The lights are dim and a thick layer of smoke pervades throughout. Figures, shapes, mingle about, and there is no lack of seats to be found. A walrus is serving drinks at the counter, something about mead. The infinite corners and rafters are entirely unmathematical, but really, it was expected to be of taverns of this kind. A sign hung outside the door of the rather large establishment:
SERVING PEOPLE WHO ARE LOST SINCE.
In front of the taven next to the sign next to a few drunking singing clams is a mailbox. There's nothing too notable about the mailbox though.
OOC
- You may use the Tavern subforum. for ORPS AND PRPS. This is where players can get together to meet and greet or trade information, drink mead, or even trade minipets - Your character can find this place when they are lost. Basically walk forward, keep on walking, wish for the Tavern, and you will find it! Basic principles really. - To participate in the ORP section of the tavern, simply RP in this thread with your character arriving, or make a NEW ORP thread for whatever you need. Don't forget to use the the general RP RULES of this event! You may start off as an ORP and break off into PRPS. Characters from different factions can interact with each other at peace here. Feel free to use one of the tavern prompts/ locations below! - To participate OR create a PRP , simply create a NEW THREAD called [ Tavern PRP ][ CHARS HERE ]. Post it in this subforum HERE. You may now PRP as you wish. Feel free to use any of the prompts below or just enjoy the setting. You may also trade minipets as you wish however RP wise. Characters from different factions can interact with each other at peace here. Feel free to use one of the tavern prompts/ locations below!
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:21 pm
[ Tavern Locations ] - You are free to RP these locations HERE or in a PRP. Make sure in an ORP if you are rping one of these locations to at the top of your post post what location your character is at so other people know. The Tavern will be open for orps and PRPS for the entire duration of the event.
TAVERN BAR
[ Tavern Bar ]: - As you walk in, beyond the thousands, yet hundreds of tables, there is a bar. A walrus is serving drinks, and he looks pretty busy. You can order from the drink menu behind him; currency is in a memory.
That means you have to offer any memory to him in order to get a drink. How this works OOCly is your character has to write a small rp passage about a past memory they have had related to the drink they want just in a post, in spoilers is fine. This memory ICly turns into a small token when they relive it in that post, like a memory flashback. Just hand it to the bartender. You will not lose this memory, you just need to invoke the memory in order to buy a drink for a memory token. It can be ANY memory; from a past event or even from this one. - Warning : You CAN get tipsy from drinking too much mead. Your vision will blur and it will be hard to hear anything and also you might make slightly brash actions. Mead cooldown time between overly tipsy is 5 IC minutes.
[LIST OF DRINKS: ]
1. Frothy Mead - A dark, foaming substance that soothes your soul. Requires one ANGRY memory
2. Dark Mead - A foaming substance made entirely out of dark matter. You can see stars forever. Requires one FRIGHTFUL memory.
3. Light Mead - A foaming substance that seems to be made of rainbows, sunshine and bubbles. Requires one JOYFUL memory.
4. Invisible Mead - What do you mean it's not there? Requires one SECRET memory.
5. Heavy Mead - Careful - this will make you real tipsy. Drinking too much will also make you lose your balance! Requires one UNFORGETTABLE memory.
TAVERN BASEMENT
[ Tavern Basement ]: - There is a set of stairs that lead to the basement, a basement of dark and wretched villany. There are rooms upon rooms in the basement, some have strange things inside them, mushrooms and beds and beds with mushrooms and talking flowers, things like that. Some just have pizza. Pizza rooms.
Roll 1d10 and match it up to the room you discover. Feel free to RP as many as you want. If you have rolled 1d10 and done three of these, you may pick and choose the rest.
1. A Holiday Room: Everything about this room is bright and cheerful, and a layer of snow covers the floor. The walls are made of gingerbread, and there are gumdrops and candycanes everywhere. Everything in this room is edible
2. A Haunted Room: Large stone crags and sheer cliffs stick out all directions. It looks strange, and almost familiar for some. From the cracks in the cliffs blue fire streams out and you could swear you hear a voice, and thick footsteps behind you, the sound of fighting. You turn around, but there's nothing. This room is empty, other than you.
3. A Castle Room: This room looks exactly like a giant castle, but with more solid walls. Inside it are very long hallways containing rooms with only desks and chairs - how boring. You keep on walking further and further and it is rooms and rooms of the same until you reach the end. The door is locked. Nothing will open it but you hear screams coming from inside.
4. A Pizza Room. It is a room with a nice big round table and about eight chairs. Why there is eight not seven we will never know. In the distance a jukebox plays, and on the table there is pizza. So much pizza.
5. A Piano Room. You are in some sort of hotel, and it is large, beautiful and lavish. There isn't much in the lobby, but there is an elevator. You can't help but take the elevator to the very top - which is really odd to have in a room really! The elevator goes up and up and up and up until it finally stops. You find yourself very, very high up. You can see buildings below you, and it is dark and raining. As you turn around, you suddenly feel shadowy hands tip you forward - you fall and fall and fall and are kicked out of the room.
6. An Inverted Room. Everything about this room is upside down. The stairs go upside down, seeming forever, down down down down, and you hear voices. A thick fog starts to gather up and grab at your feet and at the very bottom you see a cage. A figure is inside the cage and it reaches towards you with tendriled hands and says set me free. It doesn't feel safe: if you reach closer it tries to tear and claw at you without comprehension. You can't help but flee this room when you have stayed too long.
7. A Lost Room: This room is actually split into four rooms. Each room contains a different theme...
The first room is made entirely out of an asian theme, the floor surfaced in water, with little wooden walkways and bridges. The room seems a lot bigger than it should be, and in the center is a veranda. There is tea on the table on the veranda.
The second room has a desert theme covered sand. A large cave juts out and as you walk in you reach the inside of what seems like a very cluttered arrangement. Alchemic bottles and books hang off haphazardly in shelves. You can't really read much of it, it's mostly gibberish, but everything looks touchable. On a table they seem to be serving your favourite - dead insects as food.
The third room is covered entirely in tall trees. You see a ladder on one of the biggest trees and climb up up up until you reach a treehouse. On the top of the treehouse, or inside it, is a nice fireplace and a warm table serving raw meats. It doesn't hurt to try...
The fourth room is dark, and a molten lava fountain dribbles from one corner. It looks like an ancient temple, and you can't help but feel quiet, more reserved. You walk through the temple and see statues, of unfamiliar faces. At the end is a single table serving only pomegranates.
8. A Park Room: The room itself is bright and cheerful, full of grass. It is a sunny day, and the walls seem to be missing. Instead of walls there are hundreds and hundreds of little enclosures. Each one is empty. You can hear the echos of what sound like cries and screams, but the area is empty, there is nothing in the enclosures, and there are definitely not any visitors around, not any more.
9. A Kings Room: The room contains a single throne area, a long carpeted hallway leading to a golden throne. On the throne is a crown, and you can't help but be drawn to it. Anyone nearby you feel like fighting, contesting for the crown. There is only one true king and it is you. The effect of greed can only be removed if someone physically tears the crown away from you. The crown cannot however, leave the room, once you try to do so, the effect leaves as well.
10. A Lake Room: The area is a large cave, and inside it is an equally large lake. Blue flowers blossom on either side. Voices seem to whisper from inside the water, the water is warm and comforting, soothing, and the longer you stay, the less you want to leave. Perhaps it is best to stay here forever...
The Mailbox
The mailbox is simply a mailbox that is outside the Tavern. Around the mailbox are nice talking flowers that will tell you extremely unhelpful directions such as "left" "right" "no, left then right", when you ask them anything. Inside the mailbox is mail, but it most definitely is not for you because the envelopes all say "Not For You". You can dance on top of the mailbox if you want.
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 4:48 pm
sweetm00n brushed some errant hair out of her face, and stopped in surprise. This wasn't the forest? Blinking around at the building she stepped inside. Was this some sort of hub? She walked unsteadily around, bumping into tables. Eventually though, she sat down and pulled out her pocket card and began to poke around on it, to see if she had missed any messages.
OOC
My character's username: sweetm00n My character's level: 5 Character's HP: 30 Current party: Current Guild: Location: Small IC description of character: A girl with long purple hair in pigtails, and purple eyes. Apart from that, she looks fairly 'normal'. Is dressed in the gear of a Dormouse. Character journal:☾
Seussi rolled 1 10-sided dice:
10Total: 10 (1-10)
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 4:56 pm
10. A Lake Room:
Exploration seemed to be key in this world, and WarQueen really wanted to find some more fragments if she could. Also it might have been nice for her to be able to find some others of...like minds to her own, if any of them happened to be here at all. She had yet to encounter any other horsemen, but it was becoming harder and harder to believe that this was any kind of normal dream.
Entering the tavern, the cheshire cat gave the main room a glance over, noting the presence of another but skimming past her towards a stairway. The bar really held not interest to her, so after some short amount of thought, she made her way to the stairs, and down she went, down down down, to the basement.
And was met with a hallway with a lot of doors. This basement seemed to have a lot of rooms.....
Walking for a ways, looking left and right with eyes narrowed in suspicion, she stopped at random, turned, and opened a door, stepping inside.
The scene that met here was serene. Beautiful even. A lake, surrounded on either side by flowers. She took steps towards the water, head cocking to the side at the sound of whispers. She was quite familiar with whispers, though at least these ones were not in her head.
She stopped, stooped down, and placed a hand carefully into the water, everything about the room so comforting that she thought that it might actually be a good place to stop and rest...indefinitely.
MY STATS
My character's username: WarQueen My character's level: 2 Character's HP: 30 Character's Job Class: Cheshire Cat Current party: na Current Guild: na Location: Zone 1, Tulgey Woods Small IC description of character: Avvy >_> Character journal:Here~
8. A Park Room: The room itself is bright and cheerful, full of grass. It is a sunny day, and the walls seem to be missing. Instead of walls there are hundreds and hundreds of little enclosures. Each one is empty. You can hear the echos of what sound like cries and screams, but the area is empty, there is nothing in the enclosures, and there are definitely not any visitors around, not any more.
She had found herself in the Tavern after the conversation with the tree, having decided to check out the local area out. It didn't take long for her curiosity to get the better of her, though. She had seen a stairwell down near the side towards the basement, and decided to take it - her eyes adjusting to the change of location.
What was under the tavern was much different than what was on top - she walked in to a beautiful room - one that had an eerie quality on the edges of it all, but she couldn't really complain. It smelled wonderful and the sunlight was rather nice, even if it seemed devoid of life. She wanted to stay here for a while - as long as her attention span would allow it.
OOC
My character's username: Golden My character's level: 2 Character's HP: 30 Current party: -- Current Guild: -- Small IC description of character: A small, quiet woman who is adorned with a very pale set of Dormouse clothing, marking her a healer. She is often viewed as a little confused, considering everything. Character journal:x
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:31 pm
Everything stopped, except for the players. The Walrus NPC polishing the cups stopped, the clams stopped chattering, and the entire place was deathly still and quiet.
It felt odd and disjointed.
The floor flickered, and then shook, peeling open as from the floorboards, from the darkness beneath extended thousands of thin black hands, clawed, reaching out all directions. They grew longer, and longer, scattering tables, tearing through walls, going right through players as they wrecked the framework of the tavern itself into barely recognizable pieces of wireframe stripped of its skin, a cacophony of terrible screeching noises rising in the wake of destruction -
- And then flickered again.
And everything returned back to normal as the music and noises resumed. The shadows were gone and the floor was quite ordinary.
OOC
This is a random event! Anyone around could have witnessed it!
WE ARE HALLOWEEN Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:39 pm
sweetm00n rocketed out of her chair with a scream. "AAAHH!!! ITS HERE!!" She jumped up onto the table, scattering glasses. "AAAAAAAHHH!!!"
< TO Nightbloom: ITS HAPPENING AGAIN!! ITS WORSE!! > < TO Shadowstep: ITS HAPPENING AGAIN!! ITS WORSE!! >
Grabbing her ears and pulling them over her eyes, she sat down on the table and began to cry loudly. All in all, a pretty calm reaction.
OOC
My character's username: sweetm00n My character's level: 5 Character's HP: 30 Current party: Current Guild: Location: Small IC description of character: A girl with long purple hair in pigtails, and purple eyes. Apart from that, she looks fairly 'normal'. Is dressed in the gear of a Dormouse. Character journal:☾
Blade Kuroda
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Kaiyumi
you've got a message!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:53 pm
...........
GOOD FEELINGS GONE.
The lake could be as comfortable and inviting as it wanted when the walls melted away and a thousand grasping hands came at her it was time to move.
WarQueen did not hesitate to run, out of the room, and back up the stairs, which suddenly appeared from the ruins as everything went back to normal.
She skidded to a halt at the top, and looked towards the one, who was there, and had been there when she had arrived.
"You! Girl! Did you see that?" Insanity couldn't get her here, could it??
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:59 pm
Continuing to cry until she got her first reply back, sweetm00n sniffled and rubbed her face, getting down stiffly off the table. No one else had been around... was everyone else getting - eaten?? After what she had seen, she wouldn't doubt it. Sniffing and sobbing, she shuffled around, covering her face and rubbing her hands together anxiously. Should she leave? What if it was /following her/!!
< TO Nightbloom: THE GROUND OPENED UP!! AND THERE WERE HANDS COMING UP!! 8( > < TO Shadowstep: THE GROUND PEELED UP AND THERE WERE CLAWED BLACK HORRIBLE HANDS EVERYWHERE AND THERE WAS SCREAMING AND EVERYTHING WAS BEING TORN APART!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >
For once in her life, she didn't feel like she needed to exaggerate anything that had just happened. She didn't want to stay here, not alone. Blowing her nose on the front of her coat, she froze as the other player came charging up the stairs. Jumping slightly, she burst into tears again, words becoming utterly indecipherable behind the fountain of water emitting from her eyes. Yes, there was a slight chance that she had seen that.
OOC
My character's username: sweetm00n My character's level: 5 Character's HP: 30 Current party: Current Guild: Location: Small IC description of character: A girl with long purple hair in pigtails, and purple eyes. Apart from that, she looks fairly 'normal'. Is dressed in the gear of a Dormouse. Character journal:☾
Blade Kuroda
Kaiyumi
Seussi
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:08 pm
Okay so, all things considered, WarQueen could perhaps fairly safely assume that she was not going crazy? At least, the girl was sobbing and maybe trying to talk but her babbling was quite indecipherable and all she could do was stand there and stare, her eyebrows raised.
But there had definitely been hands. Clawed and black, reaching through the floor. It had happened in an instant, the lake room destroyed with nothing but chaos and destruction in it's wake. It had been both beautiful and horrible.
It could have meant everything or absolutely nothing at all.
She took determined strides towards the girl, her face falling into a grim expression as she approached. "Shhhhhhh, girl. It is over now. Is this something you have seen yet before?" She asked, reaching out with a clawed hand that hesitated, wondering if, in this state, she might only succeed in frightening the other off.
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:13 pm
Shaking her head back and forth quickly, sweetm00n blew her nose on her coat again, making a loud blorrt noise. Right now she was just so relieved to have another player there. When the world froze, it was terrifying to be the only one moving. "D - do I habbnt..... i oddy saw somdink else add de guild halll...." Her words were thick as she tried to calm down and at least get some control on the hysteria that was flailing around inside her.
OOC
My character's username: sweetm00n My character's level: 5 Character's HP: 30 Current party: Current Guild: Location: Small IC description of character: A girl with long purple hair in pigtails, and purple eyes. Apart from that, she looks fairly 'normal'. Is dressed in the gear of a Dormouse. Character journal:☾
Seussi
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:48 pm
She had almost fallen asleep on the little seat that she had taken up, her eyes lightly closing as the comfortable daylight.
Of course that didn't last at all.
The feeling was like a gasp - a silence that happened almost immediately, making the woman's eyes snap open and look around, holding on to the park bench as everything shook, dark hands shooting out and grasping at her, shrieks and noises smashing from all sides, making her gasp out loud.
Just like that, it all ended.
Taking off as fast as she could, she ran up the stairs back to the main room, catching sight of WarQueen, gasping out loud.
"You saw that also!?"She stated in short breaths.
OOC
My character's username: Golden My character's level: 7 Character's HP: 30 Current party: -- Current Guild: -- Small IC description of character: A small, quiet woman who is adorned with a very pale set of Dormouse clothing, marking her a healer. She is often viewed as a little confused, considering everything. Character journal:x
Sweetm00n glanced over at the other arrival, feeling herself calm down more as others arrived, her heart rate slowing from a frantic whine. It was hard to be terrified when you were with others. She gave a nod of confirmation at the new arrival's question, then blinked, distracted, as her pocket card binged. Her other friends were replying. The hairs on the back of her neck settling back down, she gave her nose a final blow.
< TO Shadowstep: It was just like the first time. Everything stopped moving, stuff happened, then it all reverted and went back to normal. <: ( >
< TO Nightbloom: It wasn't dangerous I think? It was more like a vision. But it was really scary! Thank you, but there are other people here now, so I think I'm safe. : ) >
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My character's username: sweetm00n My character's level: 5 Character's HP: 30 Current party: Current Guild: Location: Small IC description of character: A girl with long purple hair in pigtails, and purple eyes. Apart from that, she looks fairly 'normal'. Is dressed in the gear of a Dormouse. Character journal:☾
Nerpin
Kaiyumi
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:53 pm
[Entering via ALICE death]
Everything was dark. He swore his eyes were open but he couldn't see anything. He was floating, or least he thought he was. There was nothing around him but open air and eeriness. His heart gave a painful, panicked thump.
He heard a scream. Something familiar that made his heart drop into his stomach.
"Chel!" he shouted.
He struggled, but he couldn't feel anything, couldn't get anywhere. He was stuck in the darkness.
She screamed again, sobbed something that sounded like his name.
"Chel! Chel where are you?!" He screamed, his voice going hoarse in his fear.
She screamed and he swore it was so close to him he could feel it on his skin. He cried out and tried to reach for the sound, but there was nothing but air.
One last scream, and then something pierced his chest. Hot blood wet his skin.
He woke up.
He came to with a painful gasp and looked around. He recognized what looked like a tavern, so he wasn't in the room with ALICE anymore.
He also wasn't with his guild, which struck him as a bad thing. He needed to get back to his team.
OOC
My character's username: TotallyAllan / Chris Axten My character's level: 70 Character's HP: 40 Current party: -- Current Guild: Penumbra Small IC description of character: Blonde dude in all blue caterpillar garb. looks like a dweeb. Character journal:Here