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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: (We didn't light it)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-08 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
... I can't... really be happy over this, you know...?
heartlands: (pic#14961331)

[personal profile] heartlands 2022-11-08 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Of course we can't.
fanstheflames: (The danger gets me high)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-08 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ A deep breath. ]

We're not the highest up anymore, but... we're still not out of the woods.
heartlands: (pic#14895021)

[personal profile] heartlands 2022-11-08 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
...The one thing I don't want to do is raise Unicorn. It would be like if other people saw us up high last round and piled on to make it worse, you know? But I'm fine with anything other than that.
fanstheflames: (Cool like fire)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-08 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think any of us would do that. Honestly, I wanna lower them but...

[ Is that too selfless? Are they too high up for this?? ]
hijinked: (a coat made out of puppies!)

[personal profile] hijinked 2022-11-08 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
For what it is worth, I won't demand that we lower ourselves this round if others are against it.

That said, we should stick to our initial plan then of lowering the team we raise.

As... as we've seen, anything can change in only a moment here. Anything is risky.
fanstheflames: (I believe in me)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-08 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
... So definitely not Unicorn.

[ she's so worried about them ugh ]
hijinked: (While I don't appreciate)

[personal profile] hijinked 2022-11-08 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ he simply shrugs. ]

If we lower Unicorn and raise another, who is then raised by another team... they could end up in exactly the same place.
fanstheflames: (I light the match)

[personal profile] fanstheflames 2022-11-08 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... you're right. I know you are.
hijinked: (disregard that.)

[personal profile] hijinked 2022-11-08 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
It is simply something to keep in mind.