[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

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[That brings Solomons even further down in his estimation. To be kind to someone without having any respect for them, stringing them along, it was cruel. But he doesn't say as much, he just looks disbelieving.

He definitely made things worse.

John probably doesn't want to know what was said, it might upset him. So Bucky just awkwardly shrugs and takes a step back.]

Not my business, I shouldn't have interfered.

[If John wants to pursue a friendship with a man who thinks others should crumble to his version of morality, that's his business. He's an idiot, but it's his choice to make.]

[jumpthegun]

[John's brow furrow.]

No. I appreciate what you were trying to do, really. I just don't have many people step up for me. [Not so much outside of Sherlock.] I'm not really sure what to say.

[It's a moment before he steps forward and claps Bucky on the back with his good hand.]

Thank you. I didn't get to tell Alfie, but Duster... I told him I'm not bending on this. If that means it's the end for what we had before, that's all right. [John pulls a face because it's not really all right at all.] I'll still help him if he needs me, and I want all of us to get out. We'll just... walk our own paths, y'know?

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[He's tense under that clap on his back. Unfortunately, the paranoia whisper in the back of his head suggests it could be a grab, the start of an attack, so he jerks forwards in a sudden motion.

There's a moment of awkward silence.]

Transfusion's worn off.

[That's enough of an explanation before he moves back to the important topic at hand.]

Good. That's what I told him, it takes more of a man to stand for what they believe in, than to crumble for another. If he won't respect that, you're doing the right thing by walking your own way.

[jumpthegun]

Oh. Oh, bloody hell! I'm sorry. [He steps back again, giving Bucky more space. Then takes another step just to be sure.] Sorry.

[He frets, looking over his friend as he listens.]

Yeah, I'll... I dunno. I can bend most ways, but I'm not doing that. Ran into the Joker earlier. [John sighs.] He wouldn't fight me. Think he's figured out I've got that limit, too. I tried to stick with him, but this place... it's easy to get twisted 'round, lose someone you're with.

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[He nods in understanding. It makes sense the Joker would have figured it out; he might be insane, but he's smart too. It sort of has him feeling a little less like he's failed to know that he's not the only one to lose a criminal after catching them in here.]

I know. I had Pierce.

[Obviously he doesn't any more.]

Had Sylar too, but I dealt with him.

[jumpthegun]

Dealt with him? [John raises a brow.] Bucky, when you phrase things like that, it makes you sound like you're in the mob.

[advanced]

Knocked him out so he couldn't hurt anyone.

[He raises an eyebrow, and shifts very slightly from foot to foot as if impatient but hiding it well.]

What did you think I meant?

[jumpthegun]

I didn't know what you meant. That could have meant anything from 'I shoved him in a closet,' to 'I broke his kneecaps,' to 'I chucked him into the Thames after filling his shoes with cement.'

[advanced]

[He still doesn't offer even a small smile.

In fact, he just steps back a bit from John.]

You're looking for Sherlock. [It's not a question.] Try the core, everyone seems to be heading there.

[jumpthegun]

Bucky... [John's brow furrows deeper.]

We could travel together for a bit, y'know? I wouldn't mind the company unless you've got other places to be.

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[A look of almost regret flickers into his eyes, before he's shaking his head.]

I've got to keep looking for the way out, not other people.

[jumpthegun]

Follow the spiral. Get to the center and dig deep. Those are the hints we've had. If you don't find anything at the edges, promise me you'll head back in toward the center. Might be we'll find something once we've all made our way there.

[advanced]

[He grunts an acknowledgement and jogs off pretty quickly.

He'll regret following John's advice to go to the centre again later.]