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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-05-07 05:49 pm

⇨ THE GAME CUBE

Who: Everyone who gets caught in the game.
When: Day 97
Where: Hellbound Hallows, the game inside of a cube inside of a city inside of a computer.
What: On Day 97, a massive Game Cube drops on the city of Mainframe, forcing those caught inside to fight against the User for their lives. This log is 100% Hellbound Hallows gameplay. Plotting deets are here.
Warnings: Diablo-esque violence, characters dying, and edgy video game aesthetic gore.

HELLBOUND HALLOWS
The Game Cube drops close to the entrance of the carnival - so much so that it will end up pulling a lot of people from it in, out of sheer terrible luck. Alternatively, your character may have seen it coming down and understood what allowing the programs to fail would mean, dashing in to be caught beneath it out of sheer heroism. Maybe you entered the game for some reason in between.

Either way, once the walls of the Cube have passed you, you'll find yourself in a new reality. You find yourself somewhere in the levels of a dungeon crawling game with a dark aesthetic. Some binomes and sprites from the city have been pulled in with you, and all oft them know what to do. It's time to Reboot.

Use the icon button the Ringmaster gave each of you. Tap it twice and say "Reboot", and you'll be able to assume your new form. Maybe it's useful, maybe it's not, but it's probably better than nothing. Probably.

Now, figure out where you fit in to the structure of setting, and wait for the Game to begin.




► LEVEL ONE: Level one is where the Users will enter. With a cold blue aesthetic, it appears to be some manner of underground fortress, filled with many hallways and grand archeways. In a standard game, the enemies here would be theoretically the easiest to defeat, but you are under no obligation to follow those rules. Level one is ruled over by Sora, rebooted into the form of a vampiric overlord. He must be defeated in order for the Users to gain access to level two.




► LEVEL TWO: The colour pallet shifts to purple here, the corridors becoming darker and only lit with scattered braziers and the occasional stream of lava. Banners and tapestries depicting some hellish god line the walls. The traps here are primarily fire based, with lava traps or geysers of flame becoming more common. Level two is ruled over by Yamato, who has rebooted into the form of a fiery hellbeast. He must be defeated to access level three.




► LEVEL THREE: As the colours shift into a sickly green, the Users will reach the final level. The architecture is shaped based on the screaming faces of the damned, and the rooms are large and dramatic, filled with vast obelisks and deep chasms. Subterranean plant life haunts the floors and shadows of this place, and poison traps become deadly and common. Level three is ruled over by the man Gongenzaka, the final boss of of the game. If he is defeated, the Users have won. Do not let this happen.
kingsroads: (maybe don't DO that?!)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-05-13 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
What happens when a skeleton that's all chill and a magician with no chill try to come up with a battle plan? Chaos, probably. And a lack of an actual plan.

"I suppose I'll explore the dungeon and stop moving when I hear anyone approaching. After all, there can't be that many Users, can there?" It's a big dungeon but it's still an enclosed dungeon. If there were too many Users in here, none of them would be able to get anything done and the dungeon would be too crowded. It makes sense, in theory.
osteothropy: (pray to god our kids live long enough)

[personal profile] osteothropy 2017-06-07 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pretty sure there's four," Sans says, after a moment. "But sure, I guess. If you've really got that many ants in your pants when why not chase the Users around."

He shrugs.

"Figurative pants of course. Since you're a box right now."
kingsroads: (something something peninsula)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-06-07 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
About that whole box thing....

"You and Papyrus would know about this sort of thing, right?" They're skeletons, this dungeon is full of skeletons, Sans made that joke about chest mimicks, it kind of makes sense. (Strange, that's prejudiced, not all skeletons know about monsters). "I honestly can't believe I'm asking this, but have you ever met any boxes before?"

He has no idea how to be a box in the first place. He's got moving. And talking. And...probably he can do something with this disgusting tongue of his? And really, that's about it, Strange is unsurprisingly hopeless.
osteothropy: (you are drafted into the skeleton war)

[personal profile] osteothropy 2017-06-07 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh, yeah. Pretty much," he says, and if he's offended he doesn't make it obvious. (He's not.) "Monsters come in all kinds of forms, and some of them are sort of inanimate looking, except for the part where they're not. Not that I'm exactly immersed in their culture or anything."

He leans back in his coffin. Hopefully Strange has enough time to sort this out because the Users get in here in time to murder him mid babble.

"Monsters all use magic as easy as breathing, though, so if you can't do that here then what I know of 'em probably doesn't apply. Except for the part where they stand really still and wait for people to bother them."
kingsroads: (maybe staring makes it work)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-06-07 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Well this is Strange, so the likelihood that he'll get murdered by the Users no matter what is pretty high. Still, he lets out a small 'hmm' as he stills, thinking things over.

"I can't access my magic in the Mainframe to begin with, let alone in the game. Standing still might be the only similarity."

Which really ticks him off and makes him hate the Internet even more. Why would this stupid game turn him into something where he couldn't use his magic and needed to remain calm in the first place?!
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[personal profile] osteothropy 2017-06-07 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Guess we all need a lesson in being humble once in a while, huh?"

Sans does not sincerely hold that opinion about this at all, honestly, and is pretty much just saying it to see if Strange will flip out. Like, whether this game is fair or not, as humans go he's extra cocky, which is saying a lot because humans are just so obnoxious in general.
kingsroads: (maybe don't DO that?!)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-06-07 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Some humans are especially obnoxious, case in point, this guy. Strange just laughs as Sans mentions a lesson in humility, a short bitter laugh before he starts bitching and moaning.

"Humble? No, this isn't 'humbling' by any means, there's nothing humbling about me being denied my magic. It's inconvenient, needless, and absolutely horrible." His tone is tight and tense, as if he's just about ready to go on a rant about how this place is awful, the experience is degrading, he doesn't even have arms, and so on and so forth.

"You can't even move by yourself! How is that humbling?"