[Dark World Event] || [The Evil Realm] || [Open] || [2/3]

[great_king_of_evil]

Characters: Anyone who signed up for the Dark World Plot! Look at tag list for more details.
Setting: The 4th and 5th of March. Located in the Cursed Floors + Ganon's Tower (Floors 6, 7, 8, 12, 62, 65, 68, 70, 73 and 79 + Floor 75).
Format: Most likely action but left at the players's discretion.
Summary: Your character somehow got trapped in the Forest Floor of the Tower-- And it looks nothing like the Forest Floor the characters remember. It's the beginning of the Dark World. Some floors look pretty different from what they did before, some nearly identical. The only way to get out is to go through the dungeons that make up this Dark World.

All characters start out in the Dark Forest, then as they go throughout the forest, they magically walk into one of the three dungeons (the one they have been assigned to). By exploring the dungeons, they will acquire one of the three Pendants that lead to the Core of the Curse, from where the cursed floors can be ended. However, Richtofen is there and happy to make sure that won't be that easy.

Mingle threads are simply for Mingle, whereas the exploration of the dungeons, puzzles, etc happens in the Exploration threads. OOC information here.

Warning: While your character may survive fine and all, the dark world is a dangerous place with lots of monsters and puzzles to solve. Characters may get harmed or killed, but that is left to the players's discretion. Characters going through the water of temple may lose their patience and sanity.


Arrival in the Dark World
Here are simply listed the three different ways your characters may have gotten dragged into the Dark World. Note this can be a combination of many of these ways, feel free to pick how your characters arrived in!

• The character may simply have been present on the floor when Ganondorf cursed it. That's really… Bad luck? If that is how it happened, the character would have been immediately transported into the Dark Forest Floor. If they arrived before the 4th of March, they would have been unable to leave this floor for three days. Which may be pretty unnerving.

• The character may have been caught by a floormaster or wallmaster somewhere throughout the tower, and cast into the Dark World. Floormasters and Wallmasters are gigantic and creepy black, red or purple hands that come out from either the floor or the ceiling and take characters to another part of the tower, point in case the Dark Forest.

• They character may have found one of the black doors of Mordor leading into the cursed floors. Out of luck, a creepy black hand similar to that of wallmaster could have come out of from the door and have dragged them in.

• The last option is the simplest, Ganondorf hided in the shadows and cast a spell on you that teleported you right into the Dark Forest. This option is mostly directed to those who have past history with Ganondorf or who are known to be close of Princess Zelda, Link and Tetra.


Dark Forest -------------------------------------------- Mingle || Exploration

The Water Temple: Wisdom Dungeon ----------- Mingle || Exploration || Boss Battle
The Death Mountain: Power Dungeon ----------- Mingle || Exploration || Boss Battle
The Palace of Darkness: Courage Dungeon ---- Mingle || Exploration || Dark Self Battle || Boss Battle

Richtofen's Laboratory ------------------------------ Mingle || Exploration || Boss Battle

Illusionary Room
Ganon's Tower

Comments

The Water Temple (Floors 07) || Wisdom Dungeon || Mingle

[dark_world]

[ As you roamed in the forest, suddenly you would mysteriously walk right into the swimming pool floor—Unlike the forest, this floor does not look much different from usual. It is pretty dark and the fog that covered the forest covers this floor as well, albeit it is much less thick. The pool is filled with bright blue water and there are no monsters in sight.

The decoration has been remade and there are many Triforce emblems on the walls and at key positions. The walls look as if that of an antique temple, but they are in fact the very same wall and it is all a very convincing illusion that only the most powerful magician could see through.

The doors leading into the lockers are closed with big locks, as if two Small Keys had to be found to go inside. No, the Keyblade won't work to open them. ]

[rememberscarlet]

[He walks along the wall with a frown, one hand carefully pushing against it as he tries to figure out the magical layer he is sensing... An illusion? Something more than that?

Could it be related to the two locks, he's seen a bit further down?

And really, what is the purpose of this all anyways?]

[fusedstars]

Do you know anything of the situation?

[Seeing Jellal here, he figured a mage might know more as to what was going on with this area.]

[rememberscarlet]

[Jellal turns his head, nodding in greeting when he recognizes Hei, then shakes his head.]

All I can say is this: Whoever is responsible... they are well-versed in the use of magic.

[Very well-versed.]

[attheclocktower]

[Well, it's not going to stop her from giving it a good try. Those who arrive in time will see Xion aiming a giant key in her right hand at the door, and... nothing happening. No beam of light, no unlocking sound.

Great. she's gone straight from trapped in one place to trapped in another, and now most of her friends aren't here.

She dismisses her Keyblade and slams her hand on the door, upset and frustrated, before sliding down to her knees, her left hand hanging by her side all the while.]

[true_noir]

Hello again...

[It's that thin, cold chuckle that Chloe seems to produce at all times. She's lurking in the midst of her explorations at the edge of the fog. There's an enigmatic smile on her face while she looks over the pool, over the switches and simply seems amused, for lack of a better word.]

They really do play such interesting games, don't they?

[attheclocktower]

[Xion tilts her head up and to the side a little looking over her shoulder at Chloe. There's a puzzled, almost wary expression on her face.]

They?

[The admins? Because she knows the admins probably have virtually nothing to do with what's going on right now...]

[fusedstars]

Giving into despair so easily is not good for the mind.

[Don't mind Hei as he suddenly emerges from behind Xion. He already tried going in with his own abilities, but these doors were different; doubtful electricity would have helped anyway.]

[rememberscarlet]

[Jellal watches for a moment, eyes narrowing at that key like weapon - it does seem quite strange - but whatever it was supposed to do... it appears that it doesn't quite do its job.

He hesitates for a moment when he sees her despair, but he remembers Erza and her kind heart that had reached out to him despite all that he had done. 'Live and struggle' she had said; 'Be kind' she had said... he intents to do both, to be both. To live like she would have wanted him to.

And that does mean to help those that seem in need of it, even if he only has words to offer.]

...Miss?

[fusedstars]

[Expectations were always meant to be broken in this tower it seemed. There was always something new, and he was kinda used to it. Hands remained in his pockets, on the knives he held within that coat of his. Temples and symbols? Monsters were ahead, or perhaps traps. That's how it always went, didn't it?

Well, he goes on in. No sign of escape as far as he could see, and this had to be important. Least Mao wasn't with him this time.]

[egotrigger]

[Someone else is heading inside, though he looks more than a little stressed. Hallelujah walks beside him, unseen, and he follows along behind Hei.]

[true_noir]

[This one is lurking just at the corner, watching everything for the moment. To call her wary is not quite accurate. Curious, watchful and undecided is perhaps a better word for it.

Unlike several others, she's smiling at the moment. Perhaps she thinks all of this is amusing, wrapped in that dark cloak of hers.]

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

[What is... Oh. Water. That's... That's not good at all, considering she'd been stupid enough to open her eyes during the Bath Game. She could totally handle this though. Easy peasy.

Seeing the symbol of the Triforce on the walls, Tetra tightens the bandage wrapped around her right hand and pulls her hair up into a bun before looking around at the other people gathered here.]

[true_noir]

Tetra... was it?

[Chloe was watching her from a corner, quietly observing the others with a thin smile on her face as she gauged her fellow companions. This was the first of these larger games, and she seemed thoroughly unaware of what was going on around her.

It made her wonder if this was the admins... or something else.]

[tohko_amano]

Tetra!

[When Tohko saw her friend, she rushed over, sheathing her dagger.]

Thank goodness..are you alright? This is Ganon's doing, isn't it?

[great_king_of_evil]

[ Tetra would be able to hear Ganondorf's short laugh all around her...

The laugh would fade away quickly. ]

[faithstaynight]

[This girl... Ruler feels like she's seen her before. At some gathering or another, probably. She can't exactly put her finger on it though...

Bah, no time to ponder that. She needs to figure out just what is going on here, and so she'll start by approaching the others. She pauses, though, when she notices the symbol that Tetra was staring at.]

That symbol... it's something of Princess Zelda's world, isn't it?

[tohko_amano]

[The change of scenery jarred Tohko for a moment, but she recovered quickly and tried to open up the locks with her dagger. Sadly, that didn't work and she sighed, looking at the pool.]

I guess the keys are down there..

[tentacletrainer]

[[O...kay. This is different. The Triforce emblems can't be a coincidence now, and she's definitely convinced it's likely the doing of one of the Zelda characters. Of course Ganon is at the top of this list, but who wouldn't put him there if they knew him? Unfortunately, because of this she's letting her guard down for the time being. Her needles are lowered, her beasts are calmed and she starts to kind of look around with far more curiosity than wariness.]]

[true_noir]

[One of the various souls trapped along with Rose waved towards her with a distant, enigmatic smile. She looked out over the water of the pool and chuckled.]

We find ourselves in the strangest places, don't we?

[snowyvalemaiden]

[Xue'Kol was no stranger to the swimming pool floor. In fact, every floor with water was mapped out perfectly in her mind from as much time as she spent on them.

This is why the change caught her off guard. She spent some time looking around and checking out the things that weren't the same. She wanted to take in every single detail of the area to better assess what the next step should be.]

[doublechecks]

...

[Ah, well, this is certainly a strange way to be transported, but at this point, it's getting to be less surprising for him as he stared at the large body of water in the middle.]

Hm.

[A sound of thought as he stared at the pool, and at the locked doors.]

[egotrigger]

[There's someone else nearby. Someone whose face is twitching in irritation.]

[Allelujah's trying to keep Hallelujah from taking over, but it's hard when he's that angry.]

[altitonant_emperor]

[The abruptness of the alternation in scenery was confusing, but merely jarred him for a moment. Wary, he had a knife out in his and missing having a form of backup. But giant oversized locks, telltale symbols covering the walls, and on the forest floor, monsters to fight and grass that produced pretty stones when chopped?

He is really getting video game vibes from this.

And Hidetoshi didn't even play video games very often.

Let's just take a look around, and see if anything stands out for helping us.]

Tch.

Blargh, late but here.

[idkworldruler]

[He looked around the area, wandering from here to there as he explored the surroundings first. He hadn't touched a thing yet, wanting to get an idea of how everything works. Eventually he figured out that, hey this is just one big, Rubik's cube!]

Now, if only I could actually solve one of those cubes...