[ shining a light inside, you can see a wide open space. this house is apparently bigger on the inside than you can really gauge. you think it probably belonged to someone with money at one point.
siffrin breaks the window so fucking hard because my door failed with a roll of three, but it means you can easily reach inside to unlock the door. yahtzee! jiaoqiu is good moral support, which is nice for yves who tries to cheat by phasing through and walks straight into the door thanks to my door of 11.
either way you are able to get inside!
the space is large. here are many hallways and places to explore, and you all seem to enter what looks like the middle of a series of halls. are you going to split up, or stay together? you can stay on this floor and look around, go upstairs, or go downstairs to the basement. what would you like to look at or do? ]
Check out these handy flashlights they have, so prepared. If it's between Marcoh and Siffrin for staying, don't mind if Siffrin takes the lead. Peers around.. ]
Do we want to cover this floor first before moving to another?
[ Sure, they could split up but, Siffrin feels uneasy even trying to suggest that. Just gonna peer down the.. most middle hall? Tries to image this area in my brain. How many rooms we see down this way. Is the interior actually a large mansion with so many rooms and bathrooms. Rich people man. ]
[ the way that when yves walks into the door he doesn't even say ouch or anything he just meets the impact with a look of betrayal
but otherwise he'll watch the way that so many of you want to take the lead. marcoh and jiao and siff all scuttle about and yves is just hanging out. he has no major opinions so he'll just close his eyes and see if he can sense a pull in any specific direction? ]
... Blue did say that if he's buried, it should be underground. Should we try to go lower—huh?
[ ??????
trails after jiaoqiu just so he doesn't go alone? ]
[ there is a yard, yes, but marcoh, as you wander around the yard you begin to hear a loud, insistent buzzing. you can’t quite pinpoint where it’s coming from, but it grips onto you with a sudden fear that you probably shouldn’t be poking around outside.
you remember what happened last time, don’t you?
siffrin is able to check out the house and wander down the middle hall. it’s a very large house, like a mansion, probably long and expansive. you can see things like a big ballroom, a fancy sitting room, a long-empty fire place, many spare rooms filled with dusty furniture, etc.
anyway, jiaoqiu and yves head down to the basement.
they are greeted with a large hole. it’s in the center, wet and wide-open, made of collapsed ramps of dirt and bits of furniture, the ground split open as if by sheer force. like maybe the whole thing caved in on itself, seeing how several artefacts are threatening to fall straight in. wet, wide-open maw of an opening, all collapsed ramps of dirt spread over concrete bones and bits of furniture, the ground splitting and part of a basement falling into the resulting pit.
haha, neat. it's funny that the two of you in particular have found this pit, seeing how it feels a little like you're rotting inside the longer you look at it. and yet... there is a tug that says perhaps this is what you're looking for. ]
If there isn't anything in the yard that really speaks to him that he should be there then yeah, he's gonna just. Leave that aside for now. Bro. He turns around and sees Jiaoqiu and Yves are fucking gone again, but Siffrin is there. ]
For Christ's sake. Siffrin? Guys?
[ He swears to god. He doesn't have time, damn it. He needs you guys to find these ley lines. I rolled 2/3 so he's going to catch up with Siffrin. ]
[ Siffrin was taking in what they could see, catching the trail end of Yves' voice but by the time they turn around they were both just GONE. Stars, why is it so hard just to stay together?! They are getting white hairs. Which is normal, that's their natural hair but the sentiment is there. ]
I think I heard Yves mention about maybe it being underground so they might have gone downstairs already.
Let's hurry, before something happens-!
[ We are not going to take our sweet exploration we are SPEEDRUNNING I GUESS. Quick, to the basement! ]
the rotting feeling is familiar - jiaoqiu brings a hand up to his chest, on edge, and glances over at yves. that seems to be what we're looking for, but... if there's something else in this house that can help, he's willing to look for those things too. it's probably not smart to just jump feet first into a horrible rot hole. ]
[ even if it's smart not to jump into the rot hole, yves will at least still gently reach out to hold jiaoqiu's hand with his cold one. because also what if something in the rot hole tries to grab them and then only takes one? can't let that happen! ]
... yeah. Like this is it.
[ he'll look back over his shoulder and call out— ] Marcoh! Siff! Over here!!
[ to try to cut their big explore a lil short? yves looks around—does it look like there's any footholds for a descent? a slope? can he kick a rock and then listen to see how long it takes to hear a clatter down the pit? ]
[ you guys really are very bad at staying together, it’s so funny.
anyway, assigns you as all now in the basement, because siffrin probably ran and marcoh followed, and jiaoqiu and yves are staring at this gaping, rotten maw of a hole. or perhaps, more accurately, a tunnel.
because you can both peer inside because you’re closest, and you can drop a rock and listen to it rough and tumble its way down to the bottom. the path down is steep, narrow enough that you would have to walk down single file, but it’s doable.
from where you currently stand, you can only see a long, endless tunnel.
[ Excuse them as they peer to look Jiaoqiu and Yves both over... ]
You both okay?
[ Once reassured they're fine and it's just them and this tunnel until 1am, they do offer a nod. Time to move. Which is tight enough that single file seems necessary.. Siffrin ideally wants to take the lead, it's what they're used to. Ensuring they watch for traps, being first... when? Where?
A head shake. Anyway, they don't mind keeping the back if the others decide to push on first but yeah spelunking part 2 let's goooo. ]
[ okay, rude. jiaoqiu takes a step forward, staring into the dark. ]
It's there. I can see it. [ looking over his shoulder at the other three with a clarity he doesn't normally have. almost like he can see really well down here... he'll keep holding yves's hand if he doesn't pull away. ]
... There's a room at the end of the tunnel.
[ and he seems a little fussy at not being able to go first, but he'll go in whatever order. ]
[ spelunking part 2! as you go, you’ll all go in your single file line for a little while. you hear the sound of water dripping from overhead, and it does not appear to get much brighter as you find yourself growing colder. you get the sense that this particular tunnel is leading your very, very far down underground.
eventually your tunnel flattens out and widens. there’s a little extra room to walk now, and you can spread out if you want. there’s a little breeze that blows through the tunnel, and as you pass it seems as though the walls themselves are shaking, trembling, twitching. the floor beneath your feet sometimes feeling like water and sometimes feeling like stone.
[ Marcoh can bring up the rear. It's to hide the fact that he looks increasingly grim again because NOT ANOTHER TIGHT TUNNEL. His Mind meter is dropping rather rapidly actually. There's probably a moment or two where he has to pause for a step and shake his head before continuing onwards. He's fine.
He touches one of the walls softly. What is the wrong . . . ]
What is going on here?
[ He cannot sense magic he presumes... can either of you. Are we on a ley line. They can keep walking. ]
[ Siffrin glances at the other's held hands before looking away, curling up a little in themselves and focusing on the path ahead. Going and going and going.. As it gets colder, they pull at their coat a bit more around themselves and look around. Though their free hand curls and unfurls with some restless movement as they fiddle with the flashlight in their other hand.
They rub at their arm, looking to the walls as well and holding their breath for a moment. Mm. Their own hand will raise to drift along a wall too, brows furrowing as they focus a little on it until stepping quietly along. ]
It's... [ Their voice trails and they shiver a little, expression twisting to unease. ]
he keeps walking, not caring about the distance. honestly, he'll take the lead, he's on a mission. but he'll run his fingers along the wall every so often, too. what can he see? can he sense any sort of magic? ]
[ the walls vibrate harshly under your touch. none of you can sense magic in this space.
you are suddenly hit with clarity: this place is not connected to cabeswater at all, despite being on a ley line.
the further you walk, it feels as if you’re all being crowded together and ushered onward toward the room jiaoqiu mentioned at the end. you can’t see it at all, but perhaps he knows the way? marcoh’s hand suddenly disappears into the wall itself, and soon you feel crawling, hundreds of little legs leaving your hand an itchy mess.
the room is straight ahead, and the darkness prevails. the breeze smells dirty, almost noxious, even though there’s nothing poisonous down here.
you are all driven by the urge to keep going. there’s a flat, stone wall ahead, an arched doorway right in the center. ]
He usually loves bugs too but he's not going to after this. He yanks his hand back out, unless you tell me he can't and he's just stuck there, in which case fucking rest in peace and goodbye. But otherwise he's going to set his jaw and move faster with bigger strides, even if it means overtaking the other three.
If Glendower is here, he needs to see him just once before he dies.
Is this door tsundere? What do we feel from it. I ask this but being first in line I know somebody is just going to be like opens it so, salutes. ]
[ Well, Siffrin will be here to help Marcoh in any way they can if he needs it, hopefully NOT getting eaten by a wall, hey bud it's gonna be okay.. Reaches to try and pat him but quickly decides against it to rub at their own arm again.
Just following close at his heels. The arched doorway is. Right. There. ]
but jiaoqiu, with very large and bright eyes, walks straight past marcoh and sif, lets go of yves, and opens the door. goodbye. he walks even further into the room and goes right for something the rest of you can't see, and puts his hands on it.
[ oh we all love doing controversial things and alarming our friends
is this another stone coffin you fuck did you win this time
jiaoqiu lets go of yves and yves is dazed enough to let him—but once he comes to, he'll start running after jiaoqiu in deep concern even though he's not fast or solid enough to stop him ]
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siffrin breaks the window so fucking hard because my door failed with a roll of three, but it means you can easily reach inside to unlock the door. yahtzee! jiaoqiu is good moral support, which is nice for yves who tries to cheat by phasing through and walks straight into the door thanks to my door of 11.
either way you are able to get inside!
the space is large. here are many hallways and places to explore, and you all seem to enter what looks like the middle of a series of halls. are you going to split up, or stay together? you can stay on this floor and look around, go upstairs, or go downstairs to the basement. what would you like to look at or do? ]
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Goodbye radio maybe you will be good for bonking something in a hot minute. Is there a yard to this house, can he kind of go and look there? ]
Try not to stray too far. If you have to, stay between Siffrin and me.
[ Because we have phones although maybe they'll stop working soon idk, that tends to happen when ghosties are involved. ]
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Check out these handy flashlights they have, so prepared. If it's between Marcoh and Siffrin for staying, don't mind if Siffrin takes the lead. Peers around.. ]
Do we want to cover this floor first before moving to another?
[ Sure, they could split up but, Siffrin feels uneasy even trying to suggest that. Just gonna peer down the.. most middle hall? Tries to image this area in my brain. How many rooms we see down this way. Is the interior actually a large mansion with so many rooms and bathrooms. Rich people man. ]
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i wanna go to the basement. what's down here. is it spooky scaries. ]
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but otherwise he'll watch the way that so many of you want to take the lead. marcoh and jiao and siff all scuttle about and yves is just hanging out. he has no major opinions so he'll just close his eyes and see if he can sense a pull in any specific direction? ]
... Blue did say that if he's buried, it should be underground. Should we try to go lower—huh?
[ ??????
trails after jiaoqiu just so he doesn't go alone? ]
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you remember what happened last time, don’t you?
siffrin is able to check out the house and wander down the middle hall. it’s a very large house, like a mansion, probably long and expansive. you can see things like a big ballroom, a fancy sitting room, a long-empty fire place, many spare rooms filled with dusty furniture, etc.
anyway, jiaoqiu and yves head down to the basement.
they are greeted with a large hole. it’s in the center, wet and wide-open, made of collapsed ramps of dirt and bits of furniture, the ground split open as if by sheer force. like maybe the whole thing caved in on itself, seeing how several artefacts are threatening to fall straight in. wet, wide-open maw of an opening, all collapsed ramps of dirt spread over concrete bones and bits of furniture, the ground splitting and part of a basement falling into the resulting pit.
haha, neat. it's funny that the two of you in particular have found this pit, seeing how it feels a little like you're rotting inside the longer you look at it. and yet... there is a tug that says perhaps this is what you're looking for. ]
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If there isn't anything in the yard that really speaks to him that he should be there then yeah, he's gonna just. Leave that aside for now. Bro. He turns around and sees Jiaoqiu and Yves are fucking gone again, but Siffrin is there. ]
For Christ's sake. Siffrin? Guys?
[ He swears to god. He doesn't have time, damn it. He needs you guys to find these ley lines. I rolled 2/3 so he's going to catch up with Siffrin. ]
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I think I heard Yves mention about maybe it being underground so they might have gone downstairs already.
Let's hurry, before something happens-!
[ We are not going to take our sweet exploration we are SPEEDRUNNING I GUESS. Quick, to the basement! ]
Jiaoqiu?? Vee?!
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the rotting feeling is familiar - jiaoqiu brings a hand up to his chest, on edge, and glances over at yves. that seems to be what we're looking for, but... if there's something else in this house that can help, he's willing to look for those things too. it's probably not smart to just jump feet first into a horrible rot hole. ]
Does it feel like that to you, too?
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... yeah. Like this is it.
[ he'll look back over his shoulder and call out— ] Marcoh! Siff! Over here!!
[ to try to cut their big explore a lil short? yves looks around—does it look like there's any footholds for a descent? a slope? can he kick a rock and then listen to see how long it takes to hear a clatter down the pit? ]
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anyway, assigns you as all now in the basement, because siffrin probably ran and marcoh followed, and jiaoqiu and yves are staring at this gaping, rotten maw of a hole. or perhaps, more accurately, a tunnel.
because you can both peer inside because you’re closest, and you can drop a rock and listen to it rough and tumble its way down to the bottom. the path down is steep, narrow enough that you would have to walk down single file, but it’s doable.
from where you currently stand, you can only see a long, endless tunnel.
but where else are you going to go? ]
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Stop running off. Please.
[ See, becomes polite. Anyway, let's go spelunking Part 2. ]
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You both okay?
[ Once reassured they're fine and it's just them and this tunnel until 1am, they do offer a nod. Time to move. Which is tight enough that single file seems necessary.. Siffrin ideally wants to take the lead, it's what they're used to. Ensuring they watch for traps, being first... when? Where?
A head shake. Anyway, they don't mind keeping the back if the others decide to push on first but yeah spelunking part 2 let's goooo. ]
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[ okay, rude. jiaoqiu takes a step forward, staring into the dark. ]
It's there. I can see it. [ looking over his shoulder at the other three with a clarity he doesn't normally have. almost like he can see really well down here... he'll keep holding yves's hand if he doesn't pull away. ]
... There's a room at the end of the tunnel.
[ and he seems a little fussy at not being able to go first, but he'll go in whatever order. ]
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[ but!
he will also go in whatever order, he really doesn’t feel strongly. doesn’t feel much of anything in the moment.
but he will still gently hold onto jiaoqiu’s hand like a lifeline ]
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eventually your tunnel flattens out and widens. there’s a little extra room to walk now, and you can spread out if you want. there’s a little breeze that blows through the tunnel, and as you pass it seems as though the walls themselves are shaking, trembling, twitching. the floor beneath your feet sometimes feeling like water and sometimes feeling like stone.
you will have to walk for some distance… ]
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He touches one of the walls softly. What is the wrong . . . ]
What is going on here?
[ He cannot sense magic he presumes... can either of you. Are we on a ley line. They can keep walking. ]
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They rub at their arm, looking to the walls as well and holding their breath for a moment. Mm. Their own hand will raise to drift along a wall too, brows furrowing as they focus a little on it until stepping quietly along. ]
It's... [ Their voice trails and they shiver a little, expression twisting to unease. ]
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he keeps walking, not caring about the distance. honestly, he'll take the lead, he's on a mission. but he'll run his fingers along the wall every so often, too. what can he see? can he sense any sort of magic? ]
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yves still keeps his hand in jiaoqiu's, but he finds his attention drifting. he sniffs the breeze. what does it smell like? ]
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you are suddenly hit with clarity: this place is not connected to cabeswater at all, despite being on a ley line.
the further you walk, it feels as if you’re all being crowded together and ushered onward toward the room jiaoqiu mentioned at the end. you can’t see it at all, but perhaps he knows the way? marcoh’s hand suddenly disappears into the wall itself, and soon you feel crawling, hundreds of little legs leaving your hand an itchy mess.
the room is straight ahead, and the darkness prevails. the breeze smells dirty, almost noxious, even though there’s nothing poisonous down here.
you are all driven by the urge to keep going. there’s a flat, stone wall ahead, an arched doorway right in the center. ]
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He usually loves bugs too but he's not going to after this. He yanks his hand back out, unless you tell me he can't and he's just stuck there, in which case fucking rest in peace and goodbye. But otherwise he's going to set his jaw and move faster with bigger strides, even if it means overtaking the other three.
If Glendower is here, he needs to see him just once before he dies.
Is this door tsundere? What do we feel from it. I ask this but being first in line I know somebody is just going to be like opens it so, salutes. ]
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Just following close at his heels. The arched doorway is. Right. There. ]
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but jiaoqiu, with very large and bright eyes, walks straight past marcoh and sif, lets go of yves, and opens the door. goodbye. he walks even further into the room and goes right for something the rest of you can't see, and puts his hands on it.
and pushes. ]
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is this another stone coffin you fuck did you win this time
jiaoqiu lets go of yves and yves is dazed enough to let him—but once he comes to, he'll start running after jiaoqiu in deep concern even though he's not fast or solid enough to stop him ]
Jiao?!
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