[log] The Pit [open]

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Characters: Anyone participating in the Pit event.
Location: A room.
Date: Day 330
Summary: You wake up in a room.
Warnings: general warnings; potential for morbid/suicidal thoughts; note specific warnings in subject line, please!

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[spoileralert]

[ It makes her giggle. Genuinely giggle, like a grade schooler. ]

Let us dance... for science!

[ She takes a firmer grip on his hand and hangs one foot over the pit, just to be sure he’s ready. ]

[deus_ex_phs]

[Give him just a second to grab hold of Billy's hand, straightening up so he's not quite so ridiculous.]

For science. For answers. For insanity.

[Because let's be real, they're lowering themselves into a pit with teeth. Why are they doing this again?]

Right, let's do this.

[Down you go, Steph. Easy, easy...]

[spoileralert]

[ She could go easy. Or she could just jump off with the other leg and fall. She bends her legs so they hit the wall instead of her butt. ]

[deus_ex_phs]

Oof. Careful.

[Kunsel's still fairly strong, as average human strength goes, but that's just it. It's strong for an average human. Sudden jerks and unexpected pulls to the weight can threaten to break his hold. He grunts as he absorbs the shock through his arm before steadying himself again, then scoots closer to the edge himself.]

Let us know if you find anything.

[And now it's his turn to start scooting down.]

[spoileralert]

You're gonna have to let me lower than this, tough guy.

[ The bottom isn't any clearer than it was before. She does add a second hand to that first though, so she's holding on to him with both hands as she peers below. ]

[deus_ex_phs]

You're gonna have to wait for the rest of us to form our chain, tough girl. My arms are only so long.

[But sure enough, once Billy's got a good hold on him, Kunsel lets himself go over the edge of the pit now, letting Steph drop even lower.]

[spoileralert]

[ Steph waits patiently, shifting her weight occasionally to keep her arms from getting too tired. ]

Still nothing. We got any more chain links coming?

[deus_ex_phs]

Yeah, hang on.

[Yeah, he sure made that pun. But he'll wait until everyone who's getting in on this has hooked up before he starts edging down again.

And down.

And down. Down as far as they can go with the number of people they have. Kunsel grunts when they come to a stop.]

Anything, Steph?

[spoileralert]

[ She huffs a sigh. She still can't see anything more than she could from the top of the pit. There's only so much further down she can go before it starts being a problem for the people above her. ]

This isn't working.

[ She looks up the chain, then makes a decision. It's time. ]

Alright. [ She raises her voice to be heard at the top: ] I'll see you guys later, okay?

[ Then she starts pulling at his hand to get loose. ]

[deus_ex_phs]

[Wat.]

Steph, what hell are you doing?

[Yeah, he's not just going to let her let go. He tries to tighten his hold to stop her.]

You don't know how far down that goes!

[spoileralert]

Yeah, but I'm gonna find out. Relax, I'm like, 80% sure I'll be fine. Come on, how many times have we done this now?

[ She will just try to peel his fingers off one by one then. ]

[deus_ex_phs]

If you're trying to tell me you've jumped into a bottomless pit before, I'm calling bullshit!

[Except there's too much alarm for him to sound properly outraged at her claim.]

Steph, don't! You've heard my lecture before about the statistics for coming back from the dead!

[spoileralert]

Remember the labyrinth? Statistics don't apply to pseudo-reality.

[deus_ex_phs]

[Other people are no doubt shouting at Steph now, too, as they realize what she's planning. Kunsel's too busy with his own yelling to focus on what they're saying, though.]

The hell they don't! You don't know what rules they're playing by here! No one does!

[spoileralert]

[ She huffs at him. Anyone else trying to dissuade her can yell all they like. Kunsel is the one with a grip on her wrist. She starts digging her nails into his hand, though the fabric of her gloves makes it less effective than it might be, and angling her legs against the wall to push downwards. ]

Thing is, Kuns, this is my decision, and I've made it. Now let go. I'm not afraid to take you with me.

[deus_ex_phs]

[It's not just her nails, it's not just her wriggling, it's not just the insanity in her words. It's not any one thing, but all of them together that makes Kunsel's grip start to break.]

Steph, no!

[Panic surges, and he twists himself, frantically trying to regain his grip.

A miscalculation. His own grip in Billy's hand slips. Caught off guard, his head whips around and he tries to grab back his hold - just a moment of splitting his attention, a moment of alarm, a moment with too many things happening. Unfortunately, a moment is all it takes.

He barely has time to register that Steph's gone, because he's falling, and then the darkness swallows him up.]