Rolo's Heart

[dramatispersonae]

Tick, tick, tick, tick.

You fall through space breathlessly, airlessly, your heart skipping a beat. When you land, everything is black for a moment before you rise and see who is with you and where you are...


((Please join us in #coldclock))

[OOC Note: Temperature | The Clock Shop | A New Arrival | The Clock Tower | The Basement | The Left Wing | The Right Wing | Return to Clock Shop | Outdoors | Post-Scoring Poking-Around Threadin']

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OUTDOORS

[dramatispersonae]

You exit through the main door. Immediately, an ice cold wind wraps around you, robbing you of your body heat. The wind is roaring. Fortunately, there is little snow falling, because with what little there is, and with the wind catching up snow from the ground and blowing it around, visibility is already poor. Behind you, the clock tower starts chiming as if to call out the hour. The sound echoes forlornly.

There is no visible path, but to the left and right sheer mountain faces rise. Unless you feel like going mountain-climbing in poor visibility, the only ways to go are back to the clock shop or forward into the wind.

The temperature here is icy. One way or another you should probably get moving before you freeze to death...

How do you hope to proceed?

((OOC: An icy temperature has a strongly numbing effect on your emotions. It mutes your emotional level by a whole 50-70% (In other words, it's only 30-50% normal now)).

Re: OUTDOORS

[failtactical]

T-Too cold . . .

[BUT FORWARD IT IS, arms tightly wrapped around herself]

Re: OUTDOORS

[nervwracking]

[here let me be a gentleman for once, this is my jacket on your shoulders okay]

Let's hurry.

Re: OUTDOORS

[performing]

[....................... huff well. SOLDIER ON LET'S MUDDLING THROUGH]

Re: OUTDOORS

[skywards]

F-Fuck it's cold.

[HEADS ON OUT, STRAIGHT]

Re: OUTDOORS

[odetojoy]

[going forward, and if I can float I'll do that and try to keep the cold out with my a.t. field, if not it doesn't matter since he's completely ignoring anything else \:D/

IT'S LIKE HAVING NO EMOTIONS]

Re: OUTDOORS

[featherfetch]

...

[this feelinnngggg just walks forward in any direction /o/]

Re: OUTDOORS

[anopenbook]

[...I think at sets me at like 10%

going forward wordlessly]

Re: OUTDOORS

[sightunseen]

[huh.]

FORWARD

[dramatispersonae]

You continue on. It is icy cold and blowing, but assuming you don't turn back, you eventually find a crevasse.

You nearly fall into the crevasse by the time you see it, disguised by the rolling snow. It is a huge jagged gap in the landscape, long but fairly thin (around five feet wide at its narrowest point). When you look into it, it seems to go a long, long way down. On the other side of the crevasse, a tall wall of rock and snow greets you, blocking any further progress forward; it appears you've found where the mountains on either side meet.

The crevasse is nearly a sheer descent, but there appear to be some jagged outcroppings. It is probably possible to climb down but it is extremely treacherous and a single misstep will certainly be fatal. Moreover, unless you can fly or have actual mountaineering skills, to some extent traversing it may be a matter of luck, as it is not easy to pick out what paths may be safe immediately, let alone what paths may become untraversable beyond where you can see. For anyone who CAN fly, the winds are blowing strongly enough it would be very risky to try to carry anyone down with your numb hands. For climbers, you could avoid the risk of sliding against the icy spikes of the rough walls by just throwing yourself in, but given that you can't see the bottom... well, it's up to you.

Do you attempt to enter the crevasse, risking your life at the whims of chance, or retreat for the safety of the clock tower? You can still hear the bells in the distance, helping you find your way back if you choose to go that way.

Re: FORWARD

[performing]

[this doesn't frighten me nearly as much as climbing Three's gates 8|a I'LL GO SLOW AND CLIMB DOWN, I am a cool guy who doesn't afraid of anything even with proper emotions]

Re: FORWARD

[odetojoy]

[y!

no feelings plus ability to float and find a way is totally the way to go]

Re: FORWARD

[skywards]

[oh no the shounen is kicking in

LET'S CLIMBING DOWN]

Re: FORWARD

[featherfetch]

[Crevasse it is :)]

Re: FORWARD

[failtactical]

[NOPE, KEEPS ON TRUCKING]

Re: FORWARD

[nervwracking]

[numbed feelings = fear is down => doing this climbing down thing]

Re: FORWARD

[anopenbook]

[I make good decisions with girls clinging to my back

I'm from DGM

It'll be fine]

Re: FORWARD

[sightunseen]

[NOT... PROTESTING RABI'S DECISION...]

THE BOTTOM OF THE CREVASSE

[dramatispersonae]

When you reach the bottom, you find an underground cave. It's completely sheltered, though still cold enough for everything here to be frozen. It may have once been an underground lake; there is a frozen waterfall arched through the air and forming a bridge of ice; it came from a small hole in the mountain face at the back of the frozen lake. You can see something in the ice in the middle of the frozen pool.

((OOC: Cold is still muting your emotions, but they're less numb. Around 30-50% muted (thus, they're still 50-70% normal).))

Re: THE BOTTOM OF THE CREVASSE

[performing]

[well I'm feeling a bit normal yeah :|a since the pool is frozen LET'S HEAD OUT TO THAT THING IN THE ICE!]

Re: THE BOTTOM OF THE CREVASSE

[anopenbook]

[lets go check it out man

MOVING RIGHT ALONG]

Re: THE BOTTOM OF THE CREVASSE

[sightunseen]

[still clinging onto Rabi hard because oh wow we just fell off a cliff there.]

Re: THE BOTTOM OF THE CREVASSE

[odetojoy]

[going to the middle of the frozen pool without a second thought]

Re: THE BOTTOM OF THE CREVASSE

[skywards]

[WHAT EVERYONE ELSE SAID]

Re: THE BOTTOM OF THE CREVASSE

[failtactical]

[DITTO EVERYONE 8D;;]