[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.

Comments

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[hmm. leaves it alone for now. goes and checks under the bed]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

Nothing there.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[what do the statues on the table look like by the way?

either way, he's going to the cat—how big is the heart, anyway?]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

The statues are abstract human figures with upraised arms. They are six inches high and shiny.

I...I don't know how big a cat's heart is, but it's that size.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[okay, then no. experiments by pulling the songbird out from the center of the copper figures and putting the cat in instead]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

Nothing happens.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[places bird ... on cat ...]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

That doesn't do anything either . . . though they're fully poseable, that's kind of neat . . .

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[takes both out, takes the worm and puts it between the ... wire ... beak of the bird, and sets it back into the center.

... ANYTHING ...]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

There is a hard thump from the closet.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[OPENS THE CLOSET ...]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

STILL EMPTY.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[... puts a token on the bird]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

It shatters into pieces, every bone coming apart. The wire has melted. Drops of molten copper fall--some on your hands, burning hot.

You find yourself back in the central room. In your hand is a brass key.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[winces, ow, fuck. goes through the final door quickly]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

You're in a hallway lined with floor-length mirrors, five on each side. The door you came through is inset into a wooden wall behind you; another wooden wall blocks off the opposite end of the corridor. The high ceiling is copper, with stylized suns and birds carved upon it. The floor is opaque black rock. It’s rather chilly.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[heads down the corridor, then]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

Most of the mirrors seem ordinary. They reflect you to infinity. (Although you could swear, just out of your range of vision, one of your reflections is waving--)

The third one down on the left and the fifth one down on the right are different. They display a shadow figure of you, dark and indistinct at the edges, rather than a true reflection.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[this makes him hesitate, but he goes to the wooden wall and pushes on it]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

It's just a wall!

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[goes back to his shadows and tries to break those mirrors]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

One of them shatters. Behind that one you find a blank flat sheet of copper, the size of a playing card, with sharp edges. However, you can't smash the other shadow mirror no matter how hard you try.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[what happens when he tries to mash it ...

he grabbed the flat sheet of copper, btw]

Re: Riku

[dramatispersonae]

You can't damage the copper sheet.

Re: Riku

[inherited]

[tries to use the copper sheet on the mirror ...]