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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.]
hijinked: (I only wished to have)

[personal profile] hijinked 2022-11-08 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
If they are sending mail via Pidgey, the least they could do was let us in on it.
hijinked: (SHOW ME YOUR MAGIC CARPET!)

[personal profile] hijinked 2022-11-08 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, agreed. Someone owes us for all of this.

[ ... then again, a lot of someones did just save them. ]

... Or perhaps they've already paid it.
nailedthelook: (I just want to be me.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-08 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ She noticed that too and a part of her is so confused. ]

... Must be their popularity.
hijinked: (I do appreciate the fact)

[personal profile] hijinked 2022-11-08 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I could believe that. Harming any of them would be like kicking a small fluffy creature.

[ gesturing to Tsuruno and Rupert especially, but also Venat too. ]
nailedthelook: (Though I seem cold.)

[personal profile] nailedthelook 2022-11-08 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nodding in agreement, surely it's the softs. ]

Yeah, but people'll kill rabbits if they need to, so we can't just rely on their cuteness for the whole thing.
hijinked: (Poor people need slaves)

[personal profile] hijinked 2022-11-08 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Correct. I firmly believe that this is the round in which people will play to survive. It is the logical thing to do.
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[personal profile] heartlands 2022-11-08 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
I want it on the record that this feels infantilizing!
hijinked: (are you mad at me?)

[personal profile] hijinked 2022-11-08 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It is meant to feel that way.
hijinked: (Your ass cheeks my lord.)

[personal profile] hijinked 2022-11-08 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ heheheheh ]