[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

[bloodbiter]

Furthermore, why did this daughter of his only agree to help him on that one condition? Was this not their first time meeting?

[theurgy]

Yeah, but come on, Adelina. Don't princesses fall in love at first sight all the time?

[He's teasing her, grinning.]

[bloodbiter]

Of course not. I knew my husband for years before we started courting. Such a thing doesn't exist.

[Yikes.]

[theurgy]

[Adelina, you can't just drop a bomb like that! Cassel stops in his tracks, eyebrows going straight up.]

Your what?

[bloodbiter]

[This is what happens when she doesn't even think it's a bomb. Doesn't everyone get married at sixteen??]

My husband. What's amiss?

[theurgy]

[He looks super incredulous and vaguely offended all at once.]

How old are you?

[bloodbiter]

[Meanwhile, she just looks confused, a little incredulous herself. Talk about culture shock.]

Sixteen, why?

[theurgy]

[He just sort of stares at her for a long moment. Medieval princess, right, but...]

It isn't even legal to get married until you're eighteen where I'm from, and even then people think you're crazy and headed for divorce.

[bloodbiter]

Well, that's ridiculous.

[Clearly.]

If I'm old enough to run a country, I'm old enough to be wed.

[theurgy]

Most of the people I know can't even stay together for six months.

[Himself... included... But he'll just gloss over that fact, it's fine.]

[bloodbiter]

Well, as I said, we'd been friends for years before things progressed beyond that point. If it wasn't to work, I would have known already.

[theurgy]

Uh... Right.

[Adelina, his sensibilities.]

[bloodbiter]

What is it now?

[She sounds a bit exasperated. She is pure and honorable!!]

[theurgy]

[He waves her off.] Forget it.

[No point in drilling her about it. She's apparently totally fine with it, even if he's still bewildered.]

Uh... Anyway. I guess Theseus was just that irresistible, and Ariadne couldn't help herself.

[bloodbiter]

She sounds like a fool.

[Everyone in this story is awful, save her.]

Did he agree to her plan?

[theurgy]

Yeah, he did. She was in charge of the labyrinth I think, or maybe the sacrifices, I can't remember. Let's just say she did it because she didn't like people dying.

[Better, right?]

So she told Theseus the way to the center of the labyrinth and gave him a ball of string to unravel behind him so he wouldn't get turned around. He went into the maze with the sacrifices and led the way to the Minotaur, who didn't stand a chance because Theseus was so strong. He killed it like he promised, then escaped with the other Athenians and Ariadne and sailed home. But Theseus was an asshole, because the Greeks really have a thing for assholes, so he ditched Ariadne on an island on the way back and then forgot to put the white sails up. When his father saw the black ones, he threw himself into the ocean out of grief and died.

[A happy story!]

[bloodbiter]

[She keeps walking, but she stays silent for a moment or two as she just. Digests that, takes it all in. Her summary:]

Everyone in this story is awful. One of the women who was sent there should have just killed the king before any of this started.

[She 100% would have stabbed him in the throat??]

[theurgy]

[Cassel smiles.]

Yeah, they should have. I bet you would have done a better job.

[bloodbiter]

Of course I would have.

[Figurative hair flip.]

Would you like to hear a story from my world? It's less strange.

[To her, at least.]

[theurgy]

Sure, let's hear it.

[bloodbiter]

To begin with... Hundreds of years ago, my country, Bamarre, was untamed. When the first voyagers came to this place, it was incredibly dangerous, ridden with monsters.

[Which, well, it still is, but that's getting ahead of herself.]

Among one of the travelers was a man named Drualt. As everyone arrived and struggled to find a safe place for themselves in the new land, he became a hero to the people, leading them to fight against the dragons, ogres and gryphons that were everywhere.

[theurgy]

Man, you've got all sorts of monsters, huh?

[bloodbiter]

I didn't mention the specters.

[Who she hates More Than Anything. Anyways.]

There are many stories our people tell about the battles he fought, the monsters he defeated, and the way he left... So I suppose it depends on the kind of story you'd like to hear.

[theurgy]

[Cassel shrugs. He's not really picky.]

Tell me your favorite.

[bloodbiter]

[Oh, that's a hard one. She pauses for a moment.]

My favorite isn't exactly cheerful, I will warn you.