Avante 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.

Re: START: Pentagram Room

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ Waking up, he rubs at his eyes tiredly, before pushing himself up from the cold ground.]

. . .

. . . . . . . . .

[ . . . Wait. The cold... ground? ]

J-Jesus Christ!

[ Has he... been kidnapped?? Has he just been sacrificed to some sort of strange cult!? Time to pick up a candleholder in order to hold it defensively. ]

I demand that you stay back!

Re: START: Pentagram Room

[daios]

[After waking up, he looks at the strange boy holding a candleholder as if it were a weapon. Perhaps in a trained hand, but...]

Stand down, boy. Were I interested in attacking you, that stick of yours would do you more harm than good.

[gemuinemanagement]

[



bursts into entirely silent tears.]

Re: START: Pentagram Room

[worthathousand]

Don't panic, child.

[ a faint note of condescension, there, in the use of "child," but otherwise her voice isn't unkind—and she moves to position herself between him and the Tall Absolutely Shredded Man ]

That one claims to be a victim in this as well. If he is lying, I will put him down.

[ she has no weapons and, admittedly, no memory of if she's any use at them, but fake it 'til you make it and all that. ]

Re: START: Pentagram Room

[daios]

[When he wakes up, he feels so stiff, what with the laying on stone. Why is there nothing in his head when he scans for information? No, that's not entirely true, he remembers some things, though only brief flashes; training when he was young, caring for his daughter, but not much else.]

What is this place?

[gemuinemanagement]

[He wakes up, gets off the creepy floor, and tries to speak. Possibly to scream, or to cry, or to ask what's going on.

Whatever he was going to do, he can't do it. He moves his mouth but no sound comes out. With a distraught expression, he puts his hand over his throat.

There's other people here, too. He edges away from them, though there's nowhere to really run.]

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.

Re: THE CHASM

[heavyliesthecrown]

W-What is that sound...?

[ It's creepy. Good thing he's still got his CANDLEHOLDER. He's not about to let his only weapon go.

Glancing to the others. ]

Should we try and split once crossing this... 'bridge' for lack of a better word? It seems there are two doors. Though this is a little ominous, to begin with...

Re: THE CHASM

[worthathousand]

[ After she is done panicking and swearing a blue streak, Amaranth registers that what they've heard isn't the sound of crunching impact, but rather a splash, and what might be the sound of... more panicked splashing? ]

Everyone—

I think he's still alive down there! We have to go to him!

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: UNDERGROUND LAKE

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ Ow ow ow ow-

But he doesn't really have time to concentrate on the pain of that gigantic fall, because now he's flailing around in the water. They can probably hear a great deal of splashing, at least? Followed by coughing.

. . . But he rolls a 4. Which means there is something winding around his ankle. In a panic, he begins to kick, attempting to pull out of its reach and swim toward the shore. ]

Re: UNDERGROUND LAKE

[daios]

[Hiroto slams into the water after running down the wall for long enough to get to a safe jumping distance.]

Boy! Are you we-

[And then, after rolling a 4, a tentacle wraps around his ankle. Ah... Hiroto will take a breath, going underwater to fight whatever is under there, he guesses! He summons a glowing, golden sword like one he had seen himself summon in his memories, trying to stab the tentacle to make it let go.]

CAVERNOUS STAIRCASE

[idolpro]

You enter the Cavernous Staircase, which seems to have been hewn from the very rock itself. They're incredibly steep, and unfortunately lacking in railings. You hear a steady, incessant, unceasing, disconcertingly echoing drip drip … drip drip … drip drip …

There are two exits: West down the stairs, or East at the top of the stairs.

Re: CAVERNOUS STAIRCASE

[worthathousand]

[ Well, now that we're all down here anyway... what is off to the West? ]

OFFICE

[idolpro]

You enter the Office. There is a desk strewn with stuff: a haphazard pile of notebooks, a few newspaper clippings, a half completed crossword puzzle, and a sudoku grid that was clearly filled in with pencil, failed spectacularly, and then erased to try again.

You'll also find a coffee mug filled with frigidly cold black coffee … and another one, almost empty. And another one, half full. And another one; two big gulps would've finished it off. A mostly full bag of gummy bears. A black robe flung over the back of the spinny office chair, with a pair of rubber gloves hanging out of the pocket.

Against one wall is a counter with a kettle, a pot of coffee grounds and a sink. Beneath the counter is a fridge.

There is one door.

[gemuinemanagement]

[Oh thank god, paper.

Looking through those notebooks, please!]

Re: OFFICE

[heavyliesthecrown]

Oh come on, is this a fun house of some kind? None of this is logical at all! How do we happen upon such a mundane setting after everything we just experienced?

[ But he'll wander over to look at the newspaper clippings. ]

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.

Re: BASEMENT LANDING

[worthathousand]

[ what the fuck is an elevator

...Do any of the doors look to have keyholes associated with them? ]

STOREROOM

[idolpro]

You enter the Store Room. It's kinda dusty in here, albeit nowhere near as bad as the Landing you just came from. And, honestly? Despite the name, there's not a whole lot in here. Sitting on top of three old wooden crates are three potted plants: a cactus, a tomato plant, and a short, thick blue stalk. The latter wiggles vaguely. Set into the back wall is a grand old mirror with an ornate golden frame.

The only door is the one you came through.

Re: STOREROOM

[worthathousand]

[ She has no idea where to even start with the plants, but the mirror is far too valuable an item to be hidden away in a dusty place like this, surely?

That's where she checks first, pausing a long moment as she does to take in the strange new information that she looks.... approximately the same age as the "youths" in her circle?

Alright, focus.

Is there anything else notable about the mirror or its frame? She'll also lift it away to check behind it, if possible. ]

Re: STOREROOM

[heavyliesthecrown]

So dusty... Does no one keep up with this place?

[ Still covering his nose, he'll go investigate... did that plant just move? Peering down at it. ]

Re: STOREROOM

[daios]

[HMMM. That wiggling plant looks suspicious. Hades lifts the naginata he's conjured to poke at it.]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Feels like he should be doing something... that's not touching the blue plant...

Picks a tomato?]