[kit's quest]

[dramatispersonae]

[you are suddenly at the bottom of a pile of heavy, square-cornered objects. it is rather hard to breathe and they're jabbing you in uncomfortable places. you may want to move.]

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[dramatispersonae]

[CAGES EVERYWHERE

you might be able to hop on top of some of the higher ones from up here and monkey around! just make sure you pick one that looks like it's securely fastened to something]

[blackjacked]

[BUT FIREBIRD I THOUGHT YOU HATED CAGES :(a

. . . actually yeah let's monkey around a bit. standing up straight and choosing a sturdy looking cage, before leaping off of the platform right toward it]

[dramatispersonae]

[you land on it with a rattle

there's something inside this one...]

[blackjacked]

[takes a hold of the cage bars firmly and climbs down the side to reach the door. let's scramble inside and see what that something is]

[dramatispersonae]

[it's a glass assembly of tiny gears and cogs that fits into the palm of your hand. looks like it's a component of something bigger]

[blackjacked]

[pulls another Coral-colored cloth strip out of his sleeve and wraps it around the glass, pocketing it after he does so. then back to the top of the cage he goes!

glancing around the room to see if he can spot anymore cages with stuff inside of them]

[dramatispersonae]

[you can spot at least two more that might...or they might just be funny shadows? hard to tell]

[blackjacked]

[still worth checking out. adjusts his footing, and then takes another leap from the roof of his cage to the roof of one of the funny shadow ones]

[dramatispersonae]

[the chain holding it to the ceiling starts to give...!]

[blackjacked]

[urk--! immediately slides off of the cage roof onto the mirrored ground right next to it to alleviate that extra weight]

[dramatispersonae]

[it falls down next to you with a crash.

it was empty after all]

[blackjacked]

[backpedals quickly to avoid being hit as it crashes to the ground. did the cage crack or shatter the glass floor. . .]

[dramatispersonae]

[a little bit yes! there's something bright behind the shattered area]

[blackjacked]

[approaches and carefully clears away some of the broken glass to see what that is]

[dramatispersonae]

[sssspace . . . ?

it's just white nothing with brighter white lights looping and spiraling within it. putting your hand in there, beyond the level of the mirrors, seems like a really ridiculously bad idea even if you don't have borrowed self-preservation equipped]

[blackjacked]

[. . . yeeeeeah we will back away from that and make a mental note not to shatter anymore mirrors.

stands up and starts searching through the cages for more stuff at ground level :|a SURELY THIS IS SAFER]

[dramatispersonae]

[i'm sure coral will be proud of you. maybe.

it is hard going picking your way through the ground cages but eventually you find some glass gears and a little copper spring. you spot what looks like a copper bird's leg in a cage that's hoisted a little above the ground, too; that cage is large enough to hold a person and has the door set up on top.]

[blackjacked]

[. . . well that depends on how uninjured I come out of this adventure period. I'M DOIN' WELL SO FAR

collects the gears and spring and pockets those as he goes. when he reaches the bird's leg cage he grabs the bars and gives them a good tug to make sure it won't come crashing down if he climbs on top]

[dramatispersonae]

[IT HOLDS FIRM!]

[blackjacked]

[SUCCESS. shimmying up to the top to drop through that door and into the cage, then]

[dramatispersonae]

[as soon as you drop in, it becomes obvious it is somewhat harder to get out 8|; it is possible but difficult; the bars are just sloped to be really bad for climbing from the inside.

also as soon as you pick up the copper bird legs (there's two; one was hidden under the other) the entire floor of the room catches on fire]

[blackjacked]

[UH]

Firebird!!

[pocketing the bird legs and. . . attempting that difficult climb out of the cage, but he slips quite a bit as he does so]

[dramatispersonae]

[you're above the fire! and it's not warming up as quickly as it should be.

still, though. floor on fire. you're going to have to do more monkeying than you thought.]

[blackjacked]

[IT'S A GOOD THING I LOVE MONKEYING. pulling himself out of that cage and onto the roof after a good, long while of struggling.

takes a deep breath, and scans the cages for more bird pieces. this time he will calculate before he jumps]

[dramatispersonae]

[at this level you can see two big ones spaced equally to either side that clearly hold things; the jumps are long but not impossible.]