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Sonozaki Renju [園崎蓮珠] (lotus_beyond) wrote in disappear_plot,
@ 2009-12-15 22:30:00

Dungeon Crawl - Crimson Lotus Academy
Who: Exploration Team and S!Renju; individual threads for K1 and Tom
What: Pre-dungeon, such as it is.
When: Early August, fairly soon after the existing Shadow threads.
Where: Multiple locations in Renju's dungeon.
Why: Supplementals.

Since everything that happens in the dungeon (besides the K1 and Tom threads below) will be happening in chat, there will be no "pre-dungeon" in the usual sense. Instead, since Renju's dungeon will be working a little differently from most, I'll be using this space for ground rules.

1. Insofar as is possible, OOC talk should stay in the OOC chat. If you have any questions, please keep them either there or to IMs with me.
2. Speaking of IMs, private IMs will be getting abused, especially during the first dungeon session. Please be aware of this and prepare accordingly.
3. This dungeon will be fairly wall-of-texty. Long posts will be split into chunks with ellipses linking them.
4. Important information will often be communicated via OOC chat. Please either pay attention to both or, if you can't, let me know so I can pass it on individually.
5. Bossfight-specific: Anyone who is not okay with unpleasant but temporary physical things happening to their characters or is potentially squeamish about reading about that sort of thing should avoid the bossfight or talk to me for specific details.

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Re: Pre-dungeon: Keiichi

lotus_beyond
2009-12-28 10:11 pm UTC (link)

The Shadow took all this in with an equanimity that may or may not have been surprising if one considered its earlier behavior. Indeed, it seemed almost amused by the prospect. It had accepted the fact that the team would come long ago; it would simply make them wish they hadn't, and force them to depart with a far better understanding of what they'd foolishly been trying to save. Duty or not, surely they wouldn't be so stupid...

It had been about to impart this to Keiichi when he'd started in on his sudden insistence that it was going to kill him. This actually brought it up short for a moment. "Kill you?" Distortion warped its short, sharp laugh like a ripple through still water. "You flatter yourself. Whether you live or die couldn't matter less."

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Re: Pre-dungeon: Keiichi

keiito
2010-01-03 02:02 am UTC (link)

"So calm," he replied. Paradise had irrevocably altered him. It gave him constant adrenaline jolts, even moreso now, here in the middle of Lord knew where, and with no guarantee he'd get out. "Especially considering there's no guarantee you walk away from this, either."

He gripped the single kama he held tighter. "They may not come for me. And if they don't, that means one thing. I come for you. If you don't fight me here, I'll find you wherever you run off to, and you will have to kill me if you want peace."

The words sounded so odd to his ears. Heroic, almost. Maybe the entire Captain Atomic thing had rubbed off on him. Maybe it was bluster. He didn't know. He didn't care.

But if this was it, his was a volcano god.

A blaze of glory it would be, rather than a whimper.

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Re: Pre-dungeon: Keiichi

lotus_beyond
2010-01-10 05:49 am UTC (link)

"They'll come for you," the Shadow remarked, its voice carrying a hint of what could be called sourness. "And they'll come for it, too. It's what you do."

It turned its head slightly, seeming almost thoughtful to look back over its shoulder at--was that a landmark, far off in the distance, across the frozen plain?--but there was no trace of that thoughtfulness in its cold, empty yellow eyes. "But it doesn't matter. Even if they find you, they won't reach it. And if nothing else, this will make them understand." It looked at Keiichi out of the corner of its eyes. "You sooner than the rest."

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Re: Pre-dungeon: Keiichi

keiito
2010-01-10 05:56 am UTC (link)

"You're so very confident," Keiichi hissed, shivering from the cold. With cold to shiver from, the probable fear was buried somewhere behind it.

"It? I don't refer to people as "it." If anything here is an "it," it's you," Keiichi...almost sneered, as if any such gesture could be taken seriously. "You're not a person. You're a Shadow. We specialize in killing those. And you seem very unwilling to kill me, which is a rather...bad decision on your part, really."

Was he trying to talk the thing into attacking him? The fact that it hadn't yet was somewhere unnerving. She knew that the team would come; why not weaken it?

"I told you already. If you don't kill me, we'll kill you. You don't have a chance in Hell of getting away with this."

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Re: Pre-dungeon: Keiichi

lotus_beyond
2010-01-10 06:06 am UTC (link)

That faint trace of a mirthless smile returned to the Shadow's lips at that last phrase, albeit for just a moment before falling away. "Again. Whether you live or die doesn't matter. Perhaps not even to them. It won't change anything important.

"However, you are right about one thing," it admitted, though it doubted Keiichi would understand which, why, or just how right he was. Soon enough. It wasn't its job to explain, after all--and so with that, it vanished.

Once more, Keiichi was alone with the ice and darkness, and, far beyond, the sound of rushing water.

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Re: Pre-dungeon: Keiichi

keiito
2010-01-10 06:12 am UTC (link)

Before Keiichi could open his mouth to say anything else, the Shadow was gone, and Ito was...displeased.

"Figures," he grimaced. It was freezing in here, and there were no discernable landmarks, best he could tell. He had no idea which way was forward, and which was back towards a possible entrance.

"Water, in a place like this?" He was confused. How could water run in what had to be freezing temperatures? It was the only thing he had to go on, though.

And so he trudged towards the sound, wandering through the wasteland.

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