who stole your heart and the key?

[steelmyself]

In the dark, you taste something sweet and tart on your tongue, almost like apple but not quite: pomegranate juice, out of nowhere. A hint of something metallic accompanies it.

You fall down.

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THE CAVERNS

[steelmyself]

You leave the lovely field behind you, and soon the walls of the valley close around you, forming a winding cavernous passageway. Strangely, terrible winds whip through the tunnels, making it hard to continue.

The wind carries the faint sound of a young girl singing, but it's impossible to make out where the voice is coming from in these wind-blasted twisting passages. Every now and then, an agonized roar echoes from far away.

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[lonelydemon]

[BALLS

does his best to hold the sword steady as he does his best to follow the girl's voice, opting to go against the wind rather than with it.]

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[steelmyself]

There are a multitude of passages branching off from this main tunnel, and it's impossible to make out which one the sound comes from.

As you try to press forward regardless, something seems to lap at your feet.

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[lonelydemon]

[angles the sword and... looks... down....]

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[steelmyself]

It's a tarry black mess, oozing faintly around you. There does seem, at least, to be a faint, shallow pathway leading through it...

...but from the deeper ooze surrounding that path, pale things reach for you, arms and legs. Some are slender and some are muscular, but all are lovely and shapely.

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[unaffective]

[Geeze. Keeping her grip on the sword and digging her feet in while moving on, straining her ears for the girl's voice.]

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[steelmyself]

The song is a lullaby of some kind, for sure, but anything more is hard to make out with the winds whipping all around you.

There are a multitude of passages branching off from this main tunnel, and it's impossible to make out which one the sound comes from.

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[unaffective]

[That figures. Moving to dip into a passage to get some reprieve from the wind at least. She hopes, anyway.]

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[steelmyself]

The wind lessens a little, but there's something else here--

--a tarry black ooze lapping at your feet. Pale things shift in the ground, nearby.

[mentifact]

[ WWWWELP

stumbles back a few steps before twisting and dropping to the ground. reorients xemself to face forward and then army crawls... into the tunnel?? ]

[steelmyself]

There are a multitude of passages branching off from this main tunnel, and it's impossible to make out which one the sound comes from.

As you head for the tunnels, though, you can see a sticky black ooze clinging to the walls and floor in each of them.

[mentifact]

[ oh goddamnit

WHATEVER. GO LEFT. THROUGH THE SLUDGE LET'S DO IT ]

[steelmyself]

Fortunately, there seems to be a narrow path through the black ooze where it's fairly shallow, and the winds subside somewhat as you make your way along it.

Unfortunately...

To the sides of the path, where the sludge is deeper, things start to reach out of it at you. Arms and legs (and maybe a tentacle or two?), all of them shapely and beautiful, grasping at you.

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[hailstormed]

[ Wind... was never his strong point, of the two elements he commanded.

He tries his best to rebuff the winds with his own, but they're weak anyway, and he holds the sword to his chest as he keeps on. ]

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[steelmyself]

That allows him to move on, at least.

But as he moves forward, he can probably notice that seeping out of the walls and ground is a terrible black ooze.

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[hailstormed]

[ ... glances down at it. ew.

he'll do his best to ignore it, for now. ]

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[steelmyself]

There does seem to be a narrow pathway through the ooze where it's fairly shallow, but it grows deeper on either side of that. Also, as you progress forward...things start to emerge from the black sludge.

Limbs. Legs and arms. All of them grasp at you, and they're strangely shapely and attractive.

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[dicktionary]

[ gdi hunching down to make himself more compact because JFC t feels like he's going to get blown off his feet ]

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[steelmyself]

You're able to gain some stability, but where are you going to go? There are a multitude of passages branching off from this main tunnel, and it's impossible to make out which one the sound comes from.

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[dicktionary]

[ ...picks a random one ]

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[steelmyself]

As you move down the tunnel, a hideous black ooze begins to seep out of the walls and floor.

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[autorejoin]

[ Saber pauses at the singing, trying to make out the words, at least, even if he can't tell exactly where the voice is coming from. ]

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[steelmyself]

The song is a lullaby of some kind, for sure, but anything more is hard to make out with the winds whipping all around you.

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[autorejoin]

[ After a moment of listening, Saber shrugs and begins heading down the corridor. ]

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[steelmyself]

A black ooze begins to rise around your feet and drip from the wall. Up ahead, there are flashes of something ominously pale.