IN THE FOREST OF THE LOST

[beathollow]

it's all too perfect.

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[beathollow]

As you figure out how to handle the strings, or make your way inside with caution...

...

Well, it's dark. There's still the sound of crying.

But Celeste, Fray, Arven and Yoon can hear something playing softly.

[strawsandals]

[ Oh- he's going to head towards the music. ]

Something's playing...?

[beathollow]

It's down the hall, and there's a dim light.

[strawsandals]

There's a light over here!

[ He'll call out to everyone (or like. whoever's still listening with all the pride parade nonsense going on) and start going towards the light. ]

[townmusician]

[Haruka is following, I guess, because he is not too distracted by thirst to be a PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF THIS GROUP]

[cleansewithfire]

[ Sunrise will follow after! ]

[moodwrecker]

[As usual Aubrey doesn't notice shit but hey, Yoon seems to know what he's doing so off to follow him!]

[cirquedesang]

[I mean we can be productive...! And can follow the light and the music.]

[emptyself]

[ soujuurou goes forward through the strings, and though he’s occasionally cut by the strings, he seems to pay it all no mind. ]

[idealitas]

[ Following Yoon! Bring on the verbal slaughter. ]

[bloodweapon]

[You know what that means!! Time to wander off toward that dim light!]

[beathollow]

...

Fray can pass through unhindered.

[idealitas]

[ Yi Sang does not like the sound of that crying at all.

And per the discord flavor text, he's checking on poor Mafuyu's Heart (???) to see it flicker. He'll hold it close. ]

[beathollow]

It radiates pain.

... But, in the glow of the heart, he's at least spared notice from whatever is afflicting the others.

[idealitas]

[ Yi Sang won't cross until it's okay to, aka when the wires are cut or something.

And to explain to the others! ]

I was told... This is Mafuyu's Heart. It was guarded by wires like those.

[vogelfrei]

[ Ah... yeah, looking at that.. ]

It certainly looks like how she'd imagine her own heart to look.

[ He's just kind of going to keep staring at it with a melancholy expression, which is not very helpful. A lonely apple on a barren tree... Desire... ]

[goei]

[Izou's going to head down the hall much less gingerly, he's going to try to cut any strings with his sword that feel especially obtrusive to try and make the passage easier to get through. I rolled a 12 preemptively for whatever consequences this has.]

I'll clear the way a bit fer the rest of ya.

[beathollow]

There's a loud crash and clang as chairs and clocks and tables and vases all collapse, falling into each other- and then the strain of something creaking, as the fallen furniture rests upon the things that haven't been cut back yet.





The heavy feeling of thousands of eyes upon his back weigh heavily on him. How filthy.

[goei]

Yeah, yeah, stare all ya want, it ain't nothing I haven't felt before, ya creepy palace.

[YOU CAN'T HURT ME I ALREADY LIVE WITH THAT. He's just making his way towards where everyone else is headed.]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Eli trying to get through the strings but (4)... he just ends up cutting himself. A few times. Fucking hell. ]

Couldn't we have cut all this crap loose before trying to walk through here? Christ...

[beathollow]

( look at that filth. listen to that language! he doesn't belong here. )

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Grr... ]

I belong wherever I want to belong, so shove it!

[vogelfrei]

[ McGillis is trailing a little behind, happy to let the others walk into any potential traps or tricky wires first. But he is also advancing - he'd rather get to Mafuyu sooner than later. ]

[beathollow]

( ... why is a grown man so invested in a child who isn't his? how scary... )

cw very vague csa allusion

[vogelfrei]

[ He just laughs lowly at that. Woman, the things people do to children who are their own... What a useless metric. ]