[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: KK

[dramatispersonae]

It steps just out of reach, but it looks...interested.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[. . . just holds her palm out flat toward the fox, then, keeping it still.

gosh it's too bad MITHOS, DISNEY PRINCESS isn't here right now.]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

. . . it drops the lump of meat in your hand and bolts into the woods.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[. . . oh!]

Bye, then! [examining the meat! THEN I GUESS I WILL GO LOOK AROUND FOR THE SNAKE'S TEETH.]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

It's a heavy lump of meat the size of a man's fist.

Where are you looking?

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[mostly around the pedestals, a bit into the trees if there's no joy there.]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

You find four long copper fangs scattered in the grass behind the pedestals.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[picking up the fangs ... and tucking them into her bra for a minute. CURSE YOU, LACK OF POCKETS.

is there any sign of the broken statues around here, too? if so, could they be put back in place?]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

You see no sign of the broken statues.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[goes to put the teeth back in the snake's mouth, then.]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

They fit back into place. Now it looks a lot more dignified.

There's a faint click somewhere under your feet, but that's all that happens.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[hmmm, the click. pushes at the statue, not hard enough to potentially topple it, but rather to see if the pedestal might move to reveal something below.]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

It's too heavy to move.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[Hmmmmm.

Places the piece of meat in the snake's open mouth.]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

The stone jaws start to close veeery slowlyyyy.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[Waiting until they close around the meat! When they're closed, she'll touch the snake with a token.]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

When they close on the meat there is a really weird noise. Squishhhh...crackkkksmasshhhh.

Colour flushes up the statue's coils: bands of red and gold. It's clearly coming to life...! It starts to hiss and writhe, the huge head turning in your direction.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[... waves!]

Hi.

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

It slithers off the pedestal towards you.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[Well, I'm completely unarmed and my powers are off, so I guess I will just not make any sudden moves \:D/]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

IT'S GOING FOR A HEADBUTT YOU MAY WANT TO DODGE.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[YES OKAY I'LL GET OUT OF THE WAY.]

Oi! I fed you. Where's the gratitude?!

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

You may notice dark blood dripping from its mouth.

--you find yourself back in the central room. There is a copper key in your hand.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[oh well! key > bra, heads for the leafy tree door.]

Re: KK

[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.