Heart Soldier Amnesplora

[idolpro]

You awaken slowly, laying in the middle of a cold, hard stone floor … and realise that you have absolutely no idea where you are, how you got here, and who any of these people are.

Some of you may also be wondering who you are, too. Hm. That's probably concerning.

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START: Pentagram Room

[idolpro]

There's something just a little creepy about this room. Maybe it's the amnesia? Or maybe it's got something to do with the huge chalk pentagram you woke up in the middle of. The pentagram is surrounded by a ring of twenty eight candles in black and gold banana-shaped candleholders. The flames send the shadows in the otherwise dark room dancing ominously.

There's a wooden door to the East. For now, it's locked; there's nothing you can do to make it budge.

[happydreamed]

...I can't say I love the decor.

[Not a fan of having only a few of his memories, either, but there's no need to come right out with that.]

[crossmyheartandhope]

- dude. Are we dead?

Are we like haunting someone now?

[happydreamed]

We might well be dead. I do remember dying.

[So that's a great start.]

[crossmyheartandhope]

Aw, crap. For real?

[happydreamed]

Indeed. ...Truthfully, I have very few memories, but that is a clear one.

[So they're ghosts now.]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[There goes self-preservation, right out the window]

Well, I got nothing, so you're a step and a half ahead of me.

[happydreamed]

[It's this team, they didn't have it in the first place.]

A rather unpleasant step, but yes. Shall we have a look around?

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Fair,]

You think we can leave the circle?

Don't ghosts gotta stay where they get called or whatever?

[Going to try and leave it, though]

[happydreamed]

[Also trying to leave! If successful, gonna check out some of those shadowy corners to see if there's anything over there.]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Poking at these banana candle holders,]

THE CHASM

[idolpro]

You enter a room split in two by a huge, jagged Chasm, spanned by the (very) rickety old remains of what (probably) used to be a wooden bridge. Do you have a head for heights and a daring heart? Because you might need both, if you're going to get across this.


Something chitters softly in the darkness way, way up above.


There's one door to the West side, and one to the East.

Anyone attempting to cross needs to roll 1D10.
✑ If 1-3: You fall, down, down, down into the darkness ...

✑ If 4-7: chitter chitter chitter chitter a HUGE VAMPIRE BAT the size of a dog swoops down at you, its gaping, salivating maw held wide!

✑ If 8-10: You make it safe and sound to the other side.

[idolpro]

[The candles are magnificent.

You may proceed.]

[happydreamed]

[...Hm.]

I don't think we're the kind of ghosts that can float.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Maybe we just ain't tried hard enough, yet.

[happydreamed]

[Wills himself to float. Even tries jumping and seeing if that will do it.]

...Any luck?

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Hops up a couple times]

[Flaps his arms like wings,]

...maybe we're too new. Gotta level up our ghost skills.

roll: 9

[happydreamed]

Well. No use in standing around.

[He starts to take the bridge, trying not to let his nervousness show on his face...

...and ends up safely at the other side.]

roll: 1

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Perhaps his memories took with them important things like "how to walk with a prosthetic leg that is quite heavy, actually," because that was a resounding 1]

[Which is to say, the metal foot breaks through one of those rickety wooden slats. He flails for a moment, trying to regain his balance]

[Then down, down, down he goes into the depths]

[oops]

UNDERGROUND LAKE

[idolpro]

You enter the Underground Lake! The water is cold and dark, and it's impossible to say where it comes from, or how deep it must be towards the middle. The only light comes from glowing iridescent moss growing up the cavern walls.


If you fell from the Chasm … congrats on the tremendous splash you just made! That might have hurt, though you'll be glad to know that you didn't break anything. Hopefully you can swim.

If you came down the stairs … welcome!


There is one door to the East.


Everyone entering this room must roll 1D6.
✑ If 1-4: Something cold and slimy winds tight around your ankle.

✑ If 5-6: Nothing happens.

Re: roll: 1

[idolpro]

[SPLASH]

[happydreamed]

[Yelling from the Chasm.]

Are you hurt?!

[...can he even hear him from all the way down there?]

[idolpro]

[Your voice echoes off the wall, but you won't get a response. If you want them to hear you, you'll have to get closer...]

[happydreamed]

[Okay, he is absolutely not jumping down in there with Hurricane even if he is already dead, so he's trying the door to the East. Hopefully he'll be able to meet up with his companion without any major falls involved.]

BASEMENT LANDING

[idolpro]

You enter the Basement Landing.


There's not much here except … coal. Piles upon piles upon piles of coal, the floor caked in a thick coating of ash and soot. It's spectacularly filthy.


There are doors to the North, South, and West, and … a set of closed elevator doors? to the East.