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[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

Who: Hydra, Ikki, Allen, ANY
Where: The Arena
When: Day 98, evening
What: When we last left our intrepid heroes...

[In the arena, there's some decent quality meat burning as a gift to two particular Judges, a comatose member of Hydra and a few guards with torches... and not a whole lot else to explain what's going on.

Well the real interesting part is going on a little deeper anyway.]

Comments

Ocean - Heart

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[With no preamble, or nice safe, neutral room, the moment the group steps through Persona's door, they find themselves standing ankle deep in water. Stretch out for as far as the eye can see is deep, violent ocean waters, lifting and crashing over itself in large waves. There's no sight of land anywhere, the horizon simply meets a sky full of blackened stormclouds. Wind lashes at you from every direction, and your ankles begin to feel the tugging of an undertow. Every now and then, lightning lances down in the distance, causing an electrical lightshow over the surface of the ocean.

There doesn't seem to be any way back, but every now and then, between waves; however, you catch the sight of a stone structure battered by the storm.]

Re: Ocean - Heart

[but_a_wolf.insanejournal.com]

... not a happy place.

Re: Ocean - Heart

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

No shit!

[lifts a hand to shield his eyes, squinting into the distance during the lightning strikes]

Re: Ocean - Heart

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

Heeeeeh . . .

[also looking around]

War Dance

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[The room that you have entered seems an odd marriage of games. In the center of the room is a familiar panel and a BRIGHT SHINY RED BUTTON. Instead of teams on it, there are only two choices: "Kill them all." "Save them all."

The rest of the room looks like a battered woodshop. There's an overturned desk, and several people here... who have smooth ovals of skin rather than faces. There are all uniforms of colors, except orange and green. They are huddled far from the boarded up windows and doors, and seem to be waiting. There's a smell on the air that you oddly enough can immediately identify as fear. Scattered around are some tools, a jangly metal staff, and a shotgun resting next to a bloodstained spot under a window.

The water is ruby red and knee deep in this room. You don't immediately see an exit. The windows and doors are all boarded up. ]

Re: War Dance

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[Immediately freezes up for a few seconds as the color of the water sinks in. It takes that long to recover and force himself to take a step into the room, glancing from the . . . people-things to the boarded up windows]

You sure you want to keep checking this room?

Re: War Dance

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

...

We're this far... Don't think he's here, though.

Re: War Dance

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[Making his way over to the panel with the buttons for a better look already, giving the jangly staff a wide berth.]

We should've gone with the others.

Common Room

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[You find yourself back at Hydra's dorms. It would be picture perfect if not for the knee-deep water and the deathbunny sitting on the table, blissfully nomming a neverending pile of plates. Other objects, though less immediately out of place are scattered around the room, like the Do Not Shank list is still up and blank, or on the table there is a cake with pink frosting, a meal, jerky and some sketches.

The sleeping quarters of most of the members seem gray and flat, as does the way into the kitchen. However, by the ladder outside the water nearby is mixing with trails of red... the water just in front of Fang's door seems a deeper blue.]

Re: Common Room

[our_only_goal.insanejournal.com]

[:|a Gives Gallows a pat and looks around. Wonders why the list is blank... Eh...

Open the door to Fang's room \o/]

Re: Common Room

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

[hands shoved in his pockets, staying where he is as he glances around, and . . . eyes the deathbunny]

Re: Common Room

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[A Deathbunny is sitting on the table, occasionally eating a plate and watching you all. She focuses back on Ikki warily.]

[Though as Thorfinn touches pats her, for a split second, you see, feel and hear with perfect clarify, the perspective of someone weaving a makeshift nest of weeds for a spotted green egg, a flash to a retarded argument with Scowl over gender and species... And being happy with what she was ANYWAY. Pretending to be asleep while Gallows takes a bite of the bedpost. It's not spoiling, it's just. More comfortable where you already are... That moment after the game, with the mangled fish that she actually DOES give a damn about you and the team past a source of food...

... And the game ends.]

[Then it's faint... you might actually have just imagined it... a familiar voice and two very different tones.]

"It didn't mean much, did it? Just another game."
"..."
"You don't even know if it really existed."
"She."
"..."
"I don't regret it. In fact, I hope she HAS eaten that Judge by now."

[And then everything seems to return to normal.]

MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

[sitting cross-legged and waiting.]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[It's got to be a quiet wait. And a boring one.

. . . well, except for the sound of footsteps some ten minutes in, overlaid with the sound of something heavy dragging through the arena's stone streets.]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

[aside from all the tense possibility of someone being eaten in there--

looks up, standing quickly from his position. His eye being activated near Fang has him a little high-strung, but his stance isn't aggressive]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Drag drag drag thump.

pant pant

scuttle rustle drag drag drag . . . and that would be purple clothing and a mop of pink hair, and a either a very unconsious, or (more correctly, if one was to judge by the small wounds at the base of its skull) a very exanimate river lizard being unceremoniously dragged into the braizer's light.]

. . . ahh, Allen's here, too.

Antechamber

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[You fall into the room accompanied by a large wave of water... it drains off, leaving you on the floor.

The room is circular and plain, looking a bit more like a gigantic cage than a formal room. It is mercifully dry here, and you seem to be hanging above the water. Through the bars you can't seem to make much of anything out. Of the three things of note in here, the first is that the 'floor' seems to be made of a carpet simple steel chains, making your progress a little tricky, but not impossible. There is an undecorated metal table in the center of the room with something on it.

The exit is a simple, open door to the cage at the far wall. There doesn't seem to be a way back up.]

Re: Antechamber

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

[asjkd;kfja s-sputters a little and rolls over onto his stomach, auuugh water up the nooooose]

. . . eh? [pushes himself up a bit, a little awkwardly because of the ground, to look around]

Re: Antechamber

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[On the table there is a plate memories with a heavy metal box resting on it. It is secured closed with a padlock, and several chains are securing it down to the table. As you watch, more are slithering up from the ground to wrap over it. There is a small key on the table as well.

There doesn't seem to be anything else of interest.]

Re: Antechamber

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[but before Ikki has a chance to make a move for that, a mafioso comes tumbling down RIGHT ON TOP OF HIM]

Waking up~

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[It has been some time, Allen probably has a monster headache, there is the smell of good meat cooking...

All in all not a bad time for Hydra + one Pyxis to get dropped back into the arena.]

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

—ah . . .

Re: Waking up~

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[There's a small stack of said good meat beside a small cooking fire, and more sizzling on the hot stone half over the coals.]

You're back.

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[just as Kururu finishes speaking, Gokudera crashes down RIGHT ON TOP OF IKKI]

Re: Waking up~

[our_only_goal.insanejournal.com]

[Look out below!]