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[opening_act]

Who: Anyone
When: Day 1, Afternoon
Where: The Arena
What: With any luck, answers.

[ You've met each other, and at least some of the confused amnesiacs have ventured out into the closest thing the sealed city has to open air, outside the dormitory building they woke in. The arena loomed large, the biggest landmark the city had to offer, and at some elected to explore the large building.

For those that didn't, the grand flash of light that fills the streets, coming from the direction of the Arena may call attention to it.

For those already there, the blinding light that suddenly blazed into existence is impossible to miss, pure and bright. If they closed their eyes reflexively, they may not notice, but the observant might notice that the flash left no afterimage on their closed eyelids. For those with their eyes left open, they will find the light doesn't hurt, or diminish their vision when they look away, though they still have difficulty seeing into that burning core.

Not long after, the light starts to dim. At the core of it, a mass of brilliant wings, too numerous to count keeps itself aloft in a constant whirr of motion and feathers. Or— maybe that's wrong, in certain moments there are no pure white feathers but stripped musculature, raw and writhing, with far too many eyes hidden amongst the folds.

Will you approach? ]

Comments

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Whatever reason she's got, the execution was just plain crummy.

[virtuesandweiss]

Execution? You're figuring all this was Wings?

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Maybe. Maybe not.

Good odds she had more input than we did, though.

[virtuesandweiss]

Monsters like that are for heavy lifting, not decision making.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Cause you've dealt with monsters like that before.

[virtuesandweiss]

[ snorts ]

No idea. But look at how it has your hackles raised. It knows it too. Was pretty quick to take on that girl's body.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

The hell's that supposed to mean?

[virtuesandweiss]

If there'd been just another girl there, you would have assumed maybe you just missed her before. Big winged monster shows up out of nowhere, results not so good.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

So you think it's... what? Wearing a shape it thinks'll sit better with us?

[virtuesandweiss]

No other reason for it.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

She's a lady. Maybe she just likes to dress up nice.

[But he is looking less happy about this situation by the second.]

[virtuesandweiss]

[ weiss looks unimpressed, but he looks fairly specifically unimpressed with him, rather than the situation at large ]

Daddy's judgmental.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Only when I've got a good reason to be.

[virtuesandweiss]

[ shrugs ]

That's that, then. But you can tell why I'm skeptical she's here as much more than a grunt.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

She keeps laying it all on her boss.

Him I'd like to talk to.

[virtuesandweiss]

If the feeling was mutual, he'd be here. Or send something other than a monster out to talk to us.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

...she's saying we can't walk.

[virtuesandweiss]

[ looks up ]

Yeah, was thinking the big walls gave that away.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

There's a difference between walls and walls with no way through.

[virtuesandweiss]

Checked it out with another Erelim already. Didn't see any exit ports.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

So maybe you didn't look hard enough.

And what the hell's Erelim?

[virtuesandweiss]

Maybe not.

[ taps the tattoo on the back of his hand ]

Erelim.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

That sign?

[virtuesandweiss]

I've been eavesdropping. Sounds like the words on the walls of the floor we woke up on are the names of our teams.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

What, so she sorted us out, too?