side: hell

[idolpro]

[ The light which spread everywhere intensifies, gaining not just brightness but color. It focuses with its intensity, golden lines swarming your vision. And where the gold coalesces, it leaves space between with a black that opens out like a sea, sweeping across your vision as your eyes adjust until you can see the truth of your new surroundings.

The golden bars are not the gates that welcomed you in.

They're the bars to a cell you've been dumped in with your unfortunate compatriots. A cell that sits in an inky sea of darkness, broken up not by light across objects in your vision but by brilliant colors each so solid that the darkness cannot cover them up. And, in your vision, guarding the cage is a figure, with six wings, each as golden as the bars. Their eyes are a milky expanse of white-blue light, emanating outwards, like they've caught you in headlights.

A jailer's keyring sits at their waist. ]

Comments

[composeur]

[ well he does stop. and look in the direction of the voice. but he doesn't actually say anything. honestly he's probably just having another one of his hallucinations. even he thinks that might be the case. so... yeah sure, why not, he'll trust this ghost!

time to go... or roll over to the bars! ]

[iamverybadass]

Get both the guards.

[ Just gonna poke his fingers through the bars, braced for it to burn, just for long enough to trigger frog materia and turn Leo into a bug ]

[composeur]

[ getting poked by a ghost is new!

so is... turning into a bug. though apparently the collar is going to start to shrink WITH him, so that's a problem! what kind of bug anyways. is he a gnat. interesting!! ]

[idolpro]

[ There's a slight delay with the collar, taking a moment to react with the inside runes glowing, and then starting to shrink. ]

1/2

[composeur]

[ can the slight delay beat the MANIC ZIPPING AROUND OF A GNAT

if gnats could speak they would probably tell you how fun it is to be a gnat honestly, who DOESN'T want to suddenly be mind jarringly microscopic and then zip around at breakneck speeds (in comparison to your size), anyways that collar can catch him never. ]

2/3

[composeur]

WAHAHA-- oh [ he's back now.

uhh..hhhHHHHH... he was supposed to do something, ]

3/3

[composeur]

[ .... OH RIGHT ]

LIONEL!! AND THE OTHER GUY, LOOK OVER HERE!! YOUR DUMB COLLARS ARE NO MATCH FOR THE POWER OF TEAMWORK!!

[ get appel'd suckers ]

Re: 3/3

[idolpro]

[ They are temporarily frozen, in the middle of the man's lecturing the woman for roundhouse kicking Leo ]

[idolpro]

[ The bars only burned under the influence of The Harder They Fall. Otherwise they are merely luminescent, solid, and leave golden residue when you touch them.

Talon's hands are now visible, glowing golden in the air if he touched them. ]

[iamverybadass]

[ WELP

He is immediately turning towards the guards and dropping into a combat stance to brace for whatever they might try to do before Leo makes a move. This is unfortunate! ]

[idolpro]

[ The male guard is lecturing the female guard for use of unwarranted force against a prisoner. They are not supposed to use corporeal punishment. She is arguing that she got stabbed. He is not particularly impressed, but he is distracted from you.

Or, you know, I rolled a one on the guards noticing you so honestly you could have like discharged a firecracker without them noticing.

Also, time is of the essence, and the collar has shrunk to bracelet size ]

[iamverybadass]

[ Since it looks like Leo's taken care of getting safely away from the collar, Talon is taking this chance to scan both guards for any obvious restraints they're still carrying. Any other collars or handcuffs visible on or around them? And who has the key ring? ]

[idolpro]

[ Intensity had the keyring but it could not be pulled through the bars into the cell.

The guards are not carrying visible restraints. If he saw Leo get collared, he would have seen the collar just ?spontaneously generate? Between the woman's claws when she put her hands around his neck ]

[iamverybadass]

[ In that case he's going to try to reach through the bars to grab the collar so he can try to unlock it with the key ring before Appel wears off, trying to be quiet about it ]

[idolpro]

[ Success! He's unlocked the collar ]