[Game 21] Group 2

[arsgoetia]

After the blackout, a dim glow returns to the train car. You can feel yourselves still rattling along the tracks, and the world seems to be rushing by outside in bits and flashes, an occasional pulse of color. Some of that ambience starts to fill the train compartment with a sickly blue light.

Rattle, rattle. Rattle, rattle.

Most of you feel . . . fine, physically unhurt, just maybe a little hungover from what just hit you, like waking up with a headache and a dry mouth. You do have the memory of pain, of how that unpleasant, searing sensation pulsed through you; but it's just a shadow now.

For those that are spiritually or magically sensitive, something is definitely wrong. Your senses feel a little dulled and constricted, like a weight is pressing down on you.

There are two exits to your compartment: one moving up the train towards First Class and the conductor, the other leading back, where you know there's at least one more passenger car behind you.

On each door, there is a glowing sigil of a watchful eye, an unwavering and unpleasant blue.

Comments

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[arsgoetia]

[innerdemon]

[makes a startled whine, sitting up really straight. Her eyes were glowing visibly red in the darkness for a moment, but that fades with the spike as well. She scrambles out of her seat, looking around in a panic.]

Re: [...]

[arsgoetia]

"Whoa, what the hell?" The swoopy-haired young man gets up, abandoning his phone on his seat for a moment, his fists clenched. "You've got to be fucking kidding me!" He doesn't look too ill-effected from the blackout, but he does look pissed.

Re: [...]

[ancestuous]

Are you injured?

Re: [...]

[ancestuous]

[Struggles to stand up and find his footing, looking around at everyone.]

What happened - ?!

Re: [...]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[stands up and stumbles for a second before finding his feet.]

Oh. Oh wow. That was not...

[trails off and stares at the eye sigils on the doors.]

[monere]

[she blinks rapidly, glancing between the two doors, otherwise seemingly unfazed]

Uh ... ?

The Sigils

[arsgoetia]

Bakura has attempted to open a door.

As soon as the sigil is activated, bright blue veins of light shoot and arc out along the walls. Light frames the windows and doors; 'wires' of magic seem to criss-cross and zig-zag across every surface, the floor, the ceiling. It's like being inside some sort of magical demonic circuitboard, with twists and loops of sigils in between the pulsing points of light.

The door leading towards the 'front' of the train is suddenly blocked by a zig-zag maze of bright green lasers.

You take note of the following:
- There are two pairs of 'bloody' red handprints pulsing on two of the windows. On a third window directly between the two sets of handprints, there's the image of a dull, glowing red set of scales.
- There is a giant mouth outlined in white in the center of the floor, lips closed. A dripping line of white moves towards one window, which is framed with white but otherwise empty.
- There are 13 green lights located in various areas around the compartment. On the ceiling, on the windows, on the backs of chairs. They are discs about the size of a fist.

[innerdemon]

This... reminds me of a puzzle...

[arsgoetia]

Swoopy clenches his fists. He snatches his phone off his seat and crams it in his pocket, putting the headphones around his neck. "Shit," he mutters. "Shit shit shit."

[ancestuous]

Ah... a game...?

Re: The Sigils

[rollwillpowercheck]

Oh! Well, okay, that went better than expected.

[monere]

[makes a Face]

Well, this seems fucking stupid.

[The Green Puzzle]

[arsgoetia]

The lasers seem to be blocking your way to the door that leads to the front of the train. They pulse with the same color of light as the discs located in various points around the compartment.

Re: [The Green Puzzle]

[monere]

[uhhhh what colors ... are the lasers pulsing specifically??]

Re: [The Green Puzzle]

[ancestuous]

[picks up one of the green discs :?]

[The Red Puzzle]

[arsgoetia]

You examine the red handprints on the windows. There's a sickening sort of heaviness in the air, here.

Re: [The Red Puzzle]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[puts his hands over one of the sets of prints. but now in the right place in the post.]

[The White Puzzle]

[arsgoetia]

You step over to inspect the white mouth on the ground. As soon as you step near it, there's a little rumbling sound, and the lights seem to shimmer and shift. There's a sharp twinge in the pit of your stomach (or whatever serves as one).

Re: [The White Puzzle]

[playfair]

[LET'S CHECK THIS ONE OUT THEN... ugh

it's connected to a window right. going to look at the window??]

[All The Pieces]

[arsgoetia]

Between everyone, you now have the following:

- The lasers have been turned off, the lights dim. You can access the door forward, and the door backwards.
- You have two blue marbles that seem like they'll fit into the pupil/iris of the sigils on those doors (One of them has already been put in the door back by Elluka and Bakura)
- You also have a word(?) in bright gold (gwbxn'c) that appeared on the window.
- Those that solved the green puzzle still have the phrases scarred into their skin, though they (and the anger effect) are fading fast, leaving just an unpleasant buzz behind.

Re: [All The Pieces]

[playfair]

[going to try and place the other marble, right]

Re: [All The Pieces]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[slowly... uncurling... from his ball of rage and pain.]

Re: [All The Pieces]

[arsgoetia]

Hale has begun to pace in agitation, one hand in his pocket.

Re: [All The Pieces]

[troublebrewing]

[Robin's also pacing, because she was definitely here this whole time.

she also has a candle stick out, lit, if anyone needs light]