BREAK-IN: Akira, Ash, Belph & Phoenix

[gatonina]

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[slobjection]

[ phoenix is also clicking body.... what are they gonna do, kill him? ]

[ and check ]

Me too.

cw eye stuff..............

[gatonina]

[it took me twenty whole ass minutes to get back to this tag because i was too busy laughing

but anyway--

After making their last selection, the machines will abruptly whirr to life — and pin the group down before they can make a break for it. Nooooo escaping! Some of the arms will focus on holding their limbs still, while another attaches itself to their backs to keep them from moving their torsos. They will feel four pinpricks down their spine. A second later, and they will no longer be able to move. Based on their choices, the following things will happen:

1. The machine arms sort of just. Hover near Belph. And do nothing.

2. One of the arms will reach for Akira's missing eye. Pause. And then move to his remaining eye to pluck it right out. It comes out of its socket with a pop and little more. There is no blood or gore attached; it resembles a doll's eye more than anything else. Akira will, somehow, still be able to see without it. Though everything will now be slightly blurry, and in black and white. Inside his empty socket, there is the occasional blue spark. Huh.

3. Becks said Ash picked body and checkmark, so! :) The arms are going to move for his head, and peel off his face. It comes off with a bit of a schlurp, as if removing something that had been suctioned on. Now that his face will gone, all that will be left behind a mess red motor oil sluggishly dripping... and a metal skeleton. Ah.

4. Finally.............................................. One of the arms will snatch Phoenix's wig. Enjoy being bald, dad.

After this is done, the machines will let go off the group and they will regain the ability to move after a couple of seconds. The four doors swing open simultaneously, and the arms ascend through the ceiling and disappear, taking their loot with them. Seems like they can finally return to the previous room.]

[voidbreaker]

[ yeets this in while everyone sleeps i guess. everything is terrible. ]

Great.

[survivaltricks]

[this is]

[just]







[why]

PLEASE STOP GONG FOR THE EYES IT KIND OF SUCKS??

[anyway I guess he is. pushing himself to his feet and stumbling. . . into the main room again??]

[axilium]

[hm

getting restrained and paralyzed by machines was pretty unpleasant, so belph's shaking that off as he returns to the main room, but. nothing happened? so could've been worse—uh.]

What the hell happened to all of you?

[slobjection]

[ yikes... ash and akira ]

... picked body and checkmark. Guess that's a mistake.

[ yikes ???? ]

[gatonina]

[the puzzle will patiently wait for them as they commiserate.]

[voidbreaker]

Lost my face, apparently.

[ (becks voice) there was a puzzle? ]

Other than body trauma, did anything happen?

[survivaltricks]

Nnnnope.

[but]

[based on what Phoenix read before? Akira is going to examine the switch on the wall again]

[his empty eye socket sparks ominously]

[axilium]

I picked the brain option? The arms just kind of hovered but did nothing.

[belph's going to check out the dolls again. anything new?]

[slobjection]

[ phoenix is also checking for any new clues ]

... Guess it's harder to take away mental faculties.

[gatonina]

[Akira can only see in black and white now, but he will notice that the light on the switch is now on! Nice.

There's nothing new on the dolls. At a glance, the rest of the room seems unchanged.]

[voidbreaker]

[ well. ash is gonna pop on that brilith mask for the moment so everyone isn't stuck looking at his metal face. ]

Did we get the power on then? We all contributed, technically.

[survivaltricks]

[squinting at the switch]

I think. . . so? I can't see very well.

Obviously.

[time to flip the switch!]

[axilium]

[belph tries to open the door (the one across from akira), before and after akira flips the switch.]

[slobjection]

Think it's on.

[ after giving akira a worried glance, phoenix will snoop around the room in a little more detail before following after belph to see if it opens! ]

i got distracted by engagements

[gatonina]

[... Well. Funny thing! When Ash pops on the Brilith mask, it adheres itself to his face. Instantly, Ash will find himself acting less like himself and more like all the traits he admires in Brilith. He will have no desire to remove the mask for the time being.

There is nothing else of note in the room as Phoenix looks around. Just motor oil that heavily resembles blood. The oily, naked dolls. The table in the middle of the room.

Something will prick Akira's finger when he hits the switch, but sound of something clicking will reach their ears. The door will not open when Belph tries it before Akira hits the switch. But it will open easily after the switch has been flipped. The room they will find past the door is similar in layout, though it has some key differences.

Once again, there are five doors in total. Two on the right side, two on the left side, and one parallel to the door they just opened. Everything is covered in plastic wrap, though there is significantly less motor oil staining the floor and walls. However, they will feel a few drops of it fall down on them from the ceiling as they step into the room. Instead of a doll pile, there are four dolls propped up to the right of the door that will, presumably, lead into the next room. All of their heads are titled up, obscuring their faces. There is no table in the middle of the room, but there is another switch next to the door they just walked through. It's identical to the last, down to the fact that the power light is off.]

[voidbreaker]

[ but i've never read kubera.

well. if there's one thing he knows about brilith, it's that she's cool with dying and gets shit done so ash is just gonna go through that door into the new room and look right up at the ceiling. what horrors are pinned up there, kyuu? ]

[survivaltricks]

[OW]

Damn it-- something pricked my finger, too.

[drawing his hand back and examining the wound? but then he too enters the new wound, but. he stops at the entrance as something drips onto his cheek]

[. . .]

[he closes his eyes. . .]

[. . . and looks up?]

[axilium]

Great, you can join Ash in the potentially poisoned party.

[he's going to head over to the dolls and lift their faces up.]

[slobjection]

... Feel like we all might have to get pricked for this to work.

[ he is also looking up, since belph has the dolls covered ]

[gatonina]

[A drop of something red and viscous wells up where Akira got pricked. Hm.

Looking at the ceiling right past the door, they will find




a whole ass doll.

Hyper-realistic. Uncanny valley in all its glory. And very much Barbie doll anatomy. Its face has been stripped off, preventing them from identifying it as anybody they know. Just like Ash's face under the Brilith mask, a metal skeleton is visible between the mess. The skin is cracked and melted in places. Motor oil sluggishly drips from its missing face and injuries.

Since Belph is checking out the four dolls, he will realize they have been stripped of their faces as well. A metal skull is visible among the mess of motor oil. However, now that he's this close, he will notice all four dolls have something else in common. One of their hands is balled into a fist, and the other has the index finger pointing at something. The direction in which they are pointing seems different for all of them.]

[voidbreaker]

[ lovely. ]

Wonder how it got stuck up there?

[ still. he's not going to dwell on it. he lowers his gaze and looks over at the dolls belph is messing with. ]

... What's in their hands? [ he'll look in the direction the one belph is messing with is pointing, before testing to see if he can get the doll's hand open. ]

[survivaltricks]

[gently whispers I hate this]

Somehow the mansion was waaaaay less creepy than— this?

[ANYWAY time to examine the lower right room]

[axilium]

Let's see...

[well, he'll check out all the other dolls to see if they're holding anything + what they're pointing at.]