Event: The Pit

[snowblindmods]

The Pit

On night 329, you have a dream. This may or may not be unusual for you. You dream of falling--a common sort of dream. You fall and fall into darkness toward something that never gets any closer. When you wake up, you're in a room. You're not alone, though: there are many others with you. You might know them, you might not, but all of you had the same dream. No one knows how you all got here from your various scattered positions around Norfinbury, but here you are. The room is white, probably: the uniformly dim lighting makes it hard to distinguish colors, but it's certainly the same color no matter where you look. You have your supplies with you, thankfully, because there's no other source of food or water. There's plenty of company, which may be a welcome change or an unwelcome crowd. There's a hole. It's in the center of the room, and if you could measure it, you would find it perfectly, impossibly circular. It starts out approximately the diameter of an average-sized adult man's shoulder width, but every fifteen minutes it gets a little larger, which may be difficult to notice until it's grown quite a bit. Don't worry, the room widens by the same amount on the same schedule. Looking into it reveals the pitch blackness of a great depth and the barely there grin of something looking up at you, teeth glittering in the way diamonds don't. The longer you're here, the wider the pit grows, the more you want to throw yourself down it. You think you might learn something. Maybe you will. -- This is an optional event. Characters who participate will dream of falling and wake up in the aforementioned room, while those who don't participate will neither have the dream nor wake up in the room. Characters in the room will have disappeared from Norfinbury and cannot interact with anyone not in the event for the duration (one IC day, three OOC days). They will have their tablets with them, but they will not turn on. Anyone outside attempting to contact someone via tablet will have the message go through fine, but the character in the room won't be able to see it until after, given the tablet is off. As mentioned, those who are in the room will have to deal with the pit, which increases in diameter by two inches every fifteen minutes--the room increases as well, so the proportion of room to hole is always the same. The longer the characters are in the room, the more they will feel the urge to jump into the pit. At first it's like an intrusive thought, the sort of "no, that's ridiculous" whisper anyone might have looking out over a great height, but the desire grows stronger and stronger as time passes. There's the undeniable feeling that there's something to be gained by jumping down, though if that's true or not is yet to be seen. Anyone who does jump down will vanish into darkness, not returning until the end of the event. Your character's actions will impact the next event. If your character jumps, please let us know by replying to this comment. If your character trips or is pushed in, let us know, too, but please specify that they tripped or pushed, and if pushed, let us know who did it! The log for this event can be found here.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[snowblindmods]

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

What will it look like to characters who don't dream of the pit but are traveling with characters who do?

Will that character's body actually disappear or will they simply not wake up for all of day 330?

[phaseshifter]

If a character drops an object into the pit, what happens? Do they hear it hit (the thing at/)the bottom?

[deus_ex_phs]

Will characters reappear in the same place they disappeared from, regardless of what they did in the event?

Re: QUESTIONS

[spoileralert]

I'm assuming no but it's worth asking: will shouting into the pit have any effect

[motherserpent]

If a flying creature like a coatl enters the pit, can it fly back up out of it again?

[devoutish]

If supplies are traded/stolen/lost/given away, will the exchange stick, or will they end up with everything they left with when they wake up?

Re: QUESTIONS

[bookofnope]

okay but obligatory what if we bleed into it question

[0thingsonmymind]

So Brian has a camera. Does it pick up antyhing weird/different when filming the pit or the room?

Re: QUESTIONS

[0thingsonmymind]

this is a stupid and probably useless question, but is the room also circular?

[warriorscribe]

If a character sits at the edge of the pit, do they move with the floor as the pit expands or does the floor vanish from under them?

[deus_ex_phs]

How cold is it in the room? Bitterly cold? Just chilly? Warm? Etc?

PIT DIVING

[snowblindmods]

If your character jumps into the pit, please reply here letting us know! If they trip or are pushed, let us know, too, but also make sure to note that it was accidental/who pushed them, even if the character doesn't know!

[godsspeed]

Castiel isn't going to jump in the hole immediately but it's guaranteed to happen enough that I feel confident posting here right away. I can come back and link to the comment where it happens later but this is how down he is to get in that sick void.

[spoileralert]

Yeah Steph is jumping into the pit. For science. Sorry everybody.

[phaseshifter]

Joining the pit club. All the cool kids are doing it!

Re: PIT DIVING

[fuckingwolverine]

Lilly will jump! Not immediately, because it's scary, but still fairly quickly because she's six and therefore doesn't have a huge amount of self-control.

Re: PIT DIVING

[devoutish]

Alfie will hold off for quite a while, but will eventually jump in together with Royce.

[thesystemisdown]

Monika is going into the pit. Yay!

[bywolves]

Royce is jumping into the pit, with Alfie!

[deus_ex_phs]

Kunsel is going to be part of a human chain attempt, in the part that collapses, so he's going in.

[darkincrement]

Vanitas will be helping out with the human chain for Billy. If that doesn't do shit, he's jumping in and maybe pulling others with him,

[0thingsonmymind]

brian's totally jumping into that pit pretty quickly after the characters start thinking there's a prize for doing so

eta: he'll be filming his descent. because that's how you handle things like this

Re: PIT DIVING

[warriorscribe]

Enoch is jumping in after Angel because GOTTA PROTECT boy doesn't this feel familiar

[harlequinofhate]

The Joker may or may not shove people into the hole at first but then he'll just leap on in.