[FIREBIRD EXPLORE - 9 AM]

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself in a small triangular room with high, high walls. All three walls are made of glass. Through one, all you see is white light moving in strange angular patterns. Through the second, the same white light forms great starbursts. Through the third, the light coils and wheels.

It's quite bright. The floor is made of ruddy beaten copper. The ceiling is a vast mirror. In the middle of the floor is a great copper bowl filled with something white and wavering, like smoke.

You find three copper tokens in your hand. They are flat, shaped like apples. Engraved on each is the word OPEN.

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Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[...presses a hand to the starbursts' leafy tree]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

The glass is warm under your hands. You can push the door open easily.

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[pushes the door open! to see what is ahead...]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

You’re in a small, low-ceilinged one-room house, somewhat like a team cabin but built of a dark shiny stone. There are plants growing all over the walls and floor and ceiling—ivy twined with some sort of black vine. Try not to trip. It’s also scorching hot; there are no windows, and the only door is the one you came through.

There is a bed, a cabinet big enough to hold a man, a wooden desk with a single drawer, and a table in the middle of the room with thirteen copper figurines arranged in a circle upon it. There's something else in the middle of the circle.

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[...steps inside. the heat isn't that much of a problem I'M A FIRE-PERSON, man]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

GOOD FOR YOU. What do you do in here?

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[checking out the thirteen copper figurines]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

They look like this. Each is about six inches high, and they are very shiny.

In the middle of the circle they form is the skeleton of a small songbird, the bones hung together with copper wire. A perfect copper feather is wired within its ribcage.

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[frowns, sliding a finger over the tokens he holds.

PUTTING THESE THINGS ASIDE FOR NOW, not touching them, going to examine the ivy/vines]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

They're ivy and vines! They seem normal enough.

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[brushing some aside...?]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

They come free of the wall but then start twining around your arms. Oh no!

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[trying to pull free, stepping back quickly]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

They're very strong.

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[can I tear free??]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

With a lot of effort, yes, you can.

The plants go inert as soon as they're snapped from the wall.

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[shaking them off his arm alskjk...

okay, fine, opening that drawer in the desk]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

You find . . . the skeleton of a cat in the drawer. It's bleached white, the bones hung together with copper wire. An anatomically-correct copper heart is wired within its ribcage.

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[...takes it out and puts it onto the desk .-.a]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

. . . it's posable!

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[IT'S OKAY it can stay in its original pose.

what's in the man-sized cabinet? kind of expecting a man's skeleton...]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

Inside it is empty, but for a single red apple.

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[picks up the apple, turning it in his hands]

Re: Kurei

[dramatispersonae]

You spot a wormhole near the top of it when you pick it up. Eating it might not be a great idea.

Re: Kurei

[pyrocatharsis]

[bringing it up to his eye...if I peer into the wormhole do I see anything special?]