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capemods ([personal profile] capemods) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2013-08-26 02:56 am

ASTHENOA

WHO: The imPorts trapped in a video game.
WHERE: The virtual world of Asthenoa.
WHEN: 10AM August 26th to 11PM August 31st.
WARNINGS: Violence and fighting. Alert me of anything else for updates.
SUMMARY: A comedy of errors: imPorts are trapped in a Vulcanus-made video game.
FORMAT: As you like it.



Asthenoa is a land set on lush rolling hills under a bright blue sky eternally streaked with clouds. The only celestial variance comes during the nightly setting, where an eternally yellow full moon partially hides behind those clouds. The people of Asthenoa may be human, or elven, or dwarven, or they may have animalistic features, but none of that is of great social concern. Asthenoa has always been this way. The heart of the land is a medieval town set upon one of the highest hills, and the middle of that town sits a majestic stone castle. The busiest part of the town is the center, which hosts the marketplace. There you can buy necessities, or meet the blacksmith and other artisans at their working studios. Beyond the artisanal studios are the taverns and the inns.

Beyond the cheerier inns is a place called The Shriveled Shrike. If you head to the second floor and knock on the third room door thrice and rub your knee against the handle once, it will magically open and expose to you a staircase. People of the Rogue class know this inherently.

The staircase is five flights long. It leads to a black market in a mile long, mile wide underground bunker, where gambling and other darker magicks are indulged. You might meet a necromancer or three. You might run into trouble.

If you were to step out beyond the town, you would have to cross a moat via the drawbridge. It’s always closed up at nighttime, you can only pass during the day.

Beyond the moat (where serpents might swim) is a hilly pasture. Beyond the pasture is an enchanted forest. Strange things happen in these gnarled woods – this is where mystical creatures lurk. Acres of dark wood house sparkling lights and floating orbs and very unusual flora. The fauna includes many mythical beings, including centaurs and fairies and griffins. There could be even more hidden within secret caves or pools of darkening water.

You feel the need to venture past this alluring wood. You feel it deeply.

[personal profile] gandere 2013-09-11 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
I could just mark it in a way that won't disappear.

[ Not that she's going to admit what exactly she means by that (spoilers it involves turning into a wolf again), but she'll huff up all the same. ]

You look like you've seen better days, you know.
glowsferatu: rude, glow (pic#6650763)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-09-12 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen worse. [ but she's downplaying it. all she really wants right now is to be home, in a proper skirt, and maybe cuddling with the girlfriend. instead she has a sword. this doesn't strike her as a terribly unique circumstance.

she pulls her pack around to see what she might have that she doesn't need.
] If you have any bread crumbs, even of the analogical variety, you might be able to leave a trail.

[personal profile] gandere 2013-09-14 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
A trail for the beasts in this maze to come find me? No thank you.

[ So she's been attacked a little bit already judging from the experience she's trying to shove down Kanaya's throat now. ]

It won't surprise me if I close my eyes and open them to something charging right for us. Not that I'm going to do that because I'd just be proven right, but you get what I'm saying.
glowsferatu: wait, thought (This Night Has Opened My Eyes)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-09-15 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
I find it highly likely that they'll probably find us anyway, but if you're really so apprehensive on the matter, it might do to have some company worth their bother in a fight.

[ because she;s been stuck here long enough that she doesn't know that she'll ever make it out and it might be nice not to feel so useless for a bit. ]

[personal profile] gandere 2013-09-19 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
I could elude them a lot better if I was prepared for it. I didn't exactly think this through when I first showed up here and my experience is what I've read in books--which is nothing compared it happening in real life!

[ Her screaming might be what attracts them the most though. ]
glowsferatu: smile (No Small Amount Of Uncertainty)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-09-23 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. The books I've read in settings similar to these didn't tend to focus on that part, really. Luckily I've fought enough monsters outside of them that such an education wasn't really necessary.

[ and, of course, while they were standing here discussing the possibility, a few waxen figures seem to have noticed them, approaching from behind kanaya. she has yet to register this fact. ]

[personal profile] gandere 2013-09-27 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
... Hey Kanaya? Ummmm, hm.

[ She's trying to figure out how to describe them, but her mouth remains open in her stunned silence. What are those?

Enjoy this rare silence. ]
glowsferatu: wait (pic#6649348)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-09-30 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this has the opposite of the intended effect, as it leads kanaya to instead focus on rin. what could get her so quiet so quick? ]

What is it, is there a problem?

[ and then she's knocked over the head by one of them as it tries to swallow her head in its hand. so, that happened. she starts flailing immediately, trying to pull out her sword, but the face full of wax is, needless to say, a bit disorienting. ]