chasma | WEEK ONE MINGLE

krankaz: week 1 mingle

Depths of the Leviathan

38 Remain

Waking up this morning will reveal some unfamiliar surroundings. The familiar sights and sounds of Cittàgazze are long gone, replaced by something much more ancient, yet still radiant. The sound of children playing in the streets and scampering about have been replaced by the echoes from deep. Try not to hold your breath for too long when you finally take the first steps outside to soak in all of new sights. Ideally, "soak" being used as a metaphor instead of literally as well, and it can stay that way just as long as the "Bubble" is respected. What? A "Bubble?"

You all awaken in your beds—although they aren't the beds that you found yourself falling asleep in previously, and you might not even see the same face as you had the previous night. But one by one, as you filter out, you find yourselves in what had once been a grand and imperious castle. The halls stand massive, arching and textured in reliefs and carvings of beautiful faces and creatures. Old paintings adorn the walls, or have even been knocked down to prop against them, rotten from moisture and dust and neglect. Great landscape scenes, the tales of battlefields, and royal portraits of strangers vary where you can make them out.

As the journey through these halls continues, everyone comes to the same conclusion: this place is twice as empty as the city of magpies was. It would probably be dimly lit, were it not for a faint blue glow from outside (from the Bubble over everything, you'll come to realize) and the fact there's bioluminescent corral, plants, and even small creatures everywhere, washing everything in salmon, pinks, purples, oranges, reds. Light posts and fixtures are adorned with once-white crystals that illuminated things, now covered in these same warm hues to replace their glow.

Coming down to the join of the two castle wings and into the throne room, you'll meet some familiar faces. Or unfamiliar? We don't know your lives. They seem to be anticipating your eventual arrival.

Each of the three hooded figures have a distinctly colored cloak with one being dark like the night, the second in a cloak of bright and soft dawn, and the last in robes of stormy sunset. Once again, two appear to stand at the same height, but this time the third is of a shorter stature. It's that shorter one, in the dawn-colored cloak, that speaks first.

They clap their hands once, twice, three times - and then their voice, strong but chipper, is loud and clear. "Hello, everyone! Apologies for the surprise, we, ah, weren't exactly expecting this to happen until it did? My name is Satariel, and we're the Temporal Watchers. The Celestials are still here with us, but it's our turn to speak with all of you like this. If we haven't met before, it's nice to meet you now! If we've met before, it's good to see you again. Please let us know if there's anything we can do to help you, as we all figure things out, as we know that things are already fairly stressful as is right now."

They fold their hands together in front of themself, bowing politely, and pass it onto the next in line who stands taller than Satariel and dressed in a long dark cloak like the night. "Satariel is so great! It makes me wonder why we're even here." They'll say with a laugh before properly addressing everyone else after raising their left hand up to the side of their face in the shape of a paw.

"It's as they say—we're the Temporal Watchers and I'm Rameel, so hello, hello! I hope everyone enjoyed my gift last week. Unfortunately, I don't have anything for you this week but if you talk to me later maybe I can arrange something. We are but your humble servants."

To conclude their turn speaking, they'll give a deep, flourishing bow and step aside for the one in a cloak reminiscent of a stormy day. "Yomiel." They wave a hand at the other two. "They covered most of it already, so just let one of us know if you have any questions. We'll answer messages, too, if you need us."

With the new week, travelers will find that their daemons have stopped hiccuping and shifting without warning. Instead, they will find that they and their daemon have limited control over one of four elements - earth, fire, water, or air. Some examples would be shifting sand, warming a cup of tea with your hands, sweating more than normal (if you aren't like Bertolt), or always looking like you're in a hair commercial. This effect lasts all week.

And, if you're worried about your things, just check your rooms. They'll be stored away safe and sound.

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Give me that--

[ let him steal the map maybe he can make something out of it-- ]

... This is useless?

[ Rameel is this your fault too. ]

[ hey, roxis. don't mind as kotetsu peers over your shoulder to see whats' on the map. ]

It sounds like someone wants us to dance for our treasure. I've got experience with this!

[ and before anyone even asks for a demonstration, he's right at it. sfx and all.

oh, and there might be some remnants of green faded... writing(??) on his arm. don't worry about it. ]

Edited 2021-10-06 17:24 (UTC)

[Just. Watching Kotetsu dance like a loser.]

I think that's gonna get the treasure locked up even more. And that's not even the right dance!

My eyes hurt... Can we just go back?

[ day officially Ruined, she's closing her eyes and blindly picking a direction to walk in so she doesn't have to watch this ]

And give up on the supposed treasure entirely?

[ ... ]

I don't suppose the directions might possibly be coded?

[ because that kind of thing would be the nonsense that flay would pull, but no, they're still just. dance moves. ]

Maybe we should all try to follow them and see where it takes us. After that we could go back to the start and try over.

Don't look at me for decoding things. Just point the way and I'll go.

[He DOES have a sword. He can chop down enemies!]

[ lol i really wasn't kidding when i said Ulrika had just picked a direction and gone. she's already gone, down That path. ]

Hurry up, you slackers!

All right, I'm going, I'm going! Let Mr. Kaburagi do the dance if we think it might help with finding the treasure somehow.

[ well

since he has the map he'll just try to maybe??? give an attempt at following its directions? maybe if he just skips all the non-directional instructions (who is charlie brown???) it'll lead him somewhere?

wait what happens to this minievent if everyone just wanders off in different directions ]

[ it's fine. maybe. don't worry about it. ]

Let's catch up first!

[ he's jogging on ahead, holding onto his hat so he doesn't lose it along the way ]

[Well. If those three are going in different direction, Rin will go in a fourth different direction. Split up to find the exit, or something like that.

...they're all going to circle around and meet up again aren't they?]

[ that or they'll continuously backtrack and just barely miss each other around the corner.

good thing Ulrika's hair is long! maybe you'll catch a glimpse of the tips of it as she goes Thataway ]

Where the heck is everyone?!

[ i don't even know where they are but they better all get lost or what's the point. please imagine roxis doing this for the rest of this thread.

roxis' hair is also long! and blonde. you will also probably catch glimpses of it disappearing around a corner because he sure went Thisaway, to the right, to the left, double back, a right turn, left, left again, right, how the hell do you do a criss cross... ]

[ well, someone here didn't remember what all the dance moves were, so he's going to just cha cha right down a path away from the others. yeah, he's also lost as all hell from the group. then, yelling out: ]

AT LEAST WE'RE COVERING MORE GROUND!

[This fucking sucks, he isn't finding any treasure.

So.

Time to climb the nearest building and get a better view of the area. And once he's up there, he's going to sing the song of his people:]

OIIIIII! WHERE DID YOU GUYS GO?

Stop yelling, I'm...! Right...! Here...!

[ here seems to be approximately 3 streets north-north-east. but is it 3 streets? it could be more or less.

judging by the breaks between her words, she's probably jumping up and down to help indicate her spot. too bad she's short ]

[ meanwhile, from somewhere vaguely west-south-west, and not sounding too far away at first: ]

I thought we were splitting up to cover more ground...?

[ there seems to be silence from their fourth party member, but that's okay, right? ]

[It's fine, Kotetsu can't have gone far.

Rin is going to cup a hand around his mouth to yell louder.]

I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING UP HERE! WHAT'S THE TREASURE LOOK LIKE?

Something cool, duh!

[ huh, that's weird, Ulrika's voice seems to be coming from the east now? and much closer to Rin's position. ]

We'll let you know when we find it!

[ yeah he's directly south now after who knows how many repetitions of rights, lefts, and criss crosses, hey where's kotetsu he's been quiet ]

[ he's... listening, probably! but do go on, kids. he'll be quiet for another round. ]

No you're going the wrong way, go back!

[Who is he shouting to? It's hard to say.]

I'm not going the wrong way, you're wroooah!

[ there's a distant, dull sound of something getting smacked. sounds like Ulrika turned the right(?) corner and ran into someone. a tiger maybe. she doesn't appreciate being snuck up on by sneaking tigers. ]

Who are you even talking to--oof!

[ did he run into someone? did he walk into a wall because he was squinting too hard at the directions? who knows. ]

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