[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

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The Water Temple (Floor 07) || Wisdom Dungeon || Boss Battle

[dark_world]

[ Thanks to all the trials and puzzles you faced in these three cursed floors composing the water temple, the swimming pool has been emptied of its blue water and replaced with green water-- It may have seemed pointless, but now above the swimming pool appear the Pendant of Wisdom, quietly floating above the green water.

The Pendant shines lightly and unlike anything else in the dark world, it feels as if positive energy radiates from it. It can't be removed by magic of its place, one has to swim to go get it.

Maybe trying to get it is the final thing to do in order to find the exit from the dark world? ]

[snowdriftassassin]

[As far as she knew, Xue was probably the best swimmer, at least as far as she'd witnessed so she figured she might as well get this over with.]

I got dis, soonah we get outtah here, da bettah.

[With that, she dove in and began swimming to the pendant. She wasn't afraid of the green water, after all... Azerothian adventurers tended to get doused in acid, magma and other unpleasant substances when facing dangerous foes.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko, who was the weakest link in the group, nodded as Xue dove in and started swimming to the pendant.]

I agree..but be careful! It could be a trap!

[fusedstars]

[Don't mind Hei here, just now coming and seeing her swim across.]

Of course it's a trap. She should have been patient.

[One water replaced by another? Automatic sign of a trap. There was always a final failsafe in objects after all.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko sighed at Hei after he spoke.]

Maybe..but how else are we supposed to proceed? Maybe, if it is a trap, beating the trap will help us move forward somehow.

[altitonant_emperor]

[Hidetoshi is just standing there as well, watching her swim through the weird green liquid. He agrees with Hei honestly.]

At least if it is a trap, she'll hopefully spring it without dying in the process as well.

[Large shining object floating over a pool of water in a dungeon? Definitively suspicious.]

[tohko_amano]

Well, knowing Ganon, he wouldn't kill us quickly. He would like to see us suffer, act like fools, beg for mercy, and then die anyway.

[dark_world]

[ Xue would be able to swim a distance without anything apparently happening. However, as she was midway between her starting point and the Pendant...

A gigantic tentacle made of the green water would suddenly rise from the swimming pool, tall enough to hit the ceiling and as large as a human body. Very fast in spite of its size, the water tentacle would immediately aim for Xue and attempt to smash her deep into the water, trying to drag her to the depths of the swimming pool in order to drown her. Surprisingly enough, the water tentacle felt solid even inside of the water.

Would she manage to avoid it, the water tentacle would pursue her however she goes-- The only way to escape it is leave the swimming pool. And she may realize the very water of the swimming pool itself works against her, trying to prevent her from swimming, trying to suffocate and drown her.


The characters who are not in the swimming pool however, are not targeted by the water tentacle. ]

[snowdriftassassin]

[Tentacles... why in the living hells of all realms did it have to be freaking tentacles?!

Her first instinct was to panic, tentacles were one of the few things that sent her into a panic due to bad memories. However, dealing with these things under water came naturally to her and she instantly vanished in plain sight...

However, if her instincts were correct... that wouldn't help much since she felt the entire pool was the enemy. Even cloaked by the shadows, she had to use her evasion skill to make herself much harder to hit for the time being while she sped up to try and escape the pool.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko knew that jumping into the pool to save Xue was probably not the smartest thing in the world. The girl looked like she was a much better swimmer than Tohko. However that wasn't going to stop her from tossing her dagger at the woman to try and give her some protection.]

Grab this! It might help!

[dark_world]

[ Indeed the shadow cloak wouldn't do much good as the gigantic tentacle would attempt to smash her down into the depths again-- The water being the enemy, it could feel where she was. However whatever curse or demon was making the water alive remained hidden.

She would feel that the very water she was swimming in was trying to drag her in the depths. The closest she would get to escape the pool, the hardest and most painful swimming would get. ]

[altitonant_emperor]

[... TENTACLES. A giant green-liquid tentacle raising out of the swimming pool and going on the offensive, obviously hostile as it smashes and flails at the woman attempting to escape its depths. The pool didn't hold a trap to protect the large shining object. It was the trap. Hidetoshi, knowing full well he was next-to-useless in situations like this, immediately took a step back from the edge of the water but still gripping his knife, and shouting out to her;]

Hurry!

[Tohko what are you doing.]

[tohko_amano]

[She's giving her weapon to the woman trying to run away so that she has a fighting chance against this tentacle monster. Tohko took a few steps back from the edge of the pool, but still prepared herself to help drag the woman out of the pool when she got close enough.]

[snowdriftassassin]

[The water was as annoying as a black dragon in pursuit after you stole from their horde. She was trying not to think on the tentacle and just trying to swim as hard and as fast as she could. barely escaping the first blow only to get pushed down by the second.

Her panic had caused her to lose a lot of air and she had grown tired from the rush, the only chance she had was to try a shadowstep. But was she close enough?

The thrown weapon came as a boon and Xue grabbed it mid swim. She only had one shot at this so she'd make it count. As quickly as she could manage, Xue tossed the dagger with unnatural precision and strength for it being under water and used that same momentum to bolt herself closer to the surface before targeting the closest person to the edge.

Once she had a target, she instantly teleported to the shadow they were emanating behind them, finally taking a deep breath and stumbling back and away from the edge.]

Fucken' orc balls mon, I be hatin' tentacles! [She gasped out of breath. She'd need a bit to recover even with her trollish stamina and regeneration.]

[dark_world]

[ When she managed to escape the pool, the tentacle did not pursue her, instead retreating and falling back into the swimming pool. After only a few seconds, the water was as stagnant and calm as it been before, with the pendant out of reach still floating. It was like if nothing had happened.

However, they would soon hear the sound of the lockers's doors (that got opened during dungeon exploration) closing brutally and locking. Shortly following that, the walls all around the swimming pool grew spikes-- Deadly and poisonous, making it impossible to hide or flatten against a wall.


The water remained quiet, however a distant noise could be heard from the depths of the pool, as if something was moving deep inside. ]

[altitonant_emperor]

[How is a knife going to help against that? Oh, he sees. Hidetoshi feels a surge of relief when the woman manages to somehow successfully escape from the swimming pool, followed by the massive tentacle's (most likely temporary) retreat back into the watery depths.

It seems swimming to it will not allow them to access the shining object.

The boom of the lockers's doors slamming harshly shut, and the click of locks, the teenager glanced from the woman and Tohko to look back over his shoulder and saw the walls had grown spikes, sharp and unwelcoming. He gritted his teeth together and breathed through his nose.

His gaze then shriveled back to and remains locked on the stagnant pool again, weapon raised to a guard position. He doesn't understand half the slang the wet lady is spitting out.

What's that rumbling sound...]

[tohko_amano]

[Thankfully, Tohko was not the person Xue teleported behind, but she turned to the woman anyway.]

I know..that did look pretty horrible. Are you okay?

[First, find out if the woman was fine, then devise a new battle strategy. It didn't help that Tohko was now without a weapon. She would have to ask Oz for 'Peter' later or make a new one.]

[fusedstars]

The threat lies below, and the water is one of the only ways to get the pendant too. Everyone, retreat back up the stairs. I'll electrocute the water.

[Powerful as this trap was, facing Hei on water was pure suicide. But now more ever did he need these people to get out before they rushed in again.]

[dark_world]

[ The rumble deep within the water would become a bit louder...

Seconds after Hei spoke, the gigantic tentacle rose from the swimming pool once more and this time went after him-- Its first move would be to try and slam him into the spikes. Would it fail its second move would be to try and grab him to take him into the pool and its depths.

No one but Hei is targeted by the gigantic water tentacle. ]

[fusedstars]

[Not a good sign, and Hei's eyes were still on the water. As if on cue, he flipped to the side, dodging one of the tentacles, but the other got him, dragging him under the water. He held his breath, barely on time, and drew his knives. The familiar blue aura came, and he plunged his knives into the tentacle grabbing him. Eyes shined red, electricity discharging from the knives, and throughout his entire body. This creature needed to die, and fast. No one was in the pool, so it shouldn't have hurt anyone.]

[true_noir]

[Chloe, knives at the ready, leaned low. The lack of a place to lurk along the walls was ... infuriating to put it mildly. She, however, crouched outside of the water and watched while Hei tried to electrocute it.

Somehow, she doubted that would be enough, though it might cause an opening to form, an opening to exploit.]

[altitonant_emperor]

[Hidetoshi took a deep breath to steady himself. He too, watches as streams of electricity leapt from Hei into the water, into the tentacle hopefully to deal out damage and bites back the old sense of doing nothing.

Still unwilling to take his attention entirely away from the pool, he scanned the room.

While he couldn't harm the tentacles with mere throwing knives, was there something in the environment surrounding them that could be used to subdue it?]

[dark_world]

[ Oh it wouldn't hurt anyone. And the creature quite obviously did not like the electricity at all. The rumble would now get louder, especially as the core had been hit by the electricity.

However, as Hei was under water, much like it had done for Xue he would feel the water trying to stop him from swimming and dragging him to the depths. The very surface of the water would become half solid, as if to prevent him to get back up.


Looking at the surrounding environment, it could be noticed the four chests that were once there had disappeared. However, a bigger, more royal looking one had appeared on the opposite side of the room. ]

[fusedstars]

[Both monster and water truly were an enemy. Years of training transplanted into the clone Hei had helped his swimming, hough not be too much, still a struggle for the Contractor. Water becoming solid was not a good thing either. He was thankful he was able to hold his breath before this. If he hadn't, death would have been easy for him.

He lets two of knives stuck in the tentacle, drawing his staff. If he was going to go lower, he had no choice but to try and balance it, swimming away. Another aura came, followed by another shock, though much weaker. Hei's main focus right now was trying to break through to the surface to survey the situation more, maybe even find a weakness or maybe pillars. With his wires, he did have another idea in mind.]

[true_noir]

[If the core became visible in the course of these attacks, Chloe would let loose a knife, aimed at the only portion of the creature's sinuous, unholy and worm-like frame that appeared different. It was impossible to say if she'd have the force to connect, or if the electricity would weaken its bonds enough to make the strike, but it was worth a shot.

...this was why you carried multiple throwing knives, after all.

At the very least, it might offer a distraction so that someone else might try to reach the chest and see what was within.]