From being an Abandoned who had rarely left the Hollowed Grounds, to embracing the call of adventure, to dying and being reborn first as an Ascended and then as an Ancient, Maea has gone through quite the amount of changes in her life. One thing remains common, though, in her attempts to find out just where she belongs; she’s always had a craving for knowledge which has brought her to so many places and to meet so many people here in Caido. We can’t wait to see what else is in store for her!
Congratulations, Maea!
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Court of the Fallen was created in October of 2018 by Odd, Honey, and Crooked.
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broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings
Two souls awaken in strange vessels, in the dark as they had been when the dream began. The room they arise in is simple, no wider than two men laid across the floor and a ceiling just high enough to allow its occupants to stand. On the right wall rests a mirror, as if placed there only to inform the prisoners of their predicament, their new forms, and mock them for it.
This room has several large cabinets, wardrobes and crates stacked around the walls; it seems it must have once been storage. How you were brought into this chamber is a mystery, because a door cannot be seen: perhaps it is covered? The most likely candidate for this would be the large wooden wardrobe at the north center point of the room, with red handles and neatly carved legs.
Theo, you awaken in the body of Ronin and Noah, you now are in Morgan 's body!! You now possess all their abilities and stats; be sure to look at their profile to see what you have! However, your character still has their own mind and thoughts.
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For this to work, you need to reply quickly! Within 24 hours, please! If you miss your post, it will move on without you! You can post as many times as you like within the 24 hour time limit, so feel free for your characters to have long conversations, etc; keep in mind there will be no NPC replies during nighttime GMT, because Lam is sleeping, so if your characters attempt to do something large (eg come up with a solution to a puzzle, knock down a wall, punch something), please wait for a post from the NPC account.
First task: Wake up, discover your new body, your partner and the room around you.
10-26-2020, 09:43 PM (This post was last modified: 10-26-2020, 09:46 PM by Theo.)
Waking up in strange places wasn't completely alien to Theo -- though he didn't typically drink enough to black out his memory of the night before -- and, since no one was yelling at him to move and nothing seemed about to stab or hit him, he took his sweet time getting up. Huh. His clothes were unfamiliar too ...
He glanced around the room, registering its contents. Hmm, lots of containers to rifle through for valuables -- or just breakfast. And he wasn't alone.
Oh. Oh, shit. Theo's eyes widened as he recognized Morgan Aristomache, captain of the Halovian guard, the woman he'd spent much of the last 10 years avoiding, as her guards inevitaly proved unamused by his shenanigans and petty thefts and especially the beyond-petty thefts. Hadn't she recently been promoted to Warden, too? Great. What was she doing here? What was Theo doing here? What were they doing here together? Also, where was that glow coming from? (It was coming from Theo himself, or rather from Ronin's body, but he was too alarmed to put that together at the moment, or even notice that his body was not his own.)
Play it cool. Keep it under control. She probably doesn't know who you are. He didn't think his exploits had ever quite come to the attention of the guard-captain, and they were definitely below the Warden, especially since he hadn't been back to Halo for a while.
"Hey," he said, trying so hard to play it cool that he barely even noticed that his voice didn't sound like him -- and brushing it off as due to the stress. Why were they here? Drunken tryst, his mind suggested, but that couldn't be right ... could it?
Theo wasn't much for prayer, but he found himself thinking, Ludo, if you're listening, I'm going to need a miracle to get out of this one.
Theo
"Poker" by ND Strupler is licensed with CC BY 2.0.
10-29-2020, 05:22 PM (This post was last modified: 10-29-2020, 05:23 PM by NPC.)
Noah has not replied, and so continues to sleep on the floor, apparently unbothered by Theo's words. As far as Theo is concerned, Warden Aristomache is deeply asleep.
(Until Noah replies, Theo can post attempting to solve the room on his own and the NPC acct will reply).
Ohhhkay. The Warden was sleeping. That was fine; Theo wasn't about to wake her if she needed some beauty rest. However, her presence -- and the possibility of her waking up -- meant that he probably didn't want to try to loot the room, either. Instead, he decided to make getting out his priority. Maybe he could be gone before the Warden even woke up.
No door, though. That was a bit odd. Probably behind some of this stuff ... Maybe he'd have to shift it to get out. Ugh, manual labor. Well, better get started. That big red-handled wardrobe seemed like a likely candidate ...
As Theo crossed the room to check out the wardrobe, he noticed two things: one, that the glow around him was fading somewhat, and two, he happened to pass the mirror and spot a glowing figure moving in it. For a second he froze, wondering who that was, and when the figure in the mirror went still as well, he realized, Oh, that's me. But that ... wasn't him. He crossed to the mirror and stared at the unfamiliar face looking back at him, glowing slightly. Huh. He raised a hand to his face, then made a thieves' cant gesture at himself, just to make sure it really was him in the mirror. Well. He had absolutely not idea what to make of this development; glancing back at the sleeping Warden, he wondered if she'd had something to do with it. But he wasn't about to wake her and ask; instead, he figured that this mystery, like the question of how the two of them had gotten here in the first place, was best solved from somewhere outside this room.
So he turned his attention to the big wardrobe with the red handles, first trying to open it. He figured he'd have to shift it out of the way if the door was behind it, and he wanted to see if there was anything inside he could take out first to lighten the load. Or to steal. Just because Theo had decided to focus on getting out didn't mean he couldn't grab some valuables along the way, if he spotted any.
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Theo tries to open the big wardrobe with the red handles!
Theo
"Poker" by ND Strupler is licensed with CC BY 2.0.
The wardrobe, surprisingly, is full of clothing! When it is opened, a note flutters down to the ground. The note reads: With my lips a crimson to match my raiment, I hoped the Prince might admire my gamboge stockings and bobbin-laced petticoat.
What an odd message. Theo thought it referred to the red dress (#3), the white petticoat (#4), and the yellow stockings (#1), but he wasn't sure how the little puzzle was relevant to his quest to get out of the room. Still, he grabbed those three garments and set them aside, laying them out on a nearby crate. Then he grabbed the rest of the clothes, bundled them up, and tossed them onto another crate. There, wardrobe empty. Now he grabbed the side of it and tried to pull it away from the wall, pivoting towards him, to see if there was a door behind it.
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Theo takes out clothing items #1 (yellow stockings), #3 (red dress), and #4 (white petticoat) and lays them aside, then takes the rest of the clothing out of the wardrobe and tries to pull the wardrobe away from the wall.
Theo
"Poker" by ND Strupler is licensed with CC BY 2.0.
As soon as Theo has taken out all three items he chooses, there is a distinct click of an opening mechanism, before he even needs to remove the others. The back of the wardrobe slides across to reveal an open door, leading into a corridor.
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Congratulations! This is not the end of the event, but you are out of your captivity. Stand by for a thread when others have escaped their rooms. Feel free to chat. When out of the door, they will find a large stone corridor.
