very hungry, and you smell really good.