EVENT: MELPOMENE ▒ HOME

[ataraxites]

CHARACTERS: Ensemble production!
LOCATION: Corridors in the belly of the Tranquility
WARNINGS: Creepiness, disturbing imagery, violence, etc.
SUMMARY: Characters discover slices of sanctuary deep in the maze.
NOTES: Open to all! Covers Stage Four of the plot & Escape.

You've been running and fighting for what feels like weeks now. Exhausted and desperate, you find another door, stumbling through into— You're home, finally, far away and safe from monsters or spaceships. You're not alone, someone here who's been waiting for you, and they're so happy to see you. Relief overcomes you; you just want to rest, and there's no reason to believe anything here isn't what it seems, is there?

Comments

[mindtricks]

There's —

[ she hasn't thought about it, and she should have, but ] There's a large window in my old bedroom.

[ large enough to be a door, large enough to go outside because there's a balcony that leads to a staircase that leads back to the corridor. she knows, because her father explained it to her once, in the set of memories that has her father in them. ]

[redhotsummers]

Good--good!

[And as if because she thought of it, it would be there. Because that's how the mind works, right? Still, he heads towards the back area--and there it is, a window.]

You out first, okay?

[mindtricks]

[ there is protest from what is not her mother, but anderson forces herself to ignore it. instead, she gives alex a nod, terse, standing by the window, opening it —

and with one last look at her childhood home and her mother, she forces herself to leave. ]