[elevator] [kraken]

[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

[nailedthelook]

I'm a terrible reference point, I don't like most people.

[heartlands]

Definitely not as true as you want me to think it is, but that's probably a topic for another time.

[nailedthelook]

It's still partly true.

Anyway, helping some rando team we don't knows means not helping out teams we do know.

[heartlands]

Right... Some of the others suggested picking the same team to raise and lower so we're at least mitigating the damage a little bit for whoever we do pick, but if we do that, we don't want to pick a team we're really close to. What do you think about that?

[nailedthelook]

I'm for that plan, personally. We'll get a better feel for how the other teams are shaking out, while mitigating the damage we're doing in the mix.

[heartlands]

I'd be okay with it, too. So now we just... need to decide how we're choosing the team. I know Tsuruno didn't want Cerberus, and I'd prefer to leave Yatagarasu and Phoenix alone.

[nailedthelook]

Let's ask the others and see what preferences they have at this point, then see who's left.

[heartlands]

What about you?

[nailedthelook]

I only care about Kraken making it through.