dramatispersonae | SAPPHIRE

You need to live, goes the snippet of song in your head.

Welcome to the bottom of the sea. It should be dark here, but something illuminates a vast garden surrounding you. It should be wet here, but the sensation of the water around you is distant, and you stay dry.

At the center of the garden rises a great spiral staircase carved out of mother-of-pearl.

Glimmering with the light, the opalescent stairs rise high above, vanishing into dark water once out of range of the light. A coral gate bars them from you for now. It is locked, but the faint outline of a key can be seen in the lock.

Whenever you get near the stairway, a snippet of songs resolves into words in your head:

Make a wish from your heart.

You know that is what one person here must do to proceed.

You need to love, goes the snippet of song in your head.

As you come to a broad shelf on the sea floor, a peculiar sight unfolds before you in the returning light. The ancient remains of a shipwreck litter the ground, but before them, a number of marble statues have been arranged like some kind of art installation.

Beyond all this, another mother-of-pearl stairway rises into the waters above as they approach the surface.

The opalescent stairs rise high above, wavering faintly in the rippling water as they go up, then vanishing into more gloom. A coral gate bars them from you for now. It is locked, but the faint outline of a key can be seen in the lock.

Whenever you get near the stairway, a snippet of songs resolves into words in your head:

Make a wish from your heart.

You know that is what one person here must do to proceed.

You need to dream, goes the snippet of song in your head.

The water falls away around you as you emerge into a cavern, its stone walls dappled with light reflecting off the calm water. Plants and seaweed grow in the shallows, and all around you in the sand are fantastical sculptures.

The way out of the cave is barred by another coral gate.

The walls of the cavern slowly narrow into a tunnel to the outside. Yet another gate made of coral blocks the way to it, though. It is locked, but the faint outline of a key can be seen in the lock.

Whenever you get near the stairway, a snippet of song resolves into words in your head:

Make a wish from your heart.

You know that is what one person here must do to proceed.

Need to live, eh?

Glancing around uncertainly before heading for the staircase since that seems to be what's going up...

Great fronds of kelp rise out of the ocean floor, gleaming faintly in all shades of green, as well as red and purple. Strange creatures as beautiful as any flower inch slowly along the sandy bed, and brilliantly-colored fish dart in and out of the waving seaweed.

As for the stairs...

Glimmering with the light, the opalescent stairs rise high above, vanishing into dark water once out of range of the light. A coral gate bars them from you for now. It is locked, but the faint outline of a key can be seen in the lock.

Whenever you get near the stairway, a snippet of songs resolves into words in your head:

Make a wish from your heart.

You know that is what one person here must do to proceed.

[ It's a good thing he's used to weird things. Though he has to wonder why the kelp is growing differently and edges just slightly away from the creatures. There's all sorts of dangerous magical creatures underwater, it's nothing persona;...

But he glances at the coral bars, a hand going to wrap around them. Frowning slightly, he considered the song and then the earlier one. Let's think, let's think.

His free hand will go to his key. That's the thing he knows usually works in places like this. His thoughts linger on "going home," but he settles properly on another word: ]

I want to play quidditch with everyone.

The key materializes in the lock. You can turn it now, open the gate, and go on up the stairs...if you want. The sea-floor garden remains vibrant around you.

[ Is there anything that might be of interest beyond plants and the creatures? ...Cause otherwise he'll go up...

Sorry, Sapphire, he is not the plant lover :( ]

Well, there's light despite it being the bottom of the sea. But other than that, it seems to be all plants and creatures.

[ moving on without doing anything would be bad so he'll at least inspect??? the seaweed vaguely. it'd be helpful if he had herbology back. ]

The tall, waving seaweed is surprisingly sturdy, and in places it tangles with itself to provide nooks of shelter, guarded from the faint currents outside.

[ can he use magic to help make it sturdier? if not he will gently to help with some other batches of seaweed '6' ]

It already seems to be slightly magical, but it doesn't show any objections to being made sturdier.

[ Then he will okay. More magic '^' Home are important.

Is there anything in there or is it just empty?]

There doesn't seem to be anything in there, but somehow it looks inviting anyway. It's big enough for a person or two to fit inside.

[ The only correct assumption here is "merepeople homes" and since he knows they're not exactly friendly home, he will leave it be. Things seem fairly normal here otherwise, so he'll head back to the stairs... ]

Do you turn the key, open the gate, and go up the stairs?

[ Yep. It's obvious this place has its own standard of life set up and he's not going to interfere with it '^'. ]

The garden recedes behind you as you climb the stairs into the darkness above. After a while, there is more light...

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