holyspirits | W5 PLAYER CYOA - Daigo, Eupha, Saber, Wisadel

[ Kiryu doesn't hesitate, he starts down the ladder right after Eupha.

They arrive to a dank and dark underground tunnel. It's not like, the cavernous type, it's like the built bunker type. There's shelves with stuff, and there's a door with an electronic lock on it that Kiryu goes to look at again.

Daigo on the other hand, can shoot these dogs! Maybe it's because they literally don't have heads, but they eat shit pretty fucking fast. They roll terribly and Basilio also doesn't do great -- he gets clawed a bit by one but it's not too bad. Maybe it's because they dropped too fast due to the power of GUN. ]

Shite. Maybe I should get into one of those.

[ You can join the other two. ]

[ eupha stops to listen to the sounds above them... gunshots, and then it gets quieter. hopefully, that means triceracops succeeded.

she'll take a look at what's on the shelves...? but the electronic lock is what gets her attention. to kiryu, ]

Shall I give this a try?

[ can she attempt to hack that lock...? ]

[ i'm sure there would be a cool one liner if kung fury were here. alas. it's just triceracops. ]

Hopefully you won't have to deal with these things again.

[ alrighty down the ladder! he does the cool ladder slide thing to reach the others! yaaay ]

[ Yeah, it's very much like... warehouse stuff. Duct tape, sawblade. A broomstick... ]

Can you do that?

[ She can, in fact, do that! She can just straight up Hack This Matrix. It's not even hard. What were they struggling so bad for... The heavy door leads way into more tunnels. It's quite dark in there...

Daigo joins the squad, extremely cool-ly. Basilio does it the normal way unless Metaphor also can do cool slides. ]

You got it open? Great, new path then!

[ i feel like basilio could do a cool slide if he wanted to.

she smiles as the other two come down to join them. ]

You may leave such things to me.

[ no bandages or cloth in here? eupha's still holding her arm and trying not to bleed out but ok ]

[ please let eupha's blood congeal at some point. ]

Good work.

[ he doesn't even know what happened (no it's fine he caught the tail end).

is it just... generic amount of tunnels or do we have a left/right/middle decision to make? ]

[ You cannot find cloth here. That being said, Basilio looks at Eupha bleeding. ]

Oh? You're hurt? What got you, one of those crazy people in the town?
Me name's Basilio, by the way. Didn't see you come off the train earlier.

[ He will helpfully hand Eupha one (1) cloth fragment, and one (1) blue vial! It's a vial of blue liquid. It's the same colour as the herbs. Maybe it will heal you even more than chewing grass can.

Kiryu just solemnly is here because I'm trying to type stuff between other stuff and I'm too lazy to go find another Kiryu icon (thanks Ari for your service).

This is what you see, but mostly what's important is the elevator up north! It seems eerily quiet here... the elevator is not working, even though Kiryu is repeatedly interacting with the button. ]

Yes... a woman who was acting very strangely. There are more people like that?

[ she thanks him and uses the cloth to tightly wrap her wounded arm. the vial is kept for later, just in case. it seems they may yet encounter more danger...

she'll follow the others when they get moving. can she see what's wrong with the elevator? ]

We didn't arrive by train. Our journey is a bit more convoluted than that. We're trying to find our way to another dimension.

[ might as well say it.

sadly i don't think shooting the elevator is going to help anything. ]

Every person we've seen so far has been like that. Except for the other people on the train, and now you guys.

A whole 'nother dimension? What's that about now?

[ Eupha can try to hack... but to no avail, because she sees it is literally because the elevator has no power. There's a funnel for gasoline though! Just gotta find a tank in here. ]

It is difficult to explain... but we must go to Hell. It is the only way to save our city.

[ examining the elevator with her special eyes... ]

It looks like we must find fuel to power this.

[ nodding to back hackerwoman up. yes, they must go to hell. ]

If it's safe down here, we can try splitting up. That should be the most efficient way to check around.

[ there's that like... locker? area? to the east. he's going to head that way. he is not actually going to stop eupha from following or staying. she is a free woman she can do as she pleases. "what about the other two" they can also do as they please. ]

What's happening to your city?

What powers a lift like this? Same stuff they pile in 'em cars and trains?

[ Would Daigo just like to start opening lockers. How many lockers would he like to open. ]

We are menaced by party demons and alien anomalies. The source appears to be an entity known as Satan. We are resolved to stop him by any means necessary.

[ but to the matter at hand... ]

Yes, something much like that should work.

[ while daigo's checking one locker room, eupha will go look in the one just opposite it. they should be close enough to hear if anything happens in the other room... ]

[ he's gonna open every single locker until you tell me one of these is a mimic and eats him. ]

.........
Okay.

Well, sounds like a right pain in the arse if you ask me. The sooner we all get out of this city the better, yeah?
You're helping us out a bit, so it's only fair we help you get back to... Hell.

[ Daigo finds... a Lucky Coin!!! It's got a nice heft to it. You get the sense that in a sticky situation, you might be able to use this to better your odds... (You can roll or flip twice when the situation needs to be in your favour.)

Eupha doesn't find anything in the room opposite but she does find a few empty canisters of gasoline. Where there's empty canisters... there's hopefully a full one somewhere? Well no. She opens a locker and finds a bear trap. Be careful with that thing.

Kiryu and Basilio are just also looking around, though as you mingle around, you might hear a distant thud, thud. ]

Edited 2025-03-19 04:04 (UTC)

Truly? You will help us?

[ they get a warm smile.

she is unsure of what to do with this bear trap...... but she will keep looking around, lifting canisters and shaking them a little to see if there is anything left in them. although she pauses a moment. ]

... What is that sound?

[ oh boy! daigo will take the lucky coin and cross the way to rejoin eupha - specifically because he hears that noise. ]

I'm not sure.

[ is it a dull thud or a mechanical thud or???? not that it matters. daigo still does not know wtf it is. ]

Did you find anything?

It sounds like it's coming from up there.

[ Glancing at the top hallway part between the two locker rooms... you do indeed hear the thudding coming from there, though whether you want to approach it is another question. It is a series of dull thuddings, like heavy footsteps. And some low snarls. Bas is there with his ear flicking, standing a little closer to Eupha.

For the record, Basilio has got like, this weird machete-looking weapon (it's a kassara), while Kiryu appears to have nothing. ]

We cannot proceed without the fuel...

[ she says quietly, and keeps looking. ]

[ ................he is also going to keep looking.

there is that nook south of the lockers, is there anything there? anything sitting on under or around that... table? desk? thing? ]

[ If you mean the nook that turns rightward, you find a desk, and a generator! It does seem like this thing would reasonably be what you need to fill with fuel to power up the elevator...

You can keep looking, but avoiding the corridor up north, you pretty much find more strange junk, lots of heavy sealed drums that seem unopenable, buckets full of strange red liquid...... (it's paint, actually, for once). ]

[ if their eyes meet, eupha will shake her head to signal that no, she has not found any fuel yet either.

shall they move west through the south hallway, then? eupha's carrying this bear trap, i guess... ]

[ i guess we must face the mysterious hallway thudding.

he will rejoin eupha once again but like, for real this time. ]

[ The south hallway has two doors that could also be locked. Maybe useful for buying some time if you need to do something silly, like loop a terrible enemy around...

Honestly I debated making you guys face the terrible clown in here too but there can only be so much shit in one place. Would you like to brave the clearly ominous area of the north hallway, which you are 99% sure will result in a jumpscare, but you may begrudgingly have to, and you meta-ly know it is a part of the horror game genre and it's just a whole thing, but you can acknowledge it sucks anyway... ]

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