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

[gilding]

[Emma's lingering confusion is inconvenient, but not as badly so as her belief in the illusion had been - they can resolve it better when they're free from the room, a course of action that's looking more and more pressing as the seconds tick by. Still, he meets Regina's gaze with an equally impatient and unimpressed look.]

Any suggestion on an exit would be very welcome.

[uncurse]

[ Emma gives Regina a look like nO FUCKING KIDDING IT'S A SPACE SHIP. Thanks, bitch. The weird part is that Mary Margaret's apartment is apparently in it. She stows that confusion for a moment and glances behind her to the glowing white door that ... should lead to the bathroom, but definitely doesn't. Not that way.

And Gold and Regina had come through the front door, so ... Emma's eyes flick up the stairs. She moves away from the kitchen island. ]

Come on. There's a bedroom upstairs.

[ Because obviously none of these doors are leading to where they're actually supposed to lead, so somehow that seems like a reasonable suggestion. Just when she moves towards the stairs, the island begins to sink steadily into the floor as if it's black, noxious quicksand. The room is collapsing in on itself. ]

[unmothered]

[That... can't be good. Regina stops on the staircase, turning to stair in horror at the sinking island.]

You two are the experts here. That isn't supposed to happen, right?

[But she's definitely not curious enough to stop moving for long. She starts backing up the stairs faster, hoping Emma's right about the bedroom.]

[gilding]

[Gold looks over his shoulder just as the top of the kitchen island disappears, the black substance already seeming to spread through the floor, approaching the very staircase they're standing on.]

Let's not linger to watch it.

[He looks more irritated than scared, but that wasn't really unusual for him. At least Regina was already moving. He can only hope Emma's guess at another doorway was correct, because they weren't getting back down to try any others.]

[uncurse]

[ This is a useless tag of Emma moving towards the stairs because GET IT TOGETHER REGINA BEEP BEEP. ]

[unmothered]

{Regina's done looking behind her, instead hurrying up the stairs, scrambling for the bedroom door. She grabs the doorknob and wrenches it open.]