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The Fifteen Strangers Mods ([personal profile] strangerpeople) wrote in [community profile] 15strangers2023-07-20 09:54 am

FINAL INVESTIGATION

FINAL INVESTIGATION



[Fifteen X-Passes. Six weeks. Freedom at last.



But it's not the end. Of course it's not. There are questions to answer, and souls to save. And now that the group is outside, they can see where they are.

They are inside a massive cavern, illuminated in an eerie green light, standing on a stone path. On one side is the ship-or rather, a massive, ship-shaped tangle of bloody branches, the trunk-like roots snaking out and into the river its buoyed on, as well as into the ceiling of stalactites. Said river is wine dark, but it's clearly not water. No-it is blood.

And on the other side of their little pathway? A root-encrusted palace. It sits over a labyrinthine city, bathed in emerald, and all is eerily silent save for some sounds coming from within the castle. It's clear the infestation somehow started here. And it is here that answers are likely to be found.

The doors are right in front of the group-and they are already open, covered in branches. From the outside, it seems little more than a ruin. Once everyone goes in, though?




It's even worse. The tree has taken over. Whatever lives here is no longer in charge. There's no easy way to disentangle the Qilphoth from this place. But there is life here, somehow. You can see figures entangled within the roots as you explore. And-they are still, somehow, alive. More than alive. They are beings that bleed ichor instead of blood-beings of incredible divinity and power. They are gods. And they are hostage to the tree, forever and ever, trapped in induced ennui, unless something is done.


So welcome, Strangers, to the House of Hades.]







[Once you enter, the investigation shall begin.


Good luck.]



((OoC: And here are team assignments!))


exequte: (all I did was create and run a deathtrap)

[personal profile] exequte 2023-07-21 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
... no.

Sorry.

Zack has some kind of connection, I think, but....

Maybe we can find out something more here?
unpossibilities: BRUUUUH (Kicking butts of thieves + that guy!)

[personal profile] unpossibilities 2023-07-21 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
...Zack? The normal-ish guy?

[huh.]

Okay. We'll work together here. I'm with you. Let's investigate!
exequte: (I had to be careful)

[personal profile] exequte 2023-07-21 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
He....

He seemed normal, more or less, I guess. But... there's a lot that's not normal about him, and the longer we knew him....

He also never changed. It was... a little eerie, honestly. Like maybe he'd been possessed....

But there were a lot of things that seemed to connect to him, and a lot of them....

I don't know what he is, exactly, but... I think, maybe, he belongs here. Where we are, I mean.
unpossibilities: (I’M A SUPERHERO!!)

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[personal profile] unpossibilities 2023-07-21 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
P-P-P...Possessed...? He belongs here???

[UWAH. SCARY. He has not factored in that he is, also, technically a ghost who belongs here for the time being.]
unpossibilities: yare yare daze (Begs for help from)

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[personal profile] unpossibilities 2023-07-21 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...W-Well, hopefully he feels at home, then. Maybe if he's a guy who belongs here he can help with that whole 'getting back to life' situation. Then again, the guy doesn't know about much from my recollection, so he may not know anything either...
exequte: (oh gosh this is gonna take forever)

[personal profile] exequte 2023-07-21 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

He... never seemed to learn more, either. Than he knew to start.