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Locked Rooms ([personal profile] guillotineroom) wrote2022-11-01 10:50 pm

[elevator] [kraken]

[ 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.]
fanstheflames: (But we tried to fight it)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
We've done okay, but people still died.
nailedthelook: (Though I seem cold.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
... Yeah. But it's at least... better than it could be, weirdly enough. They come back.
fanstheflames: (I light the match)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I just don't...

[ Her shoulders slump. ]

Well, I know we don't really have a choice. We have to do it.
nailedthelook: (Bishoujo you're so vogue.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. How we do it's important too though.
fanstheflames: (One breath leads to another)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
I kind of want to find a way to raise and lower the same team...
nailedthelook: (Ya'll can keep blah blah.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Can we submit the same team for both?
fanstheflames: (These golden ashes turn to dirt)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
I have no idea. But the names should mostly come up the same for both options, right?
nailedthelook: (People love to talk about others.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
We could try that for the first round.
fanstheflames: (I'm burnin')

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
And if it doesn't work, we'll think of something else. I figured if it didn't work, we could maybe just pick the same team and just raise and lower them in different rounds. And obviously lower us if it starts looking like we're in danger.
nailedthelook: (You bring style and color.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
That works for me. Mainly the last part, admittedly.
fanstheflames: (She'll be on covers over the world)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
It'll be okay. I'm not letting anything happen to you guys.
nailedthelook: (A blue flower burning.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Same back at you, you know.
fanstheflames: (Keep on running)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ LATCHING ON FOR A HUG. ]

Anyway, I don't know who to vote for--
nailedthelook: (Loving what I see.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Patting the top of her head. ]

Anyone be an asshole to you recently?
fanstheflames: (Little mama's game is about to change)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
No??

[ Nobara??? ]

And no using that to decide!
nailedthelook: (It will end up like that.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
That's a perfectly valid reason.
nailedthelook: (We got your back.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
You'll feel better after getting a punch in on someone you don't like, it's scientific fact.
fanstheflames: (Well I set fire to the rain)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
This is so much more than a punch! And there's no one here I don't like! Or at least no one I've met!

[ HELP. ]
nailedthelook: (You better check yourself.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ DON'T YOU WANNA BE A LIL BAD SOMETIMES TSURUNO- ]

Some people can really use that kind of thing to keep them from acting up too.
fanstheflames: (I light the match)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ BEEN THERE DONE THAT, IT WASN'T THAT GREAT- ]

Nobaraaaaaa. I'm fiiiine. If we're gonna pick a team, it's not going to be because someone was grumpy at me once.
nailedthelook: (Underground culture.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
What about if they were mean to Rupert?
fanstheflames: (Got a candle)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-05 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I would fight them myself.
nailedthelook: (Seek what you can't have.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-05 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)



Okay that's fair.