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Slick's Unconscious game!

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[OH, DISCLAIMER FOR FEELS EFFECTS IN SLICK'S UNCONSCIOUS:

None of these feels are like OVERRIDING or PERSONALITY CHANGING. Your character should be identify them as foreign feelings and try to ignore them/choose to not act on them! They also just can't get rid of them.]

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Sewers >> Entry

[ticking]

[Welcome to the sewers. There should really be nothing pleasant about being here. You are up to your knees -- or thighs if you're short -- in black water, and though it is dark, there is just enough lamp or starlight coming in from the manholes far above your head to make out more black water dripping down the walls. There is definitely some sort of... sludge caked down around your feet, and you better you have no call to run, because that would be hard. Moreover, there is a distinctly rotten smell. It's actually not like shit at all. Much closer to spoiling meat...

The water has a very slow current to it, and now and then something flowing within it bumps into your legs.

But here is the odd thing. Despite the fact that you have no reason to feel good in this situation, you really do! Everything is just ~pleasant~ in a rather twisted sort of way. It's the sort of pleasant where a good murder starts to sound almost relaxing. It's just a murmur though. Just a little tilt on your mood. You can certainly try to ignore it if you choose. There is also the sense that well, you should get moving, but that is a little harder to place...]

Re: Sewers >> Entry

[edgeofjustice]

Well... Wasn't exactly looking forward to being back in the sewers anytime soon.

[shifting forward, slowly]

Re: Sewers >> Entry

[allmadeofstars]

[blinking . . .]

What—?

Re: Sewers >> Entry

[originalhipster]

[sewage is happening and it feels like I should be pleased about it

THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME]

Re: Sewers >> Entry

[crowdependency]

[...Oh. Even if that's nice I don't think I want to be in this water, activating her boots and standing on top of it.]

What...

Re: Sewers >> Entry

[hydralize]

Where the hell—?

[glancing around in bewilderment, looking for anything that seems like it might lead out]

Re: Sewers >> Entry

[supraliminally]

[lol ew

But actually not too bothered, other than looking sad about her dress, which is once again RUINED!!!11

anyway, starting to walk through the sewers now. going against the water's flow because fuck the establishment, I guess.]

Re: Sewers >> Entry

[unmaskedlizard]

Where...?

[frowning, looking around with a cross look, shifting around in the sludge >\...]

Re: Sewers >> Entry

[all_that_glitters]

[.......... oh my god there is exactly nothing pleasant about this!!

> trying to keep moving to get out of this sludge sounds good]

Sewers >> Torture Room

[ticking]

[The 'floor' of the sewer stays flat, but you are certainly heading upstream. As you go, the sewer becomes more lit with a cool, blue light. Eventually you find yourself in a large, cavernous room. In a room that could easily be the size of a stadium there is a large platform carved with rivulets where the black water is draining out. On top of the platform there are... bodies.

Well, people, really. Though they probably wish they were just bodies. It seems like almost every face in Thusia must be here, and quite a few that aren't. They are all either tied or chained down in some fashion or simply missing the necessary bones/muscles to try and make an escape. Each is in some state of horrific torture, but instead of bleeding red blood, it is black water.

On the left, one of the large curved walls of the room appears to be a shadowy mirror.

There is also a tall, top-hatted fellow moving among the tormented...]

Re: Sewers >> Torture Room

[supraliminally]

[Oh really.

Yukari is just going to wring out her dress while she examines the various tortured people. I don't suppose there happens to be a version of her among them...?]

Re: Sewers >> Torture Room

[edgeofjustice]

[... inhales sharply through his mouth, taking a moment to slide a steadying hand through his hair before moving toward the mirror]

Re: Sewers >> Torture Room

[originalhipster]

[well this is a bit distasteful I suppose but I'm still not walking in sewage so that's something

my.]

Hmmm? What a distortion.

Re: Sewers >> Torture Room

[unmaskedlizard]

[...is this a heart

IS THIS A FUCKING HEART

why, what, what??!]

S... Slick?

Re: Sewers >> Torture Room

[hydralize]

[. . . CAN I CUT PEOPLE FREE . . .]

Sewers >> Blue Water

[ticking]

[You take the NONGROSS option, stepping into the blue water, which is up to about your calves and...

Wow, this must be LIQUID MISERY WATER because that sure is what it feels like! It's like a hole in your heart just opened, like you lost something more valuable than your own life, like--- well okay. Like someone you love dearly died. For actual dead good forever. It's balls man.

You sure you don't want to go back to the black water?

But I guess if you enjoy this or whatever, the sewer ahead awaits.]

Re: Sewers >> Blue Water

[hydralize]

[dfrglkjhgd no GOING THE OTHER WAY AT TOP SPEED. I JUST GOT RID OF THOSE FEELINGS I DON'T WANT THEM BACK D8]

Sewers >> Black Water

[ticking]

[You take the SUPER GROSS option, stepping into the black 'water' which we should really start calling Black Soup at least. All the gross things from before have been pureed together with the filtered black water and it makes for a notably thicker viscosity of disgusting.

But that's okay because it also just gives you the feeling of ~Even More Awesome~ More twisted too, of course, genocide is starting to sound deeply, personally pleasing. But mostly awesome!!

Why would you ever want to consider getting in the blue water instead? The sewer ahead awaits!]

Re: Sewers >> Black Water

[hydralize]

[ffff scrubs a hand over his face, trying to smooth out the smirk tugging at his lips]

[CONTINUING ONWARDS '-']

Sewers >> Control Room

[ticking]

[You arrive in a room with three monitors. But only one is on, and it shows the torture room on the other side of the door. Next to the monitor, a vial has filled up with black liquid. The other two monitors show nothing, and the vials next to them are empty.

There is also a table, large and stone, with a (somewhat wrong) map of Earth carved in with heavy connecting grooves. The table is otherwise empty.

There is also a ladder leading down out of this room.]

Re: Sewers >> Control Room

[originalhipster]

[hmmmm ...

is there any way to turn the other monitors on! poking them!




... I am not very good at technology]

Sabra >> Lake

[ticking]

[You arrive into a huge cave, at the center of which is a lake full of that familiar black water. There is a small tunnel that appears to go deeper into the caves, and a larger one heading toward ... a ruined city?

There are a couple of people sitting near the smaller tunnel entrance. And a dry river bed runs from the direction of the city and into the lake.]

Re: Sabra >> Lake

[originalhipster]

[well ok sure

let's go investigate the people first of all]

Childhood >> Entry

[ticking]

[You arrive in what appears to be an awkward conglomeration of many different areas of the wrong side of the tracks of a poor European city. Over there is an alley way, and over there a seedy bar, and over there a broken down boxcar that has fallen off the tracks and been converted into living space by the locals. And far, far off in the distance is a simple building, nondescript in every way, but in looking at it you’re sure it’s an orphanage.

It’s a chilly day with light snowfall, and standing where you are, this place looks lifeless.]

Re: Childhood >> Entry

[supraliminally]

[well let's look at our options here

> bar
> alley
> boxcar
> no wait seriously there is a fucking bar
> it probably has drinks
> barrrrrrrrr

heading for the bar!]

Childhood >> Bar

[ticking]

[The bar is a disappointment if you were hoping for... anything very bar-like. There is a card table set up to play for two, tho one sits there, and a door to a back room. The bar itself is empty, even of alcohol.]

Re: Childhood >> Bar

[supraliminally]

[well fuck.

sitting down at the table...?]

Childhood >> Alley

[ticking]

[You arrive in a snowy alleyway. You probably recognize Allen, Gilgamesh, and Yamamoto. They are tided up and ...unconscious? Asleep? Not awake, anyway, but apparently unharmed.

The snow in the alleyway is marred by a streak of blood, and there is a bloody, cheap, small knife lying in it.]

Re: Childhood >> Alley

[edgeofjustice]

[crouches down to cut their bonds]

Huh...

Childhood >> Boxcar

[ticking]

[The inside of the boxcar is surprisingly bright and clean, if still only a modified boxcar with a tarp roof and old torn blankets and repaired furniture being the only decorations.

There is a grizzled white haired old man set up pretty comfortably in here. He's taking a nap, with a recently lit cigarette in his mouth.]

Re: Childhood >> Boxcar

[supraliminally]

[well then]

Hello!

Sabra >> Arena

[ticking]

[You arrive in the arena! If you look around, you will quickly notice you have arrived into a sort of torture grove, with seven likely familiar people each attached to a different torture/murder device in a circle around you. But if those aren’t to your interest, the dark tunnel of a less civilized cave system is much nearer than should be physically possible. There is a dry river bed running through the arena and out toward the tunnel.]

Re: Sabra >> Arena

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

You didn't say you had a summer home.

[And just who are these seven lucky contestants?]