bravenewworld | Descent into Darkness

Descent into Darkness

As the characters arrive, they will find what appears to be a rather deep cavern. Upon entering, the caverns are quite narrow, with twists and turns everywhere and different tunnels that all seem to be interconnected. As characters travel deeper within the caverns, reality around them will start to warp, they will start to see and hear things that aren’t necessarily there - images of old enemies, past failures, voices of condemnation, visions that strike at the soul and core of the characters. Once this begins, it will only increase in power and volume, demanding it be confronted, lest they be trapped within these caves forever.

[OOC: This event will run for a week. All characters who enter the caves will be subject to some of their deepest fears, darkest demons, and most abject failures. To overcome them, characters must help each other out, finding their purpose through strength of character and resolve to move forward. In general, these visions should require characters to come to grips with themselves. Illusory images and voices can and will appear and can take any number of forms, depending on what is most appropriate to a character. Additionally, characters may thread with each other and are encouraged to help each other out to overcome these personal demons. For those who wish to take part, they are able and encouraged to narrate their own personal demons, which will be on display for everyone who enters their thread. IC threads may be made in this post.]

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With a look of utter betrayal, Rincewind plummets into the darkness. His hat briefly considered its options, then, it too, fell.

Rincewind descends. Tumbling head over heels, he uttered a guttural scream. He screams indistinct slanders at the teen high above him. He screams for his mummy. He screams because in that moment, his life flashed before his eyes, and it only lasted a second. He thought it ought to be longer.

Down, down, down he tumbled into the murky depths of the cave.

SPLASH. Baby's first spell. Coincidentally, Rincewind seems to have found water. From the pain rippling from the entire front side of his body, it was a legendary belly-flop. Fish, generations from now, would tell the story of The Big Splash.

Meanwhile, the Luggage gives a menacing squeeze. Yosuke had dropped its master. This does not please the Luggage.

"OWWWWOOWWWWWWWWWOWWW!!!!! It was just a joke!" Yosuke is preoccupied with yelling at The Luggage as it squeezes his ankle between its teeth. But in that same moment, he looks down, and realizes what he's done. He let go of Rincewind, and all that noise tells him that he might of just let the other man fall to his death. He doesn't blame him for the obscenities being screamed in his direction, his face one of horror.

Goodbye Rincewind, he barely knew ye.

That is, until he hears the splash. Yosuke can barely believe what he heard, does that mean Rincewind is still alive?

"Dude! You're alive down there, right? Answer me dammit, I don't think my heart can take it!"

Rincewind surfaced with a loud gasp. He couldn't see anything except the pinprick of light above him. He grit his teeth when he realized what he was being asked.

"You? ... YOU DROPPED ME!?" He hollered back, indignantly. He was ... a little hurt by that. He starts to murmur to himself while he paddles little circles around the pool, blindly feeling for a ledge to cling to. "I can't believe it. He dropped me. Of all the things you could've done ..."

The Luggage jumps in.

Something cannoned into the water. It landed near Rincewind. For the second time within a minute, he nearly dies. Death via drowning with sub-caption: This is my life. I should have known. sub-sub-caption: He dropped me.

Rincewind managed to avoid drowning, almost to his own disappointment.

Edited 2015-07-28 01:40 (UTC)

"Maybe I wouldn't of if your creepy ass chest- YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

His sentence is cut short by The Luggage taking Yosuke's life into its hands and jumping down, splashing into the water. He feels his body submerge, and panic takes hold once again. He tries to swim up but he can't, his ankle still in the death grip of the traveling terror with teeth. The surface of the water becomes a frenzy of hands and arms, creating a desperate scene of survival. Until he figures out he can twist his body and just climb up The Luggage, as much as he doesn't want his upper body near its mouth.

Up he comes, drenched, gasping for air.

"Your stupid box almost killed me!"

The Luggage lifts its lid enough to free Yosuke's ankle. If it could smile, perhaps it would. Yosuke may note that the Luggage floats magnificently well, on account of it being a wooden box. Rincewind floats over to Yosuke's voice and bumps against a straight edge. He clings to the chest and begins a steady, grating whine.

"It wasn't trying to kill you, it was only holding on. I can see how you'd make that kind of mistake. You still dropped me though. I could've died, you know. It could've been awful."

"Yeah, listen, I'm sorry about that." He says quickly. He's not sure how much he actually cares at this point. The Luggage could of eaten him, ripped his leg off, and a whole bunch of other things that were awful.

"But how the hell are we going to get out of here? I don't know if I can get enough wind going in here to lift us out."

Rincewind successfully pulls himself entirely onto the lid and pulls his knees in. He's just going to sit huddled here for a bit.

"How should I know? It's not like I jumped in or anything. S'far as I can tell, we're at the bottom of a hole in the middle of a cave, it's dark, and we're not gettin' out. I think, if you have any prayers, now's the time to say them." He's only half-joking.

Yosuke also, pulls himself up on the top of The Luggage, since it seems to be letting Rincewind do it. Surely it wouldn't try to eat its master trying to get at Yosuke, right? He's banking on that, because it feels safer up here anyway than being in front of the box's mouth.

"What do you mean we're not getting out?! We can't just die down here! I've got a whole life in front of me still!"

"You're telling me! Even though I'm a failure an' the unluckiest man in all of creation ... oh, and my life is worth less than half a farthing, it's still mine. I've grown rather fond of it." He holds back the waver in his voice and stares into the inky darkness with all the hot confidence of a deflated balloon.

"What do you think will get us first? Starvation?"

Was that light from above getting brighter? Nah, it had to be his imagination. His eyes were adjusting to the absence of light. Yeah, that's it.

Yosuke's hands slam down on the top of the chest they sat on, staring right back at the wizard with anger.

"No! We're not gunna die down here! Don't go spouting off how we're gunna starve! Besides, this is your fault!" He can't die here, he just can't. He's too young. He has a girl he still needs to court and eventually ask her out.

"We are GOING. TO GET OUT." He'll find a way, he has to. And after he can't, he'll give up and complain too. He doesn't realize the light is getting brighter and brighter, too furious with Rincewind for getting them into this situation.

"My fault?! I was just running and there you were. Remember what I did? I ran past you. It's not my fault you followed me." He takes handfuls of his robe and wrings out the water. "Blame me, if it makes you feel better. Anyway, not like it matters."

Brighter and brighter. The light steadily intensifies. Rincewind stares at the adjacent wall and blinks.

"I think the walls are moving. You think cave walls do that naturally or is it only the labyrinthine kind?"

"You're damn right I'm going to blame you, I wasn't going to let you just run off and- huh?" He looks at the wall, that he can surprisingly see. They've moving. Or the wall is moving. Something is moving, and he's not sure what. Why is it lighter in here? Yosuke looks up, then down again, then back up.

"Woahwoahwoahwoahhhhh!!!!!!" He's noticed that they're levitating now, and he almost loses his balancing in a little teetering fit before grabbing a hold of The Luggage better.

"Your stupid box can fly?!"

In a tone of dreariness that could put Eeyore to shame, "Look's like that, doesn't it? Learn something new everyday." Rincewind pats the lid. "Good Luggage. Remind me to find you a wardrobe for sleeping on. I think you've earned it."

It takes a solid minute for the implication of heights to settle in like a ton of bricks. Going pale as a ghost, Rincewind stiffens and tries to crawl further ON the Luggage. He decides that looking up at the ceiling was a better, safer experience...

"Don't look now, but I think we're about to become closely acquainted with one of them stalac-thingies."

His head follows as he looks up. Closer and closer they floated, the ends of the sharp stalactites growing near. He lets out a cry, slamming his hand down on the top of The Luggage multiple times.

"Hey! You're not going to kill us! Don't you dare impale us with those things! Are you listening to me?! Just get us to the edge of the hole, and no farther than that!"

The eyes of the Luggage roll up to fixate on Yosuke as if it were actually considering something, well, devious. To Rincewind's relief, the Luggage slows its ascent right at the lip of the cliff, or whatever it could've been called, and settles into a hover.

It then jostles, just enough to terrify its passengers. No one (except maybe its master) hits it without consequences.

"Aauugh! What'd you have to hit it for? I could've rolled off!" Rincewind yelps, clinging for dear, sweet life.

Yosuke returns the devious look with a look of anger. He's been through a lot today and he's not going to let some luggage make it more awful than it's already been. The jostle is enough to get him to freak out, grabbing a hold for dear life as well as he screams.

"Yaaaaaaah! What the hell are you thinking, you homicidal horror! Are you seriously trying to kill both of us?!" He stays on top of The Luggage, and doesn't move. He almost doesn't breathe after he's yelled at it.

The Luggage waits. Rincewind, deciding all was well and safe, crawled over and made the small leap back on solid ground. He scrambled further on in case what tenuous ledge decided it wouldn't be a ledge anymore and just slide in. He turns back to Yosuke.

"I think it's time we leave. At least, I'm going to leave, if I can find my way out. I'm about done with caves. Don't know about you."

Yosuke leaps off The Luggage before it can get any ideas that involve causing him bodily harm or killing him. He makes sure to put some distance between himself and it, as he answers Rincewind.

"Yeah, I'm not done in here. There's something in here we gotta find. Though this place seriously gives me the creeps..."

And he feels a little claustrophobic too, being used to the open plains around Citadel. Possibly one of the worst places for him to be. Plus, he does not care what happens to the dumb box either. If Rincewind leaves, then hopefully The Luggage goes with him. One less stress factor.

"It can find itself, for all I care." He says, as resolute as a stone. A very small stone that's seen a number of tides, but a stone nonetheless.

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