EVENT: MELPOMENE ▒ THE CORRIDORS

[ataraxites]

CHARACTERS: Ensemble production!
LOCATION: Corridors in the belly of the Tranquility
WARNINGS: Creepiness, paranoia, disturbing imagery, violence.
SUMMARY: Characters head out into the corridors in the hopes of rescuing their lost and begin to experience strange and harrowing phenomena.
NOTES: Open to all! Covers Stages One & Two of the plot, June 22 onwards.

The hallways stretch on into a deep darkness ahead of you. You've been out here before, or heard of what happens to those who do — it'd be enough to make anyone turn back. But there are people lost out there that have called for your help, and you're prepared to do what you have to to save them. Aren't you?

Comments

[pushfall]

[ Maybe to compensate, Claire twists her head around, glancing back down the hallway. Nothing bears down on her or rises up immediately in her face after the one that reaches for Severus, and she's thankful for that, already at capacity for twisted expressions and features that blur and contort when she stares at them for longer than it takes to look away. He's right, though: save the figures that erupt out of shadow as shadow themselves, there's no one else left. She's stupid for not paying attention, but recognizes that the Tranquility's penchant for splitting people up can't be overlooked. Look what happened last time.

In response, Claire tightens her grip on his hand by slipping his fingers between hers, locked tight and less likely to get pulled apart. There's no room or time to feel awkward about it; she doesn't even spare a thought. Instead the limited time available to reflect on their possible decision is spared for only one aspect of this particular portion of their trek. Save for that painful experience when the phantoms pass through them and the hallucinations (and the smudges and the tapping and everything), nothing terrible has actually happened out here. Whatever is behind that door could be just as bad or a hundred times worse.

It could also lead them to everyone who has been lost, since wandering around down here hasn't. ]

In there.

[ She'll check that he's okay once the door is closed behind them. For now, she doesn't look at him. ]

[darkart]

[ 'Don't go in any doors' was suggest as the ship's #1 rule before the rescue parties set out, but there's nowhere else to go except further down hallways that Severus suspects won't ever end. Even if it's worse inside, worse is what they're looking for - because worse is what's keeping the teams down here, it's what's luring people away.

Severus has been through worse than a fucked up hallway, he's felt worse than that burning. He's sure he'll have still been through worse than whatever's on the other side of the door.

He hits the panel to open it with his free hand, and walks inside, pulling Claire close with him so they aren't dragged apart. ]