menace
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Character Name: dominic
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Post by menace on May 21, 2023 15:31:50 GMT -7
darkness, he sat in the darkness alone without any sense of time or place but his consciousness telling him to wake up. it thrummed like a beating drum (slow and steady) but his desire for life began to speed up his thoughts until he finally gained consciousness and opened his eyes. this didn't feel like home any more; in fact, what was home? his mind felt like an empty slate of his old memories but what he did know was that wasn't it and all of this felt new and foreign.
"hello?" dominic really called out to nobody as he could feel the grime and dirt that caked onto his skin. quickly, the young man tried to gather his strength to stand but his legs were numb and didn't seem to be working yet.
someone had to have answers, right?
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Adelyn
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Post by Adelyn on May 21, 2023 18:51:48 GMT -7
Nothingness was the only description of the sleeping girls mind. No flashing lights, memories flying through her head, purely a blank slate. Her eyes opened, slowly, briefly. Quickly closing them and rubbing away the crusty, dry feeling that dragged her eyelids back down.
"Hello?" She heard. Her eyes now managing to at least stay open in a squint as she looked towards the sound, darkness hiding any figure as her eyes attempted to adjust.
"Hello!? Who's there?" She called back. Her voice was soft yet confident, though she felt fear coursing through her, unaware of what was happening...what had happened. The feeling of helplessness was a fear of most peoples after all. Not knowing whether she had a future or....not.
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menace
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Character Name: dominic
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Post by menace on May 21, 2023 19:14:08 GMT -7
Dominic could hear the sound of liquid dripping, perhaps a bustling village outside of wherever he was, and an inkling of a feeling that there was someone else around. He sat there in exhaustion until he heard the voice calling out, asking who he was.
This could all be one huge trap if he didn't play it carefully. "I'm Dominic... Who are you?" As distrusting as ever, Dom gripped to the stone on the floor that he could to push himself up, at least a little bit.
His legs finally gaining feeling as he scooted to the wall trying to use it to get himself somewhat standing, a lot of his bodyweight still being placed onto the wall. "If you're here to kill me, I won't let you take me so easily!"
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Adelyn
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Post by Adelyn on May 21, 2023 19:54:27 GMT -7
Adelyn heard the voice again, a man, youngish likely. The voice answered her question, suprisingly to Adelyn who expected a back and forth squabble.
Though what she thought would be a back and forth of questions with little answers she quickly realized could end up much worse. She had heard him moving but the voice gave away his position yet again and she moved to look where it came from.
"Kill you? Why would i do that?" Adelyn questioned, an inquisitiveness to her voice. She didnt exactly feel threatened, but she did feel unaware. "Should i be? Have you done something?" She replied having ignored his prior question as she began to plan what needed to happen if he lashed out.
She herself had begun to back up slowly until she felt her hand on a wall where she stopped to wait for a reply, making sure to avoid the voice for the moment at least.
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menace
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Character Name: dominic
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Post by menace on May 21, 2023 21:18:46 GMT -7
Finally able to stand, it's as though his body is slowing becoming his own again after being stagnant and still for so long. "I don't know! Why would I know that? You people forced me here." He quickly looked for a rock of some sort with jagged edges as protection, this all still felt so surreal and like nothing he'd ever experienced before.
"Have you done something? Are you a killer?" He asks back into the darkness that he can't see, thinking he might be talking to a human, but perhaps just shouting to the heavens in absolute insanity. He knew nothing here, and he needed answers.
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Adelyn
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Post by Adelyn on May 22, 2023 7:33:42 GMT -7
Unsure of what exactly to do Adelyn could only keep track of the voice, staying particularly far away from it as much as she could. What a weird question, wouldn't the boy know if he was worthy of being killed or not? If he had done nothing wrong he should consider himself fine. But at the same time, given the likelihood he was in the same boat she was...he was probably just as confused as she was.
"Wait...what..." Adelyn said in pure bewilderment...no she had never killed anyone, never even thought about it...that she knew of at least. "No, I think we are both just as lost. I have no intentions to hurt you if you don't have intention to hurt me. I think we both want answers but clearly neither of us has them." Adelyn said out to the voice. "My name's Adelyn. I woke up here only moments ago, see if you can find a door or something." She called.
Her hope was if the boy had some sort of direction he might let go of whatever aggression he may be feeling, place it somewhere else maybe. Not at her.
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menace
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Character Name: dominic
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Post by menace on May 22, 2023 15:30:04 GMT -7
“Me too.” Dominic said in such a relieved tone until he remembered that this place was still incredibly foreign to him and that they weren’t any closer to getting out.
“Okay, I’ll try to find something.” He was willing to work with Aedlyn for now but it didn’t mean that he trusted her outright. In fact, how could he really when he still didn’t know himself of what was going on.
His body finally began to slowly come back to him as he wobbled next to the wall and let his hands guide him across the perimeter. There was a horrid stench that he simple ignored while he moved deeper into the room and the darkness until he thought he found a door — it was wooden by the sound of it and had a large circular metal hanger on it as though a knob.
“Hey! I think I found something if you want to come to me. Maybe we can both get the hell out of here together.” And if they walked into another trap, sometime having a friend was the best bet.
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Adelyn
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Post by Adelyn on May 22, 2023 21:09:50 GMT -7
Adelyn was happy he at least seemed to go with her idea of searching for a way out cordially. She, like him probably, still would be weary of the man. But it was hard to not at least hope the person who seemed to be in a similar state of being as you was on your side some amount at least.
She quickly started tracing her hands along the wall feeling for any sort of opening, or change in surface. However, outside of some cracks that almost fell like the crack of a doorway there was never a change in actual material. Just stone that had slowly been reduced in certain spots or cracked from the effect of time presumably. Thankfully it seemed her "friend" had more luck than her.
It was again a slight debate in her whether or not to trust the voice that called out to her to come to him, yet she was not good stuck in the room so she obliged. Sliding quickly along the floor she made sure to move straight to where the voice had come from. Her hand outstretched in front of her touched something soft and she quickly recoiled "Oh...my bad sorry, hard to see." she said her hand shooting back as she had walked her hand into the man. "Well, open it and lets see what we got!" the girl said, half excited and half nervous.
Of course there was hope for an escape, but there was also pessimism in her that said it was just a door to more darkness.
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menace
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Post by menace on May 22, 2023 22:35:36 GMT -7
He had felt himself getting a bit more situated at the task at hand, a deep exhale helped to ground him as he held the door and waited to see if a friend would be showing up. "You made it." Dominic smiled, not that it could really be seen and with her honesty and truth, he pulled the door open and a blinding white light was let in that caused his eyes to squint.
"What's out there?" Dominic asked as he slowly peeked an eye open, still no idea if he'd find himself and his usual voice in a place like this.
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Adelyn
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Post by Adelyn on May 22, 2023 23:03:15 GMT -7
All Adelyn could see after the mans response was a blinding light, her arm quickly covering her eyes as she looked past the bottom part of what she could now see to be some fairly mangled rags on her body. It seemed to be a fairly large set of stone stairs that traveled up and to the right, into the light that blinded the two presumably. But what was more disturbing, at least to the girl, was the clear footprints, that traveled in the same direction they would be. But yet, missing the same amount of footsteps traveling towards them.
Albeit, the details were hard given how the stone had clearly been quite old, and tred upon many times. "Seems to be a set of stairs" Adelyn said in reply to the mans question.
It was now she managed to get a look at the figure, it did in fact seem to be a man after all, taller than her (though that wasn't hard) with sharp features. Tanned, clearly different in relation to the climate he had grown up in compared to her rather pale tone. "Well, you are the guy so....after you!" Adelyn commented, a warm smile following if he had bothered to turn to look even.
Scared wasn't exactly the word she would use, but the idea that others had traversed the same path had her on edge, not that she hadn't been already. "Just keep an eye out, I don't think we are the first to come out of this room." She offered at least some sort of advice. Just....fighting was something she hoped to avoid.
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menace
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Post by menace on May 23, 2023 15:48:44 GMT -7
Dominic turned around and gave the other a quick stare down while she forced him to go out first. "Alright, fine but don't push me." With the door now open, he meandered forward slowly filled with nerves. Little did she know that Dominic barely knew what he was doing, but perhaps it would come back to him in time.
He entered first, the stairs were easy enough once he placed his weight down with each step accordingly and seemed to make it to the top of what seemed to be a very large building, random decorations haphazardly in the room with couches, chairs, and places to sit and fur rugs strewn about.
"Where the hell are we..."
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Adelyn
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Post by Adelyn on May 23, 2023 19:55:49 GMT -7
She was grateful he went first, if nothing else he would be a good shield, but she also felt uneasy at the idea of a man following her closely behind her. "I won't push you geez, you brought up all the killing stuff not me. Ima hold your shirt though, just incase something is a trap and you slip on something and fall to your death I can catch you." It was a reason, but not the main one. Honestly she just felt safer holding on to the man.
It didn't take long though before they found another room and Dominic stepped into it, as did Adelyn who released him. "What the heck...well this is whack." Just as Adelyn finished however, the sound of stone moving could be heard from in front of them. It seemed at first as if it was moving in an indiscriminate direction before it revealed to be function much like a door. Which, as it opened revealed an outside world. Two large figured in metal armor stood by the door, as if protecting it, but now letting them pass. And behind them, a large open field.
"Hmm, they seem to not be dangerous. After you Dominic." She said again, smiling warmly as she felt slightly better at the new prospect of at least being in the open air.
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