⇨ THE GAME CUBE

[ringleaders]

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.

Comments

[betheman]

Yamato..? [Nope hasn't met the guy. But that said.] If the surviving are able to move onward as you did, then perhaps they are scattered throughout the remaining level...

[Hmmmm...He frowns.] It may be wise to attempt to gather everyone here, then...

[starseedling]

[Steven swallows, and then nods, looking a bit more determined. Gathering people sounds doable. Way more doable than fighting those guys alone.]

I'll go look! I'll come back soon, okay?

[Steven flaps his bat wings and takes off, gliding out of the boss rooms into off into the large caverns that lay before it. He'll be gone for a while, but when he comes back presumable there are other people in the boss room as well, but I'm not going to go into detail because, really, there's a lot of moving parts here.

He has a bag he's holding in his mouth, which he lets drop to the floor with a glass sounding 'tink'. He gasps, catching his breath.]

There's gunna... be here soon. I tried but... everyone's all scattered.

[otoko]

Alright. [He'll be waiting. In this room. With his pokemon-turned-bush friend.

He is nothing if not patient however, and soon enough that patience is rewarded. By then, he's absolutely spoken to a few others himself-but really, those kinds of timelines are fuzzy and hard and at this point there's only one thing important.

Is that lunch] Steven-!

...You've done well, [Gongenzaka tells him, nodding.] What is that..bag, however?

[starseedling]

Oh!

[He paws it open... a few bottles fill with colourful liquids roll out.]

Someone gave these to me! They're booster potions... they were supposed to be for the Users, but the person playing that NPC decided to cheat and give them to me!

[Steven has zero problem with cheating in this context.]

[otoko]

[As Gongenzaka is presently telling himself, computers probably can't cheat anyway.

He blinks at the mention of such an npc, peering down at the bottles.] That would mean then...ah! You have met with Jimmy, then! ....I, the man Gongenzaka, was able to hear him earlier...