⇨ 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

[mirrortide]

"I meant don't crash face first into the ground when trying to touch down." Gosh, Peridot. Use your head.

[periphrasing]

Or DON'T use it, as the case may be.

"Oh," she squeaks, gazing uncertainly towards the floor again. And then more confidently: "Oh. Well obviously I'm going to try to avoid that," Peridot snorts, still very pointedly staying put right where she is.

[mirrortide]

Lapis waits, and when Peridot doesn't do anything, she shrugs her shoulder a bit. "Come on, Peridot, open your wings. You can do it." Look at her, she's being very supportive right now.

[periphrasing]

But she's scared.

Lapis's support is pretty encouraging, though. Truth be told, Peridot doesn't really want to do this, but it's hard to admit that when Lapis is apparently invested in teaching her, and maybe even in seeing her succeed? The imp groans again, claws tightening lightly on the demon's shoulder as she deliberates. It can't hurt to try, right?

Steeling herself with a huff, she suddenly pushes off of Lapis's shoulder and leaps out into the open air, unfurling her wings. Things seem to be going well at first; she's a little unsteady, but she makes it a few feet out just at a regular glide--

And then at about the last half of the distance, she loses her nerve and devolves into some panicked flapping before making a crash landing into the floor. Whoops.

[mirrortide]

Well. She hadn't expected Peridot to flop a glide of all things, but she swoops down next to her, skidding lightly on the floor and crouching down next to her. "Are you alright? You panicked."

She offers her hand to help her up, and she does actually sound concerned about Peridot panicking over what is to her, a very simple thing.