[FIREBIRD EXPLORE - 9 PM]

[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: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

It backs up as you approach.

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*stops, crouches down, and holds out one of his tokens on his palm, offering it*

Re: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

It pauses and pricks its ears up with interest.

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*keeps very still*

Go on. You can take it.

Re: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

. . . it's not coming closer . . .

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*:|a...

...tosses it to the fox.*

Re: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

You clonk it on the head.

The fox immediately crumbles into a pile of white ash, leaving the lump of meat behind.

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*....not as planned...

will go over and search the ash and/or meat for a key*

Re: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

Before you can do that, you find yourself back in the central room.

You do have a brass key in your hand.

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*welp.

to the fruity door, then.*

Re: Josh

[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: Josh

[orange_sun]

*glancing into each of the mirrors, curious*

Re: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

Most of the mirrors appear to be ordinary mirrors! They reflect you into infinity even if you're a vampire (and you could swear that one of your reflections, just out of the range of your vision, is waving at you.)

Two of them--the third from the door on your left side, and the fifth from the door on your right--display a shadow figure of you, dark and indistinct at the edges, rather than a true reflection.

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*iiiinteresting.

looking up at those stylized suns. could he reach the ceiling if he tried?*

Re: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

It's too high up.

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*too bad.

going to look more closely at those shadowy mirrors. any differences between them?*

Re: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

No, they seem identical ...

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*goes to examine the wall at the other end of the corridor, then, out of a sense of thoroughness*

Re: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

It's plain, blank and solid.

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*well, okay.

shrugs, then goes and touches his last token to the fifth-from-right mirror.*

Re: Josh

[dramatispersonae]

Your shadow reflection seems to come apart--it becomes the shadows of many small birds, fluttering away.

Back in central room, +1 brass key.

Re: Josh

[orange_sun]

*I guess it's time to use those keys on the keyholes, then.*

Re: Josh

[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.