[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]

YES THE SKELETONS ARE POSEABLE

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[arranges the cat to be in a pouncing position over the bird, touching it, and the bird to be leaning over the worm, pecking it from the table. Making sure the worm is securely placed in the bird's beak so it doesn't get away. Then arranges the figures in a circle around the food chain \:D/ HOW DOES THAT LOOK.]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

KIND OF NEAT ACTUALLY.

There is a hard thump from the closet.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[goes to look in the closet ...]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

Still empty.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[... oh well.

Goes back to her arrangement. Makes sure again that all of them are connected, and then touches the worm with the token. HOPEFULLY IT WILL GET ALL OF THEM \:D/]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

The worm starts to grow! Into . . . something that is not a worm at all. It is a perfect skeleton of a snake, about three feet long, the bones strung together with copper wire. In the middle of the long ribcage is wired a copper needle.

It is still hanging from the bird's beak. This looks incredibly silly.

You are back in the central room with a copper key! Go go go.

Re: KK

[steampunked]

[PUTS THREE COPPER KEYS INTO THE BOWL KEYHOLES.]

Re: KK

[dramatispersonae]

The eggshells shatter apart, and the smoky thing collapses silently into the bowl, weaving and writhing. But it can't seem to get out...

You abruptly find yourself back in the Ring.