[log] yikes all around [closed]

[bloodbiter]

Characters: Adelina and Cassel
Location: House 126
Date: 195
Summary: Post labyrinth shenanigans!
Warnings: Possible description/discussion of injury, but there shouldn't be anything more!

[When she wakes up from that awful scene, it's with a gasp despite herself. It was... Was it an illusion, a memory of someone else? Either way, calm down, calm down. She has other things to attend to, so she doesn't let herself focus on whatever it was she just saw quite yet.

Instead, she's automatically pushing herself off the mattress, looking around to see where she is now - it's where she remembers. She pushes her hair out of her face, giving herself a quick once over to make sure everything is in order, before she stands to look around for her companion.]

Cassel?

Comments

[bloodbiter]

[That is a pretty low standard of coming out on top, but from what she's heard so far, maybe he really is lucky for it.]

I'm glad you're safe, for the most part.

[Other than, you know, the stabbing.]

[theurgy]

You too.

[He toys with the hole in one of his gloves for a moment.]

So what was the point of all that? We get dumped in a maze for three days and... that's it? How does that... memory, vision, whatever help us?

[bloodbiter]

[She thinks about it for a moment.]

The thing that stabbed you, did it look like the people that killed the girl in that memory?

[theurgy]

Yeah, it did. I don't see how that helps us get home.

[He's grumpy.]

[bloodbiter]

It doesn't, but it could be part of the larger puzzle that will lead us to a way home once it's solved. If the things that killed her exist wherever we were, somewhere in this place... Don't you think that's important?

[theurgy]

Yeah, I guess, but if it's Winter or Andromeda or whoever giving us these messages, why don't they just give us a vision about how to get to the center or something?

[bloodbiter]

It seems as if there are only three possible answers. They won't, they can't, or it isn't them.

[She puts a hand to her mouth, thinking.]

I have to wonder when that memory took place. The guide stated that she's offered help to the residents occasionally, didn't it? So either she must have been repaired somehow, or what happened took place very recently.

[theurgy]

Apparently she's backed up on a computer somewhere that can log onto our network. Before you ask, I have no idea how that works.

[bloodbiter]

[Technology is hard.]

I see. I think the memory makes sense this time, to warn us about the prophets we were seeing. As for why they aren't showing us something more useful... Maybe there's something they don't know something about the way out, either where it is or how to access it.

[theurgy]

[Cassel lets his head thunk back against the wall, letting out a frustrated sigh.]

Cool. Everyone's worthless. All the guides say "go east", but then what?

[bloodbiter]

Cassel.

[Her tone is warning, almost chiding. It's too early for him to start with that, in her opinion.]

Charlie told me there's a collection of dolls that will open a door once it's completed. Stephanie told me we need to find where the center of the town is and investigate it; according to her, it might be accomplished by digging through several tunnels.

[theurgy]

Alright, fine. So what do you want to do? Go dig?

[That's an honest question, despite the way it's phrased.]

[bloodbiter]

She told me she would call me if they need any further assistance. What I want to do now is search any houses for supplies that could prove useful in a crisis, and make certain no harm comes to either of us to the best of my ability.

[theurgy]

Okay.

[It's as good of a plan as any, and honestly, Cassel is starting to realize how more cut out for this she is than he is.]

I messaged Ginger before we all got trapped in the maze. She's going to make some pants and gloves for you.

[bloodbiter]

[She pauses, surprised for a moment by that.]

You didn't ask her for anything for yourself? Not even proper shoes?

[Now who's too nice?]

[theurgy]

It's not like I have much to trade with yet. I'll figure it out later.

[bloodbiter]

But you have enough to trade for proper clothing for me.

[theurgy]

I have shoes, Adelina. You don't have gloves. It makes sense.

[bloodbiter]

I'm perfectly capable of keeping my hands in my pockets.

[A sigh.]

At least let me offer her the payment. I really would prefer it.

[theurgy]

She was being pretty difficult about me paying her at all. What are you going to give her?

[bloodbiter]

I don't know.

[A pause for thought.]

I don't want to give away any of the weaponry or medical supplies I found, but if she's a seamstress, maybe she'd like the cloth I received back.

[theurgy]

Maybe, yeah. Look, I've got a bottle of wine that I picked up to trade, anyway. You can just repay me later.

[bloodbiter]

[That surprises her, honestly.]

You should keep that. [A pause, as she realizes how that sounds.] Not because I want to drink it, but it could numb pain if anything happens to either of us.

[theurgy]

[Cassel smiles, rolling his eyes.]

Do you want to be in charge of the trading?

[bloodbiter]

[A small pause.]

If it's alright with you, I wouldn't mind it.