SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE. ADVENTURES!

[adharma]

[ DAY 52. ]

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[adharma]

Are you making a very good decision, here?

[steampunked]

[shrugs]

You're curious. I'm curious. There's no consent issue. Unless you're hiding an ability up your sleeve, I've got control of when I disengage. I've done more dangerous things lately.

[adharma]

All right. Do I have do anything to let you in?

[steampunked]

Well. If you were awake it'd be a bit weird.

[adharma]

[ hahaha ]

I suppose it would.

[ I guess finds a comfy place to sit down. ]

[steampunked]

I'll put you out, and then we'll get started. I won't have that long in there, because of Three's crap, but it'll be enough to have a poke around, at least. I won't change anything the way people were during Dream's game, obviously.

[adharma]

[ lol ]

I'm sure it'll be fun for everyone.

[steampunked]

[raises an eyebrow at him.]

You sure about this?

[adharma]

Of course.

[steampunked]

[sighs.]

Okay then. Sleep. [you will have quite a sudden urge to do that right now.]

[adharma]

[ . . .I GO TO SLEEP LAUGHING. ]

[steampunked]

[boy you crazy. Once he's asleep, just looks at him for a minute. DE . . . BAT . . . ING . . . ]

[adharma]

[ . . . :T and back down from such a great challenge? ]

[steampunked]

[UGH FINE YES YOUR CRAZY IS VERY INTERESTING TO ME. Mind dive it is!]

[adharma]

[ You are in a small rectangular room. The floor is covered in debris -- curls of wallpaper, broken wood, paper, more paper, candy bar wrappers, empty bottles, some broken furniture, and a lot of soot. The left wall looks torn into -- the wallpaper torn away showing wood support beams and hard concrete. The right wall is composed of six windows. The wall behind you is red brick with black grout -- there is a strong feeling of don't look behind you. don't go there. coming from that wall. There's something written on the wall in front of you. ]

[steampunked]

[... huh! Heading over to the wall with writing, for purposes of reading it.]

[adharma]

[ There is a wheel dawn on the wall in front of you. In the center hub of the wheel are some wooden figures of animals: a very large snake wrapped around a bird that is tearing into a dead pig. There is a black ring around the hub. It looks a bit like the ring didn't used to be black, but someone's applied pencil to it and filled it in dark. Around the dark ring is a wider ring divided into six segments. There's another ring outside of the six-segmented-ring, this one is divided into twelve segments. At the top of the wheel a skull is etched, and at the four 'corners' of the wheel are four skeletal hands are drawn, holding it. ]

[steampunked]

[hmmm. trying to smear some of the pencil off the ring with her thumb . . .]

[adharma]

[ it works! The graphite blackens her finger a bit and smears across the drawing -- careful not to jostle the wooden figures too much -- and reveals there was indeed something drawn underneath ]

[steampunked]

[and what was the something?]

[adharma]

[ Six people are drawn this ring. Three moving up and three moving down. ]

[steampunked]

Teammates, huh . . . that's interesting.

[goes to look out of the closest window to the wall.]

[adharma]

[ All of the windows look out onto the same landscape. It looks like the clearing and the ring where you play games. You can even see the mutant tree. Between the third and fourth window there is a big iron hook embedded in the wall.

. . . but you're also five stories up . . . ]

[steampunked]

[right! Okay. Now time to examine the dilapidated wall.]

[adharma]

[ Is frigid. The closer you stand to it the colder you feel. If you stand too close you can see your breath. If you touch it, frost will start forming on your fingertips. ]