[elevator] [cerberus]

[guillotineroom]

[ When you open your eyes again the first thing that you, and your teammates, may notice is that you are confined within an iron cage, rectangle in shape. Further inspection will reveal that outside of the cage is a large structure of sorts, reaching far above you. It kind of looks like an unfinished clock tower, really... there are spots that look finished and bolted tightly, and others that look like they had been left once and the work never thought of again.

Also, it's pretty chilly. You might get to notice that.

It's foggy and windy—the kind of wind that howls and roars, jostling your cage against the tall shaft, and every so often you feel as though you might have had the ghost of a raindrop on you. The tower-like build creaks horribly ominously in the wind, and you can see the rusted metals swaying slightly. But if you decide to look around...

Flapping above you (and not helping with the wind) is a harpy-like creature, iron chains wrapped around their talons. Though, maybe it's more like a lion? The chains are bolted to the top of your cage. There are also little indicators on the structure, the same distance apart, that seem to be declaring different levels or heights. They look horribly unhappy to be here, but they're also impressive at ignoring any call you might have for them.

There's a door to the cage, but it won't open, even if it's just a simple-looking locking mechanism. If you peer out, it's too foggy on the ground to make out very much, but you can make out nine other, tower-like structures with similarly flapping harpies. Each one, including your own, has an emblazoned emblem of every team's patron monster, so that you can see where everyone is—it's just difficult to make out exactly who may be in each one. Even more difficult to try and communicate like this.

Attached to the door is an aged metal panel with a screen and four buttons; two to choose between the team names that appear on the dark green and black screen, and two to choose whether you wish for that team to go up or down.

After a moment, a little speaker in the corner starts playing an incredibly bad quality version of this.]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[moonlit_knight]

Nothing's ever easy.

[cultfavorite]

Or fair. Or even interesting. What a lack of imagination she shows in simply shutting down any attempt . . . pitiful.

[moonlit_knight]

No time for creativity or fun when she's showing us who's boss.

[cultfavorite]

Ah yes, that's right, she has to remind us of this and that. As she said. I imagine she's well aware of what's going to happen to her one of these days when her hold on us finally loosens.

[moonlit_knight]

It's a wonder she thinks nonsense like this is going to do anything to discourage us from her final fate.

[cultfavorite]

Perhaps it's a race against time. She's trying to break us before we get the chance to deal it out. Who can say . . . Selena. What are you thinking about this?

[moonlit_knight]

I think she'll find us harder to break than that. And honestly, if that's what she wanted? She shouldn't have brought out the big cannibal guns so early, it just makes stuff like this feel pathetic.

That said, pathetic as it is, we're not in a position to abstain and any attempts out have been blocked off. So I want to try and play our hand with as minimal damage as possible. Protect Bugbear under our alliance, raise a team that's likely to get lowered.