side: heaven

[idolpro]

[ When you next open your eyes, you find yourself standing in a hallway of stained glass windows; the door behind you closes completely shut before disappearing, you in a corridor that leads to nowhere. You're stranded, here . . . wherever you are . . . ?

The light that reflects through the glass is a gentle one, and the whole place seems to glow, almost binding in illumination - it's been recently swept here, or otherwise recently polished so everything isn't so musty; still, there's a distinct feeling of heaviness in the air. One could almost mistake the feeling for reverence.

There's only one direction: forward, into the light. ]

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Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ hmmm. is this holy water? does any water in heaven count as holy water???

he has no idea, so just in case, he's taking out one of the bottles Intensity gave him and filling it with water from the spring. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ You now have ??holy water??.

Congrats! ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ doo-do-doo! he will go ahead and fill up the second bottle, too—if it turns out this isn't what he needs, he can just dump it later. then he tucks both bottles back inside his coat.

... now, what to do. he could just fumble around until he (hopefully) finds something, but that seems like such a pain. after considering for a moment, he flicks his hands upwards, attempting to make all the fog and steam rise upwards to the top of the cavern. he has no idea if Verticality can work on things that aren't solid—he's never tried—but hey, it's at least worth a shot. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ the water vapor rises up, floating up and up to the top of the cavern. The rest of the cavern is laid bare for you to see.

Ridged stalagnates decorate the nearest third of the cavern, unlit candles standing on each ridge. With your vision cleared, you can also see every pool is marked with some sort of unreadable glyphs, with metal discs planted on the ground in front of all of them.

A little ways away, there seems to be some sort of netting that ties from one pillar to the other. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ nice.

first things first—since he's already close to one of the pools, he bends down and brushes his hand over the metal disc, examining it more closely. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ He touches it, and it begins to glow; he knows how to use it - he just needs to tap on it . . . ?

One - Wellness
Two - Healing
Three - Exorcism
Four - Extermination

Right now, it's set to Wellness. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ oh.... well that's sure something. now he's wishing Intensity had given him more than two bottles.

he's going to tap it and set it to Three - Exorcism. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ You set it to Exorcism! Are you going to Exorcism a mans???? ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ also, abruptly, you'll hear this sounding suspiciously like hurricane, reverberating through the walls: ]

Uh... hello?

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ he... was about to go empty one of his bottles so he could re-fill it with EXORCISM water, but the voice makes him stop in his tracks.

he shouts back: ]

... Heeello, may I ask who's calling~?

[ and then he waits for an answer. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ No response.

Huh! ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ wait. actually: ]

Anchors aweigh! All hands on deck, and full speed ahead.

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ ... weird.

after another few seconds of pause, he shrugs his shoulders and goes back to what he was doing. he empties one of the bottles back into another pool, then comes back to refill the bottle with water from the exorcism pool. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ you have obtained the Exorcism Water (TM) ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ after a good 30 seconds of debating various things internally, he's going to set it to 4 - Extermination and try to repeat the same process with other bottle he has. ... a little more carefully, juuust in case. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ Uh the bottle just literally dissolves.

Hm. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ yikes okay.



... sets it back 3 - Exorcism. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ there it goes ]

...hello?

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ this time he yells back: ]

Can it if you don't have anything useful to say!!

[ anyway time to get up and go examine those unlit candles. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ They're candles! Candles are candles. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ nemesis: ]

Microphone check, one-two one-two?

[ hurricane: ]

Testing, testing, anybody copy?

[ you just have to live with this now. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ GRUNTS.



okay but anyway he is looking around to see if there's anything else of note near the candles. like anything that theoretically could be used to light them. ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ nope! ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ tsk. can he at least grab a candle to go? ]

Re: RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER

[idolpro]

[ and then, another, though this sounds like nemesis: ]

This is ops, we copy, but...